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I get that, but they’ll have two years, easy. Mars is only 3-5 flights, and the HLS flights will take up most of the year. Given that Starship has proven out almost all of its core features; they can give proper time to the TPS. Much like the seals, I think it will get better fast.

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starship launched a BANANA? How about launching a nice COLD BEER, you LIBERALS

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from the leaked vids. Two raptor serial numbers match serial numbers match raptors from B12.

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oh also raptor has reflown now apparently. Thats cool.

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it probably will have a much more mature TPS overall. I expect it to be better and to keep improving.

I think that when we see 33’s TPS, it will be much more reliable owing to the fact that they will have both proper time with it and that it won’t be a mishmash of experiments flown like we’ve seen here. It won’t be missing the ablative underlayer, it won’t have tiles stripped off randomly, and

seal damage. There was TPS damage across that flap, though. That’s why only one specific area of the seal is hot, rather than it bleeding everywhere.

We’ve seen very marked improvements in TPS performance across each flight, even with each being very different from the last. A big example is the hot gas seals. On 29, they failed outright. On 30, their failure was much less pronounced- it still occurred, but less badly. On 31, there was no

pergy @orbitalperigee.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

not bad for 2100+ tiles removed

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pergy @orbitalperigee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

put the wire on the booster. wire guided booster

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pergy @orbitalperigee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

flight 6 was a big success! shame the tower antennas sucked tho lmao they should have cables for direct communications between MCC and the tower tho

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pergy @orbitalperigee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

pretend I posted a ship 31 fancam I love that thing

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pergy @orbitalperigee.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

THE FLIGHT 6 POSTER IS HERE! Stylized like a movie poster, this poster will always help you remember the excitement of today. From the fastest turnaround of Starship yet to the SECOND booster catch, what's not to love? www.perigeeaero.com/shop/p/fligh...

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pergy @orbitalperigee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Incredible……… so who was above you……

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VenusArt @venusart.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

So it seems YouTube gaming now has a recap lol @orbitalperigee.bsky.social

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TheSpaceEngineer @thespaceengineer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Due to the limitations of this platform as of posting I cannot embed the full video within this thread. The full 360º VR cabin concept walkthrough can be viewed on YouTube at youtu.be/W5Z2-aXHWkY

youtu.be

SpaceX HLS Cabin 360º VR Walkthrough

YouTube video by TheSpaceEngineer

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Because I’ve so far seen things that support both sides of the argument. I don’t know if space elevators are inherently possible, but I don’t know enough to entirely rule them out either. I’ll come back when I have a degree in structural engineering.

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I don’t think the facts are inherently contradictory. But yes, we clearly have very different starting points here. Will think on this.

I mean the biological urge for reproduction, to be crude. We can mitigate that. But I think that’s also still largely cultural and societal.

I don’t think that’s exactly possible. Maybe it is. I don’t know enough to judge.

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I would submit that it’s probably possible. I don’t know how, but given that we’ve solved a lot of things, we could probably solve something like this.

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Not exactly. We’re still using more power. Just reducing the rate of depleting earth’s resources while doing it.

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Because there are many ways to skin a cat.

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Interesting. I wouldn’t bet on it continuing to do that, however. Like many things, that could be due to social factors that could change. Considering that population growth is somewhat inherently genetically built into human beings, I wouldn’t 100% bet on that continuing the exact same.

I am not saying you are. I apologize for any insinuations. But I am not sure population growth is inherently self limiting.

I’ll leave that up to debate with PHDs. I don’t know enough on that front. What I’m willing to bet is that there’s another way besides mass manufacture of chemically fuelled launch vehicles.

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Resource consumption of humanity certainly isn’t coming down soon!

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It would not eliminate poverty. It would simply not force people into poverty by relying on a depleting earth. Again, if you want to go the population control route, that’s not fun either.

Yes, it would require investment and would cause a jump in emissions. We can mitigate that, like we can mitigate industry. Industry keeps producing permanently and keeps draining, but there’s a “get off” point here at the end of it.

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We can argue this. Again, I’d argue you’re assuming without a definite conclusion. Growth keeps happening.

Are you implying that human growth is something in need of fixing? I don’t want to assume

stretch it out more long term.

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I don’t know how to say this but the inherent goal is to produce stuff off world so that it *doesn’t severely impact ecosystems on earth.* we can recoup a bunch of the fuel emissions, etc of space travel initially via fuel air capture, and making less emission-prone methods like elevators

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Unless you consider population control as a solution (which, no) generally the solution continues to be to keep going out

Yes, we will continue to use resources. Recycling is not 100%. Ever. We will eventually need to go out.

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so we don’t have to either force people to live in poverty or do fun little genocides every now and then

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Will the Earth ever run out of resources?

I… here’s like 5 links to us slowly depleting resources. And yes, again, recycling, etc can stave it off longer, but that isn’t forever. www.interstem.us/2021/07/10/w.... www.popularmechanics.com/science/ener... frontiergroup.org/articles/fir...

interstem.us

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Very cool, but we clearly have no clue where that asymptote is. And even then, the chances it’s limited by the amount of natural resources we have is around the same as it being a social factor

Define profitably. Because again, there comes a point where you aren’t going to have that many resources left to exploit the other way, despite how much cheaper it would have been. We aren’t talking now. We do it now so we don’t have to scramble for it later. We can put it off. But why?

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Not even that. Power requirements per capita increase too. I also think saying that the population is going to decrease is somewhat shortsighted because every time we think that it’s about wrong