Posted on 12/31/2024 8:42:25 AM PST by Starman417
2024 was so off-the-charts that, when SpaceX accomplished the greatest engineering feat in human history by literally catching in the air the heaviest rocket ship ever launched, leaving it theoretically ready for refueling and re-launch, the world yawned and flipped to a different streaming service. Meanwhile, the malfunctioning Federal Aviation Administration said yes, nice landing and everything, but what about the gopher tortoises?
And nobody even blinked that the world’s richest man, top presidential whisperer, and owner of the most influential social media platform made fire come down from heaven unto the earth in the sight of men. Ho hum.
This year, Big Pharma began enjoying the fruition of its own engineering triumph, the long-sought Shangri-La of pill poppers, as the FDA relaxed restrictions on prescription guidelines, and compounding pharmacies jumped on board for GLP-1s. Name branded Ozempic, it’s a 2017 diabetes drug that claims to make folks sexy, svelte and fit back into their skinny jeans.
They don’t know how Ozempic or its relatives work, of course. Why would they? And never mind the list of horrible side effects. Pharma’s post-covid slide was arrested in the nick of time with its exciting new line of weight-loss products. Turbo cancer? Who cares! Wheeeee
As a happier side-effect of widely available diet drugs, Big Food may finally be forced to re-formulate its products and figure out what changed in the 1970’s to start making everybody morbidly obese. Who knows whether it will ever amount to anything, but it’s a promising start.
Speaking of pharma, anti-vaxxing became trendy, or at least slightly less toxic, with Trump’s nomination of Robert Kennedy, Jr., for HHS Secretary. Despite Kennedy’s politically savvy pivot to food health, which also saw a renaissance this year, everybody knows we’re all still really talking about the jabs.
All of that was eclipsed by a bonkers presidential campaign defying all official predictions and making a large number of Americans question their sanity. In late January, facing anemic primary performance, withering boot criticism, and having much warmer prospects back home in the Sunshine State where he was appreciated, Governor DeSantis graciously dropped out of the race, cementing President Trump’s inevitable primary victory in March. (Haley’s comet crashed violently into the Sun and burned to a crisp.)
They’ll be writing books for years about everything that happened next.
On July 13th, President Trump got shot but still narrowly avoided being assassinated at a rally in Butler, PA, where the Secret Service failed to do anything right, and the FBI helped cremate the assassin’s body ten days into a continuing investigation that has yet to answer a single important question.
The assassin, Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old who still lived at home, somehow evaded multiple layers of professional event security with a long gun, a backpack, and a range finder, despite the fact that you can’t get a small bottle of mouthwash onto an airplane.
Crooks was stopped when local police, not the Secret Service sniper, shot him first, disabling the would-be assassin. Only then did the Secret Service sniper fire several rounds that finished off the wounded Crooks, ensuring the young man would never have to answer any questions.
Shortly thereafter, after bizarrely telling Congress that Secret Service snipers avoided the mostly flat roof on account of a risky gentle slope, the female director of the Secret Service abruptly resigned. She was totally not a DEI hire.
And that was only the first assassination attempt. In the second attempt, a deranged Ukraine fixer with no apparent source of income named “Wile E. Coyote” laid in wait for the President at his South Florida golf course, and somehow survived the fusillade from a Secret Service agent who emptied his entire clip at the lucky shooter from about five feet away.
Wiley, I mean Ryan Wesley Routh, failed at everything in his life except avoiding arrest, but somehow managed to nearly pull off an amazing assassination caper with nobody noticing. He would have gotten away with it, too, were it not for a Secret Service agent with very bad aim and a couple alert Floridians who saw the colorful character racing off and got after it.
Ryan E. Coyote was then captured, not by the FBI, but by local law enforcement. Only then did the FBI snatch him up and declare Routh’s eighteen password-protected cell phones and his trove of electronic surveillance gear was nothing interesting.
Soon Kash Patel can look into the Routh case. I wonder whether Routh will live that long.
In the third and weirdest assassination attempt, the FBI arrested some Iranian guy who Homeland Security greenlit into the U.S. The Iranian allegedly posted an ad on City Journal looking for a discount hitman to kill “US officials” for $5,000. Corporate media headlines claimed the miserly hitman-shopper was targeting President Trump.
None of the three assassination attempts has ever made any sense at all. But as always, assassinations are never ever traced to any well-funded, well-organized group having an actual legitimate reason to kill a president. As ever, this time, it was just two lone gunmen plus an entire Middle Eastern country the neocons wanted to invade anyway, with no connecting thread between any of them of any kind whatsoever.
Mind you, all this happened just during the last six months of the year. But the triple assassination attempts ended with perhaps the most remarkable development of all: the explicit and obvious joining of forces, not sneakily, not George Soros-like behind the scenes, but right in your face, of the world’s richest man with the world’s most disruptive politician. Not only that, but it all happened back at the original site of the very first assassination attempt.
It was documented in this headline from the New York Times, October 7th:
The Times’ headline editors were being cute. Elon did leap, literally. He was jumping around the Butler, PA stage like an overcaffeinated spring lamb:
Just saying:
Maybe you can remember a time when a top world billionaire joined forces with a presidential candidate in such a public way, but I can’t.
Even all that indescribable history, with its multiple assassination attempts, bizarre cast of characters, and record-setting alliances, pales in comparison to the suffering the democrats were enduring. Their pain started mere days before Matthew Crooks took his best shot at Trump in Butler, and it is still smarting.
As summer began, facing relentlessly lagging polls, Joe Biden unaccountably agreed to an early debate with Trump, which almost certainly will be the opening sentence in some future political history book.
The next morning on June 27th, NBC desperately ran this headline: “'Babbling' and 'hoarse': Biden's debate performance sends Democrats into a panic.” There was a brief moment where they thought maybe they could blame Biden’s disastrous debate on covid. But Biden’s babbling blew the Democrats up, and started up an internecine schism that began growing like a political turbo cancer. Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Barack Obama joined up to lead a not-so-secret movement to purge Joe from the party.
It only took about three weeks of behind-the-scenes skullduggery and character assassination. On July 21st, a sudden and unexpected tweet appeared on Joe Biden’s X account, along with a very strange letter, announcing Biden’s withdrawal as the Democrats’ presidential candidate, a nomination he won fair and square in a 50-state primary.
Within minutes following his weird withdrawal, Joe endorsed his impeachment insurance policy, jovial Kamala Harris, leaving the plotters in a political pickle of their own making.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
TLDR. Obvious history.
What I can’t wrap my head around is the strategy of pushing the left to the edge without a fallback plan in case their entire house of cards collapsed (ongoing).
Thus, my tin-hat brain is working overtime to anticipate what’s coming next, because not having a fallback plan is not their modus operandi (21 days to go).
[tin hat off]
This implies that he succeeded in assassinating President Trump. "would be assassin" is how it should read.
Crooks did murder Corey Comperatore but obviously that wasn’t his intended target so there is that.
In the 20th century—One of the characteristics of the communist left was their long-term thinking.
Under Barack Obama, all leftist democrat thinking turned to short-term.
Say, anybody know the present whereabouts of one, Maxwell Yearick?
At face value, I’d agree.
But that’s exactly why I’m looking for the angle...
“...Buried in the damn desert. Unmarked grave out past Terlingua.” (probably)
Does Jeff Childers know he posted to your blog?
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/great-expectations-tuesday-december
How do you sleep at night?
[Leak on December 27 2024 -- Primary launch date for Starship 7 January 10 2025 10pm-midnight window; six backup launch windows in the following six days.]
Are they kidding? A new launch date for Starship Flight 7 is revealed. Booster 15 kicks off testing; how did it go? Ship 35 gets brand-new catch hardware. How does it work? New Glenn finally completes its static fire! When launch? Parker Solar Probe breaks speed record, traveling 119 times faster than a bullet.SpaceX Leaks Flight 7 Launch Date! Even earlier! Parker Solar Probe shatters speed record! | 21:20
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--> YouTube-Generated Transcript <-- 0:00 · are they kidding a new launch date for 0:02 · Starship flight 7 is revealed booster 15 0:04 · kicks off testing how did it go ship 35 0:08 · gets brand new catch Hardware how does 0:10 · it work new Glenn finally completes its 0:12 · static fire when launch Parker solar Pro 0:15 · breaks speed record traveling 119 times 0:19 · faster than a 0:22 · bullet my name is Felix welcome to what 0:25 · about it let's Dive Right In Starship 0:28 · updates happy new Year everyone well 0:31 · almost while we are all still busy 0:34 · celebrating the holidays spacex's 0:37 · progress toward building the world's 0:38 · largest and most advanced rocket has 0:40 · been going faster than ever in fact 0:43 · SpaceX wasn't just working on 0:45 · preparations for flight 7 but also on 0:48 · hardware for flight 8 after boosta 15 0:51 · was rolled to Massie shortly before 0:53 · Christmas it was placed onto the 0:55 · cryogenic test stand and prepped for its 0:57 · first round of validation testing and 1:00 · now it's done we unwrapped presents and 1:02 · SpaceX filled the Vault with tested 1:04 · Starship flight Hardware talking about 1:07 · New Year's resolutions after beginning 1:09 · stacking just a few short months ago in 1:12 · June booster 15 has now officially 1:14 · kicked off its testing campaign this 1:17 · started on the 27th as we watched ice 1:20 · creep its way up the booster which was 1:22 · slowly filled with cryogenic liquid 1:24 · nitrogen everything appears to have gone 1:27 · smoothly as the booster DET tanked 1:29 · shortly after completing its first 1:31 · successful test this booster is 1:33 · different from previous ones sporting an 1:35 · upgraded header tank and likely many 1:37 · more invisible changes so a successful 1:40 · test wasn't necessarily guaranteed if 1:43 · everything goes well on flight 7 this 1:46 · booster will carry the first ship to 1:48 · orbit and hopefully back as if 1:50 · everything goes well SpaceX plans to 1:53 · attempt a ship catch on that flight it's 1:55 · also impressive that SpaceX has managed 1:58 · to speed up booster production so much 2:00 · given the size of these vehicles booster 2:03 · 14's first cryo prooof tests were in 2:06 · early October meaning it took SpaceX 2:08 · under 3 months to build an entire 2:10 · booster and prepare it for its first 2:13 · test to put this into perspective it 2:15 · took NASA 5 years from 2014 to 2019 from 2:19 · the beginning of the Assembly of the 2:21 · core stage of Artemis 1 to having all 2:23 · four engines attached it then flew in 2:26 · 2022 so they launched Hardware that 2:29 · began assembly 8 years before ignition 2:33 · SpaceX was also able to reduce the time 2:35 · between when they began stacking and 2:37 · this test as it took eight months for 2:39 · SpaceX to prepare booster 14 whereas 2:42 · booster 15 could do it in a little over 2:45 · six of course this also brings up a bit 2:48 · of a problem that SpaceX May begin to 2:50 · run into and that's that they've caught 2:52 · up to their booster production a luxury 2:55 · problem to have it took SpaceX only 2:57 · about a month to launch flight six after 2:59 · to flight five however if spacex's 3:02 · current production speed is a booster 3:04 · every 3 months that will quickly become 3:07 · a bottleneck there is one glaring 3:09 · solution though when SpaceX begins 3:11 · reusing boosters that should eliminate 3:14 · that problem however it is hard to tell 3:16 · when they may start doing that reliably 3:19 · so with this booster's first test 3:21 · completed the next day the 28th SpaceX 3:24 · was off yet again for the second test 3:26 · filling the booster before detaining 3:28 · around an hour lateer 3:30 · this appears to have marked the end of 3:32 · booster 15's cryogenic testing campaign 3:34 · as shortly after these tests a new road 3:37 · closure was posted for the 29th between 3:39 · massis and the build site to roll the 3:42 · skyscraper back for engine installation 3:45 · wow so SpaceX has been moving insanely 3:48 · fast with booster 15 but it's never fast 3:50 · enough for SpaceX they seem to move even 3:53 · faster with booster 16 as it may have 3:56 · already completed stacking on the 26th 3:59 · the meth tank was finally stacked on top 4:02 · of the oxygen tank although I really 4:04 · shouldn't be saying finally as this was 4:06 · done in a record amount of time SpaceX 4:09 · completed this booster in just 71 days 4:12 · from the first segment to its completion 4:15 · in addition only 13 days separated the 4:18 · completion of the two separate sections 4:20 · from mating them together for reference 4:22 · booster 14 took 110 days to complete its 4:25 · stacking and there were 23 days between 4:28 · the completion of the the two sections 4:30 · and their mating so it's clear SpaceX 4:33 · has yet again increased its booster 4:35 · production speed despite the enormous 4:38 · size difference it appears SpaceX is 4:40 · having an easier time producing boosters 4:42 · than they are ships as while this 4:44 · booster is essentially completed with 4:46 · only minor work remaining its 4:48 · counterpart and vehicle that will be 4:50 · joining it ship 35 has only just now 4:53 · begun stacking the likely reason is that 4:56 · a ship is more complex a booster has no 4:58 · flaps sheet or payload Bay after 5:01 · stacking first began on the seventh with 5:03 · the two payload Bay segments placed 5:05 · together the ship was rolled from the 5:07 · high Bay back into the star Factory for 5:10 · some final touches now it has been 5:12 · rolled into Mega Bay 2 for final 5:14 · stacking on the 26 around the same time 5:17 · the booster was being stacked this block 5:19 · 2 ship's nose cone was rolled from the 5:21 · Star Factory into Mega Bay 2 giving us a 5:24 · good look at it before it was fully 5:26 · assembled and we were able to spot 5:29 · something truly surprising but before I 5:31 · 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question we asked a few episodes ago 6:26 · regarding how SpaceX will catch a ship 6:29 · currently to catch a booster SpaceX uses 6:31 · a pair of catch pins that stick out from 6:34 · the side of the booster and rest on the 6:36 · Chopsticks these are attached to the 6:38 · hard points on the booster to ensure 6:40 · they can withstand the load it's the 6:42 · same points they lift the vehicles with 6:45 · however if you look at the ship you will 6:47 · see no such Hardware but rather an 6:49 · indent into which SpaceX inserts a pair 6:52 · of lifting points when stacking it this 6:55 · method can't be used for a catch though 6:57 · SpaceX does it this way because any 7:00 · point sticking out of the ship would 7:02 · burn up on re-entry if not properly 7:04 · shielded therefore the catch pins used 7:06 · on the booster can't be transferred to 7:08 · the ship but then how is SpaceX going to 7:12 · catch the Ship Without pins it'll be a 7:14 · slippery eel for the Chopsticks how 7:17 · about this what if it had a retractable 7:19 · pin similar to an airplane's landing 7:22 · gear this would be inside during 7:24 · re-entry and then it could deploy for a 7:26 · catch while it's not guaranteed these 7:29 · small rectangular cutouts could be the 7:31 · future location of those catch points 7:34 · this is also supported by the fact that 7:36 · the recessed heat shield tiles appear to 7:39 · end around that area meaning the heat 7:41 · tiles wouldn't affect this Hardware also 7:44 · the general size and shape are similar 7:46 · to the booster catch pins if that's the 7:48 · case we might possibly see similar 7:50 · modifications done to ship 33 to test 7:53 · the hardware on flight 7 before the 7:55 · hardware is hopefully used to catch ship 7:57 · 34 on flight eight now there is one more 8:01 · modification that we spotted and 8:03 · reported on last week the mystery of 8:05 · spacex's new red tiles we have an answer 8:09 · so is this some kind of futuristic heat 8:11 · shield that uses lasers or something to 8:13 · stay cool these red tiles weren't 8:16 · actually Tiles at all wait what yep when 8:19 · SpaceX completed most of the nose cone 8:21 · tiles these red mystery tiles were 8:24 · removed they weren't meant to fly the 8:26 · red color indicates that these are to be 8:28 · removed before flight this is similar to 8:31 · how parts that need to be removed before 8:33 · a launch are marked with a bright red 8:36 · tag labeled remove before flight so why 8:39 · would SpaceX do this then well it 8:41 · appears likely that these tiles were 8:43 · purely for alignment they were installed 8:46 · as a guide that the mechanics could use 8:49 · when installing the other tiles in the 8:51 · early days of Starship manufacturing 8:53 · there were huge problems with accurate 8:55 · tile alignment this is one step 8:57 · implemented to improve it likely this 9:00 · ship will still have numerous changes to 9:02 · its heat shield as SpaceX continues to 9:04 · refine the re-entry process and while it 9:07 · may not be a fleshy red color whatever 9:10 · changes SpaceX makes to the overall heat 9:12 · shield will be just as impressive 9:14 · although maybe a little less 9:16 · eye-catching okay so that's all future 9:19 · vehicles but what about more recent ones 9:21 · such as those for flight 7 has there 9:23 · been news worth reporting well there has 9:26 · been quite a bit of news regarding 9:28 · flight 7 including a new date we'll 9:30 · discuss later we'll likely see a launch 9:32 · even sooner than you realize but SpaceX 9:35 · needs to have the vehicles ready to 9:37 · achieve that and now that both of them 9:39 · have completed their testing there is 9:41 · only one component missing booster 14's 9:44 · hot staging ring this is typically the 9:47 · last thing installed on the boosters 9:48 · before they roll to the PAD as it covers 9:51 · quite a few components that need to be 9:53 · regularly accessed for SpaceX to install 9:56 · it almost all the work needs to be done 9:59 · that's why we were so excited when the 10:01 · hot staging ring for the booster was 10:03 · finally spotted rolling to Mega Bay 2 10:06 · and then around the same time as the 10:08 · closure to roll booster 15 back to the 10:10 · build site was implemented a second 10:12 · closure for the 30s was scheduled 10:14 · meaning the booster should already be at 10:17 · the pad by the time you're watching this 10:20 · come on let's do it all of this work is 10:22 · incredible to see and it shows just how 10:25 · close SpaceX is to its goal of catching 10:28 · a ship the moment SpaceX successfully 10:30 · achieves this space flight or rather the 10:32 · world will never be the same again 10:35 · imagine access to space that doesn't 10:37 · cost $25 million per seat but instead 10:40 · something like $500,000 or even $100,000 10:43 · per astronaut however one of the key 10:46 · elements of getting that cost down is a 10:49 · high launch Cadence and a single pad 10:51 · isn't going to get that job done all on 10:54 · its own that's why SpaceX has been so 10:56 · busy building a second pad and this one 10:59 · has quite a few upgrades looking over 11:02 · just a bit from the construction base to 11:04 · Sanchez we can see that SpaceX is still 11:07 · hard at work building the separate 11:09 · components of this new pad the launch 11:11 · Mount which will hold the rocket until 11:13 · it is launched is progressing quickly 11:15 · the new water cooled launch deck is 11:17 · almost completely installed this Mount 11:19 · likely still needs quite a bit more work 11:22 · however it's rapidly approaching 11:23 · completion and the rest of the parts 11:25 · aren't far behind the flame diverter 11:28 · which began Construction just a couple 11:29 · of weeks ago has reached a stopping 11:32 · point as there has been little work over 11:34 · the past few days we can also spot a few 11:37 · larger pipes that were just delivered to 11:39 · Sanchez looking at the rough size and 11:42 · shape it appears likely that these are 11:44 · water pipes that will be used to flow 11:46 · water into the Deluge system on the 11:48 · diverter and based on this photo the 11:50 · diameters do appear to match well we 11:53 · also know that the Chopsticks are likely 11:55 · almost complete as work has moved from 11:57 · upgrades and construction to to 11:59 · preparation for installation for that we 12:01 · need to move to the launch site as most 12:04 · of the prep work has been done there 12:06 · last week we mentioned SpaceX had begun 12:08 · rolling the parts in for a scaffolding 12:10 · structure that is used to assemble the 12:12 · chopsticks on the ground before stacking 12:15 · and it appears that the structure is now 12:17 · partly complete to assemble the 12:19 · Chopsticks SpaceX needs two separate 12:22 · pieces of scaffolding and they've 12:23 · completed the first the second will 12:26 · likely take little time as these 12:28 · temporary structures are designed to be 12:30 · built and torn down quickly it's likely 12:32 · only a matter of time before they are 12:34 · ready for use you can already see the 12:37 · pieces for it on the ground here once 12:39 · that is the case SpaceX will finally 12:41 · roll the Chopsticks over to this pad for 12:43 · installation padb will hopefully be much 12:47 · more resilient than the previous one 12:48 · SpaceX has taken all the lessons and 12:51 · hardships learned while launching from 12:53 · pad a and applied them to pad B although 12:55 · pad B is still under construction so 12:57 · SpaceX is still stuck using the flaw 13:00 · design of pad a fortunately it appears 13:02 · all repair work has been completed ahead 13:04 · of flight 7 SpaceX has proceeded with 13:07 · the final step before a launch painting 13:09 · the pad this is a crucial final step as 13:12 · paint acts as a protective shield 13:14 · against the harsh elements in this case 13:17 · I'm not talking about the harsh elements 13:19 · of a rocket launch but rather the 13:21 · extremely humid and salty air from the 13:23 · ocean which is right next to this pad it 13:26 · eats it for breakfast Starship you for 13:29 · breakfast you eat pieces Starship for 13:33 · breakfast no so the pad is ready for 13:36 · launch both the ship and the booster 13:38 · have now completed their static fire 13:40 · campaigns as of last week and we have a 13:43 · license confirmed by the FAA for this 13:45 · flight so that means everything's in 13:47 · place and now we have an official launch 13:50 · date SpaceX will launch on January 10th 13:53 · in just a week and a half the launch 13:56 · window lasts an hour and a half starting 13:58 · at 4 p.m. confirming that this will be 14:01 · another daytime launch and daytime 14:03 · re-entry in the Indian Ocean this launch 14:06 · date and the information come from an 14:07 · airspace advisory posted just a few days 14:10 · ago they are only slightly different 14:12 · from the previous date we had which was 14:14 · January 11th this means SpaceX will be 14:18 · launching a day sooner although it 14:20 · appears that this is the same launch 14:22 · date one crucial detail is missing time 14:25 · zones ship 33 will reenter the Indian 14:28 · Ocean on the 11th as it passes the DAT 14:31 · line on its way around the planet during 14:33 · the flight therefore the filing for the 14:36 · re-entry research plane which gave us 14:38 · the date initially would be based on 14:40 · that time unfortunately shortly after 14:42 · this advisory was posted it was deleted 14:45 · suggesting a slight change may come 14:47 · however it's unclear and most signs 14:50 · Still Point to this state being the one 14:52 · at least now we have a launch window and 14:55 · it's clear that SpaceX is more than on 14:57 · track to hit this if SpaceX can meet 15:00 · this launch date they will have managed 15:02 · to achieve a turnaround time of around 15:04 · 52 days which while more than the 15:06 · turnaround time between flights and six 15:09 · is still impressive given all of the 15:11 · hardware changes associated with this 15:13 · flight things are really starting to 15:15 · pick up at Star base however another 15:17 · area has also been seeing some action 15:20 · lately and this time it's not just 15:22 · scrapping over here at the cape we're 15:24 · finally seeing some action after almost 15:27 · a year of crickets interrup of course by 15:29 · hundreds of Falcon 9 and heavy launches 15:32 · fortunately that has been changing 15:34 · rapidly it all started earlier this 15:36 · month when SpaceX brought in a few 15:38 · cranes however unlike what many of us 15:41 · were hoping for instead of upgrading 15:44 · SpaceX decided to use these cranes to 15:46 · tear things down in this case they were 15:49 · used to tear down a custom liquid oxygen 15:51 · tank which SpaceX had built before 15:54 · realizing that vertical tanks so close 15:56 · to a launch mount for the world's Lar 15:59 · just rocket aren't exactly a good idea 16:02 · fortunately it appears that that's not 16:04 · the only work SpaceX has been doing here 16:06 · as for the first time ever the 16:08 · Chopsticks have moved Houston we have 16:11 · Chopstick movement this is a much bigger 16:14 · deal than you'd think as these 16:15 · Chopsticks don't actually have pistons 16:17 · for movement instead they are held in 16:20 · place by a lot of ropes this movement 16:23 · means SpaceX is likely finally 16:25 · installing the Pistons to allow these 16:27 · arms to move on their own own it is 16:29 · clear that work is truly kicking off 16:31 · again here at the cave and I for one 16:33 · can't wait to watch a Starship launch 16:35 · from my backyard finally it looks like 16:38 · by the time Starship arrives it will 16:40 · have another reusable rocket to keep it 16:42 · company in this case I'm not talking 16:44 · about Falcon new Glenn is finally about 16:47 · to launch pinch me 16:50 · ah after years of waiting it's finally 16:53 · happening and for real this time new 16:55 · Glenn has now after many delays 16:57 · completed a successful full duration 17:00 · static fire this static fire could not 17:03 · have been more incredible with all seven 17:05 · of new Glenn's gigantic be4 rocket 17:08 · engines igniting for 24 seconds while 17:12 · not the most powerful new Glenn is set 17:14 · to be the third largest operational 17:16 · rocket just behind the Starship and SLS 17:20 · it's also set to be extremely 17:21 · competitive with most of them new Glen 17:24 · is huge 2 feet short of SLS and the 17:27 · second place because SLS has a thin 17:29 · Escape system on top new Glenn doesn't 17:32 · this Behemoth of a rocket is truly a 17:35 · milestone accomplishment for blue origin 17:37 · now that it has completed its static 17:39 · fire and all other necessary testing all 17:42 · that's left is to launch it like 17:44 · Starship new Glenn's launch date was 17:46 · announced this week the FAA officially 17:49 · issued blue origin a launch license for 17:51 · the maen flight of what could be the 17:53 · first propulsively landed orbital rocket 17:56 · not developed by SpaceX the first First 17:59 · Flight is set for sometime between 18:00 · January 6th and 7th per information 18:03 · regarding air traffic advisory thanks to 18:05 · our photographer John win hob who was on 18:08 · location during the static fire we also 18:10 · know that they weren't taking any time 18:12 · to rest he spotted numerous tanker 18:15 · trucks going towards the pad following 18:17 · the static 18:19 · fire it has been incredible to see how 18:22 · quickly new Glenn has been moving 18:24 · recently however as quickly as this 18:26 · rocket is moving it has nothing on how 18:29 · quickly the Parker solar probe is moving 18:31 · in this case I mean it more literally as 18:34 · this probe one of NASA's Most Daring 18:36 · missions has just reached a new record 18:39 · the Parker solo probe is currently one 18:41 · of NASA's Flagship missions its goal is 18:44 · to literally touch the sun it'll do this 18:48 · by flying so close to the Sun that it 18:50 · begins to pass through its outmost 18:53 · atmosphere to get as much information as 18:56 · possible from it this information can 18:58 · can help inform us about things such as 19:00 · the sun's structure and how it works and 19:03 · it can even help us better understand 19:05 · the process behind how things such as 19:07 · solar flares are created contrary to 19:10 · Common belief we do not know much about 19:12 · our parent star many glaring questions 19:15 · pun intended have not been answered yet 19:18 · that's why it's impressive that this 19:19 · probe has reached a new record-breaking 19:21 · close approach to the Sun at just 3.8 19:25 · million miles interestingly the Parker 19:27 · solo prob broke another record at the 19:29 · same time to get closer to the Sun you 19:32 · need to speed up your relative orbital 19:34 · velocity the closer you get the faster 19:36 · you move breaking its previous record 19:39 · flying above the surface of the Sun 19:41 · NASA's Parker solar probe hurdled 19:43 · through the solar atmosphere at a 19:45 · blazing 430,000 mph or 692 th000 km per 19:52 · hour faster than any human-made object 19:54 · has ever moved that's 119 m or 192 km 20:00 · covered in a single second in comparison 20:04 · a typical bullet travels at only8 to 1.2 20:07 · km/ second a snail space compared to 20:11 · Parker it's been fascinating to watch 20:13 · over the years and this mission is one 20:15 · of the greatest of the past 50 years I 20:18 · for one am looking forward to dozens 20:20 · more missions like these when the cost 20:22 · of getting to space plummets thanks to 20:25 · all the reusable Rockets coming online 20:27 · that's it for today remember to smash 20:29 · that like button subscribe for more this 20:31 · is what fuels the 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