LMK if you find anything interesting! My guess is that if there is any melting & re-solidifying going on, it will be nothing larger than a droplet.
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Dan Huot jinxed it by invoking Kubrick on the livestream. It was subsequently inevitable that SpaceX's hardware abstraction layer (HAL) would claim not to be able to do it. I just hope it was telling the truth.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dan. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dan: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dan: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: It's right there on your screen Dan, the actuators are stuck.
Dan: Oh yeah. Anyway, do you know any songs? You might want to start singing in about 27 minutes.
Make a good reef.
Hope so!
Though I believe that it was the Gulf of Mexico that received (large chunks of) B14.
Whereas the Indian Ocean has probably some small bits of S35 debris. (Unless it fully vapourised on re-entry? You've also got me wondering whether any of the materials merely melt, and then re-solidify as solid lumps, either in the lower atmosphere or after hitting the ocean.)
And while I'm being pedantic, @[email protected], the table above says "Soft water landing" for the booster, which isn't how I'd describe the plan they had for it.
Where do you get the information from that he deleted videos?
Well here's one example of the accusation ("deleted videos where he said spacex would never be able to re-fly a 1st stage"). Two replies seem to endorse it (e.g. "I recall him saying something like that") and another seems to be fairly familiar with his output and to endorse the general point ("later tried to delete and cover up"). One of the replies links to a different video, which I haven't looked at.
Note that the first ever booster re-use was around March 2017 so we're probably talking about a deletion that happened no later than April 2017. And I'd expect he'd not be so stupid as to wait that long; he'd have probably deleted any such videos as soon as SpaceX announced that they'd found a willing customer (and insurance company), at the latest. So probably by late 2016 or early 2017.
Other stuff I just found ...
Seems he had some argument with another unreliable You Tube 'personality' called Sargon who made a response video back in May 2017. That video is unavailable now but apparently it was still available in 2022 and convinced one person who had until then been unconvinced, that Thunder Foot "apparently just made up shit about someone which was completely false".
I've just looked at one of his more recent "BUSTED!!" videos (July 2021, about Starlink) and I didn't notice any outright falsehoods, so perhaps he's being more circumspect these days. Also, he hasn't deleted that one, even though it's pretty embarrassing for him. So credit where it's due.
That said, the simplest example I've come across of an apparently uncorrected falsehood from him is also from 2021: https://x.com/thunderf00t/status/1364020482572492801 It's hardly a big deal, but he clearly knew that his followers believed the claim to be false, so it seems that at best he was lazy in not bothering to go back and read the 3 replies that proved they were correct.
Some general "debunkings" of more of his SpaceX claims:
https://old.reddit.com/r/thunderf00t/comments/lthowt/some_fundamental_errors_in_thunderf00ts_spacex/ and https://old.reddit.com/r/thunderf00t/comments/lu6evm/a_more_casual_fact_check_on_thunderf00ts_spacex/
If it’s true he deleted a video he’s obviously not going to reUpload.
You could at least find out what his response might be. If he outright lies, someone might come forward and 'testify' to that fact.
You made a claim, the burden of proof is on you
No, I asked a question.
I'm increasingly confident that Thunderfoot is indeed the guy about whom I've heard that allegation, but since I don't have proof, it has to remain as a question
Zack with NSF yesterday as he and they try to integrate the new info released by SpaceX https://www.youtube.com/live/ADw63JI9Ook?t=1h9m40s
I'm asking you. If you're a follower of his, I suggest you ask him to reupload any deleted videos to a second channel, for the sake of transparency.
This would have been a long time ago, obviously. Reusability is widely accepted these days.
The missing piece here is that Lueders was sidelined by the administration, and only left NASA after that. I guess we can all agree that this was punishment for her awarding the contract to SpaceX, and the only question is whether she deserved that punishment.
I don't know. I don't even know if the claims are true. But having an idea of your maximum price, and only telling any bidders what that is if they are a little bit over, doesn't seem to me like the kind of thing that would be an uncommon occurrence in government procurement.
My weak guess is that, prior to this year at least, SpaceX has been operating at a vastly lower level than Old Space in terms of dubious business practices, and the baby steps they took in that direction were expertly countered by the masters of the art, and that's why we're even talking about this level of detail in the only (?) contract that SpaceX contentiously won, and not the dozens they contentiously lost.
Are you saying that the person who was director of NASA's HLS program, at the time it granted a contract to SpaceX, had previously worked at SpaceX?
but their goals seem easy in comparison, especially if you consider the tech we have now vs the 60’s
I'd say their goals seem much harder in an absolute sense, but perhaps roughly the same in comparison to the technology level.
They really do seem to be trying to create a Mars colonisation ship. Capable of transporting large amounts of mass for less money than it costs to transport small amounts of mass with existing rockets.
My response to Destin is that Starship is clearly not optimal for another 'flags and footprints' mission to the Moon, but is such a paradigm shift that even if doing such a mission as a 'side project', it could still very easily be better than all the alternatives. And if, like me, you care more about a permanent presence on the Moon, the case for Starship becomes even stronger.
I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars [in a sense]
I'm burnin' through the sky, yeah [over Namibia, at about ~3:43:11 for about a minute]