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  1. Falcons Talon

    Falcons Talon Contributing Member

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    Space X's Boca Chica Starship Mk-1 blew it's top during a pressure test today. The stream is still live at the link.

    I wish I would've been on the bay today to see this happen close up. Pretty spectacular.

    Bring on Mk-2

     
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    GO ROCKETS!
     
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    Earth's flat, how many threads are you going to start about this nonsense?
     
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    Severe Rockets Fan Takin it one stage at a time...

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    Ugh...oh well, there’s always going to be accidents with innovation and pioneering new tech...just hope no one got hurt.
     
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    Came here for Mexican food discussion.

    Disappoint.
     
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    I wasn't expecting that large of an explosion.
     
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    where was james harden?
     
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    I understand it was a scheduled max pressure test on the cryo system and a failure like this was not unexpected.
     
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    I can talk about making mojo de ajo with some redfish that I caught out there in South Bay.
     
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    is this like chernobil?
     
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    Exactly like Chenobyl... except not in Russia....and not a nuclear reactor meltdown...and no death...but yeah...aside from that...Chernobyl.
     
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    There are so so many ways for these systems to fail.

    But yes, Musk said this was just a stepping stone system on to the next. Hopefully they can learn a lot about the exact nature of the rupture.

    These tanks can develop weak cracks in all sorts of unbelievable ways. Finger grease with a cleaning agent. Cleaning agent with a fuel with the metal of the tank wall, and on and on. Lots of behind the scenes stuff like this in the early space program.
     
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    That thing really looks like a grain elevator not a bleeding edge space craft.

    [​IMG]
     
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    #valueengineering
     
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    This is what she looked like with the nose cone on. Mk-1 was assembled for looks for a press release. They removed the nose cone to continue testing.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Ouch...

     
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    @1:24+ ... Kaboom
     
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    That turn it makes to straighten out is crazy.
     
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