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totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Heh, why am I not surprised? But you’ll fit right in around here. -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Why stop there? Dioxygen difluoride & hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane. Go big or go home. -
Couldn’t tell you with any accuracy, but just for comparison, the Soyuz T-10 pad abort was 14-17g, according to Wiki YMGMV.
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Someone’s probably busy deleting it. or deleting the person who deleted it…
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I was squinting at the screen, half awake after dragging myself from bed for the day, since it just happened to be on, and I was all like “wait, did that just happen? Am I actually awake yet?”
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I’m a little behind the times, but TIL you can buy a 13-lb utility bucket of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Like one of those big Home Depot 5-gallon buckets of like paint, or glue…. but filled with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. It even has a graphic warning on the side not to dive in head first. How truly absurd. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go give my diabeetus’ diabeetus diabeetus.
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totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Literally fighting fire with fire. -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The booster actually has a surprisingly decent glide ratio for what it is, around 1:1 IIRC. More gliding = more slowing down without using fuel, so they’ll fly down as low as they can before lighting up. -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Would be good practice for Gateway/HLS operations, or vice-versa. Rapid launch rate is a key tenet of Starship, after all. Cargo ship launches, grapples Hubble with its standard Canadarm 33-1/3. Crew ship launches, docks to cargo, starts flinging packing peanuts about. It really would be a great test/testament to exactly the kind of semi-improvised spacework that’s going to be necessary to really industrialize space. Or, there’s always Optimus… -
totm dec 2019 Russian Launch and Mission Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to tater's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The same ones they cubesat-booped? -
Been faffing about in an RSS/RO setup for a while. The other day, out of necessity, I came up with... this... Yes, you saw that. That is indeed a Gemini... with an escape tower... on top of a cryogenic upper stage powered by RL-10s... on top of a single UA1205 SRB... launching from a Soyuz pad. You may recognize the pattern... Good. Good. I can feel the hatred, flowing through you... Wait... hmm, nope, that's just indigestion. You should've skipped that extra helping. Anyways... Problems of crew liquefaction due to excessive vibration turned out to be moot, as by staging time it's pushing past 10G and any uniquified crew are likely to end up a greasy paste on the back wall of the capsule. But other than that, it worked surprisingly well. Still needs some tweaks tho, it can't quite put a Gemini in a stable orbit. Might just be trajectory tweaking. As to the crew, well... who doesn't like a little fresh-squeezed Kerbal juice? Maybe in a nice dirty kerbtini. Shaken, not stirred.
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totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Well, now I feel old. Now I feel less old. ...and now I feel sad. -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Only 20. -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Or might they be mitigating risk in case of another ker(bal)fuffle, like how they did static fires sans payload for a while after Amos-6? -
totm march 2020 So what song is stuck in your head today?
CatastrophicFailure replied to SmileyTRex's topic in The Lounge
Welp… now y’all went & done it. -
totm nov 2023 SpaceX Discussion Thread
CatastrophicFailure replied to Skylon's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Well... crap. -
The Reaping... [ominous chanting] ...Has Begun. Only got a small hand basketful of onions this year, because... Potatoes. SO. MANY. POTATOES. I cleared out about two feet of an 8-foot planter this morning and scored over 11 pounds (5kg) of potatoes... just on a whim. I have two more 8' planters overflowing with the things. Poor onions just got crowded out. Now, to jot down every way to possibly cook a potato... Started with the basics. Oh, and eggs. As always, just a really, truly, farcical, absolutely silly amount of eggs. That's ok, the old hippie's been lost in the produce section for years, he doesn't even work there.
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You can find these at your local Snooty grocery store, the kind of places that also sell absurdly overpriced certified organic non-GMO personally handed to you by the unwashed hands of an agéd hippie produce. Like Whole Foods. The better ones, like Tater said, offer a variety of grindables for butters. I suggest the fresh-squeezed almond butter, tastes great but it’ll suck all the moisture right out of your mouth like a maw-full of alum.