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    Adjunct Professor, Theoretical Astrophysicist

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  1. It is interesting how critical so many creators are of IFT 3 . Having starship get to orbit, for all practical purposes ... and not blow up is great. Getting superheavy most of the way back to a soft water landing was great. This raises the bar and we need to see more complete success. Notice they mention the issues around fuel slosh and the complexity of the multi multi engine system that this is. Re-lighting the engines is a problem. They have to engineer around these fundamental physical issues. I am not ignoring what you have written. The thing is you're just misssing my points. I am talking about using ...as smart every day said... the playbook that Apollo left for us for how to get to the Moon. So much about starships system for this purpose doesn't really make sense. Firing a minimum of 7 of these to get 1 to the Moon... even if everything works perfectly ... by 2025 or 20206 forget it. Never happen. I WANT TO BE WRONG ABOUT THAT. I HOPE I AM. I can agree with this Space X flies a lot. They are a great company that has accomplished many things. I am a fan of Artemis and any company involved which does not keep up the pace for a Moon landing I am going to be critical of. They may work out all the kinks with Starship given enough time and enough money. Meanwhile the PRC will be calming a "safety zone" around Shackleton crater (the closest thing in law to owning real estate on a celestial body.) Without that ice and the insitu resources it will be a lot harder to build a real base on the Moon.
  2. I decided to respond to you with Copilot. It is a robot and can be wrong but not biased. I have struck out anything that is clearly wrong. It left out the very relevant to this discussion SLS. 4 SSME's and two boosters. Assuming we are only counting the first stages. I have come up with examples and given Space X credit where it is due for what they do right. I am just not a fanboy for Space X. I am a fan of rockets that are on time and don't blow up.
  3. I could write a reply to this... but I decided to farm it out to Microsofts CoPilot GPT-4. Interestingly the cold unfeeling robot agrees with me on the essential issue of complexity. Space X has their reasons for using many engines but there are SERIOUS drawbacks to it. Those are just facts. Yes all these systems have their issues. Many many engines means more complex plumbing. More parts means more points of failure.
  4. Pretty much every rocket except the ones you named. Especially the man-rated ones. Soyuz and Falcon 9 being exceptional. Also note Soyuz does something I said that Starship should consider instead of one big complex system of plumbing for all the engines, break it down in to smaller complexes of engines to get the best of both worlds without the cost of complexity.
  5. This may not have been a SUCCESS SUCCESS SLS is built on the technology of the Space shuttle not to mention that most rockets in operation have gone with the relatively few larger engines approach. You might want to watch this video by Space X fans. It speaks about the failure of the re-lighting of the engines. This is still an issue of the greater complexity of a system of many many engines. More parts more problems. This is not a matter of what rocket one is a fan of or whatever. I want a successful Artemis mission. If SLS was not ready to go and Starship was I'd be critical of SLS. Here is another BIG fan of Space X who seems to say the test was not succesful ENOUGH for Artemis. Since the test did not go perfectly by FAA standards it is a mishap.
  6. Yeah like I said earlier. Having the HLS be some kind of ... Flash Gordon looking rocket wouldn't make sense. The thing is designed to stay in space once it is up so streamlinging it beyond a certain point is a waste of time. I'm not wrong about those things. Space X finally got this thing to work once and not blow up. That is SUCESS SUCCESS for sure but there are still real problems which are rooted in the design choices I and others criticized. All the space focused creators I have watched have pointed out those problems. For example fuel slosh may still be a factor in why super heavy's engines did not re-light. There are still things that need to be re-jiggered a bit before it is really going to be ready. At least in principle they have shown that such work won't be a waste of time. It's worth a try.
  7. This was a fully successful test in my book for getting the rocket system into space. Now we need to see it work as a functional system. It has to accomplish Dear Moon, AND Artemis missions. These have deadlines. We need to see an All up test for a human rated HLS, Then that same basic craft will have to take the Dear Moon mission and an Artemis landing. We also need to see it go all the way without exploding. Space X has with great force managed to find a second solution to a solved engineering problem by using many engines. It remains to be seen if that really is a better idea though.
  8. SUCCESS SUCCESS. I would call this what a Successful test at this stage looks like. It got to space and most of the way back. What Artemis needs is for Starship to do TWO things. They need to demonstrate FULLY SUCCESSFUL REENTRY and landing for both a tanker version AND a human rated version. Starship HLS is not meant to ever come back to Earth but landing on Earth will not be harder to land on that the moon since Starship needs a flat place to land. On Earth we can make that happen. What I am hoping starship HLS will turn out to be is not a Starship as we've seen it but an item made for space... made to go up and stay up and transfer people to and from the Moons surface I doubt we'll be seeing a Flash Gordon pulp sci fi looking rocket on the Moon. The streamlined shape and casing just aren't required in space. Even Thunderf00t had to give it to him.
  9. This is one of the best most honest videos I've seen about this. Small channel but an interesting hypothesis on why it blows up.
  10. That's a much more understandable issue at this point. They aren't meaning to recover the thing. Maybe I am remembering wrong at first weren't they proposing a heatshield system that involved it ... sweating fuel or something as a way to cool it without ceramic tiles? That was a thing at some point. As longas it does not detonate for any reason at any point that will right now ... count as a real rip roaring success. Impact the ocean 3/4 of the way around the world sure. Just not before then. This is because unlike us here the real numbers SCARE people. Really when? I am sure he is not infallible. He talks about things the same way Hawking did in his book "A Brief History of time". Remember the average person doesn't really work with numbers over the cost of their house or car at most. 100'000's are about the limit. When making videos a small SMALL group will want copious detailed numbers a much large group are like. Hawking only used one equation E=Mc^2 and round numbers in that book. Anyway, what I take pleasure in is HOW he talks about busting Elon. The way most people talk about ... something else you know. He enjoys it way too much. It's almost NSFW. Yeah they are. They have achieved great things. Like Boeing has. Like Boeing they are kinda screwing up right now though. They need a completely successful IFT-3. Lots of people think this way. Also an INTRIGUING view from him. What if NASA had the same budget as percentage of the budget as it did during Apollo. Would Starship actually still be a better rocket than SLS. Now HE LOVES SpaceX. HE LOVES starship, but listen to the man.
  11. Great post on this. Lots of chances for excitement on this one. I just hope for a boring flight where it does everything with 100% success. Artemis needs that, Dear Moon needs that. That said I would enjoy another BUSTED video from Thunderf00t on the subject. He gets immoral beastial pleasure out of busting on Elon Musk. I love it. Not as much as I'd love successful US Moon missions though.
  12. I was just discussing this with some colleagues the other day. Studnets will tell us they "can't afford a computer". Then borrow one from the school only to .... show up with a top of the line MacBook Pro or a Gaming Laptop so THICC it could be a Kardashian. When in reality a mini PC or low cost tablet or laptop from the school bookstore would do everything they need for school. I need at least an Nvidia A5000 Ada generation for that. JK I think that any APU in any Laptop made in the last two years could do that handily.
  13. I am not the only anime fan on here. Anyone want to talk about it? https://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Obituaries/Akira-Toriyama-creator-of-Dragon-Ball-dead-at-68 https://variety.com/2024/tv/obituaries-people-news/akira-toriyama-dead-dragon-ball-z-1235934665/ He influenced so much of not just anime but movies and video games via DragonBall and his other creations. Life is too short to stay mad
  14. Please don't hurt me for mentioning it......youknow since you all mentioned last August Terren promised some type of report that would be made public about that.... you know. Please don't hurt me. This looks like a cool case. Pun intended and literally. the only concern I'd have would be if that special fan broke ... then I'd have an excuse to build another computer. That'd be awful.
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