CatastrophicFailure

Yup, that's pumpkins alright. Good for you, around here unattended compost just grows blackberries. The carnivorous kind that would even scare @kerbiloid's... things...

Pics or it didn’t happen.

Given how much quicker it would decelerate, separation doesn't seem like it should be a concern if they ditch it normal/antinormal just after the deorbit burn, like Soyuz or any other capsule. I've heard they need the extra fuel margin, which in turn makes me wonder why they can't just use the SuperDrakes and their larger supply. I'm sure they actually have perfectly good reasons for doing things this way, I'm just curious what they are.

Always seemed odd to me that they ditch the trunk before deorbiting.

For them, not their contractors.

but seriously, y’all are making it complicated. LEO Starship can just drop off a BLEO payload attached to a kick stage. Can even be a big solid for integration simplicity. Still a big potential cost savings with minimal risk vs FH.

[irrational anger and string of cuss words] today sucks, someone needs to ctrl+alt+del the Simulation.

What about that nifty explosion effect?

Rogozin’s new superior, upon his arrival (Ash voice): “comrade, THIS… is your broomstick…”

Few days late, but… oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light? Something something bomb bursting in… ground… Actually this is probably a good thing, been too long since they had a flaming hiccup.

Y'all done jinxed it now, hush up. Edit: ok, seems the boom in Boca was norminal after all. But still. Stop using the R word or any other euphemism thereof! Y'all are ticking the nethers of some mighty powerful juju with that kinda talk. As a bus driver, I concur.

Someone in western Cuba gonna have a good view.

I hear they’re making a live-action adaptation. Take that as you will…

Race is still on.

I think that’s high enough that heating is low enough that no “heat shield” is needed, one of the NASA Mars orbiters did similar. It’s a very very slow process over dozens of orbits.

And here we are on the KSP forum SpaceX thread, now devolved into literally arguing about watching paint dry.

What'chall think, here? Just cosmetic or some sort of lower-heat spray-on thermal protection?

Dude, this is gorgeous. Mod list, plz. and framerate. My computer is bogging down just from the pictures.

Like Mad Robert the Second said, it is indeed wood. Called “cribbing” in this use, wood is incompressible (mostly) so it’s often used to support really really heavy things and keep them from shifting or sinking. Used a lot when jacking up buildings for relocation, too. And in other news, seems work on the oil rigs is indeed proceeding, even if at an SLS’s snail’s pace… re: launch table segment spotted on highway.

I’ll take one SciFi plz, with extra shiny.