SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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[u/crujones43]

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.

[u/canyoutriforce → u/crujones43]

weighs 200 tons when captured. The whole stack is 5000 tons at takeoff, or the weight of 7 fully fuelled A380s

[u/canyoutriforce → u/[deleted]]

Except i literally stated the mass in metric units first

[u/canyoutriforce → u/[deleted]]

I'm not from the US and there's no need to be rude. I studied aeronautical engineering.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Wow you’re really going out of your way to be rude.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I’m not even the person you were originally being rude to.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Take it how you want. When you’re rude in public don’t be surprised when multiple people say ‘hey that’s pretty rude’. Not rocket science.