Tag: SpaceX
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Hyperloop’s secondary purposes
I can’t believe it took me this long (and until watching this video my Isaac Arthur) to realise that Hyperloop is a tech demo for a Launch loop. I (along with many others) had realised the stated reason for the related–but–separate The Boring Company was silly. My first thought for that was it was a…
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Falcon 9 to scale
Space rockets are Big. Those quaint little pictures that show them next to Nelson’s Column or the Eiffel Tower don’t do them justice, partly because… well. I didn’t even realise how big the Eiffel Tower is until I visited it a few years ago. So, here’s what the first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9…