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Starship Flight 7

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678 points chinathrow | 2 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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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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1. yreg ◴[18 Jan 25 12:32 UTC] No.42747880[source]▶
I don't believe your ability of classifying videos as real or fake to be any greater than mine. Maybe you just have more confidence?
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2. keepamovin ◴[19 Jan 25 02:06 UTC] No.42752992[source]▶
You’re not being attacked. The comment is in reply not just to your, but to all similar sentiments here. Your ‘ability to classify videos as real or fake’ (heh, funny AI tech phrase

-- but also why assume our ‘ability’ would be the same? We are different people, made different, with different prior data, we would feel differently about it, right? Why would you think not, heh? You’d be wrong if you assumed people react in the same way. Back to the point:) --

your ‘ability’ is also not somehow being judged.

You expressed a feeling in response to it. Okay, good. Now imagine how much harder a time you will have with real videos of UFOs when even cutting conventional engineering looks fake.

That’s the point. Are we clear?