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Yes, i do. Everything's fine so far. Ah, dangit. Hold at T - 7 minutes.

Ah. Home just in time for launch. Let's see how the White Lady will perform on her centennary flight

Oh, to get samples of this ancient traveller to a fully equipped laboratory... We could learn so much... Maybe one day

50 meters deep water in tropics. Add generous amount of heat thanks to sunlight, and you will have a nightmarish conga line of super-hurricanes in no time. I don't want to live on your deathworld!

Now, if you could repeat your observations in collaboration with an established YouTuber. It would be a nice counter to the many moronic videos posted by flat Earthers about Moon being only a light under the glass dome, and hovering only couple of thousands of kilometers above the surface of their fantasy pancake world

I have flashbacks to old, cheesy sci-fi movies and pictures from 1940-50'ies

11 hour orbital period! I vote to call this planet Speedy Gonzales.

Plane will stay stable. Maybe. Until it gets hit by a sideways current or a bigger piece of debris. Then you will be stuck in a rolling aluminium barrel, battered constantly from the sides, losing pieces of wings and the hull along the way. No thanks - i will stay on the roof.

I've seen videos of tsunamis, When it reaches land, it turns from a wave of water into a wave of debris. Cars, trees, furniture, pieces of buildings. No flimsy raft or vest will keep you alive in such grinder. I'd go for highest possible roof of a sturdiest building in sight immediately.

Nothing can beat Siberian Traps in the category of "Your day is going to suck. And following several millions of years too."

Yeah. Military contracts is where the monies are. Compared to defence budget NASA gets chump's change.

Weird, isn't it? It's all solids and hypergolics. PSLV uses nitrogen on its first stage, but only for pressurisation of an additional component, which is allowing for thrust regulation of solid fuel stage. It might be cryogenically stored to improve capacity of its tanks. But is there enough of it to bring the surface of the rocket below freezing point?

Very fast launch. Good TWR Though i have to admit - those pieces of ice falling from the sides made me jump, before i realised what is happening. Weird, though - i watched launches from Florida and Kourou - both warm and humid environments. But i never seen so much ice falling off.

It's hard to add anything Good work.

It is the forum of a game about little green aliens exploring their little planetary system. Why are you surprised discussion here is on the casual side?

Ouch. Heavy world. Mr. Spock would look more like a bunker than an elf LOL

Is it me, or is BFR evolving to be more and more like a spaceplane? VTOL spaceplane to be more precise Also, this - from the old (1950) movie "Destination Moon": Looks like history is making a full circle, eh?

I wonder how they intend to keep the cable taut. Centrifugal force, most probably.

Question is: for how long this parking orbit can stay "safe". Asteroid belt is not the most gravitationally stable place in Solar System. On the other hand - Ceres is a decently sized body, and it might be able to keep this mini-satellite even against Jupiter's pull.

I was thinking the same thing looking at the weather map. OCISLY will have to give the hurricane a wide berth. Obviously. But where she should go, sandwiched between the coast and approaching storm? Problem with tropical storms is their unpredictability. There's no telling if Florence will slam straight into Florida, swing north along the coast, or actually go south and continue to the Gulf of Mexico. I do not envy the skipper of the tug his (or her) job now - his (or her ) stress level must be climbing up steeply.

Never, ever underestimate human potential and propensity for doing truly, outrageously stupid things out of the blue sky. Once, at work, i asked my friend (with whom i worked for close to three years) to hand me a nail. He did so - straight into my outstretched palm, sharp end first. I still have the scar He was simply distracted, didn't think about what he was doing, and to this day i don't know which one of us was more shocked. Accidents happen. But sabotage? Unless it was done on absolute impulse, i don't think it would be done so shoddily. Unless you'd want it to look like an accident

I've read about similiar trap used by some African tribes to hunt rhinos, elephants and hippos. They dug a hole in the ground near a trail of their prey, and inside it hunters installed a heavy wooden ring with sharpened spikes placed inside. There was a rope tied to the ring, and other end was tied to a piece of log (preferably with branch stumps still on it). When animal stepped into the trap, wooden spikes would get embedded in the leg, keeping the prey trapped. Even if animal was able to pull the ring out of the ground, its weight and the log snagging on every bush and rock would work to slow it down and weaken it for the hunters to kill easily. Cruel, i know - and my modern environmentally conscious self is cringing at the though. But hunters\gatherers without firearms would still have to somehow secure food for themselves and their families. It is not our place to judge people fighting for survival in harsh conditions.

Small rocket. Loud roar!

Word, bro Any news about fairing recovery? Where is Mr. Steven?

I'd say access to a high quality vacuum would be a bigger boon to builders Of course microgravity would help - they would need to place a whole lot of electromagnets along the way, equip them with very precise positioning control system and voila! You have a very, very large free floating particle accelerator. It's not a new idea BTW - i've read about it in an old sci-fi book.