Tim Dodd
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6,277 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2023
last heard 9 Feb
Tim Dodd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That one's real.
That's their demonstrator.
So it's a third scale demonstrator.
And where do they want to send this rocket?
They just want to be able to launch payloads and things like that.
So they're trying to make it cheaper because, you know, just like you're asking, can you believe we're still wasting all this propellant?
What if we just spun a giant motor?
But the problem is there's there's a few problems.
But, you know, now you're now you're going, you know, you're going 3000 mile an hour or whatever at sea level.
So just as soon as you open up that hatch and eject, like you're experiencing an insane amount of air resistance and heating.
from compression of the air around it.
So like you have all these, you got 10,000 G on the vehicle while it's in the centrifuge.
Like this will never be used for humans.
It might be useful for propellant refueling could be an option because whatever, propellant doesn't care if it's 10,000 G for the most part.
But it's a unique system.
I'm not necessarily the biggest fan and I don't know if it'll ever happen.
It seems so primitive, dude.
This is, yeah, this is almost like, this is as ooga booga as lighting a bunch of stuff on fire to get it to space.
Like this is like, what if we just threw it?
Right, right.
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