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[TurtleSnatcher]

Seeing the sun break over the horizon on the earth ? Is that what we are seeing on the right?

 

[ScepticMatt]

What is with that crazy purple liquid stuff?

What was that purple thing with floating liquid?

Either liquid oxygen or liquid RP-1 left after engine shut-off (i.e zero g)

Edit: It's liquid oxygen.

 

[Vlodril]

kinda sad how few people are watching it. there was a stream yesterday for h1z1 and it had 3 times that number

 

[Nozem]

hey someones lunchbag floated away

 

[lednerg]

Guess we all just saw some white thing flake off, hopefully it wasn't important or damaging to the mission.

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

Might just be water but the color of the steel is giving it the purple tinge, condensate build up from the cooling maybe?

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

kinda sad how few people are watching it. there was a stream yesterday for h1z1 and it had 3 times that number

Not really prime time for most populous timezones.

 

[Vlodril]

hahaha that was a great serenity moment

 

[Red Comet]

Guess we all just saw some white thing flake off, hopefully it wasn't important.

Yeah, I saw that too.

 

[Seanspeed]

 

[lednerg]

Wish we could hear the crowd in the background. I can see them applauding.

 

[TxdoHawk]

Someone watching this baked out of their mind is probably losing their shit seeing this.

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

More floating stuff going off. No video stream of the landing

Someone watching this baked out of their mind is probably losing their shit seeing this.

In space you are the lava lamp.

 

[Peru]

Someone watching this baked out of their mind is probably losing their shit seeing this.

'first contact'

 

[Mr_Antimatter]

Liquids in zero G never gets old.

 

[ScepticMatt]

Successful orbit insertion, yay. Party time!
Edit: no word on first stage landing yet (as expected)

 

[Dilly]

How long before we know what happened to Stage 1?

 

[Melon Husk]

How long before we know what happened to Stage 1?

Not long.

 

[eyeball_kid]

What time is Falcon supposed to land on the drone boat/platform thing?
edit: nevermind, see Musk's tweet. "landed hard", does that mean it basically exploded into fiery chunks on the drone ship?

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Someone watching this baked out of their mind is probably losing their shit seeing this.

looks like a normal bong rip to me.

 

[oc]

Someone watching this baked out of their mind is probably losing their shit seeing this.

v

i took 3 vics to watch this

haven't heard from him since before the launch

 

[ScepticMatt]

ouch...

 

[lednerg]

EDIT: nvm.


Whelp. At least it looks like the thingy went into space okay.

 

[Jezbollah]

ouch...

Such a shame. They'll look at the data and find a way to work it out.

 

[Luigiv]

What time is Falcon supposed to land on the drone boat/platform thing?
edit: nevermind, see Musk's tweet. "landed hard", does that mean it basically exploded into fiery chunks on the drone ship?

Who knows, guess we'll have to wait for the press conference to find out. Maybe it just bounced off and fell into the ocean.

 

[Red Comet]

Damn. Shame they weren't able to stick the soft landing on the first stage.

 

[lednerg]

To be fair, it's fricken pitch black out there in the ocean at this time. The little guy probably had to rely on autopilot.

 

[ScepticMatt]

 

[MThanded]

To be fair, it's fricken pitch black out there in the ocean at this time. The little guy probably had to rely on autopilot.

I assume landing is always autonomous. Pitch black or not...

 

[lednerg]

Sweet! It's most important that it survived and can possibly be reused.

EDIT: nvm, "ship" means "barge" in Elonspeak.

I assume landing is always autonomous. Pitch black or not...

That'd be a safe bet, lol. We'd need some kind of crazy awesome pilot like Anakin Skywalker to pull this off manually.

 

[ScepticMatt]

Edit: Press conference in 1hr 15 minutes
Edit 2: Dragon grapple on monday (two day trajectory)

 

[E-Cat]

That'd be a safe bet, lol

Yeah, I'd just hate to pilot a Falcon 9 through the atmosphere at Mach whatever.

Sounds like the landing was a partial success? Sweet! I wonder whether the rocket will be reusable or need some refurbishing.

 

[ScepticMatt]

So, sounds like the landing was a partial success? I wonder whether the rocket will be reusable or needs some refurbishing.

Yes. No. (in pieces, not reusable)

 

[lednerg]

What does he mean by "support equipment"?

 

[E-Cat]

Yes. No. (in pieces, not reusable)

Wait, what? Elon said the rocket was fine.

Edit: Nm, he meant the drone ship...

 

[ScepticMatt]

Wait, what? Elon said the rocket was fine.

Where did you hear that? He said the "drone ship" was fine, not the booster stage.
Edit: nevermind.

 

[Eric_S]

Wait, what? Elon said the rocket was fine.

The ship, as in the barge is fine. The rocket ship ... we don't know. *ed* yap yap *ed*

I think/hope they got good data for future attempts, so it's all good. It's rocket science after all.

 

[lednerg]

The ship, as in the barge is fine. The rocket ship ... we don't know. *ed* yap yap *ed*

I think/hope they got good data for future attempts, so it's all good. It's rocket science after all.

Well I feel dumb, now.

 

[MThanded]

nvm

it was foggy.

 

[E-Cat]

Well I feel dumb, now.

They should've never referred to the barge as a 'ship' when dealing with a spaceship (or rocket) in the first place. lol

Oh well, hitting the target was a pretty big accomplishment in and of itself.

 

[Trouble]

Oh well, worth a shot. They'll get it right soon. The first 3 rockets SpaceX launched all failed.

 

[Amir0x]

Doesn't sound too promising that landing. Ah well

 

[mrklaw]

sounds like perhaps the landing rockets didn't fire, otherwise the 'pitch dark' part shouldn't matter?

 

[ScepticMatt]

sounds like perhaps the landing rockets didn't fire, otherwise the 'pitch dark' part shouldn't matter?

landing burn (from reddit, 15s exposure):

 

[Jezbollah]

sounds like perhaps the landing rockets didn't fire, otherwise the 'pitch dark' part shouldn't matter?

If the landing rockets didnt fire, then the first stage would have written off most of the top of the ship..

 

[lednerg]

Well, they only gave it a 50/50 chance to begin with. And regardless of it not being a total success, Elon Musk still has proven to have a better penis than you or anyone you know.

 

[Dilly]

That it actually navigated to the platform and just made too hard of a landing is still very impressive to me anyway.

 

[Melon Husk]

If the landing rockets didnt fire, then the first stage would have written off most of the ship..

It's an aluminum can and mostly empty. Not very heavy.
It most likely hit the barge too hard for its legs and fell over, bursting into flames.

 

[DBT85]

Shame they didn't manage it but getting close is great news. I doubt it'll be long. SpaceX are doing some great stuff.

Yall should be playing Kerbal anyway, come join us!
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=952831

 

[Melon Husk]

A collection of liquid oxygen droplets ie. leftover fuel

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