CatastrophicFailure

Testing, for one thing. IIRC, most of N1’s problems were solvable, but it never saw any stand testing, only test flights... which are, er, considerably harder to recover articles from if something goes wrong. Now, Superheavy, it looks like, won’t be seeing any full-duration static fires either, but it has the advantage of several more decades of engineering experience to borrow from, massive improvements in computing power to better model engine dynamics in ways the soviets couldn’t even dream of, and it’s gonna be really, really cheap and fast to replace.

One good turn deserves another... I’ll see your apropos social commentary album, and raise you this one: What it lacks in cerebrality, it makes up for in decisiveness. Clearly, all of society’s problems could be solved by being consumed by a ginormous, weird-lookin’ planet.

The, er, extended cut... and embeddable.

If the computer had any sense, it would send them to go nuke Mars (easier to reach anyway), also more likely since any such computer would clearly be the result of AI merging with Elon’s Neuralinked consciousness. there, I made it on topic, happy?

No wonder my frame rate goes stark raving mad.

SpaceX is officially summoning Metal Cthulhu.

Of course it does...

Reckon that hole in the center is for an eventual elevator for crew access.

This fall I’ll have been driving commercially for 20 years, that’s over a million and a half miles (supposedly). I’ve also had well over a year now to get familiar with Tesla Autopilot and all its foibles & shortcomings, where it works and where it doesn’t . That being said, without hesitation I would rather share the road with a hundred Teslas on Autopilot, as it currently exists, and unmanned, than one idiot on his cell phone. At least I know the Teslas are actively trying NOT to hit me. Mercedes, Audi, Ford, Kia, Hyundai, and probably every other manufacturer now have cars on the road with TACC and “lane centering” similar to basic Autopilot. Funny how you never hear about those crashes...

Interestinger and interestinger... I have an inkling that this when we’ll first see a working chomper, or however the payload bay ends up working. And maybe an actual payload.

Or just get another dash cam... Me, I had to get up at the literal S-crack of dawn—on a Saturday—to schlep two hours in to work only to be there for less than five minutes. So I drug the trailer along to pick up some crap. It was funny as heck, sitting in the ferry line on the way home, watching every other dude coming the other way to a double take as they passed. Yes, it tows. get all sorts of funny looks at the dump, too...

Eeeeeeeeexcellent. The tingle tells you it’s working. Or at least the nanites are. no rly your arm gonna feel like you took a punch from Mike Tyson tomorrow, then nothing.

Man, I wish I could read Russian. Whats the point of the pin thru the ball joint tho? It seems it would stop it rotating on the only axis it needs to during separation?

Well, if it’s Blue Origin, and it’s outside... it’s probably not going to space today. Or any other day, ever.

So, here’s a question, probably not exactly the right sub forum, but... Are KSP stickers on Amazon & such officially licensed or at least condoned? I’m guessing not, but I don’t see any on the official merch page either.

So why did they build the N1 like that, with the spherical-tanks-within-hulls? On the surface it seems like that would be a much heavier way to build it, all that mass not contributing to holding fuel in the tanks & such...

Prolly just wants to have all the boxes checked for the Rich Guy Spaceflight triple crown.

They’ve been planning this for a while, I would think they’d have a recovery ship of suitable capacity to fish it out of the water, given prior experience. Tho more than likely it will just become marine habitat for some fish who have NO idea how cool their new home is.

Scuttlebutt I heard was that it’s just for inspections, for now. What they find will prolly determine if it flies again or not. Or if that’s just the easier way to get it back off the launch stand. Of course you know, you’re now obligated to legally change his name to “xxx, Son of @TheseJustWords.” That’s easier to do when every single tweet isn’t deluged with thousands of fanboy quips and fake spambots.

That thread is not dead which can eternal lie, and stranger aeons... well, it’s been pretty damn strange and it sure feels like an eon. Been wrestling with my own krakens for a while now, and sadly they’re not the simple face-punching kind. The Story is still rolling around the ol’ noggin and refuses to let me go, so I’m still trying my darndest to summit this massive block.

@YNM What I’m saying is, it’s not worth the cost. No provider is willing to put up the kind of money that would require, let alone ford the local bureaucracy (“if you do X you must also do Y, and pay for it, because reasons”) and fight the inevitable NIMBYs who want nothing different ever ever. It’s just not worth it for the tiny market they could serve. You’ve also got a tax base of 150m people to subsidize rural fiber for pennies, we don’t.

Your island is smaller than my one state, with less than 8 million people living here. When you have that kind of population density it greatly changes how you can do things. Burying cables is expensive, and brings other issues, to only serve a very small market. The legislature can’t just wave a magic wand and make that less so, at least not without introducing... other problems. There’s a scant 50k people on my island, most of them clumped on one end. The rest of us literally can’t even get a pizza delivered, to say nothing of reliable internet.

Unlikely. I once caught a lineman at a gas station during a really bad power outage, don’t worry, I let him go again, Had a very interesting conversation about why, in a place like this that’s known for its trees just as much as its wind, are utility lines still run exposed on poles that are so vulnerable to said wind and trees? Long story short, it’s actually better here. Burying power (internet) lines is expensive, and while problems are much less likely to occur then, when they do occur, they are much much harder just to find, let alone dig up and repair. Where I am, we’re never going to see a mass burial of utility lines, not without a massive suburbanization effort, which would meet a resistance bourn upon the fury of hell itself and would see any such proponents literally tarred and feathered, then maybe set alight. As such, we will always have power outages during windstorms, which will always bring internet outages with them. The local phone company has buried fiber, if you’re lucky, but I rate them below even Comcast, and if you’ve any familiarity with the latter that should tell you something. Even if completion could acquire the land rights to bury more fiber, it’s an inherently limited thing in an inherently limited market, so we’ll never see any real competition unless it comes from above. There are millions out there in a similar situation, and we like our rural living, we don’t want suburban subdivisions. We are the target market of these megaconstellations, not the cities and suburbs, at least not yet. One way or another, these constellations are coming, we’d all better figure out how to coexist now, while such things are much easier to do. Yes, there are problems with megaconstellations but they are solvable problems. Pix or it didn’t happen.