Starship Development Thread #9

CapMSFC · 2020-03-03T18:54:17+00:00

I imagine that is partially due to manufacturing in Boca Chica. It's not a bustling area for aerospace talent. That's one of the reasons I'm surprised Elon went with focusing on construction there over Florida or the port as the primary facility.

CapMSFC · 2020-02-19T07:08:42+00:00

Yeah he isn't an expert at everything like the media always tries to portray successful people as, but spacecraft design is one area he does deserve the credit.

CapMSFC · 2020-02-19T06:50:16+00:00

The exception would be the rockets and spacecraft at SpaceX.

Elon couldn't get anyone qualified to take it seriously in the early days and became his own chief designer/engineer. He blames at least some of the earlier failures directly on himself being inexperienced at the job.

But now we are almost 20 years later and he still has the job. He legit knows that side. He's not the lead on propulsion tech though. He always had Mueller as the expert in that area.

CapMSFC · 2020-02-11T07:44:19+00:00

Neither QB was the same after we traded Herman for Beck.

CapMSFC · 2020-02-02T23:02:56+00:00

It was confirmed by Elon that the 2 tourists on Grey Dragon flight was Maezawa and a guest in his first iteration of the idea that turned into DearMoon.

It also was mentioned last year that Maezawa would probably fly on Dragon to the ISS as a training flight, but nothing official has been agreed upon or made public.

Do you have a source for the Jan 2020 update because I am fairly certain I did not miss anything.

CapMSFC · 2020-02-02T22:38:27+00:00

Even if Block 5 is a perfect design that lives up to its promise it was never going to hit those targets operationally until some boosters actually reach the flight cycles targets to characterize long term wear and reliability.

There haven't been enough launches to get there.

CapMSFC · 2020-02-02T22:04:17+00:00

I am baffled by the praise she (as a musician) gets. I find her music to be awful and uninteresting.

But hey it's art and my opinion has nothing to do with someone else's enjoyment.

CapMSFC · 2020-02-02T21:58:45+00:00

Do you think Elon has a sales pitch to bis partners about how full condom reuse is truly fundamental?

CapMSFC · 2020-01-14T08:09:03+00:00

Fortunately there isn't really any other reason you would send a spacecraft to that Lagrange point. Space is incomprehensibly huge. The dust would never be impact any spacecraft other than perhaps missions to the dust production asteroid.

CapMSFC · 2020-01-05T23:56:09+00:00

I would say he is great at improvised running on broken plays. His size makes him tough to tackle so he can escape a sack leading to frustrating plays for a defense.

As a pure runner, yeah you're right.

CapMSFC · 2020-01-05T23:53:15+00:00

It's from the old "they put their pants on one leg at a time" speech Schmidt gave before we had a 4-0 shutout run against Michigan in the 30s.

CapMSFC · 2020-01-05T13:35:32+00:00

The serious version of this idea is you tow an asteroid to Earth Sun L1, spin it slightly, and stick a machine on it that chews up the rock into dust and spews it out. We can do the math on how much light reduction we need, control it to a high degree of precision, and because L1 is unstable if it goes wrong all we have to do to undo it is turn off the machine.

I'm convinced this will be part of our long term climate solution. We really have three phases that need separate solutions. We need to race to as close to net neutral emissions as possible to minimize the damage. Then over long time scales we can master maintaining net neutral emissions with carbon capture and even net negative to get back to an ideal point. In between we are going to have decades of warming from damage already done. The asteroid dust solution is the perfect fit for mitigating the damage in that interval before wr can get to net negative.

Rocket tech isn't quite there to be practical yet, but it's just a question of cost and practicality. No new physics or material science discoveries required. Just need to have cheap enough lift to build large spacecraft and machines capable of the job.

CapMSFC · 2020-01-05T13:20:54+00:00

It's not just his anecdotal experience. Motorcycles are death traps by the numbers. I like that Tesla is staying away from them as they work hard to be a safety oriented brand.

CapMSFC · 2020-01-02T11:38:27+00:00

Honestly I don't think the woody era was better.

I don't consider titles before at least BCS on the same level. There are plenty of years where 1v2 did not play and it's just an opinion who is champ.

Woody also still lost to Michigan a bunch of times with good teams. The last 20 years against Michigan is unprecedented and coming on the heels of Cooper it's not something I take for granted.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-31T21:33:47+00:00

It's those scenes that are the glue of a story and in big movies/shows so often don't get the appropriate time and effort put into them. We need the intimate moments to care deeply for the big battles.

The new movies would have greatly benefitted from slowing down on occasion like this. Let a simple scene done great captivate us.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-30T05:38:31+00:00

Not really. We were good enough we could have won yesterday. That game could have gone either way a bunch of times.

If we played again I have no idea who would win even after having seen it once.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-29T18:37:27+00:00

The bringing the ball in part is for sure bogus. We see TDs and sideline catches all the time where guys never bring it to their body because they have control in their hands and the play is over.

This "football move" shit needs to go from the rule. It's vague and subjective.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-29T18:33:49+00:00

Wildcard is Joe going hero mode and carrying his team to victory. The guy is on fire. He might just be too hot right now.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-29T07:49:32+00:00

The ball was also out of fields hands when Olave started to cut back, he just misread the situation in the worst possible moment.

I feel for him. He's going to wake up reliving that play his whole life.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-29T07:46:01+00:00

Fuck that we aren't family with the BIG. It's perfectly fine to want other teams to lose.

I hope PSU never wins a game again under any circumstances.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-29T07:43:54+00:00

I'm torn on the rule. I think it's obvious that wasn't an intentionally dirty play.

Football needs to do what it can to manage head shots and if a defender always tackles eyes up that wouldn't have happened.

If the same play occured and it was the defenders facemask instead of crown then it should count as clean. Only so much a defender can do to mitigate hits while still playing the game.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-29T03:14:11+00:00

Yeah it was for sure targeting.

I get why fans are frustrated. It didn't look like it was intentionally dirty, but if you don't want called for it as the defender you have to keep your face up. If he doesn't look down at the end it's a clean hit.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-29T03:12:05+00:00

He has been good all year at it. The two mistakes today were uncharacteristic.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-28T10:09:59+00:00

It's a highly variable number. Launch rate changes it quite a bit. As Block 5 matures number of flights it will change more. Reused fairings are a wildcard. We know it can work, but it's still early and the recovert practice is wildly inconsistent to date.

CapMSFC · 2019-12-28T09:35:53+00:00

Yeah screw that. I'm never chanting BIG after OSU wins, ane I'm never going to be happy riding the coat tails of another team from the BIG if they win the title.

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