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Depiction of Orion on SLS, Soviet N-1, New Glenn 9x4, and a SpaceX Starship with expendable upper stage. Looks like there's room for a small Lunar lander and descent/Lunar Insertion module for the partially reusable version of Starship.
(Screenshot from #WAI video).

#Space #Astrodon #SLS #BlueOrigin #NewGlenn #JeffBezos #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk

This is the problem with so-called democratic systems. When you try to play by their rules, they change them.

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

Stainless steel heat shielding on the methane tank dome of Booster 18, with reusable integrated hot staging structure (that is not jettisoned during RTLS).
Screenshot from #WAI video.

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk

Booster 18

RT: https://noauthority.social/users/StarProphet/statuses/115647955278714025

RE: https://mastodon.world/@robotics/115622857892003419

Could #Optimus achieve this ? 🤔

Depicted interior of a V3 Starship booster. Note the three gridfins' control assemblies are in pressure tight compartments within the methane tank, instead of the interstage. The CH4 downcomer is much wider, and can act as a holding tank for landings. And there's a LOX holding tank in the lower side of the LOX tank.
(Screenshot from #WAI video).

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT12

tfw you realize that in the age of AI, when you’re talking to most people, you’re still talking to the TV…. but now the TV can hear you and will generate an infinite stream of slop in response

Booster 19 stacking has begun. B19 is scheduled for its tests this month.
(Screenshot from #WAI video).

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT12

Atari 2600 Game Collecting List


Pitfall
River Raid
Berserk
Combat
Phoenix
Space Invaders
Asteroids
Missile Command
Kaboom!
Enduro
Video Olympics
Warlords
Demon Attack
Yars Revenge
Vanguard
Turmoil
Chopper Command
Defender II / Stargate
Keystone Capers
Solaris
Megamania
Air Sea Battle
Super Breakout
Spider Fighter

Beamrider
Laser Gates
Pitfall II
H.E.R.O.

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

Closeup of internals of Booster 18. Note the much wider (near Falcon 9 sized) V3 booster methane downcomer, that acts as a CH4 holding tank.
Screenshot from #WAI video.

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk

Booster 18

RT: https://noauthority.social/users/StarProphet/statuses/115647955278714025

"SpaceX's Starship Version 3 Super Heavy Booster Explained! When will we see Flight 12?"

#WAI video ~12 minutes:
- Youtube: https://youtu.be/RYXsEi5Fd5A
- Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RYXsEi5Fd5A

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT12

@judgedread

New environments will spawn new religions, or new iterations of old religions.

That's why I don't really spend time mocking Mormon magic underwear, and Joseph Smith's "translation" of the "Book of Abraham" (which was a fragment of an Egyptian burial manual).

#Bible #Christianity

If introduced today would Popeye become an iconic character?

Could his popularity ever be revived to equal his status in the 1930s and 40s?

If you agree 'no' and 'no'... that's what I mean by memetic attrition.

Memetic attrition is the inevitable salience decline as the original context - cultural, technical, economic, theological and political - in which a meme evolved changes or disappears.

Consider the horse. All those equestrian tropes familiar to any gentleman for centuries went to the glue factory with his faithful old mount, replaced by the motorcar.

My memetic attrition theory is just a novelty take, I can't prove that the collapse of agrarian society and rise of industry and now information technology have rendered all holy documents alien and nearly incomprehensible to modern man, but I believe it.

You can't start archeological expeditions using the LOTR books. But you can start archeological expeditions using the Bible (Genesis mentioning the Hittites, for example).

#Bible #Christianity

@EvilSandmich Plus I know why he did it - to cover for Israel. And that is something which I have no sympathy for whatsoever, particularly in this case.

Ship 39 in Megabay 2.
Ship 39

RT: https://annihilation.social/objects/38ccc754-dcd8-4281-984f-6c9d87119a7f