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I went from Starlink to Swyft about a year ago. It's been great. Very reliable, and a step faster than starlink.

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Questions for O&G folks. Each Starship launch will consume about 4,500 metric tons of methane. Projected 30 launches per week will require about 135,000 metric tons of methane.

How much natural gas does it take to produce that amount of methane and how does that compare with our current Louisiana natural gas production?

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Roughly 1,000–1,300 metric tons of methane (CH4) per Starship launch (not 4,500), so ~55–65 million standard cubic feet (MMscf) of natural gas equivalent per launch after accounting for liquefaction. At 30 launches/week that is on the order of 0.24–0.28 Bcf/d—material but still only a few percent of Louisiana’s current natural gas production.
Methane per launch
Starship + Super Heavy uses methalox (liquid methane + liquid oxygen) at roughly a 3.6:1 O2:CH4 mass ratio. Total propellant is in the ~4,600–5,250 metric ton range depending on the version/block:

Typical published breakdowns put methane at ~1,000–1,300 metric tons per full stack (older figures nearer 1,000–1,100 t; some V3-oriented estimates around 1,140 t).
The user’s 4,500 t figure is closer to total propellant mass (or total propellant + some margin), not the methane portion alone.

Natural gas is mostly methane. Converting liquid methane mass to pipeline gas volume yields ~50–62 MMscf of CH4 per launch. Industry analyses that include liquefaction energy/losses commonly use ~55 MMscf of natural gas per launch.
Scaled demand at 30 launches/week

30 launches/week ˜ 4.3 launches/day.
At ~55 MMscf/launch ? ~0.24 Bcf/d.
Using the higher ~62–65 MMscf end ? roughly 0.26–0.28 Bcf/d.

(For context, longer-term SpaceX ambitions of thousands of flights per year would push this into the 1+ Bcf/d range, comparable to a mid-sized LNG train, but 30/week is still modest.)
Comparison to Louisiana natural gas production
Louisiana state (onshore + state waters, excluding most federal OCS) production has been running in the ~3.6–3.8 Tcf/year range recently:

2025: ~3.77 Tcf (up modestly from 2024), driven overwhelmingly by the Haynesville Shale in northwest Louisiana.
That equates to roughly 10–10.5 Bcf/d on average.

Haynesville production itself (which straddles Louisiana and East Texas) has been in the mid-teens Bcf/d recently. Louisiana is a major gas state and a key LNG export hub, so its production is large relative to the Starship numbers above.
Bottom line: 30 launches/week would require on the order of 2–3% of Louisiana’s current statewide natural gas production. It is noticeable in a local/regional sense (especially if concentrated near a launch site and liquefaction plant) but easily within the scale of existing production and the growth already expected from Haynesville and Gulf Coast demand (LNG, etc.). Pipeline, liquefaction, and cryogenic logistics would be the practical constraints long before raw supply. SpaceX is already pursuing dedicated gas infrastructure (e.g., the “Starpipe” concept near Starbase) precisely for this reason.

How is Cage not on this list?

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What are my options if I can no longer afford my house?

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Get a roommate. Rent costs are astronomical right now, people will pay a bunch for a place to stay.

Adaptive cruise control is awesome

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It's funny to watch how slow progress is sometimes. My boyfriend made an appointment to see an orthopedic surgeon the other day. Phone call was 100% AI. It took forever to go through every single prompt to finally get everything done. Must have taken 15 minutes of talking to the robot.

We know that eventually this will be a 20 second prompt that gets our personal AI to communicate with theirs. But how many years will this take to become a reality.

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What exactly is “piped in music?”

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It all comes through the white pipe above the West gates.

I'm flying to Denver tomorrow, get there around 10:00, but don't have to be to my meeting until 5:00. Any suggestions for things to do or a really neat place to go eat for lunch? TIA!

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cows

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Leave my steaks out of this

Corey was great. We went in there one time and he asked us what we wanted. We said we weren't sure, so he asked "Have you had our burger before?" We said no, and he said "Ahhhh. Well that is why you don't know what you want then".