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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 irrational »

rhn_mk1 wrote: post #469
FLUX-YOU wrote: post #278

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Watching the car orbit and the Earth's reflections in the windshield and paint and Starman's visor is sublime (sometimes goes to cameras of the engine/orbit overview) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M e.g. https://i.imgur.com/Yu6gRar.jpg This is all I'm watching for the rest of the day https://imgur.com/oKWTAQk

What are the particles flying with different speeds when the camera points away from the Sun?

The sprinklers in the hollywood studio where they are filming this went off.

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SeoxyS wrote: post #451
DavidHm wrote: post #412

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Star Wars is not sci-fi, it's a cross between space fantasy and space opera. The list of better sci-fi movies is long.

From wikipedia > Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking > A science fantasy is a cross-genre within the umbrella of speculative fiction which simultaneously draws upon and/or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy Star Wars is 100% science fiction.

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #460
Jach wrote: post #450

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I interviewed at BlueOrigin ~3.5 years ago, my impression was they're very old fashioned and secretive. Not necessarily a bad thing for such critical systems (though I think SpaceX has the better model/culture even if I know it's not for me), but I was applying for a backend role using Spring and hoping to get in on a program they had at the time where you could move around the various departments like avionics and s…

I interviewed for the superlative job title “Spaceflight systems avionics software engineer”. Contrary to your experience, I found the process to be very casual. They told me not to bring my resume, but to put together a PowerPoint presentation about my life. For one of my interviews the interviewing engineer didn’t even show up and his boss came in later and said (paraphrased): “you made it this far so I guess you’r…

... My resume is terrible, but I'd rather bring it than a PowerPoint presentation about my life even if it was a million times worse.

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Post by njarboe »

Love how the top comment on the successful first launch of the largest rocket since the Saturn V (with 1337 points at the moment) on a site called "Hacker News" devolves into a discussion about identity politics. Maybe we need some kind of variant on Godwin's Rule so that this doesn't happen so predictably.

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Post by navls »

sangnoir wrote: post #119
djaychela wrote: post #16

That 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?

> Do we know the fate of the centre core yet? I might be reading into something that's not there, but the presenters (I didn't get their names) acted like they received surprising news in thier monitors at 39:03[1] just as they were about to report on the drone ship landing. Dude: "We've just gotten confirmation..." Lady: "oh!" Dude: "Oh" Lady: "[laughs] We are waiting to hear what happens..." 1. https://youtu.be/wbS…

Also, as she starts saying "We are waiting to hear what happens", he says "Scratch that...".

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Post by ekianjo »

jacquesm wrote: post #337
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #194

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> this seems likely to be one of the most important launches in modern rocketry history SpaceX's Falcon project is the first major progress we've made in the field of human spaceflight since the Apollo program.

The ISS should count as major progress as well.

for the amount of money spent on getting it there and maintaining it, and because we are keeping it understaffed for safety reasons, we are getting very little return on it.

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Post by yorby »

komali2 wrote: post #178
nafizh wrote: post #14

Anybody saw the 'Don't panic' thing on the Tesla? Made me chuckle, they sure have a sense of humor.

I absolutely love that Musk is putting a car into Mars orbit. Assuming mankind doesn't have an extinction event (or dark ages event), it is extremely likely we'll populate the solar system over the next millenia. In 200 years, Martian children can look up in the sky and know that one of the quickly moving visible satellites is a hilarious, old-Earth car. Depending on how accessible orbit is from planets over the next…

it's in orbit around the sun:

> Following launch, Falcon Heavy’s second stage will attempt to place the Roadster into a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.

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Post by tejtm »

jfarlow wrote: post #354
DannyB2 wrote: post #214

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

@$#%^%# light pollution everywhere. turn down those %$%@%# lights so we can see the ^#@&^^% stars.

(...yes I do know it is the ol Sol)

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Post by take4 »

Svettie wrote: post #379
CydeWeys wrote: post #283

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You're showing your biases here. The other people on the livestream are also rocket scientists. They aren't PR people. They just happen to be younger, or women, or of color. So you might want to re-evaluate what you think a rocket scientist "looks like", because your notion is outdated. Sorry to call you out like this, but these kinds of prejudices about who is the "correct" kind of person for tech jobs are harmful a…

On the other hand, there are indeed many scientists/engineers who look/act "nerdy" or don't have the suaveness of people we typically see on TV. I think what GP is saying is that typically companies will put forward people who are good-looking and charismatic for PR, so it's nice to see someone different and unpolished be center-stage in the public eye.

Why exactly is “good looking and charismatic” a bad thing? To be a good host you need to (should) be charismatic, that’s literally the job.
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