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There was something doubly awesome about the two falcons landing at the same time right next to each other!
by zhoujianfu 9y ago
There was something doubly awesome about the two falcons landing at the same time right next to each other!
- aphextron 9y agoCan confirm this was the greatest thing I've ever witnessed in my life. https://youtu.be/AGPH_i0ZlyM?t=56 https://youtu.be/AGPH_i0ZlyM?t=56
- protonimitate 9y agoThere's something awesome (in the literal sense) and unsettling about watching something and being able to say "I am witnessing history".
- DannyB2 9y agoWhen I saw the first successful booster landing I realized I was seeing history. When I saw the first successful booster landing on a drone ship I realized I was again watching history.
- jfarlow 9y agoAnd there's still more! Live Webcam from Spaceman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
- chisleu 9y agoAll of this insane expense and amazing science and they couldn't make a VR360 camera happen. :(
- jacquesm 9y agoTough crowd. I'm rather more amazed at what did happen than at what did not.
- chisleu 9y agoI guess "amazing science" wasn't strong enough for you. If we were able to look around 360 from the POV of the driver, rather than getting the two feeds, it would be better. It doesn't cost a lot to put a lens on the camera you have, provided it was high enough resolution. Even a 1080 can do 360, but 4-8k is better. I'm not sure what happened that was new here other than the PR of putting a car into solar orbit. They landed their 20 something rocket vertically. They crashed another one or something. It just seems like a lot of expense and science to stop at a normal camera.
- jacquesm 9y agoAmazing. Do you honestly believe that what you've just witnessed is prioritized in terms of the quality of the video feed rather than everything else that just happened? Do you even begin to appreciate the challenges in getting a 4-8k feed from space to earth? I've been in the video business from '95 to 2015 and there is so much going on behind the scenes from even a simple live stream from a spacecraft to earth that I am wondering what it would have taken for you to be satisfied. FWIW I've personally done the Internet portion of two Space shuttle launches live-stream to earth and I can tell you that nothing about such an event is 'simple' by any stretch of the imagination. 2.5 million people watched that stream and it 'just worked'. This never was about the quality of the feed (which is nothing short of amazing by the way), but about testing a new rocket. The fact that only one of the three first stages didn't make it is also quite impressive. Yes, it was PR. But given the amount of work that went into this I figure they were entitled a bit of leeway. This comment is totally out of place on a site like this, and it makes me wonder (1) what incredible stuff you've been up to today and (2) whether or not you are even remotely aware of any of the complexity a feat like today's launch entails to put you in a position to criticize any of this rather than to accept it in gratitude and wonder. Keep in mind that according to Elon Musk there was a 50% chance the whole thing blew up on the pad I'd say they got their priorities right and spent what time and budget they had on the main item rather than on the PR bit.
- geerlingguy 9y agoI’m guessing it’s bandwidth and tech limitations. They don’t have a very fat pipe up there, and they also have tons of experience with the type of camera they have mounted in there... maybe they didn’t have time to test and certify any modern 360 cameras. Hopefully it’ll happen sometime though!
- chisleu 9y agoI think bandwidth isn't the issue. You can do 360 with a 4k feed. I expect it was more of a issue of hardware that would make it past Mars without space killing it.
- cududa 9y ago“Wahhh my live streaming video of a car flying through space isn’t in the medium I want”
- anonytrary 9y agoYou do realize this guy basically did the bottle flip with two fucking rockets in unison? Then again he calculated it, which is more than we can say for the countless teenagers trying to flip bottles in on their tables for views.
- tejtm 9y ago@$#%^%# light pollution everywhere. turn down those %$%@%# lights so we can see the ^#@&^^% stars. (...yes I do know it is the ol Sol)
- taneq 9y agoIt's not quite our generation's "one small step for Man" moment (I'm saving that for when we actually land a human on Mars) but it's damn close.
- avmich 9y agoI hope it's not close to our generational moonshot. We've had quite a few impressive launchers in the past - not commercial, of course, but also built without current level of accumulated experience - so to consider FH their modern version would be to accept lowering the standards. Nevertheless :) FH first launch is an impressive feat.
- taneq 9y agoIf they keep going the way they're going, I think our generation's moonshot is going to be a Mars-shot.
- Cogito 9y agoIf you haven't seen it there is some, according to Armstrong 'persuasive', evidence[0] that he did in fact say 'one small step for a man'. [0] https://www.space.com/17307-neil-armstrong-one-small-step-quote.html https://www.space.com/17307-neil-armstrong-one-small-step-qu...
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- toomanybeersies 9y agoStrictly speaking, every time you watch something you're witnessing history.
- dang 9y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive comments here.
- latj 9y agoDid anyone else notice that the bottom two windows are not different cameras on different boosters? The guy even told us, "I know they look similar but they're different". Nope, they are the same. Watch how you can see two pads and they both land on the pad on the right. And you can see the second booster burning in the same orientation. The roads leading to the pads also make it easy to notice.
- geerlingguy 9y agoFor this launch the live stream editors probably had 4x the normal amount of feeds to switch, so I’ll forgive them for a couple editing mishaps. I’m guessing they don’t have the same setup as would be at something like the Super Bowl... at least not yet :)
- ygra 9y agoThey also failed to show the fairing separation view when the music started and repeated that shot after the stream was essentially over. I guess a lot of things were just new and not quite like normal F9 launches (where presentation has been largely flawless for a while now).
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- mrfusion 9y agoI think the cameras were just on opposite sides so the different pads looked to be on the same side, no?
- manicdee 9y agoNah, the two feeds were identical including a portion of the other booster’s rocket plume in the top left. The two pads are different colours, both feeds showed the rocket landing on the lighter pad. Hopefully we will get a corrected version for the official movie!
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- elmar 9y agoI fell this is the most important moment in space exploration since the Apollo landing, but I don't see a big coverage in mainstream media. Elon is probably on the trajectory to be remembered as the biggest entrepreneur ever.
- chasd00 9y agoI don't fanoboi much but Elon gets me pretty close. He's done 5 lifetimes of work before hitting 50.
- botskonet 9y agoI would say, "since the ISS". The ISS isn't as exciting as sending humans to another celestial body, but we'll never get to Mars without the lessons learned and it's an amazing feat.
- cvaidya1986 9y agoWe are constantly witnessing history.
- jfarlow 9y agoI've not smiled so hard in quite a while :)
- toomuchtodo 9y agoWatching both boosters come back to land in person was straight out of sci-fi. My non tech interested wife was cheering for both boosters to land safely. “What world am I in!?” Thanks SpaceX for making us excited about space again.
- clw8 9y agoThe floating Tesla was pretty cool too...
- oh-kumudo 9y agoMagic...how could it be so steady!
- plexicle 9y agoA link to the official YT... much better: https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m17s https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m17s
- pacetherace 9y agoI am pretty sure at some point in history, launching two rockets at the same moment must have been a big achievement. And now you have two rockets (in some sense boosters are rockets) landing back at the same time.
- bigiain 9y agoI own this tshirt - which commemorates the first time we had two humans in orbit at the same time in different spacecraft: https://shop.sovietvisuals.com/products/vostok-1962-shirt-aa https://shop.sovietvisuals.com/products/vostok-1962-shirt-aa
- wlll 9y agoIs it just me, or are those both the same landing pad but with different cameras?
- stevekenney318 9y agothey sure looked like the same landing pad to me ... and the videos of 'each booster' all the way down seemed to be from the same booster to me.
- codeulike 9y agoYep I believe on the live feed they showed the same booster camera twice. You can tell when they land and you see the landing pad coming up. Maybe this was a mistake, or maybe one of the boosters wasn't returning video and someone improvised? Its a bit weird.
- stevekenney318 9y agoyeah, I thought so too ... even when she said they were 2 different video feeds. It was still an amazing launch and dual landing !!
- codeulike 9y agoUpdate: SpaceX posted a new video with the correct feed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE
- narrator 9y agoI get a headache watching Star Wars like sci-fi where everything is manually controlled by the pilot. How did sci-fi get so disconnected from the actual future?
- DavidHm 9y agoStar Wars is not sci-fi, it's a cross between space fantasy and space opera. The list of better sci-fi movies is long.
- SeoxyS 9y agoFrom wikipedia > Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking > A science fantasy is a cross-genre within the umbrella of speculative fiction which simultaneously draws upon and/or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy Star Wars is 100% science fiction.
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- InclinedPlane 9y agoThe core difference between science-fiction and fantasy goes back to the philosophical debates about the nature of the universe in ancient greece, the difference between a mechanistic view of the Universe (which we have come to accept as the foundation of science) and a teleological view of the Universe. Star Wars has a teleologic view of the Universe, it's baked into the DNA of the material. "The Force", the light side, the dark side, being "strong in the force" based on your heritage, and so on. That's the foundation of Star Wars. Star Wars is not science fiction, it is fantasy or mythology in a science-fictional setting. It is fusion cuisine.
- nerfhammer 9y agoIt clearly doesn't meet some definitions of science fiction but would still be almost universally called that. Try (getting in a time machine and) going to a Blockbuster Video and try to convince them that Star Wars doesn't belong in the science fiction section. > teleological view of the Universe. Almost all fiction is almost completely teleological. Nothing ever happens by accident in fiction, everything that happens has a human motivational cause. The characters' incredibly improbable and complicated schemes almost never fail by accident as they very likely actually would but always due to confrontation or betrayal. (See also: political narratives.) The human brain just cannot help but pay attention to sex, alliances, confrontation and betrayal. The Force being with you by birth is a bad theme because it takes away the humanity of the people that have it. They succeed or fail in part not because of their intentions but because of magic stuff they happen to have that you cannot have. It's painful to watch.
- zdwolfe 9y agoYa, was stunning.. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/961084879432597504 https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/961084879432597504
- ggregoire 9y agoOfficial picture of the landing: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0NPoU0AAMWk6.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0NPoU0AAMWk6.jpg
- oevi 9y agoHere they are in full resolution: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/with/25254688767/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/with/25254688767/
- bojanvidanovic 9y agoWow, just wow! And huge congrats to SpaceX!
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- yetihehe 9y agoFor some time both streams looked like they were the same. That synchronization!
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- dgritsko 9y agoIt's unbelievable how precise the landings were: https://imgur.com/570TgAI https://imgur.com/570TgAI
- DangerousPie 9y agoThey were the same. In the end you could see both of them heading for the same landing pad before they cut to fullscreen.
- yetihehe 9y agoThey were not, I've watched closely and right before slowdown burn, attitude engines were firing a little late on one. It was only parts of a second, but clearly visible if you watched closely.
- quentusrex 9y agoThere was a mistake as in the feed they claimed they were separate, but in fact it was a duplicate of the same stream: https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2268 https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=2268
- naikrovek 9y agoTwo cameras on one rocket, not the same stream twice from one camera.
- collinmanderson 9y agoFixed now: https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=1443 https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=1443
- madamelic 9y agoThat was absolutely insane. When I saw that, all I could think about was seeing hundreds of those and that scene being as mundane as a plane landing.
- rplst8 9y agoIt feels like the human race is starting to master space travel. It's probably just an illusion, but I feel like we're entering a new era.
- DonaldPShimoda 9y agoThese are only baby steps at the beginning of the adventure.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoBut. We are making them! I've almost lost hope around the end of the Space Shuttle program. I thought it will be only satellites, ISS and occasional science probe launches. SpaceX single-handedly restored my faith in the future of space activities again, and with other player on the scene, we now have realistic hope of seeing an actual industry in space within our lifetimes.
- kuschku 9y agoAnd the amazing thing is, even if SpaceX should fail, an entire industry has started to happen. Arianespace has spent years developing new rocket engines specifically for reusability, and has started building prototype rockets. Bezos’ company has mastered landing, and is directly building their mars rocket. In 5 years we’ll likely see at least 3 major companies up there with SpaceX, and true competition in space.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoYes! Moreover, there's lots of companies in every vertical needed for bootstrapping the industry - ground services, satellites, in-space manufacturing, asteroid prospecting & mining... all in the early stage, all betting on cheaper access to space than it was just few years ago. We're in a critical moment where things suddenly start adding up and - I hope - will form something great!
- andygates 9y ago
- clon 9y agoOpen a chapter about "History of the 21st century" and this image will be there.
- Scramblejams 9y agohttps://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m48s https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m48s
- gdubs 9y agoYea, unreal. One of those rare moments when you're watching history unfold and completely aware of it.
- smnscu 9y agoAlmost brought me to tears! What a historical event! Wish I could've been there.
- StillBored 9y agoYes, that was pretty SF. So, whats to stop them attaching an additional two (or more) to the existing rocket now that they have the basic synchronization worked out.
- hesdeadjim 9y agoMusk has said there is no reason they can't attach two more in the future.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThat would be simply Kerbal.
- MBCook 9y agoHonestly it’s amazing how much better I understand this and other space stuff I’ve seen in the last year or two (like shows about Apollo, etc) since playing KSP. No better way to learn basic orbital dynamics out there.
- jotm 9y agoSpaceX should create their own space simulator or buy KSP, let players test and sort out various problems - crowdsourcing! :D
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThey don't need to buy anything. Related visuals (models and textures of KSP rockets) were already made and are maintained by the community, and all they need to do to crowdsource a test is to post it on Reddit. I guarantee you, hundreds of players will try to one-up one another on that one. (Hell, I might even be among them.)
- elihu 9y agoI guess they'd have to make the center rocket stronger to handle the added force of more rockets. Also, there may be diminishing returns when it comes to adding more boosters, and at some point it makes more sense to just redesign the rocket to be bigger (hence the BFR, which is the planned successor to Falcon Heavy).
- sophacles 9y agoWatching that made me realize I now have to re-evaluate many "bad sci-fi scenes" into "pretty accurate predictions of the future"!
- megy 9y agoSo true. Was that just a happy coincidence? I wonder how much work went into coordinating there landings.
- Savageman 9y agoWell they do separate at the same time and fly the same path back to earth so not a coincidence (though it's really satisfying)
- zerostar07 9y agogravity i guess
- verytrivial 9y agoIt was almost a brain stack-overflow for me. I made a weird, bleating laugh noise and tried to open my eyes wider than design spec. A sincerely surprising and amazing sight.
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- heurist 9y agoI looked around my office expecting that someone else was watching and as stunned as I was. No one else was watching :(
- lasermike026 9y agoLike a ballet.
- toephu2 9y agoSeriously, I was in awe, it looked so futuristic. The future is here now. It's crazy what we humans are capable of in this year 2018.
- srcmap 9y agoThey should name the landing "Double Eagle" or "Double Falcons".
- taneq 9y agoIn the past few years we've gone from not even having a reusable launch vehicle to synchronized spaceships as performance art. (Oh and sending a car to Mars for fun.) What a time to be alive.
- imron 9y agoI remember watching the artists impression animation video of how the the falcon heavy launch and landing would proceed, and when it showed both boosters landing at the same time I thought "heh, I wonder if they'll be able to pull that off in real life", and they did! Almost identical with the animation.
- meerita 9y agoMy skin went in chicken skin mode automatically :)
- andygates 9y agoEven when we know that each one is fully automatic, and really (after staging) the booster return is just two instances of $booster, it's still absolutely magnificent.