Booster 19 full static fire

Homing in on the next flight test. Maybe they'll 'light the candle' on the 15th.

This is nuts

Long term Houstonian here... The place mentioned is friggin' HUGE. There's a lot of room. The Astrodome sits between Fannin and Kirby. NRG Stadium is next to Kirby. The Dome sits in the middle. Nothing on the Fannin side, except a LONG WALK. That area is freaking huge. Plenty of room to build something.

The procedure would be to tear down the Dome. Use that cleared area for a parking lot, and start building the new stadium on the Fannin side.

The problem is MONEY. If you build a new stadium, you'll have to spend several billion dollars. The problems mentioned in the video go away if the DOME goes away. While building the new stadium, the "old" stadium can still be used. Parking is solved if you tear down the Dome during the off-season, and put in the new parking lot for where the Dome used to be. Construction of the new stadium can take place on the Fannin side. Lots of room. The problem is going to be how much money, and who pays for all this. The football team doesn't want to pay, and the taxpayers don't want to pay. Where's the money coming from?

The narrator is an original Texans player named Seth Payne. He keeps talking about "Bridgeland". Bridgeland is about 30 miles or more away. Therein lies another problem. The Texans want a new practice facility to replace the one close to the current stadium. If they go all the way out there, then what? The current facility is on the Kirby side. There was the old AstroWorld site that got demolished several years ago. Why not use that area? It's right across the freeway from the Dome. Who's making these decisions? That seems to identify another problem. How do you coordinate between the government and the organizations that use the facilities?

Another explosion at Starbase

Angry Astronaut breaks down the latest mishap at Starbase. He likes to compare SLS with Starship. He admits that Starship has amazing tech, but focuses on all the growing pains for the new system.

But there are some disquieting things that keep happening with their system. You have to wonder if there's a major catastrophe around the corner with this thing.

Marcus House weekly video post (Starship 12 launch date)

Yours truly would love to be there at Starbase to see that sucker launch. But there's a problem... Maybe more than just one problem.

6 Humanoids You Can Actually Buy in 2026!

Wonder when they'll make some fembots? Austin Powers should like that. But maybe not the guns in the jumblies.

Faster than light speed

Maybe even ludicrous speed. Don't know about plaid.

Not exactly germane to the discussion, but here goes anyway

This may not be the best time and place for this, as it isn't the usual fare on this blog.

It might be better at the Version 3 location. But it will go here because I wouldn't exactly know where to put it in that blog.

The school this kid went to was pretty close to where I was being treated while in Irving Texas in 2017. It caught my eye.

 

Texans drafted this guy. Here's an interview of him when he was in high school

Check out newest Texan Febechi Nwaiwu in high school!

Dude was a beast and a great kid and interview

Rooted for him since then and so glad to have him on the squad @officialfeb_54 https://t.co/trRwqRIr0G

— Jeremy Beadling (@JeremyChuggs) April 25, 2026

SpaceX's Starship getting close to launch time

Problems with SpaceX's Raptor 3 engine?

It's been several months now since the last launch. Also, this is a brand new rocket on a brand new launch pad.

An "expensive hole in the ground" is a worrisome prospect. Hopefully, SpaceX has tested this thing six ways to Sunday, and back again.

Is this real, or just somebody's imagination?

Here's another video from AlphTech. (Ooops! Not the same folks.) The idea is the same as the one I suggested awhile back. The one I based my suggestion upon was the Saturn V model. The Saturn V model was 100% expendable. It shed mass as it went along. The first two stages did the major part of getting to lower Earth orbit. The third stage, which was called the S-IVB, finished the orbital lift, and did the trans-lunar injection burn that sent about 100k lbs of what was left towards lunar orbit.

Each part of the mission sheds mass, and thus reduces the amount of fuel needed to complete each part of the mission. By the time the lunar module set itself down on the lunar surface, there was just 1 more module left to finish the ascent back to lunar orbit. The lunar module itself was discarded, leaving only the command module to power itself back to Earth, and re-entry.

The Starship model is very fuel inefficient. That's why it needs all that refueling. With a powerful rocket, they still cannot achieve what the Saturn V did, even though the Starship system is over twice as powerful.

SpaceX has a problem on its hands. It is trying to do something the hard way. The easy way is to downsize the ship, and that is what AlphaTech is showing with this video. It isn't a radical idea. It is essentially how it was done over 50 years ago.

This tried and true method would deliver a super Apollo mission. It would carry more cargo, but it would still use the same Apollo-era methodology. Why change methodologies into something super complex like SpaceX is attempting? SpaceX needs to change their approach, but how does AlphaTech know that SpaceX is actually considering this change of methods?

Starship's Raptor 4 engines

A little too long of a video, and loses focus a bit. If it is about the engine, then stay on topic. Anyway, worth watching, but maybe not all the way through. I didn't.