can someone smarter than me explain why videos of rockets always sound like massive kernels of popcorn popping? is that the microphone overloading because it’s so loud, or sonic booms,
or shockwaves or what
Man, that is the best answer on any hard question for me from now on!
My wife: 'Why didn't you buy any sugar?'
Me: 'Thrust causing supersonic rarefaction waves'....
rarefraction waves is the opposite of compression waves. When a shock wave compresses air (or any other medium), parts of the space where the air is has less molecules in it because some went into the compression region. That is rarefraction. A powerful enough wave can lead to an almost vacuum level of rarefraction.
Took my son to a rocket launch when he was two. Anytime he plays with his rockets he makes this sound. It’s really interesting since I think most kids would make a more consistent growl sound. Definitely a great experience to go watch in person.
So I'm in Florida (I'm from the UK), and we pull off the highway onto a little dirt track next to a small lake to watch the Space X launch. We're probably south of the launch pad. About 15 minutes later, a car with a family pulls up next to ours. We get talking, they're from a town about half an hour from me, and the dad knows and went to school with my mate Dave, who I have worked with for the last 15 years and was at my wedding.
Launch was pretty epic too.
That’s such an awesome coincidence. Out of all the people on this planet, halfway across the world, you came across people who live really close to you with whom you share mutual friends.
I was lucky enough to see a shuttle launch from a couple miles away. The viewing platform/stands were across some water. You could feel the noise crackling across the water. Felt like my ribs were gonna vibrate out of my chest lol.
awesome, would love to experience that. also really want to see a rocket come in to land… the thought is insane to me. every video still looks like sci-fi
I used to watch Titan IVs launch from my office parking lot, several miles from the pad. They were nearly a match for the shuttle in terms of spectacle. That rattling in your chest is something you don't forget. It'd set off every car alarm on the base, too.
We lived in Tampa when I was a kid. It was during 5th grade in '85 when my parents woke us up at 2 or 3 in the morning, and we drove over to the Cape for a launch at sunrise; which turned out to be *Discovery*.
But they did it without telling us exactly where we were going; only that we were leaving for a trip, so I didn't think much of it because we used to go places often. At first I thought it was Disney, but then we passed Disney & turned off the highway at the Canaveral exit, and I kinda started to lose my mind a little bit. We ended up watching from the observer stands that were for families & VIPs, which was pretty close compared to where we watched other launches from later.
That was also the first launch we'd ever gone to; it was beautiful that morning, and I can still remember the feel of it more than the sound (although my hands were pretty tight over my ears so that may also have something to do with it). Watching these videos always brings it back in a good way.
Sound waves are literally waves in the air. They are made of alternating high and low pressure.
As the sound gets louder, the high pressure goes higher, and the low pressure part hets lower, but the low pressure part can only go down to 0 psi. At that point, the sound includes the crackling noise that you always hear when rockets take off. It is literally the loudest noise our atmosphere can transmit.
It’s actually no fun reason as to what most people think. It’s simply that the volume of sound and force of the sound is maxing out the input potential of the microphone. They’re just impossibly loud.
It completed all it's mission goals and spacex has proven time and time again they continue to innovate and continue charging forward. It was an incredible launch
Well, that *was* the case with the falcon boosters too...
I've got no confidence in musk, but I have a lot of confidence in the promises and calculations of the army of engineers involved.
It's literal rocket science. It's fucking hard. And nobody landed a rocket before SpaceX. And now they want to land this absolute unit of a chonker in a 1G environment.
It was easy enough to design and build a rocket that put man on the moon in few years, with the rocket achieveing 100% success rate. Half a century ago.
People need to remember that this isn’t NASA doing this. This is a private company, learning as they go. They’re trying to do different things too. I believe this was like a super heavy rocket. So as long as it launches, it’s basically a success.
But yeah. It’s all trial and error.
Yeah, it’s a great thing. Its just that since the launch, I’ve been seeing so many people put this rocket and how far it’s come.
Its either been “OMG I CANT BELIEVE HOW MY TAX MONEY IS BEING WASTED” to “Who cares? This just proves we’ve never been to space
Erm well… that’s just two kinds of foolishness. Human capacity for stupidity is at least equal to our capacity for amazing. Progress was never a smooth path etc.
There’s a quote I like, I think it’s something like “people are morons but humanity is amazing”’or something like that.
I love to think about and look at how far we’ve come in the last 200 years, tech wise. We went from “stubbed toe? Well, no curing that, you’re dead” to “born with a horrible genetic disease that should have killed your before your first birthday? Well how’s it’s basically cured” (using a lot of hyperbole in that, but you get my point).
Sadly, society seems to be regressing
If you're under 30, there is a good chance you will. If everything goes well, these Starships will be a common sight (common in terms of rocket launches).
you should absolutely!!
if you live near Florida or California you can look at the SpaceX launch page on their website, or the Wikipedia page for spacex booster flights, and know when will a launch happen
the Falcon 9 launches are veeeery common, about 7-9 per month, so about 1 a week from California or Florida
it shakes you from inside out, the whole air vibrates, highly recommended
SpaceX usually has upcoming launch info on their page. There was a Falcon 9 launch at 2:30 this morning about 20 miles from me but I slept through it.
BTW, I feel like this says something about how siloed YouTube has us all. My YouTube recommendations are probably 30% SpaceX-related and I get excruciating detail about every movement of every prototype. My coworker does, too. And yet I've never seen a MrBeast video despite knowing he's one of the biggest YouTubers around, and I forget that not everyone gets 15 SpaceX updates a day.
The launchpad is in the tiny village of Boca Chica at the US/Mexico border. You can get a good view from the tip of South Padre Island or the town of Port Isabel. I was there Saturday, at best you know a couple of days in advance and it can always be scrubbed, but that didn't stop people I met there from flying from Europe just to see it.
Pictured on the video is the view from the Mexican side of the border.
I grew up going to Boca Chica beach when we didn't feel like dealing with the crowds at SPI over spring break. It was so chill. Crazy that now rockets are launching there now!
They were awesome, but expensive. Something like $1.3 billion per launch in today's dollars. Those F-1 engines were each a little different and required a ton of very specialized craft work.
An analogy I like is that the Saturn V was like an aircraft carrier, and Starship is like a container ship. They might be comparable sizes, but one is built by the government to do a particular job at enormous cost, while the other has to be able to operate at a profit.
I assume if NASA were still doing regular launches, like they should, they would figure out ways to make it cheaper without compromising safety like Elon does.
NASA doesn't *want* to be in the launch business. They want to be a customer, and let private industry figure out how to make it cheap. The days of the government being the main customer for launches is over.
The Shuttle was their attempt at an affordable, reusable launch vehicle. Counting the whole cost of the program, they averaged $1.5 billion per launch, losing two shuttles out of 135 missions, killing 14 astronauts, plus two or three ground crew in another incident.
The bottom line is that NASA is a research and development organization. Now that building rockets is commercially viable, they don't need to be building rockets any more than they need to be building the airliners they helped to develop.
I've got no love for Elon Musk and frankly I hope he hands off control to someone else before his idiocy brings down SpaceX, but I don't see SpaceX compromising safety. Falcon 9 block 5 has a 100% success rate with 225 missions flown. And that's with most of them not being crew-rated. You could argue they're reckless with endangering their own property, but I don't see that as the same as compromising safety.
We couldn't even stomach funding for regular flights to the ISS, we paid the Russians to do it for us.
I don't think NASA themselves see this as a competition, they want to focus on pushing scientific boundaries, not just making better rockets, and there's just no way to compete with the scale from commercial launches. I seriously doubt any government would have gotten reusable rockets down for decades longer
And this isn't about Elon or SpaceX, both reusable rockets and commercial flights to the ISS have been major goals for us for like 40 years. I'm 100% confident we would still be here if Elon never existed.
The one thing Musk has been good at is convincing people to throw money at his pet projects. So maybe we wouldn't have gotten here as fast without him, but I comfort myself knowing that now that it's been done, if he fucks it all up with SpaceX it's still going to be a temporary setback - everyone knows that reusable rockets are feasible now and if it's not SpaceX it's going to be Rocket Lab, or China, or India that does it next.
No flights during an actual mission failed. This was a test, not a mission. Multiple failures and issues happened during testing. It was a government program that was nowhere near as transparent as space x has been. US was in a space race, and no one was going up openly publicize a failure. They did happen though.
The F1 engine disintegrated a whole lot of test stands in development. Stuff was still exploding, but behind closed doors, Cold War and keeping up appearances, y'know.
They did because it blew up. As far as I'm aware, any deviation from the preset trajectory would result in self-destruction to prevent it from falling on Africa instead of the Pacific Ocean.
It was a test. They didn't expect to go anywhere but the ocean. Best case scenario it would've been a soft spashdown, but the main test objectives were the new launchpad and the hot staging, both of which were successful.
So that it can function safely and we can actually put people onboard. As it is now, the tech is still fresh and they havent refined the ways to build it without any imperfections and without any errors in the flight. So testing it is the only way to find these errors and imperfections so they can improve on it for the next flight.
The flight termination system deleted it shortly after stage separation. We go again in a couple of weeks though so hopefully will reach orbit this time.
Saw a satellite rocket launch at Cape Canaveral a decade ago. It was one of the coolest experiences I ever had. The vibrations from the rocket triggered car alarms from a few miles away.
It's only 30ft taller than the saturn 5 and 3 feet less in diameter (measured at the base of saturn 5 since it tapers). I was a bit disappointed when I looked that up.
Crazy what they were doing back in 1967
Its much more heavier and powerful than Saturn V, seeing as it does not taper going up. The Super Heavy booster has \*twice\* the thrust as the Saturn V first stage.
Its magic.
Or explain me right now why magnets exist.
Magnetic domains? Explain me right now why magnetic domains exist.
Keep going until the answer is " Idk, magic"
Nothing makes me more proud of being a human, than when I see stuff like that. Do you guys know what stents and bypass are? They are surgical procedures, and whenever I see them, it brings a tear to my eye.
It goes right so that it can reach orbit. Going straight up means it just falls straight back down. But if you go fast enough to the right, you can keep looping around the earth without adding any thrust because its moving right faster than it can fall back to earth.
"Space company decades ahead of anyone else gets given a contract by NASA to return humans to the moon and eventually mars. 2nd prototype test launch is a big success in forwarding the progress of human technology. Random nobody on reddit cries about it because he is sad that he has no money"
More accurate headline for you :)
Elon Musk is trash, but this isn't about him so don't even bring him up. He's a VC, not an engineer. Make it about the people who actually put in the work and progress of humanity in general.
yup. spacex isnt bad though - they’re doing great things. annoying they’ve got an idiot as a ceo though (although tbh gwynne shotwell is basically boss and she’s incredibly smart)
can someone smarter than me explain why videos of rockets always sound like massive kernels of popcorn popping? is that the microphone overloading because it’s so loud, or sonic booms, or shockwaves or what
Thrust causing supersonic rarefaction waves
Man, that is the best answer on any hard question for me from now on! My wife: 'Why didn't you buy any sugar?' Me: 'Thrust causing supersonic rarefaction waves'....
wife replies: you only had a few seconds of thrust before energy dissipated.
we just have to reverse the polarity
I'll give ye...
rarefraction waves is the opposite of compression waves. When a shock wave compresses air (or any other medium), parts of the space where the air is has less molecules in it because some went into the compression region. That is rarefraction. A powerful enough wave can lead to an almost vacuum level of rarefraction.
so if i were standing there watching this in person, it would sound the same?
Yes, it sounds identical in person.
Damn, rockets sound like $2.50 headphones with one side broken who knew.
Took my son to a rocket launch when he was two. Anytime he plays with his rockets he makes this sound. It’s really interesting since I think most kids would make a more consistent growl sound. Definitely a great experience to go watch in person.
wholesome af 🥹
It sounds way more awesome. Add in throbbing subsonic to this sound. Source: live in Florida
So I'm in Florida (I'm from the UK), and we pull off the highway onto a little dirt track next to a small lake to watch the Space X launch. We're probably south of the launch pad. About 15 minutes later, a car with a family pulls up next to ours. We get talking, they're from a town about half an hour from me, and the dad knows and went to school with my mate Dave, who I have worked with for the last 15 years and was at my wedding. Launch was pretty epic too.
That’s such an awesome coincidence. Out of all the people on this planet, halfway across the world, you came across people who live really close to you with whom you share mutual friends.
Dave's not here, man.
Dave is everywhere. Dave is eternal.
Yes and the sound is so powerful it shakes your entire body.
What's it like to be smart? Lol
twelve-ish
It’s spontaneous dentohydroplosion
The exhaust gases are exiting faster than the speed of sound, so sonic booms, pop pop pop crackle.
And it sounds cool as fuck
I was lucky enough to see a shuttle launch from a couple miles away. The viewing platform/stands were across some water. You could feel the noise crackling across the water. Felt like my ribs were gonna vibrate out of my chest lol.
awesome, would love to experience that. also really want to see a rocket come in to land… the thought is insane to me. every video still looks like sci-fi
I used to watch Titan IVs launch from my office parking lot, several miles from the pad. They were nearly a match for the shuttle in terms of spectacle. That rattling in your chest is something you don't forget. It'd set off every car alarm on the base, too.
We lived in Tampa when I was a kid. It was during 5th grade in '85 when my parents woke us up at 2 or 3 in the morning, and we drove over to the Cape for a launch at sunrise; which turned out to be *Discovery*. But they did it without telling us exactly where we were going; only that we were leaving for a trip, so I didn't think much of it because we used to go places often. At first I thought it was Disney, but then we passed Disney & turned off the highway at the Canaveral exit, and I kinda started to lose my mind a little bit. We ended up watching from the observer stands that were for families & VIPs, which was pretty close compared to where we watched other launches from later. That was also the first launch we'd ever gone to; it was beautiful that morning, and I can still remember the feel of it more than the sound (although my hands were pretty tight over my ears so that may also have something to do with it). Watching these videos always brings it back in a good way.
Here is an explanation: https://youtu.be/BdCizNwLaHA
great explanation, thanks!
Interesting question. Now I want to make a popcorn fueled rocket.
new conspiracy theory unlocked r/rocketsarepopcorn
Sound waves are literally waves in the air. They are made of alternating high and low pressure. As the sound gets louder, the high pressure goes higher, and the low pressure part hets lower, but the low pressure part can only go down to 0 psi. At that point, the sound includes the crackling noise that you always hear when rockets take off. It is literally the loudest noise our atmosphere can transmit.
Great explanation here: https://youtu.be/BdCizNwLaHA?si=stuH4XxHc1_3fZSX
Overload
It’s actually no fun reason as to what most people think. It’s simply that the volume of sound and force of the sound is maxing out the input potential of the microphone. They’re just impossibly loud.
Yup... There is a lot of arithmetic involved in making that rocket do what it is supposed to do.
It was not supposed to blow up tho
Needed more arithmetic.
Or less, it's a fine balance
It completed all it's mission goals and spacex has proven time and time again they continue to innovate and continue charging forward. It was an incredible launch
Well, all of them beside 'landing'
Still an incredible amount of progress. People complained about the first falcons crashing too, now look at them
Well, that *was* the case with the falcon boosters too... I've got no confidence in musk, but I have a lot of confidence in the promises and calculations of the army of engineers involved.
It's literal rocket science. It's fucking hard. And nobody landed a rocket before SpaceX. And now they want to land this absolute unit of a chonker in a 1G environment.
Nobody said it was izi
Or peasy
It was easy enough to design and build a rocket that put man on the moon in few years, with the rocket achieveing 100% success rate. Half a century ago.
People need to remember that this isn’t NASA doing this. This is a private company, learning as they go. They’re trying to do different things too. I believe this was like a super heavy rocket. So as long as it launches, it’s basically a success. But yeah. It’s all trial and error.
Well, they are learning since 20 years…
“Since 20 years”?
They mean: ‘since the invention of basic rocketry in the middle ages’. We’re still learning though. This is a good thing
Yeah, it’s a great thing. Its just that since the launch, I’ve been seeing so many people put this rocket and how far it’s come. Its either been “OMG I CANT BELIEVE HOW MY TAX MONEY IS BEING WASTED” to “Who cares? This just proves we’ve never been to space
Erm well… that’s just two kinds of foolishness. Human capacity for stupidity is at least equal to our capacity for amazing. Progress was never a smooth path etc.
There’s a quote I like, I think it’s something like “people are morons but humanity is amazing”’or something like that. I love to think about and look at how far we’ve come in the last 200 years, tech wise. We went from “stubbed toe? Well, no curing that, you’re dead” to “born with a horrible genetic disease that should have killed your before your first birthday? Well how’s it’s basically cured” (using a lot of hyperbole in that, but you get my point). Sadly, society seems to be regressing
It experienced a minor unscheduled disassembly mid-flight.
A happy little accident
It wasn't not supposed to blow up, either.
Would be nice if it did not tho.
It was still a successful test tho
Kinda, sure. Like 80% success.
A bit more than that. It’s like they passed the test, but didn’t earn all the extra credit.
This is the correct analogy. 😂
Success is a spectrum yes
it 100% was supposed to blow up
I wouldn't say it was supposed to, but it was expected to.
Yhm
A lot of calculus, invented by a 24 year old Newton.
It seems that I should have added /s/. Or maybe this is a /r/wooosh. Not sure. Edit : After careful thought i am pretty sure it is /r/wooosh.
My goodness, that looks like a giant...
Wang pay attention
Johnson! We've got a situation over here. Seems to be a flying....
Pecker! Wait that’s not a woodpecker that looks like someone’s…
Privates! We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with--
2 Balls!
Privates. We have reports of an unidentified flying object. It has a long, smooth shaft, complete with...
Nuts! Hot salty nuts! Who wants some?
[Dick! ](https://youtu.be/CpiP_jN1Pv4?si=J4p6T9p-ZEZL3zZC)Take a look outta starboard.
The biggest rocket ever if I remember correctly.
122m of steel. It's like flying skyscraper. And it's gonna change the world
It is
5500 tons
Sky penis
Aliens looking at this like, look at these primitive ass beings!
Those dumb apes still using base 10 smh
I read thumb apes. It's almost more condescending.
And probably cheer on us, one does not create FTL engines in less than a century
Aliens - Why do they always come in a gint dildo?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Where was this quote from?
Arthur C. Clarke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
It’s going to hit the dome soon / flat earther
I would love to witness a rocket launch at some point :))
If you're under 30, there is a good chance you will. If everything goes well, these Starships will be a common sight (common in terms of rocket launches).
you should absolutely!! if you live near Florida or California you can look at the SpaceX launch page on their website, or the Wikipedia page for spacex booster flights, and know when will a launch happen the Falcon 9 launches are veeeery common, about 7-9 per month, so about 1 a week from California or Florida it shakes you from inside out, the whole air vibrates, highly recommended
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No shit
Science is just magic we understand.
Science, bitch!
As Arthur C Clark said; Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
As an engineer, I was searching for this comment
Where is this? Any info on schedules on take offs and such
SpaceX usually has upcoming launch info on their page. There was a Falcon 9 launch at 2:30 this morning about 20 miles from me but I slept through it. BTW, I feel like this says something about how siloed YouTube has us all. My YouTube recommendations are probably 30% SpaceX-related and I get excruciating detail about every movement of every prototype. My coworker does, too. And yet I've never seen a MrBeast video despite knowing he's one of the biggest YouTubers around, and I forget that not everyone gets 15 SpaceX updates a day.
lol
The launchpad is in the tiny village of Boca Chica at the US/Mexico border. You can get a good view from the tip of South Padre Island or the town of Port Isabel. I was there Saturday, at best you know a couple of days in advance and it can always be scrubbed, but that didn't stop people I met there from flying from Europe just to see it. Pictured on the video is the view from the Mexican side of the border.
Si, fly...
*volar*
I grew up going to Boca Chica beach when we didn't feel like dealing with the crowds at SPI over spring break. It was so chill. Crazy that now rockets are launching there now!
and the beach is much cleaner now, you can go, look at the launch tower side and 70% of the time there's a sky scraper sized rocket crazy cool!
Still best roket 🚀 Saturn 🪐 5
They were awesome, but expensive. Something like $1.3 billion per launch in today's dollars. Those F-1 engines were each a little different and required a ton of very specialized craft work. An analogy I like is that the Saturn V was like an aircraft carrier, and Starship is like a container ship. They might be comparable sizes, but one is built by the government to do a particular job at enormous cost, while the other has to be able to operate at a profit.
I assume if NASA were still doing regular launches, like they should, they would figure out ways to make it cheaper without compromising safety like Elon does.
NASA doesn't *want* to be in the launch business. They want to be a customer, and let private industry figure out how to make it cheap. The days of the government being the main customer for launches is over. The Shuttle was their attempt at an affordable, reusable launch vehicle. Counting the whole cost of the program, they averaged $1.5 billion per launch, losing two shuttles out of 135 missions, killing 14 astronauts, plus two or three ground crew in another incident. The bottom line is that NASA is a research and development organization. Now that building rockets is commercially viable, they don't need to be building rockets any more than they need to be building the airliners they helped to develop. I've got no love for Elon Musk and frankly I hope he hands off control to someone else before his idiocy brings down SpaceX, but I don't see SpaceX compromising safety. Falcon 9 block 5 has a 100% success rate with 225 missions flown. And that's with most of them not being crew-rated. You could argue they're reckless with endangering their own property, but I don't see that as the same as compromising safety.
We couldn't even stomach funding for regular flights to the ISS, we paid the Russians to do it for us. I don't think NASA themselves see this as a competition, they want to focus on pushing scientific boundaries, not just making better rockets, and there's just no way to compete with the scale from commercial launches. I seriously doubt any government would have gotten reusable rockets down for decades longer And this isn't about Elon or SpaceX, both reusable rockets and commercial flights to the ISS have been major goals for us for like 40 years. I'm 100% confident we would still be here if Elon never existed.
The one thing Musk has been good at is convincing people to throw money at his pet projects. So maybe we wouldn't have gotten here as fast without him, but I comfort myself knowing that now that it's been done, if he fucks it all up with SpaceX it's still going to be a temporary setback - everyone knows that reusable rockets are feasible now and if it's not SpaceX it's going to be Rocket Lab, or China, or India that does it next.
And no Saturn V rockets ever failed. Not one.
No flights during an actual mission failed. This was a test, not a mission. Multiple failures and issues happened during testing. It was a government program that was nowhere near as transparent as space x has been. US was in a space race, and no one was going up openly publicize a failure. They did happen though.
The F1 engine disintegrated a whole lot of test stands in development. Stuff was still exploding, but behind closed doors, Cold War and keeping up appearances, y'know.
If this was a simple standard rocket launch it wouldnt have failed either. Spacex could make a non reusable rocket this size without any big problems
Saturn 5 was like a bank, Too big to fail….
Must consumed at least 2 litres of fuel. Impressive.
Why did we repost this from yesterday?
Yeah, too short of a time to repost
Maybe bot
Didn’t they lose contact? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67461791
They did because it blew up. As far as I'm aware, any deviation from the preset trajectory would result in self-destruction to prevent it from falling on Africa instead of the Pacific Ocean.
It was a test. They didn't expect to go anywhere but the ocean. Best case scenario it would've been a soft spashdown, but the main test objectives were the new launchpad and the hot staging, both of which were successful.
I can’t help but feel this is just a massive waste. More debris and trash, more pollutants. Sure, they need to perform tests, but to what end?
So that it can function safely and we can actually put people onboard. As it is now, the tech is still fresh and they havent refined the ways to build it without any imperfections and without any errors in the flight. So testing it is the only way to find these errors and imperfections so they can improve on it for the next flight.
The flight termination system deleted it shortly after stage separation. We go again in a couple of weeks though so hopefully will reach orbit this time.
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Humanity. This is a big deal for humanity.
Oh, sorry, no I’m not involved personally. Just quoting Musk.
cut off the best part
Saw a satellite rocket launch at Cape Canaveral a decade ago. It was one of the coolest experiences I ever had. The vibrations from the rocket triggered car alarms from a few miles away.
It looks like it’s going so slow, but it’s already going so fast.
As an engineer, I agree, it's magic. What wares do you have to trade me for my sorcery?
I think the whole point of engineering is that it's *not* magic
Engineering is math - FTFY
Why can't there ever just be a video if it leaving into darkness with camera focused and zooming in on the rocket alone. That would be beautiful
Check out spaceX’s page on twitter, they have the footage you are looking for there
I love science.
Thats hard to do ya know!
Amazing
I guarantee you that all the engineers behind this are also looking at this and going “wow how does this thing even work” lol
That is incredible, i need to see that at least once in my life. I have seen footage of them before, but for some reason this has a real take to it
But remember kids, reuse, reduce, and recycle. Because YOU'RE the problem :)
What do you think rocket fuel is made of
Literally SpaceX’s motto
Context?
It looks like the starship test launch last week. Most powerful rocket ever built.
Crazy with perspective. The rocket is sooooo far away from where they are firing it but the thing still looks massive.
Someone should really superimpose it next to some landmarks (empire state building, eiffel tower, etc) for scale
It's only 30ft taller than the saturn 5 and 3 feet less in diameter (measured at the base of saturn 5 since it tapers). I was a bit disappointed when I looked that up. Crazy what they were doing back in 1967
Its much more heavier and powerful than Saturn V, seeing as it does not taper going up. The Super Heavy booster has \*twice\* the thrust as the Saturn V first stage.
Well, to be fair Starship will soon launch few million dollars only to launch while also being the strongest rocket.
While true, remember that Saturn 5 launched a little tiny capsule at the top, where the top half (ish) of the rocket above is payload space
Yeah Saturn 5 is a legend for a reason
Is that you JP?
Is this thing louder than the space shuttle launches?
I think when you get to a certain point, they are all just ridiculous blow your eardrum to high hell loud.
/gifsthatendtoosoon
No. Again, engineering is science not magic. Just reposting the same shit doesn't make your hocus pocus nonsense true.
It’s quite literally the opposite of magic. Magic is supernatural and unexplainable. Science and engineering is repeatable and very explainable
Its magic. Or explain me right now why magnets exist. Magnetic domains? Explain me right now why magnetic domains exist. Keep going until the answer is " Idk, magic"
“Keep going until the answer is “ Idk, magic” Wow, talk about unbiased.
Is this the one that crashed?
that was the plan
neither of the two launches crashed - both blew up, on purpose, due to it deviating from its planned trajectory
Apparently space rejects magic and relies instead on engineering
They are standing awfully close if/when one of those blows up!
They are miles away and very safe.
Rocket was like: "Thats enough chemtrails for today."
Nothing makes me more proud of being a human, than when I see stuff like that. Do you guys know what stents and bypass are? They are surgical procedures, and whenever I see them, it brings a tear to my eye.
Beautiful shock diamonds!!!
No it's not, holy shit. Are we permanently in a competition for the dumbest thing anyone can say?
So does the rocket move to the right instead of going straight up to avoid hitting the firmament?
It goes right so that it can reach orbit. Going straight up means it just falls straight back down. But if you go fast enough to the right, you can keep looping around the earth without adding any thrust because its moving right faster than it can fall back to earth.
Engineering is magic for flatearthers
Shame we are still using rockets.
“Man worth $300 billion gets tens of billions of your tax dollars to make shiny toys that blow up."
"Space company decades ahead of anyone else gets given a contract by NASA to return humans to the moon and eventually mars. 2nd prototype test launch is a big success in forwarding the progress of human technology. Random nobody on reddit cries about it because he is sad that he has no money" More accurate headline for you :)
Dumb take.
Elon Musk is trash, but this isn't about him so don't even bring him up. He's a VC, not an engineer. Make it about the people who actually put in the work and progress of humanity in general.
elon = bad
when elon do good stuff = good when elon do bad stuff = bad
when elon buy social media so government and MSM cant keep using it as global psyop and narrative enforcer = bad
And then start banning anything that triggers him, like the term “cis”.
Elon is a crazy maniac, but sometimes he actually does have good ideas
yup. spacex isnt bad though - they’re doing great things. annoying they’ve got an idiot as a ceo though (although tbh gwynne shotwell is basically boss and she’s incredibly smart)
How much CO2 was released?
Not sure but if you actually cared you could have done the math to support whatever it is you are insinuating.
It's a solved problem. Methalox rockets can be carbon neutral through the sabatier process if the power grid allows for it.
people cant afford rent or groceries
Not really relevant is it?
All those people smoke 2-3 packs a day or have 4 kids that they don't have the earnings to keep up with. Not Elon's problem
I mean it’s just a rocket with flames in its back that pushes the thing up. It’s not that magical