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I think the idea's to go like a Pringles can, with a spiraling single seam.
by paragraft 7y ago
I think the idea's to go like a Pringles can, with a spiraling single seam.
- sixQuarks 7y agothis is the correct answer. They can simply use the 4 meter wide steel no problem.
- test6554 7y agoIf getting out of your yoga pants is like opening a can of biscuits, then making a starship is like putting your yoga pants back on...
- simonh 7y agoThey can't do that because they need to thickness to taper off up the sides of the vehicle.
- hwillis 7y agomaybe, but that's also pretty unlikely. For reference here's where musk talks about it: https://youtu.be/sOpMrVnjYeY?t=3156 https://youtu.be/sOpMrVnjYeY?t=3156 No real indication he means a spiral. There are a lot of problems with a spiral. Thin sheets of steel, even hot rolled, are very affected by the rolling process. There's also the weld line going up in a spiral. That will cause uneven heat diffusion and expansion, which is a recipe for disaster given that the skin will be cold enough to liquify helium on one side and boiling hot on the other. Then red hot during reentry. Straight lines don't have the same problems.