Alfred Differ 👁 🫀 🚀

Working as software engineer. Space Frontier Foundation Advocate years ago. PhD in physics-UC Davis. Classical Liberal.

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@Simberg_Space @rah_66_comanche Agreed. Anyone quoting numbers right now is projecting assumptions. We shall know soon enough.😎

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@peterrhague Bigger flaps. 8)

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Yet... here we are. The new data centers appear to be voracious making them dirty to people who won't tolerate nuclear power on Earth. So be it.

I'm not convinced they make sense, but that hardly matters. Trying will make my point for me. With that precedent made... I win. 5/5

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I came back into the space advocacy in the early to mid-90's with a realization that we were going to need to lift certain industries. Science might get done along the way, but our civilization needed to shift a few things to use space resources as both sources and sinks. 1/N

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We are a lot closer to cheap/frequent access now and I don't have to lift a finger. Others are thinking and building for what to do out there. Never in my dreams would I have considered lifting server farms, though. They aren't dirty. It just wouldn't have occurred to me. 4/N

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Silver lining: The Space Force just got good data on methane exclusion zones.

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@space_stations @CommiNathan My money is on bits and pieces of the rocket as shrapnel. You can see some of them flying quite a distance after the shock fades enough to reveal the mushroom cloud.

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@space_stations @CommiNathan Sigh. Lightning tower.
Tiny typos matter sometimes. 8)

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@space_stations @CommiNathan Yah. Towers came down due to the heat soaking in. I don't think this lighting tower was exposed to that kind of soak, but they should check for warping when they can.

This looks like a shrapnel wound.

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@nyoomtm @WeAreSpaceScout Magnificent!

Perfect demonstration of the acoustic danger a rocket poses to itself as well as anything nearby even after the water deluge system reduced it a bit.

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@Robotbeat @deltaIV9250 Heh. It won't take a decade. Take Elon's guess as impossible, but they'll be doing re-use within two years. What will take longer is stretching how MANY re-uses may be done safely.

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Watching the Starship re-entry around the +49 minute mark. I think I see the mass simulators burning up in the upper right of the screen. Just a few dots with tails at first but they multiply and develop longer tails.

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@SeanR928Docs @DJSnM I think this is the safest bet. The ship was still very close when the booster was going horizontal. WAY too much torque.

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@holliemaea @Robotbeat Look at how hard the booster kicked over during hot staging. My bet is on propellent sloshing WAY too much making fluid flow to the engines erratic.

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@wingod Okay. Sounds like someone covering their behind.

You should be able to ask for the public release and trigger the formal review process. I accidentally caused a review of the old Halley Clipper docs ages ago when I asked for them from the JPL archive. It CAN be done.

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Looks to me like the hot staging event kicked the booster over way too hard. I bet propellant was sloshing around bad making flow for boost-back highly erratic.

Should be an easy fix for flight #13.

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@space_stations I suspect that when it topples all the internal plumbing breaks loose. Maybe not all, but enough. It's not like they would have engineered the vehicle to survive a flop like that.