Works for me!  

You could - but then the light would be off as far as the rule goes. It would seem the light has to be controllable, either through switch or software.

“ No, we don’t want the Congress to legislate every possible factor of everything into U.S. Code. Our elected representatives have limits to their various expertise, and a limited number of staff members with expertise.”

I agree - once you power on the plane and boot up the systems - that light’s on, therefore...

Great. So we’ve got a bunch of Goa’uld ‘gods’ infiltrating Marvel.

If not Deadpool, then... ?

Extended warranty, but they declined on-site service, so... ?

He’s pushed a lot of interesting concepts, and not many of them have failed. Hyperloop didn’t get beyond the test phase, Boring Co. is still going at a low level. Tesla’s still chugging, SpaceX is going well, Starlink’s gone profitable, Twitter/X revenue, as far as I know, is better than it was pre-buy, but it’s still…

“I loathe Elon as much as the next guy, but one has to be able to seperate the capabilities of SpaceX from Elon.

Nationalization will lead to stagnation.

What I’d like to see is drivers stop acting like they learned to drive off GTA.

I’ve always wondered how the Smart Car ever got approved.   I mean, there’s nothing THERE to serve as a crush zone, and if it’s depending on the roll cage to survive... well, hell, no.

Well, that’s the trick, isn’t it? You can’t sell ‘safer’ based on what the standards were - you’ve got to constantly up the tests, make them more stringent, make them more improbable and at a point you realize that no matter what’s improved things will never be ‘safe enough’.

Going it see it tonight - it’s been a long time since I went to a movie based on word of mouth advertising alone.

Maybe yes, maybe no. SpaceX is known for rapid iteration, and if they identified the causes of the Boom this time, there’s not much reason to NOT work on fixing them for the next launches. So they’ll maybe use the next 4 of the V1 Starships on the next few Superheavies to prove the survivability of the first stage…

It could be a matter of timing. The problem as speculated with Superheavy this time around was that the hot-staging gave it a significant backwards thrust, breaking the liquid fuels free in the tanks and allowing a mix of liquid and vapor to be sucked in. High pressure, high volume turbopumps don’t handle that all…

So long as they’re past the hot-staging point, I’m surprisingly good with that.

There’s methane vapor in the tanks for pressurization, and from what I’ve seen in other videos of tanks suddenly going negative G, you end up with globs of liquid fuels/oxidixers. So - ‘bubbles’. The engines aren’t designed to run on vapor, and if they’re ‘sucking air’, so to speak, trying to ingest a 50-50 mix won’t…

Plus, the N1 used hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide, both nasty stuff.  So they couldn’t do test-fires of the engines as I recall - they were built to be used once and that was it.

There’s a lot of speculation that propellant slosh caused the trouble after separation. The acceleration profile indicated things were sloshing hard, and the engines got the benefit of trying to run on LOX and methane bubbles instead of liquid. (What could POSSIBLY go wrong there?)