/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16135471
>Falcon 9 cannot work, the SpaceX employees are all clueless amateurs who never designed a rocket
>ok, Falcon 9 can get to orbit, but will not be able to land it
>ok, Falcon 9 can land but they cannot reuse it
>ok, Falcon 9 can land and they can reuse it, but they cannot get enough contracts to make it economical at scale
>ok, Falcon 9 can get enough contracts, but they are mostly internal Starlink contracts
>ok, Falcon 9 can get enough contracts from all sorts of customers, but some of them are government owned payloads, so SpaceX is running on corporate welfare and Falcon 9 was a sham
>Also, Musk did not do anything, he just hired perfect experts who knew everything about designing rockets in the first place
>Also, it was obvious this all can be done because it was done before (DC-X), NASA just chose not to do it this way and focus on better things
>Starship cannot work, the SpaceX employees are all clueless amateurs who never designed a rocket
>ok Starship can get to orbit, but it won't survive re-entry
(we are here)
>ok, Starship can survive re-entry, but will not land on launchpad
>ok, Starship can land on launchpad, but it won't be economical to reuse
>ok Starship can be reused economically, but it can't be used as a orbital fuel depot for HLS because of boil-off
>ok Starship can be used as a depot for HLS but HLS won't be able to land on Moon because of high thrust/height
>ok Starship HLS has landed on Moon, but Starship will never be able to aerobrake at Mars
>ok Starship is able to aerobrake at Mars but there will never be a permanent base
>ok, there's a tiny Mars base of 1000 people, but not a city of 1 million, so it was a total failure
>Also, Musk did not do anything, he just hired perfect experts who knew everything about designing rockets in the first place
>Also it was obvious this all can work because it was done before (STS), NASA just chose not to do it this way and focus on better things

>>15880958
now it does

>>15787229
Starship Centaur

>>15771710
all part of Azumanga Diaoh cinematic universe

>>15516733
>>pretend to work with mathematical objects that have zero physical correlate
stopped reading right there