Guest Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 13 hours ago, tater said: WHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY did they go back to km/h? Christ, these webcasts are just downright terrible! PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 (edited) 3 hours ago, Rocketthrust said: I watched it during US History, my teacher didn't notice Each one of these flights should be a part of your history class. And test material. Me, I slept through the whole thing. Damn... watching the footage now... I just love how they fire the engines halfway thru flipping for the boostnack burn. So Kerbal. I wonder if that helps with settling the propellants, too? and dat plume doe as it flies backwards thru it in near vacuum. Edited October 9, 2017 by CatastrophicFailure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 2 hours ago, Brotoro said: The little tufts of frozen oxygen at the bottom of the second stage were interesting. Is that... normal? That almost looked like some kind of leak from the cooling loop above the engine bell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.50calBMG Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 23 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said: Is that... normal? That almost looked like some kind of leak from the cooling loop above the engine bell? I haven't yet seen a launch that didn't have any little "Ice Monsters" (thank you Chris B, calling them that from now on) floating away after engine cutoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDestroyer111 Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 1 hour ago, regex said: WHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY did they go back to km/h? Christ, these webcasts are just downright terrible! PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT. Last time they used other speed unit than km/h in their webcasts was NROL-76 with m/s??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 1 minute ago, TheDestroyer111 said: Last time they used other speed unit than km/h in their webcasts was NROL-76 with m/s??? And they've used mp/h way back in the day and then switched to km/h before going to m/s and now they're back on km/h. WHAT THE HELL SPACE-X MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDestroyer111 Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 (edited) 1 minute ago, regex said: And they've used mp/h way back in the day and then switched to km/h before going to m/s and now they're back on km/h. WHAT THE HELL SPACE-X MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND AFAIK all missions after NROL-76 to this day used km/h, that's exactly what i said lol... but k ofc m/s rules #1 Edited October 9, 2017 by TheDestroyer111 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 15 minutes ago, regex said: And they've used mp/h way back in the day and then switched to km/h before going to m/s and now they're back on km/h. WHAT THE HELL SPACE-X MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND I thought you were complaining it wasn't km/s or m/s, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 1 minute ago, tater said: I thought you were complaining it wasn't km/s or m/s, lol. I'd prefer something per second so I don't have to translate in my head, since that's what I "grew up with", but whatever. Space-X gonna "maverick" or something, next launch will be in cubits per minute, you wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Cubits per fortnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Furlongs per shake. Ells per dog year. Horselength per lightfoot. Siriometers per galactic minute. Gigafurlongs per nanofortnight? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Falconlengths per Elonjiffy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Okay, I think I've got the perfect unit for SpaceX to use in its webcast. Jupiter-Amazons of square darafs per cubic hiroshimas of square electron-faradays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 kellikams/rep (had to look that up) Isn't that totally banana which unit they use for display ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevenperforce Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 3 minutes ago, Green Baron said: kellikams/rep (had to look that up) Isn't that totally banana which unit they use for display ? Damn you Klingon sympathizer! Per above -- A Jupiter is a unit of planetary mass, an Amazon is a unit of volumetric flow, a daraf is an inverse Farad, a hiroshima is a unit of energy, and both electrons and faradays are units of charge. So Jupiter-Amazons*daraf2 / hiroshimas3 electron-faradays2 simplifies to kg*m3*s/J3*F2*C4, for which simplifying to meters per second is left as an exercise for the reader. Of course seconds are a unit of distance thanks to the definition of c, so m/s really simplifies to a unitless value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Baron Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 47 minutes ago, sevenperforce said: Of course seconds are a unit of distance .... Weren't they a unit of sequence ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 (edited) RUD's per Elon Time. EDIT: 1300TH POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 Edited October 9, 2017 by Ultimate Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 I use %c as of late Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh1pman Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 4 hours ago, sevenperforce said: Damn you Klingon sympathizer! Per above -- A Jupiter is a unit of planetary mass, an Amazon is a unit of volumetric flow, a daraf is an inverse Farad, a hiroshima is a unit of energy, and both electrons and faradays are units of charge. So Jupiter-Amazons*daraf2 / hiroshimas3 electron-faradays2 simplifies to kg*m3*s/J3*F2*C4, for which simplifying to meters per second is left as an exercise for the reader. Of course seconds are a unit of distance thanks to the definition of c, so m/s really simplifies to a unitless value. There should also be a Real time/Elon time transition constant somewhere in that equation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 ... and they said SpaceX would be lucky to break 12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.50calBMG Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 Now they are all making new rockets just to try and keep up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 6 hours ago, sh1pman said: There should also be a Real time/Elon time transition constant somewhere in that equation. n - where n is a constant of proportionality that must be determined by experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEpicSquared Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 12 hours ago, insert_name said: I use %c as of late Some guy: "So, how fast did you run the marathon last week?" You: "Let's see... that would be 0.00000000000000000000000000000000198% of the speed of light." The guy: "0.0" The guy: *backs away slowly* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 I've split 7 pages worth of colonization discussion off into it's own thread. If you think your post was moved in error or didn't get moved, then report it and write why you think it should be moved to the other thread (or back here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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