Thread 514069643

lol...
here we go again. starship launch thread, it's been scrubbed two days in a row, launch MAYBE in 1 hour
here's a stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtUMt0gsqrs

i see a little white puffy cloud
scrap the launch now

Looks good. Better not explode.

>>514069643 (OP)
Roll for epic fail tonight.

>>514070613
>>514070876
I think /pol/ is tired of the hype then scrub.

>>514072261
the skies are clear

it will launch

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1960179929204596907

T minus 31 minutes. Weather is green.

>>514072479
>>514072539
*heems you*

>>514072612
Nah, it's greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen I say fucking GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! Go for launch beeotches! It's just gonna blow up anyhow.

>>514072717
>if it succeeds
kino
>if it blows up
kino, we can't lose

>>514069643 (OP)
3rd time at the 10th time is the charm

>>514073196
I'm kinda wondering about how the Roadster is doing these days if it's still chugging along. Guess we'll never know. That was still a pretty wild stunt.

>>514073528
the launch of the heavy was one of the most kino live events I've ever watched on TV. but I genuinely have no idea what happened to it lol I guess it's just floating somewhere

cute. CUTE!

while we wait ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaXtqSmUlxA

>>514072717
TOLD YA! GREEEEEEEEEEEEEN!

>>514074032
oh fug

>>514073686
Yup, Tyler is hot. She has a very sexy voice too. Smart as a whip. Would buy a calendar if she's in a bikini.

>>514074108
she's not for lewd, leaf

>>514074146
Whose lewd dude? Elon's probably already impregnated her anyhow with all his legion spawn children. I forget how many there are now, I know it's over 11.

>>514069643 (OP)
we the law, no toxic war. ty united nation

>>514073686
Does she have a glass eye or a weird case of heterochromia?

>>514074285
T MINUS 10 MINUTES

>>514070613
Kek

>inb4 it instantly explodes
Better be worth the scrubbed launches.

>>514073686
>tyler
Why the fuck do degenerate parents give boys names to their daughters? Fuckin inbred freaks.

>>514073703
>Even if we do have enough Americans to fill these positions, I'd still give them to Jeets because Americans think they are entitled to the things their ancestors built.
He hates White people this much. What a kike.

>>514069643 (OP)
What's so special about this particular launch?

>>514074572
They're still trying to successfully and fully test the Starship.

Its already smoking

T MINUS 1 MINUTE
>T MINUS 1 MINUTE
T MINUS 1 MINUTE
>T MINUS 1 MINUTE
T MINUS 1 MINUTE
>T MINUS 1 MINUTE
T MINUS 1 MINUTE
>T MINUS 1 MINUTE

T MINUS 40 SECONDS!!!!!!!111

AHHHHHHHH HAPPENING

jesus christ look at that thing

>>514069643 (OP)
It would be cool if it launched. We need some more cool space stuff instead of fake and gay PYSOPs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sLKqFgYyYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sLKqFgYyYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sLKqFgYyYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sLKqFgYyYo

biggest rocket ever of all time

THIS IS THE SPACE AGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej6T4VR11PM

that cracker on jew toob wont shut up

I switched to x stream

We're going to Mars after all! YAAAAAY!

so now what are they testing with the actual starship?

why no catch?

>>514075409
they said they were testing different things with it that couldn't be done with a catch or something like that

>>514075133
:basedface: omg the vapor cone!!! SO KEWL :OOOOO

>>514075297
No we wont nigger

Russia will nuke US before then. the smartest men on earth are playing video games and beating off to anime right now

They literally sunk the landing by splashing it in the gulf. It's weird how we can launch them off but not land them so well.

>>514075409
they blew up last time they tried ocean landing

Catch is not reliable if they cant even get the splash down

>>514075512
they can catch the big rocket for the starship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVNIoQUcFI4

major happening alien ship detected will you get on it anon?

This shit is gonna blow tf up in a few mins lmfao

I already see shit flying off the rocket lmaoo

piece of junk. No way theyll make it to mars

>>514075865
Says someone who has never accomplished anything epic in their life.

>>514069643 (OP)
based, us space program is a cool distraction from real problems, i hope it goes well if not the most expensive firecracker, win win

why do they keep filming the inside of the rocket.

Reeeeeeeeeeeeee
I WANT TO SEEEE THE ALIENS

>>514075512
cool take, you're clearly on top of the story.
>>514075464
the wanted an engine out test, which I think they could have done at the surf next to the pad. they did seem to get altitude stability, less clear if they got horizontal.

>>514075971
ironically this isn't even our space program, it's just elon fucking around even though spacex is subsidized like it is our program

>>514075969
youre arguing with AI nigger

>>514075512
>splashing it in the gulf
It’s gulf of America.

>>514069643 (OP)
liftoff is impressive, considering its the size of a 10 story building you loose the scale in a tiny screen

bicycle chain is really launching this junk into space. if the chain slips off who's gonna fix this

>>514075492
That's what you're doing right now... I do still think we should use reverse tech IFOs to go to other Planets though.

>>514076155
i mean 30 story building wtf, my father lived in a 100 mts tower and i cant believe they send that height into orbit, people dont realize the scale of that rocket i swear

flat earth sisters what's our response??

>>514076527
it's stunning even just off a stream, it's so much bigger than the falcon heavy

>>514076527
if I had $100 billion I could do it too

Land on mars with astronauts and come back. then Ill be impressed

till then just a massive waste of money

>>514069643 (OP)
why do they need to do so much testing when all of the problems were pretty much solved 60 years ago?

The chink has an annoying voice.

>>514076068
nigger we're funding it, SpaceX is the new NASA

Again filming the inside of the ship. Elon is scared to show us the truth

Our descendants will watch this and think how wild it is that we are taking so much money and time and effort to place little things in orbit, while they are in a neighboring galaxy on vacation.
It would be like watching our ancestors put wood in a lake and cheer when it floats to the other side.

>>514076966
wait are they going to try and catch the starship?
>>514076965
yea I said that

This is am-A-ZING!

Why is it snowing inside?

>>514076966
Its on the night side of the planet so there isn't much to see outside.

>>514077029
This one is scheduled to splash in the Pajeet Ocean

>>514077120
Water vapor in the air freezes and turns into ice.

>>514074337
MY EYEBALLS ARE PEEEEEELED BACK THE WHOLE TIIIIIIIIIIIIME! THIS IS WOWOWOWOWOAH!

>>514077021
WOAH, so deep and enlightened! by chance you are an internet atheist?? and maybe gay?

>>514077238
gay

flying squid head still orbiting stronk

>>514075297
>We're going to Ma - ACK

>>514077120
its in antartica on the other side of the ice wall

>>514075865
That's just ice dipshit. Space is cold.

>>514076788
They lost the technology but now AI makes good videos

About ten minutes or less until the plasma light show on reentry.

>>514077859
Youd think after spending billions to go to the moon multiple times theyd save the data and blueprints used for the mission.

some how in 2025 we cant replicate 1960s tech

>>514077780
yeah ice has sparks flying off it

Saw some delam on the fins. Keep an eye on the bottom edge of the fins

>>514078042
because the goal isn't to replicate missions from decades ago

Kaboom time

time for the world to dodge smoldering hot space debris

>>514078042
It's all bullshit and redditors are pissing their pants from joy, just look at the posts itt. Yeee, let's go, space is awesome, go Musk and all that normie crap. They can't send men to the Moon (or outside of LEO) but we're going to Mars.

>>514078281
seething flat earth retard

>>514078042
>>514076788
Getting things into space is absurdly expensive and dangerous, the goal is to reduce that a bit.

>>514078281
Lmaookooooo
Its already blowing up

the nerd is seething on the tesla stream

what are the colors I'm seeing?

>>514078424
YES CRASH INTO INDIA
HIDDEN NUKE ON BOARD
OPERATION FLAMING CURRY

>>514078381
and then what will you do once youre in space? Jump for joy that you wasted $100 billion

food could be free if we didnt waste our tech trying to get trash into orbit.

>>514078561
the hopes and dreams of millenial and zoomer engineers vaporizing in the xenosphere

>>514078605
This is black people thinking anon

I'd rather spend all my tax money on a billion dollar firework than ebt

>>514078561
Plasma from reentering the atmosphere.

>>514078381
>Getting things into space is absurdly expensive and dangerous, the goal is to reduce that a bit.
Well apparently it's not dangerous at all because no astronaut dies on a mission to the Moon and how is building from scratch cheaper from building on the existing tech.
You make no sense and you sound like Musk. I wouldn't be surprised if this thread is full of bots and Tesla slaves or even Musktard posting here instead of working on his rockets.

>>514078734
It's an indian anon.

>>514078561
the colour out of space

>>514078782
You sounds schizophrenic

There's no doubt techniques and technologies have been lost, that doesn't mean they are inherently the best way to have done or always do things, the first lunar landing was both a scientific marvel and a miracle, it was at no point a sure and safe bet, literal hail mary with some of the smartest people in the world working together to give the best odds possible, the odds still werent great lmao

>>514079044
(you're talking to an unironic flat earther)

will lol so hard at the first space Nigger sent to mars. when the gen Alpha engineer loses control of em and they drift off through space till they starve to death or hit an asteroid

>>514079133
>>514078818
im realizing that there is lore in this thread that i was unaware of gomen

its gonna crash into Australia

>>514079044
>literal hail mary with some of the smartest people in the world
But Musk is retarded

it's rapidly slowing down

>>514079301
put a corpse on mars by 2030

flap bros...

>>514079214
Yeah it's always the same flat earthers and moonlanding deniers who flock to these threads. At some point you start to recognize them by the same stale memes they post.

>>514075297
Anon, I havent seen u in forever did you ever breed those forget-me-nots?

>>514079422
the commentators are saying bits of the heat sheild were deliberately removed and the flight profile is deliberately more harsh than what they would do in a normal burn back opertation in order to stress test stuff.

>The structure of our reusable rocket is ruined by heat damage, but at least it didn't reach the payload (which would have already been released)

Cope.

>>514079461
how much did Elon pay you faggot

Belly flop mode.

>>514079607
thats what theyll say even when a crew is on board

imagine all the randoms indians who have no idea what's happening when this thing comes flying into the ocean

SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED
SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED

Shamu landed right next to the buoy camera.

>>514079747
>elon blows up a rocket in the indian ocean
>amerifats clap

Wow, it's less than they did before. Remarkable.

>We landed safely!
>KAPOW!
lel

IT BLEW UP
ABSOLUTE FAILURE!

I've never been a rocket, but it almost looks like they need a smoothing curve.
Could just be test conditions

"Landing" with that damage was impressive

Successful splash down. impressive.

Kaboom

-$200 Billion
No refunds

they couldnt switch the camera fast enough thats why theyre laughing

CLEAN IT UP SAAARS

>>514075028
So it went 10 km up in one hour ?
Gagarin went up 327 km and orbited the Earth in 108 minutes and it was over 60y ago. This is a joke.

>>514079915
>>514079920
>splash down successful
kino
>>514079930
>>514079939
>still got an explosion
kino

>>514079995
the technology just isn't there
two more weeks

>>514079939
Lmaoooooooooooo

thats why the chink and crakker whore were laughing cause they know theyll be unemployed in 5 years after this scam ends

>>514079939
lol
>>514080000
I'm assuming that was intentional detonation either out of order auto, or, ehh, fuck you we can.

>>514079656
This one does it for free, he's always accusing everybody of being a flat earther, standard glownigger tactics.

>>514076788
Basically 90% of space development now is jewing the rocket so it costs less and less, they know what you need for a "safe" rocket, but they go right to the line to create models and improve their next rocket.
They COULD overbuild the rocket with an extra 1,000 pounds of metal and make it land safely every time, only they need to actually test their ultra-light components.

>>514079995
If it's that easy, why aren't you launching people? You afraid of sucess?

>>514079995
they were testing low earth deployment then re-entry

>>514080109
They haven't attached the inflatable pontoons to it yet for a water recovery.

That was wild. Just amazing! To be able to see it all the entire time too. Soooooo cooool!

>>514080121
>he's always accusing
Is it really accusing when you are the one posting flat earth nonsense?

>>514080227
Sure. I missed most of reentry cause I needed dinner. I came back to a very damaged ship. That oxidation surface, is way more heat than reusable allows. Gonna have to go full tile.

>>514080329
They said they did that on purpose multiple times through the broadcast. They wanted to stress the hell out of the ship in all possible ways to get data. They even purposely removed tiles in certain areas. I didn't expect the skirt to explode in that area, but maybe they did. Still, it all survived.

Absolute kino.

Reminder: flat earth + space denialists are mostly black and brown. Their lower IQ means that White men going to the moon in the '60s looks like black magic.

>>514080329
>Gonna have to go full tile.
Active cooling will be the future. This vehicle actually vents cryo fuel, which could be used to cool the shield instead.
Buy hey, it's ab R&D rpoject. One step at a time.

>>514080196
>low earth deployment
You mean low earth orbit ? That's 500 km. 10 km is literally how high commercial airplanes fly lmao

>>514080504
>it all survived
lol, retard.

>>514077758
Pshh more like the firmament has been penetrated an now the other earth projections are fluctuating and God is tricking the goyim, God is jewish wtf

>>514080540
yeah, and I probably overstated, I'm watching the subsuper, and they're discussing this being emergency.
I'm still going to suggest there will probably still need to be an ablative paint or a very thin tile in a few more places to protect framing. At least, if you build NASA specs, you should look for 300% success, because this is only rocket science.

>>514080662
You low IQ inbred cumstain, Just stop. You are out of your fuckin league. Go hump your fleshlight faggot.

>>514074535
he doesn't hate white people, he just loves money. he's also probably one of those "enlightened" types who think race doesn't matter, only skill does. Which is true to an extent, but you've still gotta prioritize the wellbeing of your own family above that of strangers.

>>514076788
Everything in Apollo 11 was designed to be burnt up in the atmosphere or left on the Moon, spare the crew module. Basically single use rockets. SpaceX are trying to make reusable rockets.

>>514080727
>it survived
>deflagrated and sinking to the bottom of the indian ocean
>flaps melted before that
>fuselage irreparably damaged by heat stresses
No. u.

>>514078782
>Well apparently it's not dangerous at all because no astronaut dies on a mission to the Moon
That's because nobody ever went to the Moon. Today, they say it's impossible because if the intense radiation in the Van Allen belt.

>>514080573
they were dummy satellites just to test the mechanism, and it peaked at 190 km, idk what you're talking about

That aft skirt damage sure looked like it was some sort of explosion. Maybe with a reaction control thruster? If so, they cut this close.

>>514081044
Go to bed thunderf00t, it's late.

>>514081223
>Today, they say it's impossible because if the intense radiation in the Van Allen belt.
Only retarded moonlanding deniers say this.

>>514078782
They certainly did die in the program of moon missions, though.

>>514081349
Only those who criticized the Apollo program and their families though. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

>>514081317
Is NASA a moon landing denier? Because that's what they say when journalists ask them when we're going to do more manned missions to the Moon.

>>514081759
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

>>514082013
[citation required]

>>514078697
That's funny I actually went to highschool w an engineer at SpaceX he was cool and I use to get his little brother high kek

>test reusable rocket
>wings burn
>it exploded over the ocean

That was pretty awesome, it might have exploded right on splashdown but you can't have everything.

>test successful
>flattards show up
Shocking.

>>514079516
No I have yet to travel.

>>514082846
uhhh, what, that doesnt say anything about the van allen belt

So it blew up? Was it successful? I'm too retarded to Google it

>>514083052
Damn ok

>>514083133
Well it blew up, then melted, then blew up, so it's a big success (test).

>>514082013
>Is NASA a moon landing denier? Because that's what they say when journalists ask them when we're going to do more manned missions to the Moon.
>>514082288
>[citation required]
>>514082846
>Citation provided
>>514083067
>uhhh, what, that doesnt say anything about the van allen belt
Are you retarded bro are you retarded

What happened?
To the launch I mean?
Another spectacular failure? Or what?

>>514074535
I mean hes a fucking African, what do you expect? Could airlift every boer to safety with his lunch money but doesnt

>>514082846
He is saying NASA can't build another Saturn V

>>514083228
As expected from flat earthers, you literally can't read.

>>514083234
Successful launch, successful testing of the deployment system, successful splashdown

>>514069643 (OP)
New CGI just dropped goyim!

>>514083133
Whatever the script says pal. Do you follow jewish soap operas on tv too?

>>514083468
>Successful launch, successful testing of the deployment system, successful splashdown

>>514083382
Or anything that cam take men to the Moon, I know.
What's your point

>>514083468
Where you define success as not having any recoverable elements left of the rocket.

>>514079544
>We're whalers on the Moon, we carry a harpoon. >But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune

>>514083741
Isn't this supposed to be a reusable rocket

Hey, if you're ever in the Van Allen Belt, don't open the window and inhale, there's a ton of Alpha and Beta particles trying to stick to the earth's gravitational pull, or electrical, or whatever.

Most rockets with fuel hitting the ocean like that would blow up. It took a hit on the skirt very early in descent. The flaps were looking really ragged and it landed right on point next to a buoy in the middle of the fucking ocean. I’d consider that a success. Go to bed, thunderf00t. That was awesome, Elon. Congratulations.

>>514083827
Well this particular one isn't.

Because it blowed up.

>>514083827
This is what you've been reduced to.

lmao

>>514083166
Soon though.

>>514083924
just a question of discipline and a willingness to chase krill.

>>514083616
Not everyday can we have a flashy boom

>>514083741
I mean the mission literally states
>The booster on this flight test is attempting several flight experiments to gather real-world performance data on future flight profiles and off-nominal scenarios.
>The primary test objectives for the booster will be focused on its landing burn and will use unique engine configurations.
>One of the three center engines used for the final phase of landing will be intentionally disabled to gather data on the ability for a backup engine from the middle ring to complete a landing burn.
>The booster will then transition to only two center engines for the end of the landing burn, entering a full hover while still above the ocean surface, followed by shutdown and drop into the Gulf of America.
>A significant number of tiles have been removed from Starship to stress-test vulnerable areas across the vehicle during reentry.
>Multiple metallic tile options, including one with active cooling, will test alternative materials for protecting Starship during reentry.
>On the sides of the vehicle, functional catch fittings are installed and will test the fittings’ thermal and structural performance, along with a section of the tile line receiving a smoothed and tapered edge to address hot spots observed during reentry on Starship’s sixth flight test.
>Starship’s reentry profile is designed to intentionally stress the structural limits of the upper stage’s rear flaps while at the point of maximum entry dynamic pressure.

>>514083133
They reached the target re-entering from low earth orbit into the Indian Ocean. It was a stress test on Starship so they expected it to be severely damaged, but succeeded landing on the ocean (then blowing up).

>>514084022
Seriously though, why wasn't it dropped in the Gulf of Mexico? Launch pushback? Or the panjandrums don't want Elon trying to blow up a big spaceship over areas inhabited by people that matter?

>>514084022
This just seems to be more like.
>We know its gonna fuck up, BUT we can still get the govt gibs if we just say its part of the testing process
Mush is gonna be in prison for fraud within a decade.
How many
"Successful" failures is the govt gonna stand before they want to see the thing actually take off and land in one piece?
Much less get into orbit.
Awfully expensive to keep losing and exploding these "reusable" Rockets.

>>514084460
They genuinely need to start locking you fucking retards up.

Mission successfully accomplished.
Congratulations to the SpaceX, to Elon and to the US.

>>514083133
>Booster engine-out landing test was successful
>Target orbit insertion was successful
>Payload deploy was successful
>Raptor relight was successful
>Aft flap and skirt was damaged by something exploding (maybe an attitude control thruster?)
>Re-entry and splashdown landing was successful despite the damage

All in all a very good test flight that set some new milestones and provided a lot of new data to analyze.

>>514084343
Mexico doesn't have a Gulf anon, that's why.

>>514083722
He isn't saying we didn't do it, he is saying that NASA threw the tech away. I realize your are ESOL.

>>514077292
You're gay.

>>514085022
I feel like calling it the Indian Ocean is getting ahead of matters though. Surely it will take at least a few more months before Texas is majority indian.

>>514083858
thanks I'll keep that in mind. It's my dream to be the first space pirate.

>>514084343
The booster landed in the Gulf, the Starship (upper stage) was the part that landed in the Indian Ocean

>>514085134
oh fuck it hurts cause it's true.

>>514084343
I think because the rocket trajectory is designed to be sub-orbital. If they put it on a trajectory to go all the way around the world, that's basically orbital. During development if these things blow up in space, they want the pieces to deorbit on their own.

Like those satellite mock-ups they deployed; they are on the same sub-orbital trajectory and have already burned up.

>>514073703
>There is simply not enough talent in the United States itself to fill out these positions
>Even if there was the entitlement is so fucking high
Even if it wasn't I'm just not willing to pay employees enough to live good lives

>>514084343
Dropping it back into the Gulf of America would require it to enter a full orbit, which is more dangerous for a prototype vehicle.

One day I'm going to build a tethered ring space launcher. Mark my words.
The hard part is going to be getting the $241bn to build it, but I think I can do it.

>>514085308
It may be that there's too much metal, they may need to grid parts and fill with tiling and carbon-fiber. Too much mass means too much fuel means tanks too large and entry burn too much fuel meaning more weight and more heat.

>>514085057
Yeas, retard.
>We totally went to the Moon but we've lost technology to do that again, the greatest achievement in the history of mankind but we threw it away and we can never do it again lol
That's the point, dumbfuck.
It's a lie, and a pretty clumsy one

>>514085394
>Gulf of America
Lol you faggot

>>514085460
I'll help anon. We'll just need to co-opt Everest for a nice long run.
Wait, what is a ring space launcher?

>>514085394
>>514084343
It's OK, we're on /pol/, you're allowed to say they wanted to make sure non-people would die if it blew up.

>>514085469
It could be that too; they are aggressively modifying the design to drop its weight and add propellant capacity. They have 1 more rocket of this v2 design, then they are moving to the v3 design that uses the new launch pad. It uses new engines, and is longer for more fuel, and I'd assume lots of other changes.

>>514085548
For years people have tried to make you understand what that statement entails. At this point, just like how you're still a flat earth retard, it's a you-problem.

>>514069643 (OP)
meds

delusional goyim thread

>>514085548
Its not at all unbelievable when you have worked with the US government. The level of retardation is, well, astronomical. Everything gets prostituted away from doing a thing to just getting and spending money in increasingly obscene ways.

>>514085654
>For years people have tried to make you understand what that statement entails.
You misspelled "gaslight"
>We went to the Moon
>But we destroyed the technology so we can't show you how we did it and we can't replicate
That's it.
>But no, what he akshully meant is that blablabla
What else is there dumbfuck

>>514085645
Not that this is difficult, but what does booster look like if you bare-back to tanks, with just a blast shield and minor cone on key parts, and a cone to "parachute" on re-entry? Like a dart.

>>514085826
>Everything gets prostituted away from doing a thing to just getting and spending money in increasingly obscene ways.
But at the same time they totally wouldn't fake the Moon mission.
They are retarded and obscene but also trad and honest. Sure thing, buddy.

people really dont get this "lost technolgy" thing at all, do they. the plans and how the first lunar module, even if you had them, would be useless. youd go start building them and thennnnn-oops, you need a lot of asbestos. its not quite 100% illegal to make asbesto's, but its heavily restricted, its not the same specific kind we were making in the 60's, and even if you could source it you wouldnt want to use it because....its asbestos. they didnt realize how bad it would be. so you got two options
A) redesign the entire thing because whoops asbestos is dangerous and toxic, and build something that doesnt resemble the lunar module (to which people will yell why didnt they just remake it like the original, lost techhhh)
or B) start up a factory from scratch and restart the entire production process of this particular type of asbestos that you cant sell or use for anything else and is toxic just to recreate a design that....has asbestos all the way through it.

here i made a food analogy version.
its like building an entire mcdonalds, hiring and training the staff, putting out all the advertising, filling the soda fountains, filling the freezers with a days worth of ingrediants, setting up a coffee maker and filling the paper cup holder thingies with 250 cups, having a grand ye old opening day, open the store, make and serve a single cheeseburger.

then close the store and never use it again. just for the 1 cheeseburger. but you did atleast get the beef tallow french fries right? also lost technology, since mcdonalds stopped using beef tallow in the 90's.

>>514085308
It also launches at a ~26 degree inclination and the Earth is rotating beneath it. By the time it completes 1 full orbit the gulf will have moved to the East and it would be passing over Mexico instead.

>>514085847
As stated, you're delusional.

>>514085560
Basically imagine a giant ring which is tethered to the ground but holds itself up in space by accelerating mass inside itself, like how a garden hose flies up in the air when you turn on the tap. Then you can ride a tether up to the ring, spin around it and launch off into space for far less cost than a rocket. It has lots of other benefits too.

It's a similar concept to an orbital ring (but smaller), and it raises itself from the ground rather than being built in space. Or it's in the same sort of class of structures as a space elevator, but those aren't possible with current materials.

>>514085882
idk, but there are lots of ways of approaching the problem. ULA is planning to 'break' their rocket and recover only the engines; allowing the tanks to be thrown away each launch (tanks are cheap). The engines will come down with a heat shield, then parachutes, then be caught by a helicopter mid air (all iirc).

https://www.defensedaily.com/ula-plans-to-recover-next-gen-engine-in-mid-air-after-flight/space/

Bezos is trying to land his big rocket not back at the launch point, but on a ship down range, like falcon 9 does. But this means he has landing legs on his rocket and won't be able to turn it around quickly after a landing.

Lots of different approaches are apparently possible. Get gud and go work on this stuff.

>>514086331
Space elevator on an arc. aka Planetary Plasma Fuse.

>>514085882
Any extra use is a reduction in cost. I think it's fair to start with getting 1 reuse per vehicle, and moving from there.
SpaceX is currently testing the costs of single use.

>>514086739
lol, too old to go back to math class, and after missing a few weeks in 1st grade I never was a math wiz.
I might wash dishes in the canteen.

Never bet against Elon.

>>514086844
I don't know what a planetary plasma fuse is, but a tethered ring launcher isn't really that similar to a space elevator. It's just functionally related in that they can both get you to space cheaply with electric power.

>>514087234
The same problem is going to remain, the plasma impacting atmosphere and platform will charge and seek ground. Normally that's sprites and elf and lightening.
In the case where you build a giant structure, even if your structure manages to not be a ground, the wind patterns will trap dust in eddy off the supports, and you're working a planetary arc-welder against the ground.

I feel the urgency more looking at this than did people watching the Saturn V development. Instead of racing to beat Russia we are racing to perfect this thing before the child eaters can shut it down and lock us here forever.

>>514087436
Yeah, obviously you ground it via the tethers.

>>514087821
If you can do that, then I would argue you can space elevator with less stress than a snap.
But we've still got another problem, Thunderstorms seem to be imperative for life. If you're pulling all that charge, you're absolutely changing weather.
Again, there's a lightening strike on earth at every moment of every day. even 1/5th of that trying to run your system, is serious EMF and heating.

>>514088016
>If you can do that
Powering it is a pretty crucial component lmao, it won't keep itself up in the air by pure willpower. Why do you think that's more complicated than the carbon nanotubes needed for a space elevator?
Sounds like you've got a pretty bad case of dunning kruger.

>>514088148
I'm glad you dodged the problems and hand waved 121 gigawatts every 5 seconds. I hope this helps you write your article or book, and if you'd give a bit of
>thanks to you know who
in some section, I'll be happy with you buying me a hotdog when we meet.

Congratulations to the SpaceX team, Gwynne, and Elon. I cheered out loud like I haven’t done since you nailed the Falcon 9 landing for the first time.
Only after touching down with a damaged skirt, ragged burned flaps, with fuel and oxidizer in the middle of the ocean, on point next to buoy, did the vehicle rapidly disassemble itself on-schedule.

>>514085548
>We lost the technology
You've been explained a million times it was just a piss poor use of words by ONE GUY, but you still cling to it for you sad mental illness.

When you lose the factory that makes hemp car doors for that ancient Ford prototype, you "lose" the technology.
There's plenty of "lost" technologies. Does it mean we can't make hemp car doors? We can. We have the process recorded even. But we don't have 20 street urchins to boil hemp that the specifications require. We don't have the machinery they used. We have better machinery. So it's much faster and cheaper to "reinvent" the hemp car doors from scratch using new tech and production methods.
In the case of the Saturn program the US literally doesn't have enough welders to cost-effectively replicate the construction process, thus "we don't have that technology".
We don't have the technology to build wooden galleons too, for the same exact reason. All wooden ships existing today have a metal interior and hidden engines. Even though we know exactly how to build them.

>>514088290
whoops, at 173,000 terawatts per day incoming by Solar, assuming we net 1/5 at every 5 seconds, that's 400 gigawatts per pulse.
But, that's just spitball rate, truth is we really don't know how fast the EMF would move in each layer and obviously we're stuck fudging sizes and materials and eddy constituents. We also don't really know charge rates for photons passing gas at altitude, or if we do, you can find that paper yourself.

>>514084990
>fuselage literally made out of corrugated aluminum like a grain silo
WTF

>>514088902
hmm. May have missed an integer, it's either 80gigawatts per 5 seconds, or 400 gigawatts. The problem is that is technically photon gain. I can't tell you what gravitational and other gains are giving, and it may be lower than that since the most immediate charging is going to be ion winds and dust.

>>514084608
Not an argument...or even a point. Mush is a fucking fraud, only low iq r*ddit søy boys like you keep sucking his dick.

>>514077021
Lol... Humanity wont get past mars, and even that wont be much more than a research base or two. Not unlike what we have in Antarctica.
We have hit the great filter, and as long as we keep feeding niggers, we will never grasp the stars.

>>514089073
You have to cut as many corners as possible to make the grift profitable. This is just an IRL
>Monorail
Simpsons reference for all you zoomies. And coincidentally about the same era I stopped watching that garbage.

>>514089823
Hear me out. What if we made an engine of nigger propellant?

>>514089823
politicians will use mars to store child sex slaves. Epstein already did it on his island

Thats why elon has been getting so much funding and crashed out on trump being in epstein files

>>514089073
>tfw no sea dragon

It feels bad, man.

>>514089972
https://youtu.be/2S4Bv1IRRR8

>>514091108
>>514089668

>>514089996
Go right ahead.

>>514075409
>why no catch?

They are testing booster failure modes: whether the booster can maneuver with a failed center engine, and using another engine to compensate.

Since they are messing with the engines, they don't want to risk a catch, the tower, crashing on land, etc. So they're putting into the water.

>>514090818
Canines might make it...That would be cool.
Or maybe octopus. It won't be humans though. At best we're gonna be novelties in some far future museums. Perhaps pacaderms? Cetaceans?
Lots of contenders out there. I wish them the best of luck. Ya think Dolphins have their own niggers?
I know canines do, shitbulls.
Perhaps they will be more sensible and just not prop them up. Thats the thing that pisses me off the most about niggers. We don't even have to genovide them, we just have to stop feeding them.
They are like a cancer, that if left alone will go away on its on, yet we are intentionally hitting it with radiation to make sure it doesn't go away. Absolutely retarded.

>>514091364
I think they will soon want to practice transit side to side either way, just in case.
Honda is already catching up.

>>514076678
Fuck...get it TO ORBIT and return in one piece and ill be impressed.

>>514069643 (OP)
absolutely nothing ever came off of these rockets to fucking nowhere. what a mess.
>UH UHm lost the tech bros
>can totally fly with PROPULSION THROUGH A SEA OF PLASMA BROS TRUST US ON THAT ONE
its idiocracy.

tell a bunch of halfbrained mongos that propulsion engines work in a sea of plasma and they believe it.

WERE REAL PEOPLES BRO TRUST US ON THAT ONE WITH NOT JUST HALFBRAINED MONGOS NO NO NO NO NO NO

>im smarter than jews off course
>trust me on that one
so fucking mentally ill.

>>514084990
>All in all a very good test flight that set some new milestones and provided a lot of new data to analyze.
analyzing spacecraft explosions could be a lifelong career

>>514092022
thats a safe job for atleast 10.000 years because space is fake and gay.

>>514080527
White magic if we're being consistent

>>514080527
unmercator the map, simple as.
i thought youre all so smart like 150 points n shiet. was it all just fake and gay and youre all just retards?
oh no, now im very sads.

>>514069643 (OP)
they don't use those kinds of stand-up rackets, they use circular crafts

>>514092902
gaycrafts landing on a reflection after flying thtough a sea of plasma with propulsion engines.

i love how retarded you people are <3
>UH UHM UHM SMATTA THAN JEWS

>>514089073
>fuselage literally made out of corrugated aluminum like a grain silo
Steel, but yes. There may be improvements made in future iterations of the ship and booster using stylus forming or other more exotic methods to create more complex lighter supports for paneling but for the time being 90deg bent stringers and cocreation is doing the job to keep everything rigid under the expected loads.

>>514089073
3mm stainless steel actually
that's why it can tank so much heat without being completely destroyed

>>514069643 (OP)
Flat earth fags are in shambles right now.