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Anyone else excited about today's launch?
Quite a big one for the US and Space Force.
And on that front: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9612516/
Space Force.
I always found 7-Zark-7 to be intensely annoying.
I always found 7-Zark-7 to be intensely annoying.
I can explain why if you care sufficiently?
Oh, I know why*
Curiously, I was a big fan of 1-Rover-1.
* Notwithstanding Gatchaman conversion issues it's the whole comic relief cute sidekick thing.
Orko, Snarf, Jar Jar Binks. They're all the same.
Cool, saves me some typing. (-:
I think it's pretty likely to be scrubbed today tbh but I'll be watching it if not. I don't often remember to, but rocket launches are awesome
Space X
New stuff is interesting and is going over UK following the ISS. However I'm conflicted with Space X stuff as I can't stand Musk.
Oh yeah, he's a pure ****. But I think it's probably the case that he achieves the cool stuff that he does, because he's a pure ****.
Aside; at the moment absolutely all of the chat on the livestream is people getting confused how time zones work, it is beautiful. In the last page I've seen 7 different guesses as to when it'll actually launch.
He ssems to be quite the asshole BUT he did give us PayPal.
If it launches, I’ll be watching. I had the good fortune of seeing a space x ISS supply rocket launch at Canaveral a couple of years back. Fantastic spectacle.
Really looking forward to this, been watching the preamble for what seems like hours!
Live NASA feed:
Should be visible over the UK at about 9:50 I believe.
ISS is at 9:30 too
https://mobile.twitter.com/VirtualAstro/status/1265634766386335744/photo/1
Times shown are for Europe so add 1 hour
I’m unconvinced by the gimp suits
It's painfully American. I want to love watching it but they just pronounced aluminium incorrectly and that was the final straw. I'll try again closer to the launch...
Right now being an astronaut looks boring as ****
Have been watching this live. Yes it looks boring, but what are they doing? Constantly tapping the screens?
Are they just 'seeing what this one does'? If I change this we'll go faster? If I switch this we can listen to Popmaster?
If it were me I'd just sit there and let those in Head Office fiddle with the controls!!!!
Watching it too. Quite excited but definitely not a spectator sport.
Don't they fuel it with the astronauts in situ to avoid the risk of any reason to abort after fueling and avoid the problem and risk of explosion of risking de-fueling? get everything ready, fuel then go?
That's one of the big hurdles crossed, they're looking pretty optimistic.
Incidentally, if you've got the Countdown theme playing in your head, you've started too early.
yosemitepaul
MemberYes it looks boring, but what are they doing? Constantly tapping the screens?
Playing galaga.
Seems fairly certain to go ahead, loading propellant now..
9.30 for ISS overhead, 9.33 for launch and 9.50 for SpaceX going overhead!
they just pronounced aluminium incorrectly
Bud, you can't even spell it correctly!
What'll it look like when it goes over?
Watching it live on u tuooob.
Scotroutes, is that I joke I'm too stupid to understand? I definitely spelled it correctly!
Anyway, I'm back on it. Watching it is boring but listening is better!
What’ll it look like when it goes over?
I'm not expecting to see it as it'll still be too light.
Touch and go for the weather ☹️
BOOOOOO
Let's do it again next week
Postponed
Houston, we do not have lift off!
Shame. Was Saturday next opportunity?
What direction does the ISS come from and head to?
Damn! Just as it was getting interesting!
What happened??
Weather
I hope the control panel inside the capsule had a fart button seeing as its been called off
Shame. Was Saturday next opportunity?
Yep, around 8.22 pm our time I think
Just told daughter (15), aborted due to weather, she said why, it's lovely here. We're in Lancashire........
What direction does the ISS come from
ISS comes over from a western direction, tonight at 22.57
Meteor watch.org
Is useful and if you’re on ****ter @VirtualAstro flashes up a warning as it approaches
It’s painfully American. I want to love watching it but they just pronounced aluminium incorrectly and that was the final straw.
Aluminum is the older spelling. Both are correct usage, and many American spellings like color, or words like fall are old English.
https://grammarist.com/spelling/aluminium-aluminum/
Gutted it didn’t happen. But it was still pleasant sipping beer by the firepit in the garden waiting. I’m taking it as a practice run for my set up for saturday
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Yes it looks boring, but what are they doing? Constantly tapping the screens?
Trying to get the needle to move.
It's not like the old days with James Burke though is it?
many American spellings like color, or words like fall are old English.
Nope.
It's not Old English and if you go back far enough then it's totally woolly with several languages feeding in. Even as recently as Middle English the spellings of colour and color were interchangeable.
But "colour" has been well established in Modern English for centuries. "Color" is a result of Webster (of Mirriam and... fame) attempting to simplify the language in the US in 1800s. It stuck in America but it's another corruption.
It's true though that some things we think of as Americanisms, like -ize for instance, aren't the case but rather it's the other way around. But -or / -our ain't one.
No idea about the etymology of "fall."
Some americanisms I can get behind, like zs in place of ss as that's how it's pronounced in 'realize' and the like, but their inability to spell or pronounce aluminium correctly is properly rage-inducing for me. If they dropped that i from every other -ium in the periodic table then at least there would be some logic to it. But they haven't, so there isn't.
Up at 2022 tonight (15 mins!!)
Just switched on. Fingers crossed for a launch this time.
Going well so far 🙂
That Stage 1 landing was impressive.
That Stage 1 landing was impressive.
They lost the signal on the feed I was watching. Did you actually see it land?
No, the feed came back just after it landed I think, pretty cool seeing it there though.
glass, bottle. bottle, glass ;-).
Normally when the feed goes on the landings it normally means something gone wrong but I think it was just a blip this time as it came back on it had landed.
As long as Bob and Doug are OK I don't mind if the stage 1 landing was a con.
I've never seen a "live" landing on the OCISLY. The camera often breaks, once I saw some blurry water drenched lights and another time the plume of steam from Falcon 9 landing in the sea next to the drone ship. But an actual touchdown, no.
Lucky for us, the clouds cleared and we were able to see the Dragon fly over in the twilight tonight.
There must have been cameras on the drone ship??
Regardless of that, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the launch.
I've seen successful landings and to be fair to SpaceX they do normally say very quickly when it's gone wrong and missed.
Lucky for us, the clouds cleared and we were able to see the Dragon fly over in the twilight tonight.
Result! Where were you? I never considered looking outside (Yorkshire) - figured it'd be too light. I'll check it out later, ISS due at 2211 and Dragon 6-7 minutes after as I understand it.
Yeah, I was quite pleased to see it. I'm in Winterthur, 30km NE of Zürich.
Needed more dinosaur action
Just watched it go over, it's not everyday you get to see a dragon in the sky
Saw the iss but not the dragon. Too light here in London still. Shame as whole family out looking. Convenient the camera cut out for the landing.
I saw the ISS and the Dragon from my back garden. Pretty cool.
2 things
Their boots, they look like they should be seen in the garden, not space.
How the hell do they operate those screens wearing big thick gloves? I can't operate my phone and I have less than a millimetre of fabric between me and screen.
Aw shite, I forgot all about it!
Do we know if they put a delay on the feed for this one? Could’ve made for some ‘interesting’ footage if they didn’t
Yep, me too. Even with only 10x50 binoculars you can tell the ISS isn't just a single point of light. The dragon was very cool to see, reminds me of the night the last shuttle separated fom ISS and you could see it split into two lights overhead as it passed over.
If you're not seen it this is a good watch. Listen through some decent speakers or headphones with the sound up. The actual launch is about 3:20 into it if you don't want to listen to him explain everything.
Just found out why the camera cut out:
I was out for an evening ride so I missed it live. Just caught up with it on the website.
Way too much daylight here to see anything.
I forgot about it until it was too late. Dammit.
Saw ISS, no Dragon. 🙁
Just found out why the camera cut out:
That is more impressive than the launch as I was annoyed when I did not see that live.
Those suits look like something from telly tubby land.
Now here's what a proper astronaut looks like
