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@Erdayastronaut Yeah, will post shortly

@krystof_mitka @BiIndia Winning “worst person I’ve ever worked with” is not easy. Some real champions are vying for that title!

Fairing chute control & ship control are closing the loop locally. Both operating on (SpaceX) autopilot.

Ms Tree catches fairing in her net https://t.co/sqlJ63NetB

@BiIndia 😐

@valleyhack @GeoffdBarrett Up there somewhere, cruising through deep space https://t.co/PcybhfpUAD

@NatGeo Must be aliens

@spendg8 Yes

@RGVaerialphotos @SpaceX @Erdayastronaut This little spit of dirt will take us to Mars

@jwangARK Humans are swiftly becoming a small percentage of total compute

@Erdayastronaut @ProgrammerDude Max demonstrated Raptor thrust is ~225 tons & min is ~90 tons, so they’re actually quite similar. Both Merlin & Raptor could throttle way lower with added design complexity. Raptor preburner & Merlin gas generator flameout are what limit lower bound.

@AdamBlitzer @levie 💨

@justpaulinelol @NASASpaceflight That’s engine SN. We’re building SN8 of the ship.

@NASASpaceflight SN40 is about to be tested & has several upgrades over 330 bar engine. For reference, 330 bar on Raptor produces ~225 tons (half a million pounds) of force.

Raptor engine just reached 330 bar chamber pressure without exploding! https://t.co/kVKRWksvaB

@Erdayastronaut Yeah, Starship will be a tiny dot at 20km. Hard to see with naked eye. We’ll do lots of flights.

@C_Bass3d @Erdayastronaut @NASASpaceflight @FelixSchlang Very impressive render. Note, legs will be bigger & there’ll be way more stuff in engine bay. Main engines actually do majority of work in turning ship vertical before landing.

@PPathole @universal_sci This might sting a little …

@PPathole The “early investor” part of Tesla is wrong. That bs has been pushed by Eberhard (worst person I’ve ever worked with and that’s saying something!) for years.

@universal_sci Also, there could be long period comets that intersect Earth right now. We just haven’t observed them during humanity’s (very short) recorded history. Comet S-L 9 punched a roughly Earth-sized hole in Jupiter. https://t.co/ne7DM0YAXX