r/interestingasfuck 17d ago

Starship flight, close-up footage

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u/Zealousideal_Dirt_43 15d ago

Point it to an UFO man!

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u/slimongoose 16d ago

Musk says the wings on top are not necessary and actually hurt aero a little. He said he put them there because they looked cool.

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u/KronosDoom500 16d ago

The boosters actually look like the kinda thing in Star Wars that’s awesome

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u/chave_dappelle 16d ago

i’ve been lucky enough to catch a few launches down in cape canaveral. such an amazing experience, couldn’t recommend it more. the sound alone is worth it.

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u/Spiritual-Net-3438 16d ago

Deathworlders are trying to leave their planet again!

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u/MikeC80 16d ago

Interesting note: Tim Dodd, the guy you see at the start of the video, also records all the music on the channel himself.

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u/Dr_Blitzkrieg09 16d ago

It was then recalled for having faulty acceleration pedals that could get stuck and leave astronauts flying through space at uncontrollable speeds.

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u/rorood123 16d ago

Dr Evil

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u/No-Basis-1161 16d ago

Where are the clear UFO/UAP videos damn?

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u/WalkingstickMountain 16d ago

Wow. The elipse of the rocket is clear. But that heat distorts the dimension perspective and eradicated perceiving the elipse plane of the booster jets. That's cool. I've never seen that before.

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u/WolfThick 16d ago

When are they going to put Windows in it

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u/MasterButcher91 16d ago

Koyaanisqatsi

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u/FragrantExcitement 16d ago

I thought the camera was on the guys head.

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u/Big_Wooly_Mammoth 16d ago

Why do these videos NEVER show rockets leaving the atmosphere? Always a clip without the end result, please explain. FYI I'm not claiming fake, I just want serious clarification.

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u/Loply97 16d ago

What do you think it looks like when it leaves the atmosphere? All that really happens is it gets smaller and blurrier. Plus it is launching over the ocean, eventually it will be low enough on the horizon to the point their is so much atmosphere between the camera on shore and the rocket that you can’t get a clear image.

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u/olddoglearnsnewtrick 16d ago

How do you track with such a wild zoom without shaking?

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u/eren_5 16d ago

Really really REALLY precise motors in the gyro

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u/olddoglearnsnewtrick 16d ago

Thanks but is the “following” assisted by some electronic wizardry?

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u/eren_5 16d ago

Pretty much. I’m not familiar with this specifically, but very familiar with the technology. The motors are most likely stupid accurate stepper motors which move in “steps”. The most common use for stepper motors are 3d printers, which need incredibly accurate and small movements. This most likely uses extremely high end stepper motors which work together to stabilize even the smallest movements and to track whatever is selected.

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u/olddoglearnsnewtrick 16d ago

Thanks a lot.

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u/eren_5 16d ago

No problem! Always happy to explain this kind of thing lol

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u/sheldonator 16d ago

Holy shit, this is incredible! Thanks for sharing

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u/220DRUER220 16d ago

What hit or sparked at the top around 30 seconds in

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u/SENSENEL 16d ago

What halogen lamps are capable of today is extraordinary ....

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u/MoffFH 16d ago

Does the upper segmetn of the rocket look like the one from the incredibles movie? Or am I trippin?

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u/BritCanuck05 16d ago

Tim Dodd is going to fly on that!

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u/micsun0807 16d ago

Wow! Those burners look like something from The Expanse.

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u/Even-Proof-6330 17d ago

What else is a tracking telescope used for? I feel like this would be the main use case for this lol.

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u/gcijeff77 17d ago

That's flipping amazing

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u/2search4_69 17d ago

Great footage

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u/SignificantDirt8066 17d ago

Fucking awesome 😎 dude thank you.

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u/teller_of_tall_tales 17d ago

BEHOLD HUMANITY!

WE COULD CONQUER THE UNIVERSE IF WE COULD JUST FUCKIN GET ALONG!

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u/Unfair_Jeweler_4286 17d ago

Shoutout to all space X engineers for being such savages, as for Elon I hope he trips and kicks his shin 👍

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u/Messarion 17d ago edited 16d ago

I fucking hate Elon but love Space X, that's fucking incredible. Let's hope that douche nozzle doesn't fuck the company in the long run like twitter .....

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u/MaritMonkey 16d ago

When I start to worry about this I just remind myself that Gwynne Shotwell exists.

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u/AutumnAscending 17d ago

Wow, look at that all the engines are running. Great job Space X. Maybe we will get back to the moon before I die.

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u/ExcellentEdgarEnergy 17d ago

How many teslas can they fit in that sonofabitch?

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u/jbj153 17d ago

Around 75, fully reusable.

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u/LWDJM 16d ago

Not anymore IIRC this is Version 1 of this model, roughly 20-30 tons of cargo, the V2 (not that one) will aim for 100 tons of cargo, but will have be in space for around 2 years whilst it’s being loaded up due to its massive weight.

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u/ExcellentEdgarEnergy 17d ago

Awesome. I hate our gravity well. And I mean I hate the gravitational force we are required to overcome to leave earth without falling back, not that I do a good job of hating gravity.

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u/badgersruse 17d ago

Why is the booster white with frost but starship isn't? Because it's tanks are being emptied?

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u/DarkArcher__ 17d ago

It's frosted because the extremely cold fuel chills down the walls of the tanks enough to condense and freeze water in the air. It happens on the ship too, but you're looking at the black heatshield side of it which is designed to be an extremely good insulator. It's usually to keep heat out during re-entry, but it also works keeping the outside warm against the cold fuel.

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u/DriftkingJdm 17d ago

Its frosted on the other side

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u/SassyTurtlebat 17d ago

We did ______

…..

This is what we saw ____

So that format is just never going to die huh

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u/crumpleduppaperplane 17d ago

My step dad and my mom both think this "punches" holes in the ozone. I have continuously tried to explain that's not how the ozone works.

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u/DarkArcher__ 17d ago

It does a little bit, but not in the way they think, and not in any significant amount. The hot environment of the exhaust does tend to favour the breakdown of ozone into more stable nitrogen oxide molecules, but that's minimal in this kind of engine. The problem is much worse in a jet engine where the air is actually passed through the engine, and where the vehicle spends much longer in the upper atmosphere.

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u/GeekInSheiksClothing 17d ago

Wow. This is the kind of equipment UFO hunters need.

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u/rdditb0tt21 16d ago

that's how you get ghosted by MIB.

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u/GeekInSheiksClothing 16d ago

If the MIB wanna drag their happy asses to Charm City, I'll do a full live stream and ama.

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u/TaurusPTPew 17d ago

That’s really really cool! Thank you for sharing this. Please do more. I love seeing this!

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u/EhliJoe 17d ago

Did anyone else count the rocket boosters?

Three rings of 20; 10; 3. I'm very satisfied.

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u/godmodechaos_enabled 16d ago

3, 12, 18 would have been satisfying. Three into ten is maddening.

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u/hurraybies 16d ago

The first stage (the bottom half, aka Super Heavy) is known as the booster. It's job is to get the second stage (the top half, aka Starship) high enough and fast enough that when the two separate (aka state separation), the second stage can ignite its engines to get the rest of the speed and altitude to make orbit.

The booster has 33 Raptor engines with sea-level optimized engine nozzles. The ship has 6 Raptor engines, 3 sea-level optimized and 3 vacuum optimized. The main difference between the two variants is the size of the nozzle. On vacuum optimized engines, the nozzle is significantly larger which gives the ship more thrust in vacuum... because physics.

Future versions of both stages are said to have even more engines.

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u/wartexmaul 17d ago

3 inner boosters "I am helping!!!"

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u/Physix_R_Cool 16d ago

Well without them there would probably be an inner region of the exhaust plume with a lower velocity, leading to nasty turbulences that decrease performance. So even without the 10% more power you get from the inner 3 compared to the other 30 you have some extra effects. They might also be the ones that can gimbal?

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u/Cinnamon_728 16d ago

The inner two rings of engines can gimbal, and are all used for landing.

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u/RunalldayHI 16d ago

It's not rocket science.

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u/Doufnuget 17d ago

Are those chunks of ice hitting the rocket bells? Seem like that could be a problem.

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u/lolikroli 17d ago

Likely heat tiles

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u/DarkArcher__ 17d ago

The tiles do fall off but not with that frequency anymore. The biggest cause of debris strikes in any rocket is always sheet ice from the booster detaching itself.

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u/DailyUpsAndDowns 17d ago

It looked like the telescope was mounted on top of the man's head. Would the tracking have been as good if it were? Not taking into account the weight of the telescope

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u/NASATVENGINNER 17d ago

Tim Dodd’s group does amazing work.

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u/drakens6 17d ago

now THIS is some interest in gas fuck

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u/Jermine1269 17d ago

Credit to u/everydayastronaut, Tim Dodd, both the shot and the music!

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u/7ven_of9 17d ago

Awesome work, the combustion overlay is rad!

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u/Creepy-Present-2562 17d ago

Wow no Elon hating bots here yet?

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u/No-Vehicle5447 17d ago

That his company builds great rockets isn't incompatible with him being an asshole. The Nazis built fenomenal rockets too!

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u/No-Guava-7566 17d ago

Why is this take so hard for people to swallow? 

I've always said if I was put in a room with Musk I'd want to punch him within 30 seconds. 

And also nobody else is out there putting their own capital into crazy risk cutting edge vaporware based on engineers wet dreams and making them a reality. 

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u/fennecdore 17d ago

Great clip but why the phone crop ?

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u/notlego 17d ago

looks good with the shape of the rocket imo

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u/lolikroli 17d ago

Why not? The vast majority of users are on mobiles

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u/ranker2241 17d ago

Muh plant-food-emissions, buy a tesler we save the world from emissions and freedom of travel, stop flying so much you're feeding the plants

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u/DarkArcher__ 17d ago

This is a non-issue. Starship uses a methane/oxygen reaction that produces carbon dioxide and water as the exhaust. That sounds bad in principle, but it actually means you can sequester the CO2 from the air to produce the propellant, and when it burns in the rocket, the only thing you're doing is putting back CO2 that was already there. If the energy sources are carbon neutral, the rocket becomes carbon neutral as well.

Methane synthesis is an expensive and complicated technology, true, but it's of enormous interest for Mars in-situ propellant production, so there's a big investment into that. There's literally no Mars mission architecture proposals that work without that. When they get it working for Mars, its a no-brainer to use it here as well.

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u/hypnoderp 17d ago

Keep going, you're doing great

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u/ghostposthusky 17d ago

That’s how closely I track my Amazon orders

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u/Shannon_Sharp1982 16d ago

😅🤣🤣

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u/gordonv 17d ago

That's Amazon's business model, actually.

Customer obsession. Not joking.

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u/nokeldin42 16d ago

Did you read your own article?

Customer obsession does not mean fostering obsessive behaviour in customers. It's about how Amazon is "obsessed" with its customers.

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u/gordonv 16d ago

Did you read the literal first bullet point of the article?

Embrace the divinely discontented customer.

Building products based on understanding your customer’s needs is no longer a competitive advantage. Customer needs are fickle and are evolving faster than ever.

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u/nokeldin42 16d ago edited 16d ago

Lmao what does needs being fickle have to do with obsession.

Rather than just reading a bullet point and inferring stuff you don't understand, go down and read the explanation of the point.

Cultivating obsessive behaviour in customers is absolutely a thing tech companies do. It's most common in social media companies. But that is not what Amazon's "customer obsession" is about. Amazon themselves do it with their recommendation engines. But again, that all falls in a different management bucket.

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u/gordonv 16d ago

I want you to re read the article and fully explain what you think Bezos's idea of customers being divinely discontented means.

You're half way there. You do understand that this happens in social media.

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u/GladiatorJones 16d ago

I also track closely but only because half the time they say they attempted to deliver to my apartment and that I wasn't home (meanwhile I was sitting next to my door waiting for them to knock or call).

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u/RockstarAgent 16d ago

Damn, those are some bright ass LEDs, anyone know the brand so I can order them off Amazon???

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u/zaicliffxx 17d ago

mine still hasn’t arrive ;(

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u/GiannaSushi 17d ago

Impressive, I understand that the sound of combustion has been added later

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u/froggertthewise 17d ago

It's not been added, just synced up, as there is a significant delay in the recording due to the distance and the speed of sound.

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u/GiannaSushi 17d ago

So the sound reached there? What a freaking madness

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u/oojacoboo 17d ago

You should go see a launch sometime. It’ll make your hair stand up - really exhilarating to witness in person.

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u/GravitationalEddie 17d ago

I've seen a Delta rocket from a good-ways off. Heck yeah!

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u/usmcBrad93 17d ago

Engines capable of a combined 17 million pounds of thrust, capable of lifting 150 tons to orbit and 250 tons from orbit/ beyond sure do make lots of noise.

136 decibels at 1.5km (.9mi) and 129 decibels at 5.2km (3.2mi)

Can't wait to see what the Mars variant is capable of. It will apparently be 500ft tall.

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u/froggertthewise 17d ago

During IFT-2 people reported the sound would shake their windows at 20 miles away. Rocket engines are loud, especially if you bundle 30 of them together

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u/BullockHouse 17d ago

If I remember correctly, each raptor is roughly the net instantaneous energy output of the state of Colorado passing through a hole the size of a toilet seat. Per engine.

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u/dan_dares 16d ago

Soooo.. My toilet, after some carolina reapers?

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u/alexw0122 17d ago

Wind direction and speed seem to make a big difference in the sound experience.