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- inv1
Starship high altitude flight test tomorrow!
- 400 metric tons of kerosene and emitted more carbon dioxide in a few minutes than an average car would in more than two centuries per launch.utopian
- source?********
- AP, nevermind. didnt realize how much each launch fucks up the earth********
- It is peanuts compared to other sourcesinv
- Read this article: https://everydayastr…inv
- hotroddy4
- here is the full length. pretty amazinghotroddy
- pretty fast for 220,500 lbs********
- Ready to take you from NY to Tokyo in 30 minutes. Just be prepared for a warm landing.NBQ00
- how eco friendly are these launches and 'landings?'Krassy
- ^ ecotrollingcannonball1978
- islandbridge0
Spacewalk launch in T- 01:06:00
- Damn.. They pushed it a day. So it will first tomorrow.islandbridge
- inv2
Beautiful
- Krassy0
- Cancels? Huh? Wow what an article. What does it even mean „ America will remain grounded for the time being“?NBQ00
- Like, does Biden hate space exploration or doesn‘t want SpaceX to make progress? Well, that article surely doesn‘t tell us.NBQ00
- Never confuse an option piece with news.
https://www.latimes.…Gnash - i can't pay my doctors bill when whitey is on the moon. https://www.youtube.…hotroddy
- umm Washington Times is a questionable newspaper at best kind like a print version of OAN...jonny_quest_lives
- https://en.wikipedia…jonny_quest_lives
- photoshop tutorial gone wrong lolAQUTE
- shapesalad3
- Beautiful. We're going to be a multiplanetary race soon.grafician
- you forgot a partjonny_quest_lives
- https://twitter.com/…jonny_quest_lives
- nooooOOOO!grafician
- I did worry about that flame burning aside when touching down, so was expecting it to blow up any second, oh wellgrafician
- You could see it on a lean when it landed.BusterBoy
- it did land tho... so that's a winjonny_quest_lives
- I love how overly positive the commentator is. Like, “everything is amazing, nothing to see here.... boooom!”Chimp
- Landed hard.shapesalad
- It's the height of a 15 story building.shapesalad
- sted0
- that covers most of our reactionssted
- I'm confused....some videos have a successful takeoff and landing and other videos today have the rocket blowing up. What happened?utopian
- @utopian it WAS a successful mission, then blew up a few minutes after we closed the tabgrafician
- landed like a new Tower of Pisa, did some smokenflames, they gave it some water because it was thirsty then after 8 mins musk pushed the self destruct.sted
- dbloc3
- still don't see why they're hell-bent on landing it vertically, so much can and does go wrong. Land it horizontally FFS._niko
- I mean it does look cool and its a great feat, but there are way to many variables to go wrong and it does._niko
- and i don't really get the "it needs to be reusable" argument, they can land horizontally safely, then prop it back up for launch and re-use it._niko
- 'cause the way they're going now it definitely isn't reusable either lol_niko
- It's the height of a 15 story building.shapesalad
- Next time you walk in the city, and you see a 15 story building, imagine it taking off and landing vertically.shapesalad
- I work with a few Data Scientists who used to work on rockets (and now work on real time credit fraud prediction) - The reason for the vertical landing is...orrinward2
- ...largely due to how the rockets are built for strength. Their are most resistant to pressure/force vertically (the bullet shape), and landing horizontally...orrinward2
- ...largely due to how the rockets are built for strength. Their are most resistant to pressure/force vertically (the bullet shape), and landing horizontally...orrinward2
- ...is apparently significantly harder with reverse thrust, because it puts extreme force on an axis that isn't built for it.orrinward2
- @_niko it's crazy that they don't consult with you on this first! ;-)Krassy
- I still say a giant baseball mitt is the way forward with these usable rockets...shapesalad
- they need the vertical landing to be able to land on mars and the moon and stuff.uan
- a giant parachute ought to do itKrassy
- or a giant trampolineKrassy
- Lol@krassy yeah for sure I’m also available for vaccine advice, covid advice, global warming and a bunch of other things I know nothing about :)_niko
- It all comes down to mass & usable payload. Could probably land horizontally, but vertical is for sure more efficient.inv
- As mention, load on the structure. But also center of mass. To do it propulsively, you would need engines in both ends. Not very efficient.inv
- That said, the shuttle landed horizontally. Starship is built to land where lift generating wings will not work (mars etc).inv
- They can’t land horizontally until we build runways on Mars and moonhotroddy
- yea this rocks********
- the shuttle landed horizontally. but had to be launched attached to a rocketESKEMA
- how about retractable legs that are roughly 1/2 the length of rocket... they fold down and give more stability to the landingMHDC
- PhanLo0
- You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs I guessinv
- https://twitter.com/…PhanLo
- Ah, Elon destroying the environment.NBQ00
- It’s ironic how Elon wants to get rid of “fossil fuels” yet SpaceX is using so much of it.NBQ00
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- "Let's destroy this planet, before we destroy the next planet." - Elonutopian
- Thank God they leave it all there, eh?Nairn
- Long-term, Musk wants to produce the methane needed for these launches using presumably solar-powered atmospheric extraction and processingNairn
- I'd rather the cunt got out of BTC, because that shit IS massively hypocritical, if his energy reduction narrative is to be believed.Nairn
- CO2-reduction narrative, even. Energy's good. Emissions are not.Nairn
- nbq - maybe people like you who contribute zero to the advancement of civilization should stop driving.hotroddy
- grafician0
"NASA has selected Starship to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface since the Apollo program! We are humbled to help
@NASAArtemis
usher in a new era of human space exploration"
- Let’s hope it doesn’t explode.NBQ00
- Christ, your wee negative hard-on for all things Musk is tiresome.Nairn
- No I’m actually a Tesla & SpaceX fan. But we can be a bit critical too.NBQ00
- Critical? It's just sending people into space via rocket, no big deal.********
- I’m just glad that most of what happens at spacex, musk had nothing to do with. Credit to those at the company who are making this possible.monospaced
- PonyBoy0
Solar Storm Destroys 40 New SpaceX Satellites in Orbit
The geomagnetic incident resulted in the Starlink transmitters drifting back into Earth’s atmosphere, where they will burn up
- PhanLo0
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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- inv-3
Say what you want about Musk, but this might be a milestone in human history...
https://www.youtube.com/live/L5Q…
(Starship orbital flight test live stream)
- nah.. better to try to make this world better before we try to ruin some other planets and moons...shapesalad
- how do we ruin a planet or moon? Are we going to Pandora?hotroddy
- the technology you take for granted was developed so we could 'ruin' the moon.hotroddy
- its impressive that we are capable to go to space as a human race but lets first get our shit together on earth...milfhunter
- then we'll never go anywherehotroddy
- PhanLo9
Finally, some real progress
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- utopian4
Every Space X Starship test flight unleashes 358 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, equivalent to the emissions of over 25,000 cars concurrently. Furthermore, its ultimate configuration is projected to emit tenfold that amount.
Elon considers himself an environmentalist...aimed to portray himself as environmentally aware, yet his lifestyle contributed to over 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, even excluding his jet usage.
- [insert same tired old response to the same tired old post spouting the same tired old Musk-triggered train of 'thought']Nairn
- {insert same old fanboy apologist response}utopian
- in 350 million years, which astrologically speaking is right around the corner, the sun will boil the oceans and cook our planet.hotroddy
- Given this harsh reality and the possibility we are the only sentient beings in the universe, humanity should commit to spreading the miracle of life ad astrahotroddy
- Elon Musk is investing in carbon capture technology, anticipating that rising living costs will cause significant concern for...hotroddy
- ...Utopian who won't want to trade his cozy comforts of capitalism for a spike increase in the cost of living via green new deal policies.hotroddy
- Of course you're an Elon apologist dolt lemming. I would expect nothing less from you.utopian
- the starship launch was epic! I'm an admirer not a resentful little bitch like youhotroddy
- Should we talk about the war in gaza and ukraine carbon emission?ApeRobot
- only if you can blame Elon or Trumphotroddy
- It's telling that you choose to forget what I've said as counters to this same criticism every time prior, and that I must therefore somehow be a fanboy.Nairn
- But sure, you spend your life dwelling on old Musky and expending brain power on what is clearly not inverse-fanboy obsession.Nairn
- Do you not notice HOW MUCH you and some others here constantly post about Musk? it's ... weird. He's a prick. Ignore him. If you don't, he's winning.Nairn
- Nice let's expose this hypocrite.NBQ00
- hotroddy, do you lay awake at night thinking of nonsense that's opposite of reality to piss people off for no reason?CyBrainX
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░C░L░E░A░R░?░utopian - If I spent a fraction of Utopian's time posting/bitching about Trump or Elon, I would consider it a life wasted.hotroddy
- If I spent a fraction of KnobGobbler's time posting/bitching/whi... ranting/getting triggered in the "side notes, I would consider it a life wasted.utopian
