CatastrophicFailure

Wow, the whole season? That does seem... more strict than I’m familiar with. Not just on Fridays?

So concerned with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Ack. Ninja’d.

Well, there is This... Don’t think you could possibly get more alien than that. Now back to reading.

Do you want to open a gateway into the fiery bowels of Hell? Because that’s how you open a gateway into the fiery bowels of Hell. I’ve seen Event Horizon.

That looks... familiar...

I wonder about that a bit. Given that this is rocket science, don’t they know like down to the gram how much TEA-TEB they’re going to need for x amount of relights, or is it a dynamic number that the engine computer has to constantly adjust during startup, making it unpredictable?

Only if you want to recover a charcoal briquette. The core would be going so fast at that point recovery would be extremely difficult. Ironic with this line of discussion, or maybe not, ULA’s just sent out a bunch of tweets extolling the virtues of their DIVH. One might think they sounded a bit... nervous.

Given the pucker factor that was floating around the place at T-0, to have everything go off so well except for one little hiccup with an easily recognizable and correctable cause, I’d expect nothing less.

Interesting choice of name, given the totality or things. I wonder what kind of numbers they could get from a FH with dual drone ship booster recovery and expended core? Aaaaaaand question answered just above. Thanks for the prescience, @sevenperforce. Out of likes as usual.

Allegedly, after this song came out there was a flood of calls to travel agents from people wanting to vacation in Kokomo. They were a bit surprised when the response was “Kokomo, Indiana?” which was the only Kokomo at the time. Or maybe it was Ohio. Something like that.

Ah yes, for duck hunting. ALL the ducks. Everywhere. With one shot.

That website is tweaking out at the moment, I'll have to look later. As long as you're staring up at the sky, keep an eye out for Humanity Star from the first (sucessfull) Electron mission, tho prime viewing isn't for a few weeks yet.

Sounds like an Iridium flare, they can get crazy bright but only last a second or two. For reference, Venus and the ISS reach about a -4 magnitude at their brightest, the full moon is around -12. The older Iridium satellites, due to their huge, flat, shiny antennas, can (briefly) reach around -8. @cubinator Speaking of such, you sure it was a satellite and not just a meteor?

Priorities.

Now that right there is how you use entropy against itself. Me, after entirely too much Kerballing this week, what with taking two days off for Falcon Heavy and incredibly only needing one, I just posted a mission report. In other Kerbalish things, I got a rusted stuck wheel off my truck in an amusingly Kerbal way, by just unbolting the whole dang thing from the spindle. Extensive percussive maintenance to follow. Then sat thru a movie for two hours trying desperately hard not to spend the whole time yelling at the screen “space doesn’t work that way! And like... neither does weather...”

That does seem to make a bit more sense. Probably had all sorts of holes from tipping over, sounds like it just sank while they were scrambling to figure something out. Of course, anything that references “categorically false” is automatic Grade-A conspiracy fodder, too...

Year 8, Day 126... The time has come, the walrus said... Why the walrus is talking in the first place and how he can even tell time I'm still not sure, but as I've said, this place is very strange. In other news, the time has finally come to retire the ailing UpLab before it retires itself. To that end, we've built... this... And that was... all she wrote. The UpLab is now a footnote in our history, leaving the page open for bigger and better things. Oh, and will someone please go find that walrus and apologize? I didn't realize Vlad hadn't showered all month again...

I, too, know this pain. Oh, and belated congrats on crossing the 10k mark.

@tater whoah... I had no idea they’d gotten that far along in the testing regime. That thing had so much promise, thrown under the bus. Now I’m sad. @sevenperforce and yet we sort of just saw it in the video linked (Relevant to this thread bit): how did they make the flip? Engine gimbal alone or were there flight surfaces?

Quite so. I thought the DCX never got fully horizontal? It translated, sure, but pointing... up-ish. Source?

Like the other guys said. Grab MechJeb, KER or some other delta-v readout, and try it yourself in KSP. A nearly empty booster with no payload has a surprising amount left.

Such a pity. An air strike did seem a bit much, What with all the navy/coast guard ships around who could do the same thing with a dozen rounds from Ma Deuce.

Click. I said a click, clop Clicky to the cloppy The click, click a clop, and you don't stop, a rock it out Bubba to the bang bang boogie, clicky to the cookie To the rhythm of the boogie the click.

From the exhaust plume of the core as it went by. You can see the char soot is a bit off Center. Man, kerolox is some dirty stuff....