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Post by aperrien »

throw310822 wrote: post #215
Ajay-p wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it is the indelible human nature, to go the furthest we can because it's there. At first I didn't agree with going to Mars, but if you think of it as the furthest place we know we can land on, and explore, then it makes sense. If we can safely land, and return from Mars, then it makes going even further a possibility.

Yes indeed. But still, nobody is building residential neighborhoods on the top of the Everest or in the middle of Antarctica. Exploring for the sake of it is indeed a human instinct. The idea that we should build settlements for people who would live there permanently is plain silly. We have the obsession of repeating the Age of Discovery- but people should get the difference between discovering the Americas, with th…

> But still, nobody is building residential neighborhoods on the top of the Everest or in the middle of Antarctica

Nobody is permitted to build permanent habitats in either of those areas, even though they might be feasible.

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Post by krustyburger »

HPsquared wrote: post #258
krustyburger wrote: post #128

That flap showed the kind of tenacity and courage under (literal) fire we need in our leadership. I hope it will consider entering the presidential race.

Funnily enough, the Simpsons did it: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Inanimate_carbon_rod

I’ll show you inanimate!

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simiones wrote: post #173
zpeti wrote: post #161

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> Landing and then what you plan a flag and die? Pretty much, why do you think columbus set off? And he didn't even know if he'd actually find anything. I don't understand your attitude and people like you, human beings have been explorers forever, and seem to value exploring even over survival potentially. I'd say it's pretty obviously evolutionarily coded into us. Maybe not you, but into many people.

Columbus very very much didn't plan to die (though he very much would have if he didn't get lucky that there was a whole new continent there). His plan was to land in India, which he thought he would reach around the time he actually reached the new continent, because he had a completely wrong idea of how large the globe actually was (he alone had this wrong idea; the actual circumference of the globe was pretty well…

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Post by sleepydog »

tim333 wrote: post #371
somenameforme wrote: post #344

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The 'worst' thing about watching space launches on streams is that you simply cannot grasp how ridiculously huge these things are. Even if, like in the stream today, you see a water tower for some scale, the size discrepancies just make it so hard to intuit. Starship is 121 meters high. That's something taller than a football field, jetting off into space! I've only gotten to see a decommissioned Space Shuttle in per…

I've got the black and white arty photo as my lockscreen which gives you an idea https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/E46BxzjjUkpthVBNE6k8mn-192...

That's an incredible photo. Something about it makes me think of an old-timey silent film about alien invasions.

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Post by ekanes »

tim333 wrote: post #371
somenameforme wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 'worst' thing about watching space launches on streams is that you simply cannot grasp how ridiculously huge these things are. Even if, like in the stream today, you see a water tower for some scale, the size discrepancies just make it so hard to intuit. Starship is 121 meters high. That's something taller than a football field, jetting off into space! I've only gotten to see a decommissioned Space Shuttle in per…

I've got the black and white arty photo as my lockscreen which gives you an idea https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/E46BxzjjUkpthVBNE6k8mn-192...

That is an incredible picture, thank you.

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Post by riffic »

for context which is often lacking in posts like this, this is what a Super Heavy is (I had to look it up lol because it's not really obvious from the title alone):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Super_Heavy

meta but it absolutely would not kill anyone to include some context in your submissions here.

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss »

vl wrote: post #359
bearjaws wrote: post #3

The rate of descent is absolutely astonishing, 8km -> 1km in 20 seconds, then just hovers above the water. Absolutely incredible work by the SpaceX team. Living in central Florida I cannot wait for the new launch facility to come online. We're going to have lines of spectators into the space coast like we did for the shuttle. If any of you are heading to Disney World you should stop by the NASA Kennedy Visitor Comple…

What is even more impressive to me is that they were able to quite reliably stream all this through Starlink. This shows how mature and usable Starlink is. The fact that you can have live internet connection on re-entering space ship - truly the future is here.

Incredible demo of great service. If you can get reliable video from space, it makes wifi on a commercial plane look like cakewalk.

What will viasat stockholders think now?

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Post by jve »

cletus wrote: post #52

So I'm excited to see this tech develop but I wonder how much of a market there really is for super-heavy lifters. I can't wait to see a future version where they land the various stages rather than just dumping them into the sea. The first Falcon Heavy launch was super impressive. SpaceX already has the Falcon Heavy and there have only been a handful of launches, primarily military. I guess the argument is it'll ope…

Ask yourself what is the market for a super heavy lift vehicle that may cost 2M to launch... even if it turns out 20M, thats much cheaper whatever you get today and still order of magnitude cheaper than yesterdays options.

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Post by trollerator23 »

bearjaws wrote: post #3

The rate of descent is absolutely astonishing, 8km -> 1km in 20 seconds, then just hovers above the water. Absolutely incredible work by the SpaceX team. Living in central Florida I cannot wait for the new launch facility to come online. We're going to have lines of spectators into the space coast like we did for the shuttle. If any of you are heading to Disney World you should stop by the NASA Kennedy Visitor Comple…

Finally! It only took them 4 tries!
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