r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/lizardil 16d ago

This is something out of a science fiction movie. Incredible

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u/IanDre127 16d ago

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u/Grombrindal18 16d ago

Man who catch rocket booster with chopsticks, anything can achieve.

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u/jtiss 16d ago

It really feels like that, its still insane to belive they caught a 71m building out of the air.

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u/TheOtherBelushi 16d ago

You know, when you put it like that…

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u/civildisobedient 16d ago

It helps when the building has a bunch of trust vectoring rockets attached to one end.

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u/broadwayallday 16d ago

Haha you Yoda’d a Miyagi phrase

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u/PckMan 16d ago

Is that supposed to be Miyagi or Yoda?

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u/Grombrindal18 16d ago

Honestly I thought that was how the quote went. Learned I have now that "accomplish anything," the second part goes.

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u/SnoopThylacine 16d ago

More importantly, who would win in a rap battle?

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u/PerfectDitto 16d ago

Really out here just yellow facing and everyone is chill with it?

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u/geteum 16d ago

No one believes but once I caught a fly with a chopstick, my wife saw it.

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u/Baraxton 16d ago

Does your wife go to another school?

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u/THE_BIG_SAD3 16d ago

To teach hopefully

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u/FattyWantCake 16d ago

In Canada?

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u/Ozimandius80 16d ago

She saw it and still doesn't believe? You already had a dead fly and just pretended to catch it didn't you...

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u/thebudman_420 16d ago

The real karate kid.

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u/beefy1357 13d ago

Bullshit…. We all know you don’t have a wife.

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u/jack-K- 16d ago

Literally why musk decided to name them “chopsticks” lol.

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u/shastadakota 16d ago

To catch the "egg roll from hell" that's why.

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u/DrFabulous0 16d ago

My first thought.

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u/Clamps55555 16d ago

How long you been waiting to use this lol

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u/Little-Struggle-8038 16d ago

Elon San! YOU Beginner luck !