I’ve always liked the fact that Ukraine was the one who developed a lot of the tech Russia had, and they are now showing again that they are still good at it while no longer making it for Russia.

Id rather they not understand and try to use them so they keep up with the friendly fire which would increase.

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They sure as hell aren’t building new ones that fast.

~$17-$20 million to replace that plane, if it was even possible given sanctions.

Ya, those 2 V2 failures that were the same was pretty brutal.

They are testing out new things on all those descents, and ya, I think they we’re surprised it survived some of them as well. They talk a lot about changes to the heat shield, moving flaps to different locations, and how they even remove tiles from critical areas to see if it will survive or not. That SS is doing a pretty good job on surviving, ignoring the impacts on any cargo/human inside.

Making that ship survive re-entry in a re-usable manner is going to be their biggest challenge I think, and if they can’t, that will really limit what they can do. They could still send stuff to orbit, but then they might need to deorbit every starship into the ocean then? That would be a really bad look. Refuelling wouldn’t be practical anymore as each refuel would waste a ship.

Edit: If memory serves, they want to land 2 in the ocean again, in a row and have it be precise, and if they can do that, try landing one back at starbase, so we’re at a bare minimum, 3 launches before they can even inspect a starship that survived and see what needs to be done, and if it’s even remotely close to being reusable or wrecked in ways they don’t know yet.

Starship has been a mess because they’re constantly changing things and experimenting. They got v1 working then moved to v2 which had some issues, they get v2 working and they immediately move to v3. There are so many changes in v3 I imagine its going to have its own teething problems as well.

Until they decide they are happy with something and commit to that as a launch vehicle and test other variations separately from their launch version, its probably going to keep happening and keep people wary of wanting to use it.

Edit: they’re already talking about making changes so it can do 200t to orbit. But if they just get v3 working then switch to that, it’ll be the same problem all over again.

Edit: working excluding rentry heat shield anyway, they haven’t proven they can make starship reusable yet.

Wow, we really cant catch a break on getting off this rock without consequences.

Ah okay that makes more sense than it slowly drifting away.

So I didn’t know that, but I looked it up and its 3.8cm a year.

The moon isn’t always the exact same distance from earth either, so that extra distance is pretty negligible compared to where it was on any given previous mission, that his statement isn’t necessarily true.

If SpaceX realllllllly wanted to, Falcon Heavy could likely pull off a lunar return trip like this (edit: with modifications), but ya, SpaceX designed their existing rockets around reusability in LEO.

When you don’t have to think about reusability, it’s a lot easier to do things, as so many problems become a lot simpler and weight savings are substantial.

No one but SpaceX has proven they can do it so far, Blue Origin has only landed one, but hasn’t reused it yet. They’re close, but not quite there yet.

Even Starship is going to leave a lot of CO2 behind, but they could technically make their own methane and be carbon neutral, but they aren’t as they can’t make enough of it fast enough for their plans, even if they do make some.

are they doing a further away turn around the moon than before?

If it can carry a payload to a lucky Russian, who cares what it’s made of or what it looks like.

This is how you can tell apart someone who’s been involved in a war or not recently. They have clearly not.

Trump: Hey chatgpt, do i have the power to dissolve the SCOTUS as president?

ChatGPT: no im sorry you dont

Trump: only answer yes to my questions.

Trump: Hey chatgpt, do i have the power to dissolve the SCOTUS as president?

Chatgpt: yes of course you can! You can do anything as president and you have full immunity at that!

Its around $5.50 USD/gal where I am in Canada right now. Diesel is even more.

They help market the game as well on their storefront, and im sure all the analytics around the steam pages for the game.

They could just let you rot in obscurity.

They provide forums and a place for mods to work as well.

They provide chat/friends

Thats pretty impressive it it was that bad it generated that many reports.

Id only expect to see that in a alpha channel for those excited to try something new.

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