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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 1 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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charles_f ◴[16 Jan 25 22:47 UTC] No.42731872[source]▶
That "landing" (is it still considered a landing if it's chopsticked a few meters before it touches the ground?) is so unnatural it almost looks fake. So big and unimaginable that it feels like watching fx on a movie!

The close-up camera right after was interesting, I thought it captured on the grid fins, but it looks like there are two small purpose-built knobs for that.

The times we live in!

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yreg ◴[16 Jan 25 23:10 UTC] No.42732105[source]▶
You have perfectly described the feeling I had regarding the first belly flop demo (at least I think it was the first one?)

https://youtu.be/gA6ppby3JC8?si=wY7TQsbR_wxoud75&t=70 (ten seconds from the timestamp)

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sneak ◴[16 Jan 25 23:23 UTC] No.42732226[source]▶
Yeah, that shot is so clean and smooth it feels like a render. Absolutely iconic even after a dozen rewatchings. The iris flares and the framerate… gotta hand it to whoever planned that shot and placed that camera. A+ videography.
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1. dzhiurgis ◴[17 Jan 25 02:09 UTC] No.42733314[source]▶
It the high dynamic range (HDR) that makes it look "unnatural" because we are so used to seeing over-compressed photos and videos.

Plus maybe something they do with stability and frame-rate.