From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   With a quizzical look, Snidely observed:   
   > JF Mezei blurted out:   
   >> On 2020-09-20 14:07, Snidely wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Considering what images we were getting from about 1.5 miles with high   
   >>> /consumer/ equipment, I would be confident that SpaceX's cameras at   
   >>> roughly a tenth of that distance were up to the job.   
   >>   
   >> If you want to analyze failure, you want 4K at highest frame rate as   
   >> possible and that only works with a lot of light.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> More likely to get a hiss.  Which could still produce snow, but not so   
   >>> much like shaking a snow globe.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> If they truly test a tank to failure, I have to assume that at such high   
   >> pressure any crack will quickly propagate and cause "catastrophic"   
   >> failure instead of just a leak.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Remember that while it looks like a beer keg, this is meant to be a   
   >> spacship and mass still matters, so I don't think they can afford to   
   >> have much overbuild with steel.   
   >>   
   >> Elon has not tweeted about it. Had the tank exceeded some target by so   
   >> much without bursting that they stopped the test, I suspect Mr Musk   
   >> would have tweeted about the success.  Staying silent points to likely   
   >> some really stupid small problem that didn't allow the test to go far.   
   >> (nobody saw frost on tank).   
   >   
   > So tune in tonight.  And you did notice they had lots of lights around the   
   > pad area, didn't you?  Any even though it's sunny there now, the Gulf could   
   > provide a squall line on short notice, I'm sure.   
      
   Perhaps even Tropical Storm Beta.   
      
   /dps   
      
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