STAGE ZERO
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REVEALING A VERY BIG HOLE IN CONVENTIONAL THOUGHT
Like all that subscribe to the ‘standard model’ way of thinking, Elon Musk and the Space-X team still believe in black-holes and the ‘standard model’ in general and so, showing that their knowledge of plasma physics in combination with electrical engineering is going to be somewhat sketchy in regards to the importance of the charged nature of matter.
Conventional 'standard model' thinking is rooted in purely mechanical/gravitational terms only and as such, almost totally disregards plasma, the electrical fourth state of matter as being important.
With this lack of awareness and insight not only leading to the cracking of the heat resistant base below the rocket engines at Starbase site, when the engines were fired up. But actually, blasting rapidly disassembled concrete and substrate sand out in all directions and with it, leaving a massive hole below the launch mount and indeed, in ‘standard model’ guesswork thinking.
And with the surrounding area below and around the launch site and for some distance, getting rather scarred by the event and so showing that the combined rocket engines produced energy (matter in motion) orders of magnitude larger than expected and as calculated with computational fluid mechanics.
And with the calculations showing that there is something seriously amiss with what was thought and indeed preached to be in the past, undoubtedly correct scientific knowledge.
So, to fully get a handle on this we must go back to basics and for a while at least, forget about speaking in the language of maths and which the ‘standard model’ mind set uses as a starting point and which hides the fact that is just guesswork.
With instead, the maths coming after observation and experimentation and not before. With their importance and as used in the ‘standard model’ being the wrong place to be, as a starting point to understanding reality or even a rocket launch.
Even with just common sense, it shows us instead. That because all atoms are made from protons (positive charge) and electrons (negative charge), they then have created electrical fields within themselves, due to the separation of charge.
And so, showing us that electrical charged mater interacting with mater of a different charged potential is fundamental to all mater in the universe and with it and through their interconnecting electromagnetic fields produced by the separation of charge.
Making all mater and all across the universe, interconnected naturally and in real time. And so showing that, 'spooky action at a distance' is not needed. With it being, just a misinterpretation of reality.
The atoms that make up the molecules that make up the cells that make up our bodies, each has an electrical voltage of 25 millivolts, when in a healthy condition. And between 50 and 200 Millivolts when in healing mode.
Plus, we think and our central nervous systems work by way of electrical impulses and the environment in which we live (unless an astronaut), having a charge differential between the negatively charged earth and the positively charged ionosphere rising by about 100 Volts per metre up through the atmosphere and so fractally, upwards in orders of magnitude, with another separation of charge.
Another fact ignored by the ‘standard model’, is that the force of electromagnetism is 1000 billion billion billion billion times more powerful than gravity and that’s a lot of noughts more powerful.
Plus, we see magnetic fields throughout deep space and there is only one thing that creates magnetic fields and that is electricity.
With now, electrically thinking humans aiming to go out there into the electrically active and rarefied plasma vacuum of space.
So, if humans do want to reach out past Low Earth Orbit on a continuous and regular basis, then they should truly understand realities true nature and not just accept uniformed mathematicians’ guesswork as being gospel.
Permanent magnets on earth are made by shooting electrical charge through a metal first, so to align the metal’s atoms into a series configuration and so creating a magnetic pile through the metal.
And as far as we know, there are no artificial permanent magnet making machines in outer space, even though magnetic fields are seen everywhere.
When these basic truths are ignored though or not even known about, with people only thinking in reductionist material ‘standard model’ terms only. Then all sorts of weird and not so wonderful ideas can emerge and then thought to be, in some way relevant to reality and indeed, to science.
So and as well as looking at why Stage Zero ended up looking the way it did after the first orbital launch attempt by the Starship. We must also then have to look to the failures of the existing ‘standard model’. As the first and this latest launch attempt being based on this model. With it not including the electrical charged nature of matter within its thinking.
And so showing, that not knowing of the real science and importance of electrical charge in relation to mater and as religiously taught in the ‘standard model’. It will inevitably lead to some very, very big holes in its thinking and indeed and as we saw, the ground.
So it is quite ironic that with the times we now live in and as we travel further into the 21st and scientific Century, that even some learned members of the cloth from traditional religions got the feeling that it was their God given duty, to remind main-stream-science of some real science facts and so turn away from what they just pseudo religiously believed in to be true, with the mechanical/gravity model of Einstein, being Godlike.
Even though it is the knowledge of electromagnetism that elluminated and heated our modern times, as well as you being able to see this on the electronic device you are using. The ‘standard model’ thinks it is totally unimportant and actually promotes unproven and plainly wrong guesswork. With people along with the funding, even getting scientific prizes for their uninformed devotion to such strange concepts.
DARK MATTER BY A PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
(a real scientist who uses maths)
The design of Stage Zero has a flat base below the rocket engines and not a flame diverter as traditionally used with other rocket launch systems. This gives the engines something flat and solid to push against right from the start and so is thought to be much more efficient for the initial lifting of the load off the ground and so create a more powerful point to start the inertia of the load upwards. But this is electromagnetically wrong.
Because and as we have seen, this new type of launch system has led to a whole new set of problems of its own. With the effects of multiple streams of rocket engines, producing absolutely massive amounts of electrically separated but mainly positive charged matter. While being in close proximity to each other. With the positively charged mater, that is of interest here.
Plus, while being fired at a flat bit of matter and at ninety degrees to the rocket engine's exhaust. With it in the end proving vastly more powerful than normal computational fluid dynamics would suggest.
Because also and strangely enough, it actually causing problems with the lift off and holding it back.
With this, due to negative charge from the earth and water deluge system attracting the positive charge being generated from the rocket engines. With the magnetic forces created, actually wanting to hold it back down. As positive and negative are attractive.
With it tearing the concrete base apart, as one force fights against the other. Until the ground itself gets positively charged. With then the repulsion of positive charge taking over, with it pushing the rocket away. As well as the dismembered base below the rocket launch mount.
So an easy fix that should be tried is to simply make the water from the deluge system through a flame trench (as a flat base is also a problem) and so making it positively charged and so wanting to repel the positives charge from the rocket motors straight away and so aid the lift off, instead of impeding it and holding it back onto a flat surface.
Even a single rocket engine will produce massive amounts of separated and especially positive charge, let alone 33 of them all firing so tightly together. With it being a lack of space between the rocket motors and the interacting electromagnetic fields from the different motors that will also be problematical. Plus and with it, launching from a flat base and so having limited space and direction for the exhaust plasma to escape from.
Taking off from a flat base and perfecting it is a massively important consideration for Musk and the Space-X team though, as it is thought to be so much more efficient with a flat base to push against. But they will realise it want work (even if they don't know why) and will have to go for a redesign.
With the original flat base consideration thought to be especially important, as the ships will also have to eventually lift off from the moon and mars. With a flat base plate on the moon or planet’s surface being a lot easier to construct. This might work with less of an electric field of a moon. but we will have to see.
Eventually underground facilities will have to be also constructed for the safety of the inhabitants when settling a new world. But in the initial colonisation stages and for logistic reasons, settlers will have to survive on the surface first and so have to deal with some electric weather on those bodies (so, also see ‘Electric Weather Mechanics’ on this site) and so the colonisation sites must be very carefully considered, with direct electrical atmospheric and planetary discharges in mind.
Due to being completely new rocket technology, the effects from any launch will naturally get calculated with big powerful computers, so to crunch the numbers of any possible effects. But it doesn’t matter how good and expensive a computer is, if the input data is insufficient then the output calculations, will naturally also be insufficient.
With this being very graphically shown to us with the first orbital launch attempt at Starbase and with the concrete launch plate below Stage Zero failing so dramatically and so also showing that heat and Kinetic pressure was not the problem. But instead, it was not understanding even the fundamentals of the electrically charged nature of matter.
The concrete baseplate under the launch mount has now been replaced with a metal one and with an inbuilt water deluge system to cool it and deaden somewhat the tremendous roar from the rocket motors. With the team now sure or at least hopping, that they have fixed the unexpected dismantling base plate issues.
WE WILL TRY IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS
When in a highly charged state, metal types of matter will create their own magnetic fields that are naturally created by any moving electrical charge hitting the metal.
With then, secondary electrical currents created by the magnetic fields also then coming into play as eddy currents. With them then creating other subsequent electromagnetic fields and currents.
So, we must ask with such a dramatic failure at Starbase. Were the Einsteins (man and wife) really correct in throwing away any effects electrical charge might have with their thinking and so, sending science down a path of just trying to guess how reality works and which can of course lead to deceit, to save reputations and incomes? When reality turns out to be, not as guessed and due real and existing scientific knowledge.
As opposed to just guessing first though, we should consider instead, that it is the force of electromagnetism that enables a child to pick up a paper clip from the ground with a magnet bought for a few quid in a toy shop and so, very easily defeat the gravitational pull of the whole earth beneath their feet and with just a toy.
When this simple fact is taken on board though, we should begin to see past all the soft hypnosis we have been drip-fed to believe in over the decades. With Einstein and his devoted followers being some kind of godlike figures and actually realise instead.
That all the fantasy guesswork was and still is, just painfully wrong. With much fudging of data then having taken place by main-stream-science to try and keep the fantasy looking credible, reputations intact and incomes coming in.
But this type of exercise in gaining funding through guessing first and then fudging data later goes on right across the board in main-stream-science. So yes, the world of quantum physics is also under much scrutiny as to how relevant to reality that really is.
The last time I looked there were thirteen different types of QM, because one set of ideas don’t fit all observations. But rather than give it up, people plough on regardless. But this is hardly surprising, because that is where the money is to be gained from any funding. And scientific truth be dammed.
They have to use the word ‘signature’ with the words ‘Higgs Boson’, as the word ‘signature’ means both, something that can be said to be alluding to something else and also, something that is just agreed on, with the stroke of a pen.
So, no it has not actually been found but only agreed that it has. On the grounds of a blip in the data and whose shape came closely to matching one of the many hundreds of guesses as to what the blip might look like if they were lucky. With the agreement then saying, that the dreamt-up particle did exist.
And of course, by those who have a vested interest in agreeing that it does. With them not even bothering to look for the Higgs Bosson field and which must also be shown to exist, to make the hypothesis in anyway valid and worth looking at in more detail.
So we have to ask, are particle accelerators actually any good for anything? Well actually there is one thing. As they do prove that the mass in matter changes when the matter is charged and then accelerated in an external electromagnetic field and so showing what the pilfered E=mc2 actually means (see front page of this site), from a charged matter perspective.
With the equation being taken from just slightly longer and existing electromagnetic equations kicking around at that time and then corrupted by the Einsteins.
In ‘standard model’ thinking, it also says that a flame is electrically neutral and just the result of a substance combusting. But this is once again wrong, as even a candle flame can be shown to be a plasma. With all the latent power of separated charge held inside the flame and so allowing flowing electromagnetic currents to form and flow with ease.
Now multiply that effect with the type of flames that multiple rocket motors will produce and the consequences of all those charged flames being produced in close proximity to each other. Let alone them then being forced to hit a flat surface at ninety degrees and in very close proximity.
But why is ninety degrees so important? Well, it is massively increasing the potency of the charged exhaust streams, as the generated magnetic field hits the metal deluge plate from all sides at once and so giving it much punch. And is the reason why a lightning strike straightens up just before hitting a conductive pathway to ground. As it pulls from all sides towards the grounding conductor.
The vast majority of craters seen around the solar system show that whatever hit them, was coming from straight above. This is something a meteorite, asteroid or a comet never does, as they come in at an oblique angle to a surface and not at ninety degrees and so when they do hit, they naturally leave a very elongated crater and not a round, hexagonal, and certainly not square ones.
Whereas, electrical discharges and depending on the power density of the strike, will create these different geometric shapes when forming craters. With the square type being formed by the highest charge density within the discharge. And with the less powerful octagon discharges being more numerous.
THE POWER OF ELECTRICAL CHARGE ON MATTER
After a liquid, solid or gas becomes ionised it can be said to be a plasma, with large amounts of electrical charge being able to flow through it and even produced by it. With massive magnetic fields and secondary electrical currents then being produced by way of it.
Any body of water on the earth’s surface that is flowing and has contaminates in it, will be charged negative, due to being in contact and flowing through the negatively charged earth. Which means, even flowing rivers and streams are weak electric currents, as the negatively charged contaminates are flowing as a stream.
With this being why structures like dams eventually fail, as the flowing charge and over a period of time, breaks apart the electrical bonds holding matter together.
And so, we have to consider the consequences of what a negatively charged flow (the deluge system) blasted at the charged rocket engine exhausts, will have?
A plasma can be any ionised state of matter generally and so yes, can also apply to liquids and solids, as well as the much more commonly known form of gas. With dusty plasma (solid ionised matter) being very important in earth’s geology and mountain building in the past and when the earth was in a much more highly charged state than today.
IONISING SOLIDS & LAYING DOWN SEDIMENTARY-LIKE LAYERS
So yes, we are now taking a radical look at science in general and right across the board, when we look at reality from a charged mindset and which of course, our brains (and extended sensers like the eyes etc) naturally are. With science now having to move into the twenty first century and leave the era of gaslight guesswork, well and truly behind. If the species does want to safely move past the confines and relative safety of earth’s orbit.
But this is of course going to be for main stream science, a very, very, very hard pill to swallow (and definitely impossible for some, as Cognitive Dissonance and very aggressive denial floods their minds).
With it calling into question a ton load of twentieth and early twenty first century thinking and so points to a very different way to progress in the future. With it returning us to the forensic and empirical way of going about science.
There is a reason why detective agencies around the world use the forensic/deductive method and look to the evidence first and not just guess. As they know guessing first is a total waste of time, money, effort and is basically, just really rather silly.
So, if the human race really wants to reach out-there, then they must bite the bullet and get back to a forensic and deductive way of doing things in science and not just guess and express those guesses in the language of maths.
Yes, this means very many and upto now, unquestionable reputations and knowledge bases, being severely questioned about what they do know. With what they do know, being in anyway relevant in this new age of scientific realism.
This then will be naturally, a massive concern to most and in all branches of academia. But one the human race will have to face, if they really do want to venture out into deep space and meet whoever might be out there waiting to say hello. Because ET wouldn’t guess its way around the universe. They would use advanced knowledge of electromagnetism and the neutrino plenum substate.
Musk’s ethos is to design and test to destruction and so learn quickly to make subsequent designed versions better. Which is fine when it is just hardware and you have ton loads of cash to ignite. But when you put people in that hardware, the testing obviously gets taken to whole new level.
With it then also meaning, getting into the realms of change outside of normal thinking. When traveling outside of earth’s direct electrical domain for extensive periods of consciousness. As any astronauts will be travelling in the rarefied plasma environment of the near vacuum of space and so, all sorts of other considerations should be taken into account.
Yes, there have been humans who have spent long and extended duration of time in space but that is in Low Earth Orbit and so still well within the electrical field of the earth and with it, the moon. But things might well be different when traveling to mars and beyond.
This is because we now know that changes in the electromagnetic force and even in part of its radiation given off by the electrical charge. With the Ultra Violet and Infrared frequencies of the Electromagnetic Spectrum, causing changes very quickly and not at the slow natural selection rate of the Darwin’s thinking.
This is because the UV and Infrared frequencies of the spectrum are on the cusps between the the frequencies that are held inside as heat and also the frequencies between ionising and non-ionising parts of the electrical radiation, we call light.
And with the UV frequencies especially, making massive changes to life, as well as inanimate matter and which life inhabits along with it.
As already stated, the force of electromagnetism is 10^39 or 1000 billion billion billion billion times more powerful than Newtonian Gravity (and that is a lot of noughts more powerful), or even how the Einsteins (man and wife) fantasised about it back in the days of gaslight, the bending of the Electromagnetic Spectrum in the presence of matter on a flat bit of rubber-like cloth.
So, when we get past guessing fantasy and trying to justify those guesses with maths and start to experiment with reality from an actual scientific approach and which Musk is doing, but very much his way. Then nature will give up her secrets and even if people don’t know what they are looking at, due to being schooled and rooted in Einstein guesswork.
With this being exemplified by the SAFIRE Project stepping outside of the ‘standard model’ box and which graphically showed with one of their early experiments, the power of ‘stepped potential’ in a low powered plasma.
With a temperature probe shorting out and vaporising instantly, when crossing atmospheric contact double-layers of a charged body. As it concentrated all the power in the system through to a single point. And this is why a space elevator could never work from the earth’s surface and upto space. With it being just another bit of uniformed maths fantasy, thinking it a good idea.
Even with the forward thinking by Monty and the rest of the SAFIRE team, they could still only start with normal computational fluid mechanics in their calculations, in their early experiments. With this meaning that they also didn’t fully take into account the charged nature of matter.
But this is hardly surprising, as nothing on earth had been done like this before and so, the maths of what was actually happening, were yet to be written. With Faraday’s empirical science now quickly coming to mind and after and then, followed by Maxwell’s equations and so, the proper way of going about things.
But this approach was then given up on. With the Einstein’s purely mechanical/gravity notions being forwarded instead. And by those who didn’t want the general populous to have free energy, as proposed by Nicola Tesla and so leading the human race into the science cul-de-sac it now finds itself in.
And with in the modern case of SAFIRE and the tungsten temperature probe, showing the massive affects you can achieve, when getting away from conventional thinking. With effects being orders of magnitude bigger than expected.
With these expanded electrical effects, being just like the exploding concrete at Starbase. As multiple very high-powered engines in very close proximity to each other, try to propel the rocket upwards. But from an unconventional launch mount with a flat base below it. Rather than a traditional flame trench, to allow the hot plasma to escape.
And with SAFIRE, it not only just melting the probe being used to gauge the temperature, but actually have it disappear in the blink of an eye, as the plasma’s stepped potential was crossed and the probe tip instantly vaporised, and with only 182.4 Watts DC of electricity.
With the launch mount’s base plate below the mount being flat and at ninety degrees to the rocket exhausts, it will always cause incredible forces to be created and which can’t be guessed at with ‘standard model’ thinking.
Due to not even knowing that charged matter is important in the thinking, or even knowing that it really existed in reality. With the multiple exhausts from the mass of engines in close proximity being forced together and so electrically pinch, on the launch mount’s base plate.
So, will a metal plate spouting water like an up-turned showerhead be able to handle the ‘heat’ being generated by all those rocket engines focused to a restricted pinch point? Well as we saw with tungsten video clip, heat is generated by charged matter interacting with other charged matter and so, changes in temperatures are just a by-product.
This of course then also has massive implication for Global Boiling (as it is now laughable called) and so, how the weather on earth actually works from a charged perspective (once again, see Electric Weather Mechanics on this site).
When launching with the new system, the concentration of massed separated charge will be now hitting and before the new metal launch plate, the water deluge system coming up from the plate and which is naturally flowing as a negative charged stream.
When solid matter is forced to take on extra positive charge, it must expand its surface area in order to grab extra negative electrons from its environment, to try to balance and is why the concrete on the first launch attempt broke apart. As when a solid matter state can’t expand, it will then explode and so create more surface area, from all the fragmented parts.
This is the same reason why meteors explode when entering earth’s electrical field. As it is not heat making it streak and spark, it’s a change in the charge potential of the object in relation to its rapidly changing charged environment.
A metal plate can’t expand like concrete blowing itself apart, but it can distort. So, it shouldn’t create the same sort of a dusty spectacle we saw the first time around. But still might look somewhat different to how it started out.
After another test by Space X, with a single static rocket engine being fired at a metal plate, Musk called it a plasma beam and so suddenly showing an increased understanding of what a flame actually is. Even if not totally informed, as to the amount of potential electrical power the plasma state has.
That static engines test was though, only done with one engine and so a singularly produced line of high thrust plasma. When scaled up with multiple engines though and all hitting at ninety degrees, things will change and so must be guarded against. As all the engines will be hitting the plate in very close proximity to each other.
An aside - This is of course pure speculation but I think this why the Russians didn’t originally take Musk seriously when he went to buy rockets from them and after when he didn’t, called his rockets ‘broomsticks’.
With this being due to him being open like he is, with him I would imagine at that time talking of his longer plans and bundling up rocker motors together in a tight round formation and so make a big rocket.
With the Russians and from experience knowing what problems this will cause. As opposed to the proven track record of Soyuz. With it having some rocket motors together on the main booster. But have others in a cross formation in four side boosters.
Within the overall redesign upgrade of Stage Zero, the new metal plate below the launch mount has metal rebar tubes filled with mud and driven a long way into the ground and which implies that the plasma charge state might have been to some extent (and especially with Musk’s comment about the plasma beam) taken more seriously as to the effects of electrical charge, after the first launch attempt. But they might be simply trying to make the structure overall, more secure and I think this more likely.
With the new improved water deluge system that runs through the metal launch plate, the hope will be, that this will take away all the heat and also, deaden the tremendous roar created by the launch. But have they considered how much charged matter will be created by the launch attempt?
The deluge plate is designed to be in two parts and being held together in a sandwich like configuration with connecting water pipes to it. With a segregated void between the two plates held apart and in place by inner spars. With the whole structure then being grounded to earth by the deep rebar tube-like piles.
It is interesting to note that the manifolds to the deluge plate have some of their water pipe feeds into it also at ninety degrees and so we should keep an eye on those. With maybe a need to redesign them more like the manifolds seen on racing car engines and so a kindlier angle keeping the flow going.
But will the new overall design be enough to take away the excessive electrical currents that will be ‘plasma pinching’ on the flat base plate and from multiple engines, or will this create problems of its own?
When looked at in close-up, we observe that the exhausts from the rocket motors forms into filaments. This is typical in plasmas as different streams of positive charge naturally form like this. As they travel together in the same direction.
With them wanting to get close but not wanting to touch each other, due to the electromagnetic force being attractive at a great distance and repulsive at the short. With them naturally wanting to wind around each other as they move forward but then, wanting to separate again, when nearing a surface. But which multiple rocket engines being aligned together, the streams of charge won’t be allowed to do that and so will be forced to pinch.
In nature a pinch naturally happens when the magnetic fields created by the moving charge (a Birkeland current) is so strong, that the generated magnetic fields make it pinch in on itself and shorts when hitting regions of dense matter. With it then becoming an arcing ball.
Like with the Bi-Polar nebular we see in deep space. As the current pinches around a piece of matter to creates a star and which is Plasma Discharge Mode 3 (Arc Mode). With the feeding current being seen in Plasma Discharge Mode 2 (glow mode) leading to it.
Our galactic sun’s current leading to it, is in Plasma Discharge Mode 1 (dark mode). But with its different sheafs being detected by Voyagers 1 & 2 as they get to the outer reaches of the sun’s domain.
So, will just introducing more negative charge as a water stream into arcing pinches actually have a detrimental effect, if delivered in the wrong way? With the wrong way being at 180 degrees to the exhaust and so possibly producing plasmoids, as the negative electrical stream hits a positively charged stream head on?
It is no coincidence that what is referred to as the black hole at Sag A (the centre of our galaxy), looks exactly like an electrical plasmoid and not what the original’s maths/artists guesses of what a black hole might look like.
And so, actually showing what a toroidal plasmoid looks like, with it rotating with the galaxy, With the whole galaxy rotating as a disc. And so showing it to be a Faraday Motor, with the electrical input coming down the galactic arms from the outside and then discharging out at the poles.
So creating any type of plasma formation and even on the small side, will have more than enough electrical power to knock out an engine or two.
And through the induced electrical currents produced by the reaction, bend and distort not just the base plate but also any metal work near-by. Or indeed within the rocket itself and so creating other risks of breakages, rocket motor failures and explosions?
At launch, the underlying launch mount plate will be within the fall force of all the singularly generated plasma exhausts. With the magnetic fields created by the charge directly acting on the metal plate sandwich as well as the pipework that make up the deluge system and so creating secondary electrical currents following through it, and then down through the new rebar piles fitted below the launch plate.
With the new re-bar piles having been sunk 100 feet into the ground below the launch tower. With the hollow centres being filled with mud. But now and although electrically grounding the structure more securely and which it needed, will the separated charge generated by the engines and pinching on the deluge plate, still be too powerful to ground the charge through the rebar piles?
The term grounding though can be misleading, as it can imply the positive energy is going down through the piles and into the ground. But what is happening is that negative charge is being drawn up through the grounding piles from the negatively charged earth. To meet the on-rushing charge coming down from the engines.
Depending on the thickness of the re-bar piles and if supported by nothing but surrounding and internal mud and sand, then they could well bend. Due to the immense magnetic fields that are created with this amount of generated positive charge trying to ground and so drawing up negative charge from the earth as a current.
With all other rocket launch systems there is a flame diverter come trench to take the exhaust sidewards and away from the rocket and allowing the exhaust to dissipate at a less intense angle. But and as already stated, on other moons and planets, constructing these will add massive amounts of time, money and increased effort to any colonisation attempt. When trying to secure the initial foothold on a moon or planet and so is not desirable by Space-X.
So, and if the worst comes to the worst with Stage Zero 1.2, then some new thinking will have to be employed once again in any redesign. As an increase in negatively charged water flow might not work as designed, but actually make things worse.
To try and answer this, we look to see how the water will be fired from the plate and whether the waters jets will meet the rocket exhaust head on, or at a different angle and the answer is both.
But with most of it being sent up at an angle of about 30 degrees (although it wouldn’t surprise me if actually at 33 degrees) and out past the launch mount legs.
But the important thing being, that there are also smaller sets of round jets firing straight up at the rocket engines and at 180 degrees. With this also allowing Starship’s ring of outer engines to once again push against a flat surface. But now, streams of negative charge water which I suspect might have created individual plasmoids under those engines and so making them fail. But I don’t have the data to determine if this was actually the case.
At launch, Starship and booster will not be at full power and will only get throttled up at some point just after lift-off. But of course, will still be packing quite a punch below the engines exhausts and so potentially be matter altering non the less.
Even though the metal launch floor won’t disintegrate like concrete, the structure might well bend, distort, crack and even break through the induced magnetic fields generated by the charge coming from the engines and with any increase in water pressure from the deluge system possibly, even making it worse.
If what is known as ‘electric steel’ is used in the design though (as used in Maglev trains and which might have already been used in the recent upgrades), then magnetic fields might be able to be diverted away from magnetic sensitive areas of the construction and even the rocket itself.
But a bit of testing needs to done to ascertain where this type of shielding is best used and especially if the electronic gimbling system fails. Due to the electronic circuitry frying under the enormous electrical pressure coming from all those engines, in conjunction with the negatively charged deluge system coming up from below.
Since the second static fire test and which was also cut short, we know that some engines also cut out and stopped working. With the base plate being then covered in a massive blue tarp and so, we couldn’t ascertain if there was any damage or distortion to the base plate.
So, my thinking is, if the system does continually fail like described, then and depending on the circumstances, it might well mean that the metal plate and deluge system will have to be redesigned once again. But still to a point, where it can be easily constructed on other moons and planets, if needed.
Although a basic redesign is already drawn up in my head, I will not go into any suggested design changes just yet and not until I can see the evidence of what does happen after this next orbital launch attempt is undertaken.
The principle of negative and positive charged streams hitting each other to create a stable plasmoid is not of course new but is coincidently the basis for the power source for a plasma drive I would like to develop if I had the resources for my sports car design, as well as more practical vehicles that I have in mind for our variable climatic future.
So and of side interest, the Starship team’s development of Stage Zero, might unwittingly show this power related concept for the vehicles to be very valid and worth pursuing.
