🏆 'Almost magic': SpaceX's Starship 🚀 Flight 15 makes history, catching upper stage from orbit [first 100% reusable spacecraft]

[moonaman.varavayi]

This post is as stupid as it is ignorant. Exploring Antartica is well within our capabilities, it's just not economically feasible to do so yet, no money in it.

A self sustaining colony on the moon is far off but we just got closer to realising it.

It is a point often highlighted by scientists after Steven Weinberg (the architect of electroweak unification, for which he won the Nobel prize) first made the comparison in his classic popular science work.

But you do you.

 

[Yasser76]

It is a point often highlighted by scientists after Steven Weinberg (the architect of electroweak unification, for which he won the Nobel prize) first made the comparison in his classic popular science work.

But you do you.

That is a total non answer to my point. You just name dropped Weinberg after a quick Google search, so yeah, rather then answer my point about the economics of space flight v Polar exploration you find yourself in a pickle and run off.

 

[F-22Raptor]

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

talk about cutting it close..the rocket was falling at around 200mph (325km/h) and wasn't even completely vertical until it was at the tower itself...not much margin for error.

 

[RescueRanger]

While this is a terrific engineering feat, let us not get carried away.

Humans haven't even conquered or colonized Antarctica yet. And comparatively, Antarctica is a heavenly paradise as opposed to the moon or Mars.

Building a self sustaining colony on the moon or mars will remain a pipe dream, when we cannot even do so in Antarctica.

What type of farting is this?

 

[BHAN85]

these spacex amazing videos make me think that anti ICBM must be very much advanced that publicly is disclosed.

I think ratio of success must be 100%, what it explains why since 2010s USA is so daring against Russia.

sensors, computer miniaturization, and so on, all current technology what it makes this possible, it was impossible just in early 2000s, when USA still respected Russia.

 

[TruthSeeker]

The first human passengers will have to be very brave. The crew quarters are not separable from the upper stage. Imagine the ride from deorbit to flipping 2 miles up while going 200 mph to being caught! OR, an abort sends the upper stage to an ocean landing with a huge percentage of the rockets skin still super hot from re-entry. I can't imagine that will ever be routine to the humans on-board. Scary!

 

[TruthSeeker]

these spacex amazing videos make me think that anti ICBM must be very much advanced that publicly is disclosed.

I think ratio of success must be 100%, what it explains why since 2010s USA is so daring against Russia.

sensors, computer miniaturization, and so on, all current technology what it makes this possible, it was impossible just in early 2000s, when USA still respected Russia.

The landing process has to be totally autonomous from the deorbit burn to the catch. The only human intervention possible is a few abort points, none of which would be helpful to a human crew's survival.

 

[BHAN85]

The landing process has to be totally autonomous from the deorbit burn to the catch. The only human intervention possible is a few abort points, none of which would be helpful to a human crew's survival.

some people think about if exists dead hand system for Russian nukes, I think USA wouldnt never allow similar system for themselves.

But a antiICBM system without human intervention I see possible. And it must be the reason why antiICBM were developed to stop the ICBM with kinetic energy.

Decades ago, it was thought antiICBM systems launching a nuke in the path of ICBM. That it would be a huge danger if something fails.

But with kinetic impact there is no danger to allow 100% automation.

The only explanation to USA suicide behavior against Russia since 2014, it's that they ruling elite must be 100% assured about 0% error rate to stop a Russia nuclear attack, including discard own antimissiles troops human errors.

Of course this doesnt apply to Eurodumbfucks corrupt ruling elite, who act like if they were immune to Russian nukes.

 

[TruthSeeker]

I think the only mechanism that prevents nuclear war is "mutually assured destruction". Therfore, the primary benefit of a robust antiICBM system is to deal with insane or accidental launch of a few missles. But this is off topic for our starship thread.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The first human passengers will have to be very brave. The crew quarters are not separable from the upper stage. Imagine the ride from deorbit to flipping 2 miles up while going 200 mph to being caught! OR, an abort sends the upper stage to an ocean landing with a huge percentage of the rockets skin still super hot from re-entry. I can't imagine that will ever be routine to the humans on-board. Scary!

I doubt the rocket they will eventually use to transfer people to and from low earth orbit will look anything like the current Starship.

There is simply no need to land such a huge vehicle just to transport passengers to and from space.

That's like putting 5 people in a 747.

I know they are saying they are going all-Starship because the cost is "only fuel" I think the reality is far different.