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#Musk’s #Starship 💩too good to be true
" #WillLockett has called Musk out as a failure & a #fraud 🤦‍♂️.. tt Starship is a badly engineered, #overhyped machine which can never work well.. skuM arrogantly assumed tt throwing enuf money & engineer'g talent at te proj cld somehow overcome te constraints of Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s classic “rocket equation” of 1903.. tt says ~90% of a #rocket’s launch weight has to be fuel if you want to put it into Earth orbit"
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/2025/12/05/musks-starship-too-good-to-be-true

Opinion: Musk’s Starship too good to be true

Winnipeg Free Press

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Andreas K Dec 7

@joseph11lim You mean like the German Chancellor Merz and his Conservatives ignoring physics and assuming that combustion can beat the Carnot limit or more generally the second law of thermodynamics.

Heat machines have that inherent limit on efficiency and no fucking amount of money and engineering hours will change that. And that's already rather maxed out, if memory serves at 53% which suggests that engineers managed to optimize combustion temp to only 2.13x against the environment.

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Andreas K

Which suggests either some really crazy chemistry and physics or rather cosily heated environment for the test engine, I guess.

Anyway, I wonder what the “rocket engineers” working for #Naziboy are thinking, when he yells at them to break basic physics repeatedly.