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[AJUMP23]

Slow mo lift off.

 

[RJMacready73]

Now that I’m almost 40 I’ve resigned myself to the fact that we’re not getting out of the solar system in my lifetime but it would be awesome if regular inter planetary travel becomes a thing in the next 50 years or so that I’ve got left

M8 I hate to break it to you, we're getting fucking nowhere for a long long long time and we're certainly never getting out of our solar system

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

M8 I hate to break it to you, we're getting fucking nowhere for a long long long time and we're certainly never getting out of our solar system

 

[Deleted member 1159]

We most certainly can launch objects out of our solar system. Somehow getting humans to habitats outside the solar system is only about a trillion times less likely absent some sort of FTL travel.

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

M8 I hate to break it to you, we're getting fucking nowhere for a long long long time and we're certainly never getting out of our solar system

I’ve got hope for the beginnings of The Expanse to happen by the time I’m 90 but not without a lot of private sector interest in space mining.

 

[Ironbunny]

Chris Hadfield on SpaceX rocket exploding: It was 'enormously successful'​

 

[sono]

I’ve got hope for the beginnings of The Expanse

Sending AI is the next step let them explore and find out for us.

 

[lukilladog]

 

[L*][*N*K]

It is almost unbelievable that Twitter and SpaceX are run by the same guy, SpaceX is actually impressive.

 

[sono]

10 days later.. is there any information on why so many raptors (8?) failed in the ascent
There is a lot of information on the launchpad but I haven't read anything on that topic

 

[TheDreadBaron]

10 days later.. is there any information on why so many raptors (8?) failed in the ascent
There is a lot of information on the launchpad but I haven't read anything on that topic

I thought I heard the debris kicked up from the launchpad was a likely culprit

 

[Ironbunny]

10 days later.. is there any information on why so many raptors (8?) failed in the ascent
There is a lot of information on the launchpad but I haven't read anything on that topic

I remember reading that its most likely due to disintegrating launch pad and flying debris from it. They had no flame trench which you usually have under the rocket.

 

[Tams]

I remember reading that its most likely due to disintegrating launch pad and flying debris from it. They had no flame trench which you usually have under the rocket.

That seems like a massive risk that they took that they really didn't need to.

I get trying new things, but I don't think this, even though it was expendable, was the right one to try it on. It sounds like a bit of hubris even.

 

[Ironbunny]

That seems like a massive risk that they took that they really didn't need to.

I get trying new things, but I don't think this, even though it was expendable, was the right one to try it on. It sounds like a bit of hubris even.

Yea it was a known risk from them.

 

[Tams]

Yea it was a known risk from them.

Mistakes were made. Oopsie.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

M8 I hate to break it to you, we're getting fucking nowhere for a long long long time and we're certainly never getting out of our solar system

You're not wrong, but the Sol system is unimaginably massive in its own right. Ironically 40k is the only sci-fi property to actually get population scale correct. A fully industrialized solar system with cheap fusion and automation pumping out O'neil cylinders can provide palatial accommodations for a human population in the hundreds of trillions.

 

[Torrent of Pork]

That seems like a massive risk that they took that they really didn't need to.

I get trying new things, but I don't think this, even though it was expendable, was the right one to try it on. It sounds like a bit of hubris even.

Ehh, innovation is built upon the mountain of failure. They thought they cracked to code to a cheap launch platform, and it seems like it didn't work. It might just be that flame trenches are the only way to do it, but you gotta try things out if you want to think big.

 

[Tams]

Ehh, innovation is built upon the mountain of failure. They thought they cracked to code to a cheap launch platform, and it seems like it didn't work. It might just be that flame trenches are the only way to do it, but you gotta try things out if you want to think big.

Yeah, but despite what they claim, they did waste a whole Starship just to find out something pretty obvious.

It wasn't like it was some minute cracks and chips. It blew a crater into the ground through reinforced concrete.