CatastrophicFailure
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Extraordinary claims require Extraordinary evidence.
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Would magnetic… bits even work tho? I mean, aren’t the hulls in question either stainless, aluminum, or wrapped in thermal blankets and thus not magnetic?
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16 minutes ago, tater said:
Crew validates life support and other functionality, returns via Dragon.
...then leave flight article in orbit as a private space station?
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@sevenperforce ok Mr. Numbers Man, now I’m curious… as far as we know, could Atlas/Vulcan get similar lob altitudes with Starliner?
whether Starliner would actually survive the trip is NOT the topic for discussion…
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Right. Or perhaps, even... how much juice could be left in S2/Dragon stack if the did the nasty and expended the booster?
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Busy news day.
Has anyone run the numbers to see how much extra delta-V might be left in the Falcon upper stage after typical orbit insertion? Getting up there is probably a simple case of relighting the S2 or just burning longer during launch to boost apogee to that higher point while keeping a low, possibly very low, perigee. Wouldn't be that long of a mission, after all.
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31 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:
with over 900 upvotes on imgur
They're fake anyway.
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Be ironic if China accidentally vaporizes their own Mün lander…
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14 minutes ago, tater said:
That's gonna leave a mark.
Burns more than the real thing...
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2 minutes ago, mikegarrison said:
I highly doubt it. I would be really surprised if those engine nozzles actually touch that frame there. With all the different temperature extremes involved, I would be surprised if they wanted to induce any thermal stress due to differential expansion.
As I understand it, the arrangements is specifically so that the bells can be fixed to structure, details unknown, to help support them. Musk mentioned this in the past.
4 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:The next episode of the series will probably be caused by the first stage engines still put too close to each other like in the first versions of the second stage.
The engines on there now are likely as further developed and refined as S20 is to those older prototypes. And a full version 2.0 has already been spotted on site. Pretty sure there won’t be the same issues, if indeed they were issues.
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1 minute ago, kerbiloid said:
But did they cut the holes in the frame for that?
Or it's an optical illusion?
It’s just a “rib,” and certainly braced as needed for the cutouts. Heck, having the engines fixed in place there might make the whole thing stronger.
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26 minutes ago, mikegarrison said:
That's what I was thinking, but if they are that sensitive to the local wind, then, um, did they really pick the right place for their spaceport?
Anyway, I've worked on tests at night, for multiple reasons (schedule, temperature requirement, low ambient noise, and even, yes, wind). But when doing something like this for the first time, typically you really would want to do it in the daylight if at all possible.
Options there are pretty limited, places right on the coast tend to be windy… or hurricane-prone… or populated… it’s pick your poison. IIRC this whole system is supposed to be much more wind tolerant than a typical crane, but as this is the very first lift, they’re wisely using excessive caution. I reckon with all the lights they have there, wind is the greater concern.
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TodayYesterdayThis weekend... recently... we had to have this beautiful 70-foot-tall Douglas fir taken down.
(nifty timelapse coming soon)
SpoilerCouple of arborists now have told us it's unhealthy due to the driveway cutting the roots. Prolly wouldn't come down next month or even next year, but it'll only get bigger and the bigger they are... so, yeah. And it's surrounded by things that don't respond well to being crushed by several tons of wood like the electrical box, the generator, the house...
Stout sucker, too. (size 11's for scale)
And well beyond my pay grade, so called the pros in.
Got some nice logs out of the deal tho.
Think we're gonna take those big three and see about getting them milled into lumber, maybe make something cool. Circle of life & what not. Also discovered our lil' tractor will not, unfortunately, lift an uncut 30-foot-long 28-inch thick log. Like, at all.
Also interesting was the effect it had on our OG Starlink dishy. The Starlink app makes a neat little sky map where you can actually see any obstructions around, and it's uncanny how accurate it is. You can clearly pick out the tree top where it was blocking the view before:
After, the time between obstructions increased (that's good) and the red blocking decreased. Checked it again and the red is almost entirely gone from there now, TBO now 9 minutes, it must take time to completely "scan" the sky and realise the tree is gone.
The holly and red huckleberry that had been shadowed behind it will probably be happy now, but it's kinda sad having a great big hole and stump there now. Think we might plant one of the saplings there we grew from acorns from the tree my wife planted & grew from an acorn back in her hometown. Maybe we'll name it Jonelle. *pokes @KSK with a stick*
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This doesn’t make the rounds as much… might see OLIT tower bits going together in FL soon.
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Sigh…
…anyone seen mah teef?
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1 hour ago, tater said:
$#@T$%#^%$#^%$#W% $#@#^&*%$#@%^&*(
Ship should be sent a bill for the cost today.
Land booster on deck, deploy RoboKaren to talk to the
managercaptain.
30 minutes ago, Lukaszenko said:How does that even work? Don't they have...I don't know, radios or something nowadays?
never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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Catharsis!
took three whole trailerfulls of scrap that’s been plaguing me for years to the recycler. Pretty sure there was a whole motorcycle or two in there somewhere. As if in exclamation, there was a tiny, fragile little plant growing under all that junk in the end.
Because it rains a lot here, and even old rusty metal turns green after a while.
Speaking of which, @Fletch4 for Jeb’s sake I hope you got a tetanus shot too!
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5 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
I just wrote them an email suggesting they let the whole front end peel back like a banana. Eagerly awaiting the response and my royalty checks!
You mean like this?
Yeah, be real careful about them royaly checks... especially the video game...
5 minutes ago, insert_name said:Decent chance the second stage from the DISCOVR launch back in 2015 will hit the moon in the coming months
Gotta wipe out the Chinese rover after it discovered the Moon House... just make it look like an accident...
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8 hours ago, DDE said:
Nikolai Chub (Expedition 69) has his US visa denied. Rogozin describes his inability to undergo familiarization training with the US segment to be a major safety issue.
Y tho? If he’s part of a crew one would think he’d be pre-cleared or some such.
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Made the actual 56-mile tractor schlep to the dealer today. 46% driving efficiency yaaaay.
But 4200+ lbs and solid as a rock the whole way. Offered to give a random Smart Car a lift too after we caught him staring in horror at a traffic light. Also, finally/had to do this:
Kinda shocked, this charger is usually packed on a Friday afternoon. Rumor has it Elon himself reads these forums, so moar trailer-friendly chargers, plz.
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12 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:
Great idea, but, how does ash (both airborne and on the ground) affect the landing radar, IDK myself
Talking out my butt here but I don't know that it would, IIRC the 747 that flew into an ash cloud (at night) near Indonesia and became a temporary glided never saw it coming with their radar, so couldn't avoid it.
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12 hours ago, Beccab said:
SpaceX wins 102 million air force contract to demonstrate technologies for point to point space transportation, to 'deliver the cargo anywhere on Earth to support humanitarian aid and disaster relief'
Interesting connection: last I heard they’re having trouble getting supplies into Tonga after the eruption specifically because the airports are all covered in ash, and the lingering airborne ash is really, really bad for airplanes. A bit overspecific but still a real-world use case for Starship P2P, all it would need was a clear, relatively flat LZ of sufficient size.
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Achievement unlocked: TechnoRedneck
Haveta schlep the tractor 50 miles to the dealer for some work next weekend, figured I’d get it loaded up and take a quick test drive for coffee. Could maybe scooch it a little farther back but it rides rock solid. Some guy nearly drifted right into us gawking.
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22 minutes ago, DDE said:
And it's Captain's bars.
Supposed to be the garb of a US attaché in Moscow.
That makes sense. Odd that the patch would say America rather than some permutation of US.
Tesla Thread
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This. The allegations are egregious and extreme, not at all something one expects to find in this day and age, and especially in a place like California. But I’ve seen little in the way of actual evidence. Allegations like these should also be easy to prove, if they are true.