I did a calculation based off of the ideal rocket equation and starship's best performance. Relatively speaking compared to the ideal rocket equation starship got around 60% of the efficiency of the ideal rocket, which is actually decent. That being said, when all the calculations were done, and based on efficiency, there is no way that starship will ever carry its advertised cargo to orbit. I'm sure no one finds this information surprising
2 months ago | 330
You should do a video about how Elon is poisoning the entire city of Memphis with his stupid AI center
2 months ago | 323
"Pretending to do good, while actually doing evil". Every accusation they make is a confession.
2 months ago | 105
That's the classic Musk 'iterative testing' for you. Keep blowing up your rockets until eventually one accidentally fails to self destruct. That Musk has refused to set foot on one of his rockets for a launch tells you all you need to know about the expected outcomes; even he knows his rockets are made of garbage.
2 months ago | 72
theres no guarantee they would have :P you have to remember they still havnt realized they made starship into a liquid powered percussion instrument and vibrations and hydrogen seals dont live together happily (if you just look at the 3 strings/pipes running in a triangle arrangement through a cylinder its a perfect shape for resonance vibrations to build up) and they still launch that expecting it will do something other than shake itself apart and then ignite
2 months ago | 11
What's alarming is that even with Starlink connectivity SpaceX doesn't know what's happening to their rockets for minutes after it's happened, yet they want to use it for air-traffic control (somehow)
2 months ago | 46
After it was heading hard and fast towards the ground for a while.... A realisation swept over them that orbit was not likely, ignoring the fact it never was. This is pretty special thinking of SpaceX...
2 months ago | 10
Only had 1 year of aerospace engineering. Even I can tell this design is overly complicated bs. Everyone at SpaceX is either keeping their heads down while the paycheck still clears or is willfully ignorant.
2 months ago | 6
I LOVE Thunderf00ts coverage of fElon amd he has earned the right to see it through to fElons bankruptcy and prison. fElon's xAI poisoning Memphis is a story that must be told and if there are serious scientific challenges to vapourware claims fElon are making, then I hope Phil covers it, every step of the way. Common Sense Sceptic also being on the case is great. fElon coverage is everywhere but its rarely original, fact based, as important.
2 months ago | 7
Bloke shows you a graph. So many comments, - "Get back to doing science". Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr what?
2 months ago | 10
Musk is an ego maniac, and karma is catching up to him, and he knows it. Stay tuned it's only going to get better 💯 ❤
2 months ago | 4
It might be a good idea to make a video on the pro's and con's of using stainless steel in an environment with severe thermal gradients and changes (look at the COTE !!). There's a good reason why the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle were made primarily from aluminium and not stainless steel -- also look at the strength to weight ratio. It might be a far better idea for SpaceX to focus on developing better thermal insulation strategies than to try and make the whole damned ship heat-proof. Strikes me that the Starship is just made from "the wrong stuff" and, as a result, lacks structural rigidity (further exacerbated by the bending induced by the uneven heating of a metal with a very high COTE). All this bending and flexing clearly creates problems with fuel leaks because the plumbing is exposed to huge stresses -- to the point that stuff breaks. Even SpaceX's other "re-usable" platforms are not made from stainless.
2 months ago | 11
A company that exists entirely on handouts isnt going to admit failure. The more reasonable question is.. where is the oversight
2 months ago | 12
I anticipate Elon scraps the project and claims "This was a tremendous success since we actually made the world's first reusable ICBM. I'm confident we can begin delivering payloads by 2027."
2 months ago | 7
Based on the trajectory and outcome of all these Starship launches I’ve become convinced that it’s been fitted with the new all singing/dancing Full Self Drive / fly system.
2 months ago (edited) | 5
A million tons of cargo to Mars = 70,000 launches. Maybe his true calling is to dismantle maga in an extremely messy fashion.
2 months ago | 0
Thunderf00t
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.
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