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   Niklas Holsti to Snidely   
   Re: Starship IFT-5 tomorrow   
   17 Oct 24 12:14:48   
   
   From: niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid   
      
   On 2024-10-17 10:10, Snidely wrote:   
   > Remember when The Running Man bragged outrageously?  That was Wednesday:   
      
       [ snip irrelevant ]   
      
   >>    
   >>   
   >> Elon now claims they will catch the Starship with the chopsticks too!!   
   >> This wasn't in any of their original plans, was it?   
   >   
   > Oh, yes, it has been around since 2020 or so.  V1 ships are uncatchable,   
   > because they have innies rather than outies, but we haven't seen a V2   
   > fab'd far enough to know what changes are occurring there.   
      
      
   Perhaps they will be innies for launch and reentry, and move to be   
   outies for catch and lift.   
      
   [ Glossary: "they" = lift/catch points/nubs ]   
      
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