CatastrophicFailure

Well, first you need to acquire a Bird of Prey, then you need to go back to actually find some whales from a time before they all went extinct due to people accelerating them to demonstrate silly arguments of thrust. Might want to pick up some elephants while you’re there...

And Delta II, I think, but there’s dinky little SRBs and then there’s this glorious monstrosity. With cores so closely clustered together I really want to see how they manage separation without the whole thing going, well, Kerbal.

A conglomeration of several days worth of Kerbalish stuff... First off, new computer! ...promptly killed the old one... Followed shortly (after a marathon of overtime) by a new monitor! So, to test it all out, I've been faffing about a bit with 1.6, tried a New Glenn-ish fly/boostback booster thingy...

Man, I hope that thing flies. within my lifetime I wanna see that real-life asparagus staging!

That would be a pretty darn impressive escalation in time if indeed it was a raptor.

This thread is not dead! I've got the next post uploaded, have had for a couple weeks now , just need to write it out. Meanwhile, here's a teaser for... eventually... spoiler warning guess what's different

I have to laugh when I see statements like this. A couple of inches absolutely paralyzes this place. What little I saw today was a ghost town. How much of a ghost town? I drive a bus, but today I just sat at the bus yard cuz they just cancelled half the runs. I heard guys were running so late everyone just said "flarp it, drive for a while, then come back." One guy who did go out sat in a van for three hours waiting for his relief bus to show up. Which never actually did. And then, this was my commute home: Nope, road was never plowed. Not even touched. It looked like this until I got to my ferry, then over here on my little rural backwater island with a shoestring transportation budget, everything was clear and dry. "it only dropped about a foot or so... cleared within a few hours..."

These are the bits that brighten an author’s day. The next chapter will be a while, sadly. It’s turning out to be most... frustrating. There are some things even a RSF fears...

They’re gonna need better cameras. Or sunglasses.

Not all fun and games tho. Eek.

Didn’t you guys just get hammered tho?

The Earth. I thought Sunday seemed way too short... but today is going really fast for some reason...

Doot, doot, doot, lookin’ out my back door... “Just a dusting,” the man said. “Maybe an inch or so,” the man said. “Barely even a moderate impact to travel,” the man said... Meanwhile, my wife just stayed home. Her entire workplace shut down shortly thereafter. There’s numerous power outages, emergency protocols are being called up, and the roads are eerily deserted save for all the Priuses and Subarus in the ditch. [cue raucous laughter from the midwest]

Well, seeing as we’re all still here (we are, aren’t we?), if there were any eldritch abominations in attendance, Elon must have just punched them in the face. Who designed the ignition system, Rube Goldberg? Must be, since it actually worked... well... Actual relevant content:

Ka boom! but in a good way.

Apparently there were two tests. ...and no eldritch abominations...

That audio tho... After the bangs, that groaning... did... did they just rip through the space Time continuum and summon an eldritch abomination from outside reality??

eek.

Waco and fire don’t exactly have the best history together...

Wasn’t there someone who was specifically working with BO and their larger fairing to design a larger antenna to take advantage of it? MOAR antenna and all...

is... is everything alright, then? Is this just life being life or...

I, too, know this feeling. Doubletime-and-a-half all day working MLK day last week. My 35” Ultrawide monitor will be here on Sunday. hopefully.

So... Silver Surfer Skydiver recovery for the booster as well? Makes sense, I suppose... if it’s stainless it can probably easily take the entry heating from only Mach a few, and with aerodynamic deceleration, that saves the entry burn entirely and only need a landing burn from a much lower terminal velocity, hmm... That would certainly be a sight to see. Mostly cuz we’d actually get to see it.

This thread as always... And there will be no TEATEB with Raptor, it’s spark ignited. So no issues like the FH core stage. tho they will have to herd sparks...

@KSK take all the time you need, we, the readership, remain as always, all ears. But you are not allowed to quit. If you dare quit I’ma resurrect RJ, Sir Terry, and a most-unhappy-at-being-disturbed-during-his-celestial-cribbage-match-with-C.S.-Lewis Mr. Tolkien and come find you and there will be words, sir, there will be words, ya dig? ಠ_ಠ