^ Thank you for the link.

As I thought there was absolutely no conspiracy over this explosion it had a natural causes due to some technical failure and temperature.

Markus

SpaceX finally did it
 

https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/artic...eslandung.html

:up::)

Has been quite a walk from the first tumbling and exploding starts all those decades ago, to a successful vertical(!!) landing on a tiny spot in the sea :yeah:

Well, to be fair it's their first landing in the Pacific, they've landed on the barge in the Atlantic a few times already. Was a damn good landing though, right on the center circle. It's good to see them back in top form after the Cape explosion.
The next big milestone to come up is next month when SES-10 is launched using a first stage booster that has already been up once. Then there's the un-crewed Dragon 2 test flight to the ISS due in the latter half of this year, and then hopefully a crewed one in 2018. In fact, 2018 should see the end of the Russian monopoly on crewed space launches, because NASA also has a crew capsule on the way, the CST-100 Starliner, providing they don't have to bin it due to budget cuts.
After that...well...as Buzz Aldrin would put it:

http://media2.whosaystatic.com/88634...40_762x762.jpg

I've never felt so enthused since man walked on the moon.

Exciting times ahead.

Until you've seen it come down and land from your back yard like I have, you'll never know how impressive it really is..

While it would always be exciting to see that, the amount of excitement would be indirectly proportional to amount your backyard was supposed to be the LZ.

Dazzling SpaceX Launch Brings Out The UFO Buffs...
 

Last night (12/22), SpaceX launched a rocket carrying ten communications satellites from Vandenberg AFB in California. The launch was notable not only for the fact it was done using a previously flown and recovered rocket, it also provided one of the most spectacular light shows ever. In spite of the fact local media in SoCal had reported the imminent launch earlier in the day (in fact, SpaceX had released the launch info a week earlier), the sight caught a very large number of observers unawares, with a surprising number of people actually thinking it was a UFO. I knew about the launch and deliberately made sure I would be able to watch the rocket as it flew over LA. Here are a few videos of the sight:


News Report:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/...enberg-spacex/


Video shot by onlooker:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BXLd48QYs4


The launch could even be seen as far away as Arizona:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_4...4&pbjreload=10


The phone lines for fire and police were clogged by calls from people reporting the spectacle. A local reporter, who was driving in to the studio at the time, reported drivers stopped cold on the road or pulled off to the side of the road; she said one truck driver was staring at the object and rear-ended a car in the lane next to her. When I saw the launch, I was standing in front of a high-end private gym and workout studio and patrons and workers came outside when they saw the beginnings of the contrail through the gym windows. It was kind of funny listening to the speculations of what the objects and lights were; I finally told them about the rocket launch and they seemed disappointed it was something rather mundane...








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Great pictures. Why can't British Telecom organise something like that for us?

Most impressive :cool:

Too busy over charging its customers. :rolleyes:

I'm surprised you have a phone then.....too modern and comes at a relatively low cost.

SpaceX rockets carry alien tech: Mind control units that causes people to lose their minds and scream "UFO! Aliens!!". Of course. Why wouldn't they carry that? It amuses me mildly to read "Don't believe the lying Govt. Believe what I, a complete stranger with no creds to my name, am telling you instead!".

There is a guy out of Boston who posted on YT about the launch and it was a wild video. If the guy is serious about his posting, mental health care is way inadequate; if it was tongue-in-cheek, then he came disturbingly close to some of the real whacked out claims about the launch...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cwcw2YyWQAA6cHf.jpg


(Is it just me or does that meme look curiously like Jeff Sessions?)...








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Post Office jim, good deal and cheaper. :)

https://youtu.be/m1d6GbKCwtA
ICBM does a spiral patern.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJnfTAs4BtM
Ofc people for some reason views them as UFOs.