Starship - SpaceX
 

Starting this thread dedicated to the Starship program.

Starship launch 8 is scheduled for March 8, 2025 at 3:30pm PST.

SpaceX has had a couple successful booster catch recoveries, and should be testing the catch capability of the Starship itself soon.

For fun, lets make predictions about each flight. Last one had a successful booster catch, but a fuel leak caused a rupture in the Starship ultimately causing it to break up upon re-entry.

I predict Flight 8 won't end like Flight 7. Am I ahead so far?

VAST station and Moon landing by 2026.

edit: Three hours of Elon Musk on Joe Rogan podcast

Grok has a mode called Unlicensed Therapist.

Don't you worry about the soul of everyone using LLMs?

I worry [a little] for everyone's souls, but mostly people who use smart phones and got vaccinated.

Do you worry about a mode called Unlicensed Therapist?

3rd post in, and you've derailed it. We usually wait until post 25 or so.

This is relevant though, as I used Grok for the first time last night and ended up staying up until 1am because it was so useful.

"What are the most beautiful, low maintenance deciduous trees that thrive in the PNW?"

Grok delivered the goods in a tidy summary describing why people find the tree beautiful, what USDA zone it's best adapted to, water and drainage needs, and ease of maintenance.

Each question remembered proceeding questions in context of previous ones. "What USDA zone is Silverton Oregon?" Silverton, Oregon, is located in USDA Hardiness Zone 8b. "What are the most beautiful low maintenance bushes and shrubbery that thrive in the PNW"... All are suited to Zone 8b...

The more specific the criteria, and the more specific each criteria is weighted, the more specific the answers Grok delivers.

I asked if white interior paint looks good considering a white ceiling and white trim. Grok said yes, suggested the LRI spread (light reflectivity index) to provide necessary contrast, and then said it would make the cherry floors pop, info it assumed from a previous question, but not provided in this specific question. Questions about paint colors don't return vague "grey" as an answer, but names specific colors by various manufacturers.

Ask what third color goes with Mountbatten Pink and Nardo Gray.

How is it accessed? Web page or paid app? Social media?

Ontopic: I thought they were updating the hot staging ring, but I'm seeing the original design still.

https://grok.com/

Everything requires accounts, so you're out, despite the fact the account can be a burner email and you can utilize a proxy.

The government's already got more dirt on me than queries about what trees survive best in the PNW. As SA says, I assume everything I do in the digital world is open to everyone and conduct myself accordingly.

I'm sure I'm missing something, but the hot stage is only necessary because the 2nd stage can't light the engines unless the fuel is under constant acceleration forcing it all to the bottom of the tank. How do they expect to force the fuel where they need it in the tank upon reentry where they will have to relight again? I suppose drag and positioning the rocket would suffice. Long term, a robust design allows the engines to light in all conditions. There are plenty of scenarios where an initial burn needs to shut down, and then relight for a 2nd or 3rd burn. That problem needs to be solved, plus the hot stage is wasted payload.

I started self-censoring when I left dial-up for DSL (dial-up gets a fresh IP address every time, but the same MAC address). If I have medical questions I log in at the city library.

What I'd seen wasn't justifying the need for the hot staging ring. I'd said from it's beginning that the old Soviet design is superior. Triangulated struts rather than a solid ring with slots cut in it. But, apparently, no.

Since you understand the situation, would you mind posing the question? There're other questions I wouldn't ask for. :wink:

With my cash flow I need to have patience. My RP5 has provision for adding neural chip support, there is now a 16Gb model on market, soon it will come built into an RP500 keyboard.
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Isn't Deep Seek the hot new LLM?
I read that all kinds of billionaires lost money this month because DS is so good everyone is using it.

I asked something called Claude to help me write a TWX Proxy script.
I told it what I wanted to do and wrote as much as I could from memory, just wanting help with a specific part, but it drew the rest of the freaking owl.
I gave it two pages of feedback and needed to fix a number of additional things, but that was orders of magnitude more than I expected with a scripting language six people use.

I don't know how far I would have gotten in that time on my own, but that was more time than I felt I could spare, and finally finished the cursed report I had been writing for school!