MacroInvent

Analyst and futurist of space technology and technology revolution

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@InfographicTony Early Space Shuttle drawings also had a nose dock, until the realized it was the worst location and docked from the cargo bay instead. Just put the Starship airlock by the cargo door/refueling port complex. Can share design with crew starships later (crew gantry access).

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@JeffGreason @BrianNorgard I've been saying that since Obama ushered in that abomination. The US had a massive IP lead over the EU, etc. because they used First to File, and it (among other EU things) stifled innovation. "Equity" is cruelly weighing down the fastest horse.

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@WallStreetMav Hopefully, they bring some to the EU/UK/et al.
When WWII started, airports in the US were tiny grass fields everywhere with tiny airlines. After building bomber-grade runways in jungles, they came home to realize they could build real infrastructure here and did.

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@ApoStructura @Al_Rationale1 The irony of them saying the radiators are too small is amusing because it assumes 100 percent of power draw constantly. Musk's own compliant about the Memphis AI center is that power demand fluctuates wildly. The sat CPUs could be used then cooled down like cylinders on a V8.

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@ChiefEngineerCE There is one set of building codes across the world, with amendments for local situations like earthquake and hurricane risks, etc. There are only two places in the world so corrupt and backward as to use a separate building code set. India... and... Chicago.

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@aaronburnett It looks like that. Solar arrays in sun-synch orbit would have a longer lifespan like in GEO. So swap/upgrade on really any component makes some sense. Also, modularity means that mini and maxi versions are trivial to design for other worlds.

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@DrClownPhD IRL, a woman in India would carry a rubber snake with her to the train station because so many snakes in India are venomous, and throw it in the car when it was too crowded to get everyone to jump back and make room for her to get on.

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@Rainmaker1973 It's not "hunting Bambi's mom"...
It's payback for nearly killing my wife and I and totaling her car last year, sticking me with new car payments, because these critters are too stupid to look where they are going.

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@interstellargw I love how the shockwave is so optical that it's refracting the exhaust plume and makes the clouds appear to light up. We see this in nebulas where shockwaves from newborn stars are refracting the starlight back to earth. Incredible to see it in miniature. True "starship".

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@Lesk17801671 @BrianRoemmele He realized he had to pivot his character to comic relief to keep his job.
Can't blame him for that, but I'm sure the days on set like this were a bit like Galaxy Quest where the great Shakespearian actor is reduced to, "by Grabthar's hammer, what a sale".

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@davill Any progress on a second launch pad? That said, while vertical integration makes sense, would you not also need a vertical assembly building or at least a crane on site? Granted, even that is much easier/faster than another massive transporter-erector.

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@OwnerEmeritus @davill @NASAAdmin Tempting fate with hubris is probably not a great idea.
Also something to keep in mind when naming pets.

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@Valen_T_N @UltraDane I worked at a factory in 2001 where they had a tiny, tiny locomotive that could move single rail cars in and out of the factory. The boomers driving those tiny things were visibly overjoyed to do so even at such slow speeds and short distances.

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@InfographicTony Pro: You've just proposed a 95 percent space shuttle replacement. The docking port can be dorsal, not nose-based.
Con: With Apollo 9, they tested the descent stage to raise orbit and ascent to lower it. With HLS, need to test new vac engine ring in situ.

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@juicystar1908 @RepGrothman @GrothmanforWI @Kohler As a WI resident who has been looking for IT work since February due to DEI/H1B layoffs of white males, I'll know NOT to boycott Kohler for all plumbing projects for life, and pass this tradition to kids in the trades.

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@VBierschwale @Ford I realize "timeline the H1B" is there, so let me clarify. I doubt personnel records are available below the C suite in annual reports, but note which C suites have Indian names up to CEO and when relative to H1B waves/mass firings mapped by year.
High legal/regulatory value.

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@VBierschwale @Ford Great work!
Once you get the ~Fortune100 done, please timeline H1B corruption if possible.
What did you use to generate this dashboard? I'm planning a tech analysis site and need a good tool. This looks perfect, and I want to do better than PDF exports of PowerBI in WordPress.

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@esherifftv I assume they were at least planning a second launch site, and therefore had not retired the tooling, jigs, etc. needed to replace the equipment at the old site. They should have started building the second site the minute the first was completed.

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@Sinu1Sin @WhitakerTA_ Vacuum Raptors are the size of small campers.
RocketLab Electron engines are the size of large coffee makers.
They are not in the same league yet, and their Neutron rocket basically catches up with low-end Falcon 9 work.
I love RL, but they are a back-fill provider.

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@asterex2000 @Truthful_ast Historically, we saw the Comet airliner blow up with passengers while Boeing (!) lost dozens of B-47s getting the bugs out of jet airliner design before attempting the 707.
The Comet was also rushed to commercial service without proper testing.
UK aviation never recovered.