mackinspace.bsky.social
Artist, aerospace nerd, software engineer
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If she's a hyena, does she have... you know?
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That second one is so handsome
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There's a joke? I thought this was just Bobby trying something new
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Dukat would do something like this, and then get angry when the Bajorans don't fall to their knees and welcome him as a benevolent oppressor because he said hi to them once. And then he'd kill like 20 of them
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Once I finish my series on FLO I want to do this one, but had trouble finding reference material and I think much of the official art for it doesn't match the actual plan
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Earth gets hit by about 100 tons of dust every day anyway, one Starship failing every couple months (and maybe losing 1% of its mass to vaporization) isn't impacting much
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Was gonna include the bit about the name, but forgot. Comet sounds cool though
Chemical was the baseline for FLO, but there were proposals to bring nuclear forward sooner, partially for performance and partially to demonstrate it before Mars
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www.spacedaily.com/news/industr...
"The sale also reinforces our strategic business aim to be horizontally - not vertically - integrated."
--Boeing, moments before obliterating their EELV's commercial viability
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Uhhhh
Yeah, true
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This guy is the one I'm doing. Scaled up Saturn V with boosters
I hadn't seen RL10-Jarvis before, just the F-1 and RS-25 versions. Neat
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Space dolphins were a pretty popular trope in the 90s-early 2000s
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Yes. 527 days in space, no windows. The whole mission is for a 90 second flyby of the asteroid at a distance of 200 miles, during which time the crew control a camera/sensor pod that takes pictures, and there's also an impactor probe
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@dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social I think you wrote about this at one point
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Altair is over-hated really. It did its best. Ares I and Orion's fatass CM are the real problems in Constellation
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What's your first?
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Counterpoint: SLS is $2 billion/flight. Obviously this means NASA can afford two expendable NTP upper stages per year
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Also, the nuclear third stage proposals. Not even a nuclear tug, a full-on expendable nuclear stage. Like a billion dollars a flight just for that
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All of the LVs proposed for this were bonkers in some way or another
There's also "Saturn V but with 2 smaller S-ICs on the sides, growable to 4", "ten RSRMs with 3 External Tanks on top and another stage on top of that", "SLS but all-liquid", etc
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I made it.
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The only Transformers media I've seen have been the Bay movies and Transformers Animated, but even 10 year old me knew he was screamingly homosexual in that show and it made me feel things
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Hank Green furry arc
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Definitely nothing past A3 though, each subsequent flight requires major upgrades as they run out of stockpiled parts. Block 1B and 2 aren't optional, if SLS continues flying they have to happen
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I held out longer than most because most of my art income is traceable to Twitter, but that place is fucking dead
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Are those meant to be the IPP-era Mars Excursion Modules in cargo mode? I don't think I've ever seen a contemporary illustration of a cargo variant