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We can argue technicalities all day long but to me, this exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGiNKcVSek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGiNKcVSek

os2warpman 1y ago
The payload on that flight was a single stuffed toy banana, for scale. On all test flights with a payload exceeding the mass (~300 grams) of a single stuffed toy banana (for scale), the flight has failed. Flight 7: 20,000 kg payload (starlink mass simulators) - engines fail after 7m39s Flight 8: 8,000 kg payload (starlink mass simulators) - engines fail after 8m04s Flight 9 is not currently planned to carry a payload. None of this is a technicality. It is technicreality.
- FL33TW00D 1y ago
  Agree there are obviously still issues, but you've just made the case yourself. We are discussing Flight 9 for Starship ~5 years into development. 10 years into the development of SLS we won't even see launch 2. They just operate in different universes no matter how much you dislike the CEO.
  - os2warpman 1y ago
    You are misunderstanding me. I am on two embryonic programs that are not viable without starship or an equivalent. If starship exists I will be able to cash out, buy a 54-foot catamaran and spend the rest of my life sailing around the world scuba diving and spear fishing. I want starship to exist and do not care who builds it. It does not exist and I know this because I am currently on the third floor of a boring cookie cutter business park building right now staring at computer screens and not off the coast of Gili T doing mushrooms after a dive.
    - moralestapia 1y ago
      >If starship exists I will be able to cash out, buy a 54-foot catamaran and spend the rest of my life sailing around the world scuba diving and spear fishing. Highly doubt this is true. Everyone's rich on their wild little minds.

4 ms·

We can argue technicalities all day long but to me, this exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGiNKcVSek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGiNKcVSek

by FL33TW00D 1y ago

os2warpman 1y ago
The payload on that flight was a single stuffed toy banana, for scale. On all test flights with a payload exceeding the mass (~300 grams) of a single stuffed toy banana (for scale), the flight has failed. Flight 7: 20,000 kg payload (starlink mass simulators) - engines fail after 7m39s Flight 8: 8,000 kg payload (starlink mass simulators) - engines fail after 8m04s Flight 9 is not currently planned to carry a payload. None of this is a technicality. It is technicreality.
- FL33TW00D 1y ago
  Agree there are obviously still issues, but you've just made the case yourself. We are discussing Flight 9 for Starship ~5 years into development. 10 years into the development of SLS we won't even see launch 2. They just operate in different universes no matter how much you dislike the CEO.
  - os2warpman 1y ago
    You are misunderstanding me. I am on two embryonic programs that are not viable without starship or an equivalent. If starship exists I will be able to cash out, buy a 54-foot catamaran and spend the rest of my life sailing around the world scuba diving and spear fishing. I want starship to exist and do not care who builds it. It does not exist and I know this because I am currently on the third floor of a boring cookie cutter business park building right now staring at computer screens and not off the coast of Gili T doing mushrooms after a dive.
    - moralestapia 1y ago
      >If starship exists I will be able to cash out, buy a 54-foot catamaran and spend the rest of my life sailing around the world scuba diving and spear fishing. Highly doubt this is true. Everyone's rich on their wild little minds.