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Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by pinewurst » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:36 AM UTC

tjtrapp wrote: post #63

bfieidhbrjr wrote: post #55

Does anyone else get super depressed by this? I did some great work today. I coded something pretty cool and useful. I built a little deck to explain it. My coworkers loved it. My job security went up. I enjoyed it. The journey is the reward. But these guys are making rockets in tents. Should I be rethinking life? Because that's how it feels. I love it. I admire them. But it feels unobtainable. I want to make that ki…

We're hiring for Starship and Starlink software teams: https://grnh.se/080f65d02us It sounds like you're passionate about your work and that's an important quality. As gorgoiler points out, "Making a difference in the world is what counts." If you'd like to help, consider applying! :)

The application forms are pretty ridiculous with theIr insistence on school/graduation dates (some reqs) and SAT/ACT scores (all).

As a very experienced engineer, I can’t accept being judged on (historical) trivia.

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by mulcahey » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:37 AM UTC

walrus01 wrote: post #69

tjtrapp wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're hiring for Starship and Starlink software teams: https://grnh.se/080f65d02us It sounds like you're passionate about your work and that's an important quality. As gorgoiler points out, "Making a difference in the world is what counts." If you'd like to help, consider applying! :)

Is the starlink software team based in Redmond or Hawthorne?

There are Starlink software positions available at both locations.

For example, here is a web development position in Hawthorne: https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/4682610002?gh_jid=4...

And a network position in Redmond: https://boards.greenhouse.io/spacex/jobs/4770694002?gh_jid=4...

Here is the job board for all software positions: https://www.spacex.com/careers/index.html?department=Softwar...

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by monadic2 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:42 AM UTC

It’s times like these I turn to “Whitey On The Moon” by Gil Scott-Heron.

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by mulcahey » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:45 AM UTC

pinewurst wrote: post #71

tjtrapp wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're hiring for Starship and Starlink software teams: https://grnh.se/080f65d02us It sounds like you're passionate about your work and that's an important quality. As gorgoiler points out, "Making a difference in the world is what counts." If you'd like to help, consider applying! :)

The application forms are pretty ridiculous with theIr insistence on school/graduation dates (some reqs) and SAT/ACT scores (all). As a very experienced engineer, I can’t accept being judged on (historical) trivia.

I would presume it depends on whom you're asking. E.g. Elon's stated multiple times that he believes requirements of degrees on many of Tesla's job postings to be "absurd"[0][1]

[0] https://youtu.be/ywPqLCc9zBU?t=2733

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1208841343440568320?s=20

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by rbanffy » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

pinewurst wrote: post #71

tjtrapp wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're hiring for Starship and Starlink software teams: https://grnh.se/080f65d02us It sounds like you're passionate about your work and that's an important quality. As gorgoiler points out, "Making a difference in the world is what counts." If you'd like to help, consider applying! :)

The application forms are pretty ridiculous with theIr insistence on school/graduation dates (some reqs) and SAT/ACT scores (all). As a very experienced engineer, I can’t accept being judged on (historical) trivia.

Same here. Understand they need to somehow weed through their applications. Experienced engineers are costly to assess and having a cheap test to remove the obvious negatives helps them at the cost of a few false ones. :-(

I'm also not a US citizen, so that's another cheap test I can't pass.

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by Mizza » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:47 AM UTC

zizee wrote: post #33

No one has seemed to have mentioned it yet, but the game changer of Starship will be full reusability of both the first and second stage of the rocket. Falcon 9's reusability of the first stage was a huge step towards making access to space a lot cheaper. If SpaceX can realize full reusability with Starship it will enable things like large scale moon bases, space hotels and mars colonization. They still have a lot of…

I recently read the screenplay to 2001.

An interesting thing mentioned in the script, but not shown in the film, is that all of the images of beautiful space ships in the early sequence of the film are in fact space-based nuclear missile launchers, and that there are 27 nuclear nations with space weapons.

I sometimes imagine what an alien visitor would think about us if they came to our planet and saw that we had such destructive technology, pointed at _ourselves_.

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by KiwiJohnno » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:50 AM UTC

m4rtink wrote: post #49

sneak wrote: post #31

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...with a 22 ton steel weight (that little block) on the top of it, in addition to the entire weight of the test article and the fuel.

There is likely very little fuel though for such a small hop.

I read somewhere it had about 15 tonnes of fuel onboard, which isn't trivial

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by xiphias2 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:51 AM UTC

pinewurst wrote: post #71

tjtrapp wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're hiring for Starship and Starlink software teams: https://grnh.se/080f65d02us It sounds like you're passionate about your work and that's an important quality. As gorgoiler points out, "Making a difference in the world is what counts." If you'd like to help, consider applying! :)

The application forms are pretty ridiculous with theIr insistence on school/graduation dates (some reqs) and SAT/ACT scores (all). As a very experienced engineer, I can’t accept being judged on (historical) trivia.

It's OK, you don't need to. There are many companies with different requirements, so you're just probably not a good fit.

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by xiphias2 » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

mulcahey wrote: post #74

pinewurst wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The application forms are pretty ridiculous with theIr insistence on school/graduation dates (some reqs) and SAT/ACT scores (all). As a very experienced engineer, I can’t accept being judged on (historical) trivia.

I would presume it depends on whom you're asking. E.g. Elon's stated multiple times that he believes requirements of degrees on many of Tesla's job postings to be "absurd"[0][1] [0] https://youtu.be/ywPqLCc9zBU?t=2733 [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1208841343440568320?s=20

Having a degree or not is different from having a degree with a low or high GPA. Having a low GPA at a University is a worse signal for hard working person than having no University background.

Re: SpaceX test flight of Starship SN-5 [video]

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan » Wed, Aug 05, 2020, 4:57 AM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #76

zizee wrote: post #33

No one has seemed to have mentioned it yet, but the game changer of Starship will be full reusability of both the first and second stage of the rocket. Falcon 9's reusability of the first stage was a huge step towards making access to space a lot cheaper. If SpaceX can realize full reusability with Starship it will enable things like large scale moon bases, space hotels and mars colonization. They still have a lot of…

I recently read the screenplay to 2001. An interesting thing mentioned in the script, but not shown in the film, is that all of the images of beautiful space ships in the early sequence of the film are in fact space-based nuclear missile launchers, and that there are 27 nuclear nations with space weapons. I sometimes imagine what an alien visitor would think about us if they came to our planet and saw that we had suc…

Any sources for this? Wikipedia seems to state there are no known operative orbital nuclear weapons systems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon#Space-to-Earth_...