And blew up
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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LOL it didnt They did give it a 50/50 chance though.
SpaceX does some incredible work.
SpaceX does some incredible work.
It didn't separate, it did like 3 loops instead then exploded... they are happy it got off the pad though
Lift off at about 45 min.
Dam they did not show that on Bloomberg.
Yeah, it was supposed to separate then the main unit light up for 6 more mins
Unconventional
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It's Thunderbird Thursday!
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Good morning
Test flight... they were stoked it got off the pad and cleared the tower. Everything else was "gravy"
Yup, i would say that also
Very expensive Gravy!!!
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Enjoying a supervised lunch
Some Iowan has a sense of humor. 
dukeboy440
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Back in December when we had -17 degree ambient temps, -30-40 below zero degree F, I was driving and suddenly starting spewing white smoke and lost all oil. Got home, radiator was full of mustard like sludge. Only 3 quarts of the 17 of oil this thing holds was in the pan. No mixing of oil or coolant though.
Finally got the parts in and started tearing into it this week.
Got the head off this afternoon, this is what I found. One of these doesn’t look like the other 5…
dukeboy440
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This is what the cap looks like but the block nor the head have no trace of it
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Ok that’s funny! Man can I relate!
dukeboy440
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Hmmm wonder just how little of a tear the gasket needs to let coolant and or oil into the cylinders?
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Just got done pouring the bridge, just nine yards but the rain came. Had to improvise and adapt with rocks logs and shovels to hold down some tarps!
It wouldn't take much of a tear. Might just be the picture, but what is going on here?
and it appears to have been ingesting water from the flash rust in the cylinder
and, this piston crown appears to be steam cleaned of the carbon. Sign there was water present during combustion
Unconventional
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The blonde ray of sunshine was very uplifing to the SpaceX share holders
I'll have to find another article to find out how many $B just littered the sea floor
Unconventional
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The Starship booster alone $225M in construction costs + $1m in fuel . This is not the first destructive event Starship has encountered.
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Shared these posts with my wife (who knows zero about engines). She has named you Doctor Eric!!!
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