Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 22:59:13 UTC No. 16539630

JPL will burn, rejoice!

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 22:59:33 UTC No. 16539631

THE OLD ONE IS STILL ON PAGE 9 REEeeeeeeeee!!!!one!

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:01:15 UTC No. 16539638

Page 9ine

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:01:33 UTC No. 16539639

brilliant pebbles

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:02:20 UTC No. 16539640

>>16539630
this is all because Jack Parsons consorted with devils.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:09:17 UTC No. 16539645

why hexagons
why not triangles

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:10:50 UTC No. 16539648

>>16539630
>another delay for dragonfly
Please, God no.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:11:37 UTC No. 16539652

>>16539648
Rocket Lab will build a better Dragonfly

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:12:59 UTC No. 16539653

>>16539652
>Rocket Lab being allowed near an RTG in the next decade
lol no

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:14:18 UTC No. 16539655

>>16539653
They will get COTS RTG.

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:15:14 UTC No. 16539656

>>16539648
JPL isnt building Dragonfly

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:19:08 UTC No. 16539660

is 4chan breaking? for some reason this sfg, the main comment is the thread title in the catalog and in my browser tab name

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:20:12 UTC No. 16539664

>>16539660
oh lol the silly OP made their NAME the title

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:22:56 UTC No. 16539667

>>16539630

Anonymous at Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:23:38 UTC No. 16539670

>>16539667
go back there, faggot

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 01:58:44 UTC No. 16539754

>>16539645
Too pointy

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 03:22:28 UTC No. 16539779

>>16539645
Hexagons are just 6 triangles

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 03:25:27 UTC No. 16539782

>>16539779
no, 6 sides

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 03:29:04 UTC No. 16539786

>>16539782
Someone failed geometry

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 03:45:20 UTC No. 16539800

>>16539645
the real reason is they would be have to be too small to get smooth enough curves, increasing the number of tiles that need to be fitted.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 03:59:55 UTC No. 16539816

>>16539645
triangle tiles would mean more surface area exposed to the reentry heat reaction, because it dramatically increases the number of seams

the more tiles you use, the more likely one of them will fail

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:03:20 UTC No. 16539820

>>16539816
then why not make one big tile?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:05:05 UTC No. 16539821

>>16539816
Maybe. They don't seem to be that concerned about tile failures; Starship is designed to tank individual failures and SpaceX's overall philosophy seems to be "just get good enough at parts so that we're not worried about them failing." My guess would be that triangular tiles would increase the minimum number of attachment points past what they want to put up with.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:16:13 UTC No. 16539828

>>16539820
that would be ideal in a best case scenario, at least for the issues I'm pointing out

however, installation and reuse would be ridiculously hard
to say nothing of the difficulty in actually manufacturing such a massive single plate

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:16:41 UTC No. 16539830

>>16539786
why did you post a cube?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:21:58 UTC No. 16539841

another problem with the "single plate" idea is quality control

if there's a structural flaw detected, you'd have to replace the entire thing
whereas if it's just one tile that's not a big deal because you mass produce them

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:22:00 UTC No. 16539842

>>16539786
I count 6 sides

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:26:58 UTC No. 16539850

>>16539786
someome ripp3d there penis in half

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 04:49:03 UTC No. 16539867

>>16539842
6 triangles

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 05:08:12 UTC No. 16539879

this thread is gay as fuck I'm making a new one

sage at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 05:17:51 UTC No. 16539891

real thread here
>>16539884
>>16539884
>>16539884

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 05:18:45 UTC No. 16539892

>>16539891
don't be a faggot, nigger

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 05:34:45 UTC No. 16539897

>>16539879
awww little penis hurty?

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 05:58:08 UTC No. 16539914

>>16539867
it's 1 hexagon, hexa means 6, gon means sides. 6 sides

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 06:28:42 UTC No. 16539948

>>16539914
nobodys said anything about sides

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 06:31:08 UTC No. 16539952

>>16539948
triangles are a separate kimd of shape. they have 3 angles (tri, angle)

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 06:54:29 UTC No. 16539986

>>16539914
>hexa
magic
>gon
dragon
hope this helps

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Jan 2025 06:59:37 UTC No. 16540001

>>16539986
hats are gone