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Not for this one. This is the first launch of the Falcon Heavy vehicle.
Correct me, if I am wrong, but I thought the outer two cores are recycled ones?
They are indeed.
SpaceX can't test fire its Falcon Heavy rocket due to the government shutdown
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#22Is SpaceX using recycled rockets? They have in the past. https://latechnews.org/spacex-launches-bulgariasat-1-recycle... Government is normally getting in the way or at least slowing down the process of innovation. Hopefully that doesn't happen here at to much a cost to SpaceX and the U.S. tax payers.
Not for this one. This is the first launch of the Falcon Heavy vehicle.
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#23When eventually launched, both boosters and the first stage are designed to return to earth, landing upright for reuse. That this seems entirely feasible is a testament to how far SpaceX has moved the industry forward (and signifies that they are going to have a huge lead over any competitors).
It's not exactly a new idea. The boosters on the Russian Shuttle equivalent were designed to glide back for reusability in the 70s and 80s, but it's amazing the lack of momentum pushing these ideas forward languished in the space tech arena until SpaceX showed up.
No, they weren't designed that way. That literally never happened.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
And if you're talking about just an idea, sci-fi writers were way ahead of USSR.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not exactly a new idea. The boosters on the Russian Shuttle equivalent were designed to glide back for reusability in the 70s and 80s, but it's amazing the lack of momentum pushing these ideas forward languished in the space tech arena until SpaceX showed up.
No, they weren't designed that way. That literally never happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft) And if you're talking about just an idea, sci-fi writers were way ahead of USSR.
I think this is what the parent comment is referring to:
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No, they weren't designed that way. That literally never happened. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft) And if you're talking about just an idea, sci-fi writers were way ahead of USSR.
I think this is what the parent comment is referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal_(rocket_booster)
Never took off. Never went to the prototype stage even. All they made was a mock-up.
Plus he's talking about 70's and 80's, whereas that mock-up was made in 2001.
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#26Warning: Video with sound autoplays when opening the page (in Chrome on macOS)
Yes, that's annoying. When I find pages like this I disable javascript on the whole domain, which usually has many other benefits (no more nagging for notifications or email lists, no adblock detection, etc.)
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> just for one webpage It's not just one webpage - it's for an increasingly large number of websites. And 'worse' depends a lot on use cases. I typically have many tabs open (maybe 40+) and for my use case Firefox has always been a better browser for that. I also get non-autoplaying videos - another thing that in my opinion makes the browser better than some alternatives, not to mention containerized browsing for bet…
Maybe true. 40+ tabs sounds like a workflow issue though. Beyond having a few tabs open there are often better Ways of managing links.
Windows of Siracusa County. It’s worth it.
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#28As a foreigner the whole government shutdown is a thing of wonder: how does it work exactly? For instance, is there no police anymore?
How does Congress stay in session during a shutdown? Where does electricity in federal buildings come from if the Federal govt can't pay for it?
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#29As a foreigner the whole government shutdown is a thing of wonder: how does it work exactly? For instance, is there no police anymore? How does Congress stay in session during a shutdown? Where does electricity in federal buildings come from if the Federal govt can't pay for it?
It's more of a shutdown on non critical departments, and lots of times there are still skeleton crews for some of them. For example, the postal service is still running.
Here is a decent article explaining what is still up and running: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/19/578985305/open-or-closed-here...
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#30As a foreigner the whole government shutdown is a thing of wonder: how does it work exactly? For instance, is there no police anymore? How does Congress stay in session during a shutdown? Where does electricity in federal buildings come from if the Federal govt can't pay for it?
I think some groups are exempt. Like congress men.
Separately I think that the police aren't on the federal level, the FBI is but they may also be exempt.