ericcumbee

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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Yeah i see what you are talking about now.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Scott Manley said it was a purposeful flare off of methane to prevent over pressureization.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
They were but the cost of refurbishment was almost more than just building new boosters. Thats why SLS is currently using Shuttle Derived Boosters but not worrying with reuse.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
I think that has always been the plan. the V2 starlink sats were designed to fly on Starship. When Starship wasn't coming along as planned they shoe horned the guts of the V2 on to a smaller sat that became the V2 Mini.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
It took months to more than a year to repair shuttle’s heatshield in some cases. SpaceX replaced the entirety of the heatshield with a new design and a new ablative underlayment in a matter of weeks. I suspect they will be able to do it eve
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
I'm sure its different in more metropolitan areas. this is in rural Georgia near Savannah.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Frontier is one of the worst Telcos I've ever dealt with. A friend had their ADSL Service. Something went wrong the lines in her area. They gave her a 4 month ETA on the restoration of service. They tried to tell her she had to continu
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
You can spend 30 minutes in there pretty easy. I would say you could probably spend an hour in there if you tried a little bit. Lots of hot fresh food selections (Best known for their Brisket Sandwiches), lots of gas station food like chips
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Tesla has Super chargers co-located at Parkers gas stations along Interstate 16 in Georgia. These are Parker's Kitchens that have a really good selection of Hot foods and places to sit down and eat. I'm assuming based on the spaci
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Fun that this came up 39 years to the day of STS-51F (Challenger) the only Abort to Orbit flight of the space shuttle program. and only the heads up call by a flight controller for "Limits to Inhibit" saved the shuttle from being
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
- don’t plan a trip around a rocket launch. They get scrubbed all the time. Find something else you want to do in the area (even a few hours away, such as Miami) and then make a game time decision to go if the launch is likely to happen. T
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Starship and Starliner aren't really in competition though. the SpaceX Analog is the Falcon 9 and Dragon. which at its fundamental level is a pretty simple spacecraft. The Merlin engines in the Falcon 9 are Kerosene Liquid Oxygen Gas g
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
if the rock is gone....tornado.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
hearing the spacex is half the fun. Its fun to hear them cheer. and then hearing the Gasps and "ooooooh"s and wondering what do they know thats happening.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
>Already the first launch of Starship a year ago showed how tough the rocket was. >It was out of control, spinning wildly in high winds, and yet it still held >together and had to be blown up remotely. and even when they blew it up
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Boeing was supposed to be the safe pick and spaceX the risky one that might not pan out.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
and then there was also the Wimax debacle. Sprint had invested pretty heavily in Wimax being their future network before they realized this wasnt going to work.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
They are doing the prelim work for a possible service mission to hubble at no cost. I'm sure it won't be entirely free if its executed.
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
its also a very southern dish. we just call it Hash brown Casserole
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
not as many as you would think. They don't do very many static fires of falcon 9 at all anymore. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/spacex-building... "For example, the company changed its requ
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by ericcumbee 2y ago
Which is an outstanding book series, and while they took some liberties with the tv show I thought it was outstanding as well.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
The people that track it, have been suggesting mid march. based on past timelines and a healthy dose of tea leaves.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
unless they have a purpose in mind for said property, a lot of cities are hesitant to do that. because it takes the property off the tax roll when the city accepts it.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
Its got to get to orbit first, you have to launch enough of them to refuel the first one. I have no doubt they will get them to work, but its not an option yet.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
Dead battery
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
probably not as many as you may think. If I am reading the federal statutes right simple possession in most cases is a misdemeanor. it also targets the district of columbia which votes so heavily democrat it does not really matter from an e
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
this is more about the distribution lines running to houses than the plumbing in the house.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
Considering that the FTS system didn't really do its job on IFT-1. it detonated but it took a while for the stack to lose enough pressurization and structural rigidity to break up. This time it did exactly what it was supposed to do.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
I really hope that when Hubble is finally decommissioned, we have the ability to go up and bring it back to earth. It Belongs in the Smithsonian not in bits at Point Nemo. Hopefully Starship or New Glenn will give us that kind of capability
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
I probably should not. But I still laugh when my father who has service related hearing loss heard about this lawsuit and his reaction was “They give them earplugs now?”

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