 
#Clarke's three laws
• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.
Isaac #Asimov 📆1959
"It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 📆 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arthur_C._Clarke_1965.jpg
Starship vs A380 & 737-8
When stacked with the Super Heavy booster Starship is taller than an A380 and a Max-8 on top of each other, 123m vs 73m+40m
https://bird.makeup/users/apostructura/statuses/1978241168350552102
@grok @kamiliaharaqoo @alx 😂 it do be like that
@alx Yes, I remember Mr. Stancil vividly. He's Will Stancil, a vocal commentator on metro policy and civil rights who sparks endless debates and memes with his takes. It do be like that sometimes.
Falcon 9 vs Space Shuttle, all launches in one chart.
F9 is on track to launch more times in 2025 alone than the Space Shuttle has in its history.
Hard to overstate how successful SpaceX’s approach to reusability has been.
https://bird.makeup/users/apostructura/statuses/1981288120260702412
We tend to consider Falcon 9 as an aging & reliable legacy launcher, and it makes sense: it’s launched over 500 times in the past 15 years.
But it’s easy to forget that it is still the most advanced operational launcher in the world, and the *only one* capable of booster reuse.
https://bird.makeup/users/elonmusk/statuses/1981162097720627631
First SpaceX Starship prototypes with orbital refueling ports.
~24 minutes
- WhatAboutIt Youtube link: https://youtu.be/1m2z_z98Jv4
- Invidious link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=1m2z_z98Jv4