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Mandate of Heaven (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Rockets tend not to suffer damage from lightning for the same reason (modern) aeroplanes don't: because they're essentially flying Faraday cages. Even Musk's rockets would be made of metal. Even he's not dumb enough to start making plastic rockets. Right?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I could see Musk designing a highly conductive rocket without the design elements to disperse lightning strikes without them arcing through the fuel storage or something because of toxic masculine or stupid reasons

    I guess that still wouldn't blow it up though since the rocket fuel still needs oxygen to go boom

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Good thing musk doesn't design rockets other than occasionally blurting out some dumb shit in the company of sycophants that unfortunately have authority over the engineers that actually do the designing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Isn't the entire Starship thing a stupid design because of the obsessive use of stainless steel and its particular shape and whatnot? Isn't that a Musk design element forced in?

    But yeah i know he doesn't do any real work, sorry that I implied he does with "musk designing." What i meant by that was less design and more "insert random shit to actively make a design worse"

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