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.
What an Elon Musk rocket engine looks like. https://www.spacefrontpage.com/1982225_spacex-unveils-and-test-fires-raptor-v3-engine-for-the-first-time?fbclid=IwY2xjawEmK2RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRVST7-d39h_aNcn1an_l0B3gDZHX6QcMQHNPYyiwbZdC2K-v_M59SJn5g_aem_cNDyYGvu16ocFJNdEOKMFg
Rocket engines are like nuclear bombs. The theory is not complicated. But the engineering required is extremely detailed and unforgiving of mistakes.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the spark plugs on that thing?
ReplyDeleteI defy anyone to stand under the Saturn V exhibit at KSC and not be impressed with the engineering, now over a half-century old.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a modern automobile engine, after government mandated emission mods.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/THNPmhBl-8I
ReplyDeleteLooks like someone stole the catalytic converter
ReplyDeleteAnd all that's to control the power of seriously high powered and dangerous propellants and oxidizers.
ReplyDeleteAnd we wonder why they don't always make their planned orbital target when they launch?
Fuel goes in.....
ReplyDeleteThrust goes out.
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You don't want to drop your 10mm socket in there.!
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What an Elon Musk rocket engine looks like. https://www.spacefrontpage.com/1982225_spacex-unveils-and-test-fires-raptor-v3-engine-for-the-first-time?fbclid=IwY2xjawEmK2RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRVST7-d39h_aNcn1an_l0B3gDZHX6QcMQHNPYyiwbZdC2K-v_M59SJn5g_aem_cNDyYGvu16ocFJNdEOKMFg
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