cubinator

I feel you...I had to walk 50 m to get into school this morning and it's 0° F.

Makes me want to do an 8-bit KSP theme!

Absolutely. They were red points, and they moved much too slowly to be meteors - I thought it was a fleet of drones or military aircraft until some of them stopped glowing. One fragment veered nearly 90 degrees, and I could see it's brightness oscillating, presumably as the thing tumbled and settled into the most aerodynamic orientation.

Yesterday while I was watching the ISS fly overhead I saw an actual satellite reenter Earth's atmosphere, and it looked just like Kerbal Space Program.

I don't know, when I'm in space I'll definitely "deploy" myself from my sleeping compartment in the morning sometimes...

HOLY #### I JUST SAW A SATELLITE DEORBIT It was flying north, and I counted six or seven fragments, all glowing red points of light. I thought it was a group of military planes before a few of them went dark. At that point I realized what I was seeing. One of the fragments actually veered east and the plasma varied in brightness, presumably as the thing was wobbled by the atmosphere. Gonna write an awesome theme for it now.

Just saw Iridium 911 spinning fast, once every 6 or 8 seconds. Anyone know what caused it to lose control and get going like that? Was it an explosion or a faulty thruster, or something else?

Apparently the highest mileage on a car is about 3 million miles, which means it'll take the Tesla about another week n flight to beat the record.

Unsurprisingly, it simply chose to click.

Yes, and that one could potentially give you depth perception because the two boosters are far apart. I didn't find it very effective.

When you try to watch the Falcon Heavy boosters land with your eyes crossed for a 3D view of the Cape.

"I'm tripping balls here." -Elon Musk, on the successful Falcon Heavy test flight

Elon tripping balls: https://imgur.com/FJtuy8g

"The latest discoveries of gravitational waves will be groundbreaking in the music world"

I still think that they should install a monolith on the Moon for the BFR test. Put a little RTG in it and have it broadcast spooky noises to anybody within a few hundred meters.

Probably not. The thing is, you're never surprised when a coincidence doesn't happen. So when it does, you feel really impressed. Just yesterday I took a screenshot of Starman over Australia and emailed it to my dad. Just a few hours later, the same shot showed up on the front page of BoingBoing. How could they have possibly gotten a hold of my exact screenshot but if somebody forwarded it a couple of times and it eventually got to the right person? I wanted to find out if it was really the same image, so I brought both of them up in Paint, resized my screenshot to be the same scale, and counted the pixels between the helmet and a small cloud. Turns out the one on the website was just a frame after mine. It was just that somebody else also thought that was a really good moment to screenshot.

Well, goodbye car. I don't think I've been that excited for a launch since the Shuttle days.

Just think what that Moon + Mars flyby would have said for precision navigation.

Oh. So I guess they're not doing a spontaneous Moon gravity assist and Mars intercept then. It will get pretty close to the Moon though.

"It looks kind of small up close" -Elon Musk

Ok, I've looked at the positions and trajectories of Earth, Moon, and Mars, and it looks like a perfect time to do some shenanigan swinging under the Moon in 2-3 days right onto a Mars intercept trajectory for the end of summer. If I'm right about this, I'm going to be tripping balls as much as Elon himself.

I'm still not completely convinced this thing isn't going to do a flyby of Mars or even the Moon. I'll have to look at Space Engine more tomorrow.

If it was going ESE I wouldn't have seen it, though. Too bad. A very cool launch nonetheless.

Aww, no luck for me.

Is it still firing? I'm standing outside and it's 8 degrees help