8 Replies to “Starship’s Tenth Test”

  1. Congrats to all those 20-something geeks for a successful launch. IDK … guess I just got used to seeing … well … more … ‘seasoned’ people controlling space flight back in the 1960’s.

    Hope this isn’t like obtaining a commercial drivers license in CA from Gavin AnyNEWone Newsom.

  2. say what you will about Elon Musk:
    -he is a brilliant engineer, so much so is he still the wealthiest person ever? and
    -a concerned citizen who successfully paid for the wrongful dismissal suit of an actress who had the audacity to speak the truth
    https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-settles-elon-musk-funded-gina-carano-lawsuit-star-wars-2025-8
    (bonus, it was DISNEY had to pony up)
    -and he is autistic like me and therefore proved what we can do when freed of the discrimination common when you are ‘different’

      1. ha ha ha but l dont wanna be!!! just today a senior tenant’s sister gave me his notice so in giving her the phone # for a reference to the new landlord l rapped of a bunch of them.
        then some old ones.
        then driver’s lic, health card, soc insurance, 20 digits pi and more ph #s.
        that MY autism at work lol

      2. JFK is a fruitbat. I know he’s on #TeamDonald and everything, and I know he’s right about some of the stuff he’s been saying about food… but he’s still a fruitbat.

        Also you can’t “cure” autism, it isn’t a disease. It’s a neural setup which some of us have, different compared to the “Normie” setup. So JFK can pretty much kiss my fundamental portion on that one. Fruitbat.

        1. bullseye!!!
          autism, at least the (exact quote) “high functioning” variety isnt what one *has*
          it is what we *are* it is structural, not imposed or acquired. woe be the day
          that one as *I* need be robbed of a huge recollection of information
          (never lost a single round of Trivia Pursuit), a knack for numbers,
          and constantly coming up with improvements on std processes and
          brand new one.
          l aced a career in info tech because I THINK LIKE A COMPUTER

          etc etc.
          m’kay world? m’kay RFK? ARE vs HAVE

  4. I watched the whole thing yesterday. Amazing technology. And to Kenji’s comment about 20-somethings getting their space license, this is the genius of Elon Musk at work. 20-somethings think up most of the amazing sh1t in the world. Einstein had all his best ideas when he was a punk kid working in the patent office.

    If you notice during the flight, the satellite ejection door is a little slot no bigger than it needs to be for the job. The satellite ejection system looks like something a high schooler would come up with for Robot Wars, bicycle chain and sprockets probably run by an Arduino. Light, cheap and no better than it needs to be to get the job done. And it -worked-.

    NASA would have had a gold-plated deployment system that cost ten million bucks, and the whole cargo bay would open. That’s what they did with the Space Shuttle. Which is fine and all, but SO EXPENSIVE and not needed for most flights. Just open a little window, no problem.

    Most impressive was that they abused the h3ll out of that spacecraft during re-entry, it took a big hit to the tail section from something that fell off and kept flying, with the hinges on the rear steering vanes glowing white, and they managed to re-light the landing engines despite the rear end damage.

    And they soft-landed it a couple hundred yards from a buoy in the middle of the Indian ocean. Got it to hover, and then descend into the water in a controlled fashion. I expect they could have had it land -on- the buoy if they wanted to.

    This is what happens when you get out of the way and let the kids go nuts. One of those maniacs thought of catching the booster with chopsticks, and it -worked-.

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