/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12171536
too fat

>>12136293
No I'm not from the US. I don't wanna fix the world, I just want to laugh at gamblers.

>>12089276
The idea wasn't necessarily to run super efficient in a dynamic atmosphere enviorment, but rather to be just good enough down there to get up and then to hammer out efficiency in space where theoretically an endless spike would be optimal. Another approach wound be, considering how long it would take to develop, at this point we'd have a lot of traffic by then, where need for efficiency and critical failure rates would scale up over a lot more flight hours. Aerospikes wouldn't be very failure prone and my moving parts wouldn't be essential to it's function. I'm not even married to the idea, Like I said, what if we used shrouds, vortex generators, spoilers and so on?

>>12022834
Asbestos lined nanotube Kevlar it is!
Plus:
The business end of the thing on start up would look like the liquid T-800 series terminator in that one scene from Judgement day where he does that stab thing with his fingers.

>>12013259
>best girl
>F-23

Ahem!