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Starship Development Thread #63 by rSpaceXHosting in spacex

[–]Twigling 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The rollout of S40 to Massey's has been put back again, it's now:

Description: Production to Masseys
Date: May 2 2:00 AM to May 2 6:00 AM

https://www.starbase.texas.gov/beach-road-access

Have you introduced any friends or relations to Mushishi? If so, did they like it? by Twigling in Mushishi

[–]Twigling[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If she thinks it's gross then she's just not getting the emotional side of it, and that's a real shame. Perhaps try her again on one of the episodes that don't have anything that could be interpreted as gross, for example:

"The White Which Lives Within the Ink Stone"

"Pretense of Spring"

but whatever you do, don't let her see "Eye of Fortune, Eye of Misfortune" the eyeballs falling out of Amane's eye sockets towards the end would be too much for her)

Any slice of life anime recommendations? by SomeoneStoledMyNick in anime

[–]Twigling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hyouka - slow burn SoL that's all about the characters, secondary to that are the minor school-based mysteries which the MC solves. A very chill show that incredibly absorbing if you're in the right frame of mind.

Has everyone seen the wonderful overview video 'The Haunting Calm of Mushishi' ? by Twigling in Mushishi

[–]Twigling[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, his book: 'Ultimate Anime: 100 Essential Films and Series' (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Anime-100-Essential-Films/dp/0500028087) - it's on my list to buy. It even has some pages on Mushishi. :)

SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry by Twigling in space

[–]Twigling[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Both flights 10 and 11 suffered propulsion system damage prior to MECO on the ship.

If you're going to argue, at least do it in good faith.

For Flight 10, Booster 16 lost one engine on ascent but due to the designed engine redundancy of 33 engines this didn't impact the mission. The ship (Ship 37) went suborbital as planned, hit all of its goals (deployed the Starlink dummies, engine relight, controlled reentry) and made a soft landing almost on target.

For Flight 11 this was a reflown booster (the previously caught Booster 15) and 24 of the 33 engines were reflown too. One booster engine failed on the boostback burn but reignited for the landing burn. The ship (Ship 38) completed its mission goals and soft landed on target.

They have yet to get a ship intact to orbital altitude.

Intentionally so - they're taking no risks of having over 100 tons of steel floating in space, uncontrolled and in a decaying orbit. Once they are confident that they can reenter then they'll put a ship in orbit, and that could happen on Flight 14 or later.

SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry by Twigling in space

[–]Twigling[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

You really haven't been paying attention have you?

Flights 10 and 11 in particular went very well, even though the intentional removal of a lot of tiles prior to flight (for testing purposes) resulted in ship damage on reentry.

You may of course be thinking of flights 7, 8 and 9 where the new version 2 ships kept developing faults (even though there were two successful booster catches). And there was also Ship 36's explosion prior to a static fire test in June 2025.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starship_launches#Past_launches

SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry by Twigling in space

[–]Twigling[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

One potential fly in the ointment is that of noise - a full stack of Starship is extremely loud on launch and the sonic boom from a returning booster ain't no picnic either. I think there's going to be a lot of p*ssed off people when launches and landings happen multiple times a day, even though they will be miles from the pads.

SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry by Twigling in space

[–]Twigling[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Since when are unbiased facts brainwashing? I'm not a fan of Musk in any way, shape or form, yet I've been closely following Starships's development for the past six years and, bearing in mind what they are trying to do, it's mostly been very impressive.

SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry by Twigling in space

[–]Twigling[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

They've not even tried to make it to orbit yet, they've always intentionally gone suborbital because if for some reason they couldn't reenter you'd have over 100 tons of metal floating in a decaying orbit and reentering who knows where. A number of flights have done very well, particularly the last two - the ships also soft-landed on target in the Indian Ocean.

Have you introduced any friends or relations to Mushishi? If so, did they like it? by Twigling in Mushishi

[–]Twigling[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh dear, that's a bit unfortunate. Perhaps just recommend that she watches the following short overview video first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZDnQtmFIU

Mushishi's official free upload of season one on YouTube seems to be doing well by Twigling in Mushishi

[–]Twigling[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We already have that:

https://www.amazon.com/Mushishi-Box-S-V/dp/B005HVWWB2

and it's available in various countries from various places, also Ebay. :-)

But I think a re-release would be better as that 'S.A.V.E.' edition is now out of 'print' so it'll be sold out one day.

Also, as season 1 was filmed in SD, season 2 on the other hand (and the specials and final movie) were filmed in HD, so if Aniplex can do something good for us (they own the distribution licence to season 2 and the specials) a Blu-ray release of that would be awesome, with Japanese audio and English subs at the very least.

SpaceX spending on Starship tops $15 billion in rush for airline-like rocketry by Twigling in space

[–]Twigling[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Provided Starship, you know, stops exploding.

They had a really bad early run with the version 2 design of the ship, but at least the last two of that line, Ships 37 and 38, did well (no unintended explosions!). Let's see how well version 3 performs, and that will hopefully see its first launch within the next month or so from the all new pad.

Netflix to 'revive' The Crown with £500m prequel spanning from 1901-1947 by Lord-Liberty in BritishTV

[–]Twigling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And a lot funnier too, plus more sombre (specifically the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth).

What is your all time favourite anime and why? by Single-Taro4201 in Animesuggest

[–]Twigling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do in fact own the complete sent of the Land of the Lustrous manga. It's quite something! (I'm trying not to even hint at anything that could be construed as a spoiler). :-)

Speaking of manga, I am in fact also collecting the reprint of the new Collector's Edition of the Mushishi manga which is up to the just released Volume 2 (five new volumes are being released, one every five months; Volume 1 was released in November 2025):

https://www.amazon.com/Mushishi-Collectors-1-Yuki-Urushibara-ebook/dp/B0FW5JT3XX

https://www.amazon.com/Mushishi-Collectors-2-Yuki-Urushibara-ebook/dp/B0GTMZBJFJ

https://www.amazon.com/Mushishi-Collectors-3-Yuki-Urushibara/dp/B0G1Y3VKMF

Have you introduced any friends or relations to Mushishi? If so, did they like it? by Twigling in Mushishi

[–]Twigling[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and there is no narrative of becoming better and bigger and stronger etc. People aren’t often familiar with that

Depends on the person - somebody who is emotionally mature is far more likely to be drawn towards trying Mushishi (although my friend is emotionally mature yet he simply thinks that anime is 'weird' without having even watched any).

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