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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2018, 02:59:16 PM » |
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It came back and landed on a pad instead of doing a splash down? Very impressive
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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2018, 03:19:23 PM » |
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I watched it. Was very impressive. Maybe we need to petition Elan to send up a Valkyrie. Going to be a long, lonely drive.
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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2018, 04:02:44 PM » |
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I had no idea these things could land. Blown away.
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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2018, 04:32:28 PM » |
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I had no idea these things could land. Blown away.
Power of the market at work, it saves money to reuse the engines so SpaceX has been working on that for a while to lower the cost of a launch so they can make more money...  (Elon Musk is sorta my personal hero in many (But not all) ways... That he's a fellow triplet dad doesn't hurt either, although I suspect that's one of the many things in life that's made far easier when your wealth is measured in billions of dollars.) |
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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2018, 04:45:43 PM » |
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The ones we had in the Air Force blew up... on purpose.
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2018, 04:46:32 PM » |
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at 14.41 was that a rat falling off the booster??  |
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2018, 05:42:30 PM » |
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We get to watch it from the backyard, we're due west of the pads and it's fairly wide open behind the house. Watched a lot of the shuttle launches as well. It was really neat today to see the two boosters come back and land, always get a sonic boom from it....not sure why. We're 45 miles away as the crow flies, can often see the booster or first stage separation. Some years back we drove over to Titusville where one of our suboffices was located just across the river from the launch pads, I used my camera on a tripod and took a timed shot of a night launch from ignition to a point out of the viewing screen. Was something to see that huge bright arc streaking across the sky....and to capture it on film.
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2018, 05:44:38 PM » |
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Already some are saying the launch was fake as were the 2 booster landings. It's a funny old world  I suppose all those who saw it live are under some sort of mass hypnosis? There too many nut jobs around. |
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2018, 06:26:54 PM » |
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We appear to be on the edge of time for a new generation of space travelers; simply wonderful.
“Go for Throttle Up”, will have a new meaning/feeling.
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« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2018, 05:50:44 AM » |
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sometimes i wonder if some people do not read the board before posting the same thing for a second time. |
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« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2018, 05:51:37 AM » |
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« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2018, 06:00:09 AM » |
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History in the making. This just made transportation to space magnitudes cheaper. Watched the whole thing,, very cool  Those 2 boosters landing side by side was a sight to behold |
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« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2018, 06:32:31 AM » |
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I haven"t seen the footage where the main rocket landed the same way on a barge in the Atlantic. They were watching it but lost the video. I've seen the smaller rockets return like that, but not this biggun.
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« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2018, 06:38:52 AM » |
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I haven"t seen the footage where the main rocket landed the same way on a barge in the Atlantic. They were watching it but lost the video. I've seen the smaller rockets return like that, but not this biggun.
The middle booster evidently ran out of fuel before landing and crashed into the sea next to the drone ship. Still not bad getting the 2 side boosters down and the Falcon Heavy into space! And observational: I'm sure the resemblance to the movie Heavy Metal was not a coincidence.   |
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« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2018, 06:43:01 AM » |
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Saw this on one site:
The center core was only able to relight one of the three engines necessary to land, and so it hit the water at 300 miles per hour about 300 feet from the drone ship. As a result, two engines on the drone ship were taken out when it crashed, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a press call after the rocket launch.
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« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2018, 08:45:37 AM » |
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Sorry for the dup.  |
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« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2018, 08:46:50 AM » |
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Sorry for the dup. I understand your excitement. Private space travel makes me giddy, I was cheering watching the launch yesterday, and have re-watched it multiple times since. (I kinda understand some folk's excitement when their sportsball teams do well, I just get excited about different things.  ) |
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« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2018, 09:03:14 AM » |
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I understand your excitement. Private space travel makes me giddy, I was cheering watching the launch yesterday, and have re-watched it multiple times since. (I kinda understand some folk's excitement when their sportsball teams do well, I just get excited about different things. ) Damn right! I was waaaay more excited about this launch than the super bowl (just watched the last 1/2 of the game) while this one I was following live. |
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« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2018, 09:09:26 AM » |
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You guys noticed that there is an American flag in the rocket, right? IIRC that had to be earned by SpaceX and it only happened after they used one of their Falcon 9 rockets for a resupply mission for the International Space Station (that was in 2012) ordered by NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Resupply_ServicesIt seems the rule is that a private company can only fly the American flag after doing a NASA mission. :-) |
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« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2018, 09:10:07 AM » |
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The whole video is amazing but the landing is the coolest part. Takes me back to some of the moon landings..... |
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« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2018, 02:05:50 PM » |
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Woah... Break out your headphones (Find the good ones) And give this a watch/listen... Worth it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImoQqNyRL8Y |
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« Reply #23 on: February 07, 2018, 04:44:10 PM » |
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« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2018, 06:40:54 PM » |
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« Reply #25 on: February 07, 2018, 07:10:31 PM » |
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Thanks Mr. Meyer!  |
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« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2018, 06:02:46 AM » |
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Last night I heard Starman missed orbit and is heading for the asteroid belt.
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« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2018, 06:38:51 AM » |
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« Reply #29 on: February 08, 2018, 06:45:24 AM » |
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If you don't watch anything else on this, watch this: https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=1538Volume up. It's the moment the payload opened up exposing Starman to his destiny. And yes, that song was playing on the stereo (Not that anyone could hear it of course) I truly believe Elon did this just because it sounded like a fun thing to do, but being a capitalist, it can't hurt that this has to be the greatest car commercial ever! |
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« Reply #31 on: February 08, 2018, 07:00:15 AM » |
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Yup... And knowing Elon Musk's flair for the dramatic and love of cultural references I'm sure that was at least somewhat intentional... |
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« Reply #32 on: February 08, 2018, 07:18:39 AM » |
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Last night I heard Starman missed orbit and is heading for the asteroid belt.
I saw that this morning. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/spacex-starman-1.4524624It is interesting to me that the new orbit may be more in line with what Earth's orbit was like 4 billion years ago if the Sumerians were correct. They told of a great celestial collision. The present Earth was in the asteroid belt. They called it Tiamat. There was another planet they called Nibiru and sometimes Marduk that lay way way way out past Neptune with an extreme orbit like a comet that passed through the solar system, maybe in the range of every 3600 years. 4 billion years ago one of Nibiru's moons collided with Tiamat in a great cosmic collision that moved the Earth into its present orbit, created our moon, and the remaining debris became the asteriod belt. Zecharia Sitchin ( a lifelong Sumerian scholar ) wrote about this in his book The Twelfth Planet in 1976. I read it in early 90s. What is amazing is that current astronomers are convinced due to anomalies in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus that such a planet, or possible dwarf star, ( binary star systems is normal ) is indeed out there and are in a frantic search to find it. they theorize it is about the size of Neptune, which Sitchen also theorized about it's size. Pursuing new boundaries in space is great. Good for Mr. Musk and bully for Space X. I wonder if the alien ( or whatever they are ) ships that will certainly monitor this new object ( A Tesla and astronaut mannequin ) will find it amusing? |
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