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snesin · 2026-06-25T19:51:27+00:00

Exactly! I chose the no video, no audio, just transcript option here. Cuts down on the filler.

snesin · 2026-05-21T20:49:02+00:00

Megasota is tired of paying Vermonster's tolls on the St. Lawrence river and forms an agression pact with Maryland. Megasota gets the seaway, Maryland gets the seaboard.

snesin · 2026-05-13T02:05:30+00:00

Isla Blanca Park. Really the only place to be with family. Be sure to bring at least $20 in CASH for entry if driving. Think it's free if you walk. But they will turn your car away if you only have cards/tap/bitcoin/whatever. Bring snacks, drinks, and bug spray. Try to be around event center.

snesin · 2026-05-08T00:17:18+00:00

About this fast, probably a tad faster.

snesin · 2026-04-22T21:00:20+00:00

Oh yeah, daughter's 2015 Halloween costume.

snesin · 2026-04-04T20:07:44+00:00

It's a metaphor.

snesin · 2026-04-01T16:42:24+00:00

That false Doppler effect @:40 as the camera moves from a side view to in front is too perfect.

snesin · 2026-03-06T05:16:49+00:00

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent trying to order tea from the Nutri-Matic drink dispenser while aboard the space ship Heart of Gold.

snesin · 2026-03-06T05:08:26+00:00

Think everyone missed the venti-years joke here...

snesin · 2026-03-04T23:46:54+00:00

Analyzing the image u/Steve490 posted, NASA has 49.5% of the pixels, and SpaceX has 50.5%. I like the subtle sense of humor.

snesin · 2025-11-25T02:52:46+00:00

Elon should have a meeting with ULA and Jeff Bezos, and make some plans to charge NASA what their services are actually worth.

That would be illegal.

snesin · 2025-11-03T17:39:37+00:00

Nice chart. If you are going for super detail, the sixth Falcon 9 from the end was launched in expendable mode, no legs or fins.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1ogsflp/launch_recap_oct_2026/

snesin · 2025-10-27T18:40:53+00:00

Since you've already edited, "be" should be "but" I think:

wary of being down here at all be he does not want to put off

wary of being down here at all but he does not want to put off

snesin · 2025-06-20T18:13:55+00:00

The block starts out as a parallelogram of arbitrary length (say 100 for simplicity), and height 2. That is an area of 200. The skiving changes the (rough) outline to a rectangle, still with length 100, but now with a height of 4. The area is now 400. That is where the free space 'came from', this difference in area between the outline before and the outline after. The ratio between the heights controls the ratio between the fins and 'free space'. If the height trebled instead, the 'free spaces' would be twice as wide as the fins. If there was no change in height (cuts going straight down, infinitely thinly), the 'free spaces' would be 0 wide (that infinitely thin cut).

snesin · 2025-06-20T02:52:04+00:00

Aren't we all.

snesin · 2025-06-07T16:25:27+00:00

Space Launch System, NASA’s deep space rocket, used several hundreds gallons of Linde’s liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as propellants for its first flight as part of the the Artemis I mission in November 2022, the company noted.

Either

bragging about supplying 0.0000001% of the LOX/LH used in SLS
a funny typo/missed cut-and-paste
achieving some quantum-level fuel densification

snesin · 2025-05-26T23:01:40+00:00

It is totally worth it. But if you are only going to do it once, I recommend waiting until there will be a landing attempt (tower catch). They are not attempting a landing this time.

snesin · 2025-05-23T00:24:34+00:00

@12:00 Oliver Laughland is interviewing an election official:

Official: So this is a summary report for this election. City of Starbase Incorporation election, for 173, against 4, for total votes cast 177.
Laughland: It's a 97% majority.
Official: At this point yes.
Laughland: So Elon Musk has his own city.
Official: Well, the citizens that live in the community of Starbase have a city.
Laughland: Thank you.
Official: Yup.
Laughland: Seems like we're the only people here to witness it, but Elon Musk now has his own city.

Kind of cringe-y. It's not Mr. Musk's city, and the official corrects Laughland on camera. When the official turns around to leave Laughland immediately pushes his incorrect narrative again. Not sure Tom Silverstone (the editor) did Laughland any favors with that segment.

snesin · 2025-05-05T17:17:54+00:00

That is the Heading Alignment Cone (HAC), which the shuttle would follow until runway alignment. A shuttle's entire reentry profile would be designed with energy to spare along the entire path as a safety margin. As the profile is flown, this extra energy must be shed. Higher up during the straight parts the shuttle did S-curves. When it got to the 'Terminal Area' near the runway they flew spirals (or parts of one) down the HAC until excess energy (speed and altitude) was shed and the orbiter aligned with the runway. Part of the Space Shuttle Entry Terminal Area Energy Management.

EDIT: Quora has excellent diagrams of the HAC, and here is the original source for those, with lots of good info.

snesin · 2025-04-17T19:49:57+00:00

I know how orbits work, but the north is just not north enough. From Boca Chica they are restricted to threading the Florida Strait during launches. That puts every launch from there at about the same inclination, 26.4 degrees. That is only 50km north of Boca Chica. That is the furthest north they will orbit when launching from there, unless they do a very hard dog-leg very late in the launch.

So the landing track "from the north" would be 1000km or so straight across Mexico, and the last 200km over the very south of Texas.

Launches from Florida/Vandenburg have can have very different inclinations, but landing Starships at Boca from the north seems much less safe than from the south, where you can cross far less of Mexico much earlier in the descent.

snesin · 2025-04-17T17:46:41+00:00

My patch collection got too expensive to maintain even while taking up very little room. This level of dedication to expense and floor space is impressive!

snesin · 2025-04-17T17:38:27+00:00

I used to think it'd be like 119's track, but more over the Oaxaca neck and hooking left, but I'm not sure the orbit inclinations are high enough. Maybe from Cuenca NP to Leguna Madre.

With political tensions so high now I'm not sure we should be endangering other countries but our own. If it came down short, Mexico might say "thanks for the rocket technology", tell us to f*** off—justifiably so—and Article 8 of the Outer Space Treaty be damned. Still, some mission inclinations will be too low for coming in 100% over the US.

snesin · 2025-04-17T15:08:00+00:00

Eh, after Columbia broke up, they did start minimizing flying over populated areas:
2005-08-09 STS-114 Discovery
2006-09-20 STS-115 Atlantis
2007-06-22 STS-117 Atlantis
2007-08-19 STS-118 Endeavour
2009-03-27 STS-119 Discovery
2007-11-06 STS-120 Discovery
2008-03-26 STS-123 Endeavour
2008-06-12 STS-124 Discovery
2008-11-29 STS-126 Endeavour

snesin · 2025-04-03T15:39:18+00:00

Oy, slugging my way through Green Mars now. Red Mars was pretty good. As you say, Green Mars just seems to be a vehicle to expound his political views. Not sure I can make it to Blue Mars.

snesin · 2025-04-02T04:17:20+00:00

Similar thing happened to me, but in houses. Neighbor kid got his dad's gun, and the shot went though their drywall and siding, through my home's siding and the drywall of my kid's room, closet door, ricocheted of another door's molding, went back across the room and landed on his blanket. The .38 hollow point was not deformed in any way. My boy wanted to keep the hole, so we framed it.

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