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[13:44:18] <Mat2ch> So, today or tomorrow we might see SN7.1 tank test.
[13:44:40] <Althego> explode!
[13:44:57] <Mat2ch> Yeeeeeeeeeeees!
[13:45:13] <Azander> ?!?
[13:45:14] <Althego> at least it did the last time
[13:45:23] <Mat2ch> Hopefully it holds well, then we will see SN8 fly soon :D
[13:45:56] <Mat2ch> Azander: SpaceX is testing a new steel alloy for Starship and SN7.1 is a test tank that's going to be pressurized until it ruptures
[13:46:27] <Azander> Nice
[13:46:45] <Mat2ch> .oO( until it raptores... I show myself out ;)
[13:46:53] <Azander> Just woindering what the purpose of all of these tests are.  That one makes good sense.  Some of the others elude me.
[13:47:12] <Mat2ch> for example?
[13:47:43] <Azander> the 2 hop tests.  1st one I understand.  the second seems redundant
[13:48:22] <Althego> yet the second went better
[13:48:41] <Mat2ch> It seems so, but they tried different controller settings and different landing legs
[13:48:53] <Azander> mhhhh
[13:49:04] <Althego> these tests are practice for the 20 km hop
[13:49:20] <Azander> I must not have a decent SpaceX feed then.  Didn't know about the legs.
[13:49:37] <Althego> to me the legs looked the same
[13:49:43] <Althego> but there may have been a difference
[13:50:33] <Azander> It seems to me a lot of this testing could be done in simulation (probably has)
[13:51:04] <Althego> there are always unmodeled aspects
[13:51:11] <Althego> after a while you have to try it
[13:51:43] <Althego> unless they want to send simulated people to a simulated mars
[13:59:14] <Azander> what do they do with the parts after they are done evaluating them after the tests?  Recycle them?
[14:14:06] <Mat2ch> Probably
[14:14:10] <Mat2ch> or destroy in a great ball of fire
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[15:27:11] <flayer> sigh
[15:30:03] <Althego> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0mg8Z09SY
[15:30:03] <kmath> YouTube - Great Balls of Fire-Jerry Lee Lewis-original song-1957
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[16:04:58] <Mat2ch> Ah, 1957, when nobody had to be afraid of 49° C in California...
[16:05:26] <Althego> are they afraid of it now?
[16:07:45] <Mat2ch> yep
[16:07:56] <Mat2ch> one of the weirdest heat/cold waves they have ever seen
[16:08:00] <Mat2ch> let me find the video about it
[16:08:35] <Mat2ch> https://twitter.com/TerliWetter/status/1302307426688000004
[16:08:35] <kmath> <✔TerliWetter> Extremes Wetter @WeatherProf https://t.co/D1dM5TtrcK
[16:10:32] <Mat2ch> In a week or so the sped up jetstream should arive in Europe...
[16:10:35] <Mat2ch> this will be fun!
[16:11:52] <Althego> luckily the virus is more exponential here than ever, so i dont need to go anywhere
[16:12:07] <Mat2ch> Looks like we will get another small heat wave out of it.
[16:12:22] <Mat2ch> Next weekend 30 °. It's mid of September then.
[16:12:51] <raptop> Althego: consider: a virus going prompt-critical
[17:36:42] <Althego> looks like they are moving sn6. maybe tank test after this? but probably tomorrow
[17:42:41] <JVFoxy> guess I missed a second hope flight...
[17:42:46] <JVFoxy> .. hop
[17:43:25] <Althego> lol that was days ago
[17:46:21] <JVFoxy> ya well... I've been distracted
[17:47:38] <JVFoxy> At one point, I hadn't touched KSP in about a month because of it.