Here’s Scott Manley’s really helpful post-mission analysis (go full-screen) Watch for brown puffs in the exhaust and the different-color exhausts (blue vs yellow) on ascent. That’s all my uncalibrated eyeballs noticed until the flamey thing around the skirt during the landing burn. And so ends the official Space-X live coverage, tilted and still on fire [...]
February 27, 2021 – 7:51 pm
Big question of locked-down relationships: What’s the point of tellin’ ‘er t’ make ya a sammich, if it’s just gonna be disappointing or piss ya off? (Totally just an excuse to use that great pic) Okay, perhaps advice from an ol’ bachelor ain’t really worth a whole heckuva lot, but there ya go. You’re welcome [...]
February 22, 2021 – 2:09 pm
NASA site Individual vids Detailed/interesting techprOn of the videos (Scott Manley)
February 20, 2021 – 6:26 pm
Spew Warning Story Normally, KisP isn’t merely a link aggregator. We strive to add comment, scope, humor, or perspective to internet stories; but nothing I can come up with, here, competes with this story’s own self-contained entertainment value
February 18, 2021 – 2:31 pm
Hot off the pressPerseverance is now on freakin’ Marrrs, baby! Second photo, wheel lower-right Will post vids when available_____ Story
February 17, 2021 – 10:48 pm
Feeling pretty bad for you folks suffering with freezing-cold power outages, but I suppose it could be worseNature’s a heartless b•tch, but it ain’t nuthin’ personal Most widespread global warming coverage since 2003 ‘Scuse me *puff* while I re-light my *puff* pipe and gaze out upon my wet deck free of ice and snow here [...]
February 15, 2021 – 10:24 pm
Watch for the abnormal rocket plume at Entry Burn Shutdown (T+6:50) and the short cloud-reflection flare off to the top-right in the landing shot (T+8:05). Short burn or impact kaboom?The primary mission succeeded There’s another launch scheduled for 12:55am Thurs morning, but they’ll probably postpone that until they know what caused this failure Dunno yet [...]
February 13, 2021 – 5:37 pm
Somebody’s algorithm needs a tweak (What? Yeah, wayyy too easily entertained)
February 10, 2021 – 6:34 pm
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