Starship Mission to Mars

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  1. This music perfectly encapsulates my thoughts when I think how alone I am as a human being. Just me and unimaginable in size universe, 1 vs infinity. It almost feels unfair to even be able to feel that, I mean we are all gonna live just one live in the end, why do I need to know that, if our only purpose is to procreate? It doesn't feel right, but again universe doesn't care.

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  2. lol we cant live together on this planet. We wont live together on another planet… or the next all we know is dominance and death, Greed and power. Nothings changed … u would think after the first world war the amount of deaths in Europe would wake everyone up? NO world war 2 MORE DEATHS… america… 2 NUCLEAR BOMBS to japan…now russia and ukraine. STOP wasting money and invest in MOTHER earth.

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  3. Was it FAA or EPA approval delays that prevented SpaceX conducting a full-throttle all-engine static fire test months ago, before they mounted Starship on top? Testing Stage Zero on its own first, without consuming entire flight-ready Stages One Two would have been cheaper. It would have still destroyed Stage Zero and the ground and equipment around it, but then the more expensive full flight test might have gotten past Stage Separation. The upgrades of Stage Zero could have been built while waiting for FAA flight approvals.

    This was a test, it was not a failure. Just testing a dummy Stage Zero on its own first, without consuming entire flight-ready Stages One and Two would have been cheaper.

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  4. It was a good thing SpaceX did not waste any money on a mere water deluge system, because that certainly would not have been good enough on its own. Elon was resisting using a flame diverter, but now the test has been conducted and proves its necessity, Because of the high-water table, this will likely mean raising Stage Zero up and building a steel-faced re-enforced concrete flame diverter below it but above ground. SpaceX had already been talking about upgrading Stage Zero, and they had done some work towards that, but it was not yet installed. (The high water table means the flame diverter, aka flame trench, will have to be above ground.)

    Earlier plans like the mere water deluge system and a steel plate to protect the concrete directly below Stage One (Musk said it was already to be installed) are obviously going to have to be radically upgraded.

    Raising Stage Zero up and installing an above-ground flame diverter under it will mean raising up Mechazilla as well.

    The height increase will slightly increase the 'head' (back pressure) of the contents of the rocket tanks on the pumps filling it. If that increase is too much, those pumps and related safety valves may need up-grading too.

    If this was Boeing or NASA we'd be looking at completion of the design and construction by mid-2025. Hopefully, SpaceX's amazing miracle-working engineers, technicians, fabricators, and construction workers can get it done by Labour Day this year.

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  5. Ye Olde bait and switch. He'll push the "people on mars" fantasy as long as it generates positive press, but his real goal is to send ai-enabled robots to conduct mining operations on mars.
    He might send a few human sacrificial lambs at first, but as soon as one or two die he'll pivot: "I can see now it's too dangerous for people. Good thing I've also been developing these AI-enabled robots"

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  6. i think he said if it got off the ground it would be a victory, and it went for quite a while and got tonnes of data, its amazing how the vehicle went beyond expectations as if it was really trying, cant wait to see the final product, keep on pushing for that great unknown

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