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watched this with teary eyes. it truly shows what we can do when we come together and challenge ourselves for the greater good of humanity.
by reimertz 6mo ago
watched this with teary eyes. it truly shows what we can do when we come together and challenge ourselves for the greater good of humanity.
- anonymars 6mo agoA real bright spot compared to lately. The messages of positivity and comradery in the live stream were a nice contrast (That being said, I can't believe they cut to people on the ground during SRB separation!) edit: here's better footage from Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsSRRBMNoc&t=24512s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsSRRBMNoc&t=24512s
- hagbard_c 6mo agoIt was probably deemed a relatively high-risk moment which they did not want to broadcast in case of failure like it was when the Challenger mission exploded.
- exitb 6mo agoStill an odd choice. It is what it is. It’s a fairly risky mission and they chose to go ahead with that. Yet they avert their eyes, like a child watching a scary scene in a movie. Like it’s somehow ok to actually risk lives of four people, but not ok to televise that.
- Electricniko 6mo agoNASA had another feed that was just the view of the launch from Kennedy Space Center, no commentary. It was a few seconds ahead of the main broadcast, so it seems they already had a delay built in for the masses.
- dryarzeg 6mo agoI certainly missed that one. Is it available somewhere recorded? If it is, can you please send a link to it? I'm sorry if I'm asking something stupid, it's just that I can't find anything like that and I also want to see this badly.
- Electricniko 6mo agoFor some reason the Kennedy Center one is saying not available right now, but this was the link for it if it returns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaJklsJonD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaJklsJonD4 The main broadcast is still up, with the ten minute countdown starting around 5 hours and 27 minutes into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo
- bombcar 6mo agoI took that to be the most dangerous part and they didn’t want to televise a Challenger II.
- Polizeiposaune 6mo agoWhat happened to Challenger -- burn-through of a joint in the SRB motor casing -- happened well before scheduled SRB separation.
- bartread 6mo agoI completely agree on all points. On your parenthetical point, I also agree: some really weird camera selections, and frustrating dropouts, during the crucial moments of the launch. Nevertheless, a real triumph, and I particularly enjoyed the "full send" remark from (I think) the commander. I also really enjoy the fact that the livestream is relatively light on commentary and that most of what you hear is from mission control and the crew.
- y1n0 6mo agoI couldn’t believe it when that happened. Intern at the controls maybe.
- GMoromisato 6mo agoAgreed! I yelled at the screen when I saw that they cut away. I also loved the shot of stage separation, but they cut away from that way too soon also!
- dylan604 6mo agoI was cussing at the director of that video stream during that. It was a totally useless shot as well that they lingered on that already had me bothered, and then to cut back to the SRBs fully separated had me in full contempt. Nothing to see here and everything to miss. It's like music videos showing the singer doing nothing while the guitarist is shredding a solo. Like WTF. You have one job, and you totally botched the hell out of it. You get what you pay for I guess. Lowest bidding contractor???
- unethical_ban 6mo agoI tried watching his video and he is insufferable. I wish him well, glad he's enthusiastic, but this isn't a CS:GO final, it's one of the most widely watched rocket launches in 50 years. You do not need to be screaming at me in the final ten seconds about how the core stage is lit, over the actual professional saying core stage lit. You do not need to repeat to me that this is a momentous rocket launch twice at T-30. As someone who has watched launches before, it is so much better when the broadcasters keep it mostly together, and know when to be silent for periods of time. He does not know how to do that.
- intrasight 6mo agoSame. I watched Apollo 11 launch in 1969 when I was four. Watched on our neighbor's TV. We didn't have one. Imagine what we could accomplish if we didn't suck.
- bluGill 6mo agosending people to the moon was never useful. We can get more done with robots, both cheaper and safer. There are plenty of more useful things we can do instead. okay what is more useful is a matter of opinion. you can disagree, but I stand by it
- Aeolun 6mo agoGetting people to the moon is plentry useful for getting an objective you can hang all kinds of useful advancements off.
- intrasight 6mo agoIt may not be useful but we'll do it anyway. And then it may come to have utility.
- bluGill 6mo ago> then it may come to have utility. Maybe, but at what cost? What are we not getting/doing because we are doing this instead? This is of course an unanswerable question, but it is the correct response here - you are getting so focused on what this might gain that you forget that other things also have gains. Time is not unlimited, people who are working on space could work on something different instead, but they cannot do both.
- simplyluke 6mo agoI've never understood this hyper-utilitarian perspective. It just seems divorced from what emotionally inspires most people. Most of what people find inspiring doesn't directly provide a lot of objective utility, and is often quite dangerous for the individuals who choose to participate. Reaching the highest peaks in the last century, antarctic expeditions, pushing the limits of racing vehicles, attempting a sub two hour marathon, and athletes defining new tricks and styles in extreme sports are all objectively pretty useless in terms of their direct outputs -- and yet I find it all a whole lot more inspiring than my computer getting twice as fast, even if the latter is of way more objective utility to my life. Min-maxing ROI in a spreadsheet just doesn't do it for me in the same way. There's absolutely a place for that and in a world of limited resources it should be how we spend most of our effort, and it is! The amount of money spent on efforts like this is _tiny_ at the scale of nations, and is certainly a much smaller and better use of funds than wars and corruption.
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- GlacierFox 6mo agoWhy are you homeless?
- Noaidi 6mo agoBecause I have schizo affective disorder, OCD and a partial immune deficiency. And because people treat houses like investments so now I can’t afford to live anywhere anymore, except in a 20 six-year-old Van. And also because people don’t care. mentally ill people are garbage.
- y1n0 6mo agoI did. I designed an asic in the navigation avionics. I’m glad this inspires people to do the next thing.
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