Background on the Falcon 9 Launch

Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by dcgoss on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @09:54PM (#10781721)

Elon's whole gravity explanation is essentially a textual version of this excellent video/demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTY1Kje0yLg (19 million views). Highly recommended, very memorable.

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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by enraged_camel on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @10:12PM (#10781750)

Yep, came here to post this. The funny thing is that there was a post about that video a while back, and the HN crowd criticized it pretty heavily for being a bad way to explain gravity. But... whatever. :)

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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by mturmon on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @01:32AM (#10782256)

Here is the discussion, which was interesting but inconclusive about the merits of this rubber sheet model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542244

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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by alerkay on Thursday December 24, 2015 @03:57AM (#10787607)

Cool video, thanks!

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