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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by joering2 »

xrayzerone wrote: post #764
joering2 wrote: post #554

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> It's such a shame that so many people with Elon kind of money aren't doing anything to transform us into a spacefaring species. "Elon kind of money?" Heard of government subsidies? https://ideapod.com/elon-musks-business-empire-fueled-4-9-bi... Edit: not taking sides and adding my subjective point to the article; just merely stating fact that Mr. Musk projects are in large part government-funded.

Literally everything Lockheed, Raytheon, ULA, and every other company with a building along the Dulles Corridor is government funded. Not a single one would have private funds as SpaceX did to develop capabilities not specifically requested in a government RFP. TLDR: You have no idea how the government works and why SpaceX is different - GTFO.

Trolling on HN? You must be new, but still good luck with that.

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Post by stouset »

gizmo wrote: post #822
stouset wrote: post #808

I feel like I must be crazy, but did anyone else notice that the two videos from the pair of boosters seemed like they were cloned from the viewpoint of a single booster? I don't mean they look similar. I mean they look like they came from the same video feed . When completing the touchdown, they both seem to land at the same pad -- you can see the flame of the other booster and the pad the other booster is landing a…

Yeah, they accidentally used the same stream twice. Easy mistake to make.

Ah! That explains it.

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Post by laythea »

tmalsburg2 wrote: post #683
laythea wrote: post #454

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Is this not alike to asking me to not have the mental view of a basketball team as a coloured group of tall males? And if I had that view, then am I discriminating against short white people, or have I built a more accurate mental model of the world?

If you think that being a female engineer is like being short in basketball, then there are clearly serious problems with your mental model of the world.

No, that's not what I said. Let me put it another way, things form patterns in life. All sorts of patterns. E.g. As a silly example to illustrate clearly, trees are generally green. Is that discriminating against other colours? (if such a thing were possible). Or simply an observation of life.

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Post by k_lander »

jotm wrote: post #816
CmdrKrool wrote: post #626

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Elon says, albeit casually, here in the press conference at 5m36s: https://youtu.be/sytrrdOPYzA?t=5m36s "We didn't really test any of those materials [...] it's just literally a normal car in space"

It would be pretty cool if they retrieve it later, replace the batteries... and it still works :D

i think its expected to next swing past earth in 2030

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Post by botskonet »

elmar wrote: post #769
protonimitate wrote: post #110

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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".

I fell this is the most important moment in space exploration since the Apollo landing, but I don't see a big coverage in mainstream media. Elon is probably on the trajectory to be remembered as the biggest entrepreneur ever.

I would say, "since the ISS". The ISS isn't as exciting as sending humans to another celestial body, but we'll never get to Mars without the lessons learned and it's an amazing feat.

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Post by bigiain »

jotm wrote: post #805
bigiain wrote: post #435

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I own this tshirt - which commemorates the first time we had two humans in orbit at the same time in different spacecraft: https://shop.sovietvisuals.com/products/vostok-1962-shirt-aa

Now that two boosters landing shot should be put on T-Shirts :D

Shut up and take my money! (I'll have two in black, size L, thanks...)

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Post by mike741 »

jeroen wrote: post #828
mike741 wrote: post #583

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amazing, is the car strapped to the outside of the rest of the ship? how does it remain so stable after the separation? by "sphere" i just meant the case it is shown inside of at the start, since the markings on the wall resemble motion tracking panels used for 3d projection. perhaps I just underestimate the precision and smoothness of the fairing separation, or am misunderstanding how the car is rigged so as to rema…

This is what the payload looks like: http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/Tesla-Roads...

ah ok that makes more sense, thanks for that pic. too cool!

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Post by avoutthere »

kffcc wrote: post #666
manicdee wrote: post #652

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Nah, the two feeds were identical including a portion of the other booster’s rocket plume in the top left. The two pads are different colours, both feeds showed the rocket landing on the lighter pad. Hopefully we will get a corrected version for the official movie!

It seems they fixed it. Here is the corrected version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE The live (uncorrected) version for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wxV-lUsZg

Sadly, they seem to have taken down the corrected version. :(

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Post by yujeng »

Wonderful feat, SpaceX! Congratulations!

But I have this one observation on watching the launch, and landing and I hope someone can explain the discrepancy to me:

How come the two boosters when they stick-landed have different colors than when they were launched - so soon? I mean, they were all real shinny white when blasting upwards from the launch pad. Are those the same ones that stick-landed to perfectly?

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