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murder
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Mon Apr 27 15:52:13
in ~ 30 minutes.

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murder
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Mon Apr 27 16:15:25

~ 5 minutes

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murder
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Mon Apr 27 16:18:58

~ 2 minutes

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murder
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Mon Apr 27 16:21:39

Hold.

Apparently no launch today. :o(

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Sam Adams
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Mon Apr 27 18:05:52
For someone who claimed to be anti spaceflight you seem to be really into this shit;)

to be fair rockets are indeed fucking awesome.

I suggest making small rockets at home. Being that we live in the land of the free, ammonium perchlorate and potassium nitrate are readily available :)
murder
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Tue Apr 28 12:28:35

Small rockets don't do it for me. I like massive earth shaking rockets. Even though I'm too far away to feel it.

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murder
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Tue Apr 28 12:29:55

This launch has been rescheduled:

April 29 @ 10:13 AM

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Sam Adams
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Tue Apr 28 14:47:08
Hah fair. I've been fairly close to an old shuttle launch and it doesn't just shake the earth it shakes the sky and your soul too.

Not quite gonna get there with your couple hundred newton backyard toy...
murder
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Wed Apr 29 15:42:28

~ 30 minutes until launch

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murder
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Wed Apr 29 15:57:39

~ 15 minutes

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murder
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Wed Apr 29 16:11:04

~ 2 minutes

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murder
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Wed Apr 29 16:20:03

Perfect launch.

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murder
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Wed Apr 29 16:25:36

The two side boosters (Falcon 9s) landed successfully.

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Habebe
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Wed Apr 29 16:33:13
Caught a glimpse.

I called out of work, oddly enough to save my job, tedious bureaucracy.


SpaceX is the reason the US really is still in the lead with this shit.
murder
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Wed Apr 29 16:50:36

The next big launch is Starship scheduled for sometime in May.

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Sam Adams
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Wed Apr 29 17:22:42
The reliability on these falcons is unreal.

Best launch platform ever so far.
murder
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Wed Apr 29 21:41:19

Definitely. It's very rare for anything to go wrong with a Falcon 9.

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Sam Adams
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Wed Apr 29 21:54:06
Starship on the other hand...
EuropeanPussy
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Thu Apr 30 09:59:27
We have rockets, too!

30 minutes until start!

https://www.youtube.com/live/H0zLzwGEhcg

Flight VA268/LE-02 is now scheduled for April 30, 2026, within the following launch window:
04:08 – 04:57 (Washington, D.C.)
05:08 – 05:57 (Kourou)
08:08 – 08:57 (UTC)
10:08 – 10:57 (Paris)
Ariane 6 is in the final phase of the launch campaign, with all systems ready to support launch on April 30. Launch preparations are complete and the payload composite, enclosing the 32 Amazon Leo satellites, has been successfully mated atop the launcher.

The mission, called VA268 and LE-02 for Amazon Leo, will mark the second Ariane 6 launch dedicated to the deployment of the Amazon Leo constellation, within a series of 18.

Equipped with four solid rocket boosters, Ariane 64 is the most powerful version of Ariane 6. For this mission, the launcher will carry the 32 satellites under its 20-meter-long fairing and deploy them into low Earth orbit following a mission lasting less than 2 hours from lift-off to separation of the last spacecraft.
Habebe
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Thu Apr 30 15:03:19
So the current Falcon 9 has a 99.83% success rate.

While China has "reusable" rockets in theory, they both crashed and exploded......

I'm really starting to think there is something to that culture, being good at copying, but still shitty at independent advancement.
Habebe
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Thu Apr 30 15:04:43
ROFLMAO....AIs summary.

SpaceX alone outperforms China's entire national space program in launch volume, maintains higher reliability, and has operational reusable rocket technology that China is still struggling to develop. The gap is widening, not closing.
TheChildren
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Thu Apr 30 16:25:36
rofl clownericans

launch volumes is irrelevant. u is jokin or wut.

china = been 2 mars
china = been 2 moon
china = been 2 far side of moon (only country evar 2 do dis get owned lol)
china = space station da most modern and most superioriez space station well at least it aint runnin on windows 98 like da intanational space station (keyword INTANATIONAL so not urs at all)

china = numerous multi millioniez sateliez full coverage of earth 24/7

spacex = buys cybaflops dat sits on da parkin lots in da thousands...mostly unused. why they do dis? pyramid

butbuuuutbuuut spaaceeey eksie voluummmes
Habebe
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Thu Apr 30 17:07:32
How about making a reusable rocket?
murder
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Thu Apr 30 18:18:07

"We have rockets, too!"

Congratulations on the successful launch, Pussy!

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murder
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Thu Apr 30 18:21:24

"butbuuuutbuuut spaaceeey eksie voluummmes"

The commitment to the bit is impressive.

Confusing, but impressive.

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TheChildren
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Thu Apr 30 18:34:29
me muricant brothas from anotha woman not my motha..., u sound like ur in denial

dis is da true state of da world right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGW8bQtcpJg

u is still livin in 1990 where hogan is da maaaaaain event and dominatin every westla in da ring...

now hogan is 65 aka ur country got old and u still think u da man, all u gotta do is ovadose on them roids some more....yyyyeeeaaaa maccccho maaaan and hogaaan

is not how da world works though. and we kno hogan died from "old age" years of roid abuse, not 2 long after.

da real world and real realities is not 1990. it is where china has vastly surpassed u long ago alrdy but u still clueless bout it coz years of propfunda done a numba on ur brain.

what is da true state of da world. da true state is where a 70k chinese car completely dominates a 700k ferrari...

but u still livin in da world where hogaaaan is da maaaaain eveeeent, where will smith enemy of da stateeee showed ur superior militariez capabilitaties and shit...

dat shit is old outdated gen capabititlies compared 2 china has nowadays. dat is da real world

TheChildren
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Thu Apr 30 18:38:14
da real world is where if a bridge collapses in ur country...it takes 30 years 2 rebuild it at 5x da cost...

da real world is where a simple boat can collapse ur bridge coz it hasnt been maintained in 50 years...plus da construction was 1950 methods and shits aka muricanesium

i kno is hard and shit...but ur leaders abandonned u long ago and rule 4 da sake of rulin and playin colonialism on da rest of da world.

they do not and neva cared bout da rest of u
i thought da pstain files alrdy showed dis

da rot is in every layer of ur societiez

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