So this just happened.
"This is absolutely insane, on the first EVER attempt we have successfully caught the super heavy booster back at the launch tower..."
Truly incredible.
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Incredible. If you can’t get over Elons shitposting in the face of his accomplishments I just don’t know what to say. This is truly amazing.
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Pretty much the only thing that gets me excited about humanity’s prospects these days is watching SpaceX pull off crazy fucking shit like this over and over
Thank you for this incredible video. Like from another world 👽🛸
Amazing feats of engineering.
And they nailed the starship splashdown too.
I don’t follow this stuff that closely, so must be missing something.
How is this that much more impressive than the rockets that land themselves?
That is insane. Awesome. The better it gets the better it gets.
Dude, wut?
😱🤯
Legit question. Feel like I’m missing part of the significance
Absolutely mint, thanks for posting the video.
The scale.
I’m speechless. Amazing.
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Unbelievable
Thank you. Figured that must be it, but honestly want sure. Must be failing to grasp difference
I prefer the government way just throw away $50 billion rockets into the ocean each time then increase everyone's taxes
Ok, that is cool
NASA is amazing...
It so incredible that it I get tears in my eyes
Just Wow!!!💖
If only there were not literally thousands of people (and some of our friends) there, recording it on their phone...
This is so mind blowing awesome. Seeing this makes me strangely proud that this is an American company progressing space travel for all humans. Not sure how we get the collective public to lean into this more and recapture that 1960’s space race energy.
Not NASA, that’s Space X
Sorry...was a bit of sarcasm...
Oh lol. Missed that. 🫡
When’s the last time Canada launched a rocket?
Yeah, I should have dropped an emoji when I posted it...(sorry)
Fake
This one lands at its actually launching tower, the tower grabs it in the air, this was the first attempt, and this rocket is bigger than the statue of liberty.
Those other rockets that you've likely seen land themselves are way smaller.
Thanks. I feel dumb not appreciating the achievement right away 😅
The shockwave on the clouds when the rocket is close to the lunch tower 🤯🤯🤯
🎯 Bullseye!
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Bitcoin returning to 58k again be like
reminds me of the rubberband ball & cup toy (>_<) jk! good on engineers & all
can i believe my own effing eyes?
Lyn Alden doesn’t think this is anything special.
So? 😄
Crazy indeed! 🤯
Just calling out she has some weird takes on Musk, just as many other bitcoiners here suffering from MDS.
I mean that’s whatever. I legit don’t agree with ANYONE on everything. That does surprise me a little, but I also am not bothered at all 😁👍🏻
It doesn’t bother me either. Just here to stir the pot a little and pump the nostr numbers! 😀👍
What a day!
Remarkable
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Who?
Just for reference, this isn't perfectly accurate because i can't find exact measurements of the booster only, but the entire starship is a little over 400ft.
This makes the Statue of Liberty a tad taller than the booster alone from what it looks like, but this should give some references to try to picture the scale of what just happened and why this is a big deal.
This is the rocket that they expect to be able to potentially take humans (back? 🤔) to the moon and further, and it just launched into space, returned on its own, and was firmly and safely placed back to the exact same position where it will take off from for its next mission. 🤯
This is where you can see the workers in comparison...
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This is where you can see the workers in comparison...
Incredible engineering !
I disagree
This is a major accomplishment of all mankind
Elon is a dickhead. But I agree this is pretty impressive.
How the heck does the tower absorb that much shock of a giant rocket moving while it grabs it? Also, how does the rocket not fall apart from all the internal forces by being grabbed? This is beyond mindblowing
Every time I see one of these rockets land I am completely blown away. What an amazing feat of engineering!
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I thought everydayastronaut.com would have an article on the Starship specs but I can't seem to find it. I was following this very closely until about 2 years ago...
Fucking well done Elon 💪
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So cool!
Bullish
One of the most amazing things I have seen in my 63 years on this planet - beyond remarkable
Curious, do they think that starlink is fake satellite internet also, and/or that the rockets that take those up and land back on their landing sites is all fake as well? 🤔
I don’t quite see the point of such an elaborate faking and doing it over and over again thinking they wouldn’t get caught.
I've seen the whole launch landing process in person, not fake. quite impressive
Now if the asshole would just concentrate on just doing this kinda spectacular stuff he’d be a hero… But no.
Isn’t that gorgeous! Spectacular.
Do people in his companies say this? 🤔
Absolutamente incrível. Uma das raras vezes que testemunhamos um evento realmente histórico.
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In my experience he’s seen as the source of long term/ big picture direction.
And the precision. It has no landing legs so the margin of error is much smaller. If the catch fails, the tower is likely destroyed, thus no more launches for a long time. High stakes.
So cool, been listening to a lot of vintage scifi audio books recently, recommend if you are looking for great content untainted
ha really? Why do you say that?
Holy shit
Apparently she thinks Musk is just a salesman and not an engineer.
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Impressive 🚀
This is kinda mind blowing 🤯🚀👏🏆
Each of the boosters moves independently and you can watch them while they do. And there are correcting thrusters toward the top. You can see them fire every so often in most videos of the rockets landing.
This wasn’t an answer to my question though. So in your thinking all of the smaller rockets that have been doing this for years are fake too? What are your thoughts on starlink internet? Is that just fake or are they just lying about how they get them into orbit?