It worked. They got it off the ground and achieved sufficient lift-off speed.
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It worked. They got it off the ground and achieved sufficient lift-off speed.
In simple terms write the equation for initial velocity and acceleration. Go.
So you're a biotech attorney and a rocket scientist, too?
Why should I have to do that? There are numerous tweets in this thread verifying that they achieved the desired speed before the rocket lost it's correct angle, causing it to fail.
Georgia Tech is actually a good school. My colleague used to use their microfab facilities. You should stick to meats and your tomatoes and stop talking through your ass otherwise.
And oh yeah, Mr. Lift Off speed, it would be:
V = Vo + a delta t
No but I know not to speak through my ass unlike you. And as others have described, a few of the engines were offline. You can see that in the pictures on Twitter. This is what plagued the Soviet N1 rocket which was built to compete with our Saturn 5. In 5 launches, it never worked and wound up killing 90 plus people the ground.
I wouldn't want to be on top of that stack, no. Elon is essentially running an updated version of this:
N1 (rocket) - Wikipedia
There are other, more elegant and refined approaches, to put extremely heavy loads into space.
Ask yourself why no one else (country or private organization) is using that approach. Are they all idiots, including the Russians, who invented that methodology in the 1960's?
I wouldn't want to be on top of that stack, no. Elon is essentially running an updated version of this:
N1 (rocket) - Wikipedia
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There are other, more elegant and refined approaches, to put extremely heavy loads into space.
Ask yourself why no one else (country or private organization) is using that approach. Are they all idiots, including the Russians, who invented that methodology in the 1960's?
I'm not a betting man, but if we did put a wager on whether they'll achieve orbit with this prototype, I'd bet you'd lose.
People or more space debris? I'll send you a hundred cash if a single human climbs on that thing and survives.
Even a crippled rocket can orbit before it deorbits. Many have.
PF is getting serious exit velocities on some heavy loads, based on his posts in this thread.
Yes, it will be one way alright. They'll be dead leaving Earth and 0 chance of return, since well, that minor bit hasn't been planned. Derp.
Followed by an excruciating, yet reasonably quick, death.
And Antarctica is far more habitable than Mars is. Which ain't sayin' much.
Those are verbs. In Iowa anyway...
All Mars needs is some good old fashioned climate change and they'll have an atmosphere.
Is Terraforming Mars & Venus Actually Possible? - The Debrief
Terraforming Mars and even Venus using a giant magnetic shield may be possible, according to a four-decade NASA veteran.
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Is Terraforming Mars & Venus Actually Possible? - The Debrief
Terraforming Mars and even Venus using a giant magnetic shield may be possible, according to a four-decade NASA veteran.
We can barely even get there; now we're gonna generate a giant magnetic field around the whole planet?
#EnergyBudgets
The new world would have never been discovered with your attitude.
Because piloting a ship is the same as generating a planetary-sized magnetic field.
Shit, we cannot even convince people to generate enough renewable energy on EARTH to stop fossil fuels use. Now we're gonna magically make enough on Mars to create magnetic poles?
Stay in your lane, Goober.
Piloting a ship across the ocean in the 13th century was basically suicide.
No; not really.
They just hadn't ventured across the Atlantic.
And the Vikings made it to Greenland well before Columbus' voyage.
Leif Erikson - Wikipedia
I really miss this sort of comedy. Couldn't be done today without triggering someone.
We haven't sent humans beyond the moon or grown a single plant on any extraterrestrial body. Now, we are going to terraform planets? I would strongly suggest you don't huff your smoker fumes.Is Terraforming Mars & Venus Actually Possible? - The Debrief
Terraforming Mars and even Venus using a giant magnetic shield may be possible, according to a four-decade NASA veteran.
The journey of 153.89 million miles begins with a single step.
