And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
SpaceX's Starship prototype explodes (or, suffers a rapid unscheduled disassembly) on landing.
If you looked at the thing in the last few seconds, they are going to have to perform that flip maneuver a little higher than 100'(or wherever that was) for the gyro's to get everything right!
"Going to have to work on that landing a little bit." Is this one of the greatest understatements in a long time? I suppose that the same thing could have been said for the Hindenburg.
And as SiG pointed out, it took a dozen attempts to land a Falcon 9 before they got one to work. And now those are so routine as to be "ho-hum, another one."
Thanks for the replay, missed it the first time and picked up after the kablamoo
ReplyDeleteSig has a good write-up. He's been following the adventures at Bolsa Chica.
ReplyDeleteI guess Elon is more inclined to dabble in new applications than actually sending a crew to the ISS or the moon or Mars.
If you looked at the thing in the last few seconds, they are going to have to perform that flip maneuver a little higher than 100'(or wherever that was) for the gyro's to get everything right!
ReplyDelete"Going to have to work on that landing a little bit." Is this one of the greatest understatements in a long time? I suppose that the same thing could have been said for the Hindenburg.
ReplyDeleteAnd as SiG pointed out, it took a dozen attempts to land a Falcon 9 before they got one to work. And now those are so routine as to be "ho-hum, another one."
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