@FBallAnalysisYT@Deadhead_Horn Awful take football guy. Buster Posey is a top 5 catcher of all time and first ballet hof. Check his stats, tell me I am right and still to the pigskin Champ.
Four humans are about to fall into a 10,000°C wall of plasma at 25,000 mph with a heat shield NASA knows is flawed. Tomorrow evening. Off the coast of San Diego.
Orion hits the atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a shockwave twice as hot as the surface of the Sun. The plasma ionizes the surrounding air and blocks all radio signals. For several minutes, the crew is falling faster than any humans have ever traveled inside a spacecraft, and nobody on the ground can talk to them.
The heat shield is 186 blocks of a material called Avcoat glued to a titanium skeleton. It works by charring, melting, and disintegrating on purpose. The destruction of the outer layer is the cooling mechanism. There is no backup system. No redundancy. The heat shield works or the crew doesn't come home.
The Artemis I heat shield came back with over 100 locations where chunks had ripped off. NASA spent two years figuring out why, concluded it was gas pressure building up inside the material during reentry, and decided not to replace the shield. They changed the flight path instead. Steeper angle, less time in the danger zone. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said publicly that this approach "is not the right way to do things long term."
The capsule will slow from 25,000 mph to 17 mph in thirteen minutes. Parachutes don't even deploy until the last four. Everything before that is managed by a curved piece of titanium and glue entering air twice as hot as the Sun.
Tomorrow at 5:07 PM Pacific, San Diego might hear a sonic boom. That sound is four people betting their lives on NASA's math being right.
@Ryanair I’m not gonna lie, I have to take the biggest dump of this old timers life while aboard a flight to London. How much do you charge per hour additional for a seat on the #YellowThrone?
@Champagneqetey@InsideTexas Calm down #LilPetey i.e. the #OriginalLilBrother. I know you’re sensitive about having 0% success in Spring sports and headed towards a dud in the Fall, but you don’t have to cry about it publicly. You’re better than that (I think).. #HookEm
@Champagneqetey sending 5 of these bad boys to you so that you have something to play with while @AggieFootball loses in the Bahama Bowl and while @TexasFootball fights for a Championship. Send me your address Sport 🏈🏈🏈
@Champagneqetey#CryBabyPetey back at it with his sad outpouring of support for his university. Admit it.. it’s a bit odd.
Guess it makes sense when your baseball team has joined the football team in the category of irrelevant things to talk about in April….
#AprilAggieShowers😢😢😢