CatastrophicFailure

Oh. Poop.

What about the existing hole?

Ooooooh any chance of retrofitting those engine doors to the Estonian?

No, three. It’s just going to be a quick year.

I don't see it as any kind of regular thing, if they pull it off. More like a demonstration of "hey, we really can do this!" If they can do it with the Falcon, they can do it with the BFR, and learn a whole lot about doing it in the process.

@PB666 You’re forgetting all the modifications to the upcoming Block 5 specifically to expedite reuse (among which is MOAR BOOSTERS POWER to reduce the need for barge landings). @tater may have a point too about man-hours, tho that’s not the impression I got when it was announced. IIRC is was along the lines of “we want to demonstrate 24-hour turnaround in 2018.” I think it’ll be doable with the Block 5 and no static fire, but of limited utility for now. If the “inspection IS mostly data analysis, thats only going to get better and better (and faster) with each flight.

That is, (more or less ) the goal: airline-like routine, safety, and efficiency. Demonstrating 24-hour turnaround doesn’t mean they’ll do so very often, only that they can. The USAF has been all about “rapid deployability” lately, a one day turnaround is pretty good bragging rights for SpaceX on that count, even if it’s rarely used. And of course, 24 hours or less is supposed to be the norm for ITS...

They do test them in Texas, then again at the launch site. Remember, the goal here is rapid-reusability, maybe even 24-hour turnaround. Everything we're seeing here is a buildup to that. The new Block 5's shouldn't need any more refurbishing than an inspection, in practice there will probably be a static fire in there because that's simply what SpaceX does, and as Elon says, "fuel is cheap." Every time they go through a fueling/fire procedure, they get just a little better at the whole thing, probably with the aim of achieving professional pit-crew-like efficiency. Which will be a great help for smooth, rapid turnaround.

Just needs a shot of Unicron cruising thru.

Never sure what to say here, since I know... things... and don’t want to reference the wrong one. So I’ll just say moar plz.

This thread crossed a line a long time ago... and continues to do so... Especially when someone... clicks...

Yup, still here. Ummm @KSK?

Yup, I'm here. I'm always... here... Let's try... dun...dun...dundundun...dun...dundundun @dundun93 dun...dun...dundundun...dun...dundundundundun dundundundun.... dundundun....dun @dundun92 shhhh...... pawwwwwww. Ack.

? Works fine for me, different platforms/browsers, even.

In other relevant news, Zuma’s Apparently been pushed back to Friday evening (01:00 GMT on Saturday), according to SpaceFlightNow.com.

Aaaaaand despite having useful video footage, he just keeps on going.

pleasebeonaweekedpleasebeonaweekedpleasebeonaweekedpleasebeonaweekedpleasebeonaweekedpleasebeonaweekedpleasebeonaweekedpleasebeonaweeked... Actual question: any speculation on that that doodleybop just above the flag is? On other photos, it doesn’t seem connected to anything even in the complete stack.

Not at all what I would have expected for that character, musically or... otherwise. A really good rendition of a classic song. Myself, I’ve been scouring the interwebs trying to find a rendition of this one on a string quartet or maybe mandolin. Because... reasons. Sadly, the Internet has failed me.

Is this thing on? Shhh, quiet! OK, everyone ready? Get off my foot! Why are we all wearing space suits again? Jim's idea? Jim who? It can't be @Just Jim, it's Jim Bob... or Jim... Brown... Jim Kirk, Jim Parsons, something! This thing is itchy! OK, we're on! Not yet? OK.

Welp, I suppose in the interest of full disclosure, I may have stoled borrowed some lyrics from this... and a certain Judd... No, the other one. No, the other one.

Johnny Cash?!? Flarp you with a squid, that’s Charlie Daniels! Also asking the real questions. The real disturbing ones. I’ll have to see how the night goes, there may be one last laugh in 2017. tho... where I am, everyone else will be in 2018 anyway...

Director's log, supplemental... ...why I now have two logs, I'm still not sure. Vlad insists it's some sort of winter solstice tradition. Strange, that we've been here for over 8 years and he's only now mentioning it. And it's kind of... sticky. I hope it's just sap. Maybe I should have worn gloves. But back to the matter at hand... after tripping a rift in the very fabric of space and time, and hitting her head really hard, it seems Triti Kerman is now convinced she's some sort of... sigh... ...pirate... Not with pliers! Who even does that?!? This can't possibly get any worse! And what could they want with a plank?

Surprisingly resilient considering a multi-megaton warhead went off just a few hundred meters away.

Yesterday last week a while ago some time recently... Val took a mud bath: Then today I gave @klond's Safecracking Challenge a try, and things got a little, well... And then I broke the universe.