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@0ba0sama Im sorry to disappoint you, but aerospace companies have no obligation to provide you with healthcare.

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@Digitrevx Starship has a big enough hole in its wake for radio signals to get through to Starlink. NASA could do this with the Space Shuttle via TDRS, but they could only receive basic telemetry and not 4K video

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@thunderf00t I think you're stupid, but I don't wanna say for sure lol

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@Bfklin @StarnesEri2813 @SciGuySpace Yes. But I think it was pure dumb luck that NG1 made it to orbit on the first try

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@SciGuySpace Was the rocket (or at least GS1) fully fueled?

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@Echo5550 Flight 13 can have a flaw or two, but it cant be like what we had with V2 where it was a complete repeat of the previous failures. There needs to be some serious improvement regardless

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@dawson81702 @Whateverface381 It could easily do Mk1 to the moon. No clue anything about Mk2, but you're probably right

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@Truthful_ast I feel like if the starship expansion project mod was more procedural it would help with the rocket constantly changing.

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@nkende7865 @jimkler_ @thunderf00t I try not to, it's hard to believe stupidity of such grandeur can exist

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@TurquoiseDarren @jimkler_ @thunderf00t you do know what SN4 was right?

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@expobear1 Through Starlink and Government CONTRACTS

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@jimkler_ @thunderf00t Starship has never blown up at launch? Unless you can't maybe SN4??

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@Arduino_jantje @puddy811 @PebMet1 @thunderf00t How do you know the ships aren't good enough to investigate metal wear? Are you on the recovery team? With how intact the aft section proves to be, im sure there's a lot of useful information to be gathered.

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@Arduino_jantje @PebMet1 @thunderf00t Having a heatshield thats reasonably above the bare minimum saves mass, while still providing margin for error. They need to know the bare minimum to account for such margin. Just like how SH lands w/ high AoA it means less fuel for landing which saves mass & means more to orbit

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@Arduino_jantje @PebMet1 @thunderf00t It shows how much margin the have, and if a ship cans survive fully intact with a severely degraded heat shield, then it's trivial if it comes back with a perfect one. Its also no different than how they optimize the landing burn of Falcon and SH to use as little fuel as possible

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@dehgrape gets even worse once you start distinguishing between decimal (Gigabytes) and binary (Gibibytes) and how Windows has them improperly labelled, which is why your 1TB drive shows up as 0.9 TB (bc windows is actually showing TiB but not telling you)

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@kpatrickpayne Ffs why not make STANDARD TIME permanent. Why do we have to be arbitrarily and hour ahead

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@Td7653 @PebMet1 @SpaceX @elonmusk @NASA @ulalaunch @blueorigin Because then OP's worldview falls apart

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@PebMet1 @SpaceX @elonmusk @NASA @ulalaunch @blueorigin You bet I would! The same way I follow NG, Vulcan, and SLS development

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@PebMet1 @thunderf00t Yes. Thats exactly what I said. They were playing around with using new METALLIC tiles, instead of the *proven* CERAMIC ones. Thats whats causing the orange color, since it's the metallic tiles degrading from the heat. Again, theyre trying to figure out what the BARE MINIMUM is.