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> This is the rocket that could make a lot of science fiction come true The irony is that those 1930s scifi stories with silver rockets landing vertically on d
by iso1631 7y ago
> This is the rocket that could make a lot of science fiction come true
The irony is that those 1930s scifi stories with silver rockets landing vertically on distant planets, which looked so ridiculous in the 80s with the Shuttle being the future, look like that's exactly what the future will be.
Seeing the 2 boosters landing side by side after the first Heavy launch was something out of a scifi film.
- mips_avatar 7y agoI can clearly remember the day of the Falcon Heavy launch. I almost cried when the fairing came off and starman in his tesla was in open space, it was so incredible. I think a lot of people clearly remember that day, probably more so than the 2018 superbowl which was played 2 days earlier.
- SEJeff 7y agoI was at kennedy space center at the Apollo / Saturn V center and was pretty much in hysterical happy tears when the side boosters came in for the landing. It was magical.
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- iso1631 7y agoI'm not into food, but that video - and SpaceX know how to do publicity - made me very hopeful that I will get to see people landing on Mars in my lifetime.
- zaroth 7y agoEither a hilarious autocorrect, or someone is testing out Facebook’s new chatbot.
- NotSammyHagar 7y agospace -> food that's quite a typo. Aren't we at the point that you could have lots of bots ruining sites like this by posting things like that? It seems doable to do even today. I really enjoy technical/cultural/watercooler conversations with a like group of technical scientific people. hope it doesn't go away.
- iso1631 7y agoI assume "2018 superbowl" is some pasta cooking competition?
- tpmx 7y agoI remember seeing it around or just after midnight when I was visiting a customer in Taipei. I had fallen asleep two hours earlier, but set a timer to wake up just for this historic event. Totally worth it. That was one the best executived live streams of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
- sq_ 7y agoThat really was an incredible thing to watch. I still tear up a bit when I watch the "Falcon Heavy and Starman" video that they posted a few days later...
- Already__Taken 7y agomy mum's a bit if a nerd but I don't think she's been as excited as seeing those two rockets land since she first saw star wars when it came out.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 7y agoI've noticed that- I watch a lot of MST3K and it's always a 50s Sci-fi flick that show rockets landing vertically like SpaceX. They also really like to explain gravity and orbital mechanics at length in every movie because this stuff was all so new and cool!