They need a flame diverter or a water bed (just a big pool of water that absorbs the impact) based on what they have I believe the second is more likely
2 years ago | 3
Some of the live streamers said it was raining sand... I suspect it was raining pulverised concrete! Some of the bigger chunks made it all the way to the sea.
2 years ago
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Cool! Looks like Elon invented a new type of tunnel boring machine!
2 years ago | 6
That'll brush out. No bodder at all, there Bosco. Meself and the lads will have it done by lunchtime. Stick on the kettle there love. I'll bring the van around..
2 years ago | 1
Lol, I knew Elon would regret to no flame trench idea, but I didn't think it would be that bad.... He should do what they did to launch V2 rockets with a flame splitter pyramid shape underneath.... Could be built to be movable for when working on the rocket....
2 years ago | 4
I’m so worried about how they are going to harden the ground infrastructure. Have now doubt they will develop a rapidly reusable spacecraft, but they won’t be able to rapidly relaunch if the launchpad is damaged every time. Just a guess but it looked to me like flying Debra may have damaged some of the engines at launch.
2 years ago | 3
There's a method in the madness. Why build anything more than a kickstand, when you have an 80% chance of catastrophic failure at liftoff? Now the engineers know what 13 million# of thrust will do.
2 years ago | 1
Does anyone else see a head with sunglasses on, in that picture?
2 years ago | 1
The fact it was 2x the thrust of the Saturn five is mind boggling… like holy fuck Elon hats off to you, I remember watching a documentary of the Saturn five and a whole warner von Braun situation. And he was talking about the thrust of it and how mankind has never seen that much trust and will probably never see that much thrust again out of a rocket. And with man’s obsession of one upping himself especially between Russia and America you thought that one of the two countries would have cabs out doing the original Saturn V’s thrust. I am pretty shocked though that they didn’t make a thrust diversion channel in the very first design, and I don’t think the water ideas gonna do much. I’m sure being strapped onto the Saturn V and feeling the thrust from the astronauts P.O.V. (you know what I mean not exactly visual but you know)…. Now imagine being onboard Starship Heavy… and feeling the thrust of that mother Effer lifting off 😎 #goelongo Here’s an idea to keep humans mentally engaged for the trip to Mars is pair them up with A K9, preferably one years old, that way they can bond for the previous year…. And then during the multi month mission to mars, man will have his K9 next to him, bringing out the best “inner-voice” that lays deep in his soul. As to avoid self defeating mental issues that could arise. I thought a lot about this while hiking with my canine when he turned on
2 years ago | 0
Well... That's actually not that bad judging from this picture. I expected more damage'
2 years ago | 3
Space Beetle
Oh my god!
We had not yet seen the true extent of the damage underneath the orbital launch mount;
Look at what Starship did!!
Found it on Twitter.
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