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I watched it from a roof top in downtown Orlando. The entire office staff of my client was out there on the roof.

Very cool stuff.



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Watching the footage of those side boosters landing simultaneously gave me goosebumps, that was incredible. Eek


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Two out of three ain't bad. I saw an interview with Elon Musk earlier today before the launch and he said he'd like to believe the launch had a 66% chance of being successful.

Agreed. Word is the last burn to leave Earth orbit and head past Mars into heliocentric orbit was successful. Big Grin
 
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Watching the footage of those side boosters landing simultaneously gave me goosebumps, that was incredible. Eek


That and some of the higher altitude launch footage looks so fake! Big Grin I know it wasn't, and maybe it's because it was on a small Youtube window, but I kept thinking "I can't believe how phony this all looks".


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Meh.

The earth is flat.




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Watching the footage of those side boosters landing simultaneously gave me goosebumps, that was incredible. Eek


That and some of the higher altitude launch footage looks so fake! Big Grin I know it wasn't, and maybe it's because it was on a small Youtube window, but I kept thinking "I can't believe how phony this all looks".


Funny - you aren’t the only one -

Musk says of the live view of the Tesla and Starman: "I think it looks ridiculous and impossible," he said. "You can tell it's real because it looks so fake. We'd have way better CGI if it was fake."
 
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I drove over to my mom's house today and spent the day with her. Had a very nice view on the water. Toes in the water at launch time. An amazing day for the American space program. I took these screen shots off the SpaceX live feed. How fucking cool are these pictures!! REAL pictures,so ridiculous, they look fake, but they are MFing real!






Launching a convertible to Mars is epic. That guy is epic.


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My wife and I think it's a scream that Starman is riding with the top down and will be for a billion years.


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If aliens ever find this it will totally screw with their heads, trying to figure out what this is and why it’s there.


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I can only hope that the little fatty with the bouffant hairstyle is watching this from his palace in Pingpong and thinking to himself - 'The person who did this is just a citizen of the USA who happens to want to do it for his own fun, and maybe make a few bucks off the back of it. And I want to go to war with this nation. Am I ****ing nuts, or what?'

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^^^

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Evening news reporting they lost the center booster in a failed at sea landing attempt.

But still, watching that side by side landing of the twin side boosters was magical. SciFi becoming reality. Amazing!

Their release this morning apparently pointed to missing the drone ship by 328 feet with a collision speed of 300mph after only one of the three engines refired on landing. That explains the debris sprayed across the ship deck.

Hard to believe they don't have a camera or three in the area surrounding the ship, but I understand not wanting to release that video and they can do what they want with it. Regardless, a pretty cool venture.



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Meh.

The earth is flat.


I think smart people, all around the globe, agree on that.
 
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Meh.

The earth is flat.

Uhhhhhhh...nooooo. It's hollow.

Yup...this was pretty cool!!



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Why'd they choose to land the center rocket on the barge?

Did they need an extra challenge?
 
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Why'd they choose to land the center rocket on the barge?

Did they need an extra challenge?

As I understand the center core has to be landed at sea since it goes up much higher. To return back to land would require much more fuel usage. So it is more efficient to land at sea. Shortest distance and such.
 
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Why'd they choose to land the center rocket on the barge?

Did they need an extra challenge?


The center booster burned longer to get the second stage higher before separation. That ends up with the booster not having enough fuel and too much velocity / too many miles to reverse and land back at Kennedy. So they simply make a parabolic arc out of it and "catch" the booster with the drone ship. You see this happen when the place a satellite into high orbit or have a heavy payload and burn more fuel. Very cool solution.





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Can you imagine a space guy in about 1000 years comes up to the Tesla and asks, Can I call AAA for you? LOL


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