First Starship Hot-Stage testing

Whoa! Back up there podnah! The narrator suggests that the maximum stress on the hot staging ring is not at MaxQ, but at stage separation. Which caught my attention. Where is the greatest stress on that part of the rocket structure? The hot staging ring has the Starship directly above it. It has the weight of the Starship on top of it, which is always at whatever its wet mass is.

If the wet mass of the Starship is 1200 tons, and it experiences 3G, then it needs to be able to support 3600 tons. Or, if not that, then what? I'm thinking that the G forces would be LESS on the ring, because it is at separation, and the weigh is no longer on it.

The exhaust of the Starship upon it at one half thrust would mean it would be like a braking force against the booster. This would give it a G force of some magnitude, but what? Whenever you slow down real fast, you experience G force. Whenever you speed up real fast, you experience G force. If it is going at such and such a velocity, the amount of deceleration imposed upon it by the Starship's exhaust will be the correct amount of G force, I would think.

It would be like hitting the brakes real hard at 120 MPH. The G's would be in how fast you are decelerating. You know, this is quite clever. The booster needs to slow down. Instead of user booster's fuel, it is user the Starship's fuel. It's getting the deceleration for "free". This might be why it will help in increasing payload capacity. That's more fuel that can be used for payload, and less for recovering the booster.

That Elon Musk is a fart smeller. Or smart feller. Whatever.