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nonethewiser on April 20, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after laun...

That’s so hard to comprehend. I used to operate a 25ton crane. That’s less than half of 1% of Starship. That made me think it’s in the magnitude of a skyscraper. Apparently the Empire State Building is “only” 7 million pounds. What the fuck.

ralfd on April 20, 2023 [–]

Transposed digits? According to Wiki the ESB is 80 times heavier:

> According to official fact sheets, the Empire State Building weighs 365,000 short tons (331,122 t)

But Eiffeltower is only double the weight with 10100 tons.

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