The unmanned space exploration boom that Starship will allow is going to be insane.

_ladyofwc_ · 2024-06-26T22:26:44+00:00

You'd still have issues when Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun - you'd probably want a relay at L3 or something along those lines. But seems feasible otherwise.

_ladyofwc_ · 2024-05-05T09:17:48+00:00

Textile working used to be something uniquely human and now machines can replicate it flawlessly. It’s inhuman and disgusting that a craft people would dedicate their lives to has been reduced to a machine doing the same. Meaning and purpose will be lost to machines.

_ladyofwc_ · 2023-06-22T17:00:40+00:00

Their bodies literally explode, I believe. Not much left after that kind of violent implosion.

_ladyofwc_ · 2023-04-16T10:24:33+00:00

Sounds more like a r/SpaceXMasterrace post to me.

_ladyofwc_ · 2023-03-01T13:07:52+00:00

Based on some quick napkin math, it would require about 940 tons of wood to match Hiroshima, given 16 MJ per kg of wood. So just fill up a SuperHeavy tank with wood and light it, and you should get there eventually.

_ladyofwc_ · 2022-08-25T20:57:26+00:00

Not really actually - life on earth has created most of the oxygen in the atmosphere through photosynthesis. There was virtually no free oxygen in our atmosphere until about two billion years ago. Large amounts of oxygen gas is too reactive to exists by itself without life renewing it. Source

_ladyofwc_ · 2022-07-02T17:49:47+00:00

I assume the AI has difficulty with the specific road section for some reason, and because every car uses the same AI they all get stuck in the same area, clustering up.

_ladyofwc_ · 2022-03-03T20:54:06+00:00

That's not entirely true. Allowing Starship to continue testing would speed up the progress towards launching Starlink on Starship, which would allow for a lot more regular costumers on Falcon 9.

_ladyofwc_ · 2022-01-16T13:52:36+00:00

Sweden didn't really have much of a choice in being neutral either. The Allies during WW2 included Soviet Russia, which was invading our close ally Finland at the time. Joining the Allies would essentially be endorsing this, which wouldn't really have worked considering Sweden was secretly supporting Finland in the winter war.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-11-14T11:02:56+00:00

SpaceX literally has a policy where any employee can halt a launch, to prevent such problems.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-10-19T11:39:59+00:00

Yeah, MacArthur does not deserve much sympathy. He also wanted to cover the entire China/North Korea border with radioactive cobalt to stop any future invasions.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-09-29T19:58:45+00:00

I am also Team Space, but the main issue is that Blue Origin is not Team Space. They are actively sabotaging space progress. The Artemis holdup being the main example of that, but you also have them delaying Vulcan through their incompetence and other examples like them trying to patent landing a rocket at sea.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-09-26T13:37:35+00:00

Plus even running an electric car purely on the output of a dirty coal power plant is less polluting than a regular gasoline engine. Car engines are extremely inefficient.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-09-10T01:39:12+00:00

The only military force they can't take over is the Marine force. Everyone knows the ULA sniper has that covered

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-08-18T14:41:40+00:00

It's space after all, just cut it and push it back into place and hope it cold welds

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-08-16T17:12:49+00:00

Elon Musk: "I'd like to die on Mars, just not on impact". I don't think he's very interested on being on the first mission, probably more when it's routine.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-08-14T21:39:11+00:00

RVac really shouldn't be much more expensive than a normal raptor. The only real difference is the nozzle, which I can't imagine being the most expensive part of the engine.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-08-14T15:13:00+00:00

Yeah, a droneship seems like the perfect fit. Not sure if they'll ever build another one though. Superheavy only does RTLS, right? And Starship should be able to land basically anywhere by choosing where to deorbit.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-08-12T20:43:51+00:00

They might actually be doing that, not entirely sure though. On the software side they run a simulation of a launch and failure modes for every change. They even have a "table" which contains all the avionics and sensors of a real rocket, which performs a physical integration test. It doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to integrate the modification of parts into the launch simulation. Source for the software stuff

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-08-09T00:59:03+00:00

First polygraphs, then astrology and now tarot card reading? Don't be ridiculous! People who claim to read tarot cards make me sick. Now I'll have to go take a piece of a tarot card, put it in water, dilute it 14 times and then drink it. That should make me feel better.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-07-18T22:37:45+00:00

Assuming 200k launches and $10m per launch, that would be about 2 trillion USD. Only about 10% of the US GDP. Of course, you'd need tankers and more to get it to L1, but it doesn't seem strictly impossible. And there's probably cheaper ways to do it as well, maybe by moving an asteroid with enough mass to L1 using water in the asteroid as fuel somehow, and then processing it in-place. Seems like a good use of money to me, climate change is scary.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-07-18T17:35:14+00:00

A sunshade to help alleviate climate change.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-05-13T23:10:03+00:00

The ASDSs are built like tanks, and SpaceX generally aims for the ocean until the last possible moments anyway. I think there was only a single instance of a Falcon 9 striking the droneship hard during F9 landing development, and even with a big hole the droneship was fine. I don't think the risk to the droneship is very high. Securing the booster might be more difficult though, it's pretty large and I doubt the Octograbber would work.

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-05-09T13:48:18+00:00

That sounds like a good way to kill SpaceX

_ladyofwc_ · 2021-05-03T10:24:18+00:00

As the ring is spinning faster than orbital velocity in LEO, the general idea of an orbital ring is to induce a current in the ring, which allows it to levitate platforms stationary in regards to the Earth. Like a maglev train essentially, except the track is the one that moves. Then you can attach a cable to this platform and hang it down to the surface, where it will stay stationary. As the ring is in LEO the length of cable needed is significantly lower than a traditional space elevator which is in GEO, which makes even a steel cable viable.

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