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Starship Flight 7

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649 points chinathrow | 3 comments | 16 Jan 25 21:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.6s | 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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1. keepamovin ◴[17 Jan 25 12:10 UTC] No.42736708[source]▶
If cutting edge engineering with conventional physics looks fake to you folks imagine what a hard time you’re going to have with real videos of actual UFOs.
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2. elicksaur ◴[17 Jan 25 14:23 UTC] No.42737773[source]▶
They’re being rhetorical for emphasis. No need to twist it into an ad hominem.
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3. keepamovin ◴[17 Jan 25 16:33 UTC] No.42739845[source]▶
It's not twisted and not ad hominem. No attack on a person, just a statement of the relative difficulty of appreciating something truly new when cutting edge looks fake.