Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer)

THIS IS NOT A SONIC BOOM Okay folks, it’s been long enough. Time to finally address the biggest point of confusion on #AvGeek twitter: what exactly is going on with vapor cones? Let’s just say much of what you’ve read is (probably) wrong. Wonder no more: a thread... 1/n

SKYLON IS BACK BABYYYY GIMME MORE SPACEPLANES

"Clouds are a scary conspiracy" might be the dumbest trend I've ever seen on this site and has me thinking we should maybe just delete the internet

I'm not saying it's for sure the SR-72 but like come on

"We will do anything to avoid using the metric system to describe an asteroid" is one of my favorite running bits in science media

"I heard you needed to kill 10¹⁰⁰ shrimp?"

Now THIS is going to make a great exam question

They should ask the Pope to bless the next starship flight

56 years ago today, at a time when NASA was getting close to 1% of the GDP, we were doing some pretty badass stuff I say we run it back

Now try doing this to an F-35

Imagine launching a cruise missile from a Piper Navajo Lockheed is trying to make your dreams come true

Put simply there is a lot happening here

RIP to the most aerodynamic of dudes

Absolute peak engineered performance

Around a 20% cut for science and flat top-line (compared to the previous ~50% science cut) Far from perfect but a huge improvement over the devastating presidential budget request

For real though how many times does Falcon 9 get to fly its 500th mission

Either the speed of light is really fast or we are really slow