By Jo Nova
I mean, wow.
The SpaceX fifth Starship rocket is 19 stories tall and they caught it first try with the Mechanzilla chopsticks.
Musk: “This the largest & most powerful flying object ever made at more than double the thrust of the Saturn V Moon rocket. ”
The tower has caught the rocket!!
pic.twitter.com/CPXsHJBdUh— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
If Elon had not jumped in with the Orange Hitler Man, this would have been on every news channel.
Seen from a distance we can appreciate just how fast it was hurtling toward the ground. The pre-launch information mentioned that the rocket would decelerate so rapidly it would cause audible sonic booms in the area.
The tower has caught the rocket!!
pic.twitter.com/CPXsHJBdUh— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
The rocket at launch:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
Elon Musk commenting on the lawfare being used to slow launches: “The next fight of Starship is ready to fly. We are waiting on regulatory approval. It shouldn’t be possible to build a giant rocket faster than the paper can move from one desk to another.” More on ZeroHedge
The thunderbirds were doing it years ago…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhk_-v0SMs
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Musk is a completely different kind of Human and seems to complete his ideas in very quick time.
How he manages so many things at once is spooky and I often think he is so way out there that he belongs in a special category by himself.
But then again I’m never going to buy a Tesla EV from him. A safe convenient ICE vehicle suits me just fine.
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What sets Musk apart is he isn’t afraid of failure, and is allergic to playing it safe … in everything he does. Sometimes it works sometimes it fails spectacularly (Cybertruck, Hyperloop). Elon doesn’t care one way or the other. Every failure is viewed as a learning opportunity that allows his companies to move forward with new knowledge (of what not to do). SpaceX failed A LOT in it’s early years, but every failure was used to improve of their next launch, and Elon never lost faith in his engineers to figure things out.
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Saw the footage this morning. Astonishing, I can recall the scepticism not that long ago when early attempts at even launches failed. All the naysayers were wrong. Makes NASA look passee.
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I heard Elon say he is running into approval problems. They have to show how they don’t land on a shark or a whale in the ocean. I thought it was a joke, but no it’s not.
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Musk is an industrial titan, the likes we have not seen since Henry Ford.
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It is a great achievement and if Musk was not associated with Donald Trump, it would have been trumpeted everywhere.
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