SpaceX Starship captured by chopsticks!

[Pyan]

Absolutely astounding...

Video:
Watch: SpaceX Starship booster caught in mid air

 

[paranoid marvin]

So this is what the future looks like....

 

[Biskit]

I was just watching this, went wow!, watched it again, then had the Biskitetta watching it and... wow.

Then I watched it and tracked the speed data bottom left. That thing is dropping at about 3000kph** and 10km up at the start of the video, and is stationary at 45 seconds in.

**Or about Mach 2.4

 

[Harpo]

This is the equivalent of the first time we all watched the Space Shuttle landing like a plane.

Reusable equipment makes space exploration more cost effective, and more likely to actually happen (rather than getting cancelled due to expense for several more decades)

 

[THX1138]

It was like watching a SF movie or video game. Awesome.

 

[reiver33]

We’re finally catching up to the 1950s ideal of the single stage starship taking off and landing vertically. None of your realist ‘Nostromo’ nonsense, it’s Destination Moon!

 

[Elckerlyc]

 

[mosaix]

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Tintin?

 

[Pyan]

Now that's a proper spaceship!

 

[Elckerlyc]

Tintin?

Yep. From either the album Destination Moon or Explorers on the Moon.

 

[Pyan]

And the amazing art of Chesley Bonestell in the 1950s, showing what they really thought a moon-ship would look like.

 

[reiver33]

Of course they saw them as reusable, as ‘throwaway’ culture lay some time in their future.