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Elon Musk Releases Supercut of SpaceX Rocket Explosions (hardocp.com)
Eloking shares a report from HardOCP: Elon Musk is demonstrating how one should not land an orbital rocket booster: the video, currently trending on YouTube, is essentially a blooper reel of SpaceX rocket tests that went explosive. While the company has more or less perfected launching Falcon 9 rockets, it is still working hard on recovering as much of the multi-million-dollar system as possible.
Gotta love free PR, especially when it is styled as a "look how far we've come" / "look at how much we have figured out" celebration.
Looking forward to FH later this year and the start of some proper accumulation of mass in usable orbits!
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"unscheduled rapid disassembly" love it.
seeing the final two successful landings is really poignant after seeing all the failures.
go team SpaceX!
It's still more successful and impressive overall than North Korea's pathetic launch success rate.
Is the Liberty Bell March used in comedy video because it was used by Monty Python's Flying Circus, or is there just something intrinsically funny about that piece of music? Or does it just have the right timing for comedy?
My take on the blooper reel, as funny as it is, is that it's supposed to lower expectations for Falcon Heavy. Falcon Heavy was originally supposed to launch in 2013, but the date has been pushed back multiple times in the recent years. Part of the reason is that it never was the top priority -- the Falcon 9 upgrades meant that more payloads could be launched using a single booster instead of three. And SpaceX has to keep NASA happy and fulfill their Commercial Resupply Missions to the ISS & the upcoming Dragon flights (first manned flights).
But part of the reason why Falcon Heavy was delayed so much is because it is hugely complex. You can just stick two boosters to the side of a core booster and keep it together with some struts, like in Kerbal Space Program. The structural loads are all different and must be accounted for.
So, I think the timing of the video so close to the scheduled launch of Falcon Heavy in November of this year is supposed to carefully counter the high expectations that the public has, given SpaceX's recent successes. Rocket science is hard, and failures are to be expected. But if you work on the problem for long enough, you eventually get it right. That's the message of the video.
If you're to fail, fail hard and with style!
Elok
He does it with real ones, we do it with KSP... the videos are oddly similar.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Did u ever know a guy named "Elon" that was't gay?
That name has "hair stylist" written all over it.
He fucks a lot of women for someone you're intimating is gay.
But even so, a lot of guys have to suck his cock - those who want to be him, those who work for him, those who said he'd never succeed & those who want him to create jobs in their states.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
There are failed landing attempts, not rocket tests. There's a big difference. All of the primary missions of these flights succeeded.
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Have to say, my favorite part is what I assume are helium bottles skywriting after the to unsuccessful drone ship landings.
What I like about the reel is they took the trouble to print the root cause of each of the failures that were captured. It is really intimidating the number of things that can and have gone wrong with a machine like that.
You have to wonder what potential failures they haven't caught yet. Sticky throttle valve? Failed landing strut? You would think those failures should never have happened in the first place.
One question: is that landing barge manned? How would you like to have that job?
Is it that surprising that he can be all of those things? No one's perfect.
He's considered a tough/demanding boss - and his companies make it clear upfront that they'll be demanding and the hours are rough. I think it's important to consider that he's doing legitimately important work -- There's reason to believe the world will be worse-off if his projects/companies fail. To put it in perspective - I'd forgive a hospital boss for expecting more from their doctors+nurses. It's more than just a job - and they don't want to hire anyone who can't see that. Elon shares they sentiment.
Well they are ramping up, which is hugely capital intensive. And so far demand for Tesla cars has been very high relative to the supply. So what's the problem?
Tesla might still fail but they're just following the same plan they've had all along for growing the company and producing a more affordable (but good) electric car.
That plan is why investors have put in the money necessary for Tesla to try this out which enables them to operate at a loss for several years.
And none of his fanbois actually look at the car market and ask, "But what make you think you are going to sell them?"
Maybe because he already has 455000 pre-orders and we stopped asking pointless questions when we were 10.
Betting against musk is a fools game... fool.
So AI is never going to happen then? Good to know.
It already has, but it's more hype than reality.
It is also motivational for others to see that even highly specialized companies need some learning too. And succeed in the end.