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Wowza.
I have no bloody clue what that was.
I have no bloody clue why I want one.
Thank you for the last-minute xmas-envy.
And happy holidays.
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It appears that someone is enjoying the skiing on frozen carbon dioxide.
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sure is hard on your skis, though!
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From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025
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Apart from the suitability of the landing surface (firmness/levelness), it shouldn’t tip over. ~95% of a rocket ship’s weight is liquid propellant. By the time the lunar lander version of Starship touches down, a fair amount of its propellants would be depleted, so the end-total mass of the upper tank’s propellant has moved downward, and then there’s the weight of the engines, propellant in the lower tank, gimbal mechanisms, and sundry hardware located at the lowest part of the ship. So, the ship’s center-of gravity is very low while touching down. Also, I think there was talk awhile back about the splayed landing struts being self-leveling. Me? Self-leveling struts may not be the cure-all. I think they should consider an automatic fast-abort based on conditions experienced at touchdown (not firm enough; not level enough), especially if they’re greeted by these guys
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Self levelling struts were satisfactory on five out of six lunar landings. On Apollo 15 the struts fully compressed from the hard landing and the engine nozzle was crushed. Thankfully the ascent stage used a different engine.
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He can spell Mars without autocorrect, maybe. That’s progress, right?
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Honestly I don’t understand how he gets away with this. He’ll still say he is 10 years from a manned landing, and people will report it as if it has any chance of being true, instead of giving the obviously relevant context that he’s been saying it for more than a decade. Likewise self-driving or robots or anything he offers that isn’t the world’s worst mobile dumpster.
It’s all just stenography as if he weren’t bullshit wrapped in vaguely human form, because he has money, because investors are incompetent enough to believe the stenography. Instead of any kind of sinister but competent conspiracy we just have a giant tower of obvious stupid so big it blocks out the sun. 
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