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New comment by anothertroll456 in "Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]"

anothertroll456 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:39:07 +0000

That's a really dumb response. Yes, it relies on closing the doors to achieve supersonic flight too.

The Boom plane doesn't rely on afterburners at any point in the trajectory to achieve supersonic flight. So yes, you would be reading the comments incorrectly.

Gosh this website is full of ignorant people.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "Black Swan's Taleb Says Nvidia Rout Is Hint of What's Coming"

anothertroll456 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:21:58 +0000

Not only that. His company makes money by betting on downturns. So... it's not like he doesn't have a vested interest in markets tanking.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed"

anothertroll456 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:00:17 +0000

That was amazing! Thank you.

Wait, idlewords is still around??

New comment by anothertroll456 in "My Struggle with Doom Scrolling"

anothertroll456 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:40:46 +0000

Also what I do. Or try to do.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "Celestial Navigation for Drones"

anothertroll456 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:32:24 +0000

Just gimbal lock. Drifting happens to all of them.

But also the gimbal mechanisms, gimbal low response time, etc.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "Starship Flight 7"

anothertroll456 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 03:32:36 +0000

Yeah I thought about that some more and at that altitude and speed the FTS is usually already deactivated.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "Starship Flight 7"

anothertroll456 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:18:51 +0000

That doesn't negate FTS.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "Starship Flight 7"

anothertroll456 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:15:29 +0000

Maybe it did, or is it public that it didn't? A possible sequence (very typical in rocket failures) is: fire, engine failure(s), loss of control, rupture due to aero forces or FTS activation, explosion due to propellant mixture. Not all of these have to happen, but it's a typical progression. Before the days of AFTS the FTS activation would be pretty delayed.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "Starship Flight 7"

anothertroll456 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:25:58 +0000

Nevermind. It was probably the FTS like other people pointed out.

New comment by anothertroll456 in "Starship Flight 7"

anothertroll456 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:02:02 +0000

Nope. That's definitely an explosion (source: I'm in the rocket business). However it may not be an explosion of the whole stage. Probably of the engine section.