Where should the crew compartment go?
On the engine, of course! Right above the HEALIZAIE and the FALT.
How does gravity effect this? Well, that’s the good part. near the heat shield it pushes from front to back, but near the thrusters is pushes back to front cancelling it out.
The gravity cancels out, letting aerodynamic drag lift the rocket into space.
But don’t forget to put the actual crew on the other side of the engine to the crew sections.
Where you’re always one leak away from being horrifically oxidized or slurped through an engine.
Oh cool, we reinvented the Me-163 Komet.
Just looked up a pic of that plane. Looks like a toy
Gravity go up, gravity go down!
Sometimes I worry about LLMs taking my job, sometimes I don’t.
I don’t worry about AI being good at my job.
I worry about middle management thinking AI is good at my job
Doesn’t matter if it is or not, the only thing that matters is how gullible your bosses are.
I guess we better unionize now, huh?
The crew is gunna get a little hot sitting that close to the raptor engine I think.
That’s obviously what the healizaie is for
What do you mean? This engine burns crew according to AI.
I like he crew quarters being in the path of the methane flow. Makes thing efficient to route the methane through the crew quarters.
What about the raptor engine that’s recursively nested inside a larger raptor engine?
If only there were some kind automated tool to turn 3d models into orthographic & isometric drawings…
It is non-deterministic.
This is my biggest gripe with GenAI.
Damn, didn’t realize rockets ran on methane. Just like my stove.
Yes a lot of modern engines run on methane. It doesn’t have to be as cold as H2 and its much more volume-dense.
Combustion is much less complicated than with kerosene and other big hydrocarbons.
Saturn V first stage ran RP-1, a kerosene fuel like Jet-A or JP8.
Yep, they went to the moon on fuel that could also run a truck (if you don’t particularly care about still running it next week)
if you don’t particularly care about still running it next week
Wouldn’t RP-1 burn cleaner than run-of-the-mill diesel?
Sure, the burning part isn’t the problem.
Diesel has small amounts of lubricants, and those are very much needed for all the tiny little moving parts in fuel injectors and probably even in the engine itself. RP-1 doesn’t have those.
Also, I know jet fuel will absolutely destroy just about every rubber not specifically designed for it, and that may apply to RP-1 as well.
Also, starting your rocket fuel car in winter is probably going to be a real chore, since the vaporization point is much higher, and modern cars don’t come with preheaters that can handle that anymore (thanks to those fuel injectors).
Expansion ratio with a 30ft nozzle gotta be insane
AI math: 30*6 <= 30
You can laugh all you want. But while youre all here sniffing your own farts. This is happening
