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WELL? Did the dam rocket land on the barge or not!

The suspense is killing me! Well, not really but I want to know.

moggymatt wrote:WELL? Did the dam rocket land on the barge or not!

The suspense is killing me! Well, not really but I want to know.

The suspense is over.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980 ... ed-landing

Musk was heard to exclaim "Darn it, anyway".

There seemed to be very poor coverage of the whole event. Almost like since it wasn't NASA we aren't covering it or like there was something secret going on. I do not understand why the coverage was so terrible.

Ed in Tampa wrote:There seemed to be very poor coverage of the whole event. Almost like since it wasn't NASA we aren't covering it or like there was something secret going on. I do not understand why the coverage was so terrible.

????? What was 'terrible'?

Ya miss Walter?

JPG wrote:

Ed in Tampa wrote:There seemed to be very poor coverage of the whole event. Almost like since it wasn't NASA we aren't covering it or like there was something secret going on. I do not understand why the coverage was so terrible.

????? What was 'terrible'?

Ya miss Walter?

I sure do!!!

Ed in Tampa wrote:There seemed to be very poor coverage of the whole event. Almost like since it wasn't NASA we aren't covering it or like there was something secret going on. I do not understand why the coverage was so terrible.

I watched the whole thing online and thought the coverage was great except for the core rocket landing. Couldn't find the answer until well after my post. Wonder if we'll ever see a video of that crash?

Ed in Tampa wrote:There seemed to be very poor coverage of the whole event. Almost like since it wasn't NASA we aren't covering it or like there was something secret going on. I do not understand why the coverage was so terrible.

Yup, it was something secret that the media was able to sneak in and get pictures. Elon is also privately developing a nuclear weapon that we don't know about. He is going to take out North Korea when it is perfected. Good grief!!!

I am sorry I should have explained that living in Florida rocket launches WERE a big thing.
Local news almost always had a reporter on site and they always had live reports of launch
Count down.
This time they posted a expected launch of between 1 and 4 and I could not find any live coverage. The NASA channel was almost dead and again I could not find any mention of the launch. That makes me wonder. When the Air Force launches secret payload they are rarely reported.

My only real concern was if I would be able to see the launch from my house. When Saturn Five went up we could see them. The smaller shuttle luanches we could see the contrail but not much else.

Did not mean to suggest something nefariousness on Elon's part.

Space craft launches have become passe!