[Starlink] some post Starship launch thoughts

[Bruce Perens]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 7:20 PM David Lang via Starlink <
starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:

> If they dig a pool under the Starship Launch Mount, it will fill with
> water
> (they are already having to pump water out of the hole the rocket dug), if
> they
> line it with concrete, water will seep through, and the concrete will try
> to
> float on the water.


The deluge system produces a mixture of water and air. That is necessary
for the acoustic deadening effect.

Once upon a time, there was a thing called Orion, which was supposed to be
a big heavy shield that would be propelled into space by setting off atomic
bombs on one side of it. Lots and lots of bombs. At some point people
thought they could make a shield good enough. What SpaceX puts in now is
going to be the closest we have come to Orion, just upside down.
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