Posts by Gina

  • 5150 or 5150?

    here's a discussion on that


    5150 combo vs. 5150 head + cab
    Just wondering if there is really much difference between these 2 tone wise. I've heard some people say they like the combo better, that it is biased…
    www.harmonycentral.com

  • 5150 or 5150?

    I like combos myself - just for the convienience and they're less expensive. You can usually plug a cabinet into a combo if you wanted and run it like a head if you wanted.


    How much did you get it for?

  • SpaceX Starship stuff.

    Yes, SpaceX saves money by reusing rockets:


    • Cost to refurbish Refurbishing and reusing a booster costs less than 10% of the price of a new booster.


    • Payload reduction Payload reduction is less than 40%.


    • Breaks even SpaceX breaks even with a second flight per booster and saves money from the third flight on.


    • Cost of space access Reusability allows SpaceX to refly the most expensive parts of the rocket, which drives down the cost of space access.


    • Cost of space travel Using a reusable rocket over a traditional rocket can be up to 65% cheaper.


    SpaceX's long-term goal is to make space travel far cheaper by reusing boosters rather than scrapping them after every flight

  • SpaceX Starship stuff.

    Quote from ASTAC

    I wonder where California gets the authority to require permits for launches from Federal Property, through Federal airspace. Does the US government have to ask for California’s permission to launch from Vandenburg?


    Should individual states have any authority in these matters?


    It may end up being better to just do what he wants and pay the fines for it.

    That's what I was wondering as well!

  • SpaceX Starship stuff.

    Quote from definitely-not-indy

    43 boosters for around 460 flights.


    How fast people forget the Space Shuttle was a refurbished rocket. It landed, they pulled they engines, disassemble, inspect, repair & replace. ASTAC, "NASA Space Shuttle Program Lessons Learned" & SpaceX's own reusability docs they send to NASA.


    Falcon9 was priced cheaper to buy launches, and then they raised the prices to reflect what it actually costs, more than disposable rockets because there's now 2 supply chains and obsolescence. The hype around the savings from reusability have not materialized into anything tangible except year over year private fundraising rounds. That doesn't take away from how impressive the engineering is, economics don't care about that part. Right now it's Musk vs California as they won't even grant him permits to increase from 33 to 50 flights there.

    352 boosters recovered and resused. some have flown multiple times and one has been resused and flown 23 times

  • Ukraine War thread.

    Remember all the wars that started when Trump was in office?


    It's just an unusual coincidence that everything started happening after Trump left office.


    And it's an unusual coincidence that when Russia took Crimea it was when Obama was in office.


    Because if people want to start wars it's a good idea to start them when there's a strong president that's not going to put up with it is in office. That's why it's such an unusual coincidence that this shit happens during Biden and Obama.

  • SpaceX Starship stuff.

    Quote from definitely-not-indy

    Yeah, we're overpaying for space cargo delivery unless it's very low orbit. Low orbit we get a great deal because the launch finances skew the other way.

    What does that have to do with your statement that they're making money only off of investments based off of hype?


    SpaceX is making money off of their launches. And they provided us with a launch capability that we didn't even have.


    I think they've reused something like 600 falcon boosters.


    What they are doing is not hype.

  • SpaceX Starship stuff.

    Quote from definitely-not-indy

    Nope. Farming private investments on hype. As taxpayers we get an absolutely amazing deal out of it. He doesn't really do new Concepts he repackages old ones that people don't do for financial reasons, and makes them so hype private money rolls in.


    He's the most successful hype man in history.

    I think they've got a 4 billion dollar contract with NASA and also the US military.

  • Since GS seems to have gone - check this out. VAX links

    another feel good story


    Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) on X
    🇺🇸 “I do not give a F**k what happens to AntiVaxers, Let Darwin do his work, they’ve helped kill 700,000 Americans” This was Florida House District…
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    “I do not give a F**k what happens to AntiVaxers, Let Darwin do his work, they’ve helped kill 700,000 Americans”


    This was Florida House District progressive Candidate Richard Rowe who ‘Died Suddenly’ aged only 41. RIP

  • SpaceX Starship stuff.

    They do say that they expect 100 lanuches in 2025. Up from about 60 this year.


    Vandenburg launces A LOT of stuff - a lot military. It because of their location and how they put stuff in polar orbit/stationary rather than east-west. out of Cape Canaveral