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Starship Rocket launch livestream - nzoomed - 14-03-2024
If all goes to plan will launch in about 4 hours.
Witness the third launch of the largest rocket and the most powerful machine man has created, more than twice the power of a Saturn V!
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - zqwerty - 15-03-2024
Thanks nzoomed, wonderful to see.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Wainuiguy - 15-03-2024
Well I guess they are getting better?
Launch 1 - main booster damaged at liftoff and blows up after launch
Launch 2 - liftoff goes well but main booster blows up after separation and Starship blows up before reaching orbit
Launch 3 - Launch goes well, separation goes well, Starship reaches orbit, main booster fails to fire properly on descent and is destroyed, Starship burns up on reentry.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Oh_hunnihunni - 15-03-2024
So many school lunches burned up in a few minutes...
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Lilith7 - 15-03-2024
(15-03-2024, 05:49 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: So many school lunches burned up in a few minutes...
Yep - if we put that amount of money into fighting poverty, or world wide education,or finding a cure for cancer or, heaven forfend, a cure for human stupidity, who knows what we might achieve...
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - nzoomed - 15-03-2024
(15-03-2024, 06:21 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:(15-03-2024, 05:49 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: So many school lunches burned up in a few minutes...
Yep - if we put that amount of money into fighting poverty, or world wide education,or finding a cure for cancer or, heaven forfend, a cure for human stupidity, who knows what we might achieve...
Space travel has been criticized for these reasons for decades now, but at least in this case its private enterprise and not govt money being burned up, its in their interests to make it cheap and affordable as possible with reusable rockets.
Its also worth mentioning that there is a number of drugs being developed in space as we speak, drugs that can potentially treat cancer, so cheaper access to space is a win win.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/20/startups-investing-millions-to-make-drugs-and-semiconductors-in-space-.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13192351/Made-space-Startup-creating-drug-ingredients-low-Earth-orbit-make-medicines-purer-cheaper.html
Also the benefits to humanity with starlink that this rocket will be necessary for to launch the number of satellites required is significant.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Oh_hunnihunni - 16-03-2024
Private money comes from the public purse for those of us with a socialist approach to life. And when there are so many reasons to not set fire to hard cash it is difficult to see the moral justification in leaving obvious budget constraints in place when we see such (ad)ventures...
And here's me, addicted to science fiction.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Wainuiguy - 16-03-2024
(15-03-2024, 05:49 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: So many school lunches burned up in a few minutes...
School lunches make poor rocket fuel....
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Lilith7 - 16-03-2024
(16-03-2024, 10:07 AM)Wainuiguy Wrote:(15-03-2024, 05:49 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: So many school lunches burned up in a few minutes...
School lunches make poor rocket fuel....
Hungry kids do not generally grow up to be rocket scientists...
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Wainuiguy - 16-03-2024
(16-03-2024, 10:13 AM)Lilith7 Wrote:(16-03-2024, 10:07 AM)Wainuiguy Wrote: School lunches make poor rocket fuel....
Hungry kids do not generally grow up to be rocket scientists...
Well to be fair generally few people, hungry or otherwise, grow up to be rocket scientists
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Oh_hunnihunni - 16-03-2024
One of my oldest internet forum buddies is not only a rocket scientist but a real live nuclear physicist as well, working for one of the top unis in Canada. People with that kind of brain are indeed very rare.
I saw something recently on farcebook that linked to some kind of mapping of the garbage out there surrounding planet Earth. Seems to me we shouldn't be putting any more up there, or trying to get to other places before we clean that lot up properly.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - harm_less - 16-03-2024
(16-03-2024, 01:21 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: One of my oldest internet forum buddies is not only a rocket scientist but a real live nuclear physicist as well, working for one of the top unis in Canada. People with that kind of brain are indeed very rare.On a job I had back in the early 1980s the commute included float plane trips into a large river delta in SE Borneo. The potential collision risks involved local river vessels, numerous floating logs and the odd 'critter'. I would imagine the risks I faced there would pale into insignificance in comparison with those of a space craft negotiating the amount of debris whizzing around above our heads, which although often small in size is often moving at the velocity of a bullet or better. Must be just a matter of time before a serious collision occurs.
I saw something recently on farcebook that linked to some kind of mapping of the garbage out there surrounding planet Earth. Seems to me we shouldn't be putting any more up there, or trying to get to other places before we clean that lot up properly.
![[Image: Distribution_of_space_debris_around_Earth.gif]](https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2019/10/distribution_of_space_debris_around_earth/20823922-1-eng-GB/Distribution_of_space_debris_around_Earth.gif)
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Oh_hunnihunni - 16-03-2024
Well, let's hope the billionaires are paying those crews big money. Because boy, they earn it. And pay the price.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - king1 - 16-03-2024
Oh that must be our planetary defence system, no alien will get near us...
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Wainuiguy - 16-03-2024
(16-03-2024, 01:39 PM)harm_less Wrote:If it is in orbit then it is most certainly moving at better than the speed of a bullet. Around 25 to 27000kmh.(16-03-2024, 01:21 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: One of my oldest internet forum buddies is not only a rocket scientist but a real live nuclear physicist as well, working for one of the top unis in Canada. People with that kind of brain are indeed very rare.On a job I had back in the early 1980s the commute included float plane trips into a large river delta in SE Borneo. The potential collision risks involved local river vessels, numerous floating logs and the odd 'critter'. I would imagine the risks I faced there would pale into insignificance in comparison with those of a space craft negotiating the amount of debris whizzing around above our heads, which although often small in size is often moving at the velocity of a bullet or better. Must be just a matter of time before a serious collision occurs.
I saw something recently on farcebook that linked to some kind of mapping of the garbage out there surrounding planet Earth. Seems to me we shouldn't be putting any more up there, or trying to get to other places before we clean that lot up properly.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Lilith7 - 16-03-2024
(16-03-2024, 01:52 PM)king1 Wrote: Oh that must be our planetary defence system, no alien will get near us...
Indeed - & who could blame them for taking one look & legging it....
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - zqwerty - 16-03-2024
En masse this is our home and most of us are never going anywhere and yet we are allowing the corporations etc to effectively destroy the place and we collectively have already killed most of the animals.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Oh_hunnihunni - 16-03-2024
Trouble is, we only live for such a brief spell, we have no reason to invest in a future we will not see.
Unless of course we have half an ounce of humanity.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Zurdo - 16-03-2024
(16-03-2024, 01:21 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: One of my oldest internet forum buddies is not only a rocket scientist but a real live nuclear physicist as well, working for one of the top unis in Canada. People with that kind of brain are indeed very rare.
As a young fella I knew a guy who was a nuclear physicist...and being in NZ, of course he was unemployed.
RE: Starship Rocket launch livestream - Lilith7 - 16-03-2024
(16-03-2024, 02:49 PM)zqwerty Wrote: En masse this is our home and most of us are never going anywhere and yet we are allowing the corporations etc to effectively destroy the place and we collectively have already killed most of the animals.
I know it looks bleak, & sometimes utterly hopeless. Nonetheless, all over the world there are still people doing small good things; we might yet manage to annihilate ourselves but there's always a small chance that, if not compassion & empathy, then plain common sense may enable us to do the right thing.
Then again, we could be fcuked..
