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At 4/29/14 02:52 PM, 24901miles wrote: This is a very important photograph that may mark 2014 as a pivotal year in history.

Without cheating, can anyone on this forum guess what this picture is? What makes this image monumentous?

Initial guess without googling or scrolling down.

Looks like a SpaceX rocket flying up towards space

At 4/29/14 02:52 PM, 24901miles wrote: This is a very important photograph that may mark 2014 as a pivotal year in history.

Without cheating, can anyone on this forum guess what this picture is? What makes this image monumentous?

Its the top half to a fat face, cat eared, space moon body man

is it a hydrogen bomb in the ocean?

At 4/29/14 08:01 PM, ExtraLife wrote: Looks like a SpaceX rocket flying up towards space

Down from space, actually. It's a SpaceX Falcon 9 Reusable rocket which has just finished its mission of delivering a Dragon Spacecraft to the ISS.

And what's it doing?

After it left the atmosphere and released the Dragon, the rocket did a backflip, fired its thrusters in reverse, and began a steady controlled descent into the Atlantic Ocean. This, basically.

SpaceX just spent the past week reconstructing video salvaged from the rocket (which was partially destroyed by the waves of the Atlantic). Here's what they have so far.

So, why is this important? Several reasons:

1. Since the Apollo program, we have built one rocket for every launch. Those rockets were all destroyed as they reentered the atmosphere. A fully reusable launch system will eliminate the need to build a new rocket for each launch, reducing the costs of satellites, space exploration, and ISS service missions to the cost of fuel.
2. This frame from a video taken by an external camera on the F9R shows the craft making a perfect controlled landing in the Atlantic, with two of the four landing legs fully extended.
3. A reduced cost for space launches means that space tourism will finally be possible.
4. Elon Musk is awesome.

The next step is for SpaceX to make a controlled descent onto land after atmospheric reentry, changing aerospace forever.

At 4/29/14 09:32 PM, 24901miles wrote: And what's it doing?

suck it cock jokes

At 4/29/14 09:32 PM, 24901miles wrote: Here's what they have so far.

I don't have any audio for the time being but from what I can see, it eerily makes me think that's what it would look like if a standard camera tried to record digital footage of Heaven. Especially around the 16 second mark.

Like, the first time I saw it, the thought swimming around in the back of my head was "Am I watching an attempt at recording heaven?"

At 4/29/14 03:15 PM, Conal wrote: What's that film with a flat top mountain?

You mean a plateau?

At 4/29/14 09:32 PM, 24901miles wrote:
It's a SpaceX Falcon 9 Reusable rocket which has just finished its mission of delivering a Dragon Spacecraft to the ISS.

Fuckin' sweeeet! This is a really important step for us to get into space!

At 4/29/14 11:58 PM, Xenomit wrote: I don't have any audio for the time being but from what I can see, it eerily makes me think that's what it would look like if a standard camera tried to record digital footage of Heaven. Especially around the 16 second mark.

Like, the first time I saw it, the thought swimming around in the back of my head was "Am I watching an attempt at recording heaven?"

Hm. I can totally see what you mean. That never would've crossed my mind unless you said it.

I wonder if I know any people who think about heaven and religion and all that junk at first glance when they see something peculiar.

At 4/29/14 03:15 PM, Conal wrote: What's that film with a flat top mountain?

You mean a plateau?

Maybe Close Encounters of the Third Kind?

At 4/30/14 12:10 AM, Phobotech wrote:

At 4/29/14 09:32 PM, 24901miles wrote:
It's a SpaceX Falcon 9 Reusable rocket which has just finished its mission of delivering a Dragon Spacecraft to the ISS.

Fuckin' sweeeet! This is a really important step for us to get into space!

Fuckin right! Need a lift?

Elon Musk said in a televised interview sometime since new year (can't find it) that their next objective after a dry landing would be a loop around the moon or a flyby of Mars, with a possible touchdown on the surface of the Moon 'just to prove the capability'.

looks like a nipple

So, a members of the NASASpaceflight.com forum have spent nearly a month combing through the Raw video bit by bit, manually, flipping digits to recover individual pixels.

Here's a recent series of recovered frames.
And a version from yesterday
Here's the latest page in the thread

At 5/23/14 05:38 PM, 24901miles wrote: So, a members of the NASASpaceflight.com forum have spent nearly a month combing through the Raw video bit by bit, manually, flipping digits to recover individual pixels.

Wow, that's pretty awesome of them.

its the ACTUAL person who shot and killed john f. kennedy

At 5/23/14 05:55 PM, MrPercie wrote: You know, I always thought it was incredibly wasteful to have to build a rocket for every single launch, I would have thought there would have been a lot of effort put into making the Space shuttle reusable after use.

It was reusable. There were only five space shuttles.

The only thing that wasn't reused were the liquid fuel tanks. The solid rocket boosters were reused, as well as the shuttles themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle

It's my dick.

At 5/23/14 05:55 PM, MrPercie wrote: You know, I always thought it was incredibly wasteful to have to build a rocket for every single launch, I would have thought there would have been a lot of effort put into making the Space shuttle reusable after use.

The Air Force has some space planes like that, and the Shuttle is reusable. But actually, the rockets go through a real beating during launches, and SpaceX may need to spend a lot of time making its reusable rockets more durable. Also, building new rockets each time gives them a chace to change the design from the ground up and make iterative improvements.

That doesnt detract from this achievement, however. It was incredibly difficult for SpaceX to even come this far, and they still have a long way to go.

They've been forced out of their Air Force launch site and shuttled off to the worst launchpad in the world.. And now Both SpaceX and Tesla nearly failed in the 2008 financial event.. it looks like they're up against a few govt contracting behemoths who may not play fair.

Higgs boson?

It looks like some space rocket start with stratosphere down below.

A submarine with a raccoon's head exploring the ocean.

It looks like a snapshot from a video game.

your mum's dildo

latest video link. | original for comparison

More codec segments recovered every day, it looks to be about 10% recovered. We now have leg deployment.

At 5/24/14 10:53 AM, ragnkinson wrote: Aliens?

Someday, this technology may be the vehicle used to bring the first aliens to Mars.

At 5/24/14 07:11 AM, Makakaov wrote: It looks like some space rocket start with stratosphere down below.

Not a bad guess.

Jim Carrey's working model of a death star in the shape of the # 1?

At 5/26/14 10:50 PM, fmn335 wrote: Jim Carrey's working model of a death star in the shape of the # 1?

Jim Cage fights his daddy, Nicolas Carrey aboard the #1st death star!

link

The restoration project was completed on June 22.

And SpaceX launched an OrbComm satellite on July 16. They released the water landing video for the first stage return this afternoon:

Falcon 9 First Stage Return | ORBCOMM Mission