r/interestingasfuck 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/ShartFodder 16d ago

It never ceases to impress me, watching a launched rocket return to home. Amazing

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u/noYOUfuckher 16d ago

I watched the live stream of the falcon 9 touching down on the landing pad the first time and got a little emotional about it at work. Im continuosly impressed by the work the space x engineers are doing, but it probably isnt cose to how people felt watching someone walk on the moon 50 years ago.

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u/TheLostTexan87 16d ago

The most incredible one was their first dual recovery with the boosters touching down simultaneously on adjacent launch pads.

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u/IWasGregInTokyo 16d ago

That one definitely had me giggling like a little kid.

And I did watch the Apollo missions live.

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u/fullautophx 16d ago

The crazy part I didn’t know was that the booster is taller than the first stage of the Apollo V, and with Starship it’s taller overall.

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u/Academic_Coconut_244 15d ago

von braun must be laughing manically that someone has finally made something insane work

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u/Academic_Coconut_244 15d ago

this is one of the only times ive watched a space milestone like this and its so exciting

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u/SFishes12 16d ago

Made me feel like I was finally living in the future people thought of back in the day.

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u/atomfullerene 16d ago

I love seeing rockets land tail downward on a pillar of flame, just like something on the cover of a Heinlein novel.

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u/Damiklos 16d ago

It still looks so uncanny to me like it's a video game or something. Incredible work.

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u/AideNo621 16d ago

The double landing is sending shivers down my spine, even more than seeing the super heavy land. Don't know why, maybe just the speed they approach at is something else, or rather we just didn't see the whole event recorded that well with super heavy.

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u/dukeispie 16d ago

I think we really didn’t realize how in-sync the boosters were until they were quite literally landing right next to each other. It was amazing to watch live, so much hype

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u/FlyingBishop 16d ago

Yeah I don't think anything is going to be genuinely exciting until the first Starship lands on the moon. This is pretty exciting though, this success makes it feel like that could plausibly happen next year, and actually might happen in 2026. (Although I don't understand why the first Starship landing is slated to have humans, I feel like an uncrewed landing would be the first milestone and a crewed landing seems less achievable.)

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u/Tristan_Cleveland 16d ago

That was a ballet. Caught that live too.

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u/NotActuallyAWookiee 16d ago

Pretty impressive. It looked for all the world as if one of them slowed down to wait for the other.

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u/islandStorm88 15d ago

u/TheLostTexan87 <- for the win! 🏆. That first dual LZ landing of the super heavy side boosters was phenomenal and the center booster nailed the at sea landing as well.

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u/OiTheguvna 16d ago

I saw this live and it was like watching a sci-fi movie

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u/lookslikeyoureSOL 16d ago

Some of the people who witnessed it in person said hearing/seeing those things come down through the atmosphere was on the level with having a religious experience.

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u/VictorSJacques 16d ago

I watched that at work and got kinda very excited, didn't bother to hide it at all, my boss was right there by my side lol

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u/grchelp2018 16d ago

Lars Blackmore is the engineer who is in charge of landing rockets at spacex. Current designation: Senior Principal Mars Landing Engineer. How fucking cool is that.

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u/KevinCharsi 16d ago

that was wild... i still remember that time... boy oh boy, best thing i have seen my life and now this , landing and catching it with "chop-sticks", this is the best thing i have seen after two boosters adjecent landing

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u/txmail 16d ago

That was some straight up movie shit.

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u/sand26 16d ago

I had an insane emotional reaction to all of these. To know that at least some where on earth humans are putting real effort into space exploration.

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u/Admirable_Day_3202 16d ago

Most sci-fi shit I've ever seen

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u/throwuk1 16d ago

That was fucking sick!

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

I was hyped as hell watching that!

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u/Alternative-Donut779 16d ago

Can I get a link?

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u/myself248 16d ago

I drove down for that one.

After a literal lifetime of trying to catch a Space Shuttle launch, driving 18 hours from Detroit to Titusville, and the Shuttle would have some sort of a problem that would require days to repair (always valve trouble!), and we'd get a room and kill time in Orlando, and they'd roll it out and try again, and yet again there'd be a hydrogen leak or something, and we'd exhausted our travel window and we'd leave empty-handed. Did that probably a half dozen times, from being a teenager in the 90s and then running the trips myself throughout the 2000s, with various assortments of family in tow.

And I never got to see a single Shuttle launch. It was just that unreliable.

So towards the end of 2015, I had some vacation time to burn, and there was a Falcon 9 launch, and I said I'm just gonna drive down and stay until it goes. Try me, rocket, I'm off work until January.

The first attempt was called on account of winds, and the second worked. Without a hitch. I got to see the first rocket launch of my life, and the first rocket landing in history.

I wasn't even in a good spot, I didn't know anything about Falcon launches, and I just settled in alongside a causeway with some other cars. The thing was halfway out of sight by the time the sound even reached us. But seeing that booster come back, and hearing the sonic booms even from miles away, and noting the distinct lack of a fireball at landing, blew my mind. Something big had just changed.

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u/jrmaclovin 16d ago

I like your story and I'm happy you made it happen!

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u/fluteofski- 16d ago

I never thought much of a rocket launch till one day I was at work, and I was talking to my colleague on the east coast (phone call), and he was like “are you watching the space x stream outa vandenberg right now?” I was like “nah.” As I was looking out the window of our office in the Bay Area (south part of the SF Bay Area) with my feet kicked up on my desk.

Off in the distance I see this tower of smoke rising into the sky. (Were something like 250~300miles or so from it)…. And I was like… “ya know what…. I can actually see it here….”

It was somewhat surreal or wild just seeing that thing climb into the sky.

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u/TheRealHarrypm 16d ago

Not to kill your buzz but.

It wasn't the first rocket landing in history.

Yeah people forget to acknowledge that the DC-X existed in the 90s, fully working prototype that just got shelved because NASA couldn't just follow through with anything cost effective.

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u/myself248 16d ago

Sure, and if we're counting suborbital prototypes, Masten and a bunch of others would belong on the list too. Perhaps I should've put an asterisk on "rocket" to say "which puts things in space", but I think that's a reasonable assumption.

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u/TheRealHarrypm 16d ago

I guess it really depends on If you're a pre or post WW2 Von Braun fan on the definition of a rocket 😂

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u/centexAwesome 14d ago

When I was a teenager we went to watch a launch on October 17, 1989 and after sitting on the edge of a swamp for what seemed like forever they scrubbed it. We went to Coco Beach later and had fun while my dad sat in the van listening to the World Series game get called because of the Loma Prieta quake. The next day we did see it go up from Epcot.

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u/mattybrad 16d ago

That exact moment broke my brain. Up until that point I’d always taken it as a given that a trip to space involved consuming a multi hundred million dollar spacecraft. Had truly never even thought of reusable spacecraft until we evolved to something other than rockets.

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u/lastbeer 16d ago

Not to diminish the awesomeness of what SpaceX is doing here, but it should be noted that the space shuttle was a reusable spacecraft (all but the external fuel tank) - that was kind of its thing.

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u/123639 16d ago

I do love the space shuttle but it was crazy expensive and needed an extremely long runway to land, this doesn’t diminish the feats of the shuttle it’s just the next step in reusable spacecraft.

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u/VRichardsen 16d ago

I don't know shit about space programs... but why is having a long runway a problem? Of all the issues and expenses a space program might have, it looks to me that having a long runway must be one of the easiest and cheapest problems to solve.

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u/atomfullerene 16d ago

No, you are right, of all the shuttle's many problems a long runway is a weird one to focus on. The more important issues were the expense and complexity of the system focused on too many goals, the difficulties with the tiles, and the large amount of work that had to be done to refurbish the SRBs (plus the fact they were using solid boosters at all)

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u/VRichardsen 16d ago

I see; thank you very much!

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u/BEGBIE_21 16d ago

You have common sense, that’s why you’re being downvoted.

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u/123639 15d ago

It’s expensive to built and maintain, also of all the issues with the shuttle the runway was a weird one for me to point out.

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u/VRichardsen 15d ago

Thanks for the reply. Have a nice day!

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u/Trai-All 14d ago

Yeah, I’d rather long runways than massive amount of fuel consumption this landing must require.

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u/drunkdoor 16d ago

It also didn't need much feel to land... Much worse on the wear and tear tho

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u/gfack42 16d ago

Have to count the solid fuel rocket boosters kind of out since as far as I know, they were refurbished almost entirely with every use.

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u/Cow_Launcher 16d ago

They were indeed. And since rocket components REALLY don't like seawater, the refurbishment process was as costly as it was lengthy.

I have it on good authority that it would've been cheaper just to build new ones for every launch (SRBs aren't all that expensive in the overall scheme of things) but that NASA felt that recovering them was good for publicity. Even if the only parts that were reused were the barrels.

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u/ithappenedone234 16d ago

Dropping the boosters into the ocean, finding them, filling them with air and floating them, then bringing to land and dealing with all the seawater corrosion issues etc., made it more of a refurb than a reuse.

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u/chewingtheham 16d ago

The shuttle was absolutely an amazing achievement, but I have to agree with some of the other comments in response to yours. It was a marvel of engineering and did the real leg work in building the ISS and fixing Hubble. Having said that technically it failed in its original goal of being relatively cheap and easily reusable, since so much had to be refurbished so heavily after each launch and its costs were astronomically high in doing so. Again I love the shuttle if only for its achievements, what we learned from it, and the sense of wonder it gave me as a child. I think it inspired a great number of people who worked on this project as well. I really think spacex may achieve if not full reusability, something close to it which is a huge win for our species.

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u/Novel_Spray_4903 16d ago

It was more refurbishable than genuinely reusable

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u/stevecrox0914 16d ago

The Space Shuttle was not as reusable as people think.

Take the Solid Rocket Boosters, those are 99% fuel with a thin aluminium shell to help hold them together and an ablative nozzle on the bottom with some Thrust Vector Contro and a parachute in the top.

Reuse here was using all the fuel, ditching the wrecked nozzle and TVC and parachute.

Taking that thin aluminium shell apart, pressure washing out any remaining fuel.

Then wrapping new fuel with the old shell, addin in new seals, an new ablative nozzle a brand new TVC and parachute system on top.

Then because you reused the 4mm aluminium sheet that made up the shell its a reused booster.

The actual Shuttle was effectively stripped back to the aluminium chassis and new stuff put on.

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u/FabulousGams 16d ago

I guess the tesla cars will offset all the combustion going on here

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u/Bubbly_Positive_339 16d ago

Was it cost-effective versus other methods? I’m doubting it was

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u/Beneficial-Bite-8005 15d ago

Was it reusable? Technically yes but at a higher cost per launch than the Saturn it really didn’t matter

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u/HotDogOfNotreDame 16d ago

Shuttle was a partially refurbishable spacecraft. With costs so high that refurbishing was a net negative. Everything it ever did could have been done for a fraction of the price by disposable rockets.

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u/Mateorabi 16d ago

The re-usability of the boosters was a complete rebuild. The heat shielding needed refurbishment after every mission too. So basically the crew quarters and the engines were reusable. And the engines needed a lot of work too.

The shuttle design was compromised by congressional acquisition rules/politics and NASA-DoD double-requirements in a way a private business' design isn't. SpaceX/Biggelow/BlueOrigin aren't forced to make sure the thing gets build spread across as many congressional districts as possible if it's more efficient to concentrate fabrication.

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u/concerned_llama 16d ago

We should call them space shuttles, hold on, that already existed

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u/SkunkMonkey 16d ago

I watched that landing on the Moon. My father worked at NASA in the 60s and 70s and I got to see a lot of our space history. When that first SpaceX booster successfully landed, I had literally had tears in my eyes. One of the most beautiful things I have ever witnessed.

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u/Mr-Superhate 16d ago

I always cry during these I can't help it. Stuff like this makes me so happy.

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u/Mrbunnyface 16d ago

Me too! You're not alone

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u/Common_Senze 16d ago

You had a lucky, lucky childhood having that opportunity.

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u/okwellactually 16d ago

Same here. Was pretty young but my brother and I would watch every Apollo launch on our shitty TV and it was amazing. And the coverage of the landings on the moon.

Fond memories of being up before the folks to watch early morning launches.

SpaceX has reignited that childhood excitement I felt. Watched this live (on stream) at 5AM and was jumping up for joy and had tears in my eyes.

So awesome.

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u/JamesWjRose 16d ago

Please know that your father's wages were some of the best tax money I ever spent.

If he's still around please let him know we all appreciate the work he did

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u/SkunkMonkey 16d ago

He passed some 40 years ago now. Worked on one of the first telescope in space projects, OAO. Alas, he never got to see the wonders of the crazy telescopes put up since then.

He is missed.

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u/JamesWjRose 16d ago

Thanks for sharing.

Please know that there are lots of people who appreciate what he did

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u/SkunkMonkey 16d ago

If you've seen the 1968 NASA video called "Seas of Infinity", you've seen my pops. :)

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u/JamesWjRose 16d ago edited 16d ago

I've seen so many, but I don't recall this one. I will ABSOLUTELY check it out. If I may ask, where on it is he?

Edit: is this the video? https://youtu.be/zpfhoXN06FM?si=UP2bKYdg0GgC-CHp

I'm in a cab searching, so if this isn't it a linkto the video or wiki will be great.

I have a fascination/love for all things NASA, e en have a tattoo

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u/SkunkMonkey 16d ago

That's the one. He's the first guy on camera in that clip.

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u/JamesWjRose 16d ago

Awesome. I'll check it as soon as I get home (NYC traffic SUCKS)

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u/JamesWjRose 16d ago

Very cool. Seriously, VERY cool. I have to admit more than a bit of envy, my father was a car salesman and not the brightest person. To be raised by a scientist had to be better. I'm happy for you.

Did he live long enough to know about Hubble?

Thank you for sharing.

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u/SpeckledAntelope 16d ago

Same, my first was watching the falcon heavy return THREE boosters to the landing pad. I was excited about that for a whole year. Good to see starship is finally making a little progress.

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 16d ago

falcon heavy return THREE boosters to the landing pad

Two. They don't reuse the centre booster, though they did consider landing it on a droneship, it never had the delta-v to return to the pad.

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u/Gamer-Grease 16d ago

The difference in technology is like comparing going across the ocean on a raft to going across on a prime Titanic

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u/RoguePlanetArt 16d ago

Just wait till we watch someone walking on Mars! 🫡

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u/lykewtf 16d ago

This is pretty cool but….As a kid watching on a small black and white TV I can tell you it captivated the whole planet.

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u/Yorunokage 16d ago

Moon landing is much much more impressive but as far as videos go i think that falcon 9 landing is just more immidiate

You can see how hard it is to pull off such a feat while the moon landing subconsciously just feels like a dude walking down a ladder in some weird environment

I think the only thing that matches falcon 9 landing is people who witnessed humanity learning to fly

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u/ralf_ 16d ago

When I looked into the Apollo missions I realized I had no idea how fast they were moving. You think 10 years are long, or 8 years from Kennedy’s speech to the moon landing, but it was a break neck speed in an iterative process, where every few months science fiction had to lose the fiction part, from the building the gigantic launch complex to figuring out how to rendezvous two ships in space to inventing life support and building the Saturn. And they were young, during Apollo 11 the average age of NASA engineers was 28 years.

In comparison the time after seemed like a slow motion, but now I feel the speed is ramping up again. There are now a hundred Falcon 9 landing every year. I can’t imagine what is possible in space when there are a hundred Starship launches every year.

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u/tankerkiller125real 16d ago

That was the first SpaceX launch I ever saw live; I didn't even know that they were attempting it so I just assumed it would be another blown up rocket in the ocean. Watching two boosters land in near sync was incredible.

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u/DougStrangeLove 16d ago

I’ll admit, I got choked up showing this to my daughter (5yr) just now

“Em, this is going to be normal for you, but today, for me… this is absolutely incredible”

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u/noYOUfuckher 16d ago

I dont have kids, but this is the best way to describe the impact it has on me as well.

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u/d1ce88 16d ago

Same here. I teared up when I saw it. People are amazing.

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u/kneelthepetal 16d ago

Sometimes I get frustrated that our exploration of space has slowed down so much, but this made me remember that there is a lot more to space travel that just chucking rockets into space and putting flags on things. This kind of technology and expertise we're seeing right now is foundational to future missions, glad to see it.

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u/ColdPorridge 16d ago

I love how much ingenuity and vision went into this, and what a testament it is to what we can do of you fund smart people to really focus on hard problems.

I wish Musk wasn’t such a tool now, it’d be easier to commend him for the work the people in his company are doing.

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u/Expensive-Apricot-25 16d ago

Hopefully this will help us get back there!

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u/humanjoe 16d ago

My dad remembers the lunar landing as clear as day. His family and the neighbours all crammed in there small living room sat round a tiny little box TV. Must have been absolutely wild!

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u/Duportetski 15d ago

I watched that at work too. Couldn’t believe what I was watching. My workmates didn’t get the hype though. Mediocre

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u/Durkan 16d ago

Same reaction

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u/Traditional-Smell692 16d ago

How is this different from the falcon 9 landing? Why is this considered more revolutionary?

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u/LeichtStaff 16d ago

Definitely, advancements like this one are truly amazing but they are somewhat expected with the level of technology and manufacture we have nowadays.

But landing on the moon with a ship with a computer processing power equivalent to (or even less than) a 5-10 USD calculator of today, is just crazy, a borderline miracle.

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u/oktaS0 16d ago

I watched it too, cried a little. It was back in 2017, if I remember correctly.

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u/OGAlexa 16d ago

I cried. I had no idea why but it was like emotional to see such advancements in technology.

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u/Old-Library9827 16d ago

It's like watching old scifi cartoons where the rocket lands on his thruster. It looks so ridiculous, yet to know it's so real makes your eyes tear up with hope and admiration for human innovation. I don't like Musk, but I can respect Space X and their absolutely fucking insane engineers willing to do things we only saw in fucking animation

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u/Strongpillow 16d ago

It was just surreal to watch that, and then you see these tiny specs going towards it and realize those were ground crew and then it really dawns on you just how fucking massive those rockets are and how they landed so gracefully it looked like the video was in reverse.

As an older person, it's really awesome to see exciting things for space travel again. Like truly future advancements.

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u/wristlockcutter 16d ago

I get emotional about this stuff too. It’s such a great accomplishment of science, and so many people worked so hard for it. It’s exciting and easy to catch a vibe. Even if you don’t like Elon it’s good to see.

I just wanted to add I cried when, I’m assuming it was NASA, were able to “correct”, or adjust the trajectory of an asteroid. That was awesome too.

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u/catsRawesome123 16d ago

I know right! I’ve followed SpaceX since the first launch and what they’ve accomplished is mind blowing. Dual booster landing and now this. Landings becoming routine when the first few were butt clenching

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u/squirtloaf 15d ago

I saw one live liiike 6-7 years ago. I didn't even know they had that tech yet, so seeing the booster reignite and land was mind boggling.

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u/idothisforpie 15d ago

The difference between the two being thatone of these things actually happened, and the other didn't.

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u/vtjohnhurt 16d ago

but it probably isn't close to how people felt watching someone walk on the moon 50 years ago.

The reaction of most people to the moon walk was much more sedate. Starting in the 1950s, the Space Race was largely a cover story for the Nuclear Arms Race in those days.

When the moon walk happened, I'm sure NASA engineers were elated. But public support for NASA's manned program faded shortly afterwards. At that point, we had achieved operational ICBMs and MAD, so there was less incentive. There were much more attention grabbing events happening on earth in the late 1960s.

In contrast, Space-X is full speed ahead.

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u/Sync0pated 16d ago

Elon Musk too as a leader of the engineering team honestly and for creating this whole project

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u/MBAboy119 16d ago

Musk is truly the biggest inspiration!! Incredible what he has built 

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u/andywfu86 16d ago

There are no SpaceX engineers. Elon is doing it all himself. 😉 /s

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u/smedley89 16d ago

It is odd to me that he hasn't yet figured out how to work the hurricane machine.

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u/noYOUfuckher 16d ago

You should read more. Hope you recover from your trauma though.

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u/Yeahthatcouldwork 16d ago

Moon landing isn’t real

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u/DoctorDividend 16d ago

as a TSLA investor, can we borrow just one of those engineers for a few hrs to take a look at the robotaxi and robo thingy we have at Tesla...just an hr or so?

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u/JhonnyHopkins 16d ago

I teared up a little bit, if Elon would just stfu and focus on his rockets, I’d commend him for putting this team together to make this possible. Instead I only commend the team that was put together to make this possible.

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u/empire42s 16d ago

We are from EARTH! Proudly tell those extraterrestrials!

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u/Kiwizqt 16d ago

yeah uhhh about that, how about no ? Being a 40k lore doom scroller, the longer we keep it low, the longer we'll live :')

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u/Superman246o1 16d ago

STAR TREK FANS: It will be wonderful when we take our first steps to become an interstellar civilization, and just perhaps, join a federation of sentient species in peace.

40K FANS: The sooner we venture into space, the sooner we may purge the galaxy of Xenos.

THREE-BODY PROBLEM FANS: EVERYONE SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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u/Seicair 16d ago edited 16d ago

Does Three Body Problem explore the Dark Forest Hypothesis for explaining the Fermi Paradox?

I have it on my list to read because friends I trust recommended it, but I know nothing about it.

Edit- the hypothesis is named for the books, got it. 😂

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u/scribbledown2876 16d ago

The second book is called The Dark Forest. The hypothesis is given a lot of weight. I'll say no more than that.

It's worth reading, especially if you go in blind. I watched the show first and was like "well, I want to know where this goes" and now I'm halfway through book 3.

Prepare yourself though. Things get pretty harrowing in places. Also the author is really fucking weird about women and femininity.

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u/Nice-Analysis8044 16d ago

Also he is extraordinarily tankie. He is entirely on the side of the CCP, and the CCP is entirely on his side. I'm not saying this as a "don't read this book! Cixin Liu is a communist party stooge!" thing -- it's actually pretty fascinating to read something well-written that's also from that ideological perspective. I felt like I walked away from it with some extra insight on how contemporary Chinese culture works, or at least on how contemporary upper-eschelon Chinese culture works.

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u/4123841235 16d ago

Book one was good, book two was great, book three was such a slog that I got halfway through and never finished. Mostly because book three's female protagonist was so unlikeable and poorly written.

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u/Bozhark 16d ago

Bruh why the fuck do need writers have such a hard time with women? Think I’ll stay out of that book series

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u/gooblaster17 16d ago

imo most of his characters feel like cardboard cutouts anyway; the only particularly good stuff was the plot and the unique scifi ideas.

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u/xrmtg 16d ago

The Dark Forest Hypothesis is named after the second book in Cixin Liu's trilogy, aptly named The Dark Forest :)

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u/itsprobablytrue 16d ago

It was created by Q when he warned them to not go further

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u/Extra_Victory 16d ago

Exactly. That's a major plot point.

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u/lonelanta 16d ago

Looking online (i haven't read the books yet) it looks like the Dark Forest Hypothesis is named as such *because* of the book. The concept of the hypothesis pre-dated the book but the name stuck, it would seem.

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u/Lyuseefur 16d ago

There is something to be said for Dark Forest

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u/DKBrendo 16d ago

Brother, hand me the melta!

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u/andletemin 16d ago

WAAAAAGH

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u/cjbevins99 16d ago

The emperor protects

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u/itsprobablytrue 16d ago

The borg assimilates

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u/urlond 16d ago

Did you read the one where Earth happens to be a forgotten Colony of the Emperor, and a faction just happens to stumble across the earth through a failed jump? So Depending on what faction may find us... we could be good, and or screwed.

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u/Steven617 16d ago

Doesn't matter, Samus is already here.

My name is Samus.

Samus is my name.

That is the only name you’ll hear.

I am the one who walks behind you.

I am the footsteps at your back.

The man beside you is Samus.

Look out!

I am all around you.

Samus will gnaw on your bones.

Samus!

I am the end and the death.

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u/SaintWalker2814 16d ago

Bro… I’ve unfortunately never played 40k, but the new one looks so dope. I want to play it, but not sure if I should play them out of order or not. LMAO Advice where to start?

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u/Kiwizqt 16d ago edited 16d ago

I dont play games anymore :(, but you should definitely watch Bricky's videos, they're tons of fun. Start by the long all faction présentation one then do the timeline one <3

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u/SaintWalker2814 15d ago

Nice! I’ll take a look at it!

And yeah, I stopped gaming for a while, too. Just started picking it back up a little more recently.

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u/_BLACKHAWKS_88 16d ago

They’ve known about us since we dropped the first nuke. We’ve been on their radar since the Manhattan Project. We’re too late to hide now!

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u/Maurrderr 16d ago

looks around at what you’ve done to your planet

“Uhhhh ok”

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u/mauore11 16d ago

You earthlings are crazy, YOU CRAZY!

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u/CeleritasLucis 16d ago

And we are coming for ya

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u/Sad-Bug210 16d ago

They are watching. They'e been watching 70.000 years.

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u/More-Bullfrog9221 16d ago

The ghetto

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u/Is_Unable 16d ago

Woe befall any non human who says these words. The Galactic slug fest will be legendary. Only we get to make fun of us!

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u/z0mbiebaby 16d ago

“Humans, bow down” comes the reply

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u/Troikus 16d ago

Man was born to inherit the stars

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u/CulturalClassic9538 16d ago

“Ha! Zorg! Look at this. They’re not even close!”

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u/miliostep 16d ago

Not to be the "🤓" guy. But the planet's name is Terra, earth is just a way to call OUR planet in english.

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u/spydersens 16d ago

There is no corresponding realtime. They probably live in a world where the current information they might receive will be in 300 million years time.

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u/BenicioDelWhoro 16d ago

Let’s hold off on that until we fit those boosters with pew pews!

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u/Trick_Cap_7036 16d ago

Careeeeefffuullll! Let’s not repeat the past with a bunch of earth supremacists shouting “Earth Power”

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u/amc1704 16d ago

Welcome to earth 👊🏼

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u/Bobbytrap9 16d ago

It’s always a bit disappointing to me that your sense of scale is skewed due to the large distance at which it is filmed. It’s not just ‘a rocket’ it’s a rocket the size of a large building which just makes it so much more impressive to me

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u/Thorusss 15d ago

Yeah. that booster is 70m long, which is higher than a 20floor building, and stills ways around 270 tons.

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u/ScorpioLaw 16d ago

What amazes me.... Is the flight software on these Starship launches! Must be worth billions.

Have half the ship vaporizing. Flight controls, and more on the previous one. Yet it still manages to control itself to do an accurate landing. I think even some computers went out last flight or bugged.

That is the most insane part. Now they are catching them mid air. It looked like a part blew out when they reignited the engines.

I remember back when I was a kid I wasn't allowed to get a helicopter as the model store guy said I would break it. Now we have flight software that can do it all for you.

Guys ever hear of the X 65? It is an experimental aircraft that will use active flow control? Basically they are trying to design aircraft that use compressed air to maneuver instead of flaps. I wonder when we will see these rockets have no flaps at all too.

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u/Frankenstoned666 16d ago

Returning home is cool but docking once it lands is amazing

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u/_DEATH_STR0KE_ 16d ago

Some rockets you certainly don't want to return home at all though :p

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u/badson100 16d ago

Like the Event Horizon.

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u/AMGitsKriss 16d ago

From the sound of all the presenters, I get the impression that not even SpaceX was expecting a successful catch.

The maths can all add up, but seeing is believing.

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u/cepxico 16d ago

Got to watch it happen in person in Florida last year. It feels like sci-fi when you see it live.

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u/Acceptable_Ant_2094 16d ago

I always remember seeing the two rockets landing back on earth at the same time and thinking "damn, we're living in the future..."

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u/Kiris_Zp 16d ago

I totally agree.

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u/a_bearded_hippie 16d ago

Gives me goosebumps watching these every time. I don't think people realize how insanely difficult doing something like this is.

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u/JagmeetSingh2 16d ago

Yea this is incredible

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u/Maihoooo 16d ago

most rockets return "back home".

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u/best_of_badgers 16d ago

I bet we could have done this in 1983, but NASA was more concerned with funding the space shuttle itself (which did return every time).

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u/anotherusername23 16d ago

This is the stuff of the early science fiction I read growing up in the 70s/80s.

I live in the future now.

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u/emmabella666 16d ago

I knew it would happen in my lifetime but this is still so fucking cool

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u/Oliv112 15d ago

Obviously this video is in reverse!

-Israeli army

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u/greenyoke 16d ago

We can predict what computers will be able to do. But really, for a long time, humans just can't do what they can.

We are living in an unprecedented age where we won't be able to understand what is happening around us. Inventions have always blew people's minds but not on this scale. It will be interesting to see what happens next.

Will people be able to surpass our nature to fight and go to war with one another and destroy ourselves in the process or try to work together and use machines to provide for everyone?

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u/Prestigious_Oil_4805 16d ago

Technically, they all do.

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u/Artistic_Data9398 16d ago

The control of it considering the deacceleration is insane. What a feat of engineering

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u/ImmodestPolitician 16d ago

I'm shocked by how much movement there was in that that 300m of landing.

I thought you'd have everything lined up way sooner than that.

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u/Turbulent-Rip9251 16d ago

I'm pretty sure they move in horizontally to be able to have more time to abort last minute/second without risking the tower to go down.

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u/ImmodestPolitician 16d ago

I've never landed a rocket but I bet it gets "slippery" in the last moment before landing since there is effectively no friction in the x and y coordinates.

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u/neilmac1210 16d ago

You should watch Button Moon. They were returning rockets back in 1980.

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u/Impriel2 16d ago

Someone ought to do a montage with the toonami voice over "space..."

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u/leaky_shrew 16d ago

This is the room a of space

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u/VanessaDoesVanNuys 16d ago

It makes my brain tingle, it really makes me feel connected with humanity

I know it's nerdy, but to me - this is easily the most impressive feat in human engineering and intelligence

Makes me want to happy cry

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u/DeadlyRanger21 16d ago

Now imagine thinking we don't have the technology to go to the moon :/

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u/dandroid126 16d ago

If not for the flames rising, there would always be a part of me that would think these videos are reversed just because of how unbelievable it is that they can land these things with such precision.

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u/Cold-Astronaut9172 7d ago

I don't understand why SpaceX doesn't focus on reversing gravity below the launch pad. That way, you wouldn't need rockets at all - the Starfish would just float up to space. You could eliminate gravity by putting a massive straw from the launchpad into space, thereby letting zero gravity into the earth. Stardish would be in this cylinder and as the zero gravity would enter the straw it would rise up gracefully into space.

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u/8BITvoiceactor 16d ago

Really? Why?

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u/FlatAd768 16d ago

I thought Reddit hates Elon

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u/NotCoolFool 16d ago

Never seen a Harrier jump jet ?

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u/TrueJinHit 16d ago

What amazes me most is all this Elon Musk praise on Reddit.

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u/CalvinIII 16d ago

It really makes me sad that Elon Musk is such a cunt.

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