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    Gennenalyse RuebenGennenalyse Rueben The Prettiest Boy is Ridiculously Pretty Registered User regular
    Holy shit, I don't remember any other SpaceX livestream having anywhere near this many people watching.

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    AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Musk might be an ass, but he got people excited about space flight again at least.

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Aegis wrote: »
    I'm sad there's not a technical webcast this time around.

    On youtube you can "switch cameras", and it looks like maybe you can go to just the launch loop? I haven't checked!

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2018
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aegis wrote: »
    I'm sad there's not a technical webcast this time around.

    On youtube you can "switch cameras", and it looks like maybe you can go to just the launch loop? I haven't checked!

    That appears to be a live camera field of the operations room.

    Edit: Oh, it does have technical audio. Just a strange camera video choice.

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Aegis wrote: »
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Aegis wrote: »
    I'm sad there's not a technical webcast this time around.

    On youtube you can "switch cameras", and it looks like maybe you can go to just the launch loop? I haven't checked!

    That appears to be a live camera field of the operations room.

    Ah. That's no fun!

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    Somebody on another forum had a wonderful solution: multistream link of the main video + technical audio.

    Just mute the main video's audio.

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    edited February 2018
    Aegis wrote: »
    Somebody on another forum had a wonderful solution: multistream link of the main video + technical audio.

    Just mute the main video's audio.

    Ah, brilliant!

    I want all the host's excitement today, but that's useful for future flights, absolutely :)

    T - 5 minutes!

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    1,680,733 people watching this live stream

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    Gennenalyse RuebenGennenalyse Rueben The Prettiest Boy is Ridiculously Pretty Registered User regular
    edited February 2018
    And the livestream's over one and a half million viewers! I can't begin to describe how happy I am about there being so much interest in a rocket launch.

    EDIT: Never mind, it jumped to 1.8 million while I was typing this.

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    T - 2 minutes, folks, I am way too hyped up!

    I'll see you on the other side, I gotta experience all of this.

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    oh man this is so exciting!

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    VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    this is pretty fucking cool. good luck!

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    Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    Musk might be an ass, but he got people excited about space flight again at least.

    As a fan of Aliens I'm stoked for our techno-libertarian future

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    Come on barges, catch those boosters!

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    Fleur de AlysFleur de Alys Biohacker Registered User regular
    This is so exciting! I wish I could watch it, but I'm experiencing it vicariously through all of you <3

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    oh man, the shot of the car is A+++

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    That car shot with music timing was beautiful.

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    SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    oh man, the shot of the car is A+++

    DON'T
    PANIC

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Woooo! 3 separations performed perfectly, stage 2 is doing its job, and now we wait for the landings!

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    SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    14 thousand fucking kph and climbing

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    Gennenalyse RuebenGennenalyse Rueben The Prettiest Boy is Ridiculously Pretty Registered User regular
    Holy shit, I had to watch it in shitty 240p because I'm not at home but damn was it worth it!

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    Kid PresentableKid Presentable Registered User regular
    This is really cool but that car thing is fucking stupid and made me mad.

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    TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    *grabs Narwhal and spins around*

    I'll be able to walk on Mars at this rate!

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    SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    BeNarwhal wrote: »
    Woooo! 3 separations performed perfectly, stage 2 is doing its job, and now we wait for the landings!

    I know you answered tjis earlier but I'm still a little hazy

    We've got booster 1
    Booster 2
    Booster 3
    Core

    And all are surviving hopefully? All controlles landings planned?

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    TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Kid Presentable wrote: »
    This is really cool but that car thing is fucking stupid and made me mad.

    *frowns at*

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    Are all of the side boosters new or reflown boosters? I thought at least one was reflown.

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    Kid Presentable wrote: »
    This is really cool but that car thing is fucking stupid and made me mad.

    you gotta launch something to test it, and why a block of metal or something instead of an old car?

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    AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    That side view of two simultaneous booster landings...

    Holy shit

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    SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Ohhhh they made it

    Fuck yeah!

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    TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Delmain wrote: »
    Kid Presentable wrote: »
    This is really cool but that car thing is fucking stupid and made me mad.

    you gotta launch something to test it, and why a block of metal or something instead of an old car?

    or a block of perfectly good cheese

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    SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Kid Presentable wrote: »
    This is really cool but that car thing is fucking stupid and made me mad.

    Nah the car thing is neat! Probably the publicity stunt aspect helps a lot too.

    Showed the launch to a class, they loved it, thanks for the reminder thread Narwhal!

    OH THAT LANDING THOUGH, two at once!

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Aegis wrote: »
    Are all of the side boosters new or reflown boosters? I thought at least one was reflown.

    The side boosters were previously flown yes :) and SJ, yeah, all three cores are hoped to be recovered <3

    We'll find out about the middle one soon, hopefully >_>

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    AiouaAioua Ora Occidens Ora OptimaRegistered User regular
    Ok so they crashed the core?

    Just fucking say it.

    life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
    fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
    that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
    bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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    AridholAridhol Daddliest Catch Registered User regular
    What happened!

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    ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    They always lose contact with the drone landings, so we'll know one way or another in a few minutes.

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    BremenBremen Registered User regular
    I thought they weren't going to land the boosters simultaneously?

    It was awesome to watch, though.

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    BeNarwhalBeNarwhal The Work Left Unfinished Registered User regular
    Aioua wrote: »
    Ok so they crashed the core?

    Just fucking say it.

    Two landings at the same time, Vowels

    The most engines to ever successfully ignite and launch a payload into orbit

    A second stage that's performing an experimental 6-hour drift period before firing its engine again to travel to its final orbit

    And definitely something happened with the center core, we'll find out shortly :P

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    Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Aridhol wrote: »
    What happened!

    Vulcans came, it was ok.

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    DelmainDelmain Registered User regular
    Usually there's another ship nearby that sends video of the drone ship afterwards, even if the drone ship's antenna goes out, right?

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