CatastrophicFailure

It’s at 1:30 EST/10:30PST.

Aww, man, they're throwing away a perfectly good spacesuit too? Oooooh but there's the camera mount! Wait, how are they going to decouple the car tho? Arrgh, I find this lack of zoom disturbing!

Hmm. Well have you measured its airspeed velocity? Making sure it's unladen first, of course...

“Hello, world! Crap... crap... oh crap! Stuff’s on fire, yo! Crap! Crap! Crap! Fire! Fire! Little help here? Fire! Crap, stuff’s on fire! Anybody got a bucket or something? Fire! Crap! Aight, screw this, I’m out! Y’all can clean this mess up! Later. Bye. So done with this crap.” —that fairing, probably.

You should be watching it in class!

(that’s Florida time) hypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehypehype Wooo wooo! ETA: addendum:

Interesting... hint: you need to add the extension, .png or .jpg, to the imgur link for the pic to post. Easiest to just right click then “copy image location.”

I’m not liking anything starting at 10:30 my time tomorrow so I’ll have plenty saved up. Someone could probably math this, there are some decent numbers available for thrust from a throttled down single Merlin in an almost empty booster vs all 9 on a nearly full stack, right? I wonder how “aware” the boosters are of each other? Might they have some kind of avoidance software?

Sooooo.... As I sit here ignoring the game and waiting for the commercials, I’m reminded that, oddly enough, this is how it all began. It all started here three years ago. Edgas, the Kraken, and eventually this whole oddball universe all grew out of a bad Super Bowl joke, which itself has been lost to the Second Great Forum Derp. If the Seahawks had won in 2015, no one would be reading this right now. #ThisIsDeep

Like @tater said, Chris_G is a great source of all-around info. Also SpaceX, ElonMusk, NasaSpaceFlight, NextLaunch. I'm probably getting the names wrong but you can search them, and the app will give you suggestions, too. I finally broke down and got an account myself, it's been great for keeping up to date on spacey stuff. Now if I can just resist the urge to broadcast stupid, un-thought-out remarks to the entire world...

So I just came across this: (Ignore the actual text) First thought: ...is that a... Kerm seed?!?

@Starman4308 What Failure mod are you using to get those reliability numbers?

Twitter’s been working great for me. If anything changes you’ll get besieged by half a dozen tweets in about 3 seconds informing you of it. *fingers crossed* I’m very curious to see how that Starlink thing goes. I’d love to ditch the stupid cable company and be an early adopter.

So much this:

Oddly enough, correct. Now paging @qzgy...

@dundun92? @dundun93? @Dundun65C!?! How many dunduns we got around here, anyway??

More officially officialness: would this actually be the first time a private entity has sent a payload beyond earth orbit? As in, not on behalf of a gummint? Also, weather seems to be holding:

...be on the lookout for well-meaning but literally minded spherical robots...

Interesting, thanks. Always wondered why there was so much "stuff" on those boosters.

I remember hearing a while back that they would keep one engine running on the boosters, specifically to “fly” away under control, presumably with help from the pushers for the initial oomph. Whether this is still the plan, I have no idea. They can’t give them too much of a rotational shove or they’ll tumble out of control. Intereting aside on the Energia boosters, do you have a source for pics of that?

the Hype Barge is officially underway.

GREAT SCOTT! Thompberry is... is... in league with grass-hiding my little ponies! Truly, his deviousness knows no bounds! /melodrama

Speaking of boosters, has a controlled separation like they’re planning ever even been done before?

Or perhaps deliberate misdirection from the author cuz it hits too close to the truth! Thompberry is a flarping genius, after all, what with his hover... thingies and EMP’s. I’m sure he could figure out how to purée and electronically analyze tacos! He’s probably seen Robocop, after all.

That is... terrifying... might have to steal it Like Piranha 2 But with fur. Also, @Vaporo, I haven’t overlooked your awesome asset there. I’ve got the link pulled up at home but haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. Sounds like full pages of Ussari are back on the menu!