No. This was 3 minutes after they lost contact with it.

I was thinking the same thing but I think @miguellopez3392 is right. It wouldn't be over the Bahamas yet if it were hotstaging.

If it hit the firemament then where is the scrape mark?

@miguellopez3392 Are you kidding me? WATER ABOVE, WATER BELOW.

@ so where are the scrapes?

Those are sheets of stainless steel.

Its stainless steel, you cause more cancer by driving your car.

No this was several minutes after stage separation.

Its called uninformed.

@miguellopez3392 ::,...Cool 2 LOPEZ's...cold in SE Texas...*25F..

@robertlopezjr.1005 I'm in eastern Washington and it's 25F right now.

​@miguellopez3392 ...: ::..*23 now in SE Texas, snow quit early afternoon-- 1245am..(central)

That's 'Stargate'

So the booster travels back to Texas from the Bahamas?

@cgeorge6786 once the booster and starship separate the booster returns to Texas, theoretically in the future SpaceX will be able to stack another starship onto the booster to be used again within hours. I think the video show starship and booster separation, starship explosion occured shortly after separation. Once starship itself exploded the fireball was larger, more dramatic, and more fragmented, at least from the other angles I've seen. The booster is what you see returning to the fly catcher at Star Base, the Starship is the cargo ship, more or less, that exploded. On this text flight Starship was supposed to deploy text satellites that would have followed Starship back to earth, that video would have been very interesting.

We watched the booster catch in south Texas within a few minutes after take-off. You people need to do some research before you start speaking.

@@youtube8775 Yes I know, that's what I said. I said booster went back to Texas, starship exploded. You need to learn to read before you start speaking.

​@joebonomono you can see peices of stainless steel form a debri field around the craft.

Never flies over Florida. They thread the needle south of Florida and stay mostly over the Caribbean, except for a few smaller islands, then it's over the Atlantic toll the African continent.

That's 'Stargate'

CGI

@@knockoneoff3987???

It was an FAA approved test with an open corridor, just in case it had to be intentionally destroyed. The goal is to make humans a multi-planetary species. But go ahead, put your limited knowledge of the subject on public display.

@@youtube8775I’m sure your fun at parties

Or a trillion dollar 'Stargate'

Really? Those rockets he keeps exploding, costs 60 million dollars each? And he gave 250 million Dollars to put the political party in power that always votes against space and electric vehicles? He has really backwards ways of spending money. No wonder he thought it was a good idea to give the Heil Hitler salute at our inauguration party. America should buy his smaller rockets program, and use those to go Mars, instead of superockets that will take decades more to build a base and test on Mars, before its safe for people.