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  • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    I'm pretty sure it's you. Don't watch.
    Not what i meant
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    • Re: Space exploration: Where do we go from here?

      Freaking. Awesome. Successful launch, successful first stage recovery.

      Really wish I could have been home to see it.

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          Originally posted by hockeyplayer1015 View Post
          Freaking. Awesome. Successful launch, successful first stage recovery.

          Really wish I could have been home to see it.
          Too bad they didn't show the landing live- they blacked out the actual landing on the drone ship. Given how new that is to space flight, that's one of my major highlights of modern launches.

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            After watching numerous launches in my 60 years, that still gave me goosebumps!

            Awesome, amazing, riveting...
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              Originally posted by MarkEagleUSA View Post
              After watching numerous launches in my 60 years, that still gave me goosebumps!

              Awesome, amazing, riveting...
              Me too. I also don't think I've ever been so nervous. I felt that disaster was completely possible. I've lost a lot of faith that we are in complete control when we launch.
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                Originally posted by alfablue View Post
                Too bad they didn't show the landing live- they blacked out the actual landing on the drone ship. Given how new that is to space flight, that's one of my major highlights of modern launches.
                Do you think that was intentional? I wondered if it was a snafu. They also had a hiccup right when the 2nd stage separated.

                I have to admit the first time I saw them land in place on the sea platform I thought, "that... wait... is that possible?" I expected a very, very slow descent but f-cker stuck like a lawn dart.
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                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  Do you think that was intentional? I wondered if it was a snafu. They also had a hiccup right when the 2nd stage separated.

                  I have to admit the first time I saw them land in place on the sea platform I thought, "that... wait... is that possible?" I expected a very, very slow descent but f-cker stuck like a lawn dart.
                  Normally, I seem to recall that the landing is almost the same time as the landing firing event- and this time it very much wasn't. And they had the camera there exactly the same time as the burn time. So think they worried that they lost the stage in landing, and pulled the picture (to show later as a failure).

                  Odd that it was not second precise- especially since they hit a tiny little circle in the middle of the ocean on a floating barge.

                  Still, that is the coolest thing in modern launching. Especially the lawn dart look- see this streak coming down, a bright flash, and it's touchdown.

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                    So the plan to dock is about 10:30am EST- but watching a live feed, they now think it may be early- as some of the events are coming early. While that seems good, as an engineer, I would wonder if this is unexpected- as any change in the system, early or late, is not actually nominal in terms of all calculations.

                    Anyway, the live feed is now the slow, slow, slow part of space travel. The dragon in close enough to the ISS that they are filming them live. But it's still about 2 hours away from docking. I'm sure this is very nerve wracking for the SpaceX group, though.

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                      DOCKED. (almost an hour ago from this post)

                      And soon the hatches will be all open.

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                      • Originally posted by alfablue View Post
                        Normally, I seem to recall that the landing is almost the same time as the landing firing event- and this time it very much wasn't. And they had the camera there exactly the same time as the burn time. So think they worried that they lost the stage in landing, and pulled the picture (to show later as a failure).

                        Odd that it was not second precise- especially since they hit a tiny little circle in the middle of the ocean on a floating barge.

                        Still, that is the coolest thing in modern launching. Especially the lawn dart look- see this streak coming down, a bright flash, and it's touchdown.
                        https://youtu.be/hH75bVG7HBo

                        Stumbled upon this in my recommendations, it makes sense to explain it. I do recall seeing, maybe not entirely disrupted video, but atleast distorted video with previous landings.

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                        • I had no idea. I assumed they went in an instant. They lived for 165 seconds.
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                          • It takes awhile for the magnitude of this to hit you, but when it does...
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                            • Somebody plugged different arbitrary values into the Drake equation and generated a different arbitrary result.
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                              • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                                Somebody plugged different arbitrary values into the Drake equation and generated a different arbitrary result.
                                I find the Drake equation to basically just be a scam to get published at this point.
                                In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.

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                                I look at some people and I just know they do it doggy style. No way they're getting close to my kids.

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