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Seeing those boosters land will never get old. I drive by one on my way to work every day and it's just amazing how large they are.
by post_break 4y ago
Seeing those boosters land will never get old. I drive by one on my way to work every day and it's just amazing how large they are.
- WithinReason 4y agoAnd for some reason seeing 2 land at the same time is a 100 times cooler. Seems like coolness is non-linear.
- foobarian 4y agoBrings a tear to my eye every time I see them land ever so smoothly.
- geocrasher 4y agoYou're not alone. I watched it live before work this morning, and I simultaneously got the chills and started tearing up. It hits all of my aerospace nerd, rocket geek, engineering-minded nerves at the same time, and it's quite an experience.
- wzyoi 4y agoI think, to some degree, this is because we got used to seeing one landing.
- somenameforme 4y agoIt's hard to measure objectively but I feel I was dramatically more impressed seeing first Falcon Heavy come down than I was seeing the first successful (non-heavy) landing. I've shown a lot of people (who aren't otherwise into space) the original Falcon Heavy landing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c The most common response, by far, is: "Is that real?" It really is just that amazing. Even look at the YouTube comments. It's enough to make even the internet become a place of shared awe, wonder, and inspiration. Makes one wonder what the world would be like if we had media that focused more on things like this and less on things that divide and agitate people.
- digerata 4y agoI think two rockets landing at the same time, in unison, more accurately displays the fact both are under computer control. One landing could just be some person steering it. But two?
- agumonkey 4y agoHollywood must be very unhappy.
- stavros 4y agoI don't think you can extrapolate whether it's linear from two datapoints.
- itcrowd 4y agoThree datapoints (no launch is a datapoint too)
- ge96 4y agomargin-left: '2 miles';
- brookst 4y agoOur brains are wired to see twins (and symmetry) as evidence of intent as opposed to randomness. Lots of examples in art, and of course both the WTC twin towers and the 9/11 attacks. There’s more power seeing two of something.
- dsfyu404ed 4y ago>Our brains are wired to see twins (and symmetry) as evidence of intent as opposed to randomness. This seems like a massive over-generalization.
- nickserv 4y agoSymmetry is part of beauty across time and culture. For example people with more facial symmetry are considered better looking.
- treis 4y agoYes, but it's not evidence of intent. It's lack of deformity and disease.
- brookst 4y agoPerhaps? Can you think of a counter-example, where seeing an event happen once is more attention-getting and memorable than seeing the event happen twice in a row in quick succession? Imagine you see a herd of deer trotting along, and one goes down. A hole, or ditch, or maybe a predator? Now imagine two deer go down at nearly the same time. Different implications, or at least different probabilities to the possible implications. I'll stand by my over-generalization for now, but I'm open to counter-examples.
- samizdis 4y agoWhen I was a kid, I used to watch Thunderbirds [1], which I loved dearly - except that I always thought it fanciful to show Thunderbirds 1 and 3 landing upright back at the Tracy Island base. Many, many years later, of course, my scepticism was erased by watching exactly that happen in real life, courtesy of SpaceX's Falcon 9. Inspirational and astonishing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)
- arrel 4y agoHere’s the vertical landing scene: https://youtu.be/JuhahPrF7gk https://youtu.be/JuhahPrF7gk
- wiz21c 4y agoThere's also Tintin in 1952 the landing https://youtu.be/819TMe9-Oyc?t=2183 https://youtu.be/819TMe9-Oyc?t=2183 the comics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_on_the_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_on_the_Moon
- cryptoz 4y agoSpaceX Crew-1 and Thunderbirds mashup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPxTnJc9Zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPxTnJc9Zk I cannot wait for the Starship version...
- twh270 4y agoI haven't seen one up-close (yet!) but I agree. This was pure science fiction when I grew up, watching a booster landing is a thrill every time.
- Ptchd 4y agoToo bad they didn't recover the third one.
- lxe 4y agoIt almost looks like CGI, probably because we've seen this happen countless times in various Sci Fi shows and movies.
- dylan604 4y agoWell, Apollo missions used miniatures on a sound stage instead of CGI. /s