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I don't give a fuck. My name is Dave. TRUMP 2024 Never mind that shit, here comes Mongo. |
Cant figure out how to post the pics from my phone. Flikr and imgur apps seem to be useless on a phone.
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Originally Posted By talontsi_95: Cant figure out how to post the pics from my phone. Flikr and imgur apps seem to be useless on a phone. View Quote Upload the pics directly to arfcom Attached File |
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Originally Posted By dusten: Upload the pics directly to arfcom https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/78606/Screenshot_20210423-090000_Brave_jpg-1915591.JPG View Quote Doesnt that limit the quality to pretty low? |
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That launch was one of the most unbelievable things I've witnessed. I was not expecting the plume illumination. I could see everything including the booster landing burn. My jaw was on the ground. So cool knowing four humans were up there, too.
My front yard here in Jax: Attached File Attached File My brother on St. Aug Beach, booster landing burn: Attached File My father-in-law in Tampa: Attached File |
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amazing pictures gentlemen. well done!
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Where were you when the "Gator Licked The Moon?"
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Great feedback and pictures. The one burn noted as the landing burn may have been the first stage Re-entry burn.
SpaceX Kate mentioned seeing the re-entry burn but clouds prevented seeing the landing burn. Good data points for future launches. |
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Great pictures.
Thank you everyone for posting! |
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Originally Posted By kered: no i haven't i just moved here not to long ago but ill have to check it out View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By kered: Originally Posted By Dagger41: Wow , that's way south of MI. Ever shoot at the IRC range at Vero ? no i haven't i just moved here not to long ago but ill have to check it out It's a good outdoor range. Pistol range separate from rifle range with 30 stations , main rifle range 100yds ~25 stations Two 200yd target stations (you have to shoot through a culvert though) Store is decent and it has good parking. Bring water though , it gets HOT. |
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Crew-2 had to re-suit up.
Unplanned space debris. They just rode it out. |
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LittlePony: I'm gay, not a faggot.
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A friend sent me this pic that he took, info provided by him;
Fayetteville, really over the southern pines Moore County side of ft. Bragg military installation not much earth shine there. Attached File |
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"If It Has Tits, Wheels, or a CPU, it's gonna cause you Problems".
NRA LIFE MEMBER FOR OVER 35 YEARS. "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value --- zero." |
Geeze Louise!
They really put on a show with this one. Someone knows how to get the maximum value out of their rockets. |
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"Is it still larping when you actually chop someone with a battle axe?" Tacocat
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Originally Posted By Hesperus: Geeze Louise! They really put on a show with this one. Someone knows how to get the maximum value out of their rockets. View Quote Yep. "Lovely Plumination"! A prior post mentioned the possibility of the plume and illumination, so......... I had a rare creative moment! It 'my' word was even used this morning this morning. |
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"If It Has Tits, Wheels, or a CPU, it's gonna cause you Problems".
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Originally Posted By hdhogman: Yep. "Lovely Plumination"! A prior post mentioned the possibility of the plume and illumination, so......... I had a rare creative moment! It 'my' word was even used this morning this morning. View Quote That was the #2 most spectacular launch I've seen from SpaceX. #1 was a night launch and booster RTB. By comparison , this morning was a 9.8 and #1 was a 10. |
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Ashli Babbitt- 1/6/2021 RIP
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Originally Posted By Dagger41: Crew-2 had to re-suit up. Unplanned space debris. They just rode it out. View Quote Is this a euphemism for someone pissing themselves ? |
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So many great pics and video. Thanks for sharing, everyone!
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Originally Posted By JimmyT: Is this a euphemism for someone pissing themselves ? View Quote Crew got very lucky. The debris passed within 100 feet of the spacecraft. The spacecraft is moving at over 17,000 miles per hour and so is the debris. Closing rate of 34,000 mile per hour. No wonder they were ordered to suit up and CLOSE their visors (watched it live). Pucker factor was off the scale , both in the spacecraft and on the ground. That was WAY too close. |
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Originally Posted By Dagger41: Crew got very lucky. The debris passed within 100 feet of the spacecraft. The spacecraft is moving at over 17,000 miles per hour and so is the debris. Closing rate of 34,000 mile per hour. No wonder they were ordered to suit up and CLOSE their visors (watched it live). Pucker factor was off the scale , both in the spacecraft and on the ground. That was WAY too close. View Quote Wow! Where did you find that info? I saw a blurb in the Washington Post that the debris only came within 28 miles of the Crew2 so I wasn't worried. |
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"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch!"
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Originally Posted By AZ_Sky: Wow! Where did you find that info? I saw a blurb in the Washington Post that the debris only came within 28 miles of the Crew2 so I wasn't worried. View Quote It was just on the local news , not 15 minutes ago. Watched the SpaceX live feed when it was happening and when they gave instructions to the crew. It was only 3-4 minutes before the projected encounter that the crew was ordered to close their visors , they didn't even have enough time to de-pressurize. Yeah it was very close. |
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Originally Posted By Dagger41: It was just on the local news , not 15 minutes ago. Watched the SpaceX live feed when it was happening and when they gave instructions to the crew. It was only 3-4 minutes before the projected encounter that the crew was ordered to close their visors , they didn't even have enough time to de-pressurize. Yeah it was very close. View Quote Yeah - 100 feet is WAY too close! |
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"What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch!"
~ W.C. Fields ~ "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free and live in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ |
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Originally Posted By Skibane: I'm guessing that this number was generated by the same guy that reports drone incursions. View Quote SpaceX guy ? I don't think so. If you would have watched it live , you would have seen the panic in mission control. Astronauts onboard coms were no different. It was very much real. |
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Originally Posted By AZ_Sky: Wow! Where did you find that info? I saw a blurb in the Washington Post that the debris only came within 28 miles of the Crew2 so I wasn't worried. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AZ_Sky: Originally Posted By Dagger41: Crew got very lucky. The debris passed within 100 feet of the spacecraft. The spacecraft is moving at over 17,000 miles per hour and so is the debris. Closing rate of 34,000 mile per hour. No wonder they were ordered to suit up and CLOSE their visors (watched it live). Pucker factor was off the scale , both in the spacecraft and on the ground. That was WAY too close. Wow! Where did you find that info? I saw a blurb in the Washington Post that the debris only came within 28 miles of the Crew2 so I wasn't worried. Crew-2 Mission | Coast The rep on the SpaceX Youtube live broadcast mentioned it about here at about the 7 hour 8 minute mark and a few times thereafter. It took about 10 minutes for them to get in their suits. About 1.5 minutes later they were in the clear |
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I'm usually mistaken for being absent.
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Yeah the first stage burn seen on the way down is likely the re-entry burn.
The landing burn happens seconds before landing and the landing location is over the horizon from pretty much anywhere on land so it's basically impossible to catch the landing burn unless you were on a boat a few hundred miles out to sea at the time. |
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be ascribed to sheer stupidity." LTC (CENTCOM)
"Round is a shape, right? I have the body of a god...Just happens to be Buddah! Az_Redneck |
A piece of 'debris' the size of a grain of sand put a nice pockmark in one of the Space Shuttles 'windshield'.
Velocity times mass squared and all that neat stuff. 100 feet is DANGER CLOSE. I'm too tired to google how many trackable sizes of space debris are up there but is 'astronomically staggering'... |
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"If It Has Tits, Wheels, or a CPU, it's gonna cause you Problems".
NRA LIFE MEMBER FOR OVER 35 YEARS. "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value --- zero." |
Crew-2 Docking with ISS underway.
Crew-2 Mission | Approach and Docking |
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24/365's skidmark
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Originally Posted By hdhogman: A piece of 'debris' the size of a grain of sand put a nice pockmark in one of the Space Shuttles 'windshield'. Velocity times mass squared and all that neat stuff. 100 feet is DANGER CLOSE. I'm too tired to google how many trackable sizes of space debris are up there but is 'astronomically staggering'... View Quote This was from a paint chip that was smaller than could be tracked. Space-Shuttle Crew Respond To A Knock On Window We had to take multiple mold impressions from hyper velocity impacts. The mold would capture material left from the debris so the first 3 impressions would get sent to the lab and the next 3 were for damage size assessment. Almost always was man made materials. Had one impact to the payload bay door penetrated the exteral thermal blanket, the door structure and dented the backside of the radiator panel. It was smaller than could be tracked. Material samples from the thermal blanket and debris in the hole found it to be man made like PC board materials. It was common to find dents and crators in the radiator panels post flight. Took a few shifts to cover all that acreage looking for damage, most crators and occasional holes were less than .050" in size. |
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Thanks for the info.
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"If It Has Tits, Wheels, or a CPU, it's gonna cause you Problems".
NRA LIFE MEMBER FOR OVER 35 YEARS. "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value --- zero." |
Well look what just showed up at the Port.
B1061-2 is home. ARCHIVE: Space Coast Live |
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"If It Has Tits, Wheels, or a CPU, it's gonna cause you Problems".
NRA LIFE MEMBER FOR OVER 35 YEARS. "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value --- zero." |
Originally Posted By hdhogman: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9509317/Elon-Musk-admits-bunch-people-probably-die-SpaceXs-initial-voyages-Mars.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR2rHhKdNBozi0qJy5T5UKo0fcDnlqRC6hJj3ZuKCt040O4PxUP_RSB2Jl0 Just something that popped up on FB. View Quote I hope he has TONS of liability insurance. With talk like that, he will need, and use all of it. He might be right, which is sad, but I hope he is as smart are he appears to be. |
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Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: I hope he has TONS of liability insurance. With talk like that, he will need, and use all of it. He might be right, which is sad, but I hope he is as smart are he appears to be. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By JoseCuervo: Originally Posted By hdhogman: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9509317/Elon-Musk-admits-bunch-people-probably-die-SpaceXs-initial-voyages-Mars.html?ito=social-facebook&fbclid=IwAR2rHhKdNBozi0qJy5T5UKo0fcDnlqRC6hJj3ZuKCt040O4PxUP_RSB2Jl0 Just something that popped up on FB. I hope he has TONS of liability insurance. With talk like that, he will need, and use all of it. He might be right, which is sad, but I hope he is as smart are he appears to be. Of course they will. Mars is a brutal, unforgiving environment. You'd have to be a moron to believe there won't be high casualty rates in the early phases of colonization. K2 has a successful summit to death ratio of 4 to 1, and people still attempt it. And that's for nothing but personal achievement and bragging rights. For the ability to participate in the first extraterrestrial colony in the history of our species? I'm sure colonists will sign whatever waivers are needed. |
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Originally Posted By TacticalGarand44: Of course they will. Mars is a brutal, unforgiving environment. You'd have to be a moron to believe there won't be high casualty rates in the early phases of colonization. K2 has a successful summit to death ratio of 4 to 1, and people still attempt it. And that's for nothing but personal achievement and bragging rights. For the ability to participate in the first extraterrestrial colony in the history of our species? I'm sure colonists will sign whatever waivers are needed. View Quote I have said many times that I would have to be beyond shitfaced to board a Starship.. |
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Originally Posted By Skibane: I'm guessing that this number was generated by the same guy that reports drone incursions. View Quote Turns out you were right. It was David Muir on ABC breaking news , it was an "OMGWTFBBQ the spacecraft passed within 100 feet of the space junk heading for it at 17,000 miles per hour !!! " I'm still pissed about it. |
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Not SpaceX, but there is a Delta IV Heavy launch scheduled for today
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Vandenberg 1:46 P.M. PDT
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Originally Posted By Neotopiaman: Not SpaceX, but there is a Delta IV Heavy launch scheduled for today View Quote Video in this link, I'm sure that there are others, first one that popped on a search for Delta IV Heavy launch. https://www.rocketlaunch.live/?filter=delta-iv-heavy |
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"If It Has Tits, Wheels, or a CPU, it's gonna cause you Problems".
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About 3 hours from now. April 26 Live Broadcast: Delta IV Heavy NROL-82 |
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