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Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by lysace »

tiahura wrote: post #77
hayd wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's ironic given pre-acquisition under every Elon Musk tweet the top replies were always crypto scammers. Hopefully this time YouTube fix the impersonation stream but it was up for a long time during/after the last launch.

I assumed a large portion of YouTube/ Google management had been in a plane crash as that seemed the only plausible explanation for it to stay up as long and have as many viewers as it did. It really was stunning.

Nah, they are just ignoring the damaging effects on individuals and cashing in the ad money.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by trompetenaccoun »

montagg wrote: post #115

I'm just going to choose peace today and say: the SpaceX engineers who've been at this forever and have shown that crazy stuff is actually possible are seriously amazing humans, and I do hope they are successful.

>I'm just going to choose peace today

As an alternative to what? I don't understand how the first part of the comment is connected to the rest.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by politician »

paul7986 wrote: post #67
modeless wrote: post #38

SpaceX just posted this video of the last test. It's one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI9HQfCAw64

Not into space things and while this is cool i wonder what the great significance of this is? I see lots signaling how great this is and it's lost on me.

Consider ocean-going freight transportation: the container ships and the containers, the port facilities and the cranes. Now imagine that you were able to witness the very first round-trip sailing of such a container ship between two newly constructed still-experimental-and-heretofore-unproven ports.

That'd be pretty cool right? The dawn of a new era in global trade.

This is that, for space. (Booster as container ship, Orbital vehicle as container, launch tower as literal crane, launch complex as port)

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Post by saberience »

_mlbt wrote: post #78
foota wrote: post #47

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He has a social media platform now that actively suppresses liberal viewpoints, so he’s a complete hypocrite.

He’s happy to censor some things, but complains about free speech when things he likes, you know, like racist hate speech, is censored.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by grecy »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #122
montagg wrote: post #115

I'm just going to choose peace today and say: the SpaceX engineers who've been at this forever and have shown that crazy stuff is actually possible are seriously amazing humans, and I do hope they are successful.

>I'm just going to choose peace today As an alternative to what? I don't understand how the first part of the comment is connected to the rest.

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Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by trompetenaccoun »

hggigg wrote: post #98
dbish wrote: post #86

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My South African colleague tells me he is happy that you have adopted him.

And that's why South Africa is the way it is. I recommend living there for a bit, might be an eye opener for some Westerners.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #122
montagg wrote: post #115

I'm just going to choose peace today and say: the SpaceX engineers who've been at this forever and have shown that crazy stuff is actually possible are seriously amazing humans, and I do hope they are successful.

>I'm just going to choose peace today As an alternative to what? I don't understand how the first part of the comment is connected to the rest.

I think they’re trying to maintain focus on the engineering rather than the politics surrounding Musk at the moment.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by renewiltord »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #122
montagg wrote: post #115

I'm just going to choose peace today and say: the SpaceX engineers who've been at this forever and have shown that crazy stuff is actually possible are seriously amazing humans, and I do hope they are successful.

>I'm just going to choose peace today As an alternative to what? I don't understand how the first part of the comment is connected to the rest.

It is traditional to summon an Elon Musk Flamewar by implying even vaguely that he is successful. Elon Musk’s support for a candidate may have been pivotal in that candidate’s win today. This sort of thing is like bathing in gasoline next to a forest fire.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by gridspy »

kibwen wrote: post #61
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #43

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To his detriment, he didn’t kill Artemis and replace it with something workable.

Artemis' unworkable design is because of the limitations of Starship. I was all-in on "cool, huge rocket go brr" until I realized that it's going to take between 5 and 20 Starship launches per mission just to get to the moon. That's a clear regression from the Saturn V.

> 5 and 20 Starship launches per mission

That is not actually such a big deal when you realize they are just ferrying fuel on a reusable rocket. They're also doing it well in advance of the mission. There is a massive logistics chain making it possible to buy fuel on your road trip, this is similar.

> That's a clear regression from the Saturn V.

Not exactly, as the fuel provided in orbit by these other missions will allow a much larger payload to reach the Moon's surface and return.

StarShip can already deliver a similar payload to orbit as Saturn V (though a bit less due to reusability) - it is the extra mass to the moon which requires the refuelling.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by hggigg »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #126
hggigg wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My South African colleague tells me he is happy that you have adopted him.

And that's why South Africa is the way it is. I recommend living there for a bit, might be an eye opener for some Westerners.

It's like the US in a decade.

(I have been to both and would rather spend a week in Cape Town than Chicago for example)

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