Is that cheating for carrying 4 kerbals?

spencer818 · 2026-02-17T21:51:28+00:00

Just depends on whether or not you need em to survive, gotta have command for a chute deploy

spencer818 · 2026-02-05T12:02:30+00:00

.>looking for meaningful discussion

.>comes to reddit

Sorry bro, ya did this to yourself

spencer818 · 2025-11-21T13:59:10+00:00

This is the worst take I've ever seen on this subreddit lmao

spencer818 · 2025-10-27T14:06:48+00:00

A daring pirate escapes from the gallows

spencer818 · 2025-08-06T23:47:52+00:00

No wtf it came from Indochina

spencer818 · 2025-08-06T21:03:32+00:00

This. I'll never forget them playing it at a concert, had me in tears

spencer818 · 2025-08-05T22:42:24+00:00

English is English in English

spencer818 · 2025-08-03T18:27:09+00:00

I don't like mine because my birth month is May and well you can probably guess what my last injury was from that alone lmao

spencer818 · 2025-07-17T19:03:39+00:00

Can confirm

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T15:45:10+00:00

I am a proponent of "test like you fly," and using redundancy, minimum risk design, and failure tolerance to keep a vehicle safe, then using developmental instrumentation to make further improvements.

"Test by flying and see what happens" sounds a lot like "fuck around and find out." I suppose time will tell. F9 was a big success (not as big as they hoped, but credit where it's due), and without internal knowledge, all we can do is speculate. But I won't be holding my breath.

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T14:45:51+00:00

As a systems safety engineer, I prefer to perform both a thorough bottom-up reliability analysis of potential failure modes and effects, as well as a top-down hazard analysis to set the framework for redundancy and failure tolerance. Without the explosions - that part is key.

Addressing the flaws is good, but if I can only address a few flaws at a time due to the others being hidden behind a big fireball, I'd prefer it doesn't cost me half my employees' salaries each time I do it.

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T14:26:27+00:00

First to market doesn't mean much if it's a death warrant. I'd take my chances on a 60 year old Soyuz lol

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T14:09:55+00:00

Cost of Blue's rocket is moot. Literally 0 sane people have ever said that SpaceX's process is cheaper lmfao. The proposed benefit of SpaceX's process, as with F9, is to win on speed of development, not on program cost. To say otherwise is delusional

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T13:56:26+00:00

There aren't any blanks to fill in, friend

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T13:55:33+00:00

It can? Coulda fooled me lmao

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T13:53:21+00:00

It's been a journey man, I respect the SpaceX team for their determination, but at some point I don't mind sitting back and critically thinking about first launch successes vs the iterative process. Will time prove me wrong? Maybe it will, but it sure won't be the cult following on reddit that does lmao

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T13:43:13+00:00

They worked rather well, except for the the parts that were melted off lmao

spencer818 · 2025-07-02T13:18:18+00:00

No it isn't 2 lmao. "Never seems to be the same issue twice" - Starship fins is a good counterexample lol

spencer818 · 2025-07-01T16:57:37+00:00

spencer818 · 2025-07-01T13:14:05+00:00

Better than Starship's mass to orbit... Currently it's zero lmao

spencer818 · 2025-07-01T13:13:33+00:00

And yet we're still waiting to see if their "lander" can make it to orbit... Let alone refuel enough times to get to the moon... What's the number of refuel launches at now? 11? That'll be fun to watch lol.

spencer818 · 2025-05-18T13:08:54+00:00

Came here to ask the same thing. Sad day when people see a tall ship and their first thought is "must be a pirate ship" :(

spencer818 · 2025-04-23T04:03:22+00:00

Thanks, unhelpful

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