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Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by rigrassm »

cubefox wrote: post #182
rigrassm wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spoken like someone who is generating their opinion from their channel name alone. Those "independent streamers" provide live launch streams with multiple feeds using their own equipment and to top it off they have numerous very knowledgeable hosts for all their streams. At this point I suspect they are covering every US based launch from all the major players. Hell, today they broadcasted both the New Glenn and Star…

They should rename themselves NSF, short for NSF Space Flight.

I love that name and would 100% support that change lol

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

DeepYogurt wrote: post #248
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Something measurable had to go very wrong Or slightly wrong. An FTS is programmed to be conservative. Particularly on unmanned flights. Doubly particularly on reëntry. Triply so on experiments bits.

Depends on the programmers I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> Depends on the programmers I guess

It depends on the Air Force.

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Post by cruffle_duffle »

Every one of these are like right out of a sci-fi novel. It makes me truly excited for our future in a way little else out there does.

Between this, AI (even in its current LLM form), and mounting evidence suggesting the entire solar system is teeming with at least microbial life, we are going to become an interplanetary species far sooner than many “skeptics” imagine.

We are just one more lander / sample mission / whatever away from having solid proof of life elsewhere in the solar system. That is gonna jumpstart all a huge race to get humans out into deep space to check it all out.

People worry about AI stealing their jobs… don’t worry. We need that stuff so humans can focus on the next phase of our history… becoming interplanetary. Your kids will be traveling to space and these (very overhyped, don’t get me wrong) LLM’s will be needed for all kinds of tasks.

It sounds crazy but I maintain it’s true and will happen sooner than you’d think.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by slippy »

delichon wrote: post #208
andrewinardeer wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I take it if SpaceX debris hit and destroyed a boat the owner can claim damages from SpaceX? Does international space law allow for this?

Musk said that part of the launch licensing was a requirement to estimate the potential damage to whales in the ocean. He said that the odds turned out to be so low that in his opinion if a whale gets hit it had it coming. https://jabberwocking.com/did-elon-musk-really-have-to-study...

If a whale got hit, would the whale be able to file for damages?

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by llm_trw »

terramex wrote: post #76

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground): https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF... https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800 https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115 Moment of the breakup: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

Is there a video you don't need to log in to view?

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by oo2312 »

teractiveodular wrote: post #98
terramex wrote: post #76

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground): https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF... https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800 https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115 Moment of the breakup: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

The last one is stage separation, not an explosion. You can clearly see the "exploded" rocket continuing to fly afterwards.

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Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by [deleted] »

Retric wrote: post #241
dmurray wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, airlines do not build in a safety factor sufficient to cover an important measurement being off by a factor of 10. They don't ground flights because the pilot might load 2,000 litres of fuel instead of 20,000 litres. They don't take evasive action in case the other plane is travelling at 5,000 knots instead of 500 knots. They don't insist on a 30-km runway because the runway published as 3 km might only be 300 me…

You misunderstood what I’m saying. Airlines have systems to validate the amount of fuel loaded and currently aboard aircraft that have been battle tested across decades including fixes due to past issues etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236 They don’t have that level of certainty around what altitude a rocket exploded, or other one off event.

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Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by nomilk »

llm_trw wrote: post #255
terramex wrote: post #76

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground): https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF... https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800 https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115 Moment of the breakup: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

Is there a video you don't need to log in to view?

The fourth one (instagram) doesn't require login.

Side note: annoying that twitter/X requires login. I'd have sworn Elon said he was removing that requirement to login to view tweets (I think he discussed it with George Hotz).

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNkSQ42jg4&t=49m30s

Elon:

> This is insane. You shouldn't need a twitter account at all unless you need to write something

George:

> Why did you put the pop up back?

Elon:

> We should not be prohibiting read-only scroll

So there seems to be agreement that twitter shouldn't require an account to read (view) posts. The Twitter Space is from 23 Dec 2022 so perhaps things changed since.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by hrldcpr »

llm_trw wrote: post #255
terramex wrote: post #76

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground): https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF... https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800 https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115 Moment of the breakup: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

Is there a video you don't need to log in to view?

for the record I was able to watch without logging in, on Firefox Linux

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Post by krick »

terramex wrote: post #76

Looks like second stage broke up over Caribbean, videos of the debris (as seen from ground): https://x.com/deankolson87/status/1880026759133032662?t=HdHF... https://x.com/realcamtem/status/1880026604472266800 https://x.com/adavenport354/status/1880026262254809115 Moment of the breakup: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE52_hVSeQz/

I'm not worried about the Starship itself, but it looks kinda dangerous. Is it?
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