/SFG/ SpaceFlight General/

[Anonymous No.11957754]

Space Flight General
>tfw no space gf edition

[Anonymous No.11957762]

i want to die by launching myself into deep space and running out of oxygen

[Anonymous No.11957765]

Money being spent on moon missions would be better suited stopping issues on earth like Racism Poverty, and Starvation, we need to fix earth before we destroy mars and the moon

[Anonymous No.11957768]

Fuck urf

[Anonymous No.11957771]

I wonder if I'll ever find someone IRL who gives a shit about space, let it be a good friend or even a gf

[Anonymous No.11957775]

Reminder not to respond to paid trolls and bots

[Anonymous No.11957777]

>>11957765
why

[Anonymous No.11957778]

>>11957754
Post your kerbal kreations, mine is perseverity, a rover-orbiter combo

[Anonymous No.11957782]

>>11957768
Simple as

[Anonymous No.11957791]

>>11957782
Simple as what?

[Anonymous No.11957799]

Can a ksp playing anon try moving the iss to GEO?

[Anonymous No.11957810]

>>11957799
KSP scales are different from IRL and it wouldn't be that hard with sufficient boosters, it would require a massive amount of RCS pods and reaction wheel parts to maintain orientation during the transfer burn.

In Orbiter however, that is a monumental task. I remember trying to move the ISS to the Moon and no orbital craft came close The station mostly spun during any major increase in TWR despite attempts at using RCS

[Anonymous No.11957811]

Friendly reminder, starship will be nearly 3 times larger inside than Skylab, and 2.4m diameter wider than skylabs 6.6m
And superheavy will be able to launch inflatable modules that could be as large as 20-50m

[Anonymous No.11957813]

>>11957799
You might need a few rcs blocks; the ISS isn't that stable under acceleration

[Anonymous No.11957816]

[Anonymous No.11957818]

>>11957777
Checked

[Anonymous No.11957821]

>>11957799
The real challenge is docking to a spinning station like in Armageddon

[Anonymous No.11957829]

>>11957816
>Fill Skylab with cats

[Anonymous No.11957835]

https://www.cameroncounty.us/spacex/

Aug 2-3-4 Starship HOP.

And something habening in 10 mins.

[Anonymous No.11957837]

[Anonymous No.11957842]

>>11957835
>And something habening in 10 mins.
where?

[Anonymous No.11957843]

>>11957754
Ariane 5 launch in 30 min

Official - https://youtu.be/OEbWyY2RcWk

[Anonymous No.11957844]

>>11957842
Same place, Starship Boca

[Anonymous No.11957846]

>>11957843
https://youtu.be/9d0_5iFHvHY

[Anonymous No.11957849]

>>11957844
>>11957842
Possibly to move something big, but no idea

[Anonymous No.11957856]

>>11957765
Hi, 1st world nations have been sending financial aid millions to 3rd world country for decades. Things have either remained the same or worsened in the 3rd world countries. Money alone won't fix your problems.

[Anonymous No.11957859]

>>11957849
I mean, SN6 is kill, SN8 is nowhere near ready. I can't think of anything esle. Surely they aren't transporting a nose cone and attaching it to SN5?

[Anonymous No.11957860]

>>11957837
skylab is so cool lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_p7LiyOUx0

[Anonymous No.11957861]

>>11957856
>millions
That's abit of a lowball estimate.

[Anonymous No.11957867]

Arianespace official livestrream started
https://youtu.be/9d0_5iFHvHY

T-30 min

[Anonymous No.11957881]

>>11957754
>no link to last thread
Never gonna make it

[Anonymous No.11957886]

Aside from what i’ve seen in shitty sci-fi, does Mars experience a huge array of weather? Like on Earth you can get these crazy lightning storms... is that even remotely possible on the red planet?

[Anonymous No.11957895]

>>11957765
The poor should get ground up and processed into RP-1 or methane.

[Anonymous No.11957898]

>>11957886
not enough air. Even the massive planet wide dust storms are a gentle event compared to earth.

[Anonymous No.11957901]

>>11957886
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Mars#Dust_storms
Most of it seems to be variations of dust storms. Might look neat though.

[Anonymous No.11957903]

>>11957886
Mars does have a few seasons. As far as weather, it's mostly different kinds of wind patterns and the occasional dust veils. I think orbiters have noted that CO2 snow has occurred in the poles

[Anonymous No.11957905]

>>11957856
hahaha you mean around a trillion?

[Anonymous No.11957914]

>>11957886
weather is largely a product of water
and there's none of that on mars

[Anonymous No.11957917]

Go Arianespace

[Anonymous No.11957920]

>>11957917
Neat, but I'd like to see a reusable version of that.

[Anonymous No.11957921]

>>11957917
>Massive bureaucratic international development where each part is made by a different country and organization
absolutely fucking disgusting

[Anonymous No.11957923]

>>11957921
It just works

[Anonymous No.11957927]

>>11957917
The Falcons have made all yuropoor rockets obsolete.

[Anonymous No.11957930]

>>11957923
>Germany going for the cockpit for the control
every fucking time, bloody Jerries

[Anonymous No.11957932]

>>11957923
>instead of making the body one continuous piece we'll just split it up so that alternating parts can be made in different countries
Why?

[Anonymous No.11957934]

>>11957932
Because Airbus is a merger of like 15 companies with their own expertise, plus politics.

[Anonymous No.11957935]

>>11957923
>a380
it absolutely does not just werk, but apparently Airbus planes are a lot more comfy to fly than Boeings

[Anonymous No.11957938]

>>11957923
>build a plane for a market that doesn't exist

[Anonymous No.11957940]

>>11957935
>>11957938
Meh, A320 is looking good compared to the 737 pajeet code death coffins

[Anonymous No.11957941]

>>11957811
Imagine the Chonkstation you could build with multiple Starship launches.
>50m inflatable habs rotating to create spin gravity
>multiple Starships worth of densely folded solar panels for power meaning megawatts of available electricity
It's not an O'Neill cylinder but it's close.

[Anonymous No.11957943]

>>11957940
>Peak of American Aerospace is a plane that's literally coded to crash into the ground
USA USA USA

[Anonymous No.11957947]

>>11957941
Gainz Station kickstarter when?

[Anonymous No.11957950]

>>11957940
>>11957943
Just like the A320, the 737 will return to the market no problem despite problems with autonomous systems.
Pilots and passengers won't give a shit, they never do.

[Anonymous No.11957951]

>>11957943
this is what happens when you let jews take over a company

[Anonymous No.11957953]

>>11957943
Nah, PanAm was peak American Aeronautics. Boeing is a bloated company that has built failure into itself to save on cash. They would hire an electrical engineer to do an aerospace engineer's job because the EE had better GPA and asked for less money.

[Anonymous No.11957954]

as a british citizen i can say wholeheartedly that i hope this rocket explodes on the pad

[Anonymous No.11957960]

>>11957950
The difference is the 737 MAX is literally unstable in the air because boing! attached xboxhueg modern turbofans to a 1960s airframe designed for tiny 1960s turbofans.
The fucking code that crashed them only exists so that the plane doesn't stall itself because of the shitty design.

[Anonymous No.11957967]

>>11957923
Funny how airbus builds their planes like this and I would still 100% fly airbus rather than riding with boing.

[Anonymous No.11957972]

T-3 minutes to launch

[Anonymous No.11957976]

>>11957895
This guy gets it

[Anonymous No.11957980]

>Red status panel

PANIC

[Anonymous No.11957982]

why is french such a disgusting piggish language?

[Anonymous No.11957983]

Boats?

[Anonymous No.11957985]

>>11957983
Weather change caused by Starship's static fire burn

[Anonymous No.11957986]

aaaaaah blue balls

[Anonymous No.11957987]

>>11957980
f r o t t é
r
o
t
t
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[Anonymous No.11957988]

>>11957985
The Braaapperfly Effect

[Anonymous No.11957989]

>>11957791
yes

[Anonymous No.11957990]

>>11957982
And they're proud of their language lmao.

[Anonymous No.11957993]

>>11957917
Stop Arianespace
>>11957980

[Anonymous No.11957996]

>>11957982
It sounds absolutely disgusting. A so-called "romance language" and it sounds guttural.

[Anonymous No.11958000]

>>11957960
This is an outright lie. The 737 is aerodynamically stable. When in leveled flight it will retain level flight.
The issue is when pitching up the giant engines they shoved under the plane causes it to have a tendecy to pitch up hard. So MCAS is meant to pitch the nose down.
The code existed because Boeing wanting to claim that you don't need to retrain your pilots as a marketing point. So they programed the autopilot to create a feeling like earlier versions. Many pilots were completely unaware that the system existed. Boeing fucked up big time.

Not to mention, both Ethiopian and Lion Air pilots made poor decisions in the cockpit.
>t. actual pilot

[Anonymous No.11958002]

>>11958000
>The issue is when pitching up the giant engines they shoved under the plane causes it to have a tendecy to pitch up hard.
"Aerodynamically stable"

[Anonymous No.11958006]

>>11958000
Not just Boeing, but the FAA who was supposed to oversee the approval and testing process of the new design. They completely overlooked all of this.

[Anonymous No.11958023]

>>11958006
How did the FAA mess that one up? It's their job to breathe hard down aerospace companies' necks.

[Anonymous No.11958031]

>>11958002
Clearly you are unfamiliar with terminology. Yes. Aerodynamically stable.
All planes handle conditions differently. Center of gravity is different, how it responds to inputs are differently. The 737MAX responds strongly to pitch ups. ATR-42/72 cannot handle bad storms. Starfighters were designed as high altitudes interceptors but the Germans pressed them in to ground attack leading to their exceptional crash rates.
If you compare the L-1011 with the DC-10 (ignore the mechanical issues with the Death Cruiser for a moment). They're both trijets. The thing is, because the L1011 put fan #2 inside the plane and connected with an s-duct it has significantly better handling than the dc-10. But they're both stable planes.

Most pilots prefer to fly the 737 over the A320, btw.
>>11958006
They were far too trusting with boeing. Let Boeing have a little too much control.
I don't think they're gonna make the same mistake again.
>>11958023
When demonstrating an old airframe the FAA only requires that you demonstrate the new systems.
Boeing claimed, as they did publicly, that it was basically the same plane. FAA didn't really check into it.

[Anonymous No.11958037]

Let's take asteroids from their place and orbit them around the Earth to collect their resources.

What about that?

[Anonymous No.11958042]

>>11958000
>Not to mention, both Ethiopian and Lion Air pilots made poor decisions in the cockpit.
>>t. actual pilot

This. The main problem was low IQ 3rd world pilots and shit-tier non-western CRM but in this day and age Boeing can't come out and say that explicitly.

t. Also a (private) pilot

[Anonymous No.11958043]

>>11958031
good lord, imagine how much fucking went on in the old days on airplanes....

[Anonymous No.11958050]

>>11958037
>Why yes! Our religious extremist group would love to move this asteroid into orbit around the Earth.
>We need the uhhh... GOLD! Yes the gold to make more religious icons. It's very important to us.
>Ooopsie! We just dropped that rock onto a city full of heretics. We are soooo "sorry".

[Anonymous No.11958069]

>>11957765
Drop a colony on them

[Anonymous No.11958072]

>>11958037
nigga do you know how much energy you need to fuck with to do that?

[Anonymous No.11958076]

>>11958050
>Religious extremists
the only muslims in space are from UAE and they really aren't even close to extremists

[Anonymous No.11958078]

>>11957917
Do we have a better pic of the wacky tanks on the second stage? Its almost Kosmos Block-D level.

[Anonymous No.11958086]

>>11958050

If we manage to extract resources from space with no financial loss that would trigger a new era for space exploration, there would be a lot of players wanting to do the same

>>11958072

Fusion engine

[Anonymous No.11958088]

>>11958042
>The main problem was low IQ 3rd world pilots
Well, no. Boeing was wrong. They shouldn't have made claims that weren't true. They shouldn't have hid the new systems. They should have just designed a whole new airframe.
But people keep excusing the pilot error.
American pilots also encountered the issues with the 737, they didn't crash though.
>>11958043
Fucking still goes on, anon.
Put yourself out there.

[Anonymous No.11958089]

>>11958078
NVM found it.
https://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/West_Europe/Ariane-NGL/Description/Frame.htm

[Anonymous No.11958090]

>>11958076
Uae funds extremists.

[Anonymous No.11958093]

>>11958072
Sails and time. Think generational.

[Anonymous No.11958094]

>>11958078
I KNEW I'D SEEN THAT DESIGN BEFORE!

Alright, which one of you fags is an Arianespace engineer?

[Anonymous No.11958098]

What the fuck is up with this Ariane 5 then?

[Anonymous No.11958101]

>>11958098
The satellites caught Chinese Bat AIDS.

[Anonymous No.11958102]

>>11958078
Looks like someone bumped a DCSS during assembly.

[Anonymous No.11958105]

>>11957765

[Anonymous No.11958108]

>>11957765

[Anonymous No.11958113]

>>11958105
>not labeling all axes

[Anonymous No.11958118]

>>11958108
Life is a privilege not a right.

[Anonymous No.11958141]

>>11958113
White and black are self-explanatory here.

[Anonymous No.11958145]

>>11958094
But why when you could use the same money to build two starships and then refly each of them a hundred times?

[Anonymous No.11958152]

>>11958145
That picture and this one come from /sfg/ threads this past spring when people were bitching about how the SLS had less kg/$ capacity than expendable Falcon Heavy, let alone Starship. The starting proposition was, "assuming Starship is canceled outright, can you still get to the moon cheaper than SLS?" and the answer was yes.

[Anonymous No.11958154]

>>11958145
The design was meant to be able to carry heavy payloads to BEO using pre-Starship infrastructure as a way to demonstrate that we could've sent massive bases to the moon and beyond cheaply already.

[Anonymous No.11958165]

>>11958145
isn't starship designed thousands of reuses?

[Anonymous No.11958166]

ariane scrubbed due to a sensor

[Anonymous No.11958167]

>>11958088
>They should have just designed a whole new airframe.

The McD execs strike again. The obvious answer would have been to offer a shortened 757 with GTFs as a 150pax A320neo killer.

[Anonymous No.11958178]

What are /sfg/'s approved space trade and exploration games?

pic related

[Anonymous No.11958184]

>>11958178
>>>/v/
Freelancer
>>>/tg/
Rogue Trader

[Anonymous No.11958198]

>>11958178
Children of a Dead Earth, you trade missile strikes in it

[Anonymous No.11958199]

Bonb and Chris Cassidy just floatin'

[Anonymous No.11958201]

>>11958178
Star Citizen is gonna be a lot of fun by the time we're living on Mars

[Anonymous No.11958211]

>>11958152
Different anon but what exactly is the orbital assembly? I know the meme well enough but does the falcon heavy launch each tug to space or something?

[Anonymous No.11958215]

>>11958165
Assuming a Starship costs 200 million to build, you can build two with 600, each one costs 2 million a shot to fuel for flight, so you save the remaining 200 million and and you can fly each Starship fifty times for a total of 100 flights, if I'm not mistaken that allows for twenty full payload flights (requiring four refueling flights each). Two kilotons of payload using Starships, 50 tons of payload using Falcon Heavy.

[Anonymous No.11958218]

What's the status on SN5? Can we expect a hop this weekend?

[Anonymous No.11958219]

>>11958201
Will the release be commemorated on the launch of SLS EM-1?

[Anonymous No.11958222]

>>11958178
Children of a dead earth

[Anonymous No.11958232]

>>11958211
Falcon Heavy launches them individually, they all dock together front to back, then the first kick stage fires off, and so on.

[Anonymous No.11958235]

>>11957821
lol you mean Interstellar?

[Anonymous No.11958242]

>>11958165
the heat shield wears aware so you need to replace it eventually

[Anonymous No.11958243]

Playing The Witness, this fucking Schweickart faggot's read by a woman going 'wow from space you can't see borders so it's all fake and gay see but look earth small, protect it' libshit nonsense.

Guarantee if I went there I'd go to my nationalist priors too, seeing the world and all its resources beyond the scope of man and what keeps us from that true potential is these silly holding positions, and we should take and conquer it all forever. Space and vantage points don't change your mind, they're just views.

[Anonymous No.11958244]

>>11958037
>pic
I swear that exact image was used as an asteroid sprite in Escape Velocity.

[Anonymous No.11958248]

>>11958098
ground crew is out of practice after 5 months of COVID standdown

[Anonymous No.11958256]

>>11958165
design GOAL. They have a design goal of flying to moon/mars, but they haven't flown yet. As the design is not finished. Its an incremental goal.

[Anonymous No.11958257]

>>11958232
The meme is missing the control/docking phase (expensive ground support, needs additional control/fuel), and the propellant storage (can't store non-hydrazine easily during assembly, hydrazine has shit Isp). Docking robotic spacecraft isn't extremely complicated, but more complicated than it seems to imply (lol just slap a bunch of kickstages together).

[Anonymous No.11958262]

>>11958232
Thank you, that’s what I suspected. Would it really only take 4 stages to outcompete SLS? That’s pretty sad for NASA- what a shitty rocket

[Anonymous No.11958267]

>>11958262
SLS is a jobs program. The rocket is a side effect.

[Anonymous No.11958280]

>>11958262
The SLS costs about as much as a Saturn V (when adjusted for inflation), but it only carries about half the TLI payload.

[Anonymous No.11958287]

>>11958257
I mean what if each tug was modular, and the “propulsive” part ran on methalox (both for propulsion and RCS). You could theoretically refuel each tug, stick anything on the end of it (such as an Orion capsule), and use them as expendable stacks if you really need to go far out with it

[Anonymous No.11958307]

>>11958235
No that's pretty easy. I'm talking about the radial docking while the station is spinning in Armageddon. The physics doesn't make sense n the movie because the shuttle is essentially rotating around the axis of the station that is itself spinning.

[Anonymous No.11958320]

>>11958076
>UAE
>Not extremists

Dude they are fucking wahabbis and salafis, they are the most extreme by a country mile, they simply fund and arm the militant groups instead of doing it themselves.

[Anonymous No.11958325]

>Kerbal Space Program 2 - Show And Tell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiIea1xWEgY

[Anonymous No.11958331]

>>11958076
Where is that picture of the woman looking at her phone while walking past a terrorist attack dead victim

[Anonymous No.11958337]

Even without Starlink and ESA, this has been the busiest July for launches since 1992! (6 Chinese, 3 US, 2 Russian, Japan, Israel, and NZ)

[Anonymous No.11958339]

Say you live directly under Dragon's reentry path 150 miles from the recovery zone - will be be visible at all?

[Anonymous No.11958345]

>>11958307
Armageddon has the shuttles flying in space as if they were aircraft. It's just a shit film.

[Anonymous No.11958350]

>>11958287
You can do a lot of new-ish things actually - refueling to compensate the boil-off, sunshades/Buran-style integrated fluids and cryocoolers, transformable tanks, HAN+ADN (not sure if its catalyst thermodynamics is a solvable problem for larger vehicles, though), etc etc. The thing is, the multi-launch is never as simple as slapping a bunch of tanks and engines together, you always end up with autonomous spacecraft and a lot of details unseen by a non-expert. It's not too complicated either, though - if making it complicated and expensive is not your main intent of course.

[Anonymous No.11958367]

>>11957881
So why didn't (You) link to the previous thread?
>>11954519

[Anonymous No.11958374]

>>11958325
What I'm missing in KSP is the actual mission planning. Like, fault trees, state maps, mass rejection etc. I mean, things that are about 95% of real spaceflight.

[Anonymous No.11958381]

>>11958325
>tfw still haven't completed the tech tree in career mode KSP

[Anonymous No.11958388]

It begins...

[Anonymous No.11958410]

>>11958388
The hell is this?

[Anonymous No.11958416]

>>11958410
The harbinger of things to come....

Just a little more time.

[Anonymous No.11958423]

>>11958416
warp drive isnt gonna work lol

[Anonymous No.11958425]

>>11958416
It’s just popsci or bait, or both

[Anonymous No.11958440]

Insider here, the propulsion system works. It’s based off of QFT and has only been unveiled to the DoD by the designer who I cannot name. Testing has been done by darpa and has blown chemical rockets out of the water. It’s under the name Project HERMES but the team of engineers is about to unveil it to public companies for purchase. To them, it goes by the name of the Dirac Drive.

[Anonymous No.11958441]

>>11958423
>>11958425
You don't have to believe me, just wait a few more days and you will see.

[Anonymous No.11958446]

>>11958440
Lol quit shitposting

[Anonymous No.11958450]

>>11958441
Are you part of everclear’s team too or are you just shit posting? I doubt there would be two of us posting the same thing on the same internet forum

[Anonymous No.11958455]

>>11958441
I'm gonna be that guy and call you out in a week.

[Anonymous No.11958470]

>>11958455
I look forward to your delighted surprise.

[Anonymous No.11958479]

>"After reviewing more than 25,000 channels of data and carrying out extensive testing, Rocket Lab's Accident Investigation Board was able to confidently narrow the issue down to a single anomalous electrical connection. This connection was intermittently secure through flight, creating increasing resistance that caused heating and thermal expansion in the electrical component.

Ok which dumb cunt didn't crimp the join properly?

[Anonymous No.11958490]

>>11958337
>people still think it's all because of Trump

[Anonymous No.11958491]

>>11958479
>After reviewing more than 25,000 channels of data
translation from PRese:
>we have 25k parameters recorded in our telemetry stream, but it doesn't have to do anything with the investigation because we followed the fault tree, not literally checked 25k records one by one

[Anonymous No.11958498]

>>11958491
What makes sense to engineers and what makes sense to investors are often diametrically opposed. This is a big part of why our civilization is constantly lurching between economic crashes.

[Anonymous No.11958517]

>>11958307
Yeah, to dock onto anything but the hub of a rotating station, you basically have to maneuver with active propulsion just to keep up with the rotation. And the continuous math is probably a bitch even with a computer doing it for you.
That's why tether-spin for stations is a meme, you would have to dock by grappling the middle of the tether and then somehow climb up the rope.

[Anonymous No.11958523]

>>11958331
>>/pol/270570743

[Anonymous No.11958533]

>>11958523
Three arrows for cross board link.
>>>/pol/270570743

[Anonymous No.11958535]

>>11958331
>>>/pol/270570743

[Anonymous No.11958551]

>>11958076
sddig zeon

[Anonymous No.11958572]

UPDATE: Public Notice of Cameron County Order to Temporarily Close State Highway 4 and Boca Chica Beach

Primary Date August 2, 2020 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Closure Scheduled
Backup Date August 3, 2020 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Closure Scheduled
Backup Date August 4, 2020 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Closure Scheduled

https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_0_6534.html
>Reason for NOTAM : TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIROMENT FOR SPACE LAUNCH AND REENTRY OPS PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91

[Anonymous No.11958575]

>>11958572
>It’s happening

[Anonymous No.11958578]

>>11958575
*hoppening

[Anonymous No.11958581]

>>11958572
>SSTO's on Monday

[Anonymous No.11958597]

>>11958575
I love the high grade autism on NSF, picking apart a million photos of random equipment being delivered and autistically identifying every single thing. I wonder if Elon browses there for a chuckle.

[Anonymous No.11958598]

>>11958597
Unironcially NSF has pretty good insight a lot of the time. If I was Elon I’d be impressed.

God remember when everyone thought that the raptors were gonna have a “variable bell” because of some retarded picture?

[Anonymous No.11958610]

What phenotype is this?

[Anonymous No.11958616]

>>11958610
>small
>autistic
>smells funny
>wrapped in tinfoil like a hot pocket
Space janny.

[Anonymous No.11958625]

>>11958616
>What do you do?
>"I'm a space janitor, I clean orbits of debris and unwanted spacecraft. It's mostly just polsats nowadays."
>How much do you get paid?
>"Oh, I do it for free."

[Anonymous No.11958632]

>>11958625
>4ASS makes money by selling space waste disposal services
>really they just dump it into space janny's assigned orbit

[Anonymous No.11958645]

>>11958625
>"It's mostly just polsats nowadays"
>space janny pulls up to swastika satellite
>NIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGERNIGGER blasting from the satellite on all frequencies
>space janny sighs and turns off his radio
>deploys robotic arm to grab Nazi satellite
>NAP VIOLATED, SELF DEFENSE MODE AUTHORISED, ACTIVATING WEAPONRY
>MG42 deploys from hidden compartment and venilates space janny

[Anonymous No.11958651]

>>11958645
>/g/ insists that satellites are just big Thinkpads
>they become programming-sock clad space pirates, raiding decommissioned satellites to reboost them, swap out the RTGs or ion tanks, and install Gentoo

[Anonymous No.11958662]

>>11958262
The funny part is that even though it would be stupidly complicated to put together that vehicle, the sum total cost is only a little more than one fourth of what each individual SLS launch will cost.

[Anonymous No.11958669]

>>11958651
>/sci/ makes it's own satellite
>it's computer crashes because someone programmed '0.999... != 1' into the mainframe
>the comp sci's are blamed for it

[Anonymous No.11958675]

>>11958325
Wait hol up, why in the fuck does Val have an emote that makes her hip thrust?
KSP devs please cease this degeneracy at once.
Also I'll get hype if they put procedurals in as a standard feature, and no amount of premade show and tells will change that.

[Anonymous No.11958677]

>>11958675
>why in the fuck does Val have an emote that makes her hip thrust?
Rule cbrt(39304)

[Anonymous No.11958680]

OH FUCK OH NO NO NO
WE GOT TOO COCKY ELONBROS

[Anonymous No.11958682]

>>11958645
>It's only one MG so the recoil and exhaust gasses from the gun just start the satellite spinning, spraying projectiles into multiple other orbits.
>Turns the satellite into a true friendship pinwheel.

[Anonymous No.11958685]

>>11958680
Bill who?

[Anonymous No.11958693]

>>11958669
>/diy/ satellite
>never gets off the drawing board because anons are too busy throwing shitfights about what materials to use

[Anonymous No.11958696]

>>11958680
Whoms'td?

[Anonymous No.11958699]

>>11958680
Kek Bill has been seething ever since Bezos became richer than him

[Anonymous No.11958713]

>>11958699
I noticed that it's Bezo's pet news agency reporting it too, I wonder if Bill is simping to Bezos now that Elon has garnered more favor than either of them by exploding giant beer cans in spite of refusing to virtue signal and suck government cock like they do.

[Anonymous No.11958719]

>>11958680
>mfw the giant faggot who single-handedly ruined the software world by turning it into a giant corporate dick sucking profiteering fest is now paraded around like some paragon of virtue while profiteering from big pharma
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/

[Anonymous No.11958720]

>>11958713
Unironically Elon taking a more conservative/anti mainstream stance has made him way more popular with people than i think if he was a total pozz or something a la Bezos

[Anonymous No.11958723]

>>11957754
new to this general. how are u gonna compete against elon musk? he already has 10 years of headstart againt you.
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[Anonymous No.11958724]

>>11958723
Que?

[Anonymous No.11958727]

>>11957754
What a gay formatting.
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[/math]

[Anonymous No.11958731]

>>11958723
>how are u gonna compete against elon musk?
If you can't beat him, join him.

[Anonymous No.11958737]

>>11958723
>>11958727
LaTeX gives me a headache, anon.

[Anonymous No.11958741]

>>11958720
I mean he's not even conservative, he advocated for meme tier economics like UBI and shit, but his business stance seems to be pretty solidly laissez-faire which makes monopolist scumbags like Bezos and Gates screech. They might signal that they hate him for ideological reasons, but really they just hate him because he's disrupting their carefully cultivated Commiefornia monopolies on tech.

[Anonymous No.11958758]

>>11958680
>The square-jawed industrialist who's on the verge of putting Mercedes and BMW out of business with his unparalleled electric luxury cars while he built the first orbital launch vehicle with a reusable first stage and is now dead-set on colonizing Mars
Vs
>The beady eyed Rick Moranis-looking Poindexter who gave us clippy and the blue screen of death

CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER

[Anonymous No.11958760]

>>11958758
but can Elon standing jump over a chair?

[Anonymous No.11958761]

>>11958760
over a planet

[Anonymous No.11958777]

>>11958761

[Anonymous No.11958788]

Can someone explain what happened to Venus and why we don't seem to consider it as the most important mystery in the solar system?

The entire fucking planet melted and released a brazillian quadrillion tons of CO2, completely destroying the planet and turning it into literally hell. We don't know why this happened or what Venus looked like before. It might have had water, life, or even civilization on it. And then the WHOLE PLANET MELTED.

[Anonymous No.11958794]

>>11958788
Nobody wants to do serious research because the current hypothesis is already politically convenient - a runaway greenhouse gas process. If that gets disproven the climate alarmists look like huge assholes.

[Anonymous No.11958800]

>>11958788
Venus is the product of an Icarus scenario: it flew too close to the sun. Although it likely had water and plate tectonics at some point, it’s location outside of the goldilocks zone meant that it was doomed from the start. It isn’t exactly a mystery. The only mysterious part of Venus is being able to observe fine-detailed geologic processes from the surface due to the hellish conditions that destroy landers. But we can study a lot about venus using orbiting satellites and cloud-piercing radar

[Anonymous No.11958801]

>>11958788
A theory is that Venus became a hot hell hole due to it's resurfacing events.

Venus, despite being slightly smaller than Earth, does not have plate tectonics. What happens instead is that Venus' surface would be relatively static while heat is built up in the upper mantle. The mantle reaches a critical pressure due to this heat, and bursts out from the crust causing most of the surface to be recycled "all at once" (in geological time scales). The last one happened about 500 million years ago.

The theory goes that this resurfacing event would boil away any water on Venus' surface at the time, and release tons of volcanic gases. This would heat up the planet's surface and keep it at such temperatures. Earth is fortunate enough to avoid this fate because it has plate tectonics which recycle pieces of the crust over time. This allows for heat in the upper mantle to be dissipated before it can build up.

[Anonymous No.11958804]

>>11958741
>I mean he's not even conservative, he advocated for meme tier economics like UBI and shit
you can be right wing and have "leftist" economic views, pretty common in europe

[Anonymous No.11958808]

>>11958801
Reminder that Earth is actually pretty based. Plate tectonics is the shit

[Anonymous No.11958812]

>>11957950
did they died?

[Anonymous No.11958814]

>>11958808
The solution to the Fermi Paradox is rare earth + rare thumbs

Or maybe we're first, any life on Venus or Mars obviously didn't form a space faring society

[Anonymous No.11958816]

>>11958788
It's got an insanely huge amount of CO2 present, while Earth has only a couple percent even counting whatever is sequestered in the ocean. It's also much closer to Sol, so it gets soaked in an enormous amount of radiation. Even if it didn't start out as a pressure cooker planet, it was inevitable it would end up that way. Earf on the other hand is the opposite, the trend for us on the geological scale has been slow cooling, with each cycle of climate optimum and ice age gradually getting cooler and cooler as the planet leaks heat out into space and burns through it's supply of fissile material. In reality we're a bit too far from Sol to remain habitable, but it will take millions or even billions of years for it to happen completely.

[Anonymous No.11958817]

>>11958693
Cubesat and a 3d printed abs shell

[Anonymous No.11958819]

>>11958812
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296

[Anonymous No.11958821]

Musk is giving away bitcoin again

[Anonymous No.11958823]

>>11958821
jesus fuck they keep hacking big accounts and doing this shit

why is youtube so incompetent?

[Anonymous No.11958828]

>>11958814
The Fermi Paradox is popsci gay shit. Alien life is everywhere- likely more than one place in our solar system alone. We don't see alien life all over the place because alien civilizations aren't gay Tier 3 or whatever. No one needs to harness the energy of an entire galaxy. And distances are so fucking huge in space, even if there are aliens zipping around in interstellar crafts its pretty much impossible for us to see it. Venus doesn't have life but Mars definitely does

[Anonymous No.11958830]

>musk jokes that aliens built the pyramids
>people take him seriously,some call him racist

clown world squared

[Anonymous No.11958840]

>>11958819
>Official reports concluded that the pilots flew too low, too slow, failed to see the forest and accidentally flew into it.

Gonna press X to doubt like a motherfucker on that one.

[Anonymous No.11958845]

>>11958830
Anybody who spends an inordinate amount of their lives on tw*tter can't be considered human anymore.

[Anonymous No.11958850]

>>11958845
Elon has to do something while waiting to come down from snorting Adderall laced with crushed moon rock.

[Anonymous No.11958853]

>>11958788
>melted and released
Nah, it's related to volcanism or some protoplanet-related shit while it was still forming.

Titan is Venus but vice versa, basically. It has huge amounts of gas in its atmosphere as well, constantly losing and replenishing it through volcanism, but instead of the greenhouse effect there's a reverse greenhouse effect that cools it.

[Anonymous No.11958854]

>>11958828
Life is fucking everywhere, probably on Mars, the Jovian moons etc. I mean the Fermi paradox in the context of spacefaring civilizations.

[Anonymous No.11958855]

>>11958850
>Adderall laced with crushed moon rock.
>implying that the moon isn't made of Adderall

[Anonymous No.11958856]

>>11958828
The fact that there are several dozen moons and dwarf planets in our solar system that have liquid oceans of water probably means that life itself is very common.

Off the top of my head, there’s

>Ceres
>Europa/Ganymede/Callisto
>Enceladus/Titan/Several other icy looks of Saturn
>Several moons of Uranus
>Triton
>Pluto (confirmed t9 have an ocean)
>Eris
>Sedna
>Orcus

It’s funny that 99% of our exoplanet searches are about MUH HABITABLE ZONE but really only Earth and Mars are the plants in our solar systems habitable zone that might have/do have life.

[Anonymous No.11958871]

>>11958856
Don't most spherical icy objects in the solar system have subsurface oceans anyways?

[Anonymous No.11958876]

>>11958856
Life under kilometers of ice is never going to do anything interesting, though. Once it's confirmed to exist and we've learned what chemistry it uses and so on, it's kinda boring.

[Anonymous No.11958880]

>>11958108
>imagine taken in 1969
>$8 then is $53 today
>that child eats $53 worth of food each day
well fuck no wonder they are starving

[Anonymous No.11958881]

>>11958876
>discover life in Enceladus' oceans
>its mostly microbes that feed off thermal vents
>their chemistry is even abit boring
>a sample return was done to study the life more closely
>its discovered that consuming them cures male-pattern baldness
>thus the Encel Rush era was born to mine those little critters until every man and boy had a long glorious mane
>L'Oreal becomes THE dominant trans-planetary mega-corporation

[Anonymous No.11958887]

I hope Mars has life and I hope we figure out that it's literally just tardigrades and various earth bacteria, because lol panspermia

[Anonymous No.11958893]

>>11958887
>yfw they start excavating and find humanoid fossils

[Anonymous No.11958896]

>>11958887
Mars having life would suck because planetary protection would fuck up literally everything. The best case scenario is Mars is completely sterile.

[Anonymous No.11958897]

>>11958896
Mars already having life closely related to Earth life would make planetary protection redundant. If you need to sequence the DNA to see the difference between Mars life and random rover contamination there's no point.

[Anonymous No.11958902]

>>11958893
>find the ruins of a Martian library buried deep under the Mariner Valley
>it was clearly designed to protect their knowledge for millennia
>they knew they were dieing out
>but curiously most of it has been destroyed
>enough text survives to translate their writings
>ALL OF THESE PLANETS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EARTH. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

[Anonymous No.11958903]

>>11958897
>there's no point
there's no point protecting a microbe even if it's totally new and alien, but that's not the spirit of planetary protection. Those people want to treat space like a national park and will latch onto any small thing (like an endangered alien species) to justify it.

[Anonymous No.11958904]

>>11958887
I hope the Chinese properly sanitized their lander. I hope they didn't put earth extremophilies on it. So some scruples lacking bugman can claim to discover life on Mars.

[Anonymous No.11958905]

>>11958902
>Earth linguists, archeologists and historians spend decades trying to crack the Martian script.
>Finally decoded enough to learn the first line of the first and most prominent volume in their library.
>Reads "Muh dick, ayy lmao, fugg"
>The entire Martian library is exclusively devoted to recording every post on their most prominent subspace telepathic warble shitposting board.

[Anonymous No.11958907]

>>11958905
Grok muh dick.

Ayy, if there grass on the field play ball

[Anonymous No.11958909]

>>11958853
Titan has greenhouse cooling? How does that work?

[Anonymous No.11958912]

>>11958905
>fuck off venusians we're full
>you can crash on earth if you want idk
>venusians did it and the precursor aliens came down and slapped them back to the stone age
>we are their descendants

[Anonymous No.11958913]

>>11958902
...damn, what did they mean by this though

[Anonymous No.11958915]

>>11958909
the gas reflects heat instead of absorbing/trapping it

[Anonymous No.11958925]

bobndoug coming home, AND SN5 hippity hop coming up? nice.

[Anonymous No.11958930]

>>11958677
You have made some... Horrific thoughts spawn in the hellscape known as my mind's eye.

[Anonymous No.11958936]

>>11958930
You can feel the warp calling you, can't you?

[Anonymous No.11958945]

>700,000 people signed up for starlink beta
>SpaceX has now asked the FCC to approve 4,000,000 more user terminals
They're going to need more bandwidth...

[Anonymous No.11958949]

>>11958945
This is for the US only too. SpaceX is going to be rich.

[Anonymous No.11958950]

>>11958936
Please no

[Anonymous No.11958956]

>>11958950
Its too late for you anon.

[Anonymous No.11958959]

>>11958945
>700,000 people signed up for starlink beta
Source

[Anonymous No.11958960]

>>11958949
I bet half those sign ups are Canadian. We have it as bad as you poor fucks stuck with CenturyLink or Comcast.

[Anonymous No.11958963]

>>11958945
I'll be expecting hit pieces from Comcast soon.

[Anonymous No.11958966]

>>11958945
>>11958959
https://fcc.report/IBFS/SES-MOD-INTR2020-02035/2612707

Neat. 5 million sat links due to 700K beta signups in just few days. That's xbox HUEG

[Anonymous No.11958968]

>>11958819
>The low-speed flyover, with landing gear down, was supposed to take place at an altitude of 100 feet (30 m); instead, the plane performed the flyover at 30 feet (9.1 m)
So yet another metric vs imperial fuck-up.

[Anonymous No.11958975]

>>11958968
Aviation uses customary units.
Pilots don't fuck up. Sometimes administrations send the wrong message to pilots though.

[Anonymous No.11958976]

>>11958945
I signed up for the beta.

[Anonymous No.11958977]

>https://testmy.net/host-history/spacex_starlink

Here's some testing done from LA/Texas. I think they're doing some load testing or something for 50mbps service. Since not all sats are in place for these lower latitudes, speeds/latencies are fluctuating. Don't take these as final speed/latencies, as they're not even in beta stage yet, but in alpha stage of sat deployment and testing.

[Anonymous No.11958984]

>>11958977
Is that legit? Says who?

[Anonymous No.11958987]

>>11958904
>I hope they didn't put earth extremophilies on it.
Nah, just a few seed packets.

[Anonymous No.11958988]

>>11958966
A customer base of 700K at $50/mo each would entail a yearly revenue of $420,000,000

[Anonymous No.11958990]

>>11958988
Meaning that with the beta signups alone, Starlink could pay for its entire deployment in 5 years, assuming it only ever launched on F9

[Anonymous No.11958991]

>>11958975

[Anonymous No.11958993]

>>11958988
All according to keikaku.

[Anonymous No.11958996]

>>11958991
Jokes are supposed to be funny.

[Anonymous No.11959002]

>>11958988
I'm going to use my dish to make money.

Set it up at the motel the railroad puts me in at the away terminal. Charge a handful of people $10 a month for wifi access.

[Anonymous No.11959005]

>>11958572
>Starship will technically launch before SLS, New Glenn and Vulcan next week

[Anonymous No.11959010]

>>11959005
If we're counting the prototypes, it's already launched before them once with starhopp.

[Anonymous No.11959011]

>>11958819
Why was there passengers when the6 are doing a fucking stunt

[Anonymous No.11959012]

>>11958871
At this point, it seems like subsurface oceans are the default, at least in the outer solar system. Why is it that places like the Moon and Mars don't have them?

[Anonymous No.11959016]

>>11959012
The outer system is so fucking cold that water acts like rock. The subsurface oceans are just the mantle.

[Anonymous No.11959017]

>>11959012
because the inner solar system has less volatiles because they evaporate into space easier closer to the sun, and yeah it seems like subsurface oceans are probably common in the universe

[Anonymous No.11959018]

[Anonymous No.11959019]

>>11959018
Anime fags should be gassed

[Anonymous No.11959021]

>>11959012
>>11959016
>>11959017
i wonder how rare objects like titan are in the solar system

[Anonymous No.11959022]

>>11958968
The mk1 eyeball can tell pretty easily when you are about to yeet your plane into a bunch of trees, 100% some Pajeet tier software fuckery going on.

[Anonymous No.11959023]

>>11958988
Yep. Demand is high for Starlink. Everyone hates their current ISP providers.

[Anonymous No.11959025]

>>11959019
Hypergeso

[Anonymous No.11959026]

>>11958945
AUSTRALIA WHEN

FUCK TELSTRA

for real, pretty much the entire rural population of this country will sign up immediately.

[Anonymous No.11959029]

>>11959026
Canberra places data caps and port filters on starlink.

[Anonymous No.11959030]

>>11959021
galaxy/universe*

[Anonymous No.11959031]

>>11959029
Unfortunately probable scenario yeah. Telstra is probably busy bribing the fuck out of whatever pollies they can get their hands in.

[Anonymous No.11959034]

Will starlink be able to service maritime vessels? There is a massive market there currently being absolutely raped by hughsnet and the likes. I wonder if the starlink terminal would handle the motion of the waves or if it would need some kind of gimballed mount?

[Anonymous No.11959042]

>>11959034
Starlink already has an integrated gimbaled mount and has been tested on American fighter jets. It should be quite acceptable for the maritime industry once decent coverage is available.

[Anonymous No.11959047]

>>11959042
Suddenly living on a yacht seems totally viable.

[Anonymous No.11959059]

>it's 2050 and we've discovered microbial life on Mars and five moons

Other than it being neat how is it meaningful at all? Some bacteria aren't going to help us reach other planetary systems so cares other than astrobiologists who will actually be able to justify their existence?

[Anonymous No.11959065]

>>11959034
Technically possible, but it would have to bounce signals from various ships.

Due to lack of dedicated gateways in maritime, Starlink might use personal/user starlink terminals as "gateways" to bounce signals around. Each startlink in orbit has coverage diameter of ~400 mile. Suppose your ship is 2000 miles from Florida in the atlantic. To connect from your ship to Florida's google server, there needs to be a Starlink operated ship every ~400 miles. So connection would be something like this.

Your ship-> starlink sat -> a ship 400 miles away -> starlink sat -> a ship 800 miles away -> starlink sat > etc. -> Florida gateway -> fiber to florida's google server.

[Anonymous No.11959066]

>>11959047
I'm considering it desu, got a bit of land that I don't really want anymore and seems like a great way to escape bills and shit.

[Anonymous No.11959068]

>>11959065
Only until they get the interlinks sorted.

[Anonymous No.11959070]

>https://satellitemap.space/

Starlink coverage map, live. If you're between the red lines, you have the initial coverage for testing phase. Its still not 100% coverage, its like 90% of something right now.

[Anonymous No.11959071]

>>11957765
Eugenics it is, probably the only way to kill those 3 birds with one stone

[Anonymous No.11959072]

Rare opinion but I doubt Blue Origin will ever fail, even with starship. Rather, bezos will keep sinking money into it so he can get o'neil cylinders constructed eventually.

[Anonymous No.11959073]

>>11959059
The astrobiology fags will use it as an opportunity to larp as philosophers and shill it out for popsci. Meanwhile geologists and chemists will study the geochemical interactions and try to find out more about the microbes and how they survive in “exotic” environments.

[Anonymous No.11959082]

>>11959072
Bezos desparately wants a "win" against Elon. He's been shadowing Elon's every move and trying to recruit from Elon's companies, block Elon's companies, steal tradesecrets from Elon's companies. Bezos will sink money atleast until he gets a "win." Its not about O'neill anymore for him. Its personal vendetta.

[Anonymous No.11959105]

>>11958988
that's an incredibly optimistic prediction of the price

[Anonymous No.11959114]

>>11959105
$50 for 50mbps. 50mbps is one of Starlink's price tier. Others are 100mbps, and probably 250mbps.

[Anonymous No.11959129]

>>11959105
Why?

[Anonymous No.11959139]

>>11959082
Musk will be the first president of Mars before bezos gets into orbit.

[Anonymous No.11959141]

The discovery of exobiology and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

[Anonymous No.11959147]

>>11959082
>>11959072

I don't see Bezos doing anything meaningful related to space, I actually thought his company went bankrupt, only now I know it's still operational.

[Anonymous No.11959151]

>>11959141
>The discovery of exobiology and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

What are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.11959162]

>>11959105
When I estimate revenue for Starlink, I tend to aim for the lower end of internet subscription pricing. It's an optimistic price prediction, but a conservative revenue prediction, as intended.

[Anonymous No.11959170]

>>11959059
>Other than it being neat how is it meaningful at all? Some bacteria aren't going to help us reach other planetary systems so cares other than astrobiologists who will actually be able to justify their existence?

That is a really ignorant take on science, and it's quite ironic that we are on /sci/

We need to understand these lifeforms, if they do exist, for extremely important reasons:

1. To understand alien life and how it adapted to Mars
2. To have it fully analyzed in case a human gets infected with it
3. To prove the existance of other lifeforms outside our planet and the power of the universe to create more life apart from the ones in our planet

These 3 reasons can have huge a impact on civilization as we know it. To be against the search for alien life form is to act like a fucking retarded flart-earther who is against the exploration of space.

[Anonymous No.11959174]

>>11959170
How is it an ignorant take? I was literally just asking a question dumbfuck

[Anonymous No.11959177]

>>11959174
Social media has created a toxic discourse where questioning anything is inherently seen as an attack on it

[Anonymous No.11959181]

Fuck whatever life is on Mars. Don't care about some faggot bacteria that will halt colonisation for another 100 years because muh planetary protection.

[Anonymous No.11959183]

>>11959174

Narrowing the search for Alien Life-forms to "Desperate Spacebiologists need space microbes to justify their existance" is a very stupid take.

Also, since everything is a possibility in this Universe, those hypothetical microbes could even help us tackle reverse aging.

[Anonymous No.11959189]

>>11958050
Sieg Zeon
fuck Earthnoids

[Anonymous No.11959194]

>>11958598
dual-bell is a real thing and could actually happen at some point but won't

[Anonymous No.11959195]

>>11959183
>"How is the discovery of microbes significant?"
>Wow you're so ignorant how could you have such a narrow view of science and oppose the search for alien life???
Holy autism. I'll try not to be uninformed in your vicinity next time

[Anonymous No.11959198]

Are Starships female?

[Anonymous No.11959199]

>>11959195

Try not to spin it to your side, faggot, you're not a fucking victim and you damn know what you wrote before here >>11959059

>Some bacteria aren't going to help us reach other planetary systems so cares other than astrobiologists who will actually be able to justify their existence?

>>11959073
The astrobiology fags will use it as an opportunity to larp as philosophers and shill it out for popsci. Meanwhile geologists and chemists will study the geochemical interactions and try to find out more about the microbes and how they survive in “exotic” environments.


Neck yourself

[Anonymous No.11959201]

Any chemical life in the universe that is not of our capabilities or intelligence is a science fair project at best. Any civilization in the universe more capable than us should be respected, but should also expect their technology to be stolen and reverse engineered by us. Fuck living creatures, fuck popsci garbage, fuck urf, long live the colonial alliance

[Anonymous No.11959204]

>>11959198
Yes, attractive ones.

[Anonymous No.11959205]

>>11957765
>>11959059
>>11959073
>>11959141
>>11959181
>>11959201

Samefagging trollposter.

[Anonymous No.11959213]

>>11959205
I was shitposting way earlier but you only got me for one this time, fag. And I was being sincere. Astrobiologists will jump straight to popsci tweeting and youtube cameos if life is ever discovered elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.11959215]

>>11959198
All ships are female, it's a very old tradition. Now if they would only put anime girls on Starship.

[Anonymous No.11959217]

>>11959215
>All ships are female, it's a very old tradition
Except in Germany, where they're male.

[Anonymous No.11959219]

>>11958794

[Anonymous No.11959220]

>>11959215
>Earth gravity is inadequate for Elon to develop real life catgirls
>We now know why Elon is obsessed with Mars

[Anonymous No.11959221]

>>11959215
That would be a very cringe but very Musk thing to do. I would expect at least 1 of the first 100 official Starships to have some anime tits slugging along the side

[Anonymous No.11959227]

>>11959213
I'm only one of those, try again faggot.

[Anonymous No.11959228]

>>11957895
I wanna hang out with this motherfucker

[Anonymous No.11959232]

>>11959059
I really hope people come to your job and ask how what you do is meaningful.

Protip: it's not.

[Anonymous No.11959236]

>>11959059
cuck supreme

[Anonymous No.11959241]

>>11959236
>>11959232
>>11959199
Wew, lots of butthurt astrobiologists in this thread. How does it feel studying something that doesn't exist?

[Anonymous No.11959243]

>>11959215
>oh god we need air support send in the attack choppers
>roger, anime girl choppers piloted by thots en route
>oh well guess we're dead then

[Anonymous No.11959249]

>>11959199
Astrobiology is gay and useless. Geologists are chads who will find life in rocks first but keep their mouth shut to keep the planetary protection heebs away

[Anonymous No.11959250]

>>11959217
that's why they lost the wars

[Anonymous No.11959255]

>>11959243
Attack choppers piloted by crazy bitches sounds terrifying actually.

[Anonymous No.11959258]

>>11959255
>"Itadakimasu!"
>BRRRRRRRTTTTT

[Anonymous No.11959266]

>>11959217
Some french ships as well. I think it's important to imbue some human qualities onto ships because offers some peace of mind when you're in dangerous situations. You imbue it with a spirit that reflects your dreams and what you need to accomplish. Referring to ships as "it" seems distasteful to me, I would almost consider it bad luck.

[Anonymous No.11959267]

>>11959258
I wish I had the /k/ screencap about little bird pilots in Afghanistan being literal rednecks in every way possible, screaming YEAAAHAWWWW over the radio and hanging out the side of their choppers spraying wildly with the M249, flying 10 feet above treetops

[Anonymous No.11959268]

>>11959215
Elon needs to put a Cirno wrap on a Super Heavy

[Anonymous No.11959274]

>>11959268
Squidgirl should be the first human carrying starship.

[Anonymous No.11959279]

>>11959274
yes, Cirno will carry Ika-chan to the
dumb baka didn't realize she would be stuck on Earth

[Anonymous No.11959281]

>>11959267
my experience is with Kiowa, apache, and Chinooks in Iraq. The older warrant officer pilots can be crazy bastads. Since they've been flying the same bird for 10 to 20 years.

[Anonymous No.11959286]

>>11959268
I found this in Google Images when I checked to see if anyone did a shoop of that. It's from 2018.

[Anonymous No.11959288]

>>11959286
I know, I put Cirno there

[Anonymous No.11959295]

>>11959268
>Elon needs to put a Cirno wrap on a Super Heavy
It would be destroyed by reentry heating.

[Anonymous No.11959315]

I was looking through some of the pinups they put on planes, god damn some of these are racy. Truly /our plane/.

What would you name your Starship and what would be on it?
>>11959295
You can get paint that can withstand up to 1093°C, I think that would work on the back of Starship. Tread lightly because you tread on my dreams.

[Anonymous No.11959321]

>>11959268
Cirno art goes on a Falcon 9 for obvious reasons. Starship gets shipgirls.

[Anonymous No.11959329]

>>11959295
Paint it on the leeward side, some high temp paints would definitely be fine.

[Anonymous No.11959332]

>>11959315

[Anonymous No.11959337]

>>11959332
Disgusting

[Anonymous No.11959385]

Europa mission WHEN

[Anonymous No.11959401]

>>11959329
can't spell leeward without lewd

[Anonymous No.11959421]

>>11959315

[Anonymous No.11959424]

>>11958823
>X News
Anon. It‘s just a scam channel.

[Anonymous No.11959442]

>>11959215
Honestly I think these hoes have a higher chace to kill me than the enemy

[Anonymous No.11959444]

why was it named europa "clipper"?

[Anonymous No.11959450]

>>11959162
>50$
>lower end of internet subscription prices
Jesus Christ the US is fucked.

[Anonymous No.11959453]

>>11959139
I don‘t know that Elon would go into politics. Although maybe he might. He seems to be annoyed by the general incompetence of a lot of law makers lately.

[Anonymous No.11959454]

>>11959444
Because the name “dammit we didn’t get funding for a lander, all we got was an orbiter that barely clips the scope of our intended mission” was deemed too long by the NASA backronym & naming department

[Anonymous No.11959461]

>>11959450
Aus and nz have it way worse, we are like 80-90 bucks minimum.

[Anonymous No.11959462]

>>11959453
Honestly, looking at what kind of stuff he is working on (cheap and green energy and advanced batteries to store it, advanced boring machines for underground tunnels, planet-wide wireless connection, high capacity reusable rockets, etc.), I'm pretty sure Elon wants to own the entirety of Mars.

[Anonymous No.11959467]

>>11959332

[Anonymous No.11959469]

>>11959421
same

[Anonymous No.11959473]

>>11959450
It's less than a day's work at federal minimum wage.

[Anonymous No.11959485]

>>11958804
Or you can be left wing and have some right wing views. Musk is more liberal than conservative anyway.

[Anonymous No.11959492]

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Anonymous No.11959504]

>>11959492
SN5 static fired two days ago, Anon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YPj-9vTFKE&feature=youtu.be&t=52

[Anonymous No.11959518]

What are geologists like

[Anonymous No.11959529]

>>11959518
I want to fuck rocks

[Anonymous No.11959546]

>>11959518
Some are based the rest are weirdo nets just like every other STEM field

[Anonymous No.11959547]

>>11958610
Buck Rogers' backup crew.

[Anonymous No.11959567]

Venus should be relocated to the habitable zone whereupon it can become a second home for mankind. It shouldn't be too difficult once we become a Type 2 civilization.

[Anonymous No.11959570]

>>11959567
It’s not worth it. If we have the ability to move whole planets we might as well just dismantle an asteroid like Psyche or Vesta and use the rocks to build hundreds of O’Neil cyclinders

[Anonymous No.11959571]

>>11959567
Most retarded thing I've read today

[Anonymous No.11959588]

>>11959570
This - but I'd rather have ring worlds. Halo size would be sufficiently extravagant.

[Anonymous No.11959594]

>>11959066
lol no bills on a yacht? what is repair costs

[Anonymous No.11959609]

>>11959588
True. A 10,000 kilometer wide ringworld that is 100 kilometers thick and has a crust 1 kilometer deep would need an asteroid about 150-180 kilometers across. Big, but not bad.

[Anonymous No.11959636]

>>11959570
Planets are better. On a space station the landlord can shut off my oxygen if I don't pay my bills.

[Anonymous No.11959645]

>>11959636
That would require individual unit supply lines for life support, which would be far more complicated and labor intensive to put in than any cheap-ass manager would go for; it would never pay for itself.

[Anonymous No.11959733]

So what's the first Starship being named?

[Anonymous No.11959735]

>>11959733
Nate Higgers

[Anonymous No.11959893]

>>11959733
Honestly, can we not make it a cringy reference for once? Looks kinda shit in the history books. Come up with some new stuff.
If the first Mars mission is named after some fucking novel, it kinda devalues the whole thing.

[Anonymous No.11959918]

>>11959385
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE

[Anonymous No.11959945]

This guy passes Verrazano checkpoint without badging in.
Response?

[Anonymous No.11959970]

>>11959733
The Galician.

[Anonymous No.11960015]

>>11959733
Heart of Gold, I'm pretty sure

[Anonymous No.11960025]

>>11960015
No, that's the first crewed ss going to Mars.

[Anonymous No.11960030]

>>11959295
If you put the correct type of coating on, wouldn't you be able to get funky heating patterns from re entry? Kind of like what they do with Katanas

[Anonymous No.11960037]

>>11959893
A Shortfall of Value would be a good name

[Anonymous No.11960047]

>>11959518
The ones that I've met are pretty unsentimental about carbon emissions etc, which I think is what happens when your perspective spans millions of years and includes multiple extinction level events. The world itself is far more hostile and brutal than what we are doing to it. And its powers of recovery are considerable.

[Anonymous No.11960091]

>>11958572

[Anonymous No.11960119]

>>11960091
Envision the aroma.

[Anonymous No.11960137]

>>11960091
>>11960119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBmb5_TTT-w

[Anonymous No.11960166]

>>11959281
11bs on Mars when?

[Anonymous No.11960169]

>>11959485
Both terms are meaningless garbage

[Anonymous No.11960203]

undocking and splashdown thread! Scariest part of the mission imo. >>11960164

[Anonymous No.11960204]

>>11959286
I think I remember that thread. Late 2018? That would be proto /sfg/ when Elon's Starship Junkyard started hammering together a water tank.

[Anonymous No.11960218]

>>11959518

[Anonymous No.11960237]

>>11960203
Can someone tell me what the possible risks of reentry are besides pulling a Columbia?

[Anonymous No.11960243]

>>11960237
Capsule roll. In the unlikely event of a roll, the capsule might be burnt to crisp due to superdracos sticking out.

[Anonymous No.11960267]

>>11960237
pirates

[Anonymous No.11960270]

>>11959385
It's too good for this cruel and evil world

[Anonymous No.11960278]

>>11960237
They time the deorbit burns wrong, drop into a hurricane, the chutes get shredded, and they smack into stormy seas at high speed, killing them instantly.

[Anonymous No.11960323]

>>11960237
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-nasa-astronaut-mission-biggest-concern-reentry-danger-2020-5

Elon has a lot of worries

[Anonymous No.11960333]

>>11959529
You spelled lick wrong.

[Anonymous No.11960378]

>>11960237
Astronauts getting eaten by bears.

[Anonymous No.11960417]

>>11960237
astronauts getting stuck under a frozen lake

[Anonymous No.11960500]

HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH page 10 spooky so new thread

>>11960497
>>11960497
>>11960497
>>11960497

[Anonymous No.11960509]

>>11960500
>Making a new thread on page nine
>Filling it with KSP garbage

Nigga, you finna catch these hands?

[Anonymous No.11960519]

>>11960509
With love foo'

[Anonymous No.11960578]

>>11959453
Martian leaders wouldn't be politicians like we have on Earth for at least a while, when your margin for survival is thin you can't afford pencil pushers and their stupid bullshit, nor can you afford backstabbing or corruption because every decision counts.

[Anonymous No.11960660]

>>11958145
I'm literally the anon that drew the picture originally.

The idea was that if you wanted to do high-payload-capacity Moon missions without using SLS, you could design a ~50 ton hypergolic propulsion module that could be stacked end to end in a chain, and that you'd only need four of these modules to be able to push a 50 ton payload to Lunar orbit.

This would also let you send multi-ton probes to the outer planets on fast trajectories without needing gravity assists, as well.

Oh, and as you can read in the thing, the total launch cost of everything would be about 2/3rds of the CHEAPEST estimates for a single SLS launch, saving you $300 million on launch vehicles, and saving money overall as long as each propulsion module cost less than $75 million.

[Anonymous No.11960697]

>>11958257
I'm the anon that made the picture. I actually did all the math assuming hydrazine and NTO propellants, ie shit Isp but good density and excellent store-ability.

Not shown in my 15 second mspaint sketch were the maneuvering thrusters (all fed from the same two tanks), nor the electronics box and sensors and docking targets etc, but they'd be there.

Each one of those modules only needs to cost less than $75 million for four of them plus 5 Falcon Heavy expendable launches to cost the same as the lower bound estimate for SLS launch cost ($900 million). I have 100% confidence that a $75 million price target per propulsion module is conservative, and I'm fairly confident that those things could have an associated cost of less than $30 million each. The only caveat to those estimates are that the propulsion module contract MUST be fixed-price, NOT cost-plus, because the latter will lead to a $120 million shitboat that doesn't perform well and can only be produced in a volume of less than five per year.

Of course Starship is a better way of accomplishing what the yeet-train accomplishes, but the goal was simply to prove that we could conceive of a relatively small development program that would give us capability exceeding that of SLS, for LESS cost.

[Anonymous No.11960705]

>>11958788
Z space rupture experiment gone awry