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I found this thread while looking info about odd behavior I have seen twice, and perhaps you and I are seeing different aspects of the same thing. I'm in the middle of my 1 month free V12, and I have never used FSD prior to this, so my expectations are all naïve. Yesterday when leaving work I...

I first thought that was one of the stupidest ideas ever. "I wonder how much spaghetti mankind has wasted trying to find things that stick to a wall?". But then the guy mentioned the military aspect of being able to have supplies instantly dropped to somebody, reminding me of the supplies that...

My pride is not boosted by SLS. I think the only thing it serves to demonstrate to other countries is an inability to execute.

I'm assuming the star tracking cameras are all infinity focus, you'd need.... I like your analogy of a GoPro, although a camera drone is a better analogy. What I suggest certainly isn't lunch money, but compared the total cost of each SH/SS test flight? And at some point they will want to...

Do starlink satellites have cameras? Seems to me it would be useful if they could send up one in IFT-4, use it for testing deployment, then instead of raising itself to orbit, just maneuver around the ship and do a high-res external inspection of the entire starship. And if they don't have...

This is the first Twitter reference I've seen that it's just a link. The others on this page still show the full Twitter quote. I MUCH prefer just the link.

Well you point out something I haven't considered: What are the scenarios to recover from? I wonder what NASA's requirements/goals for abort systems look like?

Wouldn't there still be 2 or 3 second delay to startup even if they were chilled and ready to go? I won't be surprised to find out that SpaceX has an awesome answer for this. But right now it looks to me like the startship's abort story resembles the space shuttle's abort story.

I would think that the startup sequence would be the hard part of using the raptors for an abort story. Aren't abort motors usually something that can ignite instantly, and not a few seconds later? How long is the raptor startup sequence? I don't know, but I have been assuming it is multiple...

EA's problem isn't that they're unreliable, it is that they are unreliably unreliable. They work enough to give you a glimmer of hope so that you you might show up, and then they let you down. If they were just completely broken all the time people would learn that, ignore them, and not hate...

I had an update a couple of weeks ago that has caused a large increase in dry wiping. It would have been one in the 2024.2 series. Probably 2024.2.3, although I have installed 2024.2.6 and 2024.2.7 which are just as bad.

Here's the article that I read yesterday: NASA monitoring increased leak in Russian ISS module While the article does say "Joel Montalbano, NASA ISS program manager, said the leak in the Zvezda service module...", it later clarifies that... I think the "PrK" is the small spherical submodule...

Two things went through my head when I read about it this morning Perhaps the Russian micrometeorite shielding isn't as effective as the American? Perhaps this is what the beginning of the Keppler Syndrome looks like?

How much of a panel's rated output will one see over the course of an average day? Whether 300W or 100W, you're not getting that much for 24 hours/day. I'm assuming that the rated power is under ideal conditions: angle is perfect, skies are clear, no pollen/dust/polutants in the air, etc...

It is common in Washington State for cities to plan parks in advance. Think 10+ years. The land where those parks will be is usually privately owned. Parks departments can start buying properties in advance as they come on the market. The idea is that they can avoid the ill will and legal...

Do they really need modified hardware to keep track of the amount of power? And what exactly would that hardware do? One of a charger's main jobs is to adjust the power into the battery on the fly (and it's why we constantly tell people that the box on their garage wall is an EVSE, not a...

With the homesteaders once they got to their plot of land they were isolated: go nuts and they injure themselves or their family, not take out the whole community. ETA: The old/wild west analogy is probably good though in that there will probably be a need for swift harsh justice. Hopefully...

I love Dan Rather's pun when he introduced the news segment: "Scott Pelley has the exclusive on nuts and bolts in space." :) The article also mentioned that a later incident involved a mission specialist who had flown multiple times having a bad reaction to some meds. So there's a concrete...

The thought that keeps going through my head when I read about Sierra's inflatable habitats is "what's taking so long?". I've been hearing about them for a really long time, but it's really just a minor blip every couple of years. So what's taking so long? Are they having a hard time...

Not sure when this started. I noticed it while running 2024.44.30.8. I do not have EAP or FSD, just plain autopilot. When I enable AP while the wipers are off it still changes them to Auto. However, I can then change them back to Off. The change works either via the UI, or via the left...

For those who didn't read the linked article:

TLDR: What is a space tug? Helios sounds like just a third stage. I don't know if there is any accepted definition of a tug, but I would expect that after a tug has moved a satellite from, say, LEO to GEO, that the tug can leave the satellite there, return to LEO, and then move a different...

Thanks for that. I had never heard of Sea Dragon. The wikipedia page has a nice summary, but I'm glad I watched the YT clip first because I wouldn't have realized that's what was meant for the launch. My favorite part of that page is from a caption on one of the drawings:

That's what I do. I normally plug in one a week and charge to 70%. Winter time I try to remember to plug in nightly, and if snow/ice is imminent I'll change the car to 90% instead of 70%. Which reminds me... the worst is over and I need to change it back to 70%.

What NASA involvement is there in SpaceX going to Mars? I thought it was entirely a SpaceX thing, meaning that SpaceX will be picking its own astronauts, training them, and defining its own safety protocols as well. It also remains to be seen what "building" the ISRU plant means. It might be...

I agree with your overall premise that a publicly traded business has a responsibility to not waste shareholder money. However... In Boeing's case, their track record over the past several years (737-Max, SLS, Starliner) shows not an unwillingness to innovate, but an actual inability to...

After my previous post I started thinking and realized I was being dumb. Assuming we can't bury a tank, I suggested we'll cut them up and create something else we would bury. But most likely that thing's shape will also be cylindrical? So...dumb. But I'm having trouble with the pressure...

I have a different mental model for the problem you're solving with modules: I think they'll make different versions of the starships. One for passengers, one for freight, one for NASA & the moon, and a giant Pez dispenser for StarLink. Much like today with large aircraft: you can buy a...

That amount of memory on Voyager seems like a lot. I would've guessed 16k. I thought the first shuttles had 64k before the electronics were overhauled? What surprised me in that statement is that a key fob would have so much. I'm not sure if that's horrible engineering or that transistors are...

I sometimes get that. I think it’s just a UI bug in the app.

He'll want to put it on Mars. But why not Mars? SpaceX will probably have regular shuttles to Mars before NASA does to the moon, and at lower cost. And he needs something to do once there, although he probably already has a bucket list for that. Trying to bring this back to the thread topic...

That sounds neat, but if telescopes pointing south were desirable then why aren't there more of them in Antarctica? I know it's not a convenient environment, but it's warmer/cheaper/closer than the moon. Putting telescopes on the dark side seems like a red-herring, though. Even if it was ok...

So the purpose of the wall is to hold the sign? ;)

It seems obvious to me that it's something along those lines. All CEOs are cheerleaders for their companies. Most CEOs are able to control their mouths. Whether y'all have guessed his specific meaning, I don't doubt that it's intended to make ULA look good to the people that matter to him.

I really meant ANY even though my examples were clearly related to blasting it with raptors. I thought I had been reading all posts about it, but I missed the crusher.

Thanks, all good points.

I have it, but it smells more like vinegar than dirty socks. And vinegar is less objectionable. It first occurred at maybe 12 months. I had Tesla change the filters back in March, and that eliminated it for a while, but it's back again. However, as for you exact scenario, that's not me. I'm...

Yep, I know how it's supposed to work. Just curious as to why they haven't tested it. If it was NASA where every little thing takes a year and a billion dollars, then I get it. But it's SpaceX--stacking and test fires seem to happen almost as often as lunch. I would have thought they would...

Have they tested the hot staying ring at all? For example, put the ring under starship (don't bother with booster), and static fire starship? I would think this could be done relatively easily, but haven't read of anything like it.

IIRC before they did the first F9 landing they were already significantly cheaper than the competition, and the reliability numbers were going steadily up. I suspect that if they never re-used a rocket they could still own the market and the competition would just be making a different set of...

What exactly is this "NACS coalition"? I can't find a website for it. It's starting to sound like a personal term for everybody with access to the supercharger network. If that's the case then, yeah, I guess you have to join the SC network.

I definitely think the current situation of chargers being unavailable at homes for many people (e.g. apartments and condos) is a problem that needs to be fixed. As a broad generalization, I like that we have federal laws saying that you cannot prevent somebody from putting up a satellite dish...

Texas may have similar state laws as Washington State, but the federal laws will work the same way... A Federal environmental signoff is required for anything with federal involvement. "Involvement" is broad: involvement is obvious if you're building a military base or a federal courthouse...

I have no knowledge of that, but I would hope the latter: cleaned up by the experts, but still following the concept of "you break it, you buy it". Pretending for a moment this is a car forum;), if we got in an accident and it was my fault, I pay for the damages but you certainly wouldn't want...

It's not a privelege. It's the fruits of our labor. Most of us busted our butts in school to get a job where we busted our butts to earn money for a house, a car, and a charger. If you're not there yet then keep working at it, but please don't dismiss the efforts of others.

People keep misreading that tweet. It clearly says Texas Parks & Wildlife. The bulldozer in the picture that is being driven around by the cleanup crew has buckets with the Texas flag in them. This is TPWD that is cleaning up, not U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. USFWS is doing environmental...

Unfortunately "compact" is a description of the stall and not of what people can park in them.

Why does arming the FTS require destacking? I get that it shouldn't be something so trivial that you can arm it by accident, but destacking seems excessive.

This might be a reach, but can we agree that there needs to be a dual source? Not just for the sake of the specific program, but as a investment toward future stability. For picking a dual source SpaceX is the obvious first choice for reasons you have said: price, cadence, reliability. The...

To be clear though (and I'm pretty sure you know this, but I want to state it outright for those that don't): Being a monopoly is NOT illegal. Preventing monopolies is not even an intent of the laws. It's fine to be a monopoly, but it is not fine to use that power to stifle competition. For...