At this point elon knows more about failed launches than anyone alive.
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When I grew up, “rocket scientist” was used to refer to the top of the scale of intelligence, not the top of the list of waste and fraud…
2 weeks ago | 216
If they want to achieve reusability, they're going to have to achieve usability first.
2 weeks ago | 159
Putting a material with a higher thermal expansion coefficient inside a brittle material with a lower thermal expansion coefficient is a big brain move.
2 weeks ago | 199
The ship is probably held together with that Cybertruck glue.
2 weeks ago | 176
Building a heat resistant tile with a heat conductor in the middle is a genius level failure point. I'd love to see an undamaged one.
2 weeks ago | 328
Space Shuttle: The tiles were not mechanically fastened to the vehicle, but glued. Since the brittle tiles could not flex with the underlying vehicle skin, they were glued to Nomex felt Strain Isolation Pads (SIPs) with room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) silicone adhesive, which were in turn glued to the orbiter skin.
2 weeks ago | 130
If only we had mastered heat tile technology... checks notes In the nineteen-fucking-seventies
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No engineer would attempt this. It must be one of Musk s ideas
2 weeks ago | 26
That piece of stamped metal looks like the cross section of a cheap garden sign post/lightweight fence stake from the hardware store.
2 weeks ago | 54
"At this point, I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth." - Elon Musk :face-green-smiling::face-green-smiling::face-green-smiling:
2 weeks ago | 26
Can we actually bring back nasa instead of funding this guy?
2 weeks ago | 14
Have you watched any of the SpaceX ass-licking channels like Future Space or Alpha Tech? These leave the MusX fanboy channels in the starting blocks. Things which NASA has struggled with for 60 years, Elon can put right in 2 seconds. Rockets don't blow up, sorry, "undergo Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" by accident, they are all planned. The more that blow up, the sooner manned trips to Mars will occur. V2 launches are still taking place, 4 V3 flights by Dec 31, 250 launches next year with 1st trip to Mars, and V4 soon to arrive. If the next flight fails, mankind will never leave earth ever again. How would humanity ever got out of the Stone Age without Elon?
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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!
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