Ray Trzcinski

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@elonmusk Were these the broken ones that came off booster 19?

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@NASASpaceflight How do you know that HLS is going to be the same height as the other variants?

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@Brian_Kennedy @SpaceX All in California where they hate businesses? That's sad.

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@0mnipotent7 @satofishi I hope so because I missed it

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@Rothmus I haven't trusted anyone since Waco

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@TheBabylonBee Isn't it racist to not want a black figure included?

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@davill Sounds good. If you are going to start putting adult payloads on the rocket, vertical assembly is a must. Don't be afraid to copy the SpaceX method of stacking on the pad when you start working on New Armstrong.

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@blueorigin That was too ferocious of a step

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@StarnesEri2813 @SciGuySpace They should have named the smaller rocket New Shepard

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@spacepotat0Z @CSI_Starbase It's a word that has more than one meaning. It does not have anything to do with finance when you are talking about flight.

A bank can also be a very steep slope of the ground.

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@spacepotat0Z @CSI_Starbase Banking is also a word for when an airplane tips sideways before changing the direction it's going in.

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@8lackPrince @CSI_Starbase Don't forget the flip for landing. Saving the best for last.

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@Mike10495054385 @SpaceX @JoeTegtmeyer @elonmusk No. They are putting them in the water for safety, not because they can't land them. Making a Starship strong enough to be a boat will add significant mass.

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@kennerado @SpaceX This was the first one that actually got sent up with a complete heat shield

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@PuckFuddleCGY @Intotron @mcrs987 The purple hoses under the engines on the pad were for starting the outer ring as I understand it, and they had to be replaced every time because they just couldn't survive that environment.

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@VinceCarRants @DJSnM This was a complete redesign of the booster. They had never flown this before.

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@AliDuart99578 @Truthful_ast @elonmusk Moving to a space based economy is part of fixing this planet. When mining asteroids becomes profitable, we won't need massive strip mines on Earth anymore.

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@askeletalghost @Truthful_ast We will have to see what the FAA thinks after that engine out.

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@wingod @Truthful_ast We aren't talking about the mass of the vehicle itself, just the cargo it can carry.

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@Truthful_ast The way it left the pad looked like it could easily handle 200 tons, though I'm not sure if there's enough propellant to push it all the way to orbit plus full reuse