Can someone give me sources for how to debunk this? https://youtu.be/75a49S4RTRU?si=dcGFgcIWNz3nDwxw
For me, it’s compelling but I’m no expert. Anyone got any background that can prove this guy is wrong?
Starship's Sixth Flight Test
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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.
If you go to space, 90% of the cost is the rocket (depending on your accounting). If rockets can be made reusable, then you can drop costs by 90%, to first order. Cheaper rockets means cheaper satellites for internet and sensors and stuff.
>(depending on your accounting).
some of the best weasel words ever laid to print. Enron accounting vs PWC vs your mom using Quickbooks for her side hustle type of depending?
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Considering how long those videos have been allowed on YouTube, you have to wonder... https://mashable.com/article/fake-elon-musk-crypto-scam-yout...
> Nearly four years ago, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak actually sued YouTube over Bitcoin scam livestreams that were using his likeness. So, this has clearly been going on for quite a while now. And, unfortunately, it looks like these fake YouTube livestream schemes are going to continue on, at least for the foreseeable future. I recently reported a bunch of the SpaceX ones that were running for long time. Nothing h…
I'll often spend a little time while watching the flight-tests (usually with Tim Dodd / EverydayAstronaut) just doing a search on YouTube for 'spacex live' and usually report 15-20 each time. They are very easy to spot when you've seen a few of them. I'll usually get a report of a few being shut down later in the day, and more over the next couple of days.
But, yes, they should be easy for YT to detect & block automatically - it's frustrating they (and other scams) get to stay online so long.
Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test
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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.
I’m with you. As landing the thing means nothing if you can’t get payloads to the destination. To get this thing to the moon would need like 20 refuelling flights to meet it on the way.
this just reads as very strange. "meet it on the way"? it's not like they can place these in an orbit that they can just pull up and stop to refuel like a highway gas station. the refueling "pod" would need to be moving at the same speed as the ship.
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The Everyday Astronaut was ahead of the SpaceX curated one for Flight 5. It had the weird effect of showing the outcome before the sound of the cheering crowd going crazy when the booster got caught by the chopsticks (which was also audible in the same stream).
Each streamer adds a delay to their stream. This means that any stream forwarded to you by another streamer is going to be delayed. The delay was between SpaceX recording and uploading an event and Everyday astronaut decoding it at their mixing desk. Their own feeds from their cameras and microphones had less delay than the SpaceX stream did. Everyday astronaut then had another delay between when they encoded this re…
Thank you for the clarification. It's delays all the way down. :)
I was cycling between the "official" stream and EA to try and catch the most-live and I found EA was a couple seconds ahead.
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For those of you who like dubstep, start the following video first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2eBMuL0C2o then 3 seconds later start to watch the (muted) SpaceX video from OP's post and thank me later. ;-) Especially the catch is awesome!
I think it's a cool achievement, but for some perspective NASA first did a vertical rocket ship landing without chopsticks decades ago. And the whole point of this thing was to do that on the moon, which is never going to happen at this rate.
They did? I've not heard of that, and a cursory search isn't finding anything. Got any more info on this, which rocket, etc? I'd love to learn about that.
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> Detonating something in orbit could trigger Kessler's Syndrome Unlikely in general, no at LEO and definitely not at the suborbital velocities IFT-6 contemplates.
Even at suborbital velocities, putting debris into the path of an existing satellite that is traveling at orbital velocity is enough to trigger a cascade.
Collision, yes, cascade no.
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Are they going to replace all the tiles before it can relaunch? And what about the engine nozzles? They must be taking quite the beating. No doubt SpaceX has very smart people working on this and I'm not an expert in material science, but I just find it hard to believe that same day turnaround could be possible. If true, that would really make us a confirmed space faring civilization. We could actually start colonizi…
> what about the engine nozzles? Falcon 9 has reflown in just over 4 hours [1]. (EDIT: Operational turnaround. Nozzles have been turned around allegedly without refurb in 3 weeks.) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_...
No, those were separate craft, on opposite sides of the country. It demonstrates an ability to manage multiple missions at once, but not rapid booster turnaround.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-doubleheader-ju...
They've since done two flights in about an hour with https://spaceflightnow.com/tag/starlink-9-5/ and https://spaceflightnow.com/tag/starlink-8-10/
I think the first-stage turnaround record is something like two weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...
> B1062 booster holds the record for fastest turnaround at 21 days. It launched on 8 April and again on 29 April 2022.