Please tell me this is AN but flange instead of b nut.

Armchair Engineers: Every time you call a TCA "the bell" a propulsion engineer dies inside.

The later Avatar movies better have the fucking laser array in them. Don't know how powerful it is (don't know the ship mass), but it is *at least* in the double digit petawatt range and can collimate down to ~16 km at half a light year. Like, we fucking need to see this.

stop fucking with the timeline

After my old laptop nuked itself thanks to an update, the new stand-integral daq is now running.

Museum: look at all of our historic aircraft. Me: spends most of the time looking at the rocket launched drone powered by a turbocharged chainsaw engine.

Last month, Patrick Morrison gave an excellent talk about the basics of amateur liquid rocketry. Give it a watch here: youtu.be/Fi6vmynh4rM?fe…

‼️ KegRocket Episode 5 is out‼️ It’s about fluid systems. youtu.be/TzWWWmHvjkI

shenanigans

youtube.com/watch?v=92qDv9…

who up 3D printing Stauff clamps?

As painful as it was, I'm glad we lost. This shit is dumb.

For the love of god, wen car?

Does anyone have a video of the Armadillo engine exploding on the test stand and sending the chamber barrel tumbling towards the camera while launching the nozzle into the back of a pickup truck? Because it lives rent free in my head and I would love a copy.

For any non-rocket people who might be confused by why this is weird, here is a rough V-8 equivalent of what is going on.

So, is NASA ever going to announce who won the LTV contact? At this point I'm starting to wonder if they want to cancel it. Seems weird to sit on the car announcement in the midst of all the "hurry up and moon base" talk.

Fingers crossed