Exploding Knees - Spacex launch

>>132918983
>NROL launch
Hope Elon personally sabotaged the rocket. Fuck those guys.

>>132918983
These are replays.

>>132918983
There is no spacex launch today, you faggot

>>132919532
What kind of an asshole made a live video?

>>132918983
>Live now
That's a stream is just looping replays.

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elon musk is going to guide us into a star trek future. we will have warp drive within a decade

>>132919986
Mars colony is enough.

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>>132918983
Probably not since its all fake

see 0:23

>>132918983
>Live now
>Echostar 23
>Launched in March

>live replays
For what purpose?

>>132921821
Live Replays: For when you want to rewatch things that have already happened, but don't want the convenience of being able to skip to the highlights.

>>132920564
How is it fake? Does a skip in a clearly sped up and edited webm prove it is fake?

How do you explain the literally hundreds of videos filmed by spectators at the Florida landings?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytjIQ_alA1c

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>>132918983
fuck i missed the best part
sure is pretty though. looks like a flower

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who here is also excited for the webb telescope next year?

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>>132922974
It's gonna be yuge

>>132922559
I will never get tired of watching the SSME's light off.

>>132920564
whats fake about it jealous fag?

the earth is flat what is the point of this shit

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>this nigga got 500+ viewers of old replays just by spamming /pol/ with links

>>132920564

kill yourself you stupid fuck, how does spacex fake a rocket landing that is observed by thousands of people

>>132923897
They are actually developing an enormous ass pounding dildo

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>>132922135

fish eyes. do your homework

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>2017
>people still think earth is a ball

>>132920564
fuaaark that was cool as hell

the fuck just flew past the grid fins? debris u guess

>>132918983
I hope it doesn't blow up.

>>132920564
Flat earthers btfo

>>132924006
>kill yourself you stupid fuck, how does spacex fake a rocket landing that is observed by thousands of people

Why are we still learning how to launch rockets when we walked on the fucking moon 50 years ago?

Is this the SJW Autistic Retard space awards for underachievers?

Is everyone on that rocket team just a fucking hobbyist with money to wizz away?

We should be discussing the rental price of space apartments by this time, not HOW TO LAND A ROCKET.

It's all as legit as Sandy Hook, flush it down. Don't even mince words or entertain debate, you're just keeping the bullshit moist.

It landed with no explodium.

:(

Russian, Chinks, and Eurofags BTFO!

>>132924812
>anarchist flag
filtered for being children

What is going on? I saw it land, then I saw it in orbit, then I saw it on the launch pad. Did Musk invent time travel?

>>132924812
You clearly don't understand the situation.

>>132925068
This is another launch.

this is a slide thread.

The last launch was on July 5.

next launch is in august

SAGE

>>132925068
This is the boring part where it just circles the earth for like 20 minutes before the next burn. Says REPLAY in the upper corner now they are showing exciting stuff again.

This model rocketry event should be sponsored by ESTES ROCKETS. There is no serious spacefaring to be found. This is not how we get to Mars people.

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>>132923744
Autistically watching SSMEs light over and over on vhs as a 4 year old is the first thing that got me into space stuff. Mfw I am a postgrad now and manned space exploration is dead.

>>132925135
They are landing one rocket and launching another just about at the same time?

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>>132918983
No launch today, OP. Even if there were one scheduled, it'd be cancelled. We've got an afternoon storm at the moment.
t. Brevard County

>>132925367
You are watching a 24/7 live launch compilation.

>>132924812
>Why are we still learning how to launch rockets when we walked on the fucking moon 50 years ago?
That's not even the issue these people are trying to solve though. The task that they're doing is launching and landing the main booster in a controlled manner and in the most cost effect way possible.

>Is this the SJW Autistic Retard space awards for underachievers?
Where's the problem with advancing space technology? He's saving us money while trying to improve current rocket technology.

>Is everyone on that rocket team just a fucking hobbyist with money to wizz away?
They're funded through contracts from NASA and other entities.

>We should be discussing the rental price of space apartments by this time, not HOW TO LAND A ROCKET.
We're not ever going to be able to discuss the rental price of space apartments unless we find ways to reuse the rockets and save time and money. Trials like this and testing only bring us further to that sort of goal.

>It's all as legit as Sandy Hook, flush it down. Don't even mince words or entertain debate, you're just keeping the bullshit moist.
If you think this is all fake, then why would you think we should have space apartments by now? Rocket technology isn't advancing at an exponential rate, it's going to have times of stagnated progress and times of a lot of progress.

>>132924812
It is incredibly expansive and nobody cares enough about it to try and make it profitable except miracle-workers with a lasting dream, like Musk.

As for price of space apartments, Russia did entertain the idea of using Mir as a spece-hotel but came to a conclusion that there's not enough ultra-rich clients to cover the expenses.

>>132924812
>We should be discussing the rental price of space apartments by this time, not HOW TO LAND A ROCKET.
Building an orbital ring is expensive (initially). We really just need the political will to throw money at it. We would, however, see a lot of cost savings if we set up some mining and manufacturing on the moon. Easy to get materials off the surface, because the gravity well is so small.

>>132921821
havesting google adbux from gullible morons like op

>>132926641
Eh, you probably played too much Stellaris.

>>132922974

Not me because it's infrared, the faggiest portion of the spectrum.

>>132927161
We *could* build the ring by launching off rockets, but it would be much more expensive to get the materials in orbit.

Has Elon made any plans to fuel rockets in space?

>>132927313
No, not even close to being able to do anything on this scale. Not even when we'll build a space lift, which is not likely to happen in the nearest century.

>>132927790
As the matter of fact, he did. For one of his manned mars mission ideas.

>>132927790
On mars yeah, but generally there's a fuckload of rocket fuel types, some of which either need to be highly pressurized, while others explode when they come into contact with the other fuel.
It's a nightmare in management, and would probably cost more to operate and launch, along with refueling it, than it would to just launch one big rocket at the right time.

>>132928111
Well we can't build a space elevator with materials that we can currently mass produce. An orbital ring could be built from steel.

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>>132918983

LOL fucking retard Musk never heard of a PARACHUTE AHAHAHAHAH

>>132928135
this is why ITS will use methane/lox for practically everything

They did it!

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>>132922135
Fuck, I love the double sonic booms.
This. This is the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1maY10r_Bwg

>>132928525
how are you going to use a parachute on the moon you fucking idiot.

>>132928135
>>132928111
I wonder if Elon Musk has ever sat down and talked with Robert Zubrin.

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>>132924000
reminder this is our cat

>>132928916
she's /b/'s cat, our pussy is the one on the left

>>132919194
Nice landing

USA wins again

>>132928335
Yes. But there is not enough fuel on earth to ship this much steal to orbit. And there is no fuel on the moon at all.

>>132928843

shoot air into it you retard

>>132928601
That's fine then, but for what purpose would you send a refueling ship that you'll only use for a few missions every few years? They can just put the initial payload into a parking orbit, and then launch a dedicated refueling craft to refuel the main ship to the amount needed, and then simply deorbit the refueling ship. Maintaining a refueling station just doesn't make much sense money wise if you're not getting much in return.
That is unless other companies decide to use the same type of fuel, and want to use the station instead of spending money and launching their own refueling vessel.

>>132929183
Atheists: 1
Christians: 0

>>132919194

Just show us your flag Putinbot.

>>132926641
Orbital rings are faggot shit. Might as well build a Dyson sphere you retard.

>>132929259
I kind of figured Musk was an atheist. Why else would he care about the species so much?

>>132929213
We could build a space elevator on the moon with steel as well and power it with solar or nuclear. Lower gravity makes everything easier.

Or we could just ship fuel to the moon.

>>132929213
Use solar power stupid it's infinate

>>132929389
He's also an afrikanar. So he knows god isn't real.

>>132929380
k

>>132929230
hahahahahahaha seriously? shooting air up absent of atmosphere will create downward thrust, which is only partially negated by parachute. Thus you would be increasing your speed downward. Moron.

>>132928525
This rocket weighs more than Tsar Bomba.

To make a parachute big enough to deploy Tsar Bomba to slow it down enough to allow the bomber to escape the blast AT HALF POWER disrupted the Soviet textile industry for 6 FUCKING MONTHS.

>>132929514
Afrikanar-Canadian-American?

>>132929478
Moon is 5% water ice by mass. You can make fuel there.

>>132929254
that's exactly what is planned, and it's still refueling rockets in space. you're the one who came up with the "refueling station" concept

however, the choice of methane was also motivated by plans for fuel generating plants on mars

>>132929478
Why build any of this shit when jew sniggers and Muslims will destroy it immediately?

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>>132924103
Oh, you are a flat Earther...

Sorry I don't waste me time debating total fucking retards. Flat Earthers are:

A. Trolls out to waste my time, so there is no sense in debating them
B. Scientifically illiterate retards whose opinions cannot be swayed no matter what evidence I present, so there is no sense in debating them

Regardless of which you are, trying to debate you would be a complete waste of time. I'd rather go do yard work in the summer heat or something else productive.

>>132929602
I don't think he still has his SA citizenship, but yes.

>>132929602
He's also a kind of melon

>>132929583

shoot it the OTHER way, obviously! you imbecile

>>132929731
>i am better than you because i believe everything i read in a book. why would they lie?

>>132929599
Yeah but that was the soviet textile industry. That means Taiwan could probably fill the order in like 6 hours.

>>132929809
Expel gas for thrust like a rocket? What an idea.

>>132929946
>he thinks rockets shoot gas
they shoot fire retardo

>>132929647
I didn't really understand what you meant, sorry about that. I thought the topic was on a literal refueling station lol.
Otherwise yeah they're going to start refueling in space, it does make sense there.

holy shit the earth is curved. how can flat earthers ever recover?

>>132923897
they're trying to get to heaven

>>132930313
It's a hologram fish eyed lens real time CGI

>>132929478
Space lift on the moon is impossible due to high influence of Earth's gravity.
And by shipping fuel to the moon you wouldn't reduce the amount needed by much if at all.

>>132929501
If only we could produce propulsion using energy alone, we'd already be colonizing other stars.

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>>132929903
Fuck, here I am starting to debate...

I'll keep it short and simple. This website
http://www.isstracker.com/
Shows the live position of the International Space Station. Every few weeks it will be timed just right so it will be passing over you at dawn/dusk. This is the perfect time to view the station because on the surface of Earth you will be in the dark, but the ISS will be in the sunlight. This means your eyes are adjusted for low light but looking at an object in daylight. It will appear as a bright dot moving fast across the sky, faster than any aircraft.

I'd love to hear how the illuminati manages to make a dot streak across the sky at the exact time, and going the correct direction, that the ISStracker website predicts.

And no, it's not an airplane. There are no flashing lights, and it is moving way too fast and too high to be an aircraft.

It's just the Illuminati keeping a supersonic jet flying in the atmosphere to mimic the orbital motions of the station, right?

>>132930117
The expanding gas that rushes out after the explosion in the ignition chamber is what accelerates the rocket, the fire you see doesn't appear in space.

that landing was pretty impressive

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>>132918983
NROL or National Reconnaissance Office working with space x also "classified material on board". interesting.

>>132918983
holy shit, can we get spacex to replace NASA?

>>132919194
>1 ruble has been deposited into your account, comrade

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>>132922135
This is a launch viewed from my apartment in orlando

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>>132930488
You can make fuel on the moon. There is water on the moon. Using electricity provided by either solar panels or nuke reactors you can split it into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen and oxygen are a great rocket fuel.

The Delta IV heavy uses Hydrogen and Oxygen as its fuel for example.

>>132930763
spacex launches satellites for money

>>132930871
Hello, neighbor

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>>132930530
>he took the bait
i've got something to tell you about the moon landings

>>132930993
And? I can't tel where you're going with this.

>>132931063
Boone 09. You?

open catalogue
ctrl-f
exploding knees
not a happening

>>132931307
Transplant from Texas, but also graduated in 09

>>132930988
as long as you can make enough of it in 28 days.

>>132930993
nasa does too, it just costs more.

>>132930117
Your low quality is an insult to nip posters

>>132918983
>fat sheboon diversity hire
closed stream

>>132931483
>28 days
Why?

The station could be made far in advance and be making fuel 24/7 for numerous missions. It could send fuel into moon orbit. There spaceships could rendezvous in Moon orbit, refuel, and then head off to wherever they want to go in the solar system. This would save putting massive amounts of fuel in Earth orbit. They would only need enough fuel to get to the Moon and then top up at the Moon.

Similar to how the airforce loads fighters up with a shit ton of bombs and only a partial load of fuel. Then the planes take off and meet a tanker in midair and top up. This allows them to fly with far greater weight than they can take off with. Aircraft can carry greater loads once they are cruising than they can carry at takeoff speeds.

>>132930988
Theoretically possible. Practically, the ability to do something like that on the moon is even further out of our reach than space lift.

>>132931250
spacex will not be able to research space travel unless it's economically viable

space traveling is a meme on par with selling moon trips right now though, so that portion of spacex is a meme

>>132918983
The fuck are you on about? There's no Falcon 9 launch until August.

>>132932159
You have to start somewhere you nig

>>132932133
I'm pretty sure liquid hydrogen and oxygen will boil off even on the moon, how much are you going to have after a 28 day long night?

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Should we colonize Mars ASAP or should we delay in order to search for Martian life?

>>132932361
yeah and then what? how would it be acceptable to waste resources on "human comfort in space" if you're launching satellites?

>>132932413
isnt going to mars the best way to search for life?

>>132919194
Scared we will see your shitty rockets Kim?

>>132932494
Wtf are you on about. I didn't say it would be okay to waste resources on that (whatever that fucking is). I think you're just looking for a fight.

>>132932367
It won't boil off if you keep it pressurized or cold enough. It boils off in a spacecraft because they don't keep it very cold or under a lot of pressure to keep the tanks light. But a station on the ground on the Moon can use heavy tanks and store it indefinitely.

>>132932159
but selling moon trips isnt a meme...
space-x is doing a manned moon flyby in 2018 (will probably get pushed back to 2019)

>>132932413
We should neither colonize it nor search for any further proofs that there is no life there.
It's just a useless dead rock. Get over it.

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>>132932800
the space traveling and earth leaving is a big meme with spacex, I've watched a random event with Elon Musk and it was all about "what planet would be the best to live on", "how will we go about it" etc.

https://youtu.be/H7Uyfqi_TE8?t=2m29s

The NASA was actually allowed to waste money in that fashion because they're not reliant on near market value for what they do

>>132930530
>a website that fucking tracks the ISS
Bro flat earth is just a fake conspiracy theory to reduce the legitimacy of this board while we talk about white genocide and stuff fagtron

>>132933457
Well... anything Elon Musk says instantly makes it less credible for me. This isn't exactly what I was talking about anyways, but I agree that what the people in the video are saying is just bs. Probably just a ploy to get more "funding" .

am i too late for the launch?

>>132932933
the kind of pressure vessel you would need to keep liquid hydrogen from boiling would be prohibitively expensive.

and how are you going to keep it cool?
you have no solar power in the dark. batteries? heavy. gasoline? then whats the point of making fuel on the moon.

its going to boil no matter what.

maybe if you do enough missions you could build something that would allow you keep the majority of extracted hydrogen in the 28 day long night cycle.

but its not easy.

>>132933293
Do you have any idea how much some dense Chingchong will pay for a countertop made of Martian granite to have installed in his Canadian investment penthouse?

>>132932527
We'd have to be super careful not to introduce Earth life. In fact it's probably best to just send probes to the surface if we are serious about finding life. After 4 billion years of highly competitive evolution Earth life would probably royally fuck up Martial life.

But colonization isn't going to happen unless we focus on manned exploration. So the question is do we REALLY want to search for Martian life or do we want to search for Martian life AND use it as an excuse to save our species?

>>132933293
Xeno detected.

We are coming for you, squid face. We lay claim to everything 40 light years from Earth as the absolute minimum.

>>132934484
The surface of mars is basically bleach-coated bleach with a side of bleach, bathed in sterilizing UV daily. You only have to be careful a long way under ground.

>>132931410
Cool.

Best local latin food is mi bandera supermarket on oak ridge and john young across from mid florida tech.

Trust me.

>>132934484
the thing is, a human can do more in a day than any probe could do in its entire mission. It's not even close.

If life were abundant on mars the probes we have there would have found it already. If tis there, if there are fossils, or life is frozen somewhere, its not going to get contaminated that easily.

Humans arnt going to land on the surface and have the surface explode with microbes, earth microbes just arnt made for that environment.

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>>132934660
You do when water is concerned. We find life flourishing in the heart of nuclear reactors. Life, don't underestimate it.

>>132934854
Gracias, senor

>>132935022
That's true, but Mars isn't going anywhere. If we really REALLY wanted to find Martian life we would just let robotic probes get better and better, taking the slow and cautious route.

For the record I'm playing devil's advocate here. I actually strongly believe we should focus on manned exploration missions.

>>132935246
desu

I think it would be great to find life outside of earth, but its not going to satisfy any pseudo religious / pseudo science debate even if we find it. Everyone will still claim victory.

I'm much more interested in helping life spread and ensuring it is never extinguished if earth is really the only place it exists.

>>132935246
I did say deep underground, didn't I? The water on Mars isn't on the surface, it's at least a few meters down. Anything exposed from flows desiccates and then gets blasted in a few hours.

>>132935487
even if it is contaminated by earth. if it is alive, wouldnt you think we might be able to do genetic testing to look for a common ancestor?

>>132919194

>Hating NROL

Fag

>>132935602
If I were a billionaire and I honestly thought the world was going to end I would pay to launch rockets full of various microorganisms to Mars, Europa, and Ceres.

I honestly believe humanity is the first stage of Earth's biosphere's reproductive process.

>>132935824
Actually liquid water is finicky on Mars's surface. It can exist in a liquid state as a sort of hypersaline brine for a time and can probably exist in a stable liquid state just a short distance below the surface.

>>132936517
human life on earth is eventually going to end, one way or another.

The question is when do we get a jump on the next step?

If we can do it now, shouldnt we?

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>>132936898
>should we colonize space? Should we do it now or later?
Are you fuckign joshing me, nigga? NOW!!

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>>132923897
bingo! If you hang at /p/ you have to come to grips that the Nassholes(nasa) has been lying to you the whole time. Take 15 min and look it up. I am giving you the right color pill. Do your research for you not me. To believe china is below us now, we are on a spinning ball traveling 1000mph. You want a green screen hairspray laugh, watch spacestation videos!!! More than stupid and hilarious!