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why is everyone cheering ?
by hathym 3y ago
why is everyone cheering ?
- thatswrong0 3y agoGetting it off the ground was the goal apparently
- tekla 3y agoBecause it achieved the primary objectives.
- haliou 3y agoIt cleared launch pad which was the most important goal.
- drybjed 3y agoStarship didn't blow up on the launch pad. That's a success during development.
- chrisjc 3y agoWhat the launch did do to the launch area is going to be an interesting story to follow.
- pixl97 3y agoThe LabPadre rover cam at 8:33 was... exciting... large chunks of things falling everywhere.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y agoI thought you meant from the exploded rocket. So I went to T +8.33 to find the falling debris at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBeoReu12E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBeoReu12E Then i re-read your comment...
- have_faith 3y agoAnything above getting it off the ground is considered a success for this test.
- gghhzzgghhzz 3y agothe cheering throughout the whole thing was extremely annoying and completely unnecessary
- ericcumbee 3y agoThose are people that have worked hard to get to this point. I don't fault them for being excited and having some fun with it. Feel like they earned it.
- gghhzzgghhzz 3y agoIndeed. that wasn't the issue. Issue was that the coverage of the launch was dominated by it. I love watching launches, find it relaxing, exciting and extremely thought provoking about our place in the cosmos. I also love watching live sport. but not at the same time.
- dylan604 3y agoFan support is always important. It gives an extra boost to the players
- hagbarth 3y agoBecause it was a test launch. The whole point is to get data so it doesn't do that when you launch real cargo.
- pahae 3y agoApparently anything more than clearing the launch pad was a win. Musk's dead stare seems to disagree tho
- fabian2k 3y agoWhen it exploded it was already very clear that stage separation had failed previously. So the disappointing part was 10-20 seconds before, the final explosion was inevitable, and well it was an explosion so it looked nice.
- vidarh 3y agoIt surviving far enough to (hopefully) have a good amount of data on what might have caused the failure of the stage separation already with the first test flight is pretty great.
- Kye 3y agoGetting into the air and having an obvious failure last that long -- meaning the automated abort didn't think it would escape the cleared area until then -- rather than make it explode immediately means a lot of data to make the next launch better.
- jansan 3y agoThat is American positive thinking. Usually really good for motivation, but sometimes annoying and hard to read for us non-US people.
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- WastingMyTime89 3y agoSpaceX gives you an audio feed of onlookers who act like rabbid fans at a rock concert and only patches audio of the control room when they find it convenient. It's extremely annoying but you get used to it.
- bitL 3y agoSurreal. Cheering after a failure and forced smiles with shaky voices from moderators afterwards.