Not the real Carl Sagan. /h(?:e|im)/ig
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The rumored problem with hot gas thrusters on Starship is the relatively low pressure of the propellant tanks. Electric pumps solve that, but add complexity. But what about pulsed thrusters?
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Mixture ratio could be addressed by placing the regulator *after* the accumulator, but my gut says they'd get trashed by the pressure spikes.
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Imitation Sagan Meat retweeted
Christopher David (@Tazerface16) is a USNA Class of 1988 graduate who served in the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps (Seabees/construction battalions) from 1988–1996. He later spent years as a semiconductor sales engineer at Teradyne and then as a medical lab scientist at the VA in Portland. MY Times reported his bio.
He repeatedly claims a BS in aerospace engineering from the Naval Academy. USNA does offer that major, but his actual Navy career was civil/construction engineering, not aircraft or rockets. IF he ever studied aerospace, he was very bad at it.
Mainly he trolls on X for engagement.
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With a single search I managed to find 9 instances of him claiming Starship was incapable of reaching orbit with any payload.
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He never argued that Starship will *never* make it to orbit with payloads, he pointed it out it kept failng & argued that Elon's promised timelines, not just to followers & investors but the government, were unrealistic, which they WERE. It's FY 2026.
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Note that Phil has repeatedly claimed Starship has *zero* orbital payload capacity.
Also note that today's payload was double the mass of the Space Shuttle's heaviest payload (Chandra).
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Did SpaceX put buoys at multiple locations, or does Starship have an insane cross-range ability?
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Makes you wonder how many of the early "flying saucer" sightings were a YB-35 or YB-49.
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Rockets burning fossil fuel hydrocarbons: Great!
Rockets burning carbon-neutral hydrocarbons: Literally a war crime.
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