Another textbook night launch
(What? Yeah, I know. Just humor me. Re-living a career here)
Awfercripesakes!
WATCH THE ENDING
Does the NFL or NBA have the most criminals? Are you surprised? pic.twitter.com/PwL5l1lSAy— Angry Frog ™ (@angrifrog) February 9, 2023
Can’t vouch for this, but I’ll apply Progthink and believe it because I want it to be true.
(What? Yeah, as the numbers climbed, I kind’a knew where this was goin’)
______Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Starship Booster Static Fire Test)
Big Day for Mankind’s Ambitions
Records for most engines and for most thrust (2 of the 33 shut down)
UPDATE: engines ran at half-throttle
[uncovers eyes]
Hey! It didn’t blow up or fall over! It didn’t blow up or fall over!
[dances around in glee, trips over cane, wipes up sloshed coffee and cigar ashes]
Locker room pats on the ass for Elon Musk, Gwynne Shotwell, and their SpaceX team
Note: the flames after shutdown are normal.
I’m guessin’ fuel (methane) vents through the engines after the Ox valves close
to avoid a super-hot lean-mixture situation in the combustion chamber & throat.
(Operative word: guessin’, i.e. too lazy to look it up)
UPDATE: Just occurred to me that the fuel used to cool the engine bells has to vent after shutdown.
Views from drone of Booster 7's static fire test pic.twitter.com/KN4sk1nohf
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 9, 2023
Censorship is Addictive
…and so is posting about it
(What? Yeah, now that you mention it, Karens have a lot in common with Judy)
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• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
_______Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 Hispasat Amazonas Nexus comsat)
Clear night launch
Different narration for a change
Also, their ground camera captures a nifty Moon-lit “jellyfish” as Stg-2 moves on
______Had to Go Look it Up
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Yeahman, I’ll bet the Russian Balloon Corps
are quaking in their boots right about now
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• Story (vid of shoot-down)
I kind’a expected something different:
🚨#BREAKING: Incredible HD footage of the Chinese surveillance balloon being shot down
🚨#MyrtleBeach l #SC
Watch incredible HD video of the moment when the Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down by a single missile from an F-22 fighter jet from Langley Air Force Base pic.twitter.com/KjwTrgcvcb
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 4, 2023
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