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by avmich 2y ago
No, I use "hurt" to describe what happened in Twitter with employees. Don't reduce events to schemas.
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by avmich 2y ago
I guess the Word for Windows is as related to Word for DOS as Atlas V is related to Atlas II. Thanks.
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by avmich 2y ago
Aside from hurting them?
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by avmich 2y ago
Steve Jobs also had a lot of critics, so I don't see any contradictions here. Many people would disagree about God-like status of Steve Jobs. Same for Elon Musk, he didn't start doing bad things overnight, it was accumulating, unt
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by avmich 2y ago
> Why do people hate Elon so much? Because he hurts people, different people in different ways. There are plenty of examples, e.g. handling the Twitter employees and Twitter users. Elon does a lot of genuinely useful things, but that doe
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by avmich 2y ago
http://astronautix.com/n/n1blocksr.html
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by avmich 2y ago
You know, that's completely unimportant. The important parts are that 1) Starship stage is under pressure when landing and 2) pressurization makes a thin-walled metal cylinder much stronger resisting buckling. Details of how Starship w
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by avmich 2y ago
Let me explain once more :) . The original post which I was replying to was ----- > So the struts (plus supporting structure) are lighter than the legs? Why is that? Besides the other answers you've received, the lugs hold the boost
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by avmich 2y ago
This is a legend :) some apps were running under DOS even before porting to Windows... But still a legend no worse than some others :) .
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by avmich 2y ago
Back-of-the-envelope calculations look like this: fully reusable Starship's flight costs roughly the cost of fuel, which is 1-2 million dollars per flight, both stages. If the Starship carries 150 tons to orbit per flight, and it costs
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by avmich 2y ago
> it's better to have them closer together so that you don't have fuel in space being heated by the sun for days. A hydrogen stage for Soviet N-1 rocket was designed so that it would be used near the Moon. The shelf life was go
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by avmich 2y ago
Unless you specifically send satellites to hunt for debris and bring it back. We have NORAD database of flying objects and Starship possibilities... hmm, I wonder if more satellites == less space debris pollution with such an approach...
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by avmich 2y ago
That's literally how original Atlas rockets and modern Centaur stages work.
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by avmich 2y ago
Nah, misses. We discuss technical possibilities, not flame on forums. The previous post was an answer itself. Or you're implying that tank pressurization isn't a standard practice and not a simple thing?..
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by avmich 2y ago
Raptor is non-functional without tilting. That is, it's possible to build rocket where all Raptors are fixed, but that defeats some ideas of Raptors. And I haven't seen tilt mechanisms considered parts of the rocket. So, while eng
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by avmich 2y ago
Why not to use the Mechazilla for adding the next section of tower on top of existing one? So we transport parts to the tower, assemble relatively thin sections of tower nearby, the lifter moving along the tower brings the sections on top o
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by avmich 2y ago
Aghm, sorry, I meant, the tanks actually are pressurized at landing and not at risk of buckling. Why depressurize?
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by avmich 2y ago
Pressurization gases? The fuel goes from tanks to engines (engine pumps) because tanks are under pressure, right? Even if the liquids are spent - they are rarely spent in full - the gases remain.
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by avmich 2y ago
> Build it and it will come to 50-100x today's launch capacity Yes, because Starship promises 50-100 times cheaper delivery of kg to LEO. Read https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-
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by avmich 2y ago
Bill Gates once complained that independent developers, other software companies aren't keen about building software for Microsoft's modern graphical environment, Windows, so he had to put his own engineers to work on that. Legend
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by avmich 2y ago
I'd consider that cheating on the Gwynne side. It could be argued if chamber tilting mechanism is part of the engine - after all, it was added separately to NK-33 - but surely for Raptors it's considered an integral part, the fire
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by avmich 2y ago
I guess they didn't optimize the towers to be fast-buildable :) because there are several obvious ideas.
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by avmich 2y ago
The tanks can surely be pressurized at landing, which greatly helps to avoid buckling.
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by avmich 2y ago
It would be good to see the numeric analysis of variants here. Legged landings are surely possible - say, with longer legs (twice as long as struts?), possibly static (legs are always deployed, even when launching), with shock absorbers whi
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by avmich 2y ago
You can technically imagine two legs with really wide feet, allowing some perpendicular stability. I wonder if one-leg lander could be imagined. 3-legged landing scheme was used in Surveyors, first American automatic Moon landers, and was s
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by avmich 2y ago
It would be good because there are many people who, roughly, refuse to believe their own eyes and keep moving goalposts, misrepresenting what they said or meant earlier, inventing additional conditions, changing their mind etc. If you would
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by avmich 2y ago
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-parentsusas-fight-for-bri... - "Support ParentsUSA's Fight for Brit's Parental Rights"
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by avmich 2y ago
It would add clarity if the first flight of the aerospike rocket, which happened more than 10 years ago, was also put into the picture.
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by avmich 2y ago
I like your double quotes.
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by avmich 2y ago
It's probably worth mentioning that this representation of numbers is neither the only possible in computers nor the optimal for all imaginable applications.

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