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- inv1
Starship high altitude flight test tomorrow!
- 400 metric tons of kerosene and emitted more carbon dioxide in a few minutes than an average car would in more than two centuries per launch.utopian
- source?pockets
- AP, nevermind. didnt realize how much each launch fucks up the earthpockets
- It is peanuts compared to other sourcesinv
- Read this article: https://everydayastr…inv
- islandbridge0
Spacewalk launch in T- 01:06:00
- Damn.. They pushed it a day. So it will first tomorrow.islandbridge
- inv2
Beautiful
- Krassy0
- Cancels? Huh? Wow what an article. What does it even mean „ America will remain grounded for the time being“?NBQ00
- Like, does Biden hate space exploration or doesn‘t want SpaceX to make progress? Well, that article surely doesn‘t tell us.NBQ00
- Never confuse an option piece with news.
https://www.latimes.…Gnash - i can't pay my doctors bill when whitey is on the moon. https://www.youtube.…hotroddy
- umm Washington Times is a questionable newspaper at best kind like a print version of OAN...jonny_quest_lives
- https://en.wikipedia…jonny_quest_lives
- photoshop tutorial gone wrong lolAQUTE
- shapesalad3
- Beautiful. We're going to be a multiplanetary race soon.grafician
- you forgot a partjonny_quest_lives
- https://twitter.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- nooooOOOO!grafician
- I did worry about that flame burning aside when touching down, so was expecting it to blow up any second, oh wellgrafician
- You could see it on a lean when it landed.BusterBoy
- it did land tho... so that's a winjonny_quest_lives
- I love how overly positive the commentator is. Like, “everything is amazing, nothing to see here.... boooom!”Chimp
- Landed hard.shapesalad
- It's the height of a 15 story building.shapesalad
- sted0
- that covers most of our reactionssted
- I'm confused....some videos have a successful takeoff and landing and other videos today have the rocket blowing up. What happened?utopian
- @utopian it WAS a successful mission, then blew up a few minutes after we closed the tabgrafician
- landed like a new Tower of Pisa, did some smokenflames, they gave it some water because it was thirsty then after 8 mins musk pushed the self destruct.sted
- dbloc3
- still don't see why they're hell-bent on landing it vertically, so much can and does go wrong. Land it horizontally FFS._niko
- I mean it does look cool and its a great feat, but there are way to many variables to go wrong and it does._niko
- and i don't really get the "it needs to be reusable" argument, they can land horizontally safely, then prop it back up for launch and re-use it._niko
- 'cause the way they're going now it definitely isn't reusable either lol_niko
- It's the height of a 15 story building.shapesalad
- Next time you walk in the city, and you see a 15 story building, imagine it taking off and landing vertically.shapesalad
- I work with a few Data Scientists who used to work on rockets (and now work on real time credit fraud prediction) - The reason for the vertical landing is...orrinward2
- ...largely due to how the rockets are built for strength. Their are most resistant to pressure/force vertically (the bullet shape), and landing horizontally...orrinward2
- ...largely due to how the rockets are built for strength. Their are most resistant to pressure/force vertically (the bullet shape), and landing horizontally...orrinward2
- ...is apparently significantly harder with reverse thrust, because it puts extreme force on an axis that isn't built for it.orrinward2
- @_niko it's crazy that they don't consult with you on this first! ;-)Krassy
- I still say a giant baseball mitt is the way forward with these usable rockets...shapesalad
- they need the vertical landing to be able to land on mars and the moon and stuff.uan
- a giant parachute ought to do itKrassy
- or a giant trampolineKrassy
- Lol@krassy yeah for sure I’m also available for vaccine advice, covid advice, global warming and a bunch of other things I know nothing about :)_niko
- It all comes down to mass & usable payload. Could probably land horizontally, but vertical is for sure more efficient.inv
- As mention, load on the structure. But also center of mass. To do it propulsively, you would need engines in both ends. Not very efficient.inv
- That said, the shuttle landed horizontally. Starship is built to land where lift generating wings will not work (mars etc).inv
- They can’t land horizontally until we build runways on Mars and moonhotroddy
- yea this rocksStoicLevels
- the shuttle landed horizontally. but had to be launched attached to a rocketESKEMA
- how about retractable legs that are roughly 1/2 the length of rocket... they fold down and give more stability to the landingMHDC
- PhanLo0
- You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs I guessinv
- https://twitter.com/…PhanLo
- Ah, Elon destroying the environment.NBQ00
- It’s ironic how Elon wants to get rid of “fossil fuels” yet SpaceX is using so much of it.NBQ00
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- "Let's destroy this planet, before we destroy the next planet." - Elonutopian
- Thank God they leave it all there, eh?Nairn
- Long-term, Musk wants to produce the methane needed for these launches using presumably solar-powered atmospheric extraction and processingNairn
- I'd rather the cunt got out of BTC, because that shit IS massively hypocritical, if his energy reduction narrative is to be believed.Nairn
- CO2-reduction narrative, even. Energy's good. Emissions are not.Nairn
- nbq - maybe people like you who contribute zero to the advancement of civilization should stop driving.hotroddy
- grafician1
"NASA has selected Starship to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface since the Apollo program! We are humbled to help
@NASAArtemis
usher in a new era of human space exploration"- Let’s hope it doesn’t explode.NBQ00
- Christ, your wee negative hard-on for all things Musk is tiresome.Nairn
- No I’m actually a Tesla & SpaceX fan. But we can be a bit critical too.NBQ00
- Critical? It's just sending people into space via rocket, no big deal.b_a_b_y_d_i_c_k
- I’m just glad that most of what happens at spacex, musk had nothing to do with. Credit to those at the company who are making this possible.monospaced
- PonyBoy0
Solar Storm Destroys 40 New SpaceX Satellites in Orbit
The geomagnetic incident resulted in the Starlink transmitters drifting back into Earth’s atmosphere, where they will burn up
- PhanLo0
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- inv0
Say what you want about Musk, but this might be a milestone in human history...
https://www.youtube.com/live/L5Q…
(Starship orbital flight test live stream)
- nah.. better to try to make this world better before we try to ruin some other planets and moons...shapesalad
- how do we ruin a planet or moon? Are we going to Pandora?hotroddy
- the technology you take for granted was developed so we could 'ruin' the moon.hotroddy
- its impressive that we are capable to go to space as a human race but lets first get our shit together on earth...milfhunter
- then we'll never go anywherehotroddy