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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:02PM (#16319605)
They were the same. Don't know if they did this intentionally. I actually watched them for two minutes for that, and was 99% sure they're the same image, just translated a bit. The final confirmation came near the end, when the other booster entered the view, and you could see for sure, both rectangles streamed from the same camera.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by kffcc on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:24PM (#16322229)
It seems they fixed it. Here is the corrected version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE

The live (uncorrected) version for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wxV-lUsZg

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by subway on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:11PM (#16319737)
I thought it was interesting that they specifically said the two panels represent the two boosters. I don't think they ever directly claimed each video was from a different booster.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by leetrout on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:18PM (#16319825)
Ah interesting. I don't think that's what they meant. I think they did think it was 2 different views.

https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m10s "even though those look very similar those ... are representative of different boosters"

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by mcv on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:01AM (#16324792)
I think they were themselves a bit surprised they were so similar, and weren't yet sure whether they were from different boosters or not, so they kept it vague.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by jagger27 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:11PM (#16319733)
https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2224

I think you're right.

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by FranOntanaya on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:31PM (#16320001)
The landing pads were different in the preview, so it indeed looked like it was the same image. Also, no 3D/misalignment effect from cross-eyeing them.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by hazeii on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:35PM (#16320043)
They certainly looked very similar (as they would from that height) but the thruster firings were not at all synchronised (I thought the same thing, until I saw that).
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by leetrout on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:38PM (#16320066)
Here's proof they were the same- coming in to the same pad

https://imgur.com/a/u6sLs

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by pikchurn on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:03PM (#16319617)
They were not the same video feed.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by leetrout on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:06PM (#16319653)
They said in the broadcast they weren't but when it got close to the ground you could tell they were the same feed.

https://i.imgur.com/WXQEsKo.png

https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m49s

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by jagger27 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:12PM (#16319753)
You can see the flame from the other booster.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by leetrout on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:20PM (#16319861)
Agree, same view of the flame of the same booster, indicating it's the same camera on the same booster... the glare shows up in both feeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&feature=youtu.be...

If it were two different cameras we'd see two different landing pads. In the end of the video both feeds are coming down on the northern pad.

Edit: Here's the sat image from december with notes added https://imgur.com/a/u6sLs

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by naikrovek on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @08:45PM (#16321647)
They were two feeds from two cameras on the same rocket.

Since they are on the same rocket, you see them land on the same pad.

The rockets have redundant cameras, and through a probable misconfiguration we saw two feeds from two cameras on one rocket.

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by tylersmith on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:23PM (#16320921)
Those are not at all the same. You can see different parts of the ground. You can even tell that the source of the right stream was really to the left of the other one.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by Retra on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @09:08PM (#16321754)
You'd think it would be easy to tell. I mean, you see the other booster ignite in both views, which means they have to be looking toward each other - in opposite directions. I don't know about you, but when two people look in opposite directions they tend not to see the same things.
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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by quentusrex on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:07PM (#16319670)
They are the same video streams: https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2268

Wasn't intentional, but oops.

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Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches by javaes on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:07PM (#16319674)
at least at the landing they were, take a look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&feature=youtu.be...
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