Thunderf00t

How starship tiles are attached. Metal bar pushed through wet heat tile. Impressive how they added a permanent failure point at a design level! This design is very VERY stupid and will never deliver any of musks vaporware promises!

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2,642

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Short version of why Starship thermal protection system not being waterproof is devastating.....

One good thunderstorm and the heat tiles will absorb TONS of water. It rains a lot in TX and FL.

Thats an issue in knowing what the actual launch weight of your vehicle is.

IF you launch with that it will freeze with evaporative cooling in space.... and damage the structure of the heat tiles.

The ice evaporation rate will be slow, and on reentry will boil acting as a fantastic heat transfer agent.....negating the main purpose of the heat shield... insulation!

Shuttle had more or less the exact same tiles, and the exact same problem. The solution... WATERPROOF THE TILES...... downside.... kills rapid reuse as you have to do it every time you fly the vehicle.


Starship heat tiles are a COMPLETE water sponge!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 2,035

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HOLY SHIT!!! STARSHIP THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM ISNT WATERPROOFTED!!!!! Its a water sponge!!!! This can never work!!!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 2,114

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Things to cross of bucket list.... melting a bit of starship with a gas torch!

yup... starship tiles..... its just silica... melts fine under oxygen/ butane. Looks like frosting after melting! Surface layer..... is higher mp.... but still melts fine in seconds :-)

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4 weeks ago | [YT] | 1,099

Thunderf00t

Yes... now I literally pwn a piece of Elon Musks starship!!!! :-D HO HO HO!!!!!!

1 month ago | [YT] | 4,512

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At his current rate of wealth loss... Elon Musk will be bankrupt in less than 24 hrs!

2 months ago | [YT] | 2,478

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Holy crap... going thru the old starship launches. Pure 'DONT BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES' Orwellian stuff. First mention something might not be right with flight 1 is at the 3m40s mark.

They would have known it was never going to make orbit at the 30s mark.

2 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,446

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.... one of the perks of being single is that theres no nagging about 'No uranium on the kitchen table!'
okay... maybe I am a little weird! :-D

11 months ago | [YT] | 2,927

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Hyperloop.... the Future of Transport!!
Yes this is LITERALLY what a half billion dollar project looks like now.... I think I would describe it as 'post apocalyptic'!

1 year ago | [YT] | 5,071

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In the end, this.... and a 300 mile drive was all that was needed to measure the size of the Earth :-)

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