like slamming matter and anti-matter together

How so?

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Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/641

New launch thread for take two: https://sh.itjust.works/post/46267018

Starbase activities (2025-09-17):

• Sep 16th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
• Massey’s: Overnight, B18.1 (test tank 17) performs its 6th cryo test. (ViX)
• Two new gantry legs are installed in the static fire area. (ViX)
• Launch site: Overnight, S38 rolls out to Pad 1. (LabPadre, ViX, Starship Gazer 1, Starship Gazer 2, Starship Gazer 3, Gisler, cnunez)
• S38 is placed on the launch mount. (NSF, LabPadre, ViX, Starship Gazer, Gisler, cnunez 1, cnunez 2, SpaceX)
• Installation of cladding/wall sections on the bunker continues. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• Five concrete rings for a pump lift station are delivered and offloaded near Pad 2. (ViX)
• RGV Aerial post recent flyover photos of Pad 1 and Pad 2. The Pad 2 flame trench was filled with water at the time of the flyover.
• Build site: Upside down ship aft section sans skirt emerges from Starfactory and heads towards Sanchez for scrapping. (ViX 1, ViX 2, Golden)
• A new ship lifting jig arrives at Megabay 2. (ViX)

McGregor:

• A Raptor 3 heads out to either the north or south test stand. (Rhin0 1, Rhin0 2)
• The potential lunar lander testing structure has been covered in tarpaulins. (flippers79)

Florida:

• Booster and ship will be in the horizontal orientation for transit from Starbase to The Cape. (Kiko Dontchev (V.P. of Launch))

Scrub at T-38 seconds due to weather.

Edited to add: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1968343193919107545

Standing down from today’s Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink due to weather.

Strongback retract.

To be fair, that particular Starship full stack died not long after that photo was taken.

It’s got an older vibe, but with a modern colour palette and greebling techniques. I like it!

You may have wildly different interpretations of the second panel depending on the meaning of “fanny” in your regional slang.

Is that the Middle Earth equivalent of “OK boomer”?

Even the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special can’t be as bad as whatever this is.

Wait, did they not hibernate before this? Did they only start hibernating after Moomintroll hurt himself?

Moomintroll also learned that frozen water is brittle like glass. He just didn’t account for the thickness of the ice at the edge of the pond near the diving board.

[email protected] is leaking… :)

Not sure how I like how much it is based on the 1971 film. I have a slight preference for the 2005 aesthetic myself. Still a cool set, though.

Could that be one of its pollen baskets?

Brilliant.

Not sure I get this one. Casualties in war? What does the duration represent?

Fun fact: The original Winnie-the-Pooh chracter as drawn by artist E. H. Shepard was completely naked.

Pooh was first depicted with his iconic red shirt when he was drawn by Stephen Slesinger in 1932.