Sunday, April 23, 2023

Not Your Sunday Morning Rocket Noise

Last Thursday's test flight of SpaceX's Starship, set to Freebird:

5 comments:

  1. I haven't enjoyed Freebird that much in decades ...

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  2. Almost as good as watching The Wizard of Oz with the sound off while spinning Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of The Moon."

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  3. When we first moved to the Bay Area we were staying in a shitty cheap hotel room, and one night right after graduation there was a party raging in the next room all night, when we both had to get up for work in the morning. Someone was playing an acoustic guitar and leading them in song in a most annoying fashion, when my annoyance turned to amusement: He started singing Freebird like so: "If I die in a plane crash, would you still remember me?"

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  4. A tl;dr (but read it anyhow) on why it failed in oh so many different ways, and why it's Elon Mustelid's fault.

    https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/22/2165317/-A-Starship-Post-mortem-Why-the-giant-rocket-failed-and-why-it-s-Elon-Musk-s-fault?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR3kVhqTGW5pgAWc5F7UMuax7Znu4FwhW59tJjsXivqxgs96Z_uVmPOQbuM

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