Anyone else waiting to see the big firework?
Linkage?
Spice Girls?
There's already a thread about this, but I prefer this one.
Which YouTube feed is giving the best viewing experience?
Spacex channel
Trump's been quiet, any chance Musk has strapped him into the cockpit ?
His old sports car is the payload. With a "dummy" in the driver's seat.
"Dummy". Yeah, right. Beats burying your victim under the patio.
Do you think they'll play this as it launches?
T-12.
So excited by this!
I may have opened the channel at the wrong time, but it all seems splendidly phallic.
woooahhh!!!!
whooosh
MECO!
How cool was that!
Fantastic. Way to go, Douglas.
Spacex - the new cosmic century.
those boosters landing is still bloody impressive!
Twin landings together. How cool was that!!!
Well that was pretty awesome 🙂
WOW
That is literally one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
also, that’s the fastest car ever made
Its a new era now, no hyperbole.
That simultaneous booster landing was very impressive!
Hope the centre core made it back too.
Utterly amazing, all over in less than 10 mins
Just incredible!!!!
That was impressive wasn’t it.
That was flipping awesome.
Just wow.
just.... staggering.
Waiting for news of the central core - however, even if it missed the pad, it's still an incredible achievement.
The numbers on the speedo are pretty "WOW" too. They clock up at what looks to be a reasonable rate to around 1200 kph, get through peak dynamic load, and then blammo, full throttle, less drag and an ever lighter craft and it's like the clocks gone into fast forwards!
Waiting for news of the central core – however, even if it missed the pad, it’s still an incredible achievement.
Yeah. Two out of three ain't bad!
That was awesome. Brilliant stuff
…But what about the core? Nothing on Twitter etc yet that i can find. Hope it made it too
Utterly, gloriously, bonkersly fabulous!
Live stream of starman - wind it back to the begining to see some stunning shots of Earth
Stig In Space.
I have to say this was truly fantastic. The site of those 2 rockets touching down together was incredible and I just hope the third one landed okay on the drone ship.
Just been looking on the Space X site for jobs and they have one for me....hmm
Phenomenal!
Is Elon Musk the most perfect villain of all time?
"Is Elon Musk the most perfect villain of all time?"
Yup. Total Bond villain.
One of the most impressive things I have ever seen, simply awesome.
Shame to see out news would rather focus on the usual brexit, mulsim bollox rather than a proper bit of human endeavour.
Elon’s sense of showmanship is what caps it off, its like “if I had all the money in the world whats the mist fun I could have?”
He is starting to rank up there with Brunel as a person who actually gets engineering stuff done.
It highlights how much balls, fluff, wasted time and profit chasing there is in current engineering companies.
As I said on the other thread.... that launch was just ****ing awesome and the simultaneous landing was like something out of Thunderbirds! Even the wife was impressed!
Such a shame the centre core didn't make it, but they'll put more fuel in next time and hopefully it will be job jobbed.
They make NASA look like a bunch of part-timers in some ways.
Whenever I'm feeling in need of inspiration I just rewatch a SpaceX launch/landing on youtube - makes me realise just how great technology, and business, can be.
Currently read the Elon Musk book and it's fascinating - fairly unhappy childhood and it looks like he's just having fun doing what he loves now.
Very driven guy that seems like he can be a hard task-master (not really surprising).
but they’ll put more fuel in next time and hopefully it will be job jobbed.
I've got a sneaking suspicion it wont be quite as simple as that.
seems like he can be a hard task-master (not really surprising).
A friend of my S-I-L works for SpaceX. Apparently he's never worked so hard before, but in a good way, as everyone is really pushing towards the same goals
There's an electric car documentary film on Prime that's an interesting watch (although a bit dated now), shows how close Tesla came to failing and Elon trying to juggle all that stress with 6 or 7 kids - I can't say I envied him...