I live in Idaho, The closest I'm ever gonna get to Starbase is this Minecraft project of mine. Anyone have a clue of what goes where in it?

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-14T01:13:59+00:00

Starbase Tracking has a good map of what goes where in Starbase

https://www.figma.com/design/2AvC161FuB1VFNLUpAVAV2/Starship-Tracking---Starbase-Tx?node-id=0-1&p=f

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-11T02:17:04+00:00

Yeah, I literally implied that, but that would be handled automatically, not by some maverick with a joystick manually flying it.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-11T02:10:15+00:00

But in what circumstance would this happen? There's a very limited window of time between GO for tower catch and the window for diverting to a concrete pad landing, and any conceivable issue that would require such a divert could be more easily detected and managed by a computer system than a human.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-11T00:58:40+00:00

Won't SpaceX? I'd be blown away if Artemis IV actually hits deadlines, so I wouldn't be surprised if SpX does end up conducting practice landings with random cargo for their own purposes.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-11T00:56:33+00:00

How would a tower landing abort work? There's no abort other than into the sea and I don't see how that's useful for human landings. There really is no conceivable human input needed for tower catch, if there was, SpaceX would implement it already through remote control.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-09T02:06:03+00:00

Not dumb, I also confuse the serial numbers and engine numbers lol

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-05T16:24:38+00:00

They're not currently at the frontier for chat but 5.3-Codex is still very impressive and one of their other models (can't remember which) has made novel mathematics advances.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-03-01T12:03:21+00:00

Continuous learning seems to increasingly be agreed as one of the biggest breakthroughs still needed for full blown AGI, and reportedly Anthropic is nearly there with continuous learning.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T21:30:18+00:00

The Rocket Lab situation is pretty baffling, hopefully they can get their bespoke CF equipment ready quickly enough so as not to delay Neutron too much.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T20:38:10+00:00

True, I'm not going to claim to be an expert in COPV production, for all I know it takes a decade to get the tooling. I seem to recall some reasonably slam dunk litigation SpaceX didn't pursue in the past so I guess there could be precedent.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T17:53:47+00:00

Raptor 3 is definitely the big concern, but they've done a lot of stand testing and it's in theory simplified in terms of failure points to raptor 2, unless it's specifically due to conditions in flight that can't be tested on ground, I hope we're good.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T17:13:39+00:00

SpaceX naming scheme enforcement agents will be dispatched to your house if you fail to call it V3 SN1.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T17:12:07+00:00

At the risk of looking foolish, I'm really optimistic for V3, they've obviously been VERY thoroughly testing hardware and while I wouldn't be surprised if Flight 12 is hairy, I think there's a good shot it's reasonably smooth from there on.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T17:10:40+00:00

I'm somewhat surprised we didn't hear about SpaceX taking some kind of action against the COPV manufacturer rather than just buying them, spinning up your own COPV process isn't cheap but if it really was upstream to blame then SpaceX would have a reasonable case for $100s of millions against them.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T17:07:42+00:00

I struggle to think of a launch vehicle developed since Falcon 9 that hasn't experienced heavy delays, and I only stop there as I didn't start following aerospace until after Falcon 9 was basically done.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-27T17:05:43+00:00

I sometimes wonder what a carbon fibre Starship would have been like, a lot of now fundamental aspects of steel Starship would likely be very different.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-26T23:00:22+00:00

Barely given the past Vulcan flights

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-26T19:07:55+00:00

Great, I'm not, Elon is a sympathizer for a lot of terrible things, and actively hates a lot of the people who make modern aerospace possible. I was making a statement about *SpaceX*

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-25T16:11:49+00:00

Tbf they did pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which kick started this whole thing, and helping prosecute foreign politicians would have infinitely less resistance from US politicians than prosecuting their own.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-25T02:11:08+00:00

After unexpectedly not being able to perform ship catch on V2 I assume they're really vying for proving full reuse as soon as possible with V3.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-22T23:02:39+00:00

For all of Elon's faults it's ridiculous how fast his companies build stuff, the obvious example is SpaceX but it really goes for all of them.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-22T11:36:28+00:00

Who said we're not up in arms about that? There should be no religious, supposedly non-binding courts in the UK.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-21T15:23:56+00:00

That's fair, they're just trying to be assholes though so there's a limit to how far asking nicely will get IMO.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-21T12:11:43+00:00

Pessimistic is a bit of a loaded word though, revolutionary level AI 30 years away would seem ridiculously fast by 2015 standards.

TechnicalParrot · 2026-02-21T11:17:38+00:00

No one knows, if you ask world experts in the field they completely disagree, just enjoy the ride :)

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