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    4 months ago

    For what it’s worth, I saw it on Reuters this morning on the front page. Hardly “completely buried”.

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        Uh. The launch happened yesterday per space.com. I agree with shitting on muskrat and oligarchy, but they do enough that we can still be factually accurate about it.

        2237 UTC or 1637 their local time on 1/16

        Using DDG as my search engine, the first five articles all say the ship was lost as the main headline.

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    Every headline I’ve seen says successful booster catch, but starship destroyed. And it happened yesterday afternoon, only 20 hours ago as I write this. Are you thinking of the first successful chopstick booster catch which was a few weeks ago?

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      I’m not sure how I didn’t see all the press on this. I concede… I pulled the trigger too quickly. But fuck that guy anyway.

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        SpaceX is not that guy only. Loads of good people work there achieving epic things. Things Musk does not have the ability to make uncool include flying space skyscrapers being caught by giant robots after having flung a 100 ton space ship / firework over the Caribbean. It’s just not possible. The whole thing is mind blowing every time.

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    I saw the failure on multiple news sites yesterday. I didn’t notice anywhere that seemed like they were covering up anything about what happened.

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    That wasn’t my experience. I usually like to watch these live and avoid spoilers but I couldn’t.

    Saw explody images/headlines and assumed it blew up at launch. I was surprised to see the successful catch.

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      Listen… I’ve had to do this already in the thread… this thread has taught me just because I haven’t seen the headline doesn’t mean there hasn’t been one. For the record: latimes subscriber and nytimes subscriber but yes… careless assed meme maker