/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12781148
How's black arrow working out for you?

>>12642561
>You know, there is nothing we can do about damage to the [thermal protection system]. If it has been damaged it's probably better not to know. I think the crew would rather not know. Don't you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die unexpectedly during entry than to stay on orbit, knowing that there was nothing to be done, until the air ran out?
>mrw

>>12590037
Jesus Fucking Christ on a LESS can this whole SLS program be even more depressing? That was a museum piece and they just torched it

>>12400146
>>12400239
They fucking knew that SLS would go over budget and time. Explains why NASA rolled over when Boing! kept missing milestones. Why is it that every time I learn something new about SLS I end up hating it more?

>>12370073
>says something stupid
>gets called out for it
>"wah you just hate me for my ethnicity"

>>12340326

>>12319771
>wah I wanted the black man who did nothing
>he focused more on exploring space than climate research
>robots are so much better than sending people to space
>actually doing stuff in space isn't worth it
fucking welldwellers I swear

>poured rubber for hybrid motor a month-and-a-half ago
>mrw still hasn't set

>>12287934
I'm too fucking tired to even try to think about a rebuttal.

>>12279743

>>12254832
You must cleanse yourself of the onions my brother.
Purify your sinful flesh.

>>12172881
>the racist language of space exploration
https://web.archive.org/web/20200920024442if_/https://theoutline.com/post/5809/the-racist-language-of-space-exploration?zd=1&zi=z3gjtgsq
>Trump explained the Space Force by using the language of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court decision which ruled that racial segregation was constitutional, giving states and municipalities the authority to enact Jim Crow laws.
>“You could argue that the effort to colonize space is likely to involve new forms of inequality: shifts in tax revenues and administrative priorities devoted to that,” said Michael Ralph, a professor of anthropology at NYU. “As opposed to [supporting] other social institutions that benefit people like health care, education, infrastructure.”
>When we think about humanity’s potential to exist on other planets, it’s important to consider who won’t have access to space, in part due to a total lack of concern over these issues by people who are able to access it.
>“Colonization is portrayed as a heroic conquest,” Ralph said. “These practices are framed as central to American identity, essential to governance, politics, and all major social institution. But not depicted as a colonizing that is one caused by violence, displacement, dispossession.”

>>12051577
>They are the actual engines used on actual Shuttles, each with an actual flight history. The were only "surplus" because Shuttle was grounded. And now their flight history will abruptly end with at the bottom of the Atlantic, instead of a museum somewhere. All because they were supposedly going to re-use Shuttle parts, and in the end that's the only part they didn't have to fuck with to make it work on SLS, everything else had to be re-tooled to make it.
>And it still hasn't fired engines yet, even on the test stand.
Shit like this was why I lost faith in space flight.

>>12036684
>"Or some crazy electric propulsion shit that hasn't been discovered"
>new propulsion drive invented
>it runs on anger
>in the far future every trade ship has a spaceflight autist chained to the basement as he is shown endless news about how the SLS is delayed
>the anger of just one of them can send a ship from Earth to Mars in 2 weeks
>the SLS has been delayed for generations now
>total program cost has been lost to estimators but is suspected to be higher than Earth's total GDP
>extensive cites on Mars has been built
>monopole mining in the Belt
>life on Enceladus has been found and studied
>first man on Pluto
>all thanks to the Anger Dive and those angry nerds

>>11647749
This must be about the older model of RS-25, not the RS-25E, right?

>>11647754
Space is hard if you make it that way.

>>11596555
>boosters done
>ICPS pulled out of storage
>core stage done
>core stack on the test stand at Stennis
>one last test before this train wreck can launch
>no one is doing anything
>it's just sitting there
>mrw
JUST FUCKING GET IT DONE SO IT'S OVER WITH!