This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Scary. In whose hands will this technological marvel be?
India
Speaking as a layman, I just think it's fuckin' awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.
Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin' land where they started seven or eight minutes later.
Science is fuckin mint, man.
Don't quote me on this, but I've heard SpaceX itself is pretty good at keeping Musk away from the actually important things. Something about having a team dedicated to keeping him distracted.
Yeah it's a shame that Musk is so inextricably linked with the brand. I'm quite sure SpaceX and Tesla are full of top tier talent and engineering wizards... but have a direct link to a toxic cockwomble that bankrolls them. Shame.
And yet whenever some achievement is made, the headlines are "Musk achieves great feat"
He likely brought a ton of capital with him.
Imagine getting a job at SpaceX thinking you're gonna build a moon base and you get put on 'Elon distraction' 😭
4, 3, 2, 1... Reverse! We have reverse!... And we're turning... Putting it on D....hit the gas pedal... All systems nominal! The vehicle is gaining speed at 25mph. Entering the 5north at 45mph in climbing... 65! We have reached max Q...honey tell the kids what max Q means....kids, maxQ is when the vehicle sees maximum hydrodynamic pressure.
Trying to avoid MECO at all costs until we park.
I like your funny words, magic man
I'm surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!
“Mach yeet” is now added to my list of sentences I never knew I wanted to read
As an engineer I would like to second this motion to get "Mach Yeet" adopted as an IEC standard technical term.
If I could have crowbarred "moist" in there somewhere too, I'd have set the lexical tiktok on fire.
...if there is even one, don't come at me TNETENNBA fans!
Have you had a chance to play Kerbal Space Program yet? If not, I think you'd really enjoy it.
I haven't, no - and you're probably right, yes.
I worry that if I start playing KSP then my other half and kids won't see me again for six months because it does sound fucking awesome and highly rewarding.
Nope, I'm a simple man. I play through a couple of Doom WADs each summer in the academic off-season and that's my gaming appetite satiated.
I made the mistake of thinking KSP was a game and not literal mother fucking rocket science.
There was a lot of explosions and no space.
Does not live up to the hype.
changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre
These things really fuck with nude sunbathing.
Some of us are blessed with
They need to launch a much more expensive satellite for that.
Hey, if they want to put themselves through looking at me in the nude, they can inflict that pain on themselves. I'd be more worried about them tracking everything else someone does day to day, and who could get their hands on that data.
I recall a Judas Priest song about this.
This is really cool.
Anyone know where can I publically find satellite data which is regularly updated, for hobby projects.
Just what we needed, more surveillance /s
Don't such satellites have a major flaw, that they revolve? Considering that earth is spherical, those satellites can only monitor some half of the earth each moment, given their sensors have such high FOV.
How is that a flaw? It just sounds like a design consideration...
Do you expect the satellite to see the whole earth?
You know it's night for like half of it, yea?
What are you talking about? There's only one side. /s
I'm not agreeing with their dumb point, but just pointing out: this satellite works on radar. I'm genuinely concerned how many people seem to be commenting without reading the article.
*yeah, not yea or nay. It isn't a vote.
