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SpaceX Starship Flight 10 is a SUCCESS

NJBob said:
1 out of 10 ain’t bad.
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4/5/6 were reasonably if not completely successful.

3 was moderately successful.

Starship is a revolutionary leap forward in launch technology.

SpaceX is doing about as well as the early Atlas, Thor (Delta) and Titan programs, which averaged a 30% success rate in the early years.

Contrary to popular belief, space is hard.
 
just awesome !!! Well done Space X. ..............and God speed for more successes.
 
Safiel said:
Contrary to popular belief, space is hard.
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Because.......it is generally believed that flying to space is easy?

LOL. OK.

Its great that people fly to space and want to explore stuff. Humans will always do that and thats as it should be IMO.

But when one considers the vast distances involved in space travel, this all seems like a complete and utter waste of time and energy.

The next closest star system / solar system is Alpha Centauri (Proxima?) I believe and is about 4 light years away. This is not even a stones throw.

With our current technology, it would take something like 70,000 years for humans to travel to the next closest solar system. And there wouldn't be any spare parts or anything available. Ever. And then when you got there: it would be NOTHING. Not even a 7-11 in sight.

So go ahead and enjoy your flights to the outer atmosphere that aren't even truly going to space. A human won't ever travel to interstellar space imo. Just won't ever be possible.

We are trapped here on this particular rock, no idea how we or the rock even got here. And we are doomed to share the fate of our sun and our solar system. On the bright sight: the human race will have extinguished itself LONG before the sun stands any chance of running out of fuel etc.
 

Benefits of space exploration - Wikipedia

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A hundred years ago our current level of technology would never have gotten us there. A hundred years hence we might shave it down to significantly less than that. And beyond that?

It’s wrong to say it isn’t doable.


We have the entire solar system within our reach even with current technology. So, we have multiple rocks just for starters.
 
There are asteroids with minerals and metals worth more than the national debts of every nation on the planet, and they aren't that rare. Learning how to mine them and bring this wealth to earth is a problem, but not the biggest. The biggest problem is the chaos large infusions of such rare and valuable minerals will cause throughout the world economy. Resources like gold, cobalt, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhenium, rhodium, ruthenium and tungsten, could help us manufacture useful technological tools in abundance, but would also greatly reduce the value of metals like gold which are foundations of our system of trade.

 
Safiel said:
SUCCESS!!!

More details to come obviously, but this is a great news after the last couple of failed flights.
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After how many explosions?
 
Phys251 said:
After how many explosions?
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Takes a lot of explosions to make progress. Far more failure than success in our early space program.


And it took quite a few explosions before SpaceX got the landing down right.


We would not have gotten where we are without all the explosions. We learn from failure.
 

Way more than NASA. I want NASA back.
 
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