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Burns

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Clickbait & fake news, that particular crater is only a small detail of the Utopia Planitia impact basin and is only 5 miles across.

lol, none of us Americans did the conversion. 3300 km? Sure that sounds about right for that single crater!

The headline with the picture is more misleading than actually wrong, as it does say the "impact basin" and not that single crater was 2000 miles wide. The crater is just "huge."
 
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Blue Origin just finished its first crewed tourist flight to low orbit in 2 years. Only 2 of the 3 parachutes deployed properly. The hosts on the stream were like "lots of redundantcy, it's ok with only 2 deploying". Most likely totally true, but the stream showed that capsule hitting the dirt and it looked to be a pretty damn hard slam into the ground.
 

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Blue Origin just finished its first crewed tourist flight to low orbit in 2 years. Only 2 of the 3 parachutes deployed properly. The hosts on the stream were like "lots of redundantcy, it's ok with only 2 deploying". Most likely totally true, but the stream showed that capsule hitting the dirt and it looked to be a pretty damn hard slam into the ground.
Would still choose it over DEI discount trip
 

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Blue Origin just finished its first crewed tourist flight to low orbit in 2 years. Only 2 of the 3 parachutes deployed properly. The hosts on the stream were like "lots of redundantcy, it's ok with only 2 deploying". Most likely totally true, but the stream showed that capsule hitting the dirt and it looked to be a pretty damn hard slam into the ground.
I was watching too, looked like a hard hit!
 
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Blue Origin just finished its first crewed tourist flight to low orbit in 2 years. Only 2 of the 3 parachutes deployed properly. The hosts on the stream were like "lots of redundantcy, it's ok with only 2 deploying". Most likely totally true, but the stream showed that capsule hitting the dirt and it looked to be a pretty damn hard slam into the ground.

Even if that is true, that is going to make potential customers think twice
 
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Borzak

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Nevermind, youtube won't allow me to embedd the video here.
 
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I was going to say that I thought we had pretty much mapped Mars out down to largish rocks decades ago, but then I see it was just a clickbaity article. God the Internet is becoming insufferable.
 
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Kajiimagi

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FFS lol...

I was marking these dates on my PC calendar, with a reminder 24 hours before, until they moved it to the 25th. Then I was like fuck it.
I know in my head that 'space is hard' but...they were awarded twice the cash, and that's billions and have taken forever for nothing to show.
I really hope they get this running but damn , get it done before I'm dead!
 
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Ukerric

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I was marking these dates on my PC calendar, with a reminder 24 hours before, until they moved it to the 25th. Then I was like fuck it.
I know in my head that 'space is hard' but...they were awarded twice the cash, and that's billions and have taken forever for nothing to show.
I really hope they get this running but damn , get it done before I'm dead!
I have the regret to inform you gentlemen, but... Boeing.
 
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Ukerric

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And it looks like Starliner is still Stayliner...
 
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June 6th earliest date for next Starship launch. Most likely date is 6/9 due to numerical significance.

 
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