Starship is a huge vehicle. It holds a lot of methane fuel and oxygen. Artist’s impression size comparison with the space shuttle. The Starship/Super Heavy stack is the biggest rocket ever to fly, even bigger than the Saturn V that launched the moon landing missions.

All of the major Starship/Super Heavy R&D problems in the past few years seem related to a big redesign of Starship. V1 was the original test design and it worked pretty good as a testbed for the flight systems, but it was too heavy to be used as a production design. Starship V2 was intended to reduce the ship’s mass to improve cargo capacity, but it’s been unreliable even beyond the normal unreliability of prototypes. I’d bet that we don’t see another Starship test flight until a Starship V3 redesign.

Some people have tried to pin the Starship issues on the Raptor V3 engines, but the Super Heavy booster uses literally the exact same engines from the same production line, and Super Heavy has proven to be very reliable. They’ve even successfully done that crazy “catch the booster in midair back at the launch mount” manoeuvre a few times.

Khorramshahr series missiles are liquid fueled, but require much lower set up time due to using a different kind of liquid fuel.

Hypergolic?

This is why I’m feeling so detached (in an unhealthy way) from current events. Yes, capitalism is why we have an ongoing and worsening climate disaster that cannot be stopped even if we can slow down the rate of the worsening, and capitalism and imperialism are two sides of the same coin. Yes, I should keep educated on what’s happening geopolitically. But it’s just getting harder and harder to care anymore. Not at all a healthy mental attitude, I freely admit. But nonetheless that’s where my mind is at.

On another note, I’ve long theorized that there’s a split between isolationist, and imperialist conservatives, who primarily differ in foreign policy. Alt-right and Neocons respectively.

Isn’t that simply the split between Republicans and Democrats?

That sounds fun! I want to do the same, but using “Madame Web”.

The Jewish people should have been given Alsace-Lorraine. If France and Germany can’t be trusted not to spend centuries slaughtering each other over that land, neither of them can have it.

I think that could be considered an attack on civilians. The Iranian government might be trying to avoid poking that diplomatic bear.

We watched it on the hextube last night. I was also really surprised how much I enjoyed it given that I’ve never seen anything else in the franchise and was expecting lazy production. It was so refreshing to watch a kid’s movie where the protagonist wins the day through compassion and intelligence and personal integrity.

Also I really liked Toothless’ design. Less “scary giant reptile”, and more “adorable living fighter jet with a heart of gold”.

Could he just have an extremely subtle-troll sense of humour? That’s the kind of thing I’d say deadpan in conversation to mess with the other person.

This is what capitalism took from us.

The story of Hansel and Gretel ends with two Germans pushing someone with curly hair and a big nose who they blamed for being a greedy murderer into an oven. :fry:

Gemini Home Entertainment. Go in blind.

Andy’s mom also had toys named “Buzz” and “Woody”.

To be fair, a lot of the target market for those fearmongering headlines live in place smaller than that.

“Scissoring”

“Lip-syncing”

Of course the “enterprise” package doesn’t list the prices, it just has a “Contact Sales” link.

Fellow canuck seconding this. We did it before, when we took in Vietnam war draft dodgers and similar conscientious objectors. It was a win-win for everyone involved. Let’s do it again.

Deputy minister (even with adjectives) is a very powerful position in the Canadian federal bureaucracy.

I would love to read a tell-all book by Rian Johnson after he retires and no longer has to worry about pissing off entertainment industry VIPs. I strongly suspect that The Last Jedi was the victim of huge levels of executive meddling. There’s some really solid ideas in that movie. My two favourites are the open critique of the Jedi in both their philosophy and actions, and calling out the military-industrial complex. But it’s buried in overly-long and often-unnecessary action setpieces that bring the whole plot to a screeching halt and feel shoehorned-in - such as literally everything that happened after Ben offered Rey a partnership after the throne room fight.