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Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by gibolt » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:00 AM UTC

apical_dendrite wrote: post #92

gibolt wrote: post #86

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Pretty sure the DOGE intent was good, but real efforts were mostly sidelined for the Trump pony show. Thus the 'fighting' words that followed when the BBB tax cut showed up.

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Consider what would have happened if Elon wasn't there. Likely the same. The people wanting those things cut are still present.

I wish he hadn't gone along with them, but there likely had to be concessions before attempting to make progress. When it became clear cost savings and efficiency wasn't the actual goal in the White House, Elon left.

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by itishappy » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:06 AM UTC

imglorp wrote: post #98

Geee wrote: post #52

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Yes, although one booster engine failed at the start. Not a big deal. :)

They said ahead of time they were shutting one booster engine down to test redundancy.

They did that too, but they also had an early engine failure. No big deal, they're redundant, and the booster they caught during flight 8 suffered worse.

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by bamboozled » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:08 AM UTC

itishappy wrote: post #97

bamboozled wrote: post #93

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> fascists on the moon and private space industry? Yay Give me the Apollo era anytime. The Apollo program was built in no small part by Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Were the outputs of the project privately owned by them after receiving massive levels of tax payer funding?

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by stephen_g » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:11 AM UTC

gibolt wrote: post #101

apical_dendrite wrote: post #92

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Consider what would have happened if Elon wasn't there. Likely the same. The people wanting those things cut are still present. I wish he hadn't gone along with them, but there likely had to be concessions before attempting to make progress. When it became clear cost savings and efficiency wasn't the actual goal in the White House, Elon left.

What do you mean "gone along with them"? Seems like a strange kind of reality-distortion to try and convince youself that Musk was misled into doing those terrible things as part of DOGE, when he actually just wanted to do it himself...

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by Qworg » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:12 AM UTC

gibolt wrote: post #101

apical_dendrite wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Consider what would have happened if Elon wasn't there. Likely the same. The people wanting those things cut are still present. I wish he hadn't gone along with them, but there likely had to be concessions before attempting to make progress. When it became clear cost savings and efficiency wasn't the actual goal in the White House, Elon left.

Come now - you really believe that Elon saw DOGE as a good faith effort to cut costs in the government?

For someone with such a vaunted intelligence, he was either dumb or complicit. "Working things out from first principles" would have had him leave after the very first step.

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by ericcumbee » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:12 AM UTC

imglorp wrote: post #98

Geee wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, although one booster engine failed at the start. Not a big deal. :)

They said ahead of time they were shutting one booster engine down to test redundancy.

that was on the landing burn. they had a engine out on the ascent.

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by enkonta » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:13 AM UTC

gibolt wrote: post #88

mikewarot wrote: post #45

I'm amazed the thing landed right next to the Buoy, and was seen from the BuoyCam.

This has happened many times so far. Control to reach a specific landing point is quite good (when things don't go boom first)

Well that's part of what makes this interesting. Some part of it did go boom. Looked like a COPV or something exploded sometime after payload deployment

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by apical_dendrite » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

gibolt wrote: post #101

apical_dendrite wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Consider what would have happened if Elon wasn't there. Likely the same. The people wanting those things cut are still present. I wish he hadn't gone along with them, but there likely had to be concessions before attempting to make progress. When it became clear cost savings and efficiency wasn't the actual goal in the White House, Elon left.

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Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by monero-xmr » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:16 AM UTC

dvt wrote: post #31

erulabs wrote: post #5

Unbelievable! Watched with my 4 year old, he was full of questions about why the ocean was turning to nighttime, what satellites are, about going to another planet, about the earth being so blue and if we “ever even knew that before”. Just wonderful stuff. So excited for the future.

So awesome, I hope to have kids one day precisely for this reason! One of my fondest memories is my dad quenching my curiosity (with a drawing, to boot!) of how satellite dishes work when I was 6 or 7.

My kids learning to ride a bike - the moment you release your hand for the first time and they just go and go. When my son learned checkers, and then when he beat me the first time. When my daughter told her first original joke at a family dinner and everyone died laughing.

The moments truly never stop. Every single day they amaze and surprise you, fill you with so much love and joy and appreciation.

One time Bill Gates was asked what gave him joy and without missing a beat he said his children. Nothing is greater, nothing gives you more meaning, nothing is more ultimate than the sacrifice and patience and wonder and fulfillment of having children.

Re: Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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Post by 14 » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:18 AM UTC

I can't help but think of one cray thing...This is absolutely amazing to watch. The fact that there are cameras at every stage showing exactly what is happening. Being able to see the curvature of earth all in hi-def. But the entire time I watch this I just keep thinking even with all this proof you still will not convince some people that the moon landings are real and that the earth is not flat. They will say these are just AI videos used to trick people from the truth.

It just amazes me that technologies have come so far that at one end we can really show that the earth is truthfully a sphere but also at the same time technology has come so far one can claim this is just another video created by AI and is not actually true.