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The scale of the two figures look like giants--maybe ride their backsides for a change
 
Great idea to bypass the cooling and environment control hardware that are a burden in power availability for very large data centers.

Note that this announcement comes right after Meta raised dozen of billions dollars for their monstruous integrated data center project.
 
TomcatViP said:
Great idea to bypass the cooling
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Cooling will be no less a problem in space. If anything it's harder in a way because you don't have "free" air available to carry away the heat and you have to do everything radiatively. The radiation environment is tougher too. But, maybe there could still be advantages against fixed site datacenters and all the electrical, utility, and real estate stuff that goes along with them.
 
Well, is not cooling specifically there that is really the problem, it's hygrometry level that needs to be down at scale. And that's what takes space, suck energy and money out of the prime application, competing with the reliability and the overall rentability of such projects.
 
gtg947h said:
Cooling will be no less a problem in space. If anything it's harder in a way because you don't have "free" air available to carry away the heat and you have to do everything radiatively. The radiation environment is tougher too. But, maybe there could still be advantages against fixed site datacenters and all the electrical, utility, and real estate stuff that goes along with them.
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Not really. Just as solar arrays rotate to track the sun, radiators can be kept on edge to the sun or shaded.
 
Current state of Gigabay at Starbase
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Michel Van said:
Current state of Gigabay at Starbase
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This is not directed to any individual poster, but going forward I would kindly request for *ANYONE* posting video on this forum to also submit a short, crisp, succinct, to the point, one paragraph text describing the information content of that video. At my age of 64, I simply don't have the patience to sit through droning videos of Cincinnati Time Waste watching paint dry just to wait for any non breathtaking minuscule reveal.
 
Michel Van said:
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That is sad to see.

For storytelling’s sake, the last launch should have been the rock tornado—a one-off SuperHeavy 2.0 surrounded by remaining SRBs that just blasts the pad away to lob a one-piece reactor (minus fuel) into orbit.

It actually hurts me to see anything cut up like that in such an anti-climactic manner.

The closest thing to an Orion pusher-plate any of us will ever see.
 
publiusr said:
That is sad to see.

For storytelling’s sake, the last launch should have been the rock tornado—a one-off SuperHeavy 2.0 surrounded by remaining SRBs that just blasts the pad away to lob a one-piece reactor (minus fuel) into orbit.
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That wouldn't get anywhere. Still need the Starship. and Musk would rather tear down all of Starbase before using SRBs
SRBs couldn't even get an F9 booster into orbit.
 
publiusr said:
That is sad to see.

For storytelling’s sake, the last launch should have been the rock tornado—a one-off SuperHeavy 2.0 surrounded by remaining SRBs that just blasts the pad away to lob a one-piece reactor (minus fuel) into orbit.

It actually hurts me to see anything cut up like that in such an anti-climactic manner.

The closest thing to an Orion pusher-plate any of us will ever see.
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Those plates at 7 o'clock got torched on the last flight.
 
He's talking about amount of solar into orbit. Not sure what the, "other parts of the equation" are without context. He's said many times he thought trying to beam power to Earth would be a loser because of losses in transmission and conversion.
 
Things in Artemis program start zu escalating
After Duffy, start Bridenstine to critique SpaceX HLS
Demanding that USA use the Defense Production Act (used in WW2) to speed things up

why remind me that of Apollo program ? as LM had R&D issue and got delay,
Capitol Hill then went also so ballistic, that some politicians almost impacted on Moon...

More here
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSfOGF1cQek
 
Accelerating battery charged on the moon via solar array to earth orbit and capture via Starship?
A magnetic rail (as mass accelerator) would makes sense, the way the US administration/GA initiated a research project for adapting Magnetic Catapult from GA to Lunar environment.
 
TomcatViP said:
Accelerating battery charged on the moon via solar array to earth orbit and capture via Starship?
A magnetic rail (as mass accelerator) would makes sense, the way the US administration/GA initiated a research project for adapting Magnetic Catapult from GA to Lunar environment.
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TomcatViP said:
No, I haven't. But certainly think similar that included the rail launcher.

Thank you for sharing. Looks to be an exquisite piece.
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SLS is there on page 58. Better than SLS actually. In a half-century old publication.

When I was a kid in elementary school the local library had it in hardcover. Was sorely tempted to say I "lost" it and just pay for it with my allowance. Have looked for it now and then over the years but have never seen one like that for sale. Glossy, high quality paper, hard cover, glossy print picture bonded to the front cover. *sigh*
 
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