Matt Bradbury

@mo808_Kailua @MrMBB333 Storm just passed and the setting sun turned everything red, it was pretty epic

@MrMBB333 Is this event viewable throughout the state?

THE SKY OVER TEXAS JUST TURNED COMPLETELY UNREAL People in Round Rock, Texas were left staring at the sky after an intense burst of color suddenly lit up the atmosphere with glowing shades of pink, orange, and purple wrapped around a massive rainbow formation. This wasn’t edited. This wasn’t enhanced. This is exactly how the sky looked. Viewer Ethan captured the moment as the entire horizon appeared to glow like something out of another world. More people lately keep saying the skies have looked different… and scenes like this are exactly why these videos keep spreading so fast online. 👇 Drop your location if the skies have looked unusual where YOU live lately. 📷 Ethan - Round Rock, Texas via MrMBB333 #MrMBB333 #TexasSky #StrangeSky

@punyeet @CSI_Starbase @RyanHansenSpace I think that would be tough without launching to the north or even further south for the ground track to overfly Starbase 90 minutes later

@CSI_Starbase @RyanHansenSpace do they have the cross-range capability to do a once around RTLS?

This vehicle was in phenomenal condition! Really shows the TPS team has been putting in work!

@CSI_Starbase @SirSardonic @RyanHansenSpace I think the in orbit burn has to be proven first. Guessing that they will eventually launch directly into a circular orbit so that there is only one in orbit burn for reentry

@SirSardonic @RyanHansenSpace Yeah I feel like within reason, they should probably stack some of those milestones. But, there’s a chance what I’m saying makes no sense at all to people more familiar with everything that goes into that.

@SempereCarlos @Romy_Holland It’s why we have unique words for eleven and twelve. There’s a lot of base 12 in our history

@Romy_Holland Base 10 is awful. You can divide 12 by 3 and 4, which is a whole lot easier to visualize and work with than dividing by 5. Everything should be in base 12.

it’s weird that every culture uses the same timekeeping. i know there have been other calendar systems, but everyone settled on 24 hour days and 60 minute hours and 60 second minutes. these are weird numbers! why didn’t anyone implement metric timekeeping?

@SEAsheltie @Lewis_R_W @Romy_Holland Count your finger segments using your thumb, with two hands you can count to 144

@Lewis_R_W @Romy_Holland If only we'd been born with 12 fingers so we could all grow up reasoning in base 12! Or maybe then people would complain time isn't all in 12s and 144s....

@thomas_schraml @JulienPasteur1 2 goals missed. Raptor restart to mimic deorbit burn and controlled booster landing

They reached 100% of their goals, not 90%. Starship blowing up at touchdown is not a failure, it’s a known consequence from the water landing. All held, the tiles, the flaps, everything was perfect, except one vacuum engine not working, but this allowed to prove the thrust redundancy and starship made it perfectly. Booster loosing engines after separation was a failure, but then again it allowed to show how much control they still had in that situation and managed to bring back the booster to a safe controlled splash down. This whole mission was a near perfect success!

Vous voulez savoir à quoi on reconnaît un groupe qui ne peut pas perdre? C'est quand leur projet explose devant leurs yeux et qu'ils applaudissent en gueulant quand même. Parce qu'ils savent qu'ils ont atteint 90% de leur objectif et que la prochaine fois, ils atteindront 100%. L'échec partiel n'a aucune importance, seul le mouvement en avant compte.

@KenKirtland17 It’ll be 12 or 24 hours for Starbase to be back under the orbital path.

When they go for ship catch, is the plan to have Super Heavy back down on the mount and arms ready for ship? Or use the other tower? I imagine the first right?

@7heCulture @Vex_0fficial @mcrs987 Most 2nd stages will burn up and not come down in huge pieces. This increases the risk to humans on the ground hence the FAA cares

@SpunkyEnigma @Vex_0fficial @mcrs987 Not going orbital is more SpaceX ‘s decision than the FAA’s. Lots of new rockets fly immediately orbital on first test flights.

I think we got to see the consequences of the lack of full blast shielding. Boostback probably would have gone fine minus one engine had this single engine, either E5 or E6, not had an energetic event and took out 16 of its neighboring engines.

@whodat54321d @CSI_Starbase I’d love if we find out it moves a couple of centimeters every launch

@CSI_Starbase Hoppy didn’t budge, but the sign didn’t fare well. Sure the Daily Hopper will have a field day.

If this ain't one of the most predictable outcomes of the day

@Vex_0fficial @mcrs987 Almost has to. Can’t see the FAA approving reentry otherwise

@mcrs987 does the failure to perform the raptor reignition to simulate a deorbit burn on Flight 12 automatically make flight 13 suborbital now?

@Dashytwo Blocking you

There's 8 billion people in the world, if he gave everyone a billion dollars he would still have 343 billion left

@thecyberfam @Wolfpack278 I was able to use the TV browser to go to the SpaceX.com stream

@Wolfpack278 Just figured out how to do this!! That's definitely the plan for tomorrow. 👍

@bitzsc @tuuu28283 Opposite in Texas. 90° at noon and sleet during the football game that night

I live in Wisconsin and at least once a decade we have an "all seasons in one day" day! Of course, those days we typically don't need the AC since the cold morning keeps the house cool enough through the day, but it's not rare to have days where you need AC and heat in the same day lol.

アメリカの兄弟達 一昨日は暑くてクーラーだったのに今日は寒すぎて暖房だよ😿 アメリカだともっと寒暖差あるところがあるってきいたから1日の間にクーラーと暖房つかうこともあるのか？？

@HalcyonHypnotic I went to 2 of the suborbital and the first full stack launch. So cool to see!! Got to see the cartwheel with my own eyes 🙃Could hear the sonic booms of the different chunks reentering over the Gulf.

@SpunkyEnigma Yeah I was just testing the waters with this post 😭 only gonna go see a launch when they start catching these bad boys

Wait guys do I do this??? 🤔

@tinyrowlet If you have a dick stay out of women’s spaces

as a trans man i'm not allowed to use the men's toilet now because it says F on my birth certificate but i'm also not allowed to use the women's toilet because i may cause distress for looking like a man.... WHERE TF DO YOU WANT ME TO PISS????

@statesman Kinda why he’s got the wheels

A patron died after a tree struck him on the patio of Green Mesquite on Barton Springs Road. The restaurant identified him as Kirk Foyle. statesman.com/news/article/g…

@saveaustintx If we’re going to do mass transit it needs to above or below street level. Monorail would be so much easier than tearing up the streets and reducing lanes

Even the Texas Tribune is calling out Austin light rail stating for what it costs we could have bought every rider an Aston Martin. Now just think about that for a second.

@CosmicNomad44 @IEnjoyStarshi I’ve already blocked a few accounts today

If I see one more repost of an old starship scrub post, I’m going to commit genocide in the space twitter community. Anyone who reposts shall be gone.

@Owen_JNO @astro_kep I don’t think comms down would be a problem, but the engine microcontrollers shutting down kills it before it can reset

@astro_kep maybe but there is constantly so much going on with starship that even a few seconds of the electronics or comms being down could be disastrous so any reset would have to be near instant

Serious question, could they launch during thunderstorm? I’m getting Apollo 12 flashbacks rn. I know they wouldn’t launch, but does anyone know what on the rocket would fail first if they were to launch, say, during a mild hurricane, winds, lightning and all.