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Which was watched live by over 2 million people on YouTube. And if a lot of those 2 million plus YouTube instances were anything like the one playing at my own desk, then the number of people watching live could have been well higher than that; I had a whole crowd of co-workers watching with me. Congratulations SpaceX on a great test flight and for creating a fun STEM spectacle!

I have to agree. It's like what might happen in KSP if you spilled your drink into your lap during your burn to Duna transfer orbit and you overshot your target velocity. Doesn't say much for precision navigation. They also showed the Tesla doing a Mars flyby in their teaser video from just the other day.

First stage (booster) dimensions that I find online give the height of that segment as 40-41 metres (including engines), depending on configuration. That works out to about 12 stories tall for the bit that comes back down, so I guess we're both wrong...

Think of it like a 10 story building falling out of the sky...

Here's my contribution (overhead the Indian Ocean with Australia in the background):

I must be running on a time delay because mine is still going?

Yeah, the Aussies have had a good view of their homeland over the past 1/2 hour or so.

I wish they would show a more "zoomed out" view when they show the map view. A line with a perpendicular line on a black background doesn't tell me much...

Don't know if this has been posted already (apologies if it has) but there's a new live-stream ongoing right now:

I'm all jittery because I skipped lunch for this

Mine still shows 993k Edit: now it's over a million

Creeping up on a million livestream viewers

Already 405k as of this writing. And there's still 99 minutes to go.

You could Google it?... It's an esoteric question. Chances are that nobody here can give you a satisfactory answer.

That's your opinion and you're entitled to it, but not everyone has to agree with you. Sure it seems, based on the reviews, that a lot of people do agree with you, but you can count me (and many others here) among those who thought it was cringe-inducingly bad. Our hatred for Interstellar and/or Gravity isn't ridiculous. Art isn't universal.

I remember seeing the trailer and thinking "there's one that I am going to have to miss", but I was pleasantly surprised when I did actually watch it. I'd recommend it to friends.

A bit off topic, but is anyone else here looking forward to the next Predator movie? I understand that it is being directed by the Duffer brothers of Stranger Things fame, which bodes well. The Alien franchise jumped the shark with Prometheus (or even before), and the AVP movies certainly have oodles of examples of bad sci-fi movie science, but I'm holding out a glimmer of hope for the next stand-alone Predator movie. Get out of my head!

And that's just it... I wasn't actually aware [gasp!] that Starship Troopers is a film adaptation of a novel until people here started mentioning it. I just watched it, had some chuckles and subsequently found that I understood more of the pop culture references that the nerds around me were making. Some years later, I watched it again with my wife and she enjoyed it too. Sure it is ridiculous, but it can be fun if you don't have any preconceptions or expectations.

Don't forget BS story... I was waiting for the Lilliputians to tie up Stone when she washed up on the beach at the end. But nobody has mentioned the radioactive squid monster in Europa Report yet. All in all, that wasn't a bad movie, but I thought the radioactive squid monster idea was kind of dumb. Agreed. Movies like Starship Troopers and Star Wars (some episodes, at least) are just fun. Who cares about realism?

I might also still have a Gravity DVD laying around that I could send you. It'd be a fitting end for that piece of cr*p.

We used to get to watch Shuttle launches in school when I was a kid. I recall the entire school assembling in the gymnasium to watch what was probably STS-2, based on the launch date/time.

Me too. According to Heaven's Above, its brightness will only range from magnitude 1.6 to magnitude 7. So at its faintest (magnitude 7), you won't even be able to see it with the naked eye. And at its brightest, you'll have to know where to look to spot it. By contrast, the ISS tracker app on my phone (ISS Detector) routinely notifies me about ISS passes where its brightness will be on the order of magnitude -3 and higher, and about Iridium flares with brightness upwards of on the order of magnitude -6. In short, this whole thing is much ado about nothing.

Yuri Gargarin (and the rest of the world) were satisfied with just one back in 1961... For what that's worth.

And also, no, no it isn't. You do realise, though, that your own links indicate that both missions made two orbits (and hence reached orbit)?