Dame stepback so tough, even the Kings bench was impressed 💯
He finished with 29 PTS, 6 AST and 6 3PM as the @trailblazers improved to 9-3 on the season and picked up the West Group C win!
Dame stepback so tough, even the Kings bench was impressed 😏🙄
He finished with 29 PTS, 6 AST and 6 3PM as the @trailblazers improved to 9-3 on the season and picked up the West Group C win!
Yes, the green flame is caused by burning copper from depleting fuel in the regenerative cooling circuit and going oxygen-rich (closer to stoichiometric temperature) in the main combustion chamber.
Slight underperformance of engines on this flight is the reason. The booster is meant to land with tiny residuals, so the solution is to improve engine performance and performance consistency (underway with Raptor V3.2), as well as adjust flight software to do MECO1 about one second earlier to ensure enough propellant for boostback and landing (tiny change).
These early ships and boosters are already outdated by improved designs in production or on the test stand, so this booster loss does not change our timeline to reach high volume, fully reusable Starship flights.
Darius Garland DIME through the defender's legs 😮💨
He finished with 24 PTS, 4 REB, 7 AST and a go-ahead and-1 to seal it for the @LAClippers as they picked up the victory in @emirates NBA Cup West Group B action!
Elon Musk was asked how long until there is regular travel to Mars. His answer was not about rockets.
He said the threshold that actually matters is whether Mars survives if the ships from Earth stop coming. That means every input: air, food, fuel, spare parts, medicine. He compared it to a long sea voyage where the only thing missing is vitamin C. One missing item and the colony dies on schedule.
The ships could stop for reasons that have nothing to do with Mars. A war. A decline. An asteroid. His line: civilisation on Earth can end with a bang or a whimper.
That is insurance logic, and it is the honest way to describe the Mars plan. Every policy has a premium, a probability and a payout. The payout here is the survival of the species, so the premium is nearly impossible to argue against. The probability is the part nobody can price.
Which creates a strange corporate problem. The premium gets paid by companies whose shareholders will not be the ones rescued if the policy ever pays out. SpaceX is private, so its investors signed up for that. A public company could not easily spend decades of free cash flow on a backup planet and explain it on a quarterly call.
The other catch is that redundancy is only worth what you spend testing it. A city is not self-sustaining because the plan says so. It is self-sustaining the day the ships stop and everyone lives.
So the number worth watching is not the landing date. It is the date Mars stops needing Earth. Nobody is selling a ticket to that.
The 6'10" Franz Wagner (8.3 APG) tossed up FOUR LOBS last night 😮💨
He finished with 35 PTS, 9 REB and 12 AST for his 4th consecutive game with 30+ PTS as the @OrlandoMagic improved to 2-0 in East Group A!
Sengun went DANCIN' for 2 🕺
He finished with 43 PTS, 12 REB, 5 AST on 17-24 FGM, becoming the 3rd player in Rockets history (joining Hakeem in 1994 and Yao in 2004) to record 40/10/5 on 70+ FG% since 1956-57, the first season FG% was recorded 🤯
Houston picked up the West Group A win!