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I know right. That crater damage underneath and the side of the launchpad concrete is absolutely terrible. I mean, it’s cut down right down to the rebar level.😖 now that is some freaking power right there. Quite insane though that the actual stage zero frame and ring itself doesn’t seem to have any real damage to it. They clearly knew what they were doing developing at stage by stage to get it ready. The only problem is the ground itself. I know we are supposed to have this thing capable of taking off from Mars, and this makes sense, but considering you won’t necessarily have of course, a landing and launch mount on the red planet, These powerful engines would probably end up destroying it if it tried to takeoff, shooting rocks right back up into itself. Starship would be okay perhaps, but the booster certainly wouldn’t. Thankfully that isn’t the plan right now. The boosters realistically are going to need legs after all, even though that plan apparently was scrapped very early on. If they don’t have legs then this is going to make things a lot more tricky. it’s that or the starship or just have to have limited areas it can take off from on Earth, and the ground will have to be made of tungsten or something. It’s that or they will have to go back to standard protocols after all and have a flame diverter and water deluge system. That, or perhaps they could have a giant puddle/pool of water underneath the rocket at the point of launch. Perhaps that could act as a cushion for the ground below instead. Who knows. We are still experimenting here.
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