> The flight test began with Super Heavy successfully lifting off by igniting all 33 Raptor engines and ascending over the Gulf of America. It took me a moment to remember what the Gulf of America is. What stupidity.
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Starship's Tenth Flight Test
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#183Was cool to see the pez dispenser door start to open and all that vapor get sucked outside. The booster ditch was super cool, hover then just cut the engines and let it drop.
Simulating a chopsticks landing, probably.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
The stated goal was always to have a lot of ships, and also to have them be reusable. Starship is a fuel-hungry beast - it can get to LEO by itself, but it needs a lot of tanker launches to go beyond. And if your goal is a Mars colony, you don't want to be limited to one launch per launch window.
Still, LEO is halfway to anywhere in the Solar System, so that's exciting.
Also you can assemble things in LEO from multiple launches. Once you're up there, you have a lot more freedom in terms of size and shape.
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#185Just saw the splash down. I think this was 100% successful test.
A composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) seems to have exploded on the upper stage during reentry. It did significant damage to the rear flap and it made some dents in the engines too.
It's interesting to see which parts are critical at each stage of flight. Clearly those parts weren't needed by that point!
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 Ga…
Even Steve Jobs, who was by most accounts a pretty cold fish (his many other qualities notwithstanding), said something similar. By memory, he said something like: With your kids, it's as if they carry your heart around outside of your body. Which I found super touching and apt.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
A composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) seems to have exploded on the upper stage during reentry. It did significant damage to the rear flap and it made some dents in the engines too.
The rear flap was damaged before that explosion, not sure by what.
Yes, it was not the explosion what done it.
It looked like it happened during separation somehow.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
And people with children cannot understand what it is to live a whole life in full freedom. I'm over 50 years old and I fully love my life as it is and have never regretted my choice of not having children (and never will). Not that my choice is suitable for everybody, but the most common choice is not suitable for everybody either.
Hard disagree, I lived my life without children, the hedonism and lack of responsibility. And you can live this until death. And I didn’t discount such a life in my writing. I stated that having children fundamentally changes you, in a way you will never understand
Given State of World, my take on it is there's far more hedonism and irresponsibility in having kids.
It's nice they make you happy, but will their lives be happy?
The evidence says it's very unlikely.
My choice is not to inflict that experience on another sentient being. I'm really not seeing anything at the moment that encourages me to question that.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
It made it, but there was some toastyness on the bottom of the lower flaps. This said, it is less bad than we've seen on the other 2 landings.
They announced before the flight that they intentionally removed tiles from some areas around the lower flaps specifically to get data on what happens when tiles fail, such as how much burn occurs, how quickly and what type. It appears it was successful in showing varying amounts of burn through and damage in the areas that were intentionally left under-protected.
The part that burned was damaged from early on, likely at, or right after, separation. So the integrity of that flap was already very compromised. I actually thought the flap would disintegrate on re-entry with that kind of damage. But no, they even put full stress on it, unfolding it while supersonic through the atmosphere, like a champ.
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#190Exhilarating to see the V2 finally get its "fourth time's the charm" full success!
My top reason for wanting to visit US has flipped semi-recently to wanting to witness one of these launches. I'd hate for the Boca Chica site to become more secretive as it marches on towards production quality.