Starship Flight 4 Launch LIVE

Starship Flight 4 Launch LIVE

[@TroyRubert]

Man, I was in Thunderf00ts chat, and they were all 100% positive it was all fake. I can't believe how insane his audience has become.

[@Direkin]

Yeah, he's gone full Musk Derangement Syndrome, and appears to have attracted the TikTok crowd. I unsubbed a while ago because it seemed like Musk was living in his head rent free as most of his vids were about Musk. Remember when he used to produce interesting science videos? Seems like an age ago now.

[@krz8888888]

@@DirekinIt pays his bills I guess

[@capybara5494]

Wtf

[@napoleonfeanor]

Yes he became a Musk react guy and has become even more unhinged but it pays his bills

[@Okurka.]

1:29:17 It's clearly CGI.

[@Asterra2]

I got a kick out of chat for this stream. That one bloke, alch3myau, praying for Starship to explode. His day was literally ruined by Starship's refusal to fail for him. But I'll give him some credit: at least he acknowledges it was a completed flight plan. There's a certain other channel whose creator has cultivated an audience that is now completely dependent on hoping SpaceX fails. One imagines they immediately pivoted to some future SpaceX failure so they could rescue their psyches.

[@Direkin]

I had a look at that certain other channel earlier today, and a whole load of people were dunking on the guy for his extreme levels of cope, and being wrong about everything. Apparently he had even changed the title of the video due to embarassment. I just had another look moments ago to see if people were still dogpiling on him, and he's removed the video.

[@Asterra2]

@@Direkin The end of an era, perhaps? He's not an idiot, so he understands perfectly well that Starship is eventually going to do what it's meant to and that he would ultimately be out of meaningful ammunition. At that point, he would need to pivot back to what originally made him popular. I think his dedication to anti-SpaceX hate was actually only half sincere, with the other half being the realization that there's a lot of money in a hate cult.

[@sarkaranish]

Was looking back at some of these livestreams, and man does this guy alch3myau have such a hateboner for this vehicle lol. Made me genuinely laugh out loud when Starship ACTUALLY softly splashed down. Seems hate can't get you far in life. Hope he gets better after all that cope lol.

[@Okurka.]

40:37 Shots fired at Thunderf00t.

[@brentdennard6722]

Dang, I wish I had known you were live streaming. I was watching Tim’s channel.

[@keesguijt1619]

Signature statement: Flapping around in the breeze. LOL

[@ericclark9770]

It looked like the front attach/hinge point on that flap gave way right at the end - seemed to "pitch" on a central hinge and stopped actuating after that. But it managed to hold together and the avionics compensated enough for splash down.

[@AndrewSkow1]

1:46:00 I'd bet this is when thunderf00t climaxed.

[@omegavalwin]

that whole stream of him was unreal he really wanted it fail

[@volvo09]

The camera showing that burnt up fin is a real trooper!

[@Okurka.]

Not to mention the camera guy holding that camera.

[@nlagas]

Looks like the flap hinge failed at the very end you could see it skewed

[@TheRabidTech]

did it actually fire it's engines and have a soft landing after the rocket was on fire and melting for so long?

[@Lemon3_Works]

@@TheRabidTech The one that are melting are the flaps, but it maintain it's balance so yes it did slowed down with its engines. Just look at the telemetry.

[@dynamo-l3m]

@@TheRabidTech The flap melted, the engines and tanks and overall the vehicle didn't. Just the flaps. The engines did light, otherwise how did it lower its velocity? it's just telemetry didn't show it.

[@karlharvymarx2650]

Score 2 for resiliency in the flap. I got worried when Dave pointed out the hotpot for the first time. Then more worried when its progress seemed to be going unnoticed. It did provide an interesting peek into the flap's construction. As a passenger, I would have appreciated that to ponder instead of impending tumbly and burnie death from important looking part going up in flames and flecks. Then that charred stump of a flap waving, as a farethewell, from the smoke and ash like fatally wounded soldier heroically spending his final breaths to save his comrades, might ahve made me misty eyed even as I plotted get a refund.

[@takanara7]

I prefer NSF's commentary, they go into a lot more nerdy detail where Tim's feed is meant for a more general audience. Once you know a lot about rockets, etc the NSF feed seems a lot more informative.

[@Paul-gy7dn]

I find them annoying lol

[@KunehKun]

Until they desperately advertising their merch lol

[@benjaminrickdonaldson]

NSF have some new guys that are pretty nerdy. Jack Beyer, Das and i cant remember the other guys name are real cool guys tho.

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

1:04:52 A nod to Kubrick's "2001 a Space Odyssey" maybe?

[@Dalroc]

Omg that replay of the booster landing.. lol!

[@avgjoe5969]

Don't think it was the engine failed. I believe you are right about their reliability. I think the fuel supply system feeding the 33 engines failed to supply that one and it choked off. This was why they had multiple failures on the first flight (and probably some debris on take off). In IFT 1 they lost 3 engines at launch and 3 more later. Highly unlkely 6 engine failures, however debris and fuel sloshing/feed is more likely. Think we might have seen the deluge system blow out a candel (as you mentioned). That said, we know it will lift off 3 engines down and reach the edge of space (at which time, fractional thrust just means burning longer). So we have a pretty good idea of what the limit is on engine out conditions. Also agree that they will tweak that anyway.

[@S1nwar]

the iterative design process for starship works pretty fine. i dont know if it's cheaper than a classical NASA project overall but it doesnt seem unreasonable considering how much loan etc it saves by moving so fast, having good feedback due to shitzillion prototypes and a cheapasss method of production, availability of material and fuel

[@benjaminrickdonaldson]

it doesnt work well because theyre iterating faster than they launch. The aft section of the super heavy booster is pretty much fucked because they changed the design of starship along the way.

[@regnoice3752]

To space and beyond from the UK .

[@S1nwar]

i love to watch this now and be like "yeah something just fell off there - wasnt relevant"^^

[@Direkin]

Could do with a transparent chat window.

[@rudrakshkamath2071]

Let me get this straight. You watch the whole flight of Starship.. at midnight?

[@benjaminrickdonaldson]

It's what us boys in the southern hemisphere have to endure for entertainment.

[@MattyEngland]

Bring forth the tinfoil and LSD.... We're going back to the moon, boomers!

[@Wayoutthere]

KING FLAP, fundraiser to rescue it??

[@erniet253]

MISSION ACOMPLISED THEY SAID IN BACK TO THE FUTURE

[@Direkin]

The booster looks like it was intentionally 'belly flopped' onto the water, since there was no pad.

[@cinnac0n]

It landed upright, which isn't stable floating in the water, so it's guaranteed to fall over.

[@zlm001]

Thanks

[@krz8888888]

Hate all you want but this was fantastic!

[@JohnJTraston]

You just covered all the interesting stuff with chat and your head.

[@Okurka.]

When your face is more important than the telemetrics.

[@kev2020-z9s]

Love to see this at night.

[@zlm001]

The OG Total Recall was an order of magnitude better than the new remake, but if you don’t think of the new one as a remake it is enjoyable. The remake is definitely a way more modern, corporate-Hollywood, cookie-cutter, action-based movie without any of the old SciFi pulp fiction style that made the original great. The husband-wife dialogue and other attempts at fantasy based humor just don’t work with the substantially different plot, style, and script. Despite all of that, I still think the new movie was at least worth streaming or watching on legacy television for mindless entertainment as long as you don’t think of and compare it to the original or expect it to be similar in any way.

[@张川-d3n]

太帅了

[@AndyMcClements]

Poor Dave, come a gutsa with two feeds going.. ruined the landing for him.

[@benjaminrickdonaldson]

didnt ruin the landing

[@napoleonfeanor]

It's mostly a success but there is obviously one part needing to be redesigned.

[@takanara7]

They could use Inconel or something on that specific part of the flap.

[@HNedel]

There was already a redesign for one of the next ships, where the flaps and hinges were moved further back away from the plasma stream

[@karliszauers1]

​@@takanara7funny enough the next version is shaped a bit different and has less of a flap there 😂

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

To keep everyone up to date Tesla set to deploy battery-powered trains for worker shuttle to Giga Berlin

[@张川-d3n]

太厉害了，这都能活下来

[@enzofitzhume7320]

Really Dave?

[@napoleonfeanor]

Why not?

[@michaelhawthorne8696]

Star ship maybe a white Elephant like his EV idea will be

[@napoleonfeanor]

Musk is more hype than fact but space x has been successful so far in improving existing technologies.

[@rkan2]

​@@napoleonfeanorAnd Tesla hasn't? lol

[@VladimirNicolici]

@@rkan2 in the past, yes. Recently, no.

[@napoleonfeanor]

@@rkan2 I said nothing in either direction about Tesla. The cybertruck was not really a success lol

[@rkan2]

@@napoleonfeanor Neither did I say anything about the Cybertruck. Who is saying it wasn't really a success? :D afaik they Tesla is still selling them for 100k$ which is saying something..