SpaceX successfully test launches their Falcon Heavy. Another step into humanity’s Space faring future
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:20 pm    Post subject: SpaceX successfully test launches their Falcon Heavy. Another step into humanity’s Space faring future



That simultaneous booster landing.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:31 pm    Post subject:

I didn't think I'd get so emotional over that. Goodness that was awesome.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:37 pm    Post subject:

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:37 pm    Post subject:

yeah watched the livestream and i felt like cheering alongside the SpaceX folks! what an awesome achievement for them, just amazing.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:47 pm    Post subject:

Our office stopped today so we could watch this.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:51 pm    Post subject:

Kinda reminded me of Serleena's space ship landing in MIB II
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:00 pm    Post subject:

Absolutely amazing.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:23 pm    Post subject:

The imagery of that roadster with Starman behind the wheel heading off on its interplanetary journey is seriously one of the coolest effing things I've ever seen.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:58 pm    Post subject:

That was cool
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:06 pm    Post subject:

photo of the third burn from Las Vegas ...took me a couple of minutes to grab the camera so it's not much

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:38 pm    Post subject: Re: SpaceX successfully test launches their Falcon Heavy. Another step into humanity’s Space faring future

mhan00 wrote:
https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c

That simultaneous booster landing.
that was beautiful to see.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:45 pm    Post subject:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars

lol. i guess the roadster is going to the asteroid belt instead.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:40 am    Post subject:

DaMuleRules wrote:
The imagery of that roadster with Starman behind the wheel heading off on its interplanetary journey is seriously one of the coolest effing things I've ever seen.


Was going to post something about this. Such a baller.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:34 am    Post subject:

Bummer.

The mission wasn't a complete success.

The main core rocket either blew up or landed in the ocean.


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https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7nx9/what-happened-to-spacex-falcon-heavy-central-core-third-rocket


The people want to know what happened to the core of SpaceX’s biggest rocket.

About two hours after the rocket, the Falcon Heavy, launched, two of its three reusable rockets had successfully touched back down on their launchpads. But they’re only reusable if they don’t blow up, and the third, the center core engine, is officially unaccounted for.

The core was supposed to land on what SpaceX called a “drone ship” — a robotic, unmanned, floating landing pad — in the Atlantic Ocean. But in a SpaceX livestream of the launch, a voice announces, “We lost the center core." The third rocket didn’t land as intended, according to the Verge, although SpaceX has yet to confirm.

Update 7:54 P.M.

Musk confirmed the core crashed into the ocean during a press conference Tuesday evening.

Twitter, understandably, freaked out in the interim.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:11 am    Post subject:

jonnybravo wrote:
DaMuleRules wrote:
The imagery of that roadster with Starman behind the wheel heading off on its interplanetary journey is seriously one of the coolest effing things I've ever seen.


Was going to post something about this. Such a baller.


I really don't think it would be possible to one up a guy who can say he sent an electric car that he built into space on a rocket that he built.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:39 am    Post subject:

Wait for the BFR. That is where they are pouring most of their resources into. Its supposed to be man rated so it could possibly carry a crew to Mars. Also its supposed to be 11-12 times more powerful than the Falcon Heavy.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:43 am    Post subject:

The synchronzied landing of the rockets brought me to tears when I saw it
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:07 am    Post subject:

This is gonna be the image of 2018:

https://i.redd.it/h3vkkjkj6oe01.png
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:07 pm    Post subject:

“I’m trippin balls here.”

Love that guy.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:25 pm    Post subject:

Dladi Vidac wrote:
“I’m trippin balls here.”

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:36 pm    Post subject:

That was beautiful on so many levels. I grew up reading authors like Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. They would be shedding tears of joy.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 3:46 pm    Post subject:

I watch every one of the SpaceX tests. This was the best one yet...I had no idea they were going to synchronize booster landings. Hoooooly (bleep). Beautiful.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:05 pm    Post subject:

center core vid.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 2:54 pm    Post subject:

The Flat Earthers are RIGHT!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 3:50 pm    Post subject:

Printed on the circuit board of a car in deep space
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