YouTube live feed of the SpaceX 'SN9' Starship test launch today...

[PSQ]

... of course it belongs in the Machinery section.

If it blows up on landing like SN8 it can be moved to the 'wreckers' thread

 

[PSQ]

At a guess, 15 minutes to go.

 

[marshbarn]

Houston we have a problem

 

[Wombat]

That was an expensive afternoon

Looked like one of the two engines didn’t start properly. Impressive stuff overall really

 

[Tractorstant]

will that T cut out?

 

[melted welly]

So....... did it land in the right place or not?

 

[PSQ]

On the bright side, it's been a good day for the local scrappy.

 

[Frankzy]

So....... did it land in the right place or not?

Pretty much bang on.... Literally

 

[milkloss]

Not sure I understand how someone can promote/build electric cars for their ‘green’ benefits and then burn all that fuel for no reason.

 

[Frankzy]

Not sure I understand how someone can promote/build electric cars for their ‘green’ benefits and then burn all that fuel for no reason.

Well for one it's an infinitesimally small contribution to our emissions while working on something that is very important in the grand scheme.
And secondly there is no other way to do it, you can burn Hydrogen and Oxygen but you can't produce that on Mars so Methane is the only option.

 

[milkloss]

Well for one it's an infinitesimally small contribution to our emissions while working on something that is very important in the grand scheme.
And secondly there is no other way to do it, you can burn Hydrogen and Oxygen but you can't produce that on Mars so Methane is the only option.

I'm sure if and when we need to leave the planet the technology will be there rather then just blowing stuff up all the time trying to get nowhere. Maybe if they want to ban internal combustion engines in 20xx they should be rebuild the power network and be constructing coal fired power stations instead!!

 

[Frankzy]

I'm sure if and when we need to leave the planet the technology will be there rather then just blowing stuff up all the time trying to get nowhere. Maybe if they want to ban internal combustion engines in 20xx they should be rebuild the power network and be constructing coal fired power stations instead!!

How do you expect that technology to become reality without anyone working on progressing it?
And how can you claim that they are just blowing things up with no progress?! Just look at the Falcon 9 rocket where several failed to land in the beginning but each failure got them a little closer to sticking it and now we are up to 67 landings out of 75 attempts!