I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined.
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I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined.
You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in coastal wetlands? Liquifaction.
SpaceX has completely lost their grip on reality and all of us are going to pay the price in various ways as they try to build impossible dangerous things.
ketamine ken needs a nest on another sphere
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I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined.
You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in coastal wetlands? Liquifaction.
SpaceX has completely lost their grip on reality and all of us are going to pay the price in various ways as they try to build impossible dangerous things.
@sundogplanets Actually, a question— does this actually differ from existing launch sites in, say, Florida? I have never been to cape Canaveral specifically but my understanding is that slice of Florida is Louisiana-like levels of wetlandiness.
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@sundogplanets Actually, a question— does this actually differ from existing launch sites in, say, Florida? I have never been to cape Canaveral specifically but my understanding is that slice of Florida is Louisiana-like levels of wetlandiness.
@mcc @sundogplanets very different geologically. Both are wetlands, but Florida is a giant finger of limestone sticking into the ocean, whereas southern Louisiana is made of endless layers of mud that the Mississippi has been depositing for millions of years.
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I have been wondering if any of the proposed launch pads will ever be completed; let alone used to launch anything.
Since pouring the concrete and vibrating it to get the bubbles out is already a big task if trying to build on sand.
There's a reason Canaveral was built on coquina and limestone.
@michael_w_busch @sundogplanets
South Louisiana is sediment loam all the way down.
At least Corpus/Brownsville has some bedrock under 100 feet of sand, and doesn't have saltwater running up the rebar five feet above sea-level.
That doesn't take king tides and post-ElNino surges into account...it'll get worse from there -
@claralistensprechen3rd @sundogplanets
If New Madrid blows up hard enough to break the Louisiana coast, we've got bigger problems than a pissant launchpad.
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@sundogplanets Louisiana is like Hyperloop. Just some fictional investment promise to get favours from the regime but with no intention to actually do anything except drive value of land up.
Possible orbital inclinations are even more resticted than from Boca Chica. And lndings on descending node would pass over Dallas/Forth Worth who won't likely be too happy with potential for debris if something goes wrong.
Maybe the boring company can run a tunnel from Louisiana to the tip of Texas. I'm sure the soil is appropriate and it definitely won't leak and flood, killing thousands
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@claralistensprechen3rd @sundogplanets
If New Madrid blows up hard enough to break the Louisiana coast, we've got bigger problems than a pissant launchpad.
If it hits that hard, the only way to get across the Mississippi involves going to Illinois.@sundogplanets @johntimaeus People of that region have always suspected that "the next one" was going to be "The Big One" with the New Madrid Fault. All we need now is for Space X to shake things up a bit, huh. -
@sundogplanets that launchpad is going to fall in the ground a handful of centimeters per launch, what a great revolutionary concept from Big Space
@Poslovitch @sundogplanets dual-use rocket launcher and hole borer
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When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a launch site on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them.
It sank into the swamp.
So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp.
So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, the strongest launch site in all of America.
Here in the UK, on the line of the very early railway line between Liverpool and Manchester, there is a boggy area called Chat Moss. When they first built the railway line, they laid down rafts of wood and filled in with stone, until it stopped sinking. So, it worked for them....
Incidentally, the M62 motorway also runs over the area, and that section of it has a rather undulating surface.
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I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined.
You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in coastal wetlands? Liquifaction.
SpaceX has completely lost their grip on reality and all of us are going to pay the price in various ways as they try to build impossible dangerous things.
"I built a launch pad, but it sank into the swamp..."
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