@expobear1 Through Starlink and Government CONTRACTS
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serendipitous sextant
@serendistant
somewhere out there Katılım Mayıs 2021
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How the fuck do they make money? Through government subsidization? Trips to the moon? I wouldn't touch this POS with a 10 ft pole.
Ed Elson@edels0n
I read all 277 pages of SpaceX's IPO filing so you don't have to. Losses up 700%. Revenue decelerating. 107x price-to-sales multiple. It's a trainwreck. Full breakdown below 👇
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@jimkler_ @thunderf00t Starship has never blown up at launch? Unless you can't maybe SN4??
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@thunderf00t Starship's heatshield doesn't need to be refurbished is because it blows up at launch. Truly a genius move.
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@Arduino_jantje @puddy811 @PebMet1 @thunderf00t How do you know the ships aren't good enough to investigate metal wear? Are you on the recovery team? With how intact the aft section proves to be, im sure there's a lot of useful information to be gathered.
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@puddy811 @serendistant @PebMet1 @thunderf00t That would work.
However that would require you to have the object intact after use, to allow for a proper study of the "damage".
After 12 flights not 1 single starship was even close to "good enough to investigate metal wear properly"
So that does not look like the plan to me.
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'it was always our plan not to have the heatshield figured out by FLIGHT 12!!!!!'
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane
SpaceX Starship Landing Comparison between Flights 10, 11, and 12. This gives a great look at how well Starship V3’s heat shield held up compared to its predecessors.
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@Arduino_jantje @PebMet1 @thunderf00t Having a heatshield thats reasonably above the bare minimum saves mass, while still providing margin for error. They need to know the bare minimum to account for such margin. Just like how SH lands w/ high AoA it means less fuel for landing which saves mass & means more to orbit
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@Arduino_jantje @PebMet1 @thunderf00t It shows how much margin the have, and if a ship cans survive fully intact with a severely degraded heat shield, then it's trivial if it comes back with a perfect one. Its also no different than how they optimize the landing burn of Falcon and SH to use as little fuel as possible
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@dehgrape gets even worse once you start distinguishing between decimal (Gigabytes) and binary (Gibibytes) and how Windows has them improperly labelled, which is why your 1TB drive shows up as 0.9 TB (bc windows is actually showing TiB but not telling you)
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I didn't even think about how you would distinguish bytes and bits when abbreviating until now
Palak🎀@Palak3312
90% of people still don’t know the difference between MB/s and Mb/s 💀
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@kpatrickpayne Ffs why not make STANDARD TIME permanent. Why do we have to be arbitrarily and hour ahead
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If this passes I’m gonna lose my mind. Some of us like putting our kids to bed before 10pm
Leading Report@LeadingReport
President Trump indicates he will sign bill making daylight saving time permanent.
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@Td7653 @PebMet1 @SpaceX @elonmusk @NASA @ulalaunch @blueorigin Because then OP's worldview falls apart
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@PebMet1 @SpaceX @elonmusk @NASA @ulalaunch @blueorigin I follow New Glenn, so why wouldn’t I follow if they were doing Starship?
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I know @SpaceX and @elonmusk followers will not be honest: If it were @NASA , @ulalaunch, @blueorigin developing Starship, would you still follow it? Most of you would say it is a piece of junk or what are we doing if it were anyone else but SpaceX/Musk developing it.
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@PebMet1 @SpaceX @elonmusk @NASA @ulalaunch @blueorigin You bet I would! The same way I follow NG, Vulcan, and SLS development
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@PebMet1 @thunderf00t Yes. Thats exactly what I said. They were playing around with using new METALLIC tiles, instead of the *proven* CERAMIC ones. Thats whats causing the orange color, since it's the metallic tiles degrading from the heat. Again, theyre trying to figure out what the BARE MINIMUM is.
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@serendistant @thunderf00t Looking at what happend with previous flights, it appeared they were still playing around with it.
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@PebMet1 @thunderf00t Obviously they're not new lmao, I don't think I ever said they were?? Flight 12 was them using a normal heat shield that wasn't intentionally degraded like previous flights, and it worked perfectly fine. (They already had it figured out btw)
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@serendistant @thunderf00t Thermal tiles are not new technology. Flight 12 and still trying to figure it out.
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@_Testflight_ Iridium? Damn lol haven't heard that name in a bit
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@collin_ruth89 Even better, Extended Range Electric Vehicles. Simply a small generator instead of an engine that is dedicated to charging the battery instead of also moving the car forward. Simpler and more efficient.
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I don’t understand why every vehicle isn’t a hybrid.
Why not use regenerative braking to charge a battery in every car?
Huge increase in gas mileage.
Why do they still make non-hybrids?
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@EagleAIView The thing with ground infrastructure is that they don't have a mass budget like the ship, they can just add more water suppression, more foundations, more shielding, etc
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Does anyone think this is ok for rapid reusability? Really? Please explain.
Cameron Schwartz@nyoomtm
Liftoff of Starship V3, from the dunes right outside the pad. This is the most insane shockwave action I have ever seen on video. Absolutely mad. 📽️ Me for @WeAreSpaceScout
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@thunderf00t I don't think a single sole, other than grifters like you, have claimed that Flight 12 was supposed to be fully reusable
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spacex fans arguing for the man who invents worse copies of things that already exists then wants to go for 'wild parties' on the island!
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@JayisDreeming @PebMet1 @JamesPDBuchanan @Starship @elonmusk @SpaceX SpaceX has already toyed with the idea of ocean launch platforms a few years back, and offshore launches are nothing new and happen frequently
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@serendistant @PebMet1 @JamesPDBuchanan @Starship @elonmusk @SpaceX Do you understand how much pollution (noise and chemical) would be involved in an operation like that? Or how many resources?
He literally just says bogus stuff like this to pump his followers and stock prices.
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You must be new to spaceflight as what we saw from starship matches what occurred to the space shuttle when it re-entered.
And given Starship’s tiles are built on the shuttle’s- it’s no surprise they work.
Mustache Bob@MustacheBob2
They all exploded. The heat shield still doesn't work. By this same time the Apollo program had put a human on the moon.
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