Elon's latest grain silo went full Kerbal, spinning and all.
Stage Separation Failure supposedly, but frankly it was looking bad long before that.
Whoever called "delaying it an extra day because lmao weed number" come to the courtesy desk for your prize
mondays and thursdays were reserved for eyebrow grooming and mainetnance
Your rocket launch is inflexibly scheduled a year in advance for May Day/October/Lenins death/Marx's Birth/Brezhnev's ninth hero of the soviet union award ceremony. Good Luck, cosmonaut.
It's not "weed day" it's Adolf Hitler's birthday. Just a little present to Musk and Trump's hero.
Things can be two things and he's probably thrilled about the plausible deniability
So much Elon cope in the comments lmao :data-laughing:
Maybe just maybe if I defend Elon on this one he'll pick me to inherit his wealth!
People need to reply to all his tweets with just this picture
The news is spinning this as a huge step. You know we had a space SHUTTLE, right?
The NRO, on the other hand, is very interested. And this will probably start up the dumb "rods from god" discourse.
It's much better than the Space Shuttle, at least on paper. The space shuttle as finally conceived was a horrible kludge of what was initially a simple, small space truck.
If/when Starship actually flies, it'd be the first step forward in super-heavy lift rocketry since the SaturnV/N1 was cancelled. Excepting the stand-alone Energia that never flew.
Soviets had automated more advanced shuttles, and they were abondoned after the fall. I'm also suprised Putin didn't revive the program.
omg this is so sad and on 4/20 too his special day, Elon (pbuh)
Guys, guys, you don't get it, i meant to shit my pants on purpose, this is a test.
This is like going about your day as normal when you've been warned that there is a 60% chance you will shit your pants on that day.
And while your underpants are full of investors' money, which you had previously promised to make a good-faith effort to return without shitstains on it.
Probably not but I don't think they enjoyed this. At least it cleared the pad (in a way that frankly looked a bit "oh fuck oh fuck get this thing downrange NOW!"
I'd imagine this a time of year they're nesting. Perfect chance to cause them to scatter and never return to the area, like when Johnny Cash almost wiped out the Californian condor with a forest fire.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/05/priority-johnny-cash-accidentally-started-wildfire-destroyed-500-acres-killed-49-refuges-53-endangered-condors/?firefox=1
In June 1965, his camper caught fire during a fishing trip with his nephew Damon Fielder in Los Padres National Forest in California, triggering a forest fire that burnt several hundred acres and nearly killed Cash. Cash claimed that the fire was caused by sparks from a defective exhaust system on his camper, but Fielder thinks that Cash started a fire to stay warm and in his drugged condition failed to notice the fire getting out of control.
When the judge asked Cash why he did it, Cash said, “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead, so you can’t question it.” The fire destroyed 508 acres (206 ha), burning the foliage off three mountains and driving off forty-nine of the refuge’s 53 endangered condors.
Cash was unrepentant and claimed, “I don’t care about your damn yellow buzzards.” The federal government sued him and was awarded $125,172 ($939,914 in 2016 dollars). Cash eventually settled the case and paid $82,001.He said he was the only person ever sued by the government for starting a forest fire.
Yeah tell me about it. I was watching some Le Tigre and Bikini Kill videos yesterday and memory holed that Kathleen Hanna wrote a song called "I'm With Her" a month before the 2016 election.
He was also a big gospel singer and has whole albums full of explicitly Christian music.
He'll cheer himself up by tweeting about falling white birthrates while walking around in a toddler like rage firing people at random
It sure did lose a lot of engines. It also appeared to be doing that slewing thing where the rocket appears to be flying sideways (relative to its attitude) due to a lack of thrust. Really it looked like one of my over ambitious KSP attempts.
I've always felt N1 vibes from the booster stage. Having 30+ (still powerful) engines all firing at once gives you a lot of points for failure.
Obviously, it did beat out the N1 by being able to clear the pad, but even if they can compensate for the failures of a few (3-5) engines per flight, that bodes ill for the re-usability of the craft.
Obviously, it did beat out the N1 by being able to clear the pad
One of the N1s cleared the pad on one occasion, flying for 107 seconds and failing just before stage separation. Also one of the engines that failed was from the central 3 that are used to perform the landing, so that aint good either.
Thanks for the info. For some reason I thought all 4 N1s were lost on the pad.
Only 1 N1 was lost on the pad. 2 seem to have outperformed Starship.
Stage seperarion bolts failed to blow. :rage-cry: THEY HAD NO CHOICE!
In fairness, Soviet Rocket technology looks like a time traveller from 2050 gave Korolev the plans. America literally thought the RD-180 was theoretically impossible and a scam when they heard of it.
So...uh...still pretty damning that a bunch of half-feudal war-scarred peasants outdid the entirety of capitalist production.
"Liquid propellent closed-cycle staged-combustion rocket engines, which I am sure most Americans have experience building."
A finely curated selection of cope from the replies:
SUCCESSFUL launch. Get it right or go away.
Did you even watch, Just getting past the launch pad made it a success. Hence the term “test flight”
It was supposed to. Successful launch
launching in itself was big thing.
THEY WERE LAUGHIN WHILE ELON WASNT :)
Since it is impossible to go to space, a good back up plan was making sure the rocket would explode is a nice cop out. Space does not exist. You have been lied to.
It is not possible to go through the dome
A two part nightcap:
The entire purpose of the launch was to test if things like this would happen and fix them before the rocket is used for important missions. The rocket blowing up now is a good thing , since it means one or more problems that led to the failure will be fixed.
Usually you model out this sort of thing before spending millions building a fully functional version that’s supposed to work.
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Apollo 1 was acutally a success becuase it taught us that oxygen was flammable and people can't survive 5000 degrees.
Final radio communications from Soyuz 1 show Komarov exclaiming joyfully that he had found a critical parachute failure.
Since it is impossible to go to space, a good back up plan was making sure the rocket would explode is a nice cop out. Space does not exist. You have been lied to.
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WTF. Why isn't NASA doing this stuff. You can't do this with private companies, though they are basically the state nowdays with how much state funding they receive.
hate to break it to you but NASA largely operates via private companies. Before SpaceX NASA was buying most of its launches from ULA which was just a defense contractor monopoly on the launch industry. During the Shuttle era, most of its parts were made by private companies, and usually the sourcing decisions were political (congressperson x needs a gasket made in their district) rather than like, trying to efficiently build a launch vehicle using public money.
For example, the Space Shuttle Main Engines were designed and manufactured by Rocketdyne. NASA refurbished them between flights, but for SLS (the next launch vehicle) they're being expended, meaning more money for Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Shuttle SRBs were made by a variety of companies, including Thiokol/ATK and Pratt & Whitney
Right now SpaceX is probably at its best, since Elon is so distracted by Twitter. As for why they're doing it instead of NASA directly, gestures wildly at the seventies.
Fill in the blank: the definition of _________ is the merger of state and corporate power.
