Little more about this: The acting admin at NASA (Janet Petro) has been going ahead with the Musk-driven OMB cuts/RIFs despite not being authorized to do so. At an all-hands today she directly stated she "reports to the President," which is a major slipup given that 1) she actually reports to Congress and 2) Congress is knives-out against the budget cuts to begin with. Very big no-no. This has set up a showdown where Petro wants to fire center directors (in fact this was the intent of the all-hands), but doing so would be just cause for Congress to shitcan her instead. Every center director called her bluff. It seems likely she'll either resign outright or be fired by Congress, which would be wholly unprecedented. Some speculation going around is that she's doing this because she was vying for being the next admin pick, but instead she's being shoved in a closet and was never under serious consideration. The White House is not actively backing up Petro.
I used to use chrome just to browse twitter until it dropped support for my ad blocker and it made the site unbearable. Most of the ads were of course trying to sell something, but some were random stuff like this. The fuck even is this shit? I guess all you have to do is pay for a spot and that's good enough.
A skitzo Niggerian obsessed with feces and not letting witches share her food(?) Her account is the same oga booga religious vomit. Buying ads seems to be a way of circumventing blocks. Not sure what she is selling, though. Even running her posting through Grok was fruitless.
also none of these planes attack from within visual range
I could give a chimpanzee some LSD and a typewriter, and it would still produce anything more comprehensible than whatever THAT is.
would the weight savings of not using cryogenic fuel be worth the reduced Isp?
that's some pussy shit, renew project orion
Musk thinks he's Tony Stark but he's actually Cave Johnson.
Well, you're right in that tank mass correlates to prop bulk density (heavier props = comparatively lighter tanks) but the problem is that Starship's delta-v budget keeps getting stretched to ease the flight stresses on Superheavy. Starship's total delta-v budget (by itself, without the contributions from the first stage) for getting to LEO is like 7ish km/s with a 100 ton payload, and to get to Mars you're only looking at 4-5 km/s. All that "extra" propellant means that the tanks have to be, effectively, less mass efficient for each kilo of prop. So you're stuck either short-fueling the vehicle and lugging around deadweight or fully loading the vehicle and having surplus payload capacity that you didn't bring with you to orbit originally, which is just a waste.
Don't say that about Cave...
I'm sure they'd love to, but for reasons beyond comprehension the whole thrust assembly on the first stage was never upgraded to accommodate 33 engines from the original baseline of 29. Musk's tardy fixation with the number 42 (because he wants 42 engines on the whole stack) strikes again.
what the fuck
It's a theme with the whole fucking program. The tower catch was done largely because Musk thinks it would be cool, the nose cone is longer than it should be because Musk wants it to look pointier, he's autistically fixated on 100 tons to orbit even if the stack needs to be stretched and the engines need to be cranked to overdrive because it's a nice round number, etc. Pretty much every bad decision stems from Musk's mashed potato brains and absolutely bizarre ideas of useful metrics.
It’s the smallest number available - the only others he knows are 69, 88 and 420.
how did he become the richest man on earth? his father's fortune is nowhere near enough to get him to where he is
He had money to invest and no fear of losing it during the most retarded event in human history, the Dot Com boom.
Elon Musk making important business decisions based on le epic meme is pretty typical. I wish he'd stick to garbage, though, and leave good shit alone.
