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The Space Topic

I love seeing amost any man made thing in the sky; from unusual aeroplanes, to rockets, to the space station. They make me inexplicably happy. But when I see those sky link strings floating across I just want to shoot them down. I find them ugly and jarringly unnatural, they inexplicably piss me off.
 
Only seen them the once, last week, and thought them really pretty.
They vanish as they get in full orbit don't they?
Aeroplanes, satellites and rockets are hardly natural, are they?
 
You said it twice sir.
Coincidentally, the space station ( I think) went over about half an hour ago.

What you get to see on the early dog walks.
 
Randall Munroe (creator of XKCD) has solved all of Elon's issues in one comic.

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It's been a busy couple of days, hasn't it?

New Glenn finally launched. And boy, was that a disappointment. Just saw the booster fly off over the horizon, then cut to telemetry graphics. Stage sep. happened, booster turned round..... then nothing. Lost coms, no telemetry. No explanation.
The comments on the live feed were flooded with variations of "show us the live cameras we KNOW you have, cowards!"
I gave up watching and tried to get back to sleep.

Starship flight 7 was last night. First block 2 ship.
Perfect booster catch, but quickly lost telemetry from the ship. Later seen burning up quite spectacularly.
At least we got to see it.

Oh yeah, and somewhere in amongst all that, a Falcon 9 launched a new moon rover.

ETA: sounds like Space X hit the boom button on Starship while it was still at high altitude.
 
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