Seeing those boosters land will never get old. I drive by one on my way to work every day and it's just amazing how large they are.
It almost looks like CGI, probably because we've seen this happen countless times in various Sci Fi shows and movies.
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#192How come you dont see or hear a sonic boom when the go faster as sound or did i miss that?
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#193The military propaganda at 9:30 was interesting. Showing Chinese people while saying "our adversaries". Has it ever been done so overtly before ?
It's actually at 11:50. You managed to get me to watch the entire propaganda section that started at 9:30. Are you sure you're not part of it? ;)
you are right, mea culpa :)
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#194The military propaganda at 9:30 was interesting. Showing Chinese people while saying "our adversaries". Has it ever been done so overtly before ?
Good. Call China what it is.
A country with a impressive history of not declaring war on another state and who has drawn the ire of USA simply because they see it as credible economic competition?
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Our brains are wired to see twins (and symmetry) as evidence of intent as opposed to randomness. This seems like a massive over-generalization.
Symmetry is part of beauty across time and culture. For example people with more facial symmetry are considered better looking.
Yes, but it's not evidence of intent. It's lack of deformity and disease.
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#196I'm kind of surprised a random SpaceX launch is #1 on HN, when on the same day, China just completed their modular space station: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422779
This is the first Falcon Heavy flight in over 3 years:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy#Launches_and_payl...
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#198I'm kind of surprised a random SpaceX launch is #1 on HN, when on the same day, China just completed their modular space station: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422779
It’s entertaining and completely in line with what you would expect out of media and propaganda. There were a bunch of interesting Soviet missions that are basically unknown and obscure in the West. And this Chinese station seems quite notable, but again I basically never hear about it. But then that’s expected, NASA has a massive PR arm that makes sure the tax payers are well informed of its accomplishments. The CCP knows that even if it put massive resources into western media outreach, western news sources would be talking about human rights abuses in the next breath. And it’s extremely rare for a paper to do actual investigative journalism, so even if a western journalist found this station particularly newsworthy, they would have to do all the heavy lifting to get the story published. And probably be getting some explicit or implicit political pressure not to focus so much on a non-ally’s success.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's indeed kinda refreshing to see a company actually put such a high pricetag out there... and all the more frustrating that so many companies demand contact info for a "quote" when I don't need to do that to launch something into outer fucking space .
Of course nobody actually pays that.
Makes you wonder if this customer actually did though. If they were forced to dispose of the central booster due to the needs of the payload, that central booster must be costed in.
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#200Seems like an altogether more productive use of time and resources than futzing about with content moderation.