On the one hand this is super exciting, I even cried. On the other hand, it makes me feel miserable: am I wasting my life? What have I done? Meanwhile Elon is sending reusable rockets to the space.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
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Still don't understand this waste of ressources. Waste of ressources to build this Tesla Roadster. And then the waste to kick it into space. It is not that we are littering our earth itself. We now do it in space as well.
The Roadster was in use by Musk for years. They didn't build it for the occasion
That roadster was not cheap. This is no scrappage scheme going on here. The first roadster cost many tens of millions of pounds, maybe hundreds. Subsequent units were cheaper as they just used the tooling from the first ones, including this one. Compared to a satellite this roadster cost a fair bit in R+D, just not for picking up hitchhikers in space though...
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#353Watching the launch with my daughter: "Daddy look! It's two daughter rockets helping the mommy rocket!"
That's so sweet.
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There's something awesome (in the literal sense) and unsettling about watching something and being able to say "I am witnessing history".
When I saw the first successful booster landing I realized I was seeing history. When I saw the first successful booster landing on a drone ship I realized I was again watching history.
And there's still more!
Live Webcam from Spaceman:
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#355Is there cause for concern that the payload is spinning along what looks like roughly it's normal axis. Can we assume that they equipped it with some sort of means for attitude control? Edit: referring to the Starman live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
That's hilarious. Also note the 'Starman chilling out', he certainly is going to be pretty chilled.
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I guess the worse that can happen is that computer chips and similar (camera sensors etc) are damaged? Can’t see what would make it not “make it through” but I could see how we might never I find out.
Oh okay. And last Elon's tweet says that the last stage still has a burn to do after the belt. So if the chips are damage it may be impossible to do the burn. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960988527159795712
As I understand it, this is the whole reason for this coasting. They're chilling out in the van allen belt specifically to tick off that box.
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> They just happen to be younger, or women, or of color. Maybe parent was referring to their mannerisms, rather than their appearance. It's not fair to jump to the assumption that parent was showing a bias against any of those variations in the human species.
Even mannerisms may be a bias we should try to fight.
Point is, it's not fair to assume that _any_ bias was being shown. I don't think anyone believes that "PR person" or "paid actor" is a bad profession.
You're assuming the parent was biased against something, and I'm suggesting that the parent discovered some mannerisms were not as indicative of a specific profession as they thought, and said so.
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#358There was something doubly awesome about the two falcons landing at the same time right next to each other!
Can confirm this was the greatest thing I've ever witnessed in my life. https://youtu.be/AGPH_i0ZlyM?t=56
Is it just me, or are those both the same landing pad but with different cameras?
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1 successful launch vs 1 launch anomaly in 16 years and 80 consecutive succesful launches. I know where I'm putting my money.
Ariane 5 had an anomaly just two weeks ago where they put the satellites in the wrong orbit. http://spaceflight101.com/ariane-5-va241/ariane-5-va241-anom...
Yep, which is the only one it's had since the first flight.
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#360That was like watching a sci fi film when the two cores landed.... I watched it with my mother (who is 80!), and she said it was as significant as the moon landing. Do we know the fate of the centre core yet?
It sounds like it was lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be... Although there hasn't been an official statement by SpaceX yet, and whoever said "we lost the center core" could have just been referring to the video feed from the drone ship.
It’s a command center of a complicated operation, nobody cares if someone has a camera issue on a side goal, it’s all about situation. I vote the booster was lost, and it was not worth using more bandwidth on it.