A bit late to the discussion here, but I'm all for this sub continuing to exist.
I'm willing to help moderate when it becomes necessary.
I'm happy to see any content that gets cloned from /r/SpaceX and from /r/SpaceXLounge. Anything that saves having to visit Reddit is a plus for me.
Previously I would read /r/SpaceXLounge which has a lot of quality content, and from /r/SpaceX just the Starship Development Thread. Almost everything else on /r/SpaceX is just photos and F9 launch threads which tend to be pretty dull.
A mix of the lounge and the Starship development thread is what I'm hoping for.
If you look at what happened with the interstage on the Titan II then you get an idea of some of the forces acting. Even after the second stage had moved away a few feet, when the engines throttled up the whole interstage was just blown apart. And that was just one small engine, not six raptors.
Perhaps the interstage will be sacrificial. Perhaps they don't care at the moment because the early test boosters are not recoverable anyway. Maybe they'll go back to the flip when other parts have been proven. So many unknowns.
Great footage. It does look very destructive. As it is now, stage 0 gets destroyed by stage 1 and stage 1 will get destroyed by stage 2. It'll be great to see how they make this all work.
At stage separation how horizontal is Starship? If there was no vertical moment then how significant would the gravity loss actually be?
AFAIK most of the gravity loss is in the first few second of a launch but I don't have any idea what you are losing by the time you get to stage separation.
Happy to volunteer