I'm not a rocket scientist, but I'm relatively sure that launching pads shouldn't look like bomb craters after the rocket takes off
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:26:38 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:29:48 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Glen Downton (glendownton@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:29:49 JST Glen Downton
@thomasfuchs That'll buff out ...
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:41:54 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@bigiain yes, real
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bigiain (bigiain@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:41:55 JST bigiain
@thomasfuchs “Good news: We have finally perfected reusable rockets!” “Ok, what’s the bad news?” “Well, ummm…”
(Is that real??? Part of me wants to say “surely that’s some factory on Ukraine, not a SpaceX launch site?”, but another part of me is “Yeah well, of course. Twitter guy runs SpaceX as well, this is kinda obvious given his recent track record…”j
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Chris Jarvis :battery_full: (jarvisscript@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:47:33 JST Chris Jarvis :battery_full:
@thomasfuchs Did he confuse SpaceX and Boring company? Cause it's believable he did.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 01:26:14 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@tard The rocket doesn't need the pad once it is at full thrust and clamps are released.
I'm surprised though that apparently the damage to it from reflected energy and concrete flying everywhere wasn't enough to immediately assplode it.
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tard (tard@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 01:26:15 JST tard
@thomasfuchs
Does not look like rapid reusability. And it is even more amazing that the rocket even left the pad. -
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Rupert Reynolds (rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 03:11:28 JST Rupert Reynolds
@thomasfuchs I was thinking that they must have known it would blow chunks (of concrete) and that some of them would be knocking on the hardware (my pet theory for the engine-rich exhaust and subsequent failures).
Perhaps it was the cheapest (hah!) way of seeing what might happen during take-off from planet surface with no launch pad?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 03:20:57 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@RupertReynolds Gravity on Moon or Mars is much lower, so they wouldn't need as much thrust and are (probably) fine when taking off.
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Rupert Reynolds (rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:24:29 JST Rupert Reynolds
@thomasfuchs I guess that depends on how dense and numerous the rocks are :-)
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