Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife reserve

Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by upwardbound on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:16PM (#35749047)

Compared to making life multiplanetary, destroying one van seems inconsequential.

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by JKCalhoun on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:35PM (#35749144)

I think it's a little annoying how avoidable it was though.

Aside: by chance I happened to be in the area so headed down and saw the launch. That was a trip.

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by jdm2212 on Friday April 28, 2023 @10:21PM (#35749426)

If you watch an old Saturn V launch video, they have the same slowness at liftoff. Really gives a sense of of how gigantic the thing is. You've stuck rockets onto the bottom of a skyscraper and are trying to loft it into the air.

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by lonelygirl15a on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:34AM (#35753237)

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...

Tyranny of the rocket equation

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by Zigurd on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:15PM (#35757787)

It didn't just seem to struggle. Some of the YouTubers covering SpaceX calculated the acceleration curves. It was substantially under max power, in part due to failed engines.

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by cratermoon on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:38PM (#35749158)

Yeah, it was a bit more than one van.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enB2QL9Ulus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLfs376wXE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnMM1lObp0Y

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by CTDOCodebases on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:42PM (#35749180)

You might want to fix the first link. It's a video of a cats weight loss journey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enB2QL9Ulus

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by cratermoon on Friday April 28, 2023 @10:39PM (#35749513)

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by JerryB77 on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:50PM (#35749235)

It made my day, I vote to keep it

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by arretevad on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:07AM (#35750208)

Isn’t life already multiplanetary? There’s no way we are the only planet with the only life. Seems like we are just destroying vans for no reason. Also seems like we are destroying this planet for no reason.

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Re:Exploded SpaceX rocket devastated a town and a wildlife r... by Zigurd on Saturday April 29, 2023 @06:09PM (#35757748)

The lesson of attempting a Mars colony will likely be "life is a planetary system." and we will find out just how ill suited we are to being stripped of our environment for more than a few months at a time.

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