CatastrophicFailure

When someone finally has a proper moonbase, there needs to be a huge dome where chickens can finally soar through the air with the grace of eagles.

Flight simulation will truly have reached its apex when it finally introduces virtual incident report paperwork. Oh and virtual union grievance arbitration hearings disputing AI-generated angry customer complaints.

The surest way to find any item, and directly proportionate in surety to said item’s value, is simply to buy another one. Your move, St. Anthony.

Can you run your own cable modem with them? That would at least give you the control over when it updates.

A reminder that sooner or later “space archaeologist” will be a thing… and they’ll be cataloging a pile of plushies.

No… he’s referring to adding a “generator” to a pure electric vehicle- no gas engine- to “generate” power as the car drives around. Trying this will get you a massive fine for attempting to violate the laws of thermodynamics…

The struggle is real.

There’s a story from the very first Falcon 9 launch, where they noticed the edge of the Mvac nozzle was damaged once it was on the pad. Rather than roll it back, they ran the numbers and figured out they could just trim the damaged bit off on the pad… with ordinary tin snips. So yeah, I’m given to think there’s negligible mass savings there, especially vs the loss in performance. Gotta be the mfg cost saved.

Nice curtains…

Possible FTS testing: no, not that one. Look over to the left… Better view:

Interesting design on the header tank there…

And people say the fanboys are a cult. <facepalm> ooof, someone call the fire department for that burn! /S It’s the internet. Someone will take the most absurd thing seriously… because some other one actually means it seriously.

Mythbusters already did it. …sort of…

Mildly interesting: !

Confirmed, SpaceX is building the world’s largest bidet.

IIRC Boca is currently limited to like half a dozen orbital launches a year per the existing EIS. For that to change… much would need to change. We would most likely see that kind of reuse in Florida, in the future.

They did. What they did not test, apparently, was hitting the door with a sledgehammer then throwing a ball at the window… That’s absurd. Tho it’s amusing we’ve now come full-circle from “the FAA is conspiring against SpaceX!” to “the FAA is conspiring with SpaceX!” The FAA is the authority, and they, in turn, had sign-offs from various other authorities (F&W, etc) beforehand too. Also ULA is still a thing, still has more military contracts than SpaceX IIRC, and they fly north cargo and (eventually) people to the ISS too.

Ah yes, I detect the subtle bouquet of finely-aged milk.

The FAA IS the independent reviewing authority. Once again, we don’t have all the data. They do.

They can’t hold that much weight. They’re designed to lift and empty Superheavy, and just that is some serious engineering. Fully fueled you’re talking many thousands of tonnes.

Interesting read:

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