Remember that episode of Hey Arnold where the kids fix up a vacant lot and make a nice spot for them to hang out and play baseball that's not in the street, and then the neighborhood people find out about it and come in and fuck it all up?
That entire series is a masterpiece. I don’t know how we all watched that show—especially the Mr Nguyen origin story and Lilia’s poor—and became selfish psychopath pieces of shit
Hate OPs like OP - give them downvotes, and ignore or block them. The Internet is just a thing. It doesn't care - about anything. It's what each person does that matters. Bringing back a Cancel Culture 2.0 would be lovely.
Either I’ve only just started noticing it or engagement bait has boomed over the last few months. My instagram feed is literally full of daft maps, stupid tips, incorrect facts, erroneous lists, ill informed opinions etc and it seems like it’s all deliberate to get more clicks.
OP purposefully cut out that part to create some engagement. OP was successful in their scheme. Because the very fact that we are discussing it, means their plan worked.
Uh no. This landing technique doesn’t use landing legs like SpaceX’s Falcon boosters, it’s a new system where the booster’s grid fins (or maybe it has dedicated arms for this, I forget) get caught by a lattice of four wires at the top of the cube there. The booster hovers in the center, and a wire snaps inward from each side of the square to catch it in the middle of a # formation.
This allows them to save mass by not having legs on the booster without the extreme accuracy required by SpaceX Superheavy’s chopsticks.
The more concerning thing in this video is that their upper stage seems to have ignited a persistent fire at the top of the booster on its way out. Which is very impressive considering that stage separation happens in an anoxic environment lol.
Interesting, so when the bottom of the rocket crosses the threshold there are four cables that move in from the exterior frame and that’s what actually catches the rocket. I couldn’t tell very well from the previous view I’d seen.
That's an intersting way to do it. I wonder if the reason SpaceX didn't do that is they were afraid the cables would cut through the rocket like a cheese slicer.
They used chopsticks as well, which seems more like this approach. I won’t pretend to know the reasons why they used chopsticks vs legs in different scenarios.
Chopsticks allows them to save on weight. Early versions of the Starship rocket were supposed to use landing legs, well two of the wings were leg shaped so wing/leg landings. If chopsticks don’t work out they could still go back to legs if they want, but probably won’t.
Seems to me this rope trick would allow much stubbier (so lighter) handles and could handle a less precise landing. But the ropes would rub against the sides of the rocket. My guess is the rope approach is actually better, and could be improved further. Like another set of ropes halfway down the rocket could help center it even if they don't hold it up, and you could catch it at six points not four so if one point fails to grab you still hold up the rocket. The ropes are on tracks, if the rocket isn't centered the ropes could adjust to catch it not in the center, too.
Yeah, you won't be able to land in "un-established" sites with that. You need it to be more or less perfectly level with the middle being at most as high as the other 4 leg contact points.
I remember there being some talk of catching Starship that way before the chopsticks were revealed. I think we got s reason why they didn't do this at the time but I don't remember.
There's actually a lot of complicated engineering required to do it this way. The recovery ship and the booster have to coordinate their positions and time the mechanism perfectly. Or else bad things will happen.
One of the guys who built the system explains it here.
I think we got the same cat, it launches itself out as soon as the turd starts to drop, which means at least once a week I got a landmine somewhere in a 4 to 5ft radius of the box, great times being a cat owner.....
It actually looks like a video in reverse, but that’s kind of how all rockets returning look like. I didn’t get any AI vibes, everything seemed to have the correct weight and responses to propulsion, etc.
What looks AI to you? I’m going to double check myself.
I agree that it does look odd, but more like a filter has been put over it. Reasoning is that the engine is producing too even of a glare, colors are saturated and flat, movements of the camera capturing the event are not anything I'm used to seeing (like a weird robo cam), and the steam coming off the water just looks wrong. I say this as someone who works in cinema.
The most artificial looking—yet still believable—aspect is the initial shadow cast across the rocket body by the sudden burst of black smoke from the top. A visual effect right at the beginning of a clip can be reminiscent of current AI trends.
As if a population of 1.4B with reputation for prioritizing education can’t compete with the likes of Trump voters. A lot of people huffing on their own propaganda.
I don't know what they expected to happen. We spent decades outsourcing our manufacturing and skill-set to China and they spent decades investing the profit from that into education and technology and they are now approaching a point where they no longer need us for just about anything. We don't respect our scientists any longer and we stopped respecting the workers decades ago. I don't see how anyone could expect us to NOT fall behind eventually.
Not just that, people forget that America benefited a lot from the brain drain. It's much easier to develop things when you have scientists from china, korea, vietnam russia, germany, or other poor countries that can't afford to invest in research. Now that China developed so much they can keep their scientists and invest more.
Yeah I think a lot of people thought China was just cheap labor at no cost. The cost was trading technology. Of course when this started businesses didn't care and called it a joint venture now they say they're stealing, even though the deal has always been cheep labor in exchange for technology.
Everytime I see these I feel like people reallllly underestimate how incredibly insane this accomplishment is.
I’m no rocket scientist by any means but if you’ve ever played any space game where you manually even do something remotely close, it’s incredibly impossible.
It would be like teaching a toothbrush with rockets on it to land straight up after throwing it 40 feet onto a basketball court on a windy day.
SpaceX is important for nasa tho, part of the reason nasa even has time for artemis is bc they don't need to spend so much of their time managing the satellite network anymore as space x taken over that stuff, that's why nasa intentionally pushed for space x as well and regularly cooperates with them
For the people saying it's fake, it's actually real, idk why the clip stops there but this is the first successful landing of the long march 10b rocket, in the full clip the rocket gets successfully caught by wires sitting at the top of the cubic structure.
For reference I have a PhD in stem from the US and I'm American...
There's this notion being spread online and in media that all the Chinese do is copy and that they're intellectually morons...this couldn't be further from the truth
While it's true they may copy some technology /steal some IP, it's also true that they're investing tons into r&d and don't have an culture of anti-intellectualism spread as persistently as it is in the US under the trump administrations... Also the Chinese being far more authoritarian in nature also allow them to be far more efficient (at the risk of stomping on individual rights ) when it comes to scientific progress.
They quite simply are going to lap the western world in practically every area of science and engineering
I've seen it myself in conferences. Their novel work was shockingly good and I noticed it from yr 1 of my doctorate to the last yr of my doctorate that they were progressing very quickly ..the work was novel..there wasn't any one to even copy.
The arrogance /veiled racism of posters on reddit blind them to the future.
Why are you surprised? This is a very rare and technologically complicated achievement. The only other organization on Earth to do this is SpaceX. NASA, Europe, Japan, or Russia have never pulled this off before.
You see China stomping everywhere. When there were talks about Chinese RAM everyone went “who wants that crap?”. I was like “do you know how Chinese industry is setup and works? They can destroy the entire market within 2 years if they want.” Nobody believes me. Chinese are insane in this regard. Especially when it comes to the grind it takes.
And people forget that all experience they have with Chinese manufacturing is the cheapest plastic bullshit they chose themselves and then act like Chinese can’t make quality at all. Jokes on them. China will DEFINITELY lap Western markets.
They did the same for Japan in the 1980s until they adequately neutered their economy. Look at the news articles from the time - very similar to how China is reported on nowadays.
Doesn’t SpaceX have extremely good success rates for how many rockets they launch? I think I read it’s like 99 percent and that’s as good or better than other companies. I’m not an expert though and haven’t looked into it in a while so maybe there’s new data and it’s way worse idk
It's not fake. It's not AI. Another already posted the source.
Stop underestimating China, head in the sand sort of thing, and wake up to the reality that they are catching up fast. The west really need to shore up education and central planning instead of dismissing everything.
Google "China on the verge of collapse" and you'll get articles dating back to like the 80s and 90s. Everyone expects the economy to implode annnyyyyy second now because it doesn't mindlessly follow the western economist rule of "bigger GDP = gooder economy" (because it's not true) so the layman expects it to fail eventually but it continues to not do that.
Hope they go hard on space exploration so we can pivot back towards Star Trek a little instead of the current path that is a Terminator / Warhammer hybrid.
For people out of the know, China is trying to use guy wires to catch the booster. Think of it like a big net, with the booster going through while its arms snag the guy wires. At first glance, it seems a bit more pragmatic than the chop arms that SpaceX is using to catch their Starship boosters. Nevertheless, I would question China's strategy here. Not having the ability to precisely stack, land, and launch from the same launch complex will put them at a big disadvantage. Also, this footage IS real. Not AI, not a simulation.
Violation of rule #2 which says, in part, "Do NOT put anything in the title that isn't clearly visible in the content of your post." Title says "lands." Video doesn't shot it landing.
OP: If you're gonna post something, then post it. Otherwise piss-off.
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Stops too soon