/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15355857
>>15355866
in a gravity well, you can leave on foot. You can explore at your leisure, you are surrounded at every turn by places no man has stepped foot. In the caves, resources and mass are endless. You can go to the untamed places and tame them. In a cylinder, you will always be confined, forced to explore from behind a monitor.

>>14525489
Tiles failing during ascent, as wind pressure will sheer them off even if they somehow survived the vibration of launch and didn't fall off then. Thus, during reentry, even with gaps sealed by expansion of said tiles, there will be pockets where there are no tiles. The thermal blankets will quickly burn up and the plasma will basically sweep in, melt a hole into the Stainless Steel hull, and the vessel will quickly RUD thereafter. I don't work for them, I'm no rocket engineer, but maybe the triple prong embed approach to tile placement is not good enough. rather than the material be puncture placed onto, would be better to have like a 3-prong claw design in which the tile is placed into, and these prongs can bend a bit as the tiles expand. The biggest risk to Starship is thermal shock from reentry and during reentry. Everything else seems to be in a good place otherwise.
>>14525503
>Martian realestate is worthless
Same thing was said about every piece of unexplored land 2-300 years ago, and now the Earth is different.