Pascal Leinert
Jeff GeerlingWow. Congrats to the SpaceX engineers who made another seemingly impossible spaceflight milestone possible. They caught a booster with two metal chopsticks on the same tower they launched from!
Joshua Aspinall@geerlingguy still completely awestruck. Amazing to watch.
ElectroFetish@geerlingguy and what operating system is the SpaceX infrastructure based on?
Alavi | علوی
Colin Napier@geerlingguy Not a fan of the CEO but the engineering feat is undeniable. Got goosebumps watching it.
Kid Mania@geerlingguy
☠️ Fuck SpaceX, Fuck Twitter, Fuck Tesla, Fuck Starlink. Fuck anything that piece of shit touches.
I will NEVER buy or use ANY service or product this asshole is involved with. Ever. If Starlink is the only internet, then I guess I go without internet.
Any "spaceflight milestone" produced by this fascist is forever tainted.🙈 🙉 🙊
Víctor A. Rodríguez 
@geerlingguy great tech achievement but haven't found why they tried this approach instead of following with the no chopsticks. Maybe it is too heavy and needs chopsticks to avoid tumbling ?
CyberFrog@bitman @geerlingguy probably costs less if it comes back to the well-staffed rocket facility instead of needing transport or something
Mikalai@bitman @geerlingguy
just guessing:
- it has been said something about legs
- capture something with a hook, while center of gravity is below this hook - you get a normal pentulum with natural stable equilibrium where you want it, making it easier
- multiply this with sizes, and add experience of flying booster back to some target, and may be all error tolerances land better to this solution, than legs.
just guessing:
- it has been said something about legs
- capture something with a hook, while center of gravity is below this hook - you get a normal pentulum with natural stable equilibrium where you want it, making it easier
- multiply this with sizes, and add experience of flying booster back to some target, and may be all error tolerances land better to this solution, than legs.
altruios phasma@geerlingguy spacex is doing some great things.
Starlink is ruining earth based astronomy. Scamming Florida. Partisan shenanigans with Ukraine. However the prospect of finding every plane crash in the ocean quickly is good, but I don’t know if it’s worth a Kessler event preventing effective space travel.
But being able to launch humans into space cheaply is a worthwhile goal. More humans: less satellites.
Don Thompson@altruios @geerlingguy
How does anything the creepy guy does have any influence on ‘the prospect of finding every plane crash in the ocean quickly’?
GADSS is already operational without any creepy guy involvement.
How does anything the creepy guy does have any influence on ‘the prospect of finding every plane crash in the ocean quickly’?
GADSS is already operational without any creepy guy involvement.
@guardeddon @geerlingguy I didn’t realize. So no planes can be lost now-a-days? That’s great news!
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things like this give real hope
things like this give real hope