Mack Crawford

Artist, software engineer

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[Updated pinned/intro post] I'm Mack Crawford, a 3d artist bringing the past, present, and future of spaceflight to life. I hope my work inspires someone out there

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@Willspacefolio @otherside_X42 There are contracted missions that require it

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@deltaIV9250 This lander would've needed a DCSS-derived braking stage

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@LisanAlGaibAlex @deltaIV9250 3/4 of the propellant load is LOX anyway, so its still partially ISRU-compatible

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@SniperNSniping Vote Bush (not for President)

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@Orbital_Perigee @K3PLRLEAF The chapter and 3 appendices about the decision on the number of engines for Shuttle-C to use would have been exhilarating. I may have even included dialogue, in the form of notes written on photocopied office memos

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@Orbital_Perigee @K3PLRLEAF I started seriously planning out an althist that was going to be like this, showed my notes to someone and they were like "what is this bullshit? There are like 3 people in the world that would read this" so I didn't bother

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@interkosmos_dog @dylbugz Not trans and don't live in Seattle, but I remember walking through a park in the Capitol Hill area when I visited and seeing a group of trans girls playing some kind of sports thing (or more properly, not seeing until I got hit in the face with a ball and a bunch apologized)

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@Mallard143 @SeriqBlock2 @zoi716 Underpowered. Full-size Centaur V's tanks carry more fuel than two RL10s can actually burn before falling back into the atmosphere on a LEO mission with maximum payload, so they'd have to underfuel it and carry a bunch of empty tank mass. Better to just shorten the tanks

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@hellspatisserie Because they understand their target audience

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@Alaygroundss I assumed it was her, the whole picture kinda fits

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@sigfig The place I work has spent 9 months focusing almost all resources on trying to get AI integrated with our platform. We're probably gonna go bankrupt in a year because no useful work is getting done, the integration is fractally difficult, and even if it works will not be useful

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@praq1966 @taxoffender_ @TownsUsa You don't sound very Texan

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@chirunocirno9 @riflexit @noinconsistency Someone probably joked about it to them. When I was in college I told some anti-abortion protester that I loved abortion because fetuses are delicious and she called over a police officer from nearby thinking I was a literal cannibal

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@JaraySzabolcs @Phrankensteyn Also means that, for a Starship-like vehicle (refuelable and with enough delta v to almost but not quite SSTO) if the heat shield is damaged you can just refuel in LEO and burn off like 90% of the velocity propulsively so the vehicle doesn't get hot enough to need it

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@Jaytheamazing_ @Sundancing_ Pumping that much fuel that quickly would require turbopumps, at that point you might as well just fire the engines normally. But if the engines don't work then you have a problem

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@radiant379 @Rusows_Rifle @AnimarchyYT Not enough

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@AnimarchyYT @AlexChaircheck On thd positive side, this meme got a lot of people to watch Zombieland Saga

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@Sundancing_ @Jaytheamazing_ Just eject the whole cabin. That was the plan for AMLS/Shuttle-II (bonus, the cabin was going to share a lot of designs with HL-20)

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@TheNameofWar Until I saw the Cyrillic text I assumed this was made in America

Always fun when the enemy makes us look cool

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@JFrankleKSC @TJ_Cooney Tbh if these can be built cheaply enough, they should replace basically all other transit. My main problem with cars (which trains are better at, but still imperfect) is the amount of wasted land they need for roads. This almost totally eliminates that