Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago"SpaceX Starship will deliver so much propellant to LEO that fuel efficiency won't matter." --- Statements dreampt up by the delusionalhexbear.netimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1121file-text
arrow-up1121image"SpaceX Starship will deliver so much propellant to LEO that fuel efficiency won't matter." --- Statements dreampt up by the delusionalhexbear.netPosadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNuraShiny [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYea, see, I have no faith in them not trying to do exactly that. Any such engine for the next several decades would need to survive at least one flight out of our atmosphere and I do not trust SpaceX with that.
minus-squareEatPotatoes [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI doubt they will go to the expense of building such a rocket. The racket of 15 launches to replace 1 looks like a more lucaritive swindle. We need to step back from the SciFi and appreciate the mundane.
minus-squareNuraShiny [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoYea, they’d only try if that was the only contract they could get.
Yea, see, I have no faith in them not trying to do exactly that. Any such engine for the next several decades would need to survive at least one flight out of our atmosphere and I do not trust SpaceX with that.
I doubt they will go to the expense of building such a rocket. The racket of 15 launches to replace 1 looks like a more lucaritive swindle.
We need to step back from the SciFi and appreciate the mundane.
Yea, they’d only try if that was the only contract they could get.