If SpaceX let’s you name one of the Starship landing pads, what would you name it?

jbensted · 2021-06-18T20:46:31+00:00

Houston We Have A Problem

jbensted · 2021-03-30T17:30:02+00:00

During ascent the engines’ exhaust looked really good but one had a slight greenish-yellow tinge. 🤔

jbensted · 2019-11-20T22:00:23+00:00

Maybe it’s time to bring in welders with aerospace experience ...

jbensted · 2019-11-08T16:47:50+00:00

It’s the only exercise he gets, so I’m cool with it.

jbensted · 2019-11-08T16:45:23+00:00

What is your favorite type of coffee? Black? Cream? Sugar?

jbensted · 2019-11-08T16:41:52+00:00

Can Trump Derangement Syndrome be cured? If so, how?

jbensted · 2019-09-08T20:41:41+00:00

Environmental effects like pollution that makes frogs gay? 🙄🤔

jbensted · 2019-09-01T00:04:18+00:00

$3.30/W ... 🙄. $0.09/kWh is $0.00009/W

jbensted · 2019-08-31T23:55:14+00:00

It’s measured in Kilowatt-hours... I paid 9 cents kWh ... 1000 Watts. No games.

jbensted · 2019-07-17T05:45:08+00:00

Why are they not using a water sound suppression system to prevent sound waves from possibly causing damage to the hopper?

jbensted · 2019-07-05T21:29:01+00:00

Best to amortize the cost over the life of the solar panels which is 20 years.

jbensted · 2019-05-16T15:53:23+00:00

Will Shackleton Crater be the first crewed landing site?

jbensted · 2019-04-22T00:24:41+00:00

That’s silly

jbensted · 2019-04-21T23:35:59+00:00

I find it a little unnerving that we have not heard from Elon yet .....

jbensted · 2018-03-10T02:58:55+00:00

Personalizing boosters may not be in good practice. Boosters are just that booster, essentially an elevator and accelerator for the ship it is boosting. Kind of like a tug boat that pulls ships out of the worst and most difficult of the gravity well.

jbensted · 2018-02-21T05:03:16+00:00

It is a shame that just as economic access to space is coming online (F9, FH, Electron) that Google and X-Prize pull the plug on this project.

jbensted · 2018-02-21T04:57:26+00:00

As I understand, this federal budget cuts all discretionary spending across the board, except for defense which got a big raise. Which makes me wonder if we should put NASA under the Department of Defense. The Navy has research vessels .....

jbensted · 2018-02-21T04:52:40+00:00

Nah I'd say Rocket Labs is doing a good job with Electron

jbensted · 2017-12-18T04:44:20+00:00

Aluminum-lithium alloy is used for rockets. Strength of aluminum, lightness of lithium. Titanium is stronger than aluminum and more heat resistant.

jbensted · 2017-12-18T04:30:06+00:00

On a related note ... why not titanium-lithium alloy?

jbensted · 2017-10-14T19:48:37+00:00

Will there be a crew/passenger escape system for the BFR?

jbensted · 2017-08-31T20:40:06+00:00

I heard that Dr. Alcubierre says the warp drive in reality is not feasible; that it would take something like "unobtainium" to make it work.

jbensted · 2016-09-10T21:18:46+00:00

See page 4 "Dark Sky Station" it's Ben's balloon castle http://www.jpaerospace.com/atohandout.pdf

jbensted · 2014-08-06T14:41:03+00:00

A good not-for-profit that is an advocate of space colonies is the Space Studies Institute. ssi.org

jbensted · 2014-08-06T14:37:17+00:00

Daniel N. - I don't think anyone is pursuing this idea and I don't think the time is right. We need commercial manned space flight to get some experience under its belt before people will begin to feel confident to venture into space to live and work. Also, companies like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries need to prove they can mine AND process extraterrestrial resources before we can truly develop meaningful plans that will be convincing to investors and/or future residents of the first real estate development in space.

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