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WOW!
>>16815938wow is that the 4chan logo??
i love being collared
whats the next big launch? new glenn?
ETA on next shartshit launch? I slept and missed this one because it was so boring.Seems like at least 2 more weeks of tests before tower catch after that one missed the landing by about 300 meters LOL.
>>16815969>300 metersJust shut up man. It was like 30 at MOST. God it's retards like you that ruin the fun out of progress.
>>16815969elon tweeted earlier that its NET spring. nsf trannies earlier speculated that it was late february / early march.
>>16815972the springtime reply was about when the ship will be caughtthe next launch, flight 12, will NOT be caught by the tower, so it happens before this "springtime" timeframe. He did not give a target date but its sooner than the catch attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0FcQzDG3C8
the dude on the stream said that pad 2 is ready soon, raptor 3 mass production is about to startI don't think its impossible for flight 12 to happen before the end of the year (quite unlikely though)
>>16815938>>16815950wtf, it's real
there is going to be male and female starships now
>>16815990It is a four leaf clover, it's not for 4chan. They've used a four leaf clover as a feature of their mission patches for good luck since Falcon 1 flight 4, with very few exceptions.
>>16815991
>>16815991>>16815993
>>16815992look closer
>>16815976They've yet to finish plumbing on the 2nd tower and they haven't done any stress testing of the chopsticks for it, plus there's still some EIAs/permits outstanding for it, not to mention that the V3 booster is still in pieces so that'll need to be built and then go through it's testing campaign as would the ship.February is a good estimate.
flying COPVs
>>16815997Not looking closer was the better choice.
>>16815991Sora guy, make these Starships into two anime girls
>>16815990how are you making these? sora 2? how did you get access?
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/5080/1>An online public meeting in early September about the LC-39A study brought in people concerned about other effects. The restriction zones for launches would require closing Playalinda Beach, a popular beach just north of KSC, dozens a times of year for tests and launches. One person suggested it would force people to go to beaches further north, including one that has long been a clothing-optional beach, causing a clash of cultures. >Not everyone who participated in the public hearing was worried about Starship launches. “I’m pro-SpaceX and I love everything they’re doing,” said one person, Max West. “There will be some minor little sacrifices that we have to make. The turtles and the nudists will have to migrate, maybe. That’s the cost you have to pay for the incredible stuff that’s happening.”
>>16816010>Making the nudist beach relocate for rocket watchingBased
what is it about the asian girls head that gives me uncanny valley vibes
>>16816019>asian girl headSounds good
>>16815991>>16815993You can't post this on blue board
>>16816008this is the Elon threadof course I'm using grokjust upload an image and tell it what you want to see
>>16815991its going to be a sausage party too, with about 10 males for each femalebut, they have a system where everyone gets a turnstill, I would want to be firsthttps://i.4cdn.org/sci/1760403281435558.jpg
>>16816004Those copvs just spent the whole last hour flying
>>16816007
>>16815991Why not a universal system
@Grok is this real?
>>16815991How is it going to work? Won't tanker need both female and male parts?
>>16816035I think you want specialized ships for refueling flights (no need for insulation and whatever else is used to prevent boil off) since mass optimization matters the most on these (because they will have the highest flight counts)Plus less extra shit means more payload
>>16816038depot*
>>16816037Yes, absolutely real. Looks like Elon finally tied the knot with his long-rumored furry companion. Congrats to the happy couple—may their union bring forth many innovative pups!
>>16816038They are hermaphrodite apparently. Not sure how though since they look like gaping holes rather than your typical ISS-style docking port>>16815969Late November/early December>but Pad B!It's done
>>16816038Sure, but not the other ships
>>16816038Chuds were wrong, there are more than 2 genders.
>>16816030could be 10 females for every male as well
>>16816037you can make pretty spicy videos with the feature before it starts whining about moderationlike "licking a lollipop slowly" or "massaging the chest while moaning"
>>16816055I don't remember what video generator I dicked with, but you could just say they're yawning and it would still conjure some ridiculous lewd sceneIn other news, Starship has become so mundane that we're just discussing how to generate dumb slop
>>16816055It will animate straight up porn if you start off with an explicit image.
It's over, Starship has been exposed
>>16816060funny that he brought up apollo 17 and wrapping up the programmethat is precisely the problem, the system needs to be good and cheap enough for something like that (a 50+ year pause and stagnation) ever again
>>16816060We all know that it's starlink deployer first and foremost.
>>16816059no, seems to block any generation at all with an explicit imageperhaps these moderation things weren't there when you tested it
>>16816060Very insightful. By the way, didn't he also say that Starship was never going to launch in the first place?
>>16816053whichever gender has the higher dry mass should be one one that flies the leastits all about the genderfluid
>>16816060I wonder if he ever gets tired of it>>16816064I've made a bunch of furry porn in the last week. If you have the app and enable spicy mode you can have a human male fucking a dragon if you want
>>16815991will the tanker or depot have the male connections?female depot, male tankers, female gets gangbanged and filled with cum. Boring, nature has done it millions of times.male depot, female tankers, male gets serviced by the females that pump him full of pussy juice. New, innovative, refreshing.
any pics showing how orange s38's belly was yet?
>>16816030patterns of nature are everwhere.
>>16816010>closing Playalinda BeachBut it was fine when NASA did it. The better option is not closing it completely and let people manage their own risk up to a point.
>>16816069maybe it works just for cartoons and not realistic pictures
https://x.com/CSI_Starbase/status/1978105518406140043
>>16816030>imageLMAOOO
Impulse Moon https://www.impulsespace.com/updates/to-the-moon-and-beyond-how-impulse-can-deliver-more-mass-to-the-lunar-surface
hello wonderful person this is anon
>>16816099>Impulse Space is building a lunar delivery system with their Helios kick stage and a new in-house lander to haul 0.5-13 ton payloads like rovers and habitat modules to the Moon's surface, bridging the gap between NASA's tiny CLPS rides and the massive human-scale HLS. It launches on standard medium/heavy rockets, zips from LEO to lunar orbit in about a week using high-dV without refueling, then the lander brakes and touches down with reliable nitrous-ethane engines. Each trip drops ~3 tons, scaling to 6 tons a year starting 2028, all derisked by proven tech and vertical integration for quick turnaround. This sets up sustained lunar ops, mining stuff like Helium-3, and vibes with NASA's Artemis push.grok summary
SPEHSPEHS
>>16816084I happen to know that it occasionally spontaneously includes female genitalia in realistic images of women, but it has only ever generated rubbing without penetration (but again I didn't actually ask for it, so maybe it would)
>>16816114I hope they do a starship-to-starship centrifuge before we land on Mars. It would be so easy. Instead of docking ports you just have a really long truss
>>16816117>>16816118Funny how none of Muellers plans include Starshit. Almost like he knows...
>>16816124Mueller has talked about launching Helios on Starship.
https://x.com/GoToImpulse/status/1978109891735699752
>>16816060Okay he’s just being willfully ignorant at this point
Is there really a market for Mueller to sell an upper stage for SSs and Nooglin? I can’t see how it can be successful w/o asking someone already spending millions on a big rocket to try and spend even more.Maybe instead of the customers paying, it will just be SpaceX or BO themselves paying for the upper stage and then charging the customer(s) a lump sum total for a launch that can take shitsats to specific orbits or something idk. Seems dumb
Now what
>>16816132its for getting satellites into high energy orbits without having to use a falcon heavy
>>16816121That or cable connection like in Hail Mary
>>16816125He's always done empty shilling for Starship, probably becuase iof his personal interest in SpaceX stock and an agreement with Elon, but his actions show that he has made zero plans around Starship. Helios is built to be used with Falcon and other existing rockets with no actual plans for a version that takes advantage of Starship.
>>16816138Ah
>>16816110hey hey
>>16816136We wait until the confirmation that Juno is still alive (and when they're actually crashing it).More AI butts.Laugh at random kvetching on xitter.
>>16816144I like the complete 180 effort from your previous position.
>>16816136watch a Rocket Lab launchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkvby1Prnjs
>>16816157None of Mueller's plans include Starship. Thankyou for understanding : )
>>16816158no
>>16816158For what purpose?
>>16816158>watch a rocket someone could build in their backyard shed
Oh electron is launching… who cares though if we’re being frank
>>16816165Why the hell would anyone ever wanna be frank?
>>16816167hey fuck you my uncle was named frank
Who will take 2nd place, blue origin or rocket lab?
>>16816176China
>>16816060>>16816129I'm starting to believe the anon who said someday we will see a Thunderf00t tweet that reads>ONLY five million people living on Mars? Proof once again that I was right and Starship is an unmitigated failure
>>16816176probably blue. new glenn will be better than neutron and rl doesn’t have the cash to make something better.
why don't we explore the ocean, space is probably fake anyway
>>16816178has China even reached fifteen years ago yet
Realistically, what's the outlook on the availability of RP1 in the next few decades?
>>16816194who even makes it right now
who is this eye heterochromia cutie?
>>16816173I'm sorry he diddled you
>>16816030we all had her, but he married herI guess that makes him the better lander.
>>16815991Who actually believes this?
>>16816030actually the slut is the depot not HLS. they aren't sending HLS up there to stay for months at a time. They send up a depot, fill that, and THEN send up HLS which refuels at the depot before departing.
>>16816060starship is just a money printer, big deal!
>>16816189Somehow, everyone now suddenly believes China will to the moon first.And as with everything China, they're probably lying through their teeth as always.But If it can stop endless peer reviews before SpaceX can plant a wooden stick on their own property, maybe it will help us get somewhere.
"Hey Hey! Moe, Larry the Cheese!"
>>16816237Seething
>>16816224believes what?
>>16816239Only time will tell."Oh, wow, China has a space station"The ISS is like 2 or 3 decades old.
[math]\unicode{x1F620}[/math]STARSHIPS[math]\unicode{x1F621}[/math]AREN'T[math]\unicode{x1F92C}[/math]BEINGS[math]\unicode{x1F92F}[/math]
>>16816060"And those grapes are probably sour anyway..."
>>16816245There was also Skylab in the 70's. That was an USA only station.
>>16816242>there is going to be male and female starships nowthey are genderless
>>16816060this isnt counting all of the test flights of earlier iterations of the saturn family tho
>>16816126Cool, but how does it get into LEO?
>>16816247
>>16816255They probably stole all the technology also. That's just what they do.
>>16816256tranny detected
>>16816261with F9 for instance
>>16816269So they expect falcon 9 to put them inorbit for free?
>>16816245>>16816255>>16816265China doesn't really copy American space programsThey ruthlessly copy Soviet space programsThe problem is they're about out of those
>>16816278>China doesn't really copy American space programs>Does a perfect replcia of Skylab?
>>16816194isn't RP1 just purer jet fuel, which is purer kerosene, which is purer diesel?
>>16816280There has never yet been a station as roomy and open inside as Skylab, which is tragic in its own way
NB: In the Flight 11 stream, the announcer mentioned a Starship flight will deliver 20x the new capacity of a F9 launch. Delivering more and larger Starlinks.Therefore, if SpaceX can keep the direct and amortized costs of one Starship launch below the similar costs of 20 F9 launches, the program makes business sense. That might actually pencil out.
>>16816286and none as kino as Skylab
>>16816278I'm actually worried China might send Taikonauts? is this the word to their death.Of course we would never know about it.
China has a big head start because they didn't fall for the "reusability" meme
>>16816294And that being said, I'm very not comfortable with people launching on starship at all.What we've seen from V2 is that it just randomly blows up 3 out of 5 flights.
Holy shit yes
>>16816268Ad hominem
If you stood under the spicy showerhead would you die instantly
>>16816298Then why is yurop doing so badly in space?
https://x.com/FelixSchlang/status/1977988893682335903WAI channel getting fucked by youtube. Entire channel dedicated to spaceflight wiped out.
>>16816299Cut your balls off
>>16816194Limited. RP1 is proprietary, although any patents have expired by now. But there is only a single manufacturer the Feds contract with. For supply to increase, the manufacturer would have to expand production or new companies would have to enter the market.
>>16816305>Harmful or dangerous contentwow wtf, I may not have cared to watch it, but it didn't deserve to be canceled
>>16816298Nah SLS an Orion were just job programs to begin with.They were never supposed to launch at all.Don't underestimate politicians.Free money and votes.
>>16816303>>16816298>squints at the imagesA-are these two posts two entirely separate incidents where a Chinese rocket crashed directly into a densely populated area?
>>16816315yes
>>16816307>RP1 is proprietarydid you get that information from chatgpt or from grok?>RP-1 is a fuel in the first-stage boosters of the Electron, Soyuz, Zenit, Delta I-III, Atlas, Falcon, Antares, and Tronador II rockets. It also powered the first stages of the Energia, Titan I, Saturn I and IB, and Saturn V. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is also developing an RP-1 fueled engine for its future rockets.[2]
>>16816272nigga its a kickstage
>>16816317How?!I've never heard of the US or Russia doing that, even in tragedies when astronauts and ground crews died
>>16816315its Chinas favorite space pasttime
>>16816320If it is not proprietary why is this the only image of RP-1 in existence. Check mate.
>>16816315>only twoyou must be new here
>>16816323anon this is the same country that builds buildings out of fake concrete and escalators that eat people
>>16816306I wouldn't take a 2/5 bait on my life.Absolutly not.
>>16816320I want to drink the forbidden juice
>>16816334also available in Hawaiian Ice flavor
>>16816299>2023really puts it into perspective. Development has been soooo slow.
>>16816320So would Propane (C3H8) be more or less available than RP1 circa 2040?
https://youtu.be/g0dcuXxHRaAHoly fucking shit
>>16816340Bru, have you been following? 3 out of 5 starship v2 never made it.Sure they fixed it, it seems, but now it's v3 coming up and the counter is back to 0.
>>16816346I liked Sabine for a while, but it's clear by now she stopped being a researcher, and is now just farming Youtube money.Still like her insight though as I can't math at her level.
>>16816350Is there much new stuff about v3 besides the engines? A lot of internal tweaks I'm sure, but I'd imagine they'll just build that off whatever they did to make v2 stop exploding
>>16816346It's not a spaceship bro
>>16816355Raptor 3 is a BIG deal.It's been painful having it come to actual flight.Hopefully it works, but as far as I'm concerned, that's an entirely new vehicle.Testing data goes to 0.
>>16816355they stripped a lot of drymass from the colanders to the hotstage adapter, engine shielding etc
>>16816305Sad to lose such an original talent...BTW - it's back and his strike may have been for his thumbnails looking a little too familiar. But when those are all drawn from the same AI well, *shrugs*.
>>16816364Should have just plastered "WOW!" all over it
>It will likely be at least a few months before SpaceX is ready to launch the next Starship flight.
>>1681635510000+ changes internally
>>16816305I have absolutly no proof about it, but I wouldn't be surprised if NSF was behind it.I've seen popular space streamers get away from them one after the other.
When does Starship blow up on Flight 12?https://strawpoll.com/ajnE1P1kMnW
https://www.today.com/video/united-airlines-brings-starlink-wi-fi-to-boeing-planes-249840709941planelink
>>16816378
>>16816375NSF wouldn't surprise me, they had beef with LabPadre for awhile too
>>16816305They uploaded a new video just an hour ago
>>16816378shortly before seco and at the start of landing burn for the ship and booster respectively.
>>16816384so similar to Flight 7 and 8 for the ship (first and second flights for V2)
>>16816383the problem was fixed, but they lost their account for like a day or something
>>16816378V3 flights will be boring until the first ship catch
why does this always happen
>>16816305I 'member back in the day when Tim Dodd, Cloudlicker, WAI, and hullo were the main youtubers covering Starship news, apart from the 24/7 streams from LabPadre and SPadre. Later on came up NSF with their own hosts and cameras, Marcus House, Angry astronaut, CSI Starbase, and many others and ... then I lost track of them all. Good times.
>>16816382Showing Starbase is all now a big business.I'm the first culprit switching off from labpadre.If that's what's going on, well, they won't see anything with the new Megabay. So I guess it's fine.
>>16816395what happened to maga spaceman anyway
CostPlusContent is missed.:(
>>16816394you ever tried starting a rocket engine? shits a pain in the ass they never want to go
>>16816395NSF could only gather Scott Manley for the FLight 11 stream.While this was cool to have his insight, we've seen NOTHING from other space e-celeb except following the SpaceX stream.There's a fish swimming there.
look at all those missing tiles this shit is never surviving reentry
>>16816406just burn some fuel, how hard can it be
>>16816315https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJ9ue6GKekhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708Back in the 1990s Western companies were allowed to purchase commercial launches on Chinese rockets. Then Intelsat 708 launched on a Long March 3B from Xichang in February 1996, only to turn sideways right after launch and fly straight down the valley to crash into a village that never existed so hard it was deleted off of all of the official maps. As a result of the incident investigation China was determined "to have gained significant benefit" from Western engineers pointing out problems in the Long March's trash inertial guidance system. Since those same improvement could be directly transferred over to the Long March's ICBM cousins, Western companies were no longer permitted launch licenses to fly on Chinese rockets.
>>16816394it's funny how the N1 problems are just as real they were in the 60s, this thing is just so overbuilt it survives multiple engine failures regardless
>>16816369AI thumbnails being evaluated by YouTube AI moderators, who issue a strike who's appeal is heard by an AI judge.Fun future we've got here.
>>16816398So, I looked it up, and turns out he went full schizo or something. Also, last time he uploaded a video on Youtube was like a year ago.https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/1ggbivw/forget_thunderf00t_this_is_the_most_insane_thing/
>>16816413Fun part is, the missing engine did relight for landing.It never happened before.
>>16815990I find this intriguing. Any more exemplars of this latest development?
>>16816415> Starship is the modern-day tower of Babel god will strike us down for our arrogance.pans out. The aliens dont want us going into space. it all makes sense....
>>16815990ENOUGH ASS WHERE ARE THE BOOBIES
>>16816415shame that the actual video seems to be deleted
>>16816422https://youtu.be/KUryL_gLiRU
>>16816415>>16816422scratch that https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=KUryL_gLiRU>Cosmic Countdown: Starship and the Unveiling of Apocalypse Prophecies
So let me recap. NSF are scamming Youtube.Don't even dare to show 1 second of their shots.Also buy the fucking Mission patches.I think that's what's going on. I'm gonna harrass Elon all about it if it turns out to be true.
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1978179844656480423Final descent and splashdown of Starship on Flight 11, captured by the SpaceX recovery team in the Indian Ocean
>>16816428https://x.com/KevinHehmeyer/status/1977468105505878466
>>16816414its only going to get better (or worse depending on your POV)
>>16816430WTF IT IS ORANGE!!! THEY SAID IN THE STREAM THAT IT WONT BE ORANGE.... FELON HUSK IS TRYING TO FOOL US!!!!!!!!!!
>>16816430And of course there's an engine shitting the bed. Wouldn't be starship without it.
>>16816430
>>16816425>>16816428
>>16816353She clearly has issues with the state of modern academia. Even if she doesn't work in it anymore, I still respect he for talking about those issues.
>>16816436>>>/wsg/5999042
looks somewhat orange still
>>16816428>>16816432These people are so weird.
>>16816430Looks like it was able to make it all the way to splashdown despite the actual propellant tanks being compromised in multiple places. >"Sure, I've got bleeding holes in both of my main tanks, but I don't need those for touchdown anyway."
>>16816429>I'm gonna harrass Elon all about it if it turns out to be true.Although I don't know how the relationship between the muskrat in chief and NSF is right now, there's a good chance he'll listen to you, mon ami. After all, he always replies to randos lmao
>>16816435Isn't igniting 3 engines and then shutting 1 down standard landing procedure?
>>16816441It's over...https://youtu.be/gVDTDbr5g6A?t=5750
>>16816445I'm just half joking. He most likely won't give a fuck, and that's understandable.
So what is that shart on ship?
>>16816448no metal tiles but a directly exposed metallic hull though
>>16816444I noticed that too. Seems like it was venting from the front where they removed tiles.
>>16816451not looking good for stoke desu. seems like their heatshield isn't going to work if bare steel gets eaten up like that. It will most likely survive reentry, but at worst it would need to be replaced every flight.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1978014204826206580Well? Will this work? LED strip lights around the door. How much weight and power would it take to do this? <10lb of weight?
I don't think 2nd stage is getting reused anytime soon without massive refurbishment.
>>16816430Yeah, there's no way people are landing on Mars in the 2030s...
>>16816378I think they're going to lose control during the banking manoeuvre, there were a lot of oscillation's that the flaps struggled to control, especially during the second banking
>>16816445Actually, I went back to LabPadre, and wtf, it's the exact same thing as NSF?
THERE IS A FEMALE ON NSF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg
>>16816315china can drop anything from spend stages and fairings to entire rocket stacks on random villages and the only fallout is that anyone who talks about it mysteriously disappearsspacex has to deal with concerns about whether their hardware maybe has a 0.1% chance of splashing down near a dolphinone of those regulatory environments is just slightly more favourable for testing new vehicles
Just making sure I have to correct here: the next flight of Starship will feature v3 engines, correct? And also they need to build Pad B before they can fly v3 starship?Next launch will be interesting I hope it shares the same success as the last two flights
>>16816463that or a 12yr old boy
>>16816430>multiple holes in the propellant tanksStill impressive that it made it, but I still want to see what a non-stress test re-entry profile would do for the heatshield, would probably do a lot for public confidence in the system.
>>16816469There's probably a big reason they don't want to catch ship with first tower.
>>16816462Soulless vs SOVL
>>16816469yes and yes (also apparently its actually called pad 2, not B)
>>16816477Damn, I now realize that I've first started following SpaceX/Musk religiously like 8 years ago... time fucking flies and Mars still seems so far away :(
>>16816410China also stole the remains of the sat.
>>16816416no, they’ve done that a few times
>>16816413There were no engine failures to survive, whatever caused the flight computer to nope that engine on the boostback was clear by the time the landing burn started.
>>16816485China would steal your cat if they could. Then license it, then you can't have a cat.
2025:New Glenn flight 2 Griffin MissionLSSTDid I miss anything interesting?
>>16816469>the next flight of Starship will feature v3 engines, correct?>And also they need to build Pad B before they can fly v3 starship?Yes and yes.
>>16816444That is because it doesn't use the main tanks for landing
>>16816478Pad West
>>16816500How nice of Elon naming a launch pad after his friend.
>>16816467>>16816470That doesn't look very reusable, but we have yet to see what happens when they stop taking off tiles
>>16816505Adam West Launch Tower
>>16816483Mars is closer now than it was the day before Hopper hopped.
The humiliation ritual is pretty thorough.
>>16816514why are they using falcon heavy?
>>16816514lmao
>>16816514Well from the customer’s perspective this is probably making the launch as cheap as possible so you can’t really complain!
>>16816514
https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1978183926502785175The Department of the Air Force approved SpaceX's proposal to increase its launch cadence of Falcon rockets from Vandenberg up to 100 and add Falcon Heavy capabilities to SLC-6. SpaceX will build two new landing zones south of the launch pad.
>>16816527California Coastal Commission in shambles
>>16816432>>16816428I regret perpetuating a religious argument but the everpresent countdowns to Armageddon irritate me a lot because there's a fucking chapter in the New Testament where they flat out ask Jesus Christ when Armageddon is going to be (because hey, if anybody would have insider knowledge) and his response is literally>I dunno lolHow the fuck did that not put a decisive end to the whole practice? All of these people are "Christians" who apparently believe the Bible and Jesus Christ are full of shit and you can in fact calculate Armageddon down to the minute once you carry the seven and adjust for why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch
>>16816515>falcon heavy center core
>>16816514The hosted webcast component is optional and probably costs more money. Amazon probably didn't want it.
>>16816514I still remember the first time a falcon 9 launch didn’t have announcers. crazy how fast they’ve progressed to boring.
>>16816540FH center cores are structurally different from regular F9, SpaceX has started using them as regular reusable F9 to get extra use out of them before expending them on a proper FH launch.
What is the worst thing that could happen?
>>16816407you didn't tune in early enough. Pre-launch, they had the big three space authors in a roundtable. It was really interesting.
>>16816561we drop some flaming steel on mexico. no big loss there
>>16816561Nothing of worth is in the way, landing in cape on the other hand probably going to take more convincing in getting permission.
>>16816561Launch thousands a year. The sonic border wall.
>>16816561I think once Starship goes online it will probably transition almost exclusively to Florida (just my hunch), but the Texas RGV is so fucking poor that and low-income that yeah, you could afford to fly thousands of Starships overhead for landing back to Earth here. Industrial exploitation of the poor boonies lol
>>16816430>>16816436Pure kino
>>16816203This is a 10/10 btw, sorry ticebros
>>16816247Just give it AI and it will land on you cock.
>>16815990SpaceKeks
>>168162866.6 meters vs 9 of starship.
What's the latest of the inflatable modules/space stations?Last I saw was that overpressuring explosion test a year or two ago
>>16816413>engine fails on N1>Russian solution is to... blow up another perfectly working engineIn hindsight, was it really surprising this thing failed?
>>16816508WIll it be nicknamed the 'KAPOW' Launch Pad or the 'THWACK!!!" Launch Pad?
>>16816429I hate NSF so much its unreal
the biggest pro of starship is that we can now send gigantic fuck off telescopes to space, and something like James Webb won't have to deal with origami BS
>>16816625Muskfags are so delusional lol
>>16816428Pass that doobie Brah!
>>16816625WRONG!!! all new space telescopes will have to fit through the pez dispenser doororigami is only going to get worse.
>>16816606As a certified, well renowned, highly credible representative of the Kate Tice Goon Gang, we are not offended by your statement.
>>16816625Nigga the payload bay is barely larger than Ariane 5's and it doesn't even have a way to deploy cargo that isn't a flat sheet. Your "large starship telescope" is going to have to be built by some autistic japanese origami wizard
The heptafold telescope
Do you think this was leaking from burn through or active cooling experiment?
>>16816637EFT - Extremely Folded Telescope
>>16816625who's gonna tell him
>>16816643looks like its been driven through a rust belt winter
>>16816635>barely larger than Ariane 5terrible bait
>>16816643>active cooling experimentIs the cope? There is no active cooling.
When next booster catch?
>>16816646lol
>>16816650There is, dumbass>>16816643From what I gathered from the last flight before this, the red is from metal tiles and the white is from exposed thermal blankets that got an hero'd
>>16816657there was no metal tiles this time
>>16816657>There is, dumbassGiga cope. There is not.The only heat shield experiments were the missing tiles which do coincide with the points where it leaked
>>16816658>>16816661it's over I was wrong. What the fuck is the red then? Everyone was saying it was the metal tiles last time
>>16816663its the metal ship itself
>>16816663She nekked
>>16816664Omg I cannot conceal that I feel the kneel of the steel, for real
>>16816669you can see big sheets of tiles just ripped away in the picture >>16816643, probably burn through the central section but as the tanks were mostly empty I guess it didn't matter too muchthe landing tanks are in the nosecone as far as I remember and I guess those and the propellant feed lines were undamaged
>>16816669The Flap-chan episode redpilled me on steel (iron) for spaceflight
How do wanna be martians cope with the fact that given that solar is the power of the future,your cuck level increases quadratically as you head out away from the sun. Martians are doomed to eternally cuckery to the superior Mercurians
>>16816298>>16816315expendable population centers
https://x.com/satofishi/status/1978216220110508507
>>16816695build our own sun
>>16816305"hate has no place"sounds like fag shitI hope they lose the channel permanently
>>16816695>being an indirect fusion cuck leeching off some random star>not being a chad who uses machines that exploit the proton-proton chain directly
>>16816700>starship is a one way trip to mars>spacex will not provide a return tripyeah aint nobody going to mars if thats true. the entire program is dead on arrival.
>>16816700Who the fuck's going to take a one-way trip there. It would be like one way to Antarctica, but less hospitable
>>16816709pioneers
>>16816708>well sure, you might die on the trip there>but if you make it, you get to be imprisoned there foreverI'm sure there would be someone who'd be willing to do it, but I imagine they wouldn't be the most mentally adjusted fellers
>>16816029But how do you even describe such a video
>>16816709h1b's
>>16816708>>16816712>>16816714>>16816709people who agreed to colonize Mars will be issued with a free Teslabot catgirl wife
>>16816712Pioneering makes sense if the destination isn't trying to kill you, you get a bunch of land and you're probably a destitute turnip farmer anyway. Who's going to give up modern life so they can pioneer some hallway that might just lose pressure any moment too
>>16816421It's hard because Grok is an ass man. Even if you ask for breasts, it strongly prefers ass.>>>/wsg/5999215>>>/wsg/5999220>>>/wsg/5999223>>>/wsg/5999225
>>16816708>>16816709Reading comprehension. He's saying that Starship is the only good way to do Mars and that Starship is designed only for this, not that the trips will be exclusively one-way.
>>16816561>>16816568I saw a population density map the other day that included Mexico, that's literally the part of Mexico where almost nobody lives.Worst thing is the cartels get some sheet steel to armor their trucks.
>>16816739I hope brownsville becomes "boomsville"
>>16816709People that are done with life and have accomplished enough. Bunch of retirees. Those that dont have roots and want to do something.
>>16816643it's rust from metal tiles (or maybe the mouting studs, I dunno lol) oxidizing with molecular oxygen from the outer atmosphere then spattering onto the tiles
>>16816737>it reinforced my understanding: Starship is designed for one way to Mars, and it's really only good for one way to MarsI don't know it kinda sounds like he's saying it's one way to Mars
5 Starship launch this year. Chance of 1 more manifest this year?
>>16816700The only thing that is coming back is returning humans and science samples of roggs. So most will really be one way to Mars.I wonder if they can fly a tanker ship to LMO, refuel before re-entry, then land with tanks full enough to launch off of Mars and refuel again in orbit. I guess the problem is that landing a full can is a lot harder than landing an empty can, even with half gravity.
>>16816742sonic booms-ville yeah
>>1681674950/50
>>16816430Kinomatic
>>16816737>starship is only one way to mars>"THAT DOESNT MEAN ITS ONLY ONE WAY TO MARS" - you????????????
>>16816709By the time they send humans they will probably have landed a few starships on Mars. If they put ISRU equipment on those and ways to recover the last of the fuel from the ships that land, then it changes from "one-way trip" to "science your way home".>>16816719dispoosables, find a way to work juggernauts into it and you might have a plan
>>16816737I'd agree with you if we only consider the third paragraph. However, the way he phrased it, by repeatedly saying the same exact thing, makes the whole message very ambiguous. We'll see, someone should ask him on X.
>>16816749It's wild that there were only five v1.0 Falcon 9 launches.
>>16816110hey hey peopleanon here
>>16816759>probablyThe timeline shifts with the Starship delays but they've always planned to toss half a dozen or more unmanned Starships at Mars at the first opportunityI've wondered for ages what they'll load them with. I almost imagine it being haphazard, anything potentially useful. Lots of freeze dried food, batteries, tools, prefab building materials, some dumb meme shit
Stampanon I hope you are doing okay with a comfy finnish life
>>16816744Red was a section that was releasing gas as it came downBlue looks like all the tiles are gone
