Title text:
A 5% efficiency gain at the cost of a 99% efficiency loss
Transcript:
[A rocket with two boosters is launching going towards the top right corner. It has a two-stage core and two boosters, and they produce three flames from their exhaust and beneath these flames is a large exhaust plume fanning out behind the rocket most of the way towards the bottom of the panel. A smaller rocket is following the first rocket. It is very close to the first rocket, so most of the smaller rocket is inside the exhaust plume from the larger rocket. The smaller rocket does not have boosters, but still produces three smaller flames from its exhaust. Beneath these flames the smaller rocket also leaves a large but slimmer exhaust plume that exits the panel at the bottom left corner.]
[Caption below the panel:]
Aerospace tip: Although the technique reduces atmospheric drag for many types of vehicles, you should never try to improve rocket launch efficiency through drafting.
Source: https://xkcd.com/3093/
This means that the front rocket would just push the back rocket against its own thrust inside me oh yes daddy it feels so good im gonna cum please touch my pussy more (among other good effects).
WTH happened to the explanation?? Feels like someone really freaky slammed autocomplete to finish the sentence.
It’s a wiki, so there’ll always be troll edits.
Someone do this on Kerbal
I tried but the force of 30 solid boosters firing at once tore the thing apart.
Moar struts, duh. Do you even Jeb, bro?
He’s stranded on mun so… No.
“Guys! Guys! Guys! I’ve got a brilliant idea!” Elon Musk to the Space X Engineers.
Drafting of rockets is actually pretty common, it’s just the Computer Aided kind
I’m not rocket surgeon but it could work.
trust me, I’m a rocket psychiatrist
When I was your age only young men where draftet, as it should be.
Armageddon did it.
