/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15927594
you are yotsuba-chan and i am SLS

>>15696764
She's a monstergirl not a furry, newfag

>>15317325
kill yourself AI schizo

WHERE IS THE NEXT LAUNCH
YOU SAID THIS WOULD BE SUSTAINABLE

i still cant believe it actually launched

>>14806963
We've failed you, mein fuhrer. There still hope though, Herr Musk and Frau Shotwell

THE ECONOMIST POSTED A FRONT PAGE ARTICLE ON WHY ORANGE ROCKET IS BAD

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/08/28/nasas-newest-rocket-is-a-colossal-waste-of-money

>>12756773
>lmfao it reads like an /sfg/ troll post
That just means /sfg/'s ironic shitposts are closer to reality than official government documents are these days.

>>12749793
The fucking state

Where did the SLS shills go? I though Starship was a hoax?

>>12581635
Jesus, expensive AND ugly?
Lousy stinkin' rocket

>>12551559
I always wondered what was going on with those violent baby monkey youtube comments, now I know.

>>12492929
>another 3 billion
Remind me again how much has already been shoveled into this fucking thing? 24bn? More?

>>12479156
>Why does NASA completely ignore starship aside from the Artemis HLS? Its probably more flight proven then SLS at this point.
They're an executive branch agency and can't admit that SLS is garbage in public without pissing off every member of Congress with SLS jobs in their district/state (which is literally all 535 of them).

>>12438830
I like it, looks like one of the anime rockets in action

>>12400009
No, the SLS is a tranny rocket.
>SRBs stretched
>side hanger tank mutilated to support vertical stress
>add a hydrolox upper stage with either a big fairing or capsule+LAS, and some white paint
>LOOK MOM I'M A SATURN V NOW
>I'M A REAL PRETTY MOON ROCKET
>*quiet sobbing as the SSMEs slag themselves and smash into the ocean*

>>12352660
>Jim should have fired half the force that day
Civil servants including NASA employees are almost impossible to fire, especially the diversity hires, so the good workers rage quit or retire and the bad ones stick around. It's a classic failure mode of government bureaucracies.

>>12304375
And the problem is if that Trump challenges them(which you know he wants to do) its going to lead to fucking mania. RIP America it wasn't even fair
>that one anon in this thread who was all for earth sciences is currently beaming

Happy Halloween /sfg/

SLS is Gay, too gay for it's own existence, destroy it, now.

>Still mentally struggling thanks to the Space Orange Pencil being built.

130 tons, 130% cost edition

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>>12025759
What does the orange tank even do at this point, second stage?
>mfw that would actually be better since hydrolox is the king of vacuum engines but sucks on the ground