Don’t rely on a fallible safety mechanism.
Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot
‘Tis the Season
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• Story
Storytelling Theory Test
South Park creators give a great lesson on story telling pic.twitter.com/glH96mXwku
— Interesting As Fuck (@interesting_aIl) September 4, 2024
(situation statement, exposition, punch line) worked like that
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (1-7 Sep)
• THU Falcon9, Starlink FL
• THU Falcon9, NROL CA (nice vid from me ol’ stompin’ grounds, scroll ahead to -20:00 liftoff)
• FRI Starliner Re-entry and landing (in progress)
Upcoming Next Week:
• TUE 3:38 am Falcon9, Polaris Dawn FL (crewed)
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• Starliner noise has stopped (feedback issue)
• Undergrad rocket math for starship
(i.e. the stuff I’ve long forgotten how to do)
Your Saturday Afternoon Rant
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Just another wild hair that needed tweezin’
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (25-31 Aug)
• WED Falcon9, Starlink FL
Looked to me like one landing leg collapsed on Booster-1062’s 23rd landing (most ever),
after 236 successful Falcon9 landings in a row (Good discussion and vid details)
• SAT Falcon9, Starlink CA
• SAT Falcon9, Starlink FL
Hey, two out’a three ain’t bad
Next Week:
• WED 3:38 am Polaris Dawn (crewed) FL
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• Reminder: “Stuff That’s Hard to Do” is our title, after all.
Searching for the reliability/fatigue/life limits is part of engineering:
Use it until something goes wrong,
Fix the limiting problem,
Use it some more until something else goes wrong,
Fix that,
Rinse, Repeat
• See Also: Progress
No initial design/build/operating plan is ever perfect
Y’gotta throw that pesky Reality™ at it, then pay close attention