Damn, these are so regular now that I don't even know they're occurring any more...
Given the Rocket Lab failure the other day, makes you me wonder why anyone would use any other company for orbital payload delivery
A 4K feed, I think that's the first time I've seen that?
@Lycanthrope
the main point was making was, not just 84 launches, (50 satellites this time), not just another almost 700 more by September, not just how they are going over 1,150 at 1 minute after launch, climbing “like a homesick angel”, the almost continuous video feed looking back from launch to landing, “screaming in from 8,000 to soft landing, offset in case of error and hitting the bullseye”, being able to read “of course i still love you” (yay, Iain M Banks) on the deck of the drone ship looking down during powered descent, decelerating using atmospheric cushion,
Its how _casually_ they can do all these things and make the difficult look routine.
This is a demonstration of great power and expertise perhaps finally on the knee of the exponential curve, just in SpaceX & Starlink & SN15,
And the vehicles, and the batteries and the “virtually zero marginal cost potential of the energy” (sunlight) many use.
additionally
We are also on the cusp of communication with alien, non human species.
The monkey that plays pong with its implanted =>neuralink<= electrodes.
remember Stephen Hawking who talked with a type of vocoder?
Could you train a vocoder with a neuralink?
dolphins, whales, cats&dogs living together, and chatting in a mutually understandable language , “a great uplift”
This is _not_ being a “fanboy” or “fangurll”, it’s looking at technology from a viewpoint of camera like perspective, seeing where it’s been and having a fairly good idea where it’s going,
(thanks to all the Science Fiction authors i have read, traveled with, discussed ideas with, all the “what if this, then that”)
around when we _finally_ got a shared party line telephone with 3 other families back then, who liked to listen to your calls, 64 years ago, chopping wood to heat the house or freeze, hand cranking a tractor to start it, from building a TV if we wanted one (we did and glowing leaky tubes made nice ‘nite lights’ with exploding capacitors occasionally and rubber bands to hold the tubes tight) to now, to hanging a monster “TV/computer” on the wall to watch launches, tapping on an iPad, manufacturing all and excess of my own power that can fuel my vehicle, watching things not only 1/2 way round the planet in “lightspeed delayed real time” but in orbit too.
(what will be the downside when many are neuralinked together and we don’t want to be 2-3 seconds behind, waves of mutual thoughts cascading around the planet)
mental ants stuck on a blue marble at the bottom of a gravity well, straining to break free and “go walkabout”
(and love to the bot scrapers who frequent TMC)
