CultureOfCritique

SpaceX, just like NASA and other agencies is a massive fraud. They send rockets up into the air only for them to arc across the horizon and come back to earth without entering "space"-- there's plenty of videos of this online.

Every time their rockets "land themselves" they switch camera feeds because there's some sort of glitch, and its interesting how when they're coming down you see nothing recognizable at all until in the last two seconds suddenly the boat appears and you can see water.

Did you see the video where he "sent a Tesla into space"? It looked very fake, and the lighting was not consistent with a single light source (the sun). Elon even rubbed it in our faces, "you know it's real because it looks so fake".

nwguy

grow up

TheGook

always glitch, huh?

sharks_n_colorado

They are rocket scientists yet they cant make a rocket proof, glitch free camera.

Is there even a clear video out there of the rocket landing?

celerycar

If that is landing 68 of the first stage, that is also the 68th landing with the "camera glitch" at the moment of landing.

CultureOfCritique

Yup, every time there's some sort of "glitch". I'd think the engineers there would be smart enough to see something's up with these live feeds.

Rellik88

The drone ship has a sat link for video. When the rocket lands the boat moved fucking up the sat link. I guess they should just run cat5 to it right?

celerycar

Interesting that Musk can create a gimball system for rocket engines to get them to land on a dime, but can't create a control system for a rocking boat?

Guess that extra tree-fiddy was just too much cost for him.

Fateswebb

hahah yeah they can make spaceships just not working cameras

celerycar

Cameras work perfectly fine, until the exact moment of touchdown, and then recover immediately after.

Fateswebb

right and they act as though they are wireless which there is absolutely no explanation as to why such an important camera would not be wired...

celerycar

It is mind boggling how something so important to their mission and purpose has only a single camera feed.

I'm sure there are at least 8 cameras on the recovery platform, and for data analysis purposes they would want multiple feeds to watch from different angles if things go wrong.

The crash landing of the heavy rocket test today had a smooth camera feed.

Fateswebb

bro, I like elon musk and all, but uh... NASA is a huge fraud, and space-x is so closely twined with NASA I find it hard to believe then that Space-X isn't full of shit too... I want to believe but uh... nahh.. its a scam right?

celerycar

It would probably go a long way to boosting Musk's reputation among the non-fanbois if he actually posted full non-glitchy video, or spent just a little (oh so little) effort to have the video feed not go tits up every fucking landing.

Because of the glitch every fucking landing I have a hard time believing that there isn't another lander already in place.

The glitch is to cover the swapping of the video feeds.

Fucking fix your shit Musk!

DougMesserschmitt

Some ppl say the entire SpaceX platform is afloat on a sea of CGI's, I don't wish to believe that but crikey!