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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
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#132Saw this on their careers page right after the landing. Looks like it worked! https://i.imgur.com/noM0glO.jpg
To bad that it is only for americans. Due to some sort of US regulation.
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#133the coolest part to me is watching both boosters touch down in sight of each other at the same time. that was science fiction worthy
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#134I wonder for how long we're going to get images from that tesla. there's no power source so the stream will end, but it does sit next some very huge batteries so let's hope it's going to last and we'll be able to check with the spaceman every now and then!
Next test flight will put a Tesla supercharger in the same orbit...
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#135Anybody saw the 'Don't panic' thing on the Tesla? Made me chuckle, they sure have a sense of humor.
Saw the don't panic. Wondering if they packed a towel.
Apparently they stuck in the glove compartment ‘a copy of Douglas Adams' book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," along with a towel’.
Source: http://m.dw.com/en/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-falcon-he...
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#136Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
#137There was a strange part of the video near the end where they show the car floating through space, and suddenly a background image pops in for a second: https://imgur.com/a/ZyVqK
Any idea what that was?
EDIT: I think it's a replay of the capsule opening that initially contained the car, just spliced in at a weird part of the video.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do find that super weird. You would think one of the nearby ships would have a feed as well no?
There aren't any nearby ships, for obvious safety reasons. Plus, any nearby ships would have the exact same issue - where exactly would you "feed" to, when any ship that far out is going to be using a commercial satellite data feed (ie, very slow and unreliable)?
> for obvious safety reasons
The safety reasons don't hold, you can easily shoot from several kms away (there are people on land several kms away from the launch pad). In the worst case, you can pilot a drone from several kms away, close enough to the barge.
> any ship that far out is going to be using a commercial satellite data feed
The footage from the droneship always appears perfect seconds before the landings. So it's not simply the fact of being at sea.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were the same. Don't know if they did this intentionally. I actually watched them for two minutes for that, and was 99% sure they're the same image, just translated a bit. The final confirmation came near the end, when the other booster entered the view, and you could see for sure, both rectangles streamed from the same camera.
I thought it was interesting that they specifically said the two panels represent the two boosters. I don't think they ever directly claimed each video was from a different booster.
Ah interesting. I don't think that's what they meant. I think they did think it was 2 different views.
https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m10s "even though those look very similar those ... are representative of different boosters"
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#140That was fabulous. My son sat cheering in his space suit all the way until the live feed cut off. Can we turn a corner as a species now and look towards exploration again?