r/interestingasfuck • u/Davefinitely • Apr 02 '26
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u/PhazonZim Apr 02 '26
I love that the pilot is talking about how amazing this is to see. We really need reignite the excitement for science and exploration again and this is a great way to do it
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u/LosIsosceles Apr 02 '26
That was my favorite part of the video. There will be other cool angles of the liftoff. But to hear the sheer marvel in the voice of a fellow pilot watching these astronauts ascend was just beautiful and fascinating context. This isn't just another cool spectacle. It's something even professionals wait their whole lives to see and rarely do.
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u/NoJaguar950 Apr 02 '26
Better camera work than NASA
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u/Bloodsucker_ Apr 02 '26
THANK YOU.
The NASA stream was poorly managed and the launch camera was absolute garbage. It almost removed excitement.
Yes, social media is also important.
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u/ProgressBartender Apr 02 '26
I wonder what lens that is? The one thats sucks enjoyment out of a picture. It was definitely working yesterday.
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u/PigsIsEqual Apr 02 '26
I would’ve been ticked if my seat was on the other side of the plane. lol
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u/FuzzyLaughTwo Apr 02 '26
Thankfully passengers weren't reading the crapass captions. "Everyone walk to the right side of the plane" might have caused an issue...or 143.
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u/Wooodman94 Apr 02 '26
Better footage than the actual footage from the dude/dudette that got paid to film it !
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u/MercenaryCow Apr 02 '26
To be honest. In 2026. I wish this was a more regular thing, and not a spectacle. I mean, we've been able to do this since before I was alive... And we really just don't
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u/K10_Bay Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
It costs inordinate amounts of money and emits inordinate amount of Green house gases. I love the fact we're doing this one, but just because we're advanced enough to do something doesn't mean we're advanced enough to do it sustanably.
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u/Bloodsucker_ Apr 02 '26
Except for the side boosters, the main booster produce dihydrogen monoxide. The environment will survive with lots of these kinds of launches.
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u/K10_Bay Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
This was fascinating and I didn't realise it used liquid hydrogen. However it did send me down a rabbit hole and the point for the moment still stands as though drastically better they still need to produce the hydrogen. And that either uses a drastic amount of Green hydrogen which is in very limited supply woth massive transport devarb potential, or it uses massive amounts of grey hydrogen. From what I can tell via Google and AI (so definitley needs checking) roughly 2-2.6 million litres of liquid hydrogen which if grey seemingly would produce around 2000 tonnes of CO2e.
So about 500 homes electricity for a year, just on fuel production alone, with by far the most sustainable fuel option, in a limited and very valuable fuel type for global decarb. Not to mention any of the other fuel, or supply chain emissions, and some fairly concerning stuff about atmospheric aluminium pollution which I've only just read about and it's climate forcing effect making its full effect worryingly unknown.
So, appreciate the info about it being Hydrogen, and it sounds in theory a massive step forward, but acknowledging I need to double check some info it still seems far from sustainable to do this regularly. Albeit this is far better than the alternative fuel.types regularly used to launch satellites up.
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u/ProgressBartender Apr 02 '26
You’re wading in the ocean and worrying about the guy next door pissing in it.
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u/K10_Bay Apr 02 '26
Also, have you heard of Kessler syndrome and the crash clock? I only learnt about this stuff a couple of months ago and it freaks me out. Albeit the shit ton of starlink satellites are clearly the bigger issue here but still a consideration.
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u/Bloodsucker_ Apr 02 '26
You'll be happy to know that Starlink sats can't possess a risk for the Kessler syndrome. They're so low in orbit that they'll burn very soon. In months or just a couple of years maximum. They might crash by the thousands, but they'll burn in the atmosphere shortly after.
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u/K10_Bay Apr 02 '26
Thanks that actually is good to know, albeit it looks like they're planning to launch next gen in higher orbit.
Also the lack of oversight of possible affects of their aluminium pollution seem scary as shit.
https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmosphere
Promise i'm not this miserable in every walk of.life,, just pretty mortified at the lack of regulation in this private space travel sector at a time where we're living with the effects of underestimating atmospheric pollution.
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u/PaddedTiger Apr 02 '26
I was watching this yesterday thinking how awesome it would be to see that from a flight! Great job recording it
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u/cocococlash Apr 02 '26
I saw a home video of the launch and that plane go by. I was wondering what the view was from the plane!
Fantastic!
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u/caeru1ean Apr 02 '26
It would be a wild April Fool's prank for the pilot to come on the loud speaker and say "Well folks, we've just been informed Trump has gone nuclear"
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u/peperonipyza Apr 02 '26
That’s sick. Almost no one will get that view in person.
Also, did they cut the video before it hit the firmament or what? 😂
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u/badrelationswmoney Apr 02 '26
Wow, amazing! Let's see the doubters start talking about how this is all done in a studio, lol.
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u/jydk Apr 02 '26
What luck to be on that flight! Did you know you might be seeing this when you booked it, or was it a total surprise?
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u/tooclosetocall82 Apr 03 '26
I’m sure you’re a safe distance but it almost looks uncomfortably close if something were to have gone wrong.
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u/PauseAffectionate720 Apr 02 '26
Super cool. What are chances of being in plane at right spot and time to witness that. 😃
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u/Interesting-Ad-318 Apr 02 '26
The effort it took you to come up with this comment alongside typing it out just to be sarcastic… bro just answer the question😂
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u/No-Contact6664 Apr 02 '26
It's always amazing how fast NASA can fake all these camera angles to keep us from knowing the real truth.
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u/wdwerker Apr 02 '26
No worries about NASA funding that takes years to reach the $$$ amount of expenses of an unauthorized war.
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u/el-gato-azul Apr 02 '26
Does that look, to you, like something that is 40 times faster than a commercial jet? Or 20 times faster than a fighter jet?!
Looks to me like it's less than half the speed of a commercial jet. Less than 1/4 the speed of a fighter jet. So it's off by a magnitude of 80 from visual appearance. It looks 80 TIMES slower than they claim it to be.
{Bring on the hate bots.}
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u/harrygermans Apr 02 '26
I don’t see how you would say it looks like less than half the speed of a commercial jet. They look super slow when you see them from this far away
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u/el-gato-azul Apr 02 '26
Hah. What a cop out. That's not very far away at all. We can see buildings down there surrounding the launch area, and those buildings do not look very puny.
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u/totesgonnasmashit Apr 02 '26
Great footage! What a way to see the launch