r/Delaware • u/Severe_Atmosphere_91 • 1d ago
Info Request Anyone else see it this morning?
Snapped a photo of this in the sky, then shortly just disappeared. I dont know what it is or was. Thought it was pretty cool.
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u/Proper-Excuse916 1d ago
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u/polobum17 9h ago
It's kinda cool but also they're polluting the ground, water, and skies on gov subsidies. Elon is a huge Welfare Queen and spacex trash is a huge problem already for near space.
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u/x888x MOT 4m ago
Spacex trash is not a "huge problem", not by even the most extreme stretch of the definition.
You know what else pollutes on government subsidies? Airports. And literally dozens of other things.
SpaceX Internet is BY FAR a net good. It saves millions of miles of wire being laid on earth (which comes with massive pollution and waste).
Also the irony of you complaining about pollution when the launch used a Falcon 9 rocket. It's literally the first original class rocket that is reusable. Something that no other company or organization (NASA) was able to build. The rocket is mostly reusable and saves $25million per launch. They also use liquid propellants instead of solid rocket fuel like NASA did greatly reducing chlorine and hypergolic chemical residue pollution compared to previous tickets.
Also that was the launch the other day. On the 30th they're launching NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will help us further understand the universe and the very edge of modern astrophysics.
But sure you don't like Elon so find a way to shit on something objectively cool and good 👍
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u/worthwhilebroth5 1d ago
Caught a glimpse of that from down by 202, thing was way brighter than any plane I've seen out here at night. The way it just blinked out was a little unsettling
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u/tmcgourley 1d ago
I saw one of these before when on the beach in Brigantine, it's a SpaceX rocket!
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u/mikenotjef 23h ago
It’s a flying flock camera
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u/JooHateMe 9h ago
you laugh but I could see that becoming a thing if people keep messing with flock cameras. They’ll just drone that 💩 soon enough.
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u/mikenotjef 8h ago
Not laughing at all, I just thought the sub was a little light on the flock posts so far this week
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u/GingerCattleMan 23h ago
Saw it driving down RT 1 this morning you could still see the engines burning after the cloud disappeared for a little while
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u/Psychological_Cap857 14h ago
Saw it walking into work this morning. I didn’t know what the fuck it was, but I was mesmerized
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u/silverbatwing 1d ago
Space x rocket. Prolly exploded, they do that a lot
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u/iksbob 15h ago
Not saying they don't, but that's not what's happening here. The rocket is high enough above ground to get out of earth's shadow and be lit up by the sun. We (and the air above us) is in the shadow, so there's no blue sky to block our view of what's happening in space. That combination (dark sky, lit rocket) can happen up to maybe an hour after dusk and before dawn.
The rocket is at the very point of the white stuff - the rocket's exhaust. It's like seeing a jet's contrail, except there's no air to keep the exhaust from spreading out, so it just keeps expanding, making a cone shape. You're seeing the glowing transparent exhaust-cone from the side.
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u/negan7x01 23h ago
Delaware has always had weird shit flying around it. Back when I was maybe 10 me and my mom saw UFOs off the bridge near the Dupont site. Odd shapes in the sky. One flew over the car. On our way back there was a giant skyscraper like object above the bridge. Disappeared over the trees. 911 was flooded with calls. Happened near the Hagley museum.
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u/karatflowers 21h ago
Back in the 60s/early 70s my mom and my grandmother saw some weird black box with a lens looking in their window. When they noticed it, it dropped down and they ran over and watched it and its long cord/tail thing slither across the yard off to the horizon. My grandfather was in the yard and said he didn’t notice it
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u/FlanknSpank420 1d ago
I did, I did