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Originally Posted By Variable556:
I keep trying to see stuff on Starship Cam, but that place seems to get a lot of fog. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/53338/6C14E146-DBF3-47CD-AF97-E5630491946D_png-874254.JPG I keep expecting King Kong or a T Rex to pop out. |
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Originally Posted By Chokey:
Raptor has arrived to the launch pad https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1tP2XAXcAAKAJ8.jpg 
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Originally Posted By Chokey:
Raptor has arrived to the launch pad https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1tP2XAXcAAKAJ8.jpg Starship Cam live view The fog is gone. 
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While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew. |
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Originally Posted By bullet3:
While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew. |
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Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
At the pace they're going NASA may not put the first person on Mars... Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
Originally Posted By bullet3:
While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew. 
Attached File (Parody- I know Elon doesn’t expect to be the first person setting foot on mars)
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Originally Posted By bullet3:
While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew. |
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Originally Posted By Walkure:
Pretty sure you mean inconel - they had announced development of a new superalloy in the inconel family earlier this year, IIRC. (Inconel alloys aren't anything like stainless steel, BTW. They aren't even steel - they are Ni-Cr based.) Originally Posted By Walkure:
Originally Posted By Neotopiaman:
Apparently during development of the Raptor rocket engine SpaceX discovered a new super-strong cryoformed Stainless steel type alloy that allowed them to skip building it out of composites and accelerate development. |
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Originally Posted By Variable556:
If they fuck around completely enough, the first words could be “One small step for me, one giant leap for Spacex!”
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/53338/02A7BE36-9599-4DE7-8733-0534C5A60F69_jpeg-879182.JPG (Parody- I know Elon doesn’t expect to be the first person setting foot on mars) Originally Posted By Variable556:
Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
Originally Posted By bullet3:
While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew.
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/53338/02A7BE36-9599-4DE7-8733-0534C5A60F69_jpeg-879182.JPG (Parody- I know Elon doesn’t expect to be the first person setting foot on mars)
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Originally Posted By Variable556:
If they fuck around completely enough, the first words could be “One small step for me, one giant leap for Spacex!”
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/53338/02A7BE36-9599-4DE7-8733-0534C5A60F69_jpeg-879182.JPG (Parody- I know Elon doesn’t expect to be the first person setting foot on mars) Originally Posted By Variable556:
Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
Originally Posted By bullet3:
While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew.
https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/53338/02A7BE36-9599-4DE7-8733-0534C5A60F69_jpeg-879182.JPG (Parody- I know Elon doesn’t expect to be the first person setting foot on mars) |
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I had a wierd-ass half awake dream Friday morning that the hopper wasn't only a hover/landing testbed for BFR/Starship, but also a secret project to disrupt/destroy the grain silo industry. And in some weird TED talk type conference, Musk explained if SpaceX could eventually do $100 per kg to LEO, their Raptor powered grain silos could do $1 per kg to 2 miles up and fly grain to market faster than trains. Then I realized that was weird and woke up fully. 
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Originally Posted By Variable556:
Yeah, I hadn't thought out those numbers. That equals about $45 per pound, into orbit... Holy shit. If accurate and successful, that'd enable a whole lotta shit to start happening. A pretty staggering concept to envision where that could lead. Originally Posted By Variable556:
Originally Posted By ludder093:
Originally Posted By Neotopiaman: Sea Dragon is cool, but BFR/Starship will easily beat it on economics because it is fully re-usable. Fuel is cheap, aerospace equipment is expensive (EDIT: fucking ARFcom keeps auto deleting what I try to write here) With BFR/Starship you should be capable of >100 tonnes to orbit for <$10 million. If accurate and successful, that'd enable a whole lotta shit to start happening. A pretty staggering concept to envision where that could lead. $9,000 for a 200lb man. At $45/lb, some seriously cool stuff will happen. |
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Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Unlikel SLS, I believe STARSHIP/BFR will actually fly ... and I cannot wait to see it!  Originally Posted By DK-Prof:
Originally Posted By Neotopiaman:
Starship/BFR will be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built World changing. Can’t wait for the materials and process technology spinoffs start filtering down. |
In response to being asked about the new nosecone being built.
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Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
In response to being asked about the new nosecone being built.
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Originally Posted By ludder093:
That would enable us to build things in space that we wouldn't be able to launch. Like a space station capable of supporting missions to Mars and maybe even a moon base. Originally Posted By ludder093:
Originally Posted By Neotopiaman: Sea Dragon is cool, but BFR/Starship will easily beat it on economics because it is fully re-usable. Fuel is cheap, aerospace equipment is expensive (EDIT: fucking ARFcom keeps auto deleting what I try to write here) With BFR/Starship you should be capable of >100 tonnes to orbit for <$10 million. 
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Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
In response to being asked about the new nosecone being built.
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Originally Posted By EastcARstle: ... being built using equipment from JoeBob's Crane Rental, an old Winnebago, and nailed-together 2x4s. Love it Attached File |
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Originally Posted By bullet3:
While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew. Not A Space Agency....Then they so the whole SJW thing... wonder if they've picked the crew for the first warp 1 event?
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Originally Posted By Chokey:
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Originally Posted By AmericanPeople:
SpaceX is doing great with Falcon 9 but this venture seems ill-advised to me. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By Neotopiaman:
Originally Posted By theskuh:
Fucking A just go for it. http://i.imgur.com/wprdbnp.jpg Re heat tiles: That’s a new one on me. I guess a recent change? I thought it was heat shield, then stainless with transpirational, and now it’s stainless w/tiles and partial transpirational? |
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Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
Why? Very similar to the approach they took to developing reusability on F9 with the Grasshopper. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/86377/75AFD646-598E-46A5-900A-E7257FA159A6_jpeg-881510.JPG |
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Originally Posted By Plumber576: You ever been to Kennedy Space Center? Or Wallops? Attached File Totally without buildings to protect from wind and really close to the ocean. Obviously way smarter people have thought about this but how much are they risking building rockets on a launch site than somewhere even slightly more inland. |
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Originally Posted By Variable556:
That’s Starship Block 87 Re heat tiles: That’s a new one on me. I guess a recent change? I thought it was heat shield, then stainless with transpirational, and now it’s stainless w/tiles and partial transpirational? |
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Originally Posted By Variable556: That's Starship Block 87 Re heat tiles: That's a new one on me. I guess a recent change? I thought it was heat shield, then stainless with transpirational, and now it's stainless w/tiles and partial transpirational?
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Originally Posted By webtaz99:
They do a LOT of very high-accuracy simulations. It lets them test engineering alternatives much faster. This is what smart, agile companies do. Originally Posted By webtaz99:
Originally Posted By Variable556:
That’s Starship Block 87 Re heat tiles: That’s a new one on me. I guess a recent change? I thought it was heat shield, then stainless with transpirational, and now it’s stainless w/tiles and partial transpirational? |
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Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
Supposed to be this week Originally Posted By Pavelow16478:
Originally Posted By DCV_117:
Any idea when the first hop will be? |
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Originally Posted By bullet3:
While SpaceX is doing this. NASA is full speed ahead with this.... WASHINGTON DC: The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman," CNN cited Bridenstine as saying on a science and technology radio talk show "Science Friday". The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said women are at the forefront of the agency's upcoming plans. I could care less who the first person on Mars or back on the moon, as long as they are American. But Nasa just can't help themselves. How about worry about building something capable of getting there, not the gender of the crew. |
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Originally Posted By AgeOne: and SLS, is likely dead... as they couldn't figure out how to re purpose and update the rocket system from the shuttle program without waisting billions of dollars. |
| I get that it's a prototype, but that thing looks really really rough. Buckled sheet metal, rust, the whole thing looks slapped together, and they just "decide" not to use the nose cone after it gets damaged? That sounds more to me like Musk saying "build it anyway" and not a decision they arrived at by thoughtful analysis. There's doing it better faster smarter, and there's being needlessly reckless. SpaceX is not out of the woods by any stretch; I bet the SJW's at NASA would love to see SpaceX sidelined. |