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Post by pixl97 »

14 wrote: post #110

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…

Yea, I'm older and remember the shuttle days. It's the video all the way to the ground that amazes me every time (well at least when the orbiter is aligned properly and not turning into a meteor shower).

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Post by oska »

apical_dendrite wrote: post #108
gibolt wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Post by Pedro_Ribeiro »

decimalenough wrote: post #15
Pigalowda wrote: post #6

So the starlink simulators its deploying right now are empty platters that will burn up in the atmosphere from what I understand. Next missions they’ll be real statlink sats. Are these different than regular sats? It sounds like they’re able to handle more bandwidth but I don’t know.

Starship will be deploying the next gen v3 satellites, which weigh about 2 tons each. A single Starship launch with 60 of these deploys more capacity than 20 launches of a Falcon 9.

The figures they've been talking of the ideal cost per launch of starship are even more insane. I'm sure some of it is hype farming on Twitter but if they get the cost to less then $1000/kg it would be incredible.

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Post by skywhopper »

gibolt wrote: post #86
apical_dendrite wrote: post #81

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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.

You’ve been seriously misled or you’ve forgotten what happened. How did the illegal shutdown of USAID and the waste of billions of dollars of medicine, food, and health care for the poorest folks in the world come from good intentions? How did the irresponsible injection of inexperienced outsiders into the SSA come from good intentions? How is cancelling billions of ongoing federal contracts without cause and withholding payments for work already done an effect of good intent?

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Post by mrheosuper »

gibolt wrote: post #86
apical_dendrite wrote: post #81

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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.

DOGE is the best example of Dunning-Kruger effect. A bunch of smart kids think they are better than everyone.

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Post by skywhopper »

mythrwy wrote: post #118
apical_dendrite wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Any chance you could help keep this site political flamewar free? Not everyone agrees with you politically and it's unpleasant to have to wade through these kind of rants to read about interesting things. You have strong feelings, I get it, but please stop the pollution. I am trying my best to say this in a kind and sincere way. There are plenty of other places to make political rants.

That was not a political rant. It was a summary of what actually happened.

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Post by asadotzler »

dotnet00 wrote: post #55
JKCalhoun wrote: post #35

Some kind of failure in the lower engine area. Figure it's going to burn up on entry? EDIT: made it. I suppose it was meant to blow up on landing in the ocean? It would have been nice to examine the burned components — but perhaps they had not intended to retrieve it that far away anyway.

The walls are 3mm thick steel, they're very likely to buckle and tear when it tips over, the residual methane vapor gets out and there are plenty of sources of heat to ignite it. They don't claim to have any plans of recovering the wreckage, but they have previously fished up wreckage for study, so it's still possible they decide to do that.

generally 4mm for the barrel sections, plus all the stringers that add rigidity to that 4mm.

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Post by nuker »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #35

Some kind of failure in the lower engine area. Figure it's going to burn up on entry? EDIT: made it. I suppose it was meant to blow up on landing in the ocean? It would have been nice to examine the burned components — but perhaps they had not intended to retrieve it that far away anyway.

> Some kind of failure in the lower engine area.

The girl in NASASpaceflight video linked at top said maybe one of the three oxygen vents blew up due to some kind of buildup. Location makes sense.

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Post by [deleted] »

skywhopper wrote: post #127
mythrwy wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance you could help keep this site political flamewar free? Not everyone agrees with you politically and it's unpleasant to have to wade through these kind of rants to read about interesting things. You have strong feelings, I get it, but please stop the pollution. I am trying my best to say this in a kind and sincere way. There are plenty of other places to make political rants.

That was not a political rant. It was a summary of what actually happened.

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