Meme about the famous pen and pencil story.
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People try to use that to say the Russians were better because they were simplerMeme about the famous pen and pencil story.
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Morphic Tide
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*meanwhile, in agriculture*
"LYSENKO WAS A MORON!" cried the farmer
"Go to Gulag!" replied the officer
bintananth
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That's assuming Carnival actually cares about such things.
They don't because Janie in her bikini is a paying customer. SpaceX is not.
They will care when the Coast Guard starts handing them fines, because that's what happens in this sort of situation.
The only reason they should care is because of fines, not due to SpaceX and their perennially delayed launches. SpaceX isn't the only company that has a schedule to keep to. 🤷♀️
I don't even know if this story is particularly newsworthy since nothing happened but if we're going to cast blame... I wouldn't put it all on the Cruise Line.
I don't even know if this story is particularly newsworthy since nothing happened but if we're going to cast blame... I wouldn't put it all on the Cruise Line.
Also note that the cruise ship had to deviate from the normal course out of Port Carnaveral in order to stray into the restricted area.
So it somehow got permission to leave Port during a Space Launch? 🧐
2 cruise ships left port at that time, one stayed clear of the exclusion zone, the other sailed into it and is now being investigated.
bintananth
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When Saturn V's were being launched there was a several mile wide exclusion zone because if something went wrong with a Rocketdyne F-1 during liftoff you're getting a mushroom cloud.I wonder if someone thought they would give their passengers a nice front row seat to a space launch.
NASA actually expected that and the first stage of a Saturn V was designed in such a way that it could lose an F-1 during the climb to outer space and still reach orbit ... which happened at least once.
bintananth
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I was thinking about this and came to the conclusion that SpaceX is very intellingent in how they go about things when designing and building a rocket motor.
If they were going for broke by trying to wring the maximum amount of specific impulse possible they wouldn't be using LOX/RP-1 or LOX/Methane.
They'd be attemping to use an absolutely batshit crazy mixture like chlorine pentafluoride/liquid lithium/liquid helium. Lithium is more reactive than hydrogen and will set water on fire just by saying "hi". Here's the list of things ClF5 doesn't react with: something that's been fluorinated to the limit, helium (maybe), and that's it.
If they were going for broke by trying to wring the maximum amount of specific impulse possible they wouldn't be using LOX/RP-1 or LOX/Methane.
They'd be attemping to use an absolutely batshit crazy mixture like chlorine pentafluoride/liquid lithium/liquid helium. Lithium is more reactive than hydrogen and will set water on fire just by saying "hi". Here's the list of things ClF5 doesn't react with: something that's been fluorinated to the limit, helium (maybe), and that's it.
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Huh. Yeah, it does.
Undertone
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A shoutout to NERVA! - NASA's space-capable rocket powered entirely by nuclear energy. Ready to fly in 1969, but cancelled in 1973.
Fundamentally it was a "steam" rocket -- the business end uses the thermal power of the nuclear reactor to flash a liquid into exhaust gas.
The reactor design was optimized for liquid hydrogen as the working fluid, and its vacuum Isp of 840 seconds doubled the performance of the best rockets of the time.
Fundamentally it was a "steam" rocket -- the business end uses the thermal power of the nuclear reactor to flash a liquid into exhaust gas.
The reactor design was optimized for liquid hydrogen as the working fluid, and its vacuum Isp of 840 seconds doubled the performance of the best rockets of the time.