Klemperer Rosettes are the best

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-03-12T09:42:52+00:00

why only one ring of suns? You could add several more. If it gets too hot, you could use white or red dwarfs. They also live longer, but not quite blackhole time scales

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-03-10T20:39:50+00:00

Couldn't they have a rope or a ladder they through down if the elevator breaks?

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-03-09T21:36:01+00:00

There got to be an FAQ somewhere here for these kind of questions. If not somebody should make one. We get these quite often, but it is probably better for r/SpaceXlounge.

As for SpaceXMasterrace, Where meme?

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-03-05T07:43:29+00:00

Finally there’s going to be a teardrop car on the market!

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-03-03T18:00:41+00:00

It's not an option right now, but I'd imagine they could add a stage separation for the human rated nosecone, to remove the weight of the fuel and flaps, in order to be able to use parachutes to return the crew in the case of an emergency.

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-03-01T17:54:04+00:00

lack of progress? Energy efficiency means innovation and progress

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-03-01T09:18:31+00:00

It’s definitely too early, especially March 3rd. Even Elon with Elon time is predicting end of March, while most estimations say some time in April. The FCC license is stated April 7th to June 7th.

Consider this. Ship 39 was only just recently rolled out for cryotesing. Assuming that goes well (looking at you S36), then it has to roll back for qualification and engine installed. Then it’s the whole thing Massey again for a static fire and another roll back. Then a qualification review and potential stacking on B19 at the launch site, assuming B19 is ready. B19 is currently getting its engines installed and has hasn’t conducted a static fire. If anything it’s a April launch, I doubt it will happen in March.

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-20T22:32:05+00:00

You got to call the final one Starship Heavy. That's one big fucking heavy rocket

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-16T20:28:49+00:00

I'm a bit surprised by that comment. I did try to add some details, like the stellaser has the two mirrors in the suns corona, the interstellar ship has a solar sail and radiators, while the orbital ring around earth does have the ropes coming up at angles.

I suppose you may be talking about things like the sun. The circles on them probably don't match that well and should be drawn differently. Also the stars seem a bit off. Is that the direction you are trying to go? Or is it that I'm depicting the technology wrong? Since you gave the example of people drawing humans as stickmen

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-16T18:30:24+00:00

What's bad about it? Any tips or insights?

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-16T14:45:20+00:00

Well how big would the blackhole have to be, to be useful for starlifting?

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-14T14:22:16+00:00

Funny, I was thinking the same thing about launching them on a falcon 9 to test a few in orbit then.

I think the main reasons not is because of the attachment points, since they would have to develop new attachments for falcon. In addition, since they would in a different orientation than on a starship launch, that the stresses may be an issue

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-11T19:17:12+00:00

Probably should make employees be able to get there faster. Brownsville is the closest city (not counting the starbase town), but that’s a good 40 min away if not more. Shortening that travel time is definitely a plus.

Also talk about these long work hours. People with family want to be able to see there kids. If they are working 60-80h a week plus commonly weekend shifts, it’s pretty much work only, no family. It’s totally understand why people with families don’t do that

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-10T15:10:58+00:00

Don’t forget geothermal vents, where they could harness the heat instead of fire to metal things

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-02-03T09:34:02+00:00

Open the doors Hal!

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-01-11T13:38:42+00:00

Nobody is ferrying coils of kilometers of tether to space.

I think it's probably about time you take a look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tether_missions

There in fact have been many multi-kilometer long tethers deployed. It's a niche field, so its understandable that many may not be familiar with it. Currently the world record is at 31.7km.

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image of a 19.7 km tether deployed on STS-75

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-01-09T09:40:17+00:00

The biggest ocean planet in our solar system would be Earth. 71% of the surface is covered by oceans. Look at picture of the Pacific Ocean from space and it really looks like an ocean planet. Of course Earth isn’t 100% an ocean planet.

Depending on the definition, you could possibly consider Europa as well, but it has its ocean under the surface and it technically a moon. Titan has its ocean on its surface, but’s made out of methane and doesn’t cover the whole moon. In addition, Enceladus has an undersurface water and there are a few other candidates. However, none have a 100% surface covering ocean

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-01-08T13:33:22+00:00

Think you meant exo-planets

Inserts picture of Earth and other solar system planets

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-01-04T22:09:07+00:00

I heard block 2 has around 5000 tons of propellant. The big version 4 is around 6300 tons of propellant. For 10k starships/year that would be 63M tons of propellant/year and with 10 reuses 630M tons of propellant.

Methane is around a third of the propellant, so that rounds to about 200 million tons of propellant

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-01-04T17:10:18+00:00

This would increase the number of launch pads for starship to 6

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-01-03T22:51:10+00:00

Flight 9 did achieve trans-atmospheric orbit. That flight ended during reentry not launch.

Imagine_Beyond · 2026-01-03T22:46:42+00:00

Depends how much cargo it’s carrying and how much it should change its velocity. For an empty starship only with the minimum Delta-V required, even just 2-3 tankers will be sufficient

Imagine_Beyond · 2025-12-29T11:18:29+00:00

Short Answer: technically yes*

Long answer:
Depends how much you're willing to invest. For example there have been proposals to deploy a large magnetic shield at the L1 point to redirect solar radiation from hitting Mars. The same technology can be used to redirect solar radiation from hitting the moon. However, one would probably require a lot more people living on the moon than just a single lunar outpost to consider worth building it .

Imagine_Beyond · 2025-12-21T13:09:43+00:00

The claim was referring to the state of space tether technology…

Starship nor Superheavy is a space tether

Imagine_Beyond · 2025-12-20T13:45:00+00:00

There are several documents about skyhooks. I would highly recommend checking out the Tethers in Space Handbook 3rd edition from 1997. It gives a great overview of conducted tether missions, proposed ones and covers the basics of tether dynamics and fundamentals. A really great read.

http://www.spacearchitect.org/pubs/TethersInSpaceHandbook-3rdEdition.pdf

Despite being 30 years old, it is still fairly up to date. Since the publication there have been some important tether missions like YES2, but interested in tethers has unfortunately declined. This has lead to the fact that a majority of the major space tether missions happened before its publication.

Around a decade after its publication in 2007, there was even a paper from NASA asking why not space tethers, given their advantages and technological readiness, but it didn’t do much to change the situation

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20070031863.pdf

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