<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 7:20 PM David Lang via Starlink <<a href="mailto:starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net">starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
If they dig a pool under the Starship Launch Mount, it will fill with water <br>
(they are already having to pump water out of the hole the rocket dug), if they <br>
line it with concrete, water will seep through, and the concrete will try to <br>
float on the water.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The deluge system produces a mixture of water and air. That is necessary for the acoustic deadening effect.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div>