Chris Haver

[Chris Haver @havercj]

@rankdrugs @multiplanet1 Are you serious here? It’s called Innovation and it fuels America.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Catch as catch can

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I’m equal parts blown away by what @SpaceX accomplished this morning but also with THIS LIVE 4K PRODUCTION the Everyday Astronaut / @considercosmos team produced! These shots live… unbelievable 🤯 just wait till we get our slow mo compilation up 👀 #starship #flight5 #IFT5

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

POV @SpaceX catching a rocket

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what will matter 1000 years from now.

Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.

This guy reignited the Space Age.

He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.

This is history happening before you.

If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.

We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.

Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.

Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.

Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.

Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.

Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.

Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.

None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.

More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.

America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.

Because this changes everything.

All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.

All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.

Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.

But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.

You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.

But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.

If the puddlefish don't get in the way.

Don't be a puddlefish.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Loonbird @Loonbird1]

@alphanews Meanwhile MN Police Chief asking for help from ATF, US Attorney office, State Patrol, FBI….he doesn’t take care of his own state. And he calls @realDonaldTrump a “threat to democracy?!” Let’s take a long look at who is being threatened.

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

SUPER HEAVY SPECULATION ALERT:

Those of you who watch the Starbase Weekly livestreams will have heard parts of this theory already.

I am now 95% confident that SpaceX is in the process of building not one, but two Super Heavy Static Fire Test stands. One will be located near the Subortibal tank farm, and the other will be at the Massey's test site.

These test stands are essentially mini versions of the Orbital Launch Mount. There are a few major differences though:

1. These stands will not have launch capability so they will be much simpler. No retracting hold down clamps, but they will have 20 Raptor Quick Disconnects for starting the outer 20 engines. These QD's will likely not need to retract into the table, but they MIGHT do so in order to prevent them from being damaged as the booster is lowered in. Keeping the booster stable is a lot more difficult when using a crane for this job.

2. Because of the location of these test stands, and severe limitations on space, the method of testing engines will have to be different than how its done on the OLM. Im other words, SpaceX will not want flames shooting out in 360 degree and will instead direct the exhaust plume to one side.

With that said I believe its highly probable that both of these test stands will have flame trenches under them. Its really the only way to make this work. This will inevitable cause people to start suggesting that they have had a change of heart and that they have realized that a flame trench was the right way to go all along but in my opinion this is not the conclusion we should come to when we see it.

So now there is the question of WHY. Why would SpaceX need test stands just for Static Fire testing?

1. Well at some point, launches will become much more frequent. This means the OLM will be nearly always be busy preparing for the next launch. As the launch cadence inevitably increases, there will be a backlog of boosters waiting to perform pre-flight engine testing. This will prevent that from becoming a problem.

2. The Orbital Launch Mount, with its new Bidet system is limited to Static fire tests of less than 10 seconds. It is truly designed for Launching Full stacks, and not for long duration tests purely due to the volume of water stored in the tanks.

3. The OLM is also believed to be limited to Static Fire tests with thrust values at or around 50%. This is a result of the design of the hold down clamps. Also, the skirt of the booster is likely not designed for the kind of forces it would experience if it was being held down at max thrust. There is no evidence of this currently, but its possible there may be some additional hold down capability with this test stand. This would likely involve placing a cap on top of the booster and strapping it down to the test stand. As I said, something like this would only be necessary if they want to perform SF tests at higher thrust levels.

So if this speculation is true, what should we be on the lookout for?

1. The areas where these will be located will either be built up to accommodate a flame trench, or they will soon begin excavating large holes into the ground for this purpose.

2. The suborbital tank farm will likely need to be expanded in order to increase its LOX and CH4 storage capabilities. I believe SpaceX is already in the beginning stages of this massive renovation.

3. CH4 storage tanks will need to be added to the Massey's test site. They will also need additional GSE equipment for filling Booster COPV's. This includes Helium storage, CO2 for the engine skirt purge system.

4. There will likely also need to be additional water tanks installed for traditional deluge systems for both of these tests stands. If they plan to do longer duration tests than what is allowed on the OLM, than these will be rather large storage tanks. Expecting they would be elevated water towers but we will have to wait and see.

Anyways, thats all for now. I usually don't like to post things like this on X anymore because something like this will get turned into a script on someone else's YT channel without mentioning the original source. But at the moment, I currently don't have time to make a video on this topic.

I am in the middle of two other deep dive investigations so this one will have to wait until things have developed further. We will discuss this more tomorrow during the RGV Starbase Weekly Live Stream!

Thanks for reading! Feel free to add additional thoughts in the replies below.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

DOJ needs to sue themselves!

[Chris Haver @havercj]

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[Dream Shots Media @DreamShotsMedia]

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[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Netflix: we can’t figure out why we’re hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Also Netflix:

[Chris Haver @havercj]

@ABCPolitics @donnabrazile Ms. Brazile - in what country do you live in? In the United States of America, the economy is slowing to a crawl, not “roaring back”. Please speak the truth and drop the rhetoric.

[ABC News Politics @ABCPolitics]

“The Republicans are essentially running on fumes. They're running on the energy of 2020, which is the big lie.  Democrats are running on the economy that's roaring back, that is fighting inflation, that is helping the Ukrainians,” @donnabrazile says. https://t.co/XBRz2BBzCw

[Chris Haver @havercj]

@margbrennan @FaceTheNation @ChrisCoons How about less bullshit talk and more action

[Chris Haver @havercj]

@FoxNews WTF

[Chris Haver @havercj]

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[Chris Haver @havercj]

@RachelHaver08 @coach_KMorrone @MerrimackWBB Congrats Rachel!

[Chris Haver @havercj]

Shouldn’t we be concerned with the fact that we need to fortify the capital security? If lawmakers were doing the will of the people, would these threats still exist? #thisweek