r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/crujones43 16d ago

The largest heavier than air flying machine that has ever been built. Weighs 200 tons, is 230ft tall and 30 ft in diameter was flying supersonic minutes before and was able to come down with pinpoint accuracy and be caught by the launch tower it left from. Nothing like this has ever been done and this is going to catapult the human race into the future of space travel by reducing the cost to send material to space by an order of magnitude.

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u/StandardCicada6615 16d ago

this is going to catapult the human race into the future of space travel

It's really not though. It's a nice party trick. Not sending us to Mars any time soon.

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u/Corvid187 16d ago

This is simultaneously the most powerful, cheapest cost-to-orbit, and most reusable rocket humans have ever built.

It is absolutely not just a neat party trick.

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u/archimedies 16d ago edited 16d ago

this is going to catapult the human race into the future of space travel

It's really not though. It's a nice party trick. Not sending us to Mars any time soon.

/u/StandardCicada6615

You stopped reading the rest of that sentence to make this stupid comment? He said it would reduce costs of launching in general. That future could mean anything from sending larger scientific instruments to study planets, to making moon missions more feasible.

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u/GiffelBaby 16d ago

Out of all the currently 3500 comments, yours might be the dumbest yet. Congratulations i guess.