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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by lucideer on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @11:30AM (#28050374)
"Lol", "Face it man", you're laser-focused in on a tiny, fairly irrelevant detail of my comment while very ardently ignoring the substantive points. No-one cares what shape the rockets are.

Fwiw the space plane I was referring to above was SS2, not a NASA vehicle. But yes, I agree, it is unlikely to be good for doing "real work in space". Which is the actual substantive point here, irrespective of vehicle shape.

Just to repeat since you seem to have missed it in my comment above: the phallic comment was not, I repeat NOT a literal commentary on rocket design. Yes, good rockets are long and cylindrical. Not what I was referring to.

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Re:SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy rocke... by merpnderp on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @02:42PM (#28052619)
You really want me to speak to your point where you claim Jeff Bezos is starting a space tourism business for the explicit purpose of hiding Amazon's environmental impact, all while doing it with giant dicks?
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