welshbairn Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 SpaceX coverage about to start. https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyerTon Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Salt n Vinegar said: "Starship" my @rse. Exactly which stars will it be travelling to? Might as well call a Nissan Micra an "intergalactic mass population transit vehicle." Apart from the Sun, it would take 73,000 years to travel to the nearest star... https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/nearest_star_info.html#:~:text=If Voyager were to travel,take 4.22 years to arrive! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 57 minutes ago, welshbairn said: SpaceX coverage about to start. https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-2 Commentator is the SpaceX equivalent of John Hartson. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 (edited) Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies of both stages (they blew up but probably due to automatic self destruction because they'd exceeded mission parameters.). Improvement from first attempt in that separation of the stages looked successful before it went pear shaped. Not unexpected, it's how SpaceX do things, rapid iteration through real world experimentation which has the added bonus of letting us see huge things blowing up. Edited November 18, 2023 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 Minter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 1 hour ago, FlyerTon said: Apart from the Sun, it would take 73,000 years to travel to the nearest star... https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/nearest_star_info.html#:~:text=If Voyager were to travel,take 4.22 years to arrive! Is that by Starship or Nissan Micra? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 (edited) The commentators on both the official SpaceX feed and the one I posted took fucking ages to realise that both stages exploded, given that both happened on video right in front of them. At least a minute or two. Probably terrified that they'd say something silly and it was just the engines relighting or something. Edited November 18, 2023 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molotov Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 The more often that these SpaceX rockets fail the more I start to believe the conspiracy theories that the moon landings were fake. Did Apollo 13 actually happen? Seems incredible that all these US moon missions with a fraction of the technological capability were more successful than these bozos. There is some guy on BBC news claiming this as some sort of success. Wtaf? These guys would get destroyed on P&B. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 So long buddy. Vaguely remember the launch and some of the first photos. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 On 18/11/2023 at 15:46, Molotov said: The more often that these SpaceX rockets fail the more I start to believe the conspiracy theories that the moon landings were fake. It's just a great example of what happens when you privatise something to the lowest bidder who inturn sub contracts to the lowest possible price = boom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: So long buddy. Vaguely remember the launch and some of the first photos. It probably just came to its senses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 On 18/11/2023 at 13:24, welshbairn said: Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies of both stages (they blew up but probably due to automatic self destruction because they'd exceeded mission parameters.). Improvement from first attempt in that separation of the stages looked successful before it went pear shaped. Not unexpected, it's how SpaceX do things, rapid iteration through real world experimentation which has the added bonus of letting us see huge things blowing up. Which is basically the same developmental methodology used by Korolev and his teams in the 50's & 60's. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 32 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Which is basically the same developmental methodology used by Korolev and his teams in the 50's & 60's. I heard years ago that at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis the Russians reckoned it was 50/50 whether their missiles would land in the right hemisphere. Not from Cuba to Miami obviously, thus the panic from the US. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 On 18/11/2023 at 12:39, FlyerTon said: Apart from the Sun, it would take 73,000 years to travel to the nearest star... https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/nearest_star_info.html#:~:text=If Voyager were to travel,take 4.22 years to arrive! .. and as the descendants of the pioneers who set out to reach the nearest star arrive there we can go over to Hampden where Dundee have won the Scottish Cup for the first time since 1910... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 10 hours ago, 101 said: It's just a great example of what happens when you privatise something to the lowest bidder who inturn sub contracts to the lowest possible price = boom You will recall the famous John Glenn quote "I am sitting on top of the biggest rocket in the world built by the contractor who put in the lowest bid". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 Mrs Mathematics has outdone herself (again) with the boy’s nightlight. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 3 hours ago, tamthebam said: .. and as the descendants of the pioneers who set out to reach the nearest star arrive there we can go over to Hampden where Dundee have won the Scottish Cup for the first time since 1910... Come, come Thomas, at least make it a bit realistic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Mongo del Fantastico Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 12 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: So long buddy. Vaguely remember the launch and some of the first photos. Is it no this one that Captain Kirk has to go and sort out when it comes back in about 250 years time? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 7 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Come, come Thomas, at least make it a bit realistic. Good point. New Hampden. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 3 hours ago, Fullerene said: Good point. New Hampden. Just outside Stirling. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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