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Bobbie Bobster

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  1. Bobbie Bobster

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    Perhaps, but there are obstacles and careful business planning would be the order of the day (I know, I know, "Here Grandma, have an egg!" 😊). Logistics might be one of the biggest obstacles, availability of "hot spares" for specialist equipment, lack of a materials supply chain, e.g. nitrogen for vacuum pumps. At least outward logistics would be simpler with high value low volume products in this area.
  2. I don't believe in Sanity Clause.
  3. To be fair, the Soyuz launcher family has more launches than all other active launcher families combined with over 1,900 launches, and is one of the safest with a success rate of about 94%. Their "if it ain't broke" strategy has worked well for 60 years. Albeit that reusability is changing the economics now.
  4. Ooh, as Stalin said to de Gaulle at Yalta, "Sick burn, bro!"
  5. Or maybe if you can, you definitely should.
  6. I love what you've done with your new residence! Plenty of fleet parking also.
  7. Indeed. This is why we can't have nice things.
  8. Is it complete, absolute lack of self-awareness, or high-level parody? You decide.
  9. Good effort, but you telegraphed it just a little too much.
  10. I'm intrigued; what are the rules? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m3ZkJTX1qY
  11. Dunning-Kruger, defined.
  12. Something less than 1.5x. 1.25x maybe?
  13. In a word, no. In some more words, atmospheric entry heatshields depend for their proper function on there being a hypersonic airflow, and also use ablation (bits of the heatshield being heated up and being blown away by the same airflow) to provide protection against radiative heat.
  14. RTFM, FFS! It wasn't worth £12 a pint - it was worth £4 a third! 😁
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