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This is a good question... a difficult one to visualize without computer models. The heat is dissipated by not even reaching the rocket skin. It is dissipated in the steam. ....

Intriguing question. Did Musk run the simulations? Or is he only talking at this stage of the game?

Cool

It's not that complicated a problem.

Neither is it any kind of an important problem.

"Water ejected at the nosecone" would literally be exploding in the local environment, as measured by joules released per pound of high explosive versus joules absorbed by the water ejected. This explosion would create a back pressure wave against the spaceship, that will directly impact its surface. Because that wave's speed is higher than the speed of sound in stainless steel, the structures made of stainless will disintegrate.

It's not steam as you are thinking of it.

I was fortunate one time to see the plasma trail of a shuttle re entry, that was a white column across the sky about the size of the Moon east to west. It dissipated within a minute or two. That trail was disassociated atoms from the heat of re entry....

You said it. Disassociated water. Taking the heat of re-entry along with it so that it doesn't harm the vehicle.

Cool

What I said was that the vehicle would disintegrate.

You contradicted it with the water disassociation. Cool

I don't have any interest in arguing with you if you don't understand something I said.

The steam takes up the shatter vibration and disburses and disipates it into the atmosphere, harmlessly. Do you understand what you said? If you argue with yourself, don't let it become a quarrel. You might hurt yourself.

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