Space

[PotVsKtl]

http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

[Hannahrain]

It's like when you drop an egg into the pot from too high and the shell cracks a little bit and the overeager albumen leaks out from the disaster point and solidifies.

[El.C.Dub]

hmm...

[TomAz]

Looks good for a launch today.

[Hannahrain]

Oh wait.

[marooko]

I'm just thinking 1986. That's not very nice.

Get out of the way BEE!!

[PotVsKtl]

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

[humanoid]

spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace is pretty cool

[Hannahrain]

That audio trouble sounded like a worthwhile experimental album lead-in.

[rage patton]

For a second I thought it was gonna bail when it first started to take off.

[marooko]

It takes five hours to fly from SFO to EWR. I just watched this thing leave our atmosphere in a matter of minutes.

[boarderwoozel3]

Thanks for the heads up, Pot.

9 minutes from ignition to orbit is nuts.

[1litro]

after a 13 min setback got to see it lunch

[jackstraw94086]

It takes five hours to fly from SFO to EWR. I just watched this thing leave our atmosphere in a matter of minutes.

The distance it traveled in those few minutes is nowhere close to the 3300 miles between SFO to EWR. At the average speed it was traveling it would have taken about an hour and a half to go from SFO to EWR. Still fast, but not as fast as you're thinking

[marooko]

Really?!

[TomAz]

Really?!

I can't tell if you're actually surprised, or just fucking around, but yes really. I don't know where Falcon 9's orbit was set at, but, by way of comparison, Apollo 11's initial earth orbit was about 100 miles up.

[marooko]

I love you guys.

Got another mix tape?

[TomAz]

I'm gonna kick your ass.

[marooko]

For lack of a better term, I know the "thickness" of our atmosphere doesn't quite reach 3000 miles. Nor is it exactly 3k miles from east to west coast. It's close, and depending on where you drive you may drive further than 3000 miles, but it's not just 3k miles.

"...doesn't quite reach..." is an understatement. Just to clarify.

[rage patton]

Nice avatar, John.

[PotVsKtl]

[Mr.Nipples]

[J~$$$$]

[chairmenmeow47]

just watched a short special about the missing cosmonaut supposed broadcasts. anyone know of any good sites that go into more depth on this?

[sk8r408]

Midnight PST

This event (Launch of First Commercial Spacecraft to the International Space Station) is scheduled to start at 3:00 am EDT on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[PotVsKtl]

Space.

[kreutz2112]

I feel like I have a false sense that this could be the VERY BEGINNING of a space age.

[marooko]

Anyone gonna be watching this weekend?