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I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun.
The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇
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Mark my words, I will take a photo like this in my lifetime.
You might, too.
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@ChrisJacksonSC That’s a 767-400. Has forward tilting gear, CF-6 engines, and a raked wingtip.
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15 YEARS AGO: On this date in 2011, Alabama experienced a generational tornado outbreak. A total of 62 tornadoes touched town over the northern 2/3 of the state.
We will never forget the 252 lives lost that horrible day.
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The Blue Angels over Auburn this morning… Video from Christian Flathman
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@Truthful_ast This is true technically, but for humans you need more overall mass (habs, food, water, etc) so the energy requirement is much higher
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When will more people realize that the Moon requires either the same or more Delta V than Mars?
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@303SnowWolf What portion? I didn’t hear any communication that sounded out of the ordinary for such an event.
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If you listen to the full audio, dipshit was more concerned with sounding like Maverick on the radio than he was with flying the plane. Many such cases.
Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson
Pilot error. Not an FAA issue. In fact, the FAA handled it well. @SeanDuffyWI x.com/ABC/status/204…
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@KenKirtland17 Or even better, the center core recovered and both side cores expended lol
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@KenKirtland17 I don’t think the actual outcome is as cool as people think it’ll be:
One side core recovered, the other is expended.
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More info on JRTI moving to starship transportation.
The upcoming Starlink mainfest can not be launched on Falcon, and now we are seeing the first steps sunsetting of what is probably the best rocket in history for its replacement, Starship. As Starship takes over starlink launches Falcon will continue customer and crew launches until Starship gets those as well.
Cool hint at the end about dual downrange Falcon Heavy landings. There is a plan. Is that borrowing JRTI? Is that transporting OCISLY to east coast for it. Or is it something much cooler... Dual landing on ASOG?
Kiko Dontchev@TurkeyBeaver
With 39A becoming a primarily Falcon Heavy and Starship pad, we don’t actually need two operational droneships on the east coast to maintain our Falcon manifest. Think of pads/drone ships like airplane runways where you need a landing runway for each takeoff runway (ideally they are the same runway I.e. starship). ASOG can support 4 day launch cycle time with RTLS missions in parallel. This is exactly how we operate on the west coast! JRTI will join the “you’ll thank me later” ship to support Starship and SupeHeavy transport from Starbase to the Cape. We have a plan for any double down range Falcon Heavy missions 🚀🚀🚀
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I’ve flown premium economy exactly once, it was only a 150 dollars to upgrade. I would never pay thousands more for it.
ApoStructura@ApoStructura
Who uses premium economy in planes ? It’s 4x the price of economy for only a marginally better experience. Business is an actual step up, but premium eco feels like a scam
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@GoleshBurnerAcc @nevamadeafinal3 Surely those charged with felonies are also kicked off of the team, right?
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@Spiffles_ @nevamadeafinal3 now look at what bama and uga does to their players who get arrested (also happens tremendously more often)
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The fact the “if Earth was 4 inches closer to the sun and we’d all die” is still being spread is insane.
Genuinely do they not have critical thinking skills??
Oliver Burdick@oliverburdick
If Earth were 4 inches closer to the sun, we would all burn up and die. If gravity was .1% stronger, every star would explode instantly. If the Universe expanded 1 mph faster, human life would be impossible. None of this is random. God is real, and his design is perfect.
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Both this post and the community note are extremely dumb. Land vs ocean landings have nothing to do with the capsules being orbital or suborbital, it's just a differing design decision.
Bruce@bruce_barrett
So apparently Jeff Bezos can land in a desert and NASA still goes old school with ocean landings. Seems legit to me.
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