Let’s not set the precedent of having the UN make decisions about space.

A missile would not change the re-entry time or location: just break the target into many pieces. In the one case where the US used a missile the target broke into many small pieces which mostly burned up on re-entry but I don’t think that would happen with the ISS. Uncontrolled re-entry of a single large object would, I think, be preferable to re-entry of dozens of them.

No agreement would have any effect on the headlines saying “US allows its spacestation to crash on city, killing 800 people”.

The viscosity of hot water is much lower.

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/how-the-higgs-field-works-with-math/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature#Space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvature#Flat_space

Curvature is well defined for manifolds with any number of dimensions. “Flat” in this context means “zero curvature”, not “two dimensional”.

It’s been asserted that they were used for water but I know of no evidence that they actually were.

Texas regulations require that the design for a methane storage system be done by a registered professional engineer certified to do methane storage systems in Texas and be submitted for approval before construction starts. Thus it’s unlikely that they were “too close together”. More likely they just didn’t work right. Perhaps they had an excessive boiloff rate or too high a leakage rate.

Speculation: Perhaps they decided to build their own tanks because lead times for purchased tanks were too long. It worked out for LN2 and LOX.

I wonder why they have not recycled the suborbital tanks?

They’re now cutting up the shell of one of the vertical methane tanks. They managed to suck all the perlite out when we weren’t looking.

The vertical water tank has been removed from its mount and is being cut up.

B10 went back to the shipyard.

“the chopsticks are rather noisy.”

They shouldn’t do that…

B10 static test at 10:47

Ship 28 static fire at 9:19AM.

Mary received a overpressure notice for tomorrow and space_rocket_builder confirms a B10 static fire.

The B10 static fire was scrubbed due to some sort of problem with the the oxygen GSE. Speculation is that a pump or valve seized up. Another try tomorrow is possible.

But there’s a guy up on one of the veritcal tanks working on the lifting rings so perhaps Zack is right.

That looks like a long reach from where it’s parked.

The LR11000 has moved into the space near gate D2 where they recently demolished the storage sheds. I think it’s there to handle the last three horizontal tanks (unless it’s just there to compact the new asphalt…)

Kathy Lueders said that this month is unlikely but seems to think that there’s a chance for January. I’ll go with that.

I think that a launch this year is still possible but I wouldn’t want to give odds. I think that before the end of January is likely. It would be cool for it to happen on my birthday but I’d rather see it earlier.