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Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by VSerge »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #69
jacquesm wrote: post #8

History was being made today. Super, congratulations to all of SpaceX. Now let's see the landing :) STUCK THE LANDING :) :) :) Apologies to my neighbors who I surely woke up. Hah :) Incredible! Now, will they fly this one again?

> Apologies to my neighbors who I surely woke up. Of Course They Still Love You ;).

Nicely done there! Gotta love that a company turning science-fiction into less fiction and more science would name their drone ships after the Culture series. Pretty sure Elon Musk is far for the only person there finding these books inspiring.

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by Frogolocalypse »

monk_e_boy wrote: post #181
SEJeff wrote: post #53

I can't wait until I have a talk with my kids when they realize the significance of this day: Kid: Daddy, ou mean when you were growing up, they threw away rockets each time? Me: Yes Kid: Doesn't that make them expensive? Me: Yes. And then not long after will be the other talk: Kid: Daddy, you mean people used to be in charge of driving themselves in cars? Me: Yes Kid: Did people ever die? Me: Millions Good job Elon…

I pretty much have this conversation with my students. I love it when a teacher is observing me so I start with 'do you ever remember a time before the internet?' of course none of them do, but the teacher does. Then I ask 'do you remember a time when you couldn't talk to a computer' nope, all of them have grown up being able to talk to computers. Haha. Makes me feel old. People drove busses?! What? And flew aeroplan…

Which is obviously quite a sad footnote.

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by StavrosK »

Jaruzel wrote: post #265
JshWright wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I can't wait until I have a talk with my kids when they realize the significance of this day https://goo.gl/photos/7rT5rxvsP9AxVZxn6 My four year old daughter, watching the launch with rapt attention. When we watched the Echostar 23 launch two weeks ago, she asked why it didn't land... Crazy that rockets landing is already totally normal for her.

Kudos for Doing Parenting Right. So many 'parents' dump their kids in front of Cartoon Network, and ignore them for 18 years.

Not shown in the photo: The twins watching Cartoon Network.

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by StavrosK »

paulsutter wrote: post #66

For nostalgia's sake, here's Elon's speech to employees after the first successful launch of Falcon 1 (flight 4), in 2008 at Kwajalein Atoll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQhtMrUQlE&t=32m30s (speech begins at 32:30, in case link doesn't work)

Why does this video look like it was shot in 1990? Camera quality can't have been that bad in 2008, can it?

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by StavrosK »

rblatz wrote: post #215
jacquesm wrote: post #173

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Something like this: http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/telescopes/images/24inchMili...

As an untrained person my first response to that picture was "yeah that looks like it would do the trick"

As an amateur photographer, my first response was "what in the fuck is that?"

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by ikurei »

lazaroclapp wrote: post #26
birken wrote: post #12

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And they caught it again. Truly amazing.

Wonder if they will be able to launch it a third time, though, since it seemed it did get a bit more damage on entry this time around. Either way, impressive. Btw, does anyone know how reusable these things are expected to be in the near term? As in, would a perfected Stage 1 be expected to be able to fly 10 missions? 100? 1000?

This comment was very informative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999791

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by ikurei »

lazaroclapp wrote: post #26
birken wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And they caught it again. Truly amazing.

Wonder if they will be able to launch it a third time, though, since it seemed it did get a bit more damage on entry this time around. Either way, impressive. Btw, does anyone know how reusable these things are expected to be in the near term? As in, would a perfected Stage 1 be expected to be able to fly 10 missions? 100? 1000?

This comment was very informative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999791

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by mrkgnao »

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #168
jacquesm wrote: post #39

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Something to think about: pretty soon there will be nothing strange about a rocket that has flown before. Contrast it with the feeling you have for a 737 that has done 2500 starts and landing prior to you going on board, it's a sign of confidence that it did that. Now it will be many many years before there will be boosters with numbers of take-offs and landings > 20 or so but at some point insurance premiums for unf…

"Flight tested" rockets is an interesting spin on this

As is, on the other end of the spectrum, "lithobraking" :)

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by Frogolocalypse »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #180
jacquesm wrote: post #115

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I'm ok with aiming high and en-passant solving cheap access to orbit. Anything else is gravy, imagine if that dream did not exist this whole saga would not have happened. Dreams are good, they allow people to expend energy chasing that dream and the spin-offs from that may be worth as much or more to humanity than the original dream, even if we may not be able to figure out what path that might take today. I'm certai…

It's a bit disappointing to me that poverty, human trafficking, addiction, habitat destruxtion, cultural erasure, genocide, torture, extinction, etc aren't very powerful motivators for such people. I feel such pressure to use our new skills to solve these problems, but I know 10 years ago they were a combination of invisible/impossible to me. If I hadn't been aggressively pushed by smart feminists to examine my life…

The understanding of climate change was born out of the study of planets in our solar system. It is reasonable to expect that the investigation of the human condition would greatly benefit from its study away from the planet that humans evolved from.

There are insights into ourselves that we are simply unable to even conceptualize that would be possible. Humans living (not just surviving) on another planet, will change us

Re: SES-10 Mission

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Post by mrkgnao »

paulsutter wrote: post #66

For nostalgia's sake, here's Elon's speech to employees after the first successful launch of Falcon 1 (flight 4), in 2008 at Kwajalein Atoll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FQhtMrUQlE&t=32m30s (speech begins at 32:30, in case link doesn't work)

He's definitely matured a ton as a speaker. I mean, he isn't smooooth now, but there are far fewer pauses, to the point where it's just another striking feature about him instead of making his words hard to follow.

Also, the kid being held aloft at 34:20 was a very cute touch. https://youtu.be/8FQhtMrUQlE?t=34m20s

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