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Webcast of the launch @ T-20 seconds - https://youtu.be/KXysNxbGdCg?t=6859 https://youtu.be/KXysNxbGdCg?t=6859
by huhtenberg 2y ago
Webcast of the launch @ T-20 seconds - https://youtu.be/KXysNxbGdCg?t=6859 https://youtu.be/KXysNxbGdCg?t=6859
- nabla9 2y agoEverything nowadays comes packaged with excessive emote track. People in the internet don't enjoy rocket launch with roaring sounds unless there is laugh track over it that validates that the launch is awesome and simulates social connection.
- huhtenberg 2y agoYou don't say. SpaceX used to have "technical" launch streams with just launch status updates, but even they no longer do that :-/
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- sandworm101 2y agoDidnt they get caught when a launch went badly but their narrator keep reading from the script, reporting events that clearly were not happening? I would watch a technical stream, but i can read a canned script myself.
- synarchefriend 2y agoNo, that never happened.
- imglorp 2y agoThere was an F9 loss early in the program where the presenter was overcome by emotion. I would love to find an archive of all the launches including that one.
- dredmorbius 2y agoI distinctly recall that occurring. The event was 28 January 1986, and whilst I didn't watch it live, I did catch it within a few hours. Though that wasn't a SpaceX launch. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...> The launch broadcast narration continued for several seconds following the vehicle explosion reporting either telemetry or programmed flight path information before breaking script with the infamous announcement "There's obviously been a major malfunction". Various reports I've seen are that the previous commentary was based on telemetry rather than watching video.
- cybrox 2y agoUnintentional remedy: with Starlink now giving them HD video coverage for the whole flight, I doubt they would be able to do this convincingly anymore. (Assuming they ever did. I do not know about any such launch)
- fransje26 2y agoIs there a footage without the hysterical screeching?
- sfjailbird 2y agoWorst part of any SpaceX live stream.
- boringg 2y agoYeah that excessive cheering and laughing really diminished it for me. Everything apparently needs an added hype team/track. What a world we live in.
- Mountain_Skies 2y agoMost news stories on tv are presented as being "Breaking News!" It's absolutely bonkers some of the things they'll push that way.
- thebigman433 2y agoIts a feed of the Blue Origin staff, who have been working towards this for years and years - makes sense that they would be pretty excited considering the level of success this was. You dont have to consider everything you dont like to be a negative on the world
- StefanBatory 2y ago"I'm unhappy, so I'll force everyone else to be unhappy too" :/
- modeless 2y agoThose are the real emotions of the people at Blue Origin watching the launch. They've been working toward this moment for 24 years. Should they censor themselves because their "excessive" emotions offend you? Or maybe they should hire newscasters to do an disinterested presentation up to your standards, instead of employees who actually worked on it?
- jakubmazanec 2y agoBut you hear no crying or shouting during e.g. Moon landing [1]. TBH I expect "disinterested" behavior from professionals in such situations. [1] https://youtu.be/xc1SzgGhMKc https://youtu.be/xc1SzgGhMKc
- modeless 2y agoThat's not a video of live broadcast TV coverage. It's a recording of the operational communcations (which you could hear in the BO livestream and it didn't have crying or shouting). Actual TV broadcasts at the time did show some actual emotions including laughter and possibly even tears, despite being from professional newscasters rather than employees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMF58ZP681A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMF58ZP681A
- jakubmazanec 2y ago> from professional newscasters rather than employees Then it's not relevant.
- snakeyjake 2y ago>Everything nowadays comes packaged with excessive emote track. You may have never done anything that warrants an emotional response. Some of us have. We enjoy seeing others express the joy we ourselves have felt at the end of a long, winding, process.
- numpad0 2y agoSpaceX started it. NASA launches before it didn't have any of it.
- stackedinserter 2y agoAll of them can't shut up and just let us watch the launch without listening to their bs like "...aand lift off for Orion space mission off Cape Canaveral which is a huge leap for humanity"
- bluenose69 2y agoAs has been noted by others, the emoting is a distraction. I could only watch this for a few seconds. Another thing: why are they reporting speed in miles per hour, and altitude in feet? Surely anybody interested in space is familiar with SI units.
- Tankenstein 2y agoJust a guess, but aerospace generally works with feet for altitude and knots/mph for airspeed, internationally. I’m doing a PPL in Europe and we, like everybody, use feet and knots/mph. I believe this is because the US have been on the forefront of aerospace regulation (a set of rules called the chicago convention is the basis of all air law) and aircraft manufacturing.
- throw5959 2y agoCan confirm, all aviation worldwide deals in feet and knots. It's also because it's much easier to do calculations on the fly (literally) - in your head. Metric is precise and logical but harder to use in stressful situations.
- curl-up 2y agoCan you please give some real-world example of why it's easier to do calculations? Not disputing what you say, just hard for me to imagine why it would be so.
- HPsquared 2y ago1 knot is about 100 ft/min which is very convenient for descent at a specific glide slope (i.e. for 100 knots ground speed at 5% slope you want 500 ft/min descent rate). Standard is 3° which is about 5%. Knots are also handy for navigation as 1 nautical mile equals 1 minute of latitude. And of course a knot is 1 nautical mile per hour. So if you're doing 300 knots, that's 5 degrees of latitude per hour. The units fit together nicely as a system.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoHave to agree with others that the horrible laughing ruins what should be a monumentous occasion for the company and humanity.
- jve 2y agoThink about it. The fruit of their hard work over all those years while enduring people pointing fingers and memes at them... and now their powerful rocket roars, rumbles and lifts... Ofcourse it is emotional. And looks like me personally enjoy it. Perhaps that is taken from spacex stream where you see people cheering on achieving significant milestones... just gives you some of it. Perhaps that audio could have been only when showing people cheering or what, but anyways, I'm surprised BO even set up that much of a show for external viewers. SpaceX obviously has spoiled us. Just think of what we could see before SX. Some visualization on how rocket fly?
- notahacker 2y agoPersonally I like the contrast between the laugh of joy and relief and background cheers from the team that have spent the past few years building it, and the calm technical announcements coming from somebody who probably feels the same way...
- seszett 2y ago> Just think of what we could see before SX. Some visualization on how rocket fly? What do you mean? Rocket launches have been filmed for ages, and without the laugh track, see that random launch of Ariane 4 in 1988 for example, that includes an on-board view (the replay does include some clapping from spectators though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_E4naQgTl0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_E4naQgTl0 You could already see them on live TV at the time. The Space X launches today certainly have better quality but it's not like launches were impossible to watch in the past.
- atq2119 2y agoAs a non-USian looking in, it seemed fairly average and non-horrible to me? I find it interesting to find several comments like this one here so prominently compared to the discussion thread about SpaceX launches.