I Was Hoping For Don't Try This At Home Myself

"user314" (user314) 02/12/2018 at 16:20 • Filed to: SpaceX, ASDS, Culture, BigBadaBoom

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Of Course I Still Love You, under construction

In a series of Tweets today Elon Musk !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that a third !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! is under construction, and continuing Space X’s tradition of borrowing names from Ian Bank’s Culture series, will be called !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

Also confirmed was that the center core on last weeks test exhausted it’s supply of TEA-TEB after three attempts at relighting the three landing engines, leading to the stage impacting the ocean at 300mph some 300 feet from Of Course I Still Love You , damaging the ship in the process.

For Sweden > user314 02/12/2018 at 16:27

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This is why electric car people shouldn’t fly rockets. He just kept cranking the engine until it ran out of fuel. Someone experienced with combustion engines would have used some starter fluid.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > For Sweden 02/12/2018 at 16:33

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I reckon they should’ve used bigger magnets and a wind machine.

I am very down with the Space X nomenclature. The final frontier is not something that we should always take seriously.

user314 > For Sweden 02/12/2018 at 16:40

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Actually I’m guessing someone liked the fireball you get from a TEB shot and kept hitting the button till they ran out.

Ash78, voting early and often > user314 02/12/2018 at 16:42

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That barge looks like one of those skydiving targets in Pilotwings.

1991 TRIGGERED!

user314 > Ash78, voting early and often 02/12/2018 at 17:00

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I’m hoping they actually paint the gridlines on this one

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > user314 02/12/2018 at 17:10

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confused as to how Anticipation Of A New Lover’s Arrival, The hasn’t been used yet... perfect name for a possibly suicidal barge awaiting a giant shaft’s arrival...

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t 02/12/2018 at 21:26

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Maybe that will be the name of the first landing platform on Mars?