https://wccftech.com/musk-blows-the-lid-off-starship-exolosion-says-spacex-loaded-it-with-too-much-fuel/ According to Musk, the explosion took place because SpaceX had to vent excess oxygen out of the ship. Testing new rockets typically sees companies use a mass simulator for a payload to simulate flight conditions, and Musk added that the explosion could have been avoided had SpaceX used an actual payload for orbital delivery. Musk revealed the reason behind the anomaly in SpaceX's company talked. A little over a third of the talk shared by SpaceX on its X page covered Starship. SpaceX's future depends on Starship since not only is the rocket essential for the firm to build out its Starlink internet satellite constellation, but it will also conduct lunar missions for NASA and eventual crewed Mars flights. SpaceX's latest Starship test took place in December, and while it saw the rocket successfully lift off and complete stage separation, the rest of the test saw both the first and second stages explode at different times and far away from each other. Musk shared details about the second stage's explosion, revealing that the cause of the anomaly was SpaceX itself. He outlined that during liftoff, SpaceX had fully filled the Starship's second stage with liquid oxygen and methane. Once the firm tried to vent this oxygen during flight, the Starship's second stage exploded, explained the executive. According to Musk: So, flight 2 actually almost made it to orbit. So, in fact, ironically if it had a payload, it would have made it to orbit because the reason that it actually didn't quite make it to orbit was we vented the liquid oxygen. And the liquid oxygen [inaudible] led to fire and an explosion, because we wanted to vent the liquid oxygen because we normally wouldn't have that liquid oxygen if we had a payload. So, ironically, if it had a payload, it would have reached orbit. And so I think we've got a really got shot of reaching orbit with flight 3, and then a rapid cadence to achieve full and rapid reusablity. Flying Starship's second stage with the weight to represent a payload was necessary for SpaceX's December second Starship test flight since it had to test the correct thrust specifications for lift-off and stage separation. A lighter rocket requires less power whenever engines are involved. For test launches, depending on the objectives, it has to match flight specifications to ensure performance at the correct requirements.

Add cultural appropriation to the indictment Link to video

Hard, hard nope.

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@jon-nyc Well, there you go. It was rendered trite long ago.

@Mik said in Lane or Dabo?: DeBoer it is. I worked with him! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_DeBoer Arthur DeBoer, (July 2, 1917-July 31, 2007), was an American cardiologist specializing in cardiac surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. DeBoer was one of the pioneer cardiac surgeons in Chicago and was on staff at Wesley Memorial Hospital (later called Northwestern University Hospital). DeBoer was the hospital's first chief of cardiothoracic surgery, and performed the first open heart operation at Wesley Memorial Hospital in 1958. He served as Chair of Northwestern's Department of Cardiovascular Surgery until 1975. He was also a pioneer in research on congenital heart defects.

I disagree. Of course, I come from the hospital world and conversation can be quite descriptive.

@taiwan_girl said in Incoherence vs Incoherence or Campaign 2024: President Trump talking about COVID yesterday: When we had just prior to the China virus coming in, if you don't mind, I'd like to be accurate, as opposed to COVID, it is the China virus. It came out of Wuhan. And I said a long time ago in your show, it came out of Wuhan. They were saying it came out of caves, bat caves, 2,000 miles away. Came out of Italy, it came out of France. No, it came out of Wuhan, the labs. And I don't, and by the way, I don't think it was done, I think it was done out of incompetence. That's what I think. I believe that a scientist went out, said hello to his girlfriend, and that was the end of that. She died, and then people started dying all over the place, but who knows, who knows. I can tell you one thing. I got along with President Xi, but I took in $400 billion in tariffs and taxes from China. You know, that's part of the show I caught. Everybody in the audience knew what he was saying. Yes, it's done in his chain of thought style, but there was no doubt what he meant.

I think the lad needs at least 90 days in the pokey...

Nope. Best option is seller financed through a LLC. I would give him a favorable rate. If you want to sunset the loan in a timely manner, put a ballon at a certain point (10 years?). At that point he can refinance through a regular bank or you can foreclose.

No but sometimes I'll leave something specific (like a wrapper) in the pocket and then see if it's there a following flight, LOL.

I think he senses the mood of the country. We’d like to see more government, less bullshit squabbles.

I can see some loss. It's kids and computers. Stuff will break, stuff will become obsolete, and yes, some will be stolen. Wonder what the real loss is?

A lot of it supposedly has. Supposedly...

@Axtremus said in The White Problem: The Great Replacement? I like how "the great replacement" is ridiculed as a ridiculous conspiracy theory, by the same people who tell us that whiteness is a big problem.

But Wait. . . !

"Unexpectedly."