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/sfg/ Spaceflight General Anonymous Wed Dec 16 23:55:35 2020 No.12474945 [Reply] [Original]

Never Ever edition
old >>12471316

Upcoming:
PSLV-XL | CMS-01 (GSAT-12R)
Thu Dec 17, 2020 10:11 UTC
Second Launch Pad, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-108
LZ-1
Thu Dec 17, 2020 14:00 UTC
LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 16 23:59:19 2020 No.12474954 File: 22 KB, 515x753, 1608052909944.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >I-I'm sorry I couldn't land for you, Mister Musk. Please be gentle with my younger sister's flaps.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 16 23:59:38 2020 No.12474955 File: 491 KB, 1920x1080, 1557004035669.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] First for the finest

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:00:29 2020 No.12474956 >>12474954 Cute

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:02:49 2020 No.12474960 >>12474945 >ORANGE TANK BAD

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:04:06 2020 No.12474964 Is Alan Lindenmoyer based? I just saw a NOVA documentary about rockets and lindenmoyer claimed himself to be the first one from NASA to actually take interest in spacex

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:04:11 2020 No.12474965 File: 267 KB, 500x434, 1565416275405.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >NASA SLS megarocket testing stalled by temperature issues >"There's not anything wrong with the rocket," a NASA official said.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:06:04 2020 No.12474969 File: 59 KB, 914x574, 1590216242026.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] xth for hydrogen tanks taking up all available room

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:06:08 2020 No.12474970 File: 675 KB, 1800x2700, 49434259018_6b76bf6380_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12474960 yes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:07:06 2020 No.12474973 File: 114 KB, 540x400, 1601032892447.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12474955 LARGE

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:08:54 2020 No.12474978 File: 294 KB, 432x745, 1554871856507.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] musk rat has been stirring up the retarded twitter trannies again huh?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:09:16 2020 No.12474979 fun NRO F9 RTLS launch tomorrow! Launch thread will be up an hour or so before t-0. Don't miss it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:10:24 2020 No.12474983 File: 932 KB, 3124x3044, OWsGdOF.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw space favela

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:10:47 2020 No.12474984 >>12474965 This does not look comfy

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:13:53 2020 No.12474989 >>12474978 You cant sneak bullshit past the musk

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:16:14 2020 No.12474994 In how many hours is the launch?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:17:59 2020 No.12474997 File: 118 KB, 364x507, clock.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12474994 Add a UTC clock to your windows already

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:18:29 2020 No.12474999 File: 1007 KB, 3000x2355, 1556986830942.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12474973

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:41:18 2020 No.12475031
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I have an 8 year old son that wants to come with me to a rocket launch next summer. I've never seen one either, should I take the chance and wait for the full Starship stack or just find a cool launch and minimize the risk? My wife is divorcing me because I work too much so spending time with him is going to be at a premium, and I want this memory for us both as the proceedings start.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:44:04 2020 No.12475035 >>12475031 Kill your wife

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:46:18 2020 No.12475040 File: 116 KB, 765x518, 6ed5de33b0d413a7e58a7df8537e5170.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475031 >RD0162 - Russian methalox engine I'll drop some neat pictures as payment for advice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:46:38 2020 No.12475041 File: 69 KB, 463x453, 1603955223052.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475035

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:48:39 2020 No.12475043 File: 478 KB, 2880x1918, 1601688944726.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475031 Check out Cape Canaveral. Hopefully they won't cuck out to the endless lockdown bullshit that far out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:49:47 2020 No.12475045 >>12475031 Damn. Hope you’re feeling good mentally anon. I think bringing him to boca chica would be unforgettable.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:52:20 2020 No.12475049 File: 180 KB, 832x605, 19879b838b6af35bf17a482540e88e83.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475031 >RD 120 Hydrolox engine that supposedly was so sophisticated or complex the Russians no longer have the capability of building more.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:55:08 2020 No.12475053

>>12475035
I think about it daily.
>>12475045
Thanks anon. I put a couch in his room and I sleep in there, so we spend every night watching shows together and talking about rockets. I write software at an aerospace company and he's been at our facilities a few times so the kid loves everything that flies

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 00:59:29 2020 No.12475059 >>12475031 >divorcing me because I work to much I really hope that whore doesn't get anything or you get fucked in family court If you do get fucked move to Singapore

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:02:30 2020 No.12475064 >>12475040 >RD0162 >https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33645.0 cool. Didn't know about this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:07:03 2020 No.12475070 >>12474954 Lewd

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:07:57 2020 No.12475075 File: 40 KB, 720x412, 224c0a78e4a7427545079c5e3130728d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475031 >diamond anvil, for the creation of metallic hydrogen The world's only sample of metallic hydrogen was """lost"""

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:10:20 2020 No.12475078 >>12475075 Wait what? Is there a story behind this?

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:10:33 2020 No.12475079

>>12475031
>My wife is divorcing me because I work too much
>>12475053
>I write software at an aerospace company and he's been at our facilities a few times
I am speechless. Perhaps it is because of what you do, not how much time you spend on it? Is she one of the "we should instead feed the poor in Africa" types?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:11:33 2020 No.12475080 >>12475079 Nah women think that way. My mother divorced my father for similarly petty, insane reasons.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:12:07 2020 No.12475084 >>12475049 Russia restarted RD-120 production in 2019. Main problem with RD-120 that it was manufactured in Yuzhmash.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:12:36 2020 No.12475085 >>12475080 No worries, I am aware of how the average female is. It is just that this particular case is outstanding even within the context.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:16:02 2020 No.12475094 >>12475031 If you have enough time with him for a potential scrub then absolutely. If you can take him to a smaller one first that'd be cool too, it'd really impress upon him the immense scale of Starship

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:17:47 2020 No.12475101 >>12475049 >ukrainians sold this to China Man, Boeing or Lockheed should have bought like whole ex-soviet space industry. In 90s China skipped like whole generation of space hardware development thanks to technology they got from ex-soviets.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:23:46 2020 No.12475114

>>12475079
Nah, when we got together i knew software was what I wanted to do. I even switched and tried to get pointy the financial world and she encouraged me to get back into development. She just has no friends, so she gets home from work at 3 and waits 7 or 8 hours for me to get home so she can speak to an adult. I'm sure that routine got old.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:28:43 2020 No.12475124

>>12475078
https://habr.com/en/post/370209/

This is the site I got the story from, it got linked from some Russian guy's blog about rocket propellants. But, it seems credible enough and the diamond anvils do seem to be commonly accepted. There's a need article i have bookmarked on another computer from chemical and engineering news about the anvils and the quest for metallic hydrogen that I'll find later

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:31:11 2020 No.12475129 >>12475084 Does that mean the problem is just because the tooling was in Ukraine, or was there another reason?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:35:57 2020 No.12475139 File: 49 KB, 988x612, 45953754-6640-4DD4-9105-51DEECE61B61.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >TONIGHT, on /sfg/

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:36:21 2020 No.12475142 >>12475114 >She just has no friends, so she gets home from work at 3 and waits 7 or 8 hours for me to get home so she can speak to an adult. It keeps getting worse.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:42:22 2020 No.12475154 >>12475139 Richard goes manual on a rocket lab launch

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:43:46 2020 No.12475157 >>12475139 James crashes a cybertruck through a posh printed habitat

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:44:06 2020 No.12475159 >>12475139 and I nuke Mars

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:45:20 2020 No.12475164 >>12475139 and I have a pint during a Starship landing maneuver

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:48:31 2020 No.12475172 >>12475139 >Earth's Atmosphere! Is is REALLY necessary??

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:52:24 2020 No.12475180 >>12475139 >I break into Blue Origin to see what they are really working on.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:59:05 2020 No.12475193 >>12475139 >Test flight in a reasonably priced rocket. Good luck!

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 01:59:35 2020 No.12475194
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This thing really is huge: https://twitter.com/nasawb57/status/1339453028450115586

also really fucking loud I made myself jump when I turned my speakers off mute. Hopefully this dude gets to see SN9's flight.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:02:20 2020 No.12475200 >>12475194 Thank god SNC resurrected her

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:04:42 2020 No.12475206 >>12475200 amen https://twitter.com/nasawb57/status/1338723096812023810 https://twitter.com/nasawb57/status/1339382730681933825 https://twitter.com/nasawb57/status/1339447418207821831

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:05:12 2020 No.12475209

I think I may have just thought of a method to generate metallic hydrogen en masse...it wouldn't be easy, but it might work

Okay, there's a company working on a special type of fusion reactor that uses imploding liquid metal driven by a series of pistons in a swirling vortex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zcmPmW6dE
So this system can create insane pressure at its center-if the hydrogen injected is not a plasma and they can prevent it from becoming one, could it condense hydrogen into its metallic form with each pulse? If that happens and it's metastable, they ight be able to modify this into a metallic hydrogen generator as well as a fusion power plant.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:05:40 2020 No.12475212 >>12475139 HAMMOND YOU IDIOT YOU'VE BROUGHT A HYDROLOX BOOSTER SUSTAINER

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:06:26 2020 No.12475214 File: 184 KB, 1280x591, distant dammits.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >[Eris] is also the largest object that has not been visited by a spacecraft. god damn it bros. i just want to know what's out there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:06:32 2020 No.12475215 >>12475194 How much do they flex in flight?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:08:53 2020 No.12475219 >>12475209 Their fusion concept is very interesting and I can see how it offers loads of advantages over muh tokamak.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:10:34 2020 No.12475225 File: 3.35 MB, 2048x2048, 1602776330000.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475139 >naturally, i was the first to arrive...

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:10:47 2020 No.12475227

>>12475219
They're very well funded and yeah,any fusion concept that embraces a liquid metal liner wins points from me-solid diverters and first walls are a nightmare of wear and tear. First Light fusion and Zap Energy are both on the liquid train and are quite interesting.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:12:08 2020 No.12475229
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This is an interesting project. NASA is trying to create a craft that produces minimal sonic booms. Goal being to enable planes to go supersonic over land without reking a bunch of windows, etc.

https://twitter.com/NASA_Langley/status/1339208996083929088
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_X-59_QueSST

Does NASA routinely do stuff that's not strictly space-related?

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:14:16 2020 No.12475235
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>>12475215
not sure. Anecdotally they don't seem to droop as much during flight. They're stronger than they look because back when it was a bomber it had to carry heavy fuel tanks on the wings.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:14:37 2020 No.12475236 >>12475229 >NASA >National AERONAUTICS and Space Administration

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:15:01 2020 No.12475238 >>12475225 >Jeremy you remember how those block 4 boosters didn't have redundant hydraulics on their grid fins? >yes.... >what block is yours? >Well, it's a four...

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:15:18 2020 No.12475240 File: 1007 KB, 1196x1261, 1608036027570.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] about FUCKING TIME

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:16:37 2020 No.12475243 >>12475240 Just in time for him to leave office and Biden to reverse all his decisions.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:18:23 2020 No.12475247 >>12475243 I hope Pence and Jim go out in a blaze of glory and set up a whole bunch of cool projects in the hopes that maybe a few of them will survive the biden administration

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:20:01 2020 No.12475251 >>12475240 >here's how trump can still win

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:22:04 2020 No.12475254 >>12475139 Orion turns sixteen years old so we let it take a Starship out for a spin.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:22:45 2020 No.12475257 SpaceX should modify a cargo dragon and do a lunar sample return. A FHeavy reusable launch could do it. Bring back multiple times what the Chinese just did. Auction it off 1 gram at a time to pay for it.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:28:01 2020 No.12475270 >>12475264 is the orion approach the best way to use nuclear power to move a spaceship? Sorry for the dumb question; don't know about nuclear propulsion in space

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:28:47 2020 No.12475271 >>12475264 oh... oh woah is this official or someone’s mockup?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:31:08 2020 No.12475276 >>12475264 >cost to taxpayer >20 trillion dollars Orion is fucking stupid and a waste of a retard amount of nukes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:31:24 2020 No.12475277 >>12475257 That would literally cost more than just finishing HLS development at this point and delivering an entire ton of moon rocks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:32:13 2020 No.12475281 >>12475271 That's an official document annotated by Atomic Rockets.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:32:50 2020 No.12475284 >>12475238 lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:34:45 2020 No.12475288 File: 267 KB, 800x540, 1587074260455.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475240 Russia is working on their own nuclear tug: https://www.atomic-energy.ru/news/2020/12/15/109747

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:35:07 2020 No.12475289 >>12475276 It would be cool if we contacted a nearby alien species at proxima centauri or something, and they wanted to make friendly contact. Then an orion ship would be a cool planetary effort. But yeah it’s kind of useless in our timeline

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:37:42 2020 No.12475292
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>>12475240
>safe and reliable power systems
He's scuttling future moon projects. Biden will be too afraid of lefty environmentalists to reverse this and it will take 8+ years to get anything built that's 'safe and reliable' by NASAs current standards.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:38:04 2020 No.12475295 >>12474978 Luckily it's pretty essy to ignore. He really seemed to strike a nerve recently lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:40:48 2020 No.12475301 Hilarious how these leftoids go apeshit at Musk for being muh billionaire playing with rockets, meanwhile they just somehow ignore he is one of the single biggest drivers behind renewable energy and electric cars which they always rabidly shill for.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:43:48 2020 No.12475311 File: 811 KB, 814x827, Emel4dsW4AARX0T.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475180 reposting my favorite article from the Berg

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 02:45:34 2020 No.12475312 >>12475301 >B-but it's not ETHICAL TRANS AFFIRMING BIPOC CENTERED alternative energy!!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:04:35 2020 No.12475339 File: 232 KB, 1242x1111, EpLUrc2W4AE3484.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475312 >>12475301 Just looked at his latest posts and holy crap it pissed off so many trannies and feminists lmao and he does not give a shit, BAHAHAHA.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:11:47 2020 No.12475347 File: 82 KB, 1199x674, space lada.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475139 >We take the new Honda Galaxia out for a spin

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:12:13 2020 No.12475348 >>12475292 The document in question specifically mentions space nuclear power generation, NEP, and NTR.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:15:08 2020 No.12475350
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Could the ITS design be used for an advanced lunar lander in the future?
The only reason it was dumped was because they needed fins for the landing, but that's not a problem on the moon.
The ITS legs would also be great for uneven surfaces

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:15:14 2020 No.12475351
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>>12475139
>WE SEE WHAT IS TRULY THE FASTEST RIDE TO THE MOON
>I WILL TAKE ELON MUSK'S NEW STARSHIP ROCKET
>HAMMOND WILL BE RIDING AN ELECTRON WITH A MOOSE KIT
>AND JAMES...IS TAKING SLS.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:20:36 2020 No.12475361 >>12475351 What the fuck is that? You re enter the atmosphere surrounded by some fucking home depot ablative expanding foam? No way

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:20:45 2020 No.12475362 >>12474999 holy kino

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:22:20 2020 No.12475364 >>12475276 normally it costs millions of dollars to refine stuff like uranium into rods... i know a way that costs about 30 dollars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:22:23 2020 No.12475365 >>12475053 what company? I need a fucking job. I'm a new graduate math major with some Python/C++ skills. All these faggots have pushed back hiring until January.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:22:38 2020 No.12475366 >>12475040 Why does Russia have this kick ass methalox engine that I've never herd of until now? >>12475084 >Russia restarted RD-0120 production in 2019 Wait really, who is manufacturing it now?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:26:42 2020 No.12475369 >>12475350 Elon has said future Starship revisions will have much wider stance and auto leveling capabilities.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:28:05 2020 No.12475371 >>12475361 The official reason for canceling MOOSE development is basically bureaucratese for "what the fuck is wrong with you people!?"

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:56:06 2020 No.12475404 >>12475311 Wh-where is New Glenn? I-it launches next y-year r-right? N-New Armstrong is already on the w-way, right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 03:56:43 2020 No.12475405 >>12475361 Yes. You orient for reentry and deorbit manually using a handheld rocket. Then you pull the inflatable foam trigger and hope you don't die.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:05:04 2020 No.12475416 >>12475129 yeah can't really make a rocket from parts made in a country you invaded

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:07:49 2020 No.12475424 >>12475416 You absolutely can, see post-war V2 production. You just have to invade the part with the rocket factory.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:09:48 2020 No.12475427 >>12475114 you should tell her that divorcing you won't help her get any friends

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:10:15 2020 No.12475430 >>12475416 >>12475424 The bigger problem is that a lot of industry and research firms that Ukraine inherited from the USSR are kill and have never really revived or replaced.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:11:27 2020 No.12475432 18 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOg-2wq3qDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOg-2wq3qDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOg-2wq3qDI

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:12:32 2020 No.12475434 >>12475432 Wait uh what is CMS-1

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:12:42 2020 No.12475435 >>12475270 probably there are more efficient ways, like the Medusa drive (Orion but a giant parachute instead of a big steel plate) but that has concerns with the durability of the parachute

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:13:37 2020 No.12475436 >>12475424 well they didn't take over that part of the country

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:14:37 2020 No.12475438 >>12475436 they should, partition the ukr*raine between Russia and Poland

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:15:00 2020 No.12475439 >>12475361 >>12475371 the only objections to MOOSE can be summed up as "what the fuck is wrong with you" there are no technical obstacles, no showstoppers, absolutely no reason it can't work

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:15:00 2020 No.12475440 >>12475434 Communication satellite. It's a replacement for GSAT-12 which is being put out to pasture.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:15:51 2020 No.12475441 >>12475434 Oh nevermind it’s just a poo satellite. I was thinking it stood for crew mission 1 or something

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:19:08 2020 No.12475445 >>12475439 Looks pretty unstable and like it would be really fucking easy to lose the correct orientation and end up as mach 20 bbq

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:19:51 2020 No.12475447 File: 77 KB, 737x379, f1va115b1z361.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475339 Y-yes! Elon s-sure showed those trannies haha!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:19:57 2020 No.12475448 >>12475432 Instantaneous window?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:20:30 2020 No.12475451 >>12475447 grimes logged in lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:21:27 2020 No.12475452 >>12475447 Grimes denied pussy until he put out a generic platitude on twitter to placate her.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:21:48 2020 No.12475453 >>12475447 >looking at neuralink job app >asks you what your pronouns are makes me not want to apply there

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:23:14 2020 No.12475459 >>12475453 >didn't put >high chancellor/god emperor ngmi

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:25:24 2020 No.12475464 >>12475270 no

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:32:56 2020 No.12475469 >>12475445 it's easy to make an object passively stable it's also easy to make a foam consistently form the correct shape

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:33:15 2020 No.12475471 >>12475270 I'd post the best methods but i don't want to get the van if you know what i mean.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:33:57 2020 No.12475474 >>12475459 I'm a big fan of putting my full name as my preferred pronouns

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:34:12 2020 No.12475475 oh my god this livestream is amazing they can afford an orbital rocket but not a broadband connection to the studio

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:34:50 2020 No.12475477 144p launch feeds

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:34:59 2020 No.12475479 >>12475471 it's not like "Orion pusher plate + casaba howitzer" is protected information, anon unless you mean nuclear salt water meme rockets

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:36:00 2020 No.12475482 >>12475475 did they accidentally leave a few zeros off of their target bitrate

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>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:42:23 2020 No.12475490 it's about ten times more tolerable muted kind of excited to see if the rocket has the same level of attention paid to technical details as well

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:42:48 2020 No.12475491 >>12475270 no there are proposals for fusion rocket which are basically tokamaks open at one side much easier to refuel and nobody is going to whine about other people flying around in a mobile nuclear warhead fortresses

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 04:43:50 2020 No.12475492 >chat disabled guess they got tired of the street shitting jokes

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>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:08:06 2020 No.12475516 >>12475194 >122 foot 5 inch So how many football fields is that?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:12:25 2020 No.12475519 >STAGE PERFORMANCE NOMINAL I am absolutely reading all callouts in an indian accent now

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:13:27 2020 No.12475522 OH GOD I'M PLUUUMMING

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:16:33 2020 No.12475525 >>12475522 >One really big aesthetic engine >PLOOMS for several minutes straight >one started can't stop >Plume gets all over everything on the pad >may have spent much of his money of flame trenches

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:21:38 2020 No.12475529 >>12475519 This entire thing is pretty aesthetic, with the 1980s look, the guy doing the callouts into a microphone, and the graphics that look like they were programmed in Visual Basic.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:23:39 2020 No.12475533

>>12475139
Does anyone know anything about a "Top Gear Christmas Special" of 100 years in the future where they're farting around in space ships? I apparently saved someone's random Google Doc about 3 1/2 years ago, and can't find any reference to it with a google search just now. It's about 70k with HTML fuckery removed. I'm just curious if I ended up with a rare Lost Writing or something.

>100 years in the future, Clarkson, Hammond and May buy three 2030’s era spaceships and go on a ‘Grand Tour’.
>There aren’t any cars*, most of the humour is poorly copied from Top Gear itself, it's overly crude and the entire thing is written in a weird cross between a transcript and an actual story. But if you ever imagined the unholy trio tooling around in space being wankers, then read on. A word of warning — If you aren’t instinctively doing the voices in your head, this might not be the story for you. Oh, and we’ll just gloss right over pesky issues with physics that don’t mesh well with the story, shall we?
>* Ok there is one car, but since no one drives it (yet), it doesn’t count.
> Hair of the Dog
>Jeremy Clarkson sits drinking at a bar, with a stunning view of Saturn in the background. Richard Hammond walks in, stretching a crick out of his neck.
>Clarkson: “Hello Hamster, how did you sleep?”
>Hammond: “Weren’t we just attempting to jump the Grand Canyon in a school bus? What’s going on?”
>Clarkson, dismissively: “Robotic clone nanotechnology something or other. It’s better than being dead. I mean, look at this view.”
>Hammond, still rubbing his neck: “Maybe... I have the most incredible hangover.”

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:35:02 2020 No.12475547 File: 166 KB, 1280x720, PERFORMANCE NORMAL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] THREAD PERFORMANCE NORMAL

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:35:42 2020 No.12475549 >>12474945 why is there water?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 05:39:03 2020 No.12475555 >>12475479 i mean a fission fusion hybrid ship and wouldn't ride on silly shockwave detonations from nukes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:12:40 2020 No.12475604 File: 232 KB, 720x1101, 1576721240756.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >this thing was meant to launch in December >one year AFTER its failed docking >planned to launch in April lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:34:38 2020 No.12475638 Just buttchugged whiskey what’s happening in space land

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:38:15 2020 No.12475647 >>12475604 Why do amerikkkans put srbs on everything?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:38:35 2020 No.12475648 >>12475638 go watch the indians launch a rocket, it's cool very nice webcast, not at all a shitshow

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:53:04 2020 No.12475674 oh my fucking god why are Austrians such shitposters read this blurb https://austrialpin.net/ the product (quick disconnect buckles) is used on the Dragon spacecraft seatbelts

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:53:07 2020 No.12475675 >>12475647 Cheap, simple extra thrust. It also keeps the solid motor development companies afloat between missile contracts, preserving institutional knowledge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:53:43 2020 No.12475676 >>12475647 SRBs are the ranch sauce of the American oldspace industry

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 06:54:14 2020 No.12475678 >>12475647 fireworks powerful SRB lobby JFK was right uhhhhhhhh if you put an SRB on your rocket, both Congress and the Pentagon will lean down and suck your cock

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:00:49 2020 No.12475690 Is Roscosmos newspace?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:01:43 2020 No.12475694 >>12475690 no they are Weekend at Bernie'space

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:07:10 2020 No.12475711 >>12475604 Where they want to dock it though? CRS-21 will be long gone, but Crew-2 is meant to launch in March, and Crew-1 won't leave until May.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:11:42 2020 No.12475718 File: 1.81 MB, 1706x929, OMEGALUL.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475647 They need to keep the engineering knowledge to maintain their ICBM fleet.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:13:21 2020 No.12475722 File: 756 KB, 2726x4096, 1592868298093.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] get pooed on https://twitter.com/isro/status/1339539726269726720

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:16:25 2020 No.12475729 NSF stream starting in 42 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rrxhe3M3iA

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:28:58 2020 No.12475751 File: 1.21 MB, 4096x2731, EpZJ99HWMAIts5z.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] slightly early NROL-108 launch thread because I'm a busy man >>12475740 >>12475740 >>12475740

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:32:06 2020 No.12475757

>>12475711
They pulled this stunt just to mess with SpaceX. If Starliner launched now, nobody would really care, because Boing is still a year behind the schedule, But if they launch at the same time as Crew-2, which is long duration mission, SpaceX will have to wait for Starliner to fuck off the docking port (assuming they actually won't fuck it up again), before they go.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:32:23 2020 No.12475758 >>12475031 Take him to the first starship launch

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:36:21 2020 No.12475766

>>12475240
Imagine its the late 2030s and SpaceX has several hundred to a few thousand people on mars and NASA begins sending scientific missions on their own nuclear powered spacecraft. Would be kind of cool though to have two organizations sending people to mars for two different major reasons on different spacecraft.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:37:35 2020 No.12475769 >>12475311 UH OH!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:37:49 2020 No.12475770 >>12475276 I think that'd be for interstellar missions though. So makes sense.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:42:09 2020 No.12475776 >>12475766 >Imagine its the late 2030s and SpaceX has several hundred to a few thousand people on mars and NASA begins sending scientific missions on their own nuclear powered spacecraft. >Boing is still trying to get the clock to work on Starliner

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:42:41 2020 No.12475780 >>12475694 underrated

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:44:08 2020 No.12475785 >>12475694 Lmao Their National Space Centre looks cool though, will it be effective consolidating all design bureaus under one roof or will it just increase rivalry and infighting?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:45:11 2020 No.12475790 File: 20 KB, 400x389, why-not-both.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475785 >will it be effective consolidating all design bureaus under one roof or will it just increase rivalry and infighting?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:45:57 2020 No.12475794 >>12475751 wow spacex is really blasting through their record this year

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:48:12 2020 No.12475800 File: 995 KB, 4096x2731, Epb_9thUUAAQ6hS.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475722 poo bro rockets have no right being this based

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 07:49:18 2020 No.12475803 >>12475776 Well, they can make historical flights for tourists to Axiom station, before it deorbits.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:01:52 2020 No.12475831 >>12475800 >4 stages + strap-on boosters Based indeed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:07:44 2020 No.12475842 >>12475803 >the "near future" >flying cars are a common sight, people are using Starships to travel between the planets >Boing still finding some excuses why Starliner shouldn't get cancelled, and require further funding to launch on SLS

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:10:24 2020 No.12475852 >>12475842 >737ULT has been grounded following six consecutive crashes

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:14:23 2020 No.12475863
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>>12475031
I'd absolutely recommend >>12475094 and >>12475758 if at all possible. The first orbital flight of Starship is practically a necessity and making it all the more awesome by getting him to realize just how monumental Starship is would be something truly unforgettable.
>>12475264
So what parts of Orion are still confidential and why? Something about shaped charge nuclear warheads?

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:35:15 2020 No.12475907

>>12475365
>Python/C++
In today's world, you need real work experience (or a lot of code examples you wrote and compiled) to be considered for anything programming related. There are so many CS grads being pumped out of colleges with shit knowledge, so a degree isn't worth much right now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:40:56 2020 No.12475913 >>12475035 This but unironically

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:41:03 2020 No.12475914

>>12475453
It's for happy happy tranny tranny safe space hugs and kisses smoke and mirrors.
Elon is learning that while you don't have to give a fuck about feelings and opinions to get shit done, not having a raging throng of retards screaming at you day and night can make things a bit more peaceful. Not to mention that with a new POTUS on the way in, there will be another wave of people out for blood to slow musk's progress.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:52:35 2020 No.12475937 https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1339373086534234117?s=20 Lol called it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 08:59:04 2020 No.12475952 >>12475937 Notice how nobody sells their shares of SpaceX.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:14:01 2020 No.12475968 >>12475952 Because it's not a publicly traded company for one?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:14:08 2020 No.12475969 File: 396 KB, 3000x2024, Agena docking target.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio Classic from a classic

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:29:38 2020 No.12476007 >>12475969 Based von braun

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:30:40 2020 No.12476011 File: 386 KB, 1334x750, 23059F95-FFAE-45B7-9F66-86A05EEF181C.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I don’t think I’ve ever seen weather this shitty in a launch stream

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:32:56 2020 No.12476013 >>12475937 Smart man.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:33:17 2020 No.12476014 >>12476011 What matters is the weather higher up and in landing drone. 1) wind speed high up 2) lightning issues 3) ocean wave state at drone landing

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:35:36 2020 No.12476019 >>12474965 >There's not anything wrong with the rocket what did he mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:38:18 2020 No.12476026 >>12476014 >Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. this isn't a drone ship landing

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:40:00 2020 No.12476029 Showing DIVH in a SpaceX broadcast. Bros....

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:40:10 2020 No.12476031 I kinda like these ads.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:40:45 2020 No.12476033 >>12476026 So even less landing issues

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:41:45 2020 No.12476037 Loving this audio

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:42:11 2020 No.12476039 >>12476029 Electron and Antares too. Not sure why they'd even show Antares when they've never launched on one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:43:26 2020 No.12476041 >>12476039 not that you would know t. insider

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:43:58 2020 No.12476045 >>12475214 Haumea first

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:45:46 2020 No.12476055 hold

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:49:31 2020 No.12476070 File: 466 KB, 975x590, 1595670966980.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] CringeX

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:51:15 2020 No.12476076 >>12475031 ah yes, the classic "you're providing too much for this family" divorce clause

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:51:45 2020 No.12476080 >>12475718 this. The only nations which use solids are those which also maintain a solid-fuel-based ICBM inventory. They are inferior for every purpose except high thrust and long shelf life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:53:40 2020 No.12476086 >>12475831 and alternating hypergolic and solid stages

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:54:03 2020 No.12476089 Holding? Just tuned in.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:54:57 2020 No.12476090 i never want to hold again bros...

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:55:48 2020 No.12476093 >>12476089 yeah; not a full scrub yet join us in the launch thread >>12475740

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:56:03 2020 No.12476095 >>12476089 the window is pretty huge

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 09:56:34 2020 No.12476097 >>12476089 Look at the weather

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:01:02 2020 No.12476117 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1339581881214492677 IMPLESSIVE CHINESE QUANTUM MOON ROCKS

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:01:03 2020 No.12476118

>>12475842
>in the grim darkness of the far future
>Boingus struggles with an archaic piece of technology called a "star of the line"
>myth states that it is even older than mankind's interstellar ventures
>for reasons unknown to outsiders the Mechanicus refuses to work with the company in deciphering this tech

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:04:05 2020 No.12476123 >>12476117 get off twitter elon, you have a rocket to launch

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:04:16 2020 No.12476124 >>12476117 elon is a fool for falling for this. though he is compromised by china now that tesla is there. never misses a chance to stroke sino shaft. ends justify the means i guess

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:08:34 2020 No.12476138 File: 3.03 MB, 3000x3026, The_Angry_Alligator.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12475969

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:11:09 2020 No.12476149 >>12476138 why did we give up on chompers bros :/

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:13:25 2020 No.12476157 File: 1.60 MB, 1800x650, CAPABILITIES__SATELLITE.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476149 it's coming back

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:14:28 2020 No.12476159 File: 200 KB, 2000x1200, 28676F16-7150-40DB-87DA-C689DEE5EC8B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Man say what you want but Starhopper has the most soul out of any of the Starship prototypes aside from maybe Snate.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:15:59 2020 No.12476163 >>12476124 Elon benefits a huge amount from renewed interest in space via a space race with China.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:16:34 2020 No.12476168 >>12476157 tags: vore, size difference

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:17:54 2020 No.12476175 >>12476163 Our political class is too inept to see the threat china represents

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:18:35 2020 No.12476179 >>12476159 speculating what it was as it was being built was fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:19:14 2020 No.12476182 >>12476175 China unironically chastised the US for not supporting BLM. They’re degenerates and I hope they get cucked one day

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:20:17 2020 No.12476187 >>12476175 Show them the effects hydrazine has on chinese villagers.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:20:31 2020 No.12476188

>>12476175
they're not inept, they're in the pocket of corporations who rely on Chinese slave labor to produce cheap goods and dominate markets. The corporate donor class wants strong ties with China because of this and the politicians don't want to lose their donors because 80% of the time the politician with more money wins an election.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:21:28 2020 No.12476192 >>12476187 perhaps they're making a race of atomic supermen

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:21:43 2020 No.12476193 >>12476175 >>12476188 You niggers are five years late. Great Power Competition has been the new hotness in Washington since 2017.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:21:43 2020 No.12476194 >>12476175 You mean voters are too inept to see the threat china represents. The political class in America follows what gets them votes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:22:42 2020 No.12476198 >>12476194 >thinking voters ever mattered

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:25:42 2020 No.12476204 File: 78 KB, 1080x793, Screenshot_20201217-092309-01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ELON NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:26:15 2020 No.12476205 File: 1.29 MB, 1196x1073, 1589151523015.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OOF

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:27:15 2020 No.12476209 >>12476204 i thought it was a racist meme, now it's transphobic? Do these people know any other words?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:27:25 2020 No.12476210 File: 122 KB, 750x876, calvin_hobbes_on_lefties.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476198 I know it's cool to think nothing matters, but yes, votes are the only thing politicians care about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:32:45 2020 No.12476234 File: 776 KB, 720x1280, tranny.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476204 Elon is trans zerself, how dare they come after zer.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:34:38 2020 No.12476240 >>12476204 >wah this is transphobic Yes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:35:39 2020 No.12476241 File: 2.65 MB, 320x240, B0A5F13F-923A-4993-BA82-331AB6A14501.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476205 This is just sad

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:37:46 2020 No.12476246 >>12475952 based retard

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:40:58 2020 No.12476253 >>12476204 What was the meme?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:42:29 2020 No.12476255 File: 497 KB, 245x200, 1407647739304.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476205 They should've done this stuff 6 years ago or more. This is beyond pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:42:50 2020 No.12476257 Guys

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:43:25 2020 No.12476259 Girls

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:43:45 2020 No.12476261 >>12476204 And the people who use pronouns seriously don't draw criticism?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:43:47 2020 No.12476262 >>12476257 Did you just assume.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:43:56 2020 No.12476264 >>12476257 Based >>12476259 Cringe

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:44:31 2020 No.12476267

>>12476253
Pretty sure he said that he supports trans people, but having everyone share their pronouns all the time gets ridiculous. So an extremely normal take for anyone in the real world, but something only a fascist transphobe would say on twitter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:44:48 2020 No.12476269 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1339590482439991296 OH NO OH NO SPACEXSTANS WE GOT TOO COCKY

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:45:09 2020 No.12476270 >>12476253 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1338365886542049282/photo/1

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:47:25 2020 No.12476274 >>12476269 Elon is in on the NRO psyop, fucking screencap this in case ((they)) delete

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:48:22 2020 No.12476278 >>12476269 you're 40 minutes late

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:49:39 2020 No.12476280 >>12476278 'stan'-anon is a retard, so it's to be expected.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:49:45 2020 No.12476281 Zuma 2.0, for real

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:50:32 2020 No.12476286 What the fuck is a "stan" now. Why the fuck are you fucking social media guzzling faggots unable to stop randomly redefining existing fucking words. Holy shit I mad.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:51:05 2020 No.12476288 >>12476280 uhhh there's more than two at least t. stan anon who started the meme

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:52:20 2020 No.12476293 >>12476286 it's from an Eminem song released in 2000 so it's more a boomer term than a zoomer term 2bh

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:53:01 2020 No.12476295 File: 46 KB, 640x640, trollface.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476286

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:53:09 2020 No.12476296 >>12476182 They don't care about BLM, just like US doesn't REALLY care about Chinese Muslims they know blacks are troublemakers and if they can use them to add oil to fire, they don't hesitate

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:54:57 2020 No.12476301 >>12476286 Anon attempting to force a meme, he keeps at it for reasons quite unknown despite not ever getting any laughs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:55:19 2020 No.12476305 >>12476286 Hello zoomer :^)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:56:45 2020 No.12476308 Can you guys message me on skype if they end up launching? Making some mac n cheese, dunno when i'll be back on

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:58:26 2020 No.12476312 >>12476301 So it's just a lonely autist? Now I feel a bit bad. He still should have invented some nonword instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 10:59:45 2020 No.12476313 >>12476301 >t. seething spacex stan

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:02:04 2020 No.12476317

>>12475863
How much energy from the bomb they can direct towards the pusher plate (over 80%, likely), what the standoff distance between the charges and the plate needed to be (if you read Dyson's kid's book he actually leaves in enough clues to figure this one out). Just anything that would be useful to a country trying to figure out how to protect spaceships against casaba howitzers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:02:16 2020 No.12476318 >>12476312 Eventually he'll get bored and stop like all the others

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:02:29 2020 No.12476319 File: 580 KB, 1120x630, homo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476286 >complaining about memes and subculture specific slang on 4chan

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:03:47 2020 No.12476323 >>12476281 What happened to the original zuma though. Did it really fail?

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:06:13 2020 No.12476328

>>12476319
My melanin-enriched kinsman, you do realize most of this shit comes straight from twatter and leddit today, right? And that the majority of that shit is so lame that it nearly manifests in tangible, physical pain? And that they vomit this shit in the general direction of the Internet at breakneck speeds?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:06:41 2020 No.12476330 >>12476318 Bruh he's been doing this for months

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:08:25 2020 No.12476336

>>12475114
>She just has no friends, so she gets home from work at 3 and waits 7 or 8 hours for me to get home so she can speak to an adult. I'm sure that routine got old.
And her solution is to divorce the only person speaking to her? Quite the smart one.
>>12476209
Yes, "sexist", "straight", "white" and "male". The amount of attention we give to twitter freaks needs to decrease about 100%.

>>12476138
>>12476157
So we go from alligator to blue whale? Nice.

>>12476205
And they will have to do the test again in 5 years after another design change.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:09:10 2020 No.12476337 >Oh n-

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:09:27 2020 No.12476338 SpaceX stans crawling out of the woodwork today! Where's your precious NRO launch? Oh yes , delayed to Q2 2021 :D

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:09:54 2020 No.12476340 >"Will China share Lunar samples with NASA?" >"No." https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1339486359795470336 The bugs are already carving up the Moon for themselves.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:10:21 2020 No.12476343 >>12476336 >And they will have to do the test again in 5 years after another design change. What kind of design changes the concrete blocks will need in your opinion?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:10:39 2020 No.12476344 >>12476340 NASA doesn't share their lunar samples with China

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:11:29 2020 No.12476348 >>12476343 They need to be a bit more round to truly simulate the roundness of SLS.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:12:39 2020 No.12476350 >>12476330 He's aware that nobody likes it/him so now it's a matter of punishing the general for not adopting his epic new may-may. It's just shitposting, simple as.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:13:05 2020 No.12476353 >>12476344 we gave a moon rock to panama!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:13:39 2020 No.12476355 >>12476343 More aerodynamic perhaps. How can they do a serious test without accounting for the effects of wind/drag? Somehow, I think NASA is not taking Artemis all that seriously.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:14:55 2020 No.12476358 >>12476350 stop misgendering her

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:16:19 2020 No.12476363 >>12476353 >panama https://youtu.be/fuKDBPw8wQA?t=10 PANAMA!

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:17:36 2020 No.12476366

>>12476343
They'll have a year-long bidding process to determine the prime contractor of the Evolved Concrete Mass Simulator program. NASA will pick two bids, but a third that got left out will sue to get their proposal reconsidered. After six months of litigation, one of the bidders will receive a cost plus contract for initial design studies in order to determine the feasibility of NASA's request. After two to three years of preliminary design work, they should receive approval to begin construction of a pathfinder prototype mass simulator. While it will be identical to the actual mass simulator, this one will remain on hand for testing and validation of construction methods and handling procedures. Assuming no major flaws are discovered in the prototype, I'm quite confident that they'll be able to receive the go ahead to build the production-grade mass simulator within five years.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:24:16 2020 No.12476379 NASA crawler is on the move https://youtu.be/3rrxhe3M3iA

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:25:17 2020 No.12476384 >>12476353 Did they give us back our canal?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:30:43 2020 No.12476404 >>12476288 yep, i know there is at least two

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:32:45 2020 No.12476408

>>12476366
>Assuming no major flaws are discovered in the prototype
Oh they will. And due to sunk costs, NASA will double down and the project will cost 12 times its original budget. And the first production-grade mass simulator will fail because someone at NASA confused lime (the mineral) and lime (the fruit).

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:42:35 2020 No.12476422 the virgin nasa crawler vs the chad 18 wheeler

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:44:10 2020 No.12476429 >>12476366 >just one contractor to not only handle cement and rebar supply, but also to manufacture final product Wew.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 11:45:55 2020 No.12476433 >>12476422 >NASA crawler >Spends weeks transporting nonreusable SLS across 2 miles >THE CHAD 18 WHEELER >Nonstop monthly deliveries across the US from SpaceX factory to Florida of reusable cheap F9 rockets

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:14:27 2020 No.12476497 >>12476205 Why didn't they build a railway instead?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:16:11 2020 No.12476504 >>12476286 Dont you have a wife and kjd to drown?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:17:32 2020 No.12476511 File: 323 KB, 1920x1080, exoplanet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >TESS mission elapsed: 2 years >confirmed planets found: 46 pathetic how many planets can we except JWST to find?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:19:09 2020 No.12476521 >>12476511 I'd first like to know when to expect JWST to launch.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:24:44 2020 No.12476537 >>12476521 Halloween 2021, but that might slip again now that New Shepherd has been authorized.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:32:08 2020 No.12476559 File: 1.20 MB, 1072x712, 1421353483764.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476511 >2020 >none of that shit is green >20 fucking 20

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:34:24 2020 No.12476570 >>12476340 Where were you when the Space War began?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:36:17 2020 No.12476575 >>12476511 wtf tess was supposed to find thousands more than kepler. what fucking gives??

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:38:33 2020 No.12476583 >>12476511 Just wait until the next surveying telescope. It'll be amazing when it finds its 25th exoplanet after two years

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:41:26 2020 No.12476591 >>12474969 The perfect cuckbox.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:45:29 2020 No.12476610 >>12476511 JWST will not find many planets, it is not the sort of instrument suited for finding exoplanets. Maybe a few 10's with the NIRCam coronagraph, but these will be very far out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:47:08 2020 No.12476620 >>12476511 we need that 5AU sun lens telescope to look at continents in the TRAPPIST system right fucking now

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:48:55 2020 No.12476630 >>12476511 >tdlr: No. Better star waiting for those SS launched private scopes or the phobos-deimos mega observatories.

>>	Gianmarconero Thu Dec 17 12:50:17 2020 No.12476636 I did't understand, now it comes the shield?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:51:40 2020 No.12476641 >>12476511 TESS's survey stagey means that most of the sky is only observed for one or two months, out of the 2 years. Because "confirmation" typically means 3 orbits, only the fastest orbiting planets will meet that criterion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:52:14 2020 No.12476643 >>12476630 >inb4 private exploration would do all the discoveries too fast

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:53:04 2020 No.12476645
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What would be some good places to potentially build a spaceport?

For some reason, the western part of the Hawaiian island of Kahoʻolawe, which is currently uninhabited but protected as a wildlife reserve. Only the western shore of the island would be used as a spaceport, leaving about 80% of the interior still usable to wildlife.

1/2

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:54:04 2020 No.12476648 >>12476630 >phobos-deimos mega observatories Explain.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:54:08 2020 No.12476649 File: 1.96 MB, 1920x940, hawaii 2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Location compared to the rest of Hawaii >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaho%CA%BBolawe 2/2

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:56:33 2020 No.12476655 >>12476645 Rockets are loud and sometimes even explode so it won't be allowed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:57:07 2020 No.12476656 >>12476648 Mega observatories built on the Martian moons, obviously. Mega death lasers to vaporize intruders is optional but highly desirable.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:57:08 2020 No.12476657

>>12476645
The issue is logistics.

You need to be able to move equipment weighing hundreds of tons from where it was built (generally in an industrial park near a city) to the actual launchpad.

Hence why the US launches from Florida and the Russians launch from Kazakhstan. They aren't the closest to the equator, but they're good enough and it's physically easy to get stuff to and from them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:58:28 2020 No.12476665 >>12476645 The local ugabugas will never allow it and good luck building a rocket factory there. Might as well go for Kilimanjaro.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:58:56 2020 No.12476667 >>12476657 obviously you just fly the starships and superheavies there

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 12:59:31 2020 No.12476671 >>12474969 Why can't you just squish the hydrogen into a smaller tank?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:01:46 2020 No.12476676 >>12476671 hydrogen doesn't "squish"

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:01:53 2020 No.12476677 >>12475766 >>12475776 That's exactly how it'll go.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:02:08 2020 No.12476679 >>12476667 Well if you have a spaceport you can launch from, why not just launch them from there instead of spending a couple billion dollars building a new facility?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:03:02 2020 No.12476682 File: 97 KB, 625x351, PLATO_artist_impression_20191105_3_625.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476630 No need to wait for a miracle, ESA's Plato will be an efficient exoplanet machine.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:03:10 2020 No.12476683 >>12476676 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:04:24 2020 No.12476688 >>12476683 >just compress it to thousands of times earth pressure!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:04:56 2020 No.12476690 File: 446 KB, 499x408, the American answer.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476665 Well it's a pretty small location so just depopulate it.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:06:18 2020 No.12476697

>>12476645
Hmmm. Assuming 4ASS was given a license by spacex to build a long landing strip at Boca, would stratolaunch have enough fuel to carry a dreamchaser to the equator, launch it, and return for a landing? Also would dreamchaser be able to reenter from the ISS and land at boca?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:06:26 2020 No.12476699 >>12476683 No

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:07:09 2020 No.12476702 >>12475438 based

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:07:10 2020 No.12476703
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How would you go about building a way to discover as many exoplanets in as much detail as possible?
Assume you have available what is likely to exist in 2030 and a budget of twenty billion dollars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:07:40 2020 No.12476704 File: 110 KB, 1140x450, Ascension_Island.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476645 Ascension Island. Close to the equator, British owned so they get to have a space comeback, and its name is appropriate

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:07:46 2020 No.12476705 >>12476679 because there are efficiency gains from launching from Hawaii, so the cost of the single launch between the factory and Hawaii will eventually be offset by the efficiency gained from multiple Hawaiian launches

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:08:48 2020 No.12476708 >>12476703 An orion nuclear ship with a JWST-style mirror except 20 times bigger. The thing would fire out of the plane of the solar system and yeet itself outta here for optimal viewing

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:08:56 2020 No.12476709 >>12476645 I don't see much rocket building infrastructure on that island so I assume you're shipping your rockets across thousands of kilometers of open ocean. Please don't ever be in charge of anything

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:09:01 2020 No.12476711 >>12476703 I wouldn't spend 20b on that. Our primary goal should be establishing bases on the moon and mars. Also, a telescope on the surface of the moon is probably a good idea.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:10:20 2020 No.12476713 >>12476709 If it works for ESA...

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:10:56 2020 No.12476715 >>12474978 >Musk: Says something logical >Internet: omg what an asshole you can't just have an opinion on the internet

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:12:24 2020 No.12476718 >>12476705 It's only like a couple hundred extra meters per second of Delta V, isn't it? In general you want to be autistic as fuck about hanging on to extra Delta V, but I think that's a bit too far.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:13:36 2020 No.12476722 >>12475301 It's a couple of seething trannies; not indicitive of the left as a whole. There are people on the far right that hate him for being an immigrant, pushing for sustainable energy, and taking muh coal jobs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:15:29 2020 No.12476726 >>12476645 >launching from islands >not just putting a platform right on the equator in international waters and barging a constant stream of starships to it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:16:03 2020 No.12476728 File: 239 KB, 750x403, 460B91F2-94ED-4630-B3BA-9E5DDA67F0DC.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Discussing the plans to nuke Chyna aboard the International Space Discotheque, 2020, colorized

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:16:14 2020 No.12476729

>>12475361
>70% chance you land in the ocean and drown
>29% chance you land in some shitty desert or jungle
>.9% chance you land near a city but in a foreign country where they don't speak English and you get robbed and raped
>.1% chance of landing anywhere good

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:17:16 2020 No.12476733 >>12475447 Gotta appease the normies

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:17:35 2020 No.12476736 >>12475031 Doesn't sound like a good excus >>12475351 Once the starship revolution kicks and it's insanely cheap to do so, someone should launch a crash dummy in this

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:21:20 2020 No.12476743 >>12476728 this is fake

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:23:28 2020 No.12476750

>>12476718
As long as reuse starts hitting mid to high double digits I think the saving could be substantial. Of course, I'd have to do the math and it also doesn't take into account the cost of building and maintaining a Hawaiian spaceport, but I don't think it's outrageous.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:25:31 2020 No.12476759

>>12476729
The Russians used to miss their targets and touch down in Siberia all the time. It could be days stuck in the frozen tundra before anyone reached them.

They started putting .22s in the landing capsules so that the astronauts could hunt small game and fend off wolves while they were waiting to get picked up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:25:41 2020 No.12476760 >>12476703 Turn the largest accessible crater among the least bombarded by meteorites in the system into a giant telescope. We'd probably need at least a skeleton crew from time to time for maintenance anyway so bases indeed come first.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:28:38 2020 No.12476769

>>12476726
This sounds like the solution honestly

>mount the payload and do all of the maintenance shit in a facility on the coast somewhere in southern California, Texas, or Florida
>load onto the barge
>launch and land right onto the barge

the only issue is hurricane season or tropical weather on the way to the equator.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:34:02 2020 No.12476785

>>12476703
Use orbital assembly to build a comically large telescope in a Lagrange point. Build the frame as a skeleton made out of steel for maximum cheap points and just put the skeleton together like Ikea furniture.

Use a reaction control system to gently spin it around looking at any nearby star systems and waiting for plantary eclipses. Stream the data to a supercomputer somewhere on earth and have a self learning algorithm pore through the raw data for exoplanets.

Hopefully by 2030 it will be possible to use the raw data to determine atmospheric composition and temperature, and use that to look for life.

Basically what we've already been doing, but on a much larger scale because launch costs and computing power will be way cheaper.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:36:24 2020 No.12476793 File: 31 KB, 1608x138, 1581302252899.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] that's a lot of isp

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:38:30 2020 No.12476802 >>12476793 USS We Gotta Get Outta Here Scoobs

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:39:41 2020 No.12476807 >>12476802 Initiate Project 'ZOINKS'

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:40:09 2020 No.12476808 >>12476802 >Earth’s first exploration vessel meant for visiting other stars >All the fags want to call it Enterprise >Instead we call it the Mystery Machine

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:40:25 2020 No.12476810 File: 37 KB, 714x826, 1606892805794.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476793

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:40:55 2020 No.12476811 >>12476802 >spooky >spookier >SPOOK-TACULAR

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:41:37 2020 No.12476812 File: 185 KB, 2500x735, 20160901-F9-Sequence.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476808 >okay, gang, let's split up and search for clues

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:42:03 2020 No.12476815 >>12476793 is it higher than a fission reactor attached to some hall effect thrusters?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:44:33 2020 No.12476823 >>12476812 >I wonder who is behind this mask >SENATOR SHELBY?!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:44:57 2020 No.12476824 >>12476728 >>12476743 it's real https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD/status/1339568833925967872

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:45:54 2020 No.12476828 >>12476793 yeah

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:49:58 2020 No.12476837

>>12476697
Good question, no clue though. Wouldn’t stratolaunch carry a shitload of fuel? You would need enough to get to the equator and back, so it’s dependent on its maximum range. Also if the shuttle could land at cape canaveral i’m sure a dreamchaser could land in boca

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:51:04 2020 No.12476844 >>12476837 there's no runway at Boca

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:53:01 2020 No.12476854 >>12476844 The assumption is: what if a giant runway was built as part of the Boca Chica astrodrome. Could stratolaunch get things to the ISS?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 13:58:11 2020 No.12476863 File: 214 KB, 1200x800, zeus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476823 >I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! >And that dog too!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:03:08 2020 No.12476876 >>12476863 lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:06:07 2020 No.12476885 File: 168 KB, 2048x1152, leanyboi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Seems like we got another leany boi.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:09:41 2020 No.12476897 >>12475647 Because it's fun. The general international reaction to the monster SRBs on the shuttle can be summarized as "terrified autistic screeching." Imagine if we'd made Ares I work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:17:23 2020 No.12476919 File: 320 KB, 2060x1159, DOOM_Eternal_3-2060x1159.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476648

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:20:34 2020 No.12476926 >>12476793 in theory, if you had a Starship with 100,000 isp could you go anywhere in the solar system?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:21:37 2020 No.12476929 >>12476812 they were clearly just testing out Orion propulsion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:21:44 2020 No.12476930 >>12476919 Why did they even build those guns? Was there some hellportal location they know about in outer solar system or what were they expecting?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:23:09 2020 No.12476935 >>12476815 By like 50x yeah. Medusa is throwing fission BOMBS at a sail in front of your ship and getting hauled along at fuck-you velocities.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:25:38 2020 No.12476940 File: 1.48 MB, 2048x1152, 1592940020121.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476885 spooky boi

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:26:03 2020 No.12476943 >>12476810 I’d rather ride on Orion. At least you can put a decent amount of shielding between you and those neutrons with that pusher plate.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:27:05 2020 No.12476946 >>12476940 Geez, that’s quite the lean. Didn’t they have a similar issue with another booster a few weeks ago?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:29:02 2020 No.12476949 >>12476943 That diagram isn't to scale. The tether is over a kilometer long in most designs, so you only need a very small mass shield compared to Orion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:29:33 2020 No.12476951 >>12476930 >Why did they even build those guns? Because it's DOOM and it looks really fucking cool.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:32:10 2020 No.12476959
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>>12476946
the legs have a modular crush core system that's designed to, well, crush in order to absorb impacts. So it's not an "issue", but rather a deliberate part of the design. Though it's a legitimate question to ask why they're activating. Landings too rough? Seas too rough for the barge to handle?

Same idea in SN5 and SN6's legs. The holes drilled into the legs will give way and absorb energy if needed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:35:40 2020 No.12476973 >>12475766 >2030s and SpaceX has several hundred to a few thousand people on mars This is your brain on popsci. >>12476319 Retard.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:39:11 2020 No.12476987

>>12476973
>I'm on a meme website created by dumb teenagers
>better complain about the memes that dumb teenagers are using now

Kinda gay desu. Like a boomer who thinks that the Rolling Stones are the best band ever and doesn't understand why his kids are listening to Nirvana.

It just shows that you lack self awareness and you aren't willing to accept change.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:41:29 2020 No.12476993
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KSP Bros
Steam is trying to update.
I stopped the download but cannot play from there. Questions:
>Has the download messed with my files, or is it downloading to a temp cache? Can I still launch it from exe?
>Is this update mod-safe?
>Does the beta selector in Steam launch the exact version as the non-beta?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:43:24 2020 No.12477001 >>12475547 yes

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:45:58 2020 No.12477013

>>12475766
I can imagine a permanent mars colony by the 2030s but I doubt its going to be anywhere near 100s of thousands of people, even if everything goes well for SpaceX in the next few years.

>>12476293
Pretty much, "stan" is normalfaggotry not zoomerfaggotry

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:46:55 2020 No.12477015
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>>12476959
I don’t want to speak for everybody, but I think we’ve grown too accustomed to just how fucking hard it is to land a falcon 9. I mean damn I don’t even watch every launch these days. But the fact that the falcon can even land at all is a masterpiece of engineering and programming.
https://youtu.be/hi03MeERTeI?t=2238

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:48:49 2020 No.12477022
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This image is a great example of what happens with leaning Falcon 9s. The legs in front crushed more than the ones in back, so the entire thing is leaning to the point that the legs in back aren't even touching the ground.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:51:04 2020 No.12477027 >>12476987 >Like a boomer who thinks that the Rolling Stones are the best band ever and doesn't understand why his kids are listening to Nirvana. The first things you thought of were these fucking ancient bands? Self-hating boomer confirmed.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:51:15 2020 No.12477028

I just realized the only downside to the Starship, it makes a Brilliant Pebbles system not only feasible, but cheap and practical. If so this could massively destabilize the long peace, there could be a lag window of a decade or so between Starship going online and hypersonic strategic nuclear weapons going online that could allow for a totally successful first strike.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:56:26 2020 No.12477043 >>12477022 I’m surprised they didn’t go with F9 landing legs for the prototypes. I guess the “official” ones will be much closer in design to the crush-core ones

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 14:57:27 2020 No.12477049 >>12477043 Because F9 landing legs are expensive as fuck and they don't want expensive as fuck on shit more likely than not to blow up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:01:11 2020 No.12477058 >>12476793 with the 90% enrichment orion drive I think you get even higher ISP, might be wrong though

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:02:20 2020 No.12477061 >>12476973 >2030s and SpaceX has several hundred to a few thousand people on mars This is your brain on popsci. Theoretically if they are able to lower the launch costs to below 50$ a kilogram, why not?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:03:05 2020 No.12477064 >>12477049 What makes them expensive? They could build some on-site with the same schematics but with cheaper material like steel. Or is the design intrinsically expensive

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:03:07 2020 No.12477065 >>12477058 You also get every government on Earth throwing a tantrum if you try to build the thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:03:21 2020 No.12477067 >>12477013 I didn't say 100s of thousands of people, I said a few hundred to low thousands

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:04:17 2020 No.12477070 >>12477028 >implying Starlink isn't already Brilliant Pebbles >implying the US doesn't already have hypersonic missiles

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:04:21 2020 No.12477071 >>12477064 >jUsT bUiLd sOmE cHeApEr oUt oF sTeEl! That would weigh tons and tons. Brilliant.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:04:26 2020 No.12477072 >>12477015 I like how this video shows just how thin the fuel margins are: https://youtu.be/1BYi2_8cBvw

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:04:37 2020 No.12477073 >>12477058 >>12477065 What if you had 100% enrichment and a near infinite supply? How far could you realistically get in one human lifetime

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:06:27 2020 No.12477081 >>12477073 Any ship with 1g acceleration and infinite propellant can get arbitrarily close to lightspeed with a year of acceleration, so literally anywhere that isn't inside an event horizon or beyond the window where space is expanding >c.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:07:00 2020 No.12477085 >>12477065 Thats why it probably won't be built for a couple hundred years at least.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:07:11 2020 No.12477087 >>12477072 Hoooooly shit hahah it starts sucking the fuel as soon as the engines ignite.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:09:05 2020 No.12477097 >>12477081 That’s amazing. Are we even technically capable of building an orion ship? I wonder if the old schematics were made just for fun, or if they were serious ideas that could be built with a saturn rocket

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:09:52 2020 No.12477103 >>12477097 Orion can lift itself from Earth. That's actually what it's best at since nuclear detonations are WAY more powerful in atmosphere.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:11:35 2020 No.12477108 Falcon 9 in port now

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:13:51 2020 No.12477114

>>12477070
Yeah, but what matters is do the Chinese have them and are they capable of carrying nuclear weapons? IF they don't then we could have a short window of time to make a play at China. Also Starlink would be an amazing cover for a Brilliant Pebbles system in a James Bond movie.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:16:13 2020 No.12477122 uhhh Falcon 9 looks like it's gonna fall off of the barge

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:17:08 2020 No.12477126 >>12477103 Interesting. I also found this a few weeks ago and I think about it often https://youtu.be/DSK_mymJvkM

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:18:04 2020 No.12477128 >>12477027 Tbh I used those as the example because I actually do think that zoomer music is terrible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:18:43 2020 No.12477130 >>12477114 >Yeah, but what matters is do the Chinese have them My bet is no. The Russians claim to, but the Russians aren't the threat. The general existence of the ISS is proof of that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:18:55 2020 No.12477131 File: 816 KB, 2560x1440, tilt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477122 !

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:18:59 2020 No.12477132

>>12476511
>The first light image from TESS was taken on August 7, 2018
>Over the course of the two-year primary mission, TESS is expected to ultimately detect about 1250 transiting exoplanets orbiting the targeted stars, and an additional 13,000 transiting planets orbiting additional stars in the fields that TESS observed.
>As of 10 May 2020, TESS has identified 1835 candidate exoplanets, of which 46 have been confirmed so far.
OHNONONONO

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:19:10 2020 No.12477133 File: 58 KB, 899x550, 1599913362436.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Starship? More like smolship.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:19:15 2020 No.12477134 >>12476919 Doom eternal had some really kino scenes, god damn

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:19:21 2020 No.12477135 File: 386 KB, 2048x1366, 1595312273017.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477108 octograbber putting in work

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:20:20 2020 No.12477140 >>12477131 >>12477135 wtf, spacex is getting sloppy Has a Falcon ever leaned this much?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:20:32 2020 No.12477141 >>12477133 thing I can see engine bell outlines

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:20:55 2020 No.12477143 >>12477131 can't they just partially retract the other legs to even it out? Or is there a hard lock on the fully extended state?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:21:34 2020 No.12477146 >>12477140 yeah. Not long ago.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:21:41 2020 No.12477148 >>12477013 nigger

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:22:11 2020 No.12477149
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One test I would very much love to see for Starship is an All Weather Test.
The main weakness of Falcon 9 is that it requires perfect weather to launch since the rocket is so damn skinny.
If Elon truly wants Starship to launch as often as he envisions defeating the weather is a major hurdle.
I would love to see deliberate launches of Starship and Super Heavy prototypes in terrible weather to see what the true limits of this rocket are.
Simulations are good but actual tests will always be better.
Elon you must crash many prototypes that cost millions of dollars for the good of humanity.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:22:16 2020 No.12477150 >>12477146 It looks like more than the usual lean to me, though maybe it's just the angle

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:22:26 2020 No.12477151 >>12476240 maybe reality is transphobic

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:23:58 2020 No.12477155 >>12476511 I honestly believe that spaceflight as a whole was intentionally being reduced as part of a long term scheme to get more funds for less work

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:24:44 2020 No.12477156 File: 1.16 MB, 1292x727, 1588909761481.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >DON'T THINK I WON'T JUMP

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:25:06 2020 No.12477158 >>12477149 He should launch one during a Cat-1 hurricane next year with a full prop load and a mass simulator payload to see if it can still reach orbit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:25:30 2020 No.12477159 >>12477132 it's fucking embarrassing, what the fuck

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:26:37 2020 No.12477165 >>12477133 Damn, that's pretty sick. Raptor scars

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:26:51 2020 No.12477166 That leg is like 3 feet off of the pad

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:27:43 2020 No.12477169 File: 512 KB, 1948x1096, 1584853156644.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'd like to know more about octograbber

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:27:43 2020 No.12477170 >>12477166 it's fucking embarrassing

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:28:07 2020 No.12477172

>>12477130
Yeah, and if theres a lag time between when the Chinese actually get them and when we could practically throw up a Brilliant Pebbles system that would open up a one time only window to take a swipe at China without their nuclear deterrents.

In that we could smash up their navy, ports/dockyards, airforce, launch complexes, and other critical war making pieces of infrastructure. They would rebuild them, but if we can keep pushing back the time when they reach their maximum potential it gives us more time to build up, pull in more immigrants, and in general reduce the economic gap when the Chinese do it hit the ceiling of their easy growth.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:29:18 2020 No.12477176 >>12477133 After they patch the concrete they should repaint the impact rings with a big red X through it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:32:21 2020 No.12477187 >>12476511 >even bothering with colonizing and terraforming planets >not build shellworlds to precise detail >>12476204 yes it is transphobic, but elon doesn't go far enough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:32:52 2020 No.12477190 >European nations want to build a 6 billion-euro ($7.3 billion) alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink network so the region isn’t left behind in the race to develop satellite broadband.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:34:06 2020 No.12477196 >>12477065 Well what are they gonna do? Put Sanctions on USA or cry to UN?

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:35:16 2020 No.12477200

>>12477149
calm the fuckdown the thing hasnt even launched once, and even if it can only launch in precise conditions that only happen in one place on the earth it would still be a god damn fucking revolution so tamper your expecttions a bit you shit, its not liek youre doing any of the work on this project or any other for that matter

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:37:37 2020 No.12477207 so what does the USSF do?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:38:14 2020 No.12477209 >>12477207 ride space force horses around vandy

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:38:19 2020 No.12477210 >>12477207 It operates a bunch of military satellites

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:38:29 2020 No.12477212 >>12477207 Whatever the fuck they want. Right now it's just a 1:1 transfer of USAF spacecom stuff to USSF, but they're already planning an unmanned patrol system for cislunar space.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:38:48 2020 No.12477215 >>12477207 LARP as starfleet

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:39:36 2020 No.12477218 >>12477212 >unmanned patrol system for cislunar space. Oh thats pretty fucking cool I'm waiting until they start training astronauts

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:39:39 2020 No.12477219 >>12476919 Did they move one of Mars' moons super close?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:40:14 2020 No.12477223 >>12477207 Still in the process of transitioning projects from other departments, but once they do that they'll... run those projects

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:41:37 2020 No.12477230 >>12477207 to enforce speed limit laws on the moon

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:41:38 2020 No.12477231 >>12477215 Hahah

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:42:14 2020 No.12477234 >>12477133 someone shoop Yamcha in the middle

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:42:16 2020 No.12477235 >>12477218 By then SNC might actually have crewed Dream Chaser around.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:43:18 2020 No.12477240 >>12477215 *space marines

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:44:09 2020 No.12477244 >>12477196 station nukes in cuba

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:45:23 2020 No.12477247 File: 882 KB, 3840x2880, 20201217_134459.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:46:45 2020 No.12477250 File: 112 KB, 1920x1080, big_brain_time.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477247 >propellant is stored in the balls

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:47:08 2020 No.12477252 >>12477244 Im pretty sure the upcoming administration would get us nuked. Also what is the modern version of the Jupiter ICBM’s from the cold war era?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:47:30 2020 No.12477253 >>12477247 Starhopper Mk.II?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:47:37 2020 No.12477254 >>12477169 he grab

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:47:44 2020 No.12477255 >>12477247 >The Dome... home.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:49:28 2020 No.12477259 File: 36 KB, 600x510, incredibles_robot.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477247 I can't be the only one

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:50:37 2020 No.12477262 >>12475475 That happens when your nation is made by two billion people.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:51:51 2020 No.12477267 File: 164 KB, 1000x1600, 1578159164046.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477247 Sorry, what?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:53:35 2020 No.12477272 >>12476204 >Someone has an Incorrect Thought >Make up a new term like "transphobic" to censor them

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:53:44 2020 No.12477273 File: 412 KB, 1079x1731, Screenshot_20201217-135307_Twitter.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SpaceX stans BTFO ULA Chads rise up!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:54:48 2020 No.12477276 >>12477267 his pp is the strut oooohmigosh

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:56:20 2020 No.12477280 >>12477252 there's no modern verson, jupiter missiles were liquid fueled = shit, scrapped that technology completely for military purposes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:57:40 2020 No.12477283 File: 130 KB, 899x550, Yamcha.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477234 Here you go anon

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:58:17 2020 No.12477285 >>12477273 Tory also confirmed Vulcan WILL fly Q4 2021!! It's happening fellow chad :D

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:58:51 2020 No.12477288 File: 65 KB, 768x378, Octagrabber_Julia-768x378.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477169 Octagrabber is a pretty cool guy. eh grabs Octawebs and doesn't afraid of anything.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:59:33 2020 No.12477292

>>12477273
Starship: our interplanetary ship done in record time with almost no money is gonna be even cheaper than expected and revolutionize forever all spaceflight, everything thats planned on being built for the next 50 years for getting into LEO will be instantly turned obsolete, we are the undisputed masters.

BO(trying to cope) : yeah? well.. our extremely overbudget and overscheduled engine, which is the only part that works of our extremely overbudget and overscheduled rocket which (if it works just as planned it will take 10 years and billions of dolalrs and still deliver something thats considerably infeiror to starship), has been delivered to a company that will use them for a rocket thats already ifnerior to falcon 9 but will be, like everything else 12839012389012 times worse than starship by any metric, so... HA!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 15:59:50 2020 No.12477294 >>12477207 >Union of Soviet Socialist Faggots

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:00:21 2020 No.12477296 >>12477143 it's probably not safe to be fiddling around the base they'd rather lose a rocket than deal with an accident involving people. more headache in the long run

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:01:30 2020 No.12477300 >>12477283 Thank you this is perfect

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:02:19 2020 No.12477303 >>12477292 Bezos is more based than I thought

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:02:24 2020 No.12477304 >>12477300 No problem, I haven't used PS in ages so it was fun to stretch my legs

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:10:34 2020 No.12477337 >>12477267 professional counter-weight

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:12:43 2020 No.12477345 >>12477267 how is this even allowed? tell him to get down from there

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:14:00 2020 No.12477351 File: 220 KB, 1086x749, 9A671BE4-6356-482A-9C8B-67F5C57D0B96.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Does Aмepикын seriously consider this a success?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:14:08 2020 No.12477352 File: 399 KB, 1600x1130, 1574329836468.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477133 reminds me of this

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:15:52 2020 No.12477356 >>12477352 >haha, elon senpai, that's a pretty big spot I left on your landing pad

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:15:58 2020 No.12477358 >>12477337 >uuuugh we've been at it for 2 hours and the balance is still a bit off >hey Jack, go and try sitting there... Yeah, perfect >let's move out boys

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:16:28 2020 No.12477360 >>12477352 >No marks from meaty beef curtains

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:17:18 2020 No.12477362 >>12477352 That skirt wouldn't even cover her ass completely. Certainly not within school dress code regulations

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:18:28 2020 No.12477371 >>12477352 lmfao i wanna fuck that little school girl awwoooooga

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:18:56 2020 No.12477373 File: 616 KB, 2560x1555, 1594877908061.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477273 meanwhile the raptor engine, which is far more advanced and has been in development for less time, has been flying for about half a year

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:19:10 2020 No.12477375 >>12477352 Where is the propellant storage?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:21:05 2020 No.12477379 File: 177 KB, 879x485, be4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477373 What went wrong?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:21:24 2020 No.12477381 >>12477373 Vulcan will fly to orbit long before Starship

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:21:39 2020 No.12477382 >>12477345 Bob does what he pleases. No one can stop him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:22:48 2020 No.12477388 >>12477381 4ASS could contract someone to build an engine we design and get a payload to orbit before a BE-4 ever flies

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:23:44 2020 No.12477390 >>12477388 keep dreaming, frog

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:26:51 2020 No.12477397
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>>12477273
I do wonder what the final specs will look like. By the way the BE-4 was developed by both ULA and BO, right? It will be embarrassing if it ends up being anything but incredible in that case.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:28:56 2020 No.12477401
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>>12477273
>Elon is balls deep into Grimes and searching twitter
>Sees this post
>Huh, guess we should do some more Falcon Heavy launches to undercut oldspace more
>Calls Shotwell and makes the arrangements
>Vulcan is BTFO again by Elon and he didn't even have to pull out

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:28:59 2020 No.12477402 >>12477390 I will design the Combustion, Open-Cycle Variant engine and have it launched. COV-F3F3 for short.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:31:52 2020 No.12477409 >>12477397 yeah, elon is about to get butt blasted

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:33:45 2020 No.12477415 >>12477401 >Makes so much profit from reused F9's that Elon offers FH at the price of a basic F9

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:38:24 2020 No.12477422 File: 425 KB, 1100x1136, 1592898542256.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477397 the "super raptors" on the outer ring of the Super Heavy are supposed to be straight-up more powerful than the BE-4

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:39:21 2020 No.12477424
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>>12475533
Okay, since apparently nobody remembers or has ever heard of this before, and it has a lot of /sfg/-relevant jokes, I have screen-shotted its ten chapters and I will drop two per day.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:39:26 2020 No.12477426 File: 242 KB, 1100x1040, 1599977276788.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477422 he's also said a peak of 380 ISP

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:39:36 2020 No.12477427

>>12477409
hwo in the fuck? because of an engine thats more expensive, more complex and hass less isp and less TWR? oh oh and its meant for a fucking DISPOSABLE rocket which has years of development ahead and it might MIGHT end up on new shephard or whatever a iece of shit taht if all works and adds another 20 years of development on top of the 10 it already had it will absolutely 100% be more expensive than starship and more complex

when starship is about to be the absolute best rocket by every metric and revolutionize space by eventually making it cheaper to go to space than taking a business class jet

liek yeah
unironically any prais to musk is ok, any critic is unvalid

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:40:38 2020 No.12477429 >>12477422 why is f-1 reusability 100%? didn't one of them fail in one of their missions?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:40:55 2020 No.12477432 File: 285 KB, 894x2449, tgx02 An Unwise Man.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477424

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:41:39 2020 No.12477434 >>12477424 Wait what the fuck? Is this a real thing or a fucking fanfic

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:42:04 2020 No.12477435 File: 318 KB, 2348x686, 1585390383335.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] closures!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:42:08 2020 No.12477436 >>12477427 this is your brain on tesla stock

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:43:17 2020 No.12477438 File: 39 KB, 400x565, 1603754078983.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477429 nope. F1 has a perfect record

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:43:36 2020 No.12477442 >>12477435 Looks like new years fireworks are back on the menu boys

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:43:39 2020 No.12477443 >>12477375 The breasts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:44:51 2020 No.12477449 >>12477435 oof, not a good look

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:46:12 2020 No.12477455 File: 87 KB, 172x293, 9.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477435 Is it Snine time?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:46:46 2020 No.12477458 >>12477438 i was thinking of the J-2 in the second stages

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:46:53 2020 No.12477459 >>12477379 They embraced the pork.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:47:26 2020 No.12477462 >>12477442 >>12477455 This is 100% for moving SN9 to the pad, not even pressure tests.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:48:33 2020 No.12477467 >>12477462 BO shill spotted, everyone get rid of this troll

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:48:55 2020 No.12477468 >>12477434 Probably some sort of fanfic. I found it on someone's Google space. I apparently decided it was fun enough to save, but it was so long ago (May 2017) that I asked first if anyone else knew.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:49:01 2020 No.12477469 >>12477429 you're thinking of the J-2

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:49:05 2020 No.12477471 File: 585 KB, 900x838, 1491080074854.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477352 Wasn't there a futa version

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:50:01 2020 No.12477476 >>12477432 >>12477424 I love it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:51:17 2020 No.12477479 >>12477462 There are three days set aside probably for that, then a few days gap, then another 3 days. What do you think the second closure is for?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:52:08 2020 No.12477483 >>12477469 >>12477458

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:52:12 2020 No.12477484 >>12477352 I would lick the table :)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:53:29 2020 No.12477489 >>12477435 What are they planning? Another pressure test? Another static fire?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:53:34 2020 No.12477490 File: 587 KB, 786x476, spook.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12476940

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:54:51 2020 No.12477498 File: 8 KB, 537x98, 1604986608667.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] why do hydrolox engines have such unremarkable isp at sea level? Pic related is the J-2

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:54:52 2020 No.12477499 >>12477479 SpaceX always does this, schedule three closures for one day of work, because they aren't sure on their exact timeline. They'll still continue the work, but they won't need the roads closes all three days

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:54:55 2020 No.12477500 >>12477435 this is just for moving sn9. tb honest these dates will all be cancelled by next week, sad to say.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:55:46 2020 No.12477507 >>12477498 No fucking thrust also monster tankage.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:56:31 2020 No.12477508 >>12477507 ah, so ISP takes that all into account?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:57:43 2020 No.12477512 >>12477499 Okay, so that means the 6 days announced of closures amount to two distinct operations, no? SO probably the first is moving and then...let's see a static fire yeah?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:58:11 2020 No.12477514 >>12477283 top lel

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:58:49 2020 No.12477516 >>12477508 It's an upper stage engine meaning it's got a nozzle not optimized for sea level as well. Of course you can optimize better for sea level than that with hydrolox, but Isp is really not more than a "mileage" indicator.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:59:23 2020 No.12477518 >>12477512 I'd guess pressure test, especially after the tip

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 16:59:51 2020 No.12477520 >>12477471 More like a not very well made balls version.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:01:20 2020 No.12477522 >>12477500 >tb honest hello r*ddit

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:08:30 2020 No.12477541 >>12477352 >SN8-chan sprawled out on the pad with pieces of 'clothes' shredded >next panel just the ass print draw anon, get on it!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:10:20 2020 No.12477548 >>12477379 turbopump issues

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:12:02 2020 No.12477554

>>12477429
I could've sworn they had an early F-1 shutdown on Apollo 4 or 6 due to pogo oscillations, but it looks like that wasn't the case. They had some issues with the J-2s of 6's S-II due to the pogo on the S-IC, but the F-1s ran fine, apparently.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:13:04 2020 No.12477558 >>12477455 Snine's fine and sine

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:13:11 2020 No.12477559 File: 394 KB, 2344x2474, starship-chan color.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477541 This is getting incredibly lewd.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:28:01 2020 No.12477624 File: 95 KB, 530x881, 1587470393306.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] christmas raptor

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:29:48 2020 No.12477634 >>12477267 >record scratch >So you're probably wondering how I got myself into this mess

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:31:30 2020 No.12477643 File: 108 KB, 899x550, sn8.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:31:31 2020 No.12477644 >>12477624 Cute!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:32:24 2020 No.12477648 File: 323 KB, 955x1221, may30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:34:55 2020 No.12477657 >>12476993 the beta selector works fine

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:38:26 2020 No.12477670 File: 63 KB, 1910x1000, 1602218907853.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] why do the BE-4 and Raptor have such different looking plumes? Raptor consistently looks purple while BE-4 is far more orange/yellow. Sometimes blue

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:40:09 2020 No.12477683 File: 2.09 MB, 1440x960, 1583222446509.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477670 BE-4

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:42:39 2020 No.12477693 File: 2.45 MB, 1910x1000, 1579537659889.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477683

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:44:42 2020 No.12477696 >>12477683 Raptor is FFSC, BE-4 is ORSC. Raptor is the best possible clean burn with methalox.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:47:09 2020 No.12477707 Stabilizing F9 stage from the droneship https://youtu.be/gnt2wZBg89g

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:48:19 2020 No.12477712 >>12477498 J-2 was overexpanded and didn't have a very high chamber pressure

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 17:49:38 2020 No.12477718 >>12477670 I believe it's down to how efficient they're burning their propellant.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:01:41 2020 No.12477763 >>12477712 does an engine with low chamber pressure take a greater performance hit at sea level than a high pressure engine would? Because come to think of it the exhaust does have to "compete" with the native atmosphere.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:02:11 2020 No.12477766 >>12477763 yes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:06:33 2020 No.12477786 >>12477766 It's actually a miracle the F-1 worked at all with only 70:1.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:11:20 2020 No.12477803 File: 357 KB, 1200x922, E8D9630D-5554-4CC1-8D5F-890DDEBDFB04.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477786 Engineering from the 40s to the 70s was insane. Golden age of doing crazy shit simply because we could.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:15:25 2020 No.12477813 >>12477803 It helped that America actually still had real industry, during WW2 we were making a B024 every 63 minutes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:17:02 2020 No.12477817 >>12477283 Nice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:17:23 2020 No.12477820 >>12477169 Tell me about grabber. Why does he grab the rocket

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:18:45 2020 No.12477826 >>12477624 The most expensive Christmas tree in the world.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:19:52 2020 No.12477830 >>12477693 Imagine the smell.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:19:52 2020 No.12477831 >>12477820 To keep the rocket from going all slidey

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:20:44 2020 No.12477836

>>12477813
i thought only things like cellphones and maybe jackets was outsourced to asia, but surely things like cars and airplane are still there

but now that you mention it, why does every video showing an american factory tends to be a huge warehouse filled with of kind looking fat rednecks with huge moustache, talking about all of the convoluted steps they do by hand like if it were the fucking early XX century and always calmed and not in a hurry, refering to it like if it were his fucking hobby and not something he does for a living. I mean its clear americans enjoy to build stuff by directly using their tools but id figure if theres money in between youd favour more efficient and modern methods.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:21:09 2020 No.12477838

>>12477803
>>12477813
We can still do it today, if we need to. But there's no real need. Everyone has gotten too used to safety culture that they've taken to spending 1000x more doing R/D theorycrafting than actually building out and testing it on the field.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:21:11 2020 No.12477839 >>12477803 I wish we had reactionless drives. So long as the fuselage is a pressure vessel (and has some radiation protection) you could just take something like this up to orbit like a drive in a car

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:23:27 2020 No.12477848

>>12477820
because stupid slutty rocket comes straight at it, from 300 km in space, to th ONLY PLACE IN THE WHOLE FUCKING OCEAN were his huge rear grabbing hand is pointing at the sky acting all slutty and backing straight into him with her prominent 9-engined rear just sticking out like a drunk hobo at the opera...
well yeah bitch you do that you gonna get your rear grabbed, only way them sluts gonna learn

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:23:38 2020 No.12477849 >>12477836 Unions

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:24:28 2020 No.12477854 >>12477838 >We can still do it today, if we need to. that's true of almost anything by almost anyone. The real question is HAVE you done it ARE YOU doing it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:24:42 2020 No.12477857 >>12477839 >I wish we had reactionless drives. Go bug DARPA to give memey mike more funding.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:25:07 2020 No.12477859 >>12477831 >>12477848 A lot of loyalty for a hired poster

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:25:51 2020 No.12477862

>>12477836
China still hasn't taken over global auto markets because their cars are shit.

Same deal is going to apply for rockets. They can compete if the objective is to do something that everyone already knows how to do, and do it cheaply.

They can't compete if the objective is something that's constantly advancing and the only way to stay relevant is to keep innovating.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:26:51 2020 No.12477867 >>12477766 thanks. So that explain the huge ISP variance in low-pressure hydrolox engines. I had wondered about that for a while

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:27:20 2020 No.12477869

>>12477836
>>12477838
A lot of things had been outsourced to Asia, even Iraq war had to be put on hold because we were still waiting for some components in our military hardware to be made in Korea before we could invade. You'd be surprised how many industries this applies too, my mother has a PhD in Biochemistry and worked in the Pharmaceutical industry from 90s until the early 2010s when most American companies had just became equity firms.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:27:50 2020 No.12477870 File: 2.82 MB, 300x268, 2020 ooga booga.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477648 Never forget

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:28:25 2020 No.12477872

>>12477862
china will be the fucking nail in the coffing, america auto industry is being utterly destroyed in a gangbang that was started by the japanese but was then joined by the germans and even french.

Seriously tough, americans lost the auto race, they will forever be seen at the losers of that fight, all they can hope for is for elon musk to unlock the "FEASIBLE ELECTRICAL CARS" tech tree node so that the world advacnes ("civilization style") into a new era and see if they can win at that new competition, but in that regards, for now yhey are objectively forever losers

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:28:39 2020 No.12477873

>>12477670
Raptor is substantially more efficient, hard to tell just how much more since B-O is fucking cagey about actually publishing any details of their engines.
Makes me think it's performance is pretty shit, maybe 300-320, barely more than a LOX/Kerosene rocket.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:29:27 2020 No.12477874

>>12477869
>even Iraq war had to be put on hold because we were still waiting for some components in our military hardware to be made in Korea
i find that hard to believe, i would expect the us military to have in house manufacturing of 150% everything they need, seems madness to do any less

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:30:58 2020 No.12477881 >>12477838 >that they've taken to spending 1000x more doing R/D theorycrafting than actually building out and testing it on the field. this is a large reason why spacex spanks oldspace so hard

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:35:00 2020 No.12477897

>>12477872
> all they can hope for is for elon musk to unlock the "FEASIBLE ELECTRICAL CARS"
Even then this is a long shot. Tesla being more of a Technology company than a car manufacturer, is not going to break into Chinese or Euro markets, and its ultimate fate is likely to be a luxury brand limited to the United States.
>>12477874
No really. There were some electronic components that had to be made overseas.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:38:24 2020 No.12477912 >>12477874 Trump ran on bitching about things like this in 2016.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:38:53 2020 No.12477915 File: 563 KB, 569x802, cia.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12477859

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:39:52 2020 No.12477920

>>12477872
>america auto industry is being utterly destroyed in a gangbang that was started by the japanese but was then joined by the germans and even french
Not really. The worst years were back when cheaper Japanese autos were being introduced into the American market for the first time, destroying the American firms' profits. Japanese cars still make up a huge component of the American vehicle market, but a decent portion of those are built in American factories. Meanwhile, German cars more or less exclusively compete in the low-end luxury sector and above, while French brands are effectively nonexistent in America.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:41:08 2020 No.12477921 >>12474983 God she's such a slut, just look at that

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:42:43 2020 No.12477926 >>12474983 Slavs don't have falevas, they have Krushchobas

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:44:25 2020 No.12477929 >>12474983 Reminder that Taco Bell promised everyone on Earth a free taco if this thing hit the target they put out in the ocean for it. (it missed but not by much)

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:44:48 2020 No.12477931 >>12477870 that's great, is there a version on youtube?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:47:20 2020 No.12477935 >>12477929 Free baja blast if Starship reaches the Moon before National Team

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:49:02 2020 No.12477941 >>12477870 Honestly this is really no different than the apollo program happening during the civil rights chimpouts. Just nigs nigging as usual.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:49:34 2020 No.12477944 >>12477935 >teleports behind your moonbase https://youtu.be/456dH4JUi3o

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:52:06 2020 No.12477955

>>12477912
did he fix any? objective undeniable fact, peer revied science paper that shows the army now manufactures something it didnt please ( no asshurty cause trumpy got his ass destroyed and is now an objective loser in a world divided between winners and losers hes a loser and youre too if you support him) ?? hhmm?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:52:24 2020 No.12477956 >>12477929 >it missed but not by much The target was barely off the coast of Australia, and Mir's debris landed between New Zealand and Chile.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:56:32 2020 No.12477970

>>12477920
>while French brands are effectively nonexistent in America.
yeah but they cucked you outside of the world market, like seriously, are all americans such stupid pathetic losers?

>american idea of winning:
wew, after doing my best effort i managed to retain a small percentage of the market inside my own country and lost everywhere else. Also, within that small percentage that it retained most of those factories are actually not owned by americans and the profits go elsewhere.

>true human being (non american) concept of wining:
i totally dominate my own market (like any coutnry thats not ashamed to exist yshould)and i must labour to own a part of the world market, how much of the world is mine? 50%? 80%? feeels good to be the superior cock rapist master of the universe, i wish these american women stopped asking for me to impregnate them, i can only do 10 a day, but it seems their husbands must exude disgusting loser juice that repels them

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 18:56:33 2020 No.12477971 >>12477955 He got TSMC to build a 5nm fab in Arizona which should solve basically the root of the problem - electronics. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/tech/tsmc-arizona-chip-factory-intl-hnk/index.html

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:05:04 2020 No.12477998

>>12477970
The fuck are you talking about? The United States is the second largest manufacturing exporter in the world. America isn't the only country with significant heavy industry like it was in the 50s (which makes sense as they're no longer the only industrialized state without bombed-out factories) but the US is doing just fine when it comes to manufacturing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:06:02 2020 No.12478000 >>12477931 No, I made it back then.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:09:45 2020 No.12478009 >>12477970 t. Seething frenchman

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:11:52 2020 No.12478015 File: 57 KB, 1196x261, 1581784121287.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Went through Musk's twitter. So here's some trivia. Russians got SpaceX to ditch hydrolox in favor of methalox. Thank god.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:12:45 2020 No.12478018 >>12477998 not according to these americans: >>12477912 >>12477897 whats the matter, trouble in paradise americansky?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:12:54 2020 No.12478021 File: 133 KB, 1196x581, 1588404798796.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] stainless steel > carbon fiber. Cost is also something like 60x less.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:13:56 2020 No.12478022 File: 51 KB, 1196x231, 1592078708700.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 2 to 4 more raptors for E2E. I assume he means 6 + 2-4.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:14:57 2020 No.12478026 File: 101 KB, 1196x478, 1583298093574.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:14:58 2020 No.12478027

>>12478015
as i stated earlier in another thread, if you could start an R&D project solely with the knowledge that its possible, merely that, that what you want to do can be done, that would accelerator of rate of inprmprovement fasty at 1000x.

and that was for a engine that they didnt have the plans of

imagine the starship that everyone will know 100% it works, have access to 1000 open source photos of every ocmponent+ what spsies can get (more than anything prolly) and you got starship clones blossoming all over the side of the country world at each year after launch provendnes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:15:58 2020 No.12478030 File: 56 KB, 1196x261, 1584875811350.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sounds like Tom never really worked on Raptor

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:17:58 2020 No.12478037
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>>12478015
>Methalox
>Good ISP, efficient
Is he being deliberately retarded??? Hydrogen makes the most sense, its extremely efficient and abundant
Methane makes no sense when the SSME demonstrated it's superiority back in the 80s

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:19:12 2020 No.12478045 File: 61 KB, 1196x300, 1595429859509.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] "R-Boost" raptor should beat even the Merlin in T/W

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:20:00 2020 No.12478047 >>12478037 Begone hydrolox shill

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:20:41 2020 No.12478049 File: 72 KB, 1196x343, 1590109878588.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] sounds like he plans on raptors being more powerful than the larger BE-4. Though I imagine that the BE-4 will also improve some

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:20:41 2020 No.12478050 >>12478037 go home anon, your head is filled with hydrogen but there's actually very little mass

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:20:51 2020 No.12478053 >>12478037 Nice dry mass, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:20:55 2020 No.12478054 File: 27 KB, 579x536, boing fc.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478037

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:22:01 2020 No.12478062 File: 63 KB, 1196x300, 1579075613651.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] max and min raptor thrust as of august

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:22:41 2020 No.12478064 >>12478037 Hydrogen is more efficient than methane, but methane's storage density more than makes up for it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:23:28 2020 No.12478066 File: 66 KB, 1196x379, 1594418437323.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478049 R-Boost variant is going to shit on the BE-4

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:24:38 2020 No.12478072 File: 495 KB, 1196x753, 1580173789575.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] oh yeah and they fixed that 600hz problem a while ago it seems

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:28:37 2020 No.12478091 File: 65 KB, 1196x300, 1605685646882.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] does CH4 have inherently good combustion efficiency or is he referring to FFSC making it easier?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:31:17 2020 No.12478110 File: 119 KB, 1196x612, 1577648256123.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] back when he was still on traspiration cooling

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:34:58 2020 No.12478127 File: 101 KB, 1196x700, 1584111479871.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:35:54 2020 No.12478132

>>12478091
Both, CH4 is simpler and thus burns inherently cleaner than RP1, and FFSC further allows you to burn off even more impurities, the same is true for HydroLOX, but LOX/CH4 gets you much better TWR and propellant density and lower dry weight, thus higher effective real world dV.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:35:59 2020 No.12478133 File: 48 KB, 1196x221, 1596637486680.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478110 mostly launch from these things in the future

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:37:48 2020 No.12478141 File: 47 KB, 1196x221, 1578180570631.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] starship cheaper to build that F9, potentially.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:38:13 2020 No.12478143 >>12478064 >burning fossil shit in the middle of the climatic emergency Bidin please shut this down. H2O is clean.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:38:52 2020 No.12478149

>>12478091

RP-1 is basicaly purified Kerosene and is a liquid at room temperature. Methane is a gas at room temperature and thus by default, can mix a lot easier with Oxygen and can burn much more efficiently. By contrast, you have to aerosolize RP-1 to be able to mix with the Oxygen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:38:56 2020 No.12478151 >>12478037 Hydrogen’s High ISP is a trap, at least for a first stage. Higher tank dry weight and really bad density make it way worse in practice than you’d assume at first glance

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:39:05 2020 No.12478154 File: 142 KB, 1202x546, closures.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Coming monday maybe when SN9 gets moved/tested.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:39:23 2020 No.12478155 >>12478143 No it isn't, water vapor is a hilariously potent greenhouse gas. And you can quite easily made carbon neutral methane. Go troll elsewhere.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:39:57 2020 No.12478157 >>12478143 There is no climate emergency lol Governments always attempt to convince the populace of some big vague threat so they can take more power

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:40:01 2020 No.12478158 >>12478143 >Imagine thinking LH2 is clean You may want to look up the process used today to produce bulk amounts of hydrogen as well as the energy wasted containing the shit. Spoiler: It's not produced by hydrolysis of water.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:40:54 2020 No.12478160 File: 1.39 MB, 1196x1293, 1578617077156.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:41:15 2020 No.12478163 >>12478158 Isn’t it from natural gas?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:41:43 2020 No.12478166 >>12478160 Elon definitely posts here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:42:20 2020 No.12478168 >>12478163 Nope. Crude. That's the easiest way to bulk produce large amounts of hydrogen without wasting fuckloads of energy. But you still have to waste fuckloads of energy storing and containing it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:42:44 2020 No.12478169 >>12478143 Reminder that methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and burning it is a net positive

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:44:02 2020 No.12478175 >>12478160 This was always the dumb thing, all that effort was made to reuse and refurbish the RS-25s for the shuttle program will now be thrown away as the SLS will expend them

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:44:46 2020 No.12478178

>>12478143
The climate impact of rockets is minuscule compared to the climate impact of planes and non-existent compared to the climate impact of cars. Don't forget about how much worse China affects the climate compared to the sum of the western world. Chasing after rockets for climate improvements is like worrying about one dandelion in your garden while rodents run wild within it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:44:48 2020 No.12478180 >>12478110 >>12478091 but Reddit told me Musk is just a moneyman fraud who doesn't know anything

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:46:35 2020 No.12478189 >>12478180 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1210649166407438336 yup. He just sits on his ass all day. Clearly. For real though reddit is the home of the equivalent of lefty q-anon shit.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:48:10 2020 No.12478193

>>12478160
>SLS is designed as a quick-to-make super heavy rocket
>heritage shuttle engines are pulled out of museums to facilitate this
>SLS gets delayed so much that a production line of new engines was made
>still gonna trash shuttle engines into the sea
Someone needs to say this out loud to some higher ups within NASA. Preferably during a public event so they can't quietly ignore it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:50:08 2020 No.12478203 File: 54 KB, 1196x261, 1601110826501.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >narrator: there were changes

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:50:34 2020 No.12478205 File: 132 KB, 1536x800, angry indy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478175 They belong in a MUSEUM!

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:51:09 2020 No.12478207 File: 105 KB, 1196x481, 1594362180299.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] jeff btfo

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:53:03 2020 No.12478213 https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/kejh3c/in_unsurprising_news_musk_is_a_transphobe/ >Left and right are opposite >omg directionphobe

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:53:29 2020 No.12478215 >>12478207 >moons and asteroids given the low gravity that isn't really much of a problem

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:53:54 2020 No.12478216 >>12478178 >Don't forget about how much worse China affects the climate compared to the sum of the western world. Hydrazine is actually perfectly healthy and nahkchbharghl

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:55:37 2020 No.12478226 >>12478216 I think that's actually a word in Klingon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:58:45 2020 No.12478238 >>12478030 >>12478026 >>12478022 >>12478021 based andromeda poster

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:58:50 2020 No.12478239 >>12478213 Nigga, we have rules. You can't just post a reddit link here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:59:18 2020 No.12478241 >>12478226 I thought it was Welsh

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 19:59:19 2020 No.12478242 >>12478213 >literally posting reddit

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:00:23 2020 No.12478244 >>12477156 >seven launches without a bath >"I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS ELON, PLEASE JUST LET ME DIE."

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:01:39 2020 No.12478248

>>12478213
Why are you literally searching the dregs of the internet to find things to be mad at? There is not a single good, well adjusted person on any of the reddit boards dedicated to hating something or someone. They're all the same. Might as well post some epic front page "white people btfo" meme.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:01:48 2020 No.12478250 >>12478244 I don't think plasma scorchmarks just wash off with a spongebath, bud.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:02:27 2020 No.12478252 >>12478250 Just rub some hydrazine on it, kid. It'll buff right out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:04:27 2020 No.12478263 >>12478213 >EnoughMuskSpam >So we're going to create an entire sub to complain about him He really should find a way to monetize all that free real estate he has there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:04:30 2020 No.12478264 File: 198 KB, 1920x1080, OneWeb_0617blk.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tomorrow two launches of the last four launches this year: -OneWeb satellites launch. -NROL-108 satellite launch.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:05:43 2020 No.12478266 >>12478168 Why is there hydrogen in crude oil

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:05:51 2020 No.12478268 >>12478193 At the very least they should put the relics back in the museum.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:06:12 2020 No.12478270 >>12478266 >Why is there hydrogen in long chain hydrocarbons I see we have a grade school dropout here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:07:20 2020 No.12478272 >>12478266 >Asks himself why there is Hydrogen in Hydrocarbon products. LMAO.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:07:33 2020 No.12478273 >>12477970 t. seething turd worlder

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:07:59 2020 No.12478274 >>12478266 Why is there hydrogen in water?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:08:08 2020 No.12478275 >>12478250 ClF3 can transform any non-fluorinated surface in a flash.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:08:51 2020 No.12478279 >>12478275 I'm sure they'd like to fly that booster an 8th time too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:11:14 2020 No.12478286 >>12478272 Are you gonna answer?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:11:24 2020 No.12478287 >>12478279 If you put enough pressurized ClF3 in a given area under the booster, then from a certain perspective...

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:12:07 2020 No.12478289 >>12478286 oil is made of long chains of carbon and hydrogen

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:12:15 2020 No.12478290 >>12478286 The first answer to your post was the answer.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:12:30 2020 No.12478292
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>Arianespace CEO is called Stéphane Israël
>Born to a lawyer father and a (((psychoanalyst))) mother
>worked for "SOS Racisme" in his youth, an organization accused of anti-White and anti-French racism.
What did they mean by this?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:14:09 2020 No.12478295 >>12478292 Well now we know where their budget goes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:18:41 2020 No.12478302 >>12478292 hon hon hon le baguette faggot

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:20:05 2020 No.12478306 >>12478292 >france being france Shocking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:20:35 2020 No.12478308 >>12478292 >Launch smart. The smartest thing they have done is to buy Soyuz rockets but that is it really. >>12478286 The awnser is in the name of the group of wich oil belongs to: HYDRO-carbon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:21:01 2020 No.12478310 >>12478302 I learned French in school, and I'm legitimately shocked reading the wikipedia articles (nothing in English of course). Jewish subversion isn't a pol meme after all.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:22:23 2020 No.12478312 >>12478310 We tried to warn you. You didn't listen.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:22:24 2020 No.12478313

>>12478207
This is actually much easier from a logistical standpoint than establishing an equivalently sized colony on another planet, especially considering that you are no longer constrained by as many structural stress factors as there are on Earth, and you don't have to shuttle back and forth to the surface of your new habitat, it can be assembled right in LEO and simply left there in an orbit even more convenient than that of the Moon.
Elon is invested in ground colonies though, so I get why he doesn't care about/doesn't think O'niells are sensible.
Starships are cheap, somebody else could buy their own set of Starships and get working on one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:22:27 2020 No.12478314 >>12478289 >>12478290 Give anon the benefit of the doubt. You've stated that oil is in part made up of hydrogen but not why it forms compounds with carbon in the way that it does

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:23:33 2020 No.12478317 >>12478314 This is pretty basic shit. It's not the carbon atoms in hydrocarbons that's the reason we're combusting the shit out of it.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:25:21 2020 No.12478322

>>12478312
this fucking faggot went to ENA, which is the absolute highest echelon of prestigious schools in France for public """servants""", and spent his career working a bunch of bullshit ministry jobs and even teaching an ENA prep course for college students. Zero aerospace experience, and he (((magically))) ends up CEO of Arianespace. I fucking hate the ___.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:25:37 2020 No.12478325 File: 131 KB, 884x666, 1348649007781.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478310

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:25:37 2020 No.12478326 File: 135 KB, 1196x768, 1602743460337.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] reentry

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:29:14 2020 No.12478332 >>12478325 by what fucking luck did we end up with a trio of gentiles - Elon, Bezos, and Tory, running the show? Peter Beck too. I guess we still have a chance in this gay world.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:29:16 2020 No.12478333 >>12478027 this is what NASA is best for. Taking those first few difficult steps that enable others to appraise viability

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:29:56 2020 No.12478335

>>12478313
Making equivalently sized colonies is by no means as hard as making an O'neill cylinder in the same way that making a skyscraper is easier than making a similarly sized space station. It's always easier to move material within a gravity well and close to your industrial resources. The "O'neill first" approach is broken. That doesn't mean O'neill cylinders can never happen, it means you need a strong colonial infrastructure first. You certainly aren't doing an O'neill from Earth-sourced materials, and you aren't making one on another planet without a huge investment in that planet's resources. It also needs a huge supply of all resources relevant for life so the moon is no good. Whether Elon cares or realizes it, Mars is the future staging ground for building giant space habitats.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:30:04 2020 No.12478336 >>12478326 Makes sense, especially since PICAX is supposed to be super tolerant of long-term heating, to the point where there really wont be any normal reentry regime that really stresses it out.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:30:45 2020 No.12478340 >>12478332 >by what fucking luck did we end up with a trio of gentiles - Elon, Bezos, and Tory, running the show? Private enterprise and fair competition.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:32:14 2020 No.12478343 >>12478336 >PICAX that's a nice ass acronym

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:32:45 2020 No.12478345 >>12478333 >this is what NASA is best for. Taking those first few difficult steps that enable others to appraise viability bullshit, spacex did all the steps on their own

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:32:58 2020 No.12478346

>>12478335
I guess it depends on the scale we're thinking of, if we're talking about a multi-kilometer orbital which is sort of a space-city then yeah I'd agree with you, but I think smaller ones, say 200x800m would be well within the capability of Earth based launchers to construct in orbit. The major hurdle is zero-g construction which we'll have to learn anyways if prolonged major colonization efforts are to happen anywhere in the solar system.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:33:12 2020 No.12478349

>>12478335
Plus then you can just build space tugs out of a gorillion Raptors and tanks to insert the cylinders into transfer orbits bound for other planets and brake on arrival. Nobody cares about a ten year transfer for a mile long space colony so chemical thrust wins again.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:34:13 2020 No.12478353 File: 64 KB, 437x461, cato-the-elder-2560_461x461f.d2a18.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478332 Meritocracy. Furthermore, the media must be destroyed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:34:18 2020 No.12478354 File: 51 KB, 1024x566, french.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478292 >

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:36:46 2020 No.12478356

The future is hyper-efficient Martian colonies.

Even with starship launch prices, the sheer logistical burden of colonists is going to mean that every economic activity on Mars is going to have to be hyperefficient in terms of labor productivity.

All the software debugging and coding will be done remotely from earth. Every machine will be designed on earth and then the models for CNC machining it will be beamed to Mars. Every aspect of production is going to be automated, even for things like farms.

The key is to get as close to a Von Neumann machine as possible.

Now how do we earthlings get started on testing industrial processes and machine learning for eventual use in hyper-efficient Martian industries.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:39:57 2020 No.12478359 >>12478356 End immigration, nuke the third world, and generally destroy the surplus labor pool currently enjoyed by multinational capitalists.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:43:28 2020 No.12478362

>>12478336
they aren't going with pica-x, which is ablative. Instead they're going to use something similar to what the Venturestar was supposed to use. Tough-something.

I had wondered if a modular pica-x TPS would be possible. Make replacing it in one go really simple. Would probably be far heavier than attaching some ceramics, though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:45:07 2020 No.12478364 File: 1.08 MB, 4800x4790, africa_2100.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478359 it's too late, 700+ million in Nigeria alone KEK I can't wait for all the livestreamed 8k 144fps combat footage from all the civil wars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:45:43 2020 No.12478366 >>12478364 >700+ million in Nigeria alone That's what we call a target rich environment.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:46:11 2020 No.12478367 File: 94 KB, 620x936, external-content.duckduckgo.com.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478364 here's your beautiful spacefaring future bro.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:46:24 2020 No.12478369

>>12478356
Well, one definite good thing about Mars is that it does have appreciable gravity to work in, there doesn't need to be an enormous amount of redesigning to work in the Martian environment except that you can remove at least twice as much mass from any piece of equipment without worrying about compromising it's strength on Mars.
Mars' atmosphere is a near-vacuum, it will make any manufacturing processes which prefer low pressure, low reactivity gas environments easier to set up.
For the creation of structures I favor the idea of basalt-plastic printing, although I know it's somewhat unpopular here. I'd want to see just how far you can push the ratio towards basalt and away from plastic without losing the benefits of the method, to minimize how much plastic you'd need to ship to Mars (and how much the colony would need to produce once it has agriculture).
Maybe you could even get a pure basalt printer to work, which would be ideal, you need no extra plastic and all you have to do is pulverize your rock into a fine easy to melt powder, purge it of perchlorates so it's safe to live around, and extrude it as the outer shell for whatever structures you want to build above or bellow ground.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:47:36 2020 No.12478372

>>12478356
>the sheer logistical burden of colonists is going to mean that every economic activity on Mars is going to have to be hyperefficient in terms of labor productivity.
this is actually an interesting point. Humans naturally tend to adapt to their environments. So what will martians look like when they adapt to a world that lacks the extravagance of earth? A planet where high individual performance is necessary for survival?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:47:54 2020 No.12478373 >>12478366 I wonder if some russian or other post-soviet madlad who was high up in the nuclear program has the ability to snag a container warhead and do what needs to be done.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:49:47 2020 No.12478376 Mars being an SSTO heaven is going to be fucking sick. Martians will go to space just to joyride.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:51:34 2020 No.12478378

>>12478372
I picture the process for being a Martian colonist as basically being the admissions process for an Ivy League school mixed with selection for Delta Force.

Absurd academic requirements, absurd physical requirements, and a focus on superhuman mental endurance.

They'd probably only ever use a human if it's something that a robot can't do, so there'd probably be like a bunch of really good machinists and agricultural engineers and shit like that. Stuff that requires you to physically be in the same room, and requires creative problem solving. Everything else would be done either remotely or by robots.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:54:25 2020 No.12478382 >>12478364 >>12478367 Going to be a catastrophe in Africa in 50 years. The writing is on the walls. These nations can't support that population due to lack of civilization development.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:56:20 2020 No.12478386 >>12478364 >>12478367 Can't wait for our predecessors to enjoy footage of them welding together Chinese kit cars into copies of rockets in vain attempts at getting off this rock. Disciple Kwadfo Safo style. From Mars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 20:57:53 2020 No.12478390 >>12478386 *Apostle, not disciple.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:00:06 2020 No.12478396 >>12478386 >predecessors Those came before us, you mean descendants I think, those who come after.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:00:33 2020 No.12478403 >>12478396 It's 3am. My head is not functioning at this time of night.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:01:31 2020 No.12478406 >>12478390 >>12478396 Good lord I think anon had a stroke before posting

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:02:43 2020 No.12478409 >>12478406 No, just late night posting after epilepsy pills has kicked in.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:04:28 2020 No.12478413 >>12478378 If this pans out a Mars colony would greatly increase humanity's rate of progress as a whole

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:05:30 2020 No.12478414 >>12478382 aren't they all held aloft by massive western aid?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:06:55 2020 No.12478415 >>12478414 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:07:20 2020 No.12478416 >>12478414 Until the West can't afford it any more, then all he'll breaks loose.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:09:20 2020 No.12478418 https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2020/12/17/artemis-i-orion-progress-update They're not gonna fix the Orion's faulty power unit

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:10:07 2020 No.12478421 >>12478418 Jesus.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:10:59 2020 No.12478423 >>12478418 Kek they are launching anyways. No integrated software testing for SLS just so it can launch a fucked capsule with a PDU issue

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:11:06 2020 No.12478424

>>12478289
How does the hydrogen get in there? As far as I know, hydrogen is too light to stick around in Earth’s atmosphere, but is technically all over the place in the form of water, so does the water somehow react with organic molecules in dead shit?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:11:38 2020 No.12478426 >>12478421 You know the alternative is 4 years delay for the unmanned flight test. They're just "fuck that shit".

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:13:08 2020 No.12478434 >>12478424 Life is made of carbon and hydrogen

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:14:28 2020 No.12478438 >>12478424 Hydrogen has one single electron and therefore bonds to fucking everything.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:15:06 2020 No.12478441

>>12478418
holy FUCK

>They determined that due to the limited accessibility to this particular box, the degree of intrusiveness to the overall spacecraft systems, and other factors, the risk of collateral damage outweighed the risk associated with the loss of one leg of redundancy in a highly redundant system
they designed this thing to be impossible to repair

>>12478423
this shit is going to kill oldspace alongside with the astronauts that ride in it

>>12478416
>>12478415
yeah this seems like a recipe for disaster. West isn't immortal this arrangement will fail at some point. Frankly, if the liberals who set this up actually gave a shit they'd invest into making these countries self-sufficient. This shit is cruelty masquerading as benevolence. Because nothing comes without cost. Not even "gifts". A parent who spoils their child robs from them critical life lessons they need to thrive. We've done the same to these countries, and they will suffer for it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:16:20 2020 No.12478444 >>12478438 Textbook explanation hahah

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:16:31 2020 No.12478446 >>12478418 >It’s too hard to fix >Fuck it, we’ll do it live The absolute state of oldspace

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:17:04 2020 No.12478447 >>12478426 It's unmanned. The will just sit and watch if it will affect anything at all, and make sure they won't have to deal with this shit on Artemis II.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:17:14 2020 No.12478448

>>12478414
Yes. IMO its like "uplifting" concept we see in scifi. The west is uplifting African continent with their aid. It always ends bad when you uplift a group that's not ready for the level of development, on top of west's own problem at hand. Its a ticking time bomb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:17:42 2020 No.12478450 >>12478446 to be fair, some people are unironically suggesting the same for snine's flaps

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:18:07 2020 No.12478452 >>12478447 Exactly. It's got redundancies out the ass and they'd rather not wait for 4 years for whoever the fuck is responsible for that particular part to unfuck it and more budget overruns.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:19:12 2020 No.12478454 >>12478450 If SN9 had 8 more sets of flaps, I'd be willing to agree with those people. That's the state of oldspace engineering for manned space flight.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:19:49 2020 No.12478456

>>12478441
One problem is the vaccines are curing many in africa, leading to huge boom in healthy children growing up to be adults. While aiding/vaccinating are useful and good for people, it creates an unnatural push towards the society that hasn't built its own road systems.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:20:58 2020 No.12478458 >>12478450 SpaceX is not Boing, they won't need year and half to change two flaps.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:21:10 2020 No.12478460

>>12478378
>I picture the process for being a Martian colonist as basically being the admissions process for an Ivy League school mixed with selection for Delta Force.
>Absurd academic requirements, absurd physical requirements, and a focus on superhuman mental endurance.

Good luck having no colonists, most of these ubermen have wives and kids and shit which will definitely not be going. Your colonists will be drawn from a well of single white male blue collars with multiple skillsets, probably a handful of Asians thrown in there too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:21:40 2020 No.12478462 >>12478450 SN9 is a prototype and didn't cost 2 billion dollars anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:23:11 2020 No.12478465 >>12478450 SLS is gay and SpaceX SHOULD fly snine as is. Yes.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:24:37 2020 No.12478467 >>12478448 Isn't uplifting typically giving sapience to something? I don't think throwing bunches of hotdogs into my backyard for raccoons to eat exactly counts as uplifting raccoons. >>12478450 Yes.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:25:14 2020 No.12478468

>>12478460
I mean, people like that sign up to do 18 month deployments to Afghanistan all the time.

With Mars you'd have a way wider recruitment pool because it's a lot cooler and maybe a lower chance of getting killed. Also, you can use non-Americans, so that opens up the recruitment pool massively.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:25:30 2020 No.12478470 >>12478465 She will be on the pad next week, with shiny new flaps.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:26:20 2020 No.12478472 >>12478465 They should fly it over Blue Origin's offices and piss on Bezo's employees.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:28:17 2020 No.12478474 >>12478472 They should fill it full of amfo and slam it into BO's head office. >tfw no Ace Combat 3-style company war future

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:29:02 2020 No.12478475 >>12478470 Besides the engine problems, why did SN8 seem to have a million cryo tests and propellant load practices? Are they going to do this with SN9 or do they plan on doing one static fire and a real flight

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:29:30 2020 No.12478476 >>12478468 But going to Afghanistan doesn't take 6 months just to get there. I think people going to Mars are going to be doing at least half a decade after the very initial "getting our toes wet" portion of putting men on Mars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:29:48 2020 No.12478478 >>12478475 It'll probably be like SN5 and SN6 where SN5 had a ton of tests before the flight but SN6 had very few.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:30:07 2020 No.12478479 >>12478474 >powerslides into their shitty VAB >there’s a dirty nuclear bomb in the nosecone Uh yeah I’m thinking based

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:30:30 2020 No.12478480 >>12478456 >One problem is the vaccines are curing many in africa lol only on sfg

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:30:51 2020 No.12478481 >>12478468 Military drones are retarded fuckwits, you definitely don't want to send them to Mars. Plus they have zero useful skills. >t. ex infantry

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:31:35 2020 No.12478483 >>12478481 >Plus they have zero useful skills. Shooting people is a pretty useful skill, I predict it will only get more relevant as we move forward.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:31:43 2020 No.12478484 >>12478479 Reminds we when the kids at my KSC space camp crashed the shuttle sim into the VAB while screaming Allahu akbar. Space Camp really was fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:33:18 2020 No.12478486 >>12478476 >But going to Afghanistan doesn't take 6 months just to get there Real odd how that works these days. You can be fighting in a warzone one hour and then ten hours later you’re back in the states thousands of miles from conflict.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:33:34 2020 No.12478487 >>12478484 >crashed the shuttle sim into the VAB while screaming Allahu akbar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=692eChWNNbo

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:33:42 2020 No.12478488

>>12478481
I'm thinking of like 18 series and CIA paramilitary officers.

Obviously 11Bs aren't going to be that far ahead of the regular population, but there are some really competent people in the SOF community.

Given how irresistible it would be to be a pioneer, I see a lot of that general kind of personality type signing up to go be on Mars.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:34:39 2020 No.12478489 >>12478484 Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:35:10 2020 No.12478491 File: 328 KB, 600x607, three letter agent glow so bright.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478488 >CIA niggers on mars

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:36:58 2020 No.12478493 >>12478488 Yeah like I said, most of those dudes have families.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:43:32 2020 No.12478503 >>12478481 Lol this ape didn’t want to live forever

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:45:14 2020 No.12478508 >>12478493 Bring them. The whole fucking point of a colony is to create a self-sustaining population locally. If the population is sustained only by immigration, it’s just an outpost

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:47:25 2020 No.12478513 >>12478493 As long as it's like 24 month missions and not like multiple years. There'd also be people who are civilians who train obsessively to go be Martians.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:48:07 2020 No.12478517 >>12478513 Are they really Martians if they weren’t born there?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:49:01 2020 No.12478520 >>12478517 No, but they will make Martians.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:49:06 2020 No.12478521 File: 125 KB, 1227x1037, 1558802453218.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478517

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:49:14 2020 No.12478522 >>12478418 https://youtu.be/ya_D9IwB3-s

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:53:44 2020 No.12478528 File: 1.26 MB, 993x1025, perfect electron replica.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Squad are Rocket Lab bros confirmed. Their logos got added to KSP as flags.

Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:54:10 2020 No.12478530

>>12478508
>Bring them

Lol dude. Have you ever tried to convince a women to merely sell your house? Let alone moving to an airless shithole for the rest of your life. Mars is going to have a real problem getting females there.

>>12478513
>24 month missions

Not exactly the definition of a fucking colony. Besides, I think you'll be finding that it's a one way trip, 6 months as spam in a can will be hell. Let alone doing it twice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:55:15 2020 No.12478532 >>12478528 Haven't touched KSP for a few months. Are mods getting updated for versions beyond 1.8.1 or am I still stuck in this old version?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:57:34 2020 No.12478543 >>12478530 >Lol dude. Have you ever tried to convince a women to merely sell your house? No but I got one to let me spit in her mouth

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 21:59:13 2020 No.12478549 >>12478418 fucking based, now cancel the green run and launch the damn thing before new year.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:05:16 2020 No.12478561 File: 72 KB, 1708x398, 1580763115889.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I can't believe it but this redditor makes some good points

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:06:19 2020 No.12478562 File: 31 KB, 400x600, 1604015464156.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12478561 Go back and stay there

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:11:28 2020 No.12478571 >>12478561 >hurr durr having more depots means you get to refuel moar!! no shit retard.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:12:06 2020 No.12478575 >>12478562 This, only louder and more aggressive.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:17:30 2020 No.12478586 >>12478561 >let's put a fuckton of bombs in orbit Yes, but unironically.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:17:36 2020 No.12478587 >>12478562 This nigga knows.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:30:12 2020 No.12478613 >>12478586 you just know that some random dude at some point is going to try to take down a sat with a homemade rocket

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:51:26 2020 No.12478656 >>12478532 Don't think so. I barely run any mods though, maybe because it was 1.9 by the time I got into it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:57:01 2020 No.12478673 >image limit and page 10 Standby for staging

>>	Black Forest Gateau Thu Dec 17 22:59:13 2020 No.12478678 >>12478673 are you gonna make it or shall I?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 22:59:29 2020 No.12478680 >>12478678 im making it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 23:00:15 2020 No.12478684 >>12478680 forsure

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 17 23:01:39 2020 No.12478689 Thread staged: >>12478686 >>12478686 >>12478686 >>12478686 >>12478686

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