Lion kind's dreams head for the stars.
What an incredible flame. Amazed all 36 engines started & kept going. It's like the last 4 years of engine trouble never were.
As soon as the shockwaves began, something was special about this one. It shot off the pad like a missile. The solid white plume of plasma stretching over 800ft was unlike any flame we saw before.
No-one knew quite what the flame would look like in their artwork. The lower power & less even thrust of the 1st launch didn't create uniform mach diamonds that spanned all 33 engines as 1. The visibility of the diamonds varied based on light angle & exposure.
The flame kept going & going. The years of artist speculation on what it might look like gave way to reality. A 33 flames unified into 1 giant shock diamond. Solid plasma with
no gaps as if it was 1 big engine.
Then there was a remarkable shot of the 2nd stage re-entering over Puerto Rico.
The engines left an imprint in the steel.
The power of water against 16 million lbs of thrust. Don't get in a fight with niagra falls.
Booster & ship debris on weather radar
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1dRKZEWQvrXxB
Original twitter broadcast since they're not searchable.
A camera in "the Fl*rida keys" spotted the remanes of the ship after its self destruct. Helas, he was "getting in touch with someone to stabilize it before releasing it". In other words, trying to sell it, but the internet had already copied the webcast of his screen cap, royalty free.
This one is an optical illusion. The foreground looks like mountains but they're sand dunes. What look like trees are blades of grass. There's some kind of low level fog over a marsh land. The camera is pointing north from some kind of marsh.
Lions hope the trip to Mars doesn't involve the migrane of the last 24 hours. It makes lions wonder if the apollo generation had migranes on launch day.
The composition that's winning the internet.
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