SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time” • Hacker News Board

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by returnofdjedi » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:16 PM UTC

moskie wrote: post #25

mjs wrote: post #9

Is that in realtime?

Oh, you're asking if the video is slowed down/sped up. Ok. At first, I thought you were asking if we were watching it in realtime.... and seeing rocket after rocket blow up on this barge.

Cool.If would be great to know how musk distributes his time between Tesla And Spacex.

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by butwhy » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:17 PM UTC

I still don't understand how hydraulic fuel is used in this case and how lack of it caused this failed landing.

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:18 PM UTC

goshx wrote: post #26

Could someone please explain the "no cigar"?

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Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by thescorer » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:19 PM UTC

This was "close?"

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by Uhhrrr » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:19 PM UTC

goshx wrote: post #26

Could someone please explain the "no cigar"?

It's from a time when it was common to offer cigars as rewards for playing carnival games. If you missed the target or milk can or whatever, "close, but no cigar!".

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by hnnewguy » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

ChrisBland wrote: post #20

Wow, what an amazing feat to come this close. To think just ~100 years ago humans took flight for the first time. Now we are able to launch a rocket in orbit, then fly the first stage to land on a small platform floating in the middle of the ocean.

>Now we are able to launch a rocket in orbit, then fly the first stage to land on a small platform floating in the middle of the ocean.

You know we landed on the moon, right? I mean, this is cool, but from a sheer "fascinating achievement" standpoint, this is at least a few notches behind that.

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by mikeash » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

returnofdjedi wrote: post #21

fluffheadsr wrote: post #11

love that they're trying something new and exciting.. you're gonna fail when you're going for it.. but at least someones going for it. looking forward to hyper loop.

Elon Musk is the Tesla and Steve Jobs of our generation.

People always compare him to Jobs but I don't think it's right. Jobs hated any sort of public failure. He pushed the envelope in some ways, but never put something out there until it was polished and consumer-ready. Jobs was great at seeing how technology could be combined in novel ways and how to boil products down to exactly what they needed, but he didn't push forward entirely new tech, and I can't imagine Jobs publicly showing a video of his flagship product exploding into a fiery mess.

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by joezydeco » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

butwhy wrote: post #32

I still don't understand how hydraulic fuel is used in this case and how lack of it caused this failed landing.

Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896790

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by digerata » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

returnofdjedi wrote: post #21

fluffheadsr wrote: post #11

love that they're trying something new and exciting.. you're gonna fail when you're going for it.. but at least someones going for it. looking forward to hyper loop.

Elon Musk is the Tesla and Steve Jobs of our generation.

Yep! Just a little less crazy and a lot less of an asshole.

Re: SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time”

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Post by lsaferite » Fri, Jan 16, 2015, 6:20 PM UTC

returnofdjedi wrote: post #21

fluffheadsr wrote: post #11

love that they're trying something new and exciting.. you're gonna fail when you're going for it.. but at least someones going for it. looking forward to hyper loop.

Elon Musk is the Tesla and Steve Jobs of our generation.

Oh the confusion. Perhaps 'Nikola Tesla' would have been better.