SpaceX does plan to upgrade one of their launchpads at Canaveral to handle Starship+SuperHeavy, I just don’t think it’ll be soon. I believe that would involve some downtime for LC-39A, which is the only one of the two that can handle Falcon Heavy launches.

The only thing aluminum (7071) is the wings, probably farmed out to some aircraft fab shop as a one off for this prototype. The rest of the structure is 301 stainless, due to its low and high temperature performance, as will be the final version of the wings.

Life support for a crew as large as the Starship is planned to be able to support is no joke, as Musk has suggested that the ship will be capable of carrying around 100 passengers.

That’s exactly how a dashcam works.  It records everything, and then eventually overwrites it unless you or some sensor trigger tag that segment as interesting.

Yes, as evident by the air leak.

Any roll cage or energy dispersing crash structures would require such a radical transformation.

Two options. You could have two motors on a split axle, allowing for torque vectoring. You could have two motors on a single axle designed for different RPMs, giving you a larger speed range without resorting to the two-speed transmission of the Taycan or the early Roadsters.  Compare that to the Regera where the…

The Basta on the radio and Lada in the background doesn’t give it away?

Except it’s exactly what they are trying to do with hyperloop.

Except these companies bearing the “hyperloop” name are basically operating completely opposite to the idea put forth in 2013. The whitepaper from that year basically takes the decades old maglev vactrain concept and tries to rethink the major engineering challenges that have prevented it from being viable. Namely,…

Vacuum tubes transporting stuff is decades old technology (think banks). They’re just talking about scaling it to human transportation and instead of propelling the pod with pure vacuum sticking a maglev train in there.

Good thought, but flight ratings tend to be based on weight and engine count.

Well that’s the fundamental complaint with these systems, that they’re only there for legal compliance, and not for the actual purpose of carrying the extra weight.

Honestly, I expected a more demonic paint job from number 666.

No it doesn’t, because there is no boil off. It’s a compressed gas. It’s not a cryogenic liquid. It’s already completely boiled. You don’t have to vent it to prevent further boiling, as there’s no boiling that will ever happen.  Call it leakage but that’s something that happens over the course of months and not hours.

Methane gas is loaded with hydrogen. It has carbon too, which you would have to strip off to make hydrogen gas, but there is lots of hydrogen being emitted.

Yes but most small scale systems are largely energy negative.

Compressing and storing it is another issue.

I fucking hate those people. Or the people that use the overhead bin for a purse on a full flight or a damn hat.

They removed the auto-pumping triggers on most nozzles