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Unfortunately, the creator of this chart neglected to include Sea Dragon...

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[–] Bimfred@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I was gonna call out omitting the Sea Dragon, but I see you already did.

The Boeing freighter had to be a joke, right? No one thought that'd actually work?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's always a relevant xkcd, isn't there?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Yo dawg, I heard you like spaceplanes, so I stacked a spaceplane on your spaceplane..."

[–] snailboy@leminal.space 3 points 5 days ago

“What if we take a space shuttle and shove another space shuttle up its ass?”

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 days ago

Right? Wth??

need a playlist video essay about every one of them!

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you want to do a proper sieg-heil to sieg-heil comparison you really should include the V2.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think the V2 was designed with "payload mass to LEO" in mind...

[–] vzqq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Fair enough.