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Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

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Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

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Uuuh the first stream on YouTube was Musk giving a speech, so I was waiting for the launch but turns out it was on another stream? So I just missed the whole thing, great.

There was an AI crypto scam channel. Musk is so scammy that it looked feasible and was shared widely by the looks.

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Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Naive question: I obviously expect there to be flames from the engines, but there were flames on the lower sides for quite a while after the catch – is that expected?

who cares... they did it and it didn't burn up or destroy the platform. rest is just nitpicking

Outside of maybe Boeing "who cares..." isn't a valid answer in engineering.

Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't do lives on youtube, those are scammers. it is always on x.com

Well it shows like SpaceX on mobile with 150k viewers, maybe YouTube could use some brain power to fix that.

Youtube is an incompetent organization. I've seen it take them nearly 48 hours to restore channels stolen by scammers to their rightful owners (all the while allowing the crypto scammers to continue streaming.)

Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

#66
SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy have already revolutionized the space industry with their reusable first stage boosters and rocket engines. This advance in rocket design has resulted in the cost to launch one kilogram of payload to orbit from approximately $15,000 in the pre-SpaceX era, to around $1,400 with the Falcon Heavy. This graph shows the incredible impact of SpaceX on the volume of rocket launches, with an exponential rise in recent years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-...

With Starship, SpaceX is striving to make rockets fully reusable, which, if they succeed, will transform human civilization by radically reducing launch costs and enabling large-scale space exploration and industry. The kinds of possibilities this opens up include economically viable permanent lunar bases, Mars colonization, and revolutionary industries like asteroid mining.

Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

#68

Uuuh the first stream on YouTube was Musk giving a speech, so I was waiting for the launch but turns out it was on another stream? So I just missed the whole thing, great.

They don't do lives on youtube, those are scammers. it is always on x.com

Would be great if I could stream to my Chromecast or AppleTV from X without using airplay streaming my whole browser...

Re: Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

#70

Couldn't watch the livestream on X because it was erroring out. We live in a world where you can't stream a video or Chromecast on X but you can catch a damn rocket...

X has proven time and time again that it just cannot handle live feeds well.
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