3005: Disposal
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 Title text: We were disappointed that the rocket didn't make a THOOOONK noise when it went into the tube, but we're setting up big loudspeakers for future launches to add the sound effect. |
Explanation
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This comic is about humorous solutions to problems. Instead of trying to make a rocket that doesn’t explode upon impact, Randall’s team has decided to make a rocket disposal hole, hence the comic name.
SpaceX initially had many instances of explosion on impact, as illustrated in montage.
This comic came out about 2 weeks after SpaceX successfully caught the returning Super Heavy booster rocket using giant arms on the launch tower.
Transcript
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- [A two-stage rocket is ascending with a plume of exhaust behind it]
- [The first stage falls off and the second stage ignites]
- [The first stage begins to fall, turned off]
- [The first stage reignites to control trajectory and attitude]
- [The first stage falls toward a large hole with a lid. A Cueball is holding the lid open]
- [Cueball pushes the lid closed]
- Click
- [The first stage, now out of sight, explodes, Cueball shielding his ears and flinching away from the loud noise]
- BOOOOM
- Caption below comic:
- Our rockets were good at steering, but we couldn't get them to land without exploding, so we just dug a rocket disposal hole.
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That's either a giant Cueball, or a really tiny rocket. Barmar (talk) 23:05, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- It's an Electron? Or maybe Falcon 1? Redacted II (talk) 00:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
It seems strange to me to see Randall drawing a rocket landing with its engine pointing upward instead of downward, when he traditionally has expressed so much interest in rocket and space physics. It's also notable that the rocket-landing problem was solved by others before SpaceX was considered to have, I bumped into a successful project on a maker site in the past couple years. 172.68.3.71 01:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- SpaceX was the first to propulsively land an orbital booster. Redacted II (talk) 01:39, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
- Re downward-pointing, there's a possible side-reference to 1133: Up Goer Five's "you will not go to space today". But I think it's more that if you have the ability to send it down a hole to explode, you have no reason to finesse the (non-)landing and might as well just thread it in under as much of the full propulsion as you can handle.
- And the conceit of the rocket-tech is that they've solved the position+direction issue 'perfectly', even if they haven't solved the "how to then stop it just before/as it reaches the ground" and/or any usable ways of standing/hanging it upright once it does.
- It's a 7+D problem. Attaining a precise position (x,y,z) with a precise velocity (dx,dy,dz) in at least one precise angle (verticality; plus possibly also others, if rotation is important, plus dθ and dφ at near-zero) and at least to one further limit (fuel remaining >=0). 'All' Cueball's rocket has to do is to perfect 5 or 6 dimensional properties (thread through x,y,z, being aimed in a vertically downwards (or, at a push, upwards) orientation and no excessive horizontal motion... all the rest can be fudged somewhat). And no additional weight needed for landing/catching points. 141.101.98.8 03:15, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
There’s a Space Category, and a Kerbal program Category and a Mars Rover Category, why not a Rocket category? I propose on creating one. All in favor? 42.book.addict (talk) 02:33, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
