r/BeAmazed • u/No-Lock216 • 2h ago

Technology Well that was cool 😮

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u/Beor_The_Old7 2h ago

Looks cool! What is it actually?

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u/tilleytalley 2h ago

Rocket in the atmosphere

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u/Da12khawk 2h ago

BRRRRR its cold in here!!!

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u/crap-zapper 1h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/37zCgyDV7pPos
Team Rocket blasting off again?

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u/WallBurnt 44m ago

I don't know if one single alien that uses rockets.

Especially not the Bugonians.

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u/kiwiplague 2h ago

Vapor trail from a rocket launch getting illuminated by the sun below the horizon. Sometimes also called a "space jellyfish"

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u/Pukebox_Fandango 1h ago

It's essentially a man-made noctilucent cloud.

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u/Silt99 1h ago

falcon 9 launch during twighlight when the exhaust gets illuminated by the sun

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u/ouyawei 1h ago

You can even see how the booster separates and flies back

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u/CowNervous4644 1h ago

Falcon 9 launch. The rocket is in the sunlight because it is far enough above the horizon but the camerman is in the pre-dawn. The sequence begins at the moment the lower stage seperates from the upper stage. On the left side the upper stage. It's exhaust plume spreads out as it blasts through the very thin upper atmosphers. On the right side is the plume that was disrupted by the lower stage that is returning to earth. You can see that stage as the small bright dot in the last 1/4 of the video.

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u/Darrothan 41m ago

Stage separation and boostback burn of Falcon 9. Honestly never seen a shot as beautiful as this one from the ground.

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u/No-Abalone-4784 58m ago

I think it's SpaceX. I've seen it before near the ocean.

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u/Sikkus 1h ago

Aliens!

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u/ElPeloPolla 37m ago

usa healthcare and kids education burning in the athmosphere

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u/Half4sleep 2h ago

I too wanted to see both left and right, as I noticed you did, OP. Glad you followed the left one in the end tho.

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u/ipokesnails 1h ago

If only there was a better way to capture video in a larger horizontal view.

It's a shame, really.

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u/Half4sleep 1h ago

Yea, but really, I can't blame someone that's capturing on what seems to be their phone. I doubt I'd do a great job if I suddenly noticed this happening on the sky and had to fish up my phone and start recording ASAP.

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u/nobodyfkncares 1h ago

What was shooting to the right?

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u/FrequentFractionator 1h ago

The first stage booster returning for a landing. The second stage continues on to the left.

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u/hardrocker112 14m ago

The rocket's made up of two stages. The booster, or stage one, and the smaller stage two with the payload on its top.

The first stage can flip around, retroburn, and land either back on land or autonomously station-keeping barges. This first stage is what's moving to the right. The second stage keeps burning until it's eventually in orbit and can release the payload(s).

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u/RichardGrayson01 1h ago

Pretty pollution! Kind of like how motor oil in water makes a rainbow effect.

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u/Specialist-Front-007 1h ago

What's the pollution going on here?

Genuinely curious

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u/ouyawei 1h ago

Mostly CO2 and soot. Falcon 9 is burning kerosine

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u/SilvermistInc 55m ago

You sure? I thought they were methane based

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u/hardrocker112 17m ago

Starship is methane-based. Falcon 9 uses RP-1 (rocket propellant 1), a derivative of kerosine.

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u/Elitegamer9568 21m ago

its actually equal to one trans-atlantic flight

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u/DashLeJoker 1h ago

Saw so many posts of pictures of this in different subs asking what is this before seeing this video, very cool

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u/oddun 46m ago

Stop putting music over everything ffs

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u/Feeling_Thanks3550 2h ago

Operation Blue Beam Test Run A00583

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u/Bubbly-Travel9563 1h ago

I've seen tons of these launches and I've loved every video because they're truly mesmerizing but this is the first one I've watched where you can see the booster SO clearly as it makes its way back to the landing pad and that's fucking incredible.

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 1h ago

Right, same here!

I was wondering if this is like advanced rocket tech or what, cause this one hits way different.

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u/genkidin 2h ago

Sexy.

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u/Gunker001 1h ago

Where the chemtrail people at?

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u/Bubsy7979 1h ago

Did the booster blow up? The couple SpaceX launches I’ve seen in SoCal never had that huge blue cloud during separation

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u/hardrocker112 12m ago

The sun was just underneath the horizon, and things that are higher up can still get illuminated that way. When a rocket launch takes place during that time, the exhaust plume and all the gasses can be illuminated that way, which makes for this cool sight.

It's called a twilight launch. Doesn't happen all that often, but it's a sight when it does.

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u/Cherry-Cinnabon 45m ago

Cool indeed

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u/SiriusBlack99999 39m ago

That's awesome.

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u/evlhornet 1h ago

Just releasing tens of thousands of pounds of green house gasses for a single company

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u/Koos_Armloos 47m ago

And killed some Ukrainians

https://kyivindependent.com/this-cannot-be-a-coincidence-ukraines-starlink-access-restricted-without-warning-zelensky-adviser-says/

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u/imunfair 13m ago

And killed some Ukrainians

Starlink should have never been mounted on drones and used to kill people in the first place - that was the fault of Biden for pressuring SpaceX to weaponize the platform. Musk was originally very much against it being used for weapons guidance. Lowering the speed it can be used at is a good thing, the same way retail GPS units have a speed limiter to prevent weaponization.

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u/HippieInDisguise2_0 7m ago

Russia is an adversary engaged in a war of aggression against a friendly nation. We should provide the support we can. Why not let Ukraine guide drones with it? I don't understand the problem.

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u/imunfair 3m ago

I don't understand the problem.

It's not smart to make an economic and geopolitical mess of the world just to lose a war we had no legal obligation to be involved with in the first place. It's bad for everyone in the world including the Ukrainians, aside from Zelensky.

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u/ArlendmcFarland 1h ago

Probably not cool for your future lungs! 😂

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u/emptyvodka115 2h ago

That’s crazy

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u/MikeC80 1h ago

Jellyfish-tastic!

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u/JetCulverin 1h ago

Ngl, I would have started running.

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u/A4Papercut 1h ago

Switch to landscape!!

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u/Superb_Ad_8713 1h ago

Step aside aliens.. we’ve got our very own phenomenon
https://giphy.com/gifs/orU5Fo00RnpmSJ76wr

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u/knowledgeable_diablo 1h ago

Shit! Fire up the stargate!! Time to get outta here.

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u/heraclitus33 1h ago

That's how you get pregnant

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u/Spiley_spile 1h ago

"And that's how I died."

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 1h ago

Is that advanced propulsion or does it normally look this spectacular?

I've seen a lot of launch videos but this one is way different.

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u/hardrocker112 8m ago

Because it's a so called twilight launch. The sun is just behind the horizon, already set for observers on ground level, but not yet set for obersvers (or objects) high above the ground. Thus, the exhaust plume of the rocket and all the gasses in it (and additional condensation from pressure areas I suppose) are being backlit and illuminated.

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u/NotJoeFast 50m ago

Is it even trying to gain altitude?
It looks like basically flying horizontal and even losing altitude at the end.

Am I just not understanding what I'm seeing?

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u/hardrocker112 10m ago

Well, it has to fly almost horizontally to gain enough speed to stay in orbit. Being in orbit is just "falling around the ground", basically. Gaining enough speed to do so is the brunt of the work that has to be put in by a rocket. Gaining altitude is pretty quickly done.

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u/philbertagain 31m ago

Amazing sight for sure, by why does almost no one film in panoramic?

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u/Mr_Fossey 5m ago

Lemme just go make sure there no celotape on the cardboard sheet I need to recycle.

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u/TheMoronIntellectual 1h ago

Looks like Elons fat face blowing out a puff of smoke.

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u/Individual_Pie7445 2h ago

What's that

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u/Sufficient_Water4161 2h ago

Rocket in Florida

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u/Historical_Lie_9932 2h ago

Probably Elon blowing up things

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u/RagingWillyz 1h ago

Y’all have got to be bots

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u/AlDente 53m ago

Why? It’s a fact.

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u/A_spiny_meercat 43m ago

Johnson! It looks like a giant...

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u/idly007 2h ago

Musk melon dildo ??

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u/LimitFuture6629 36m ago

Free healthcare would be cooler…

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u/Tymi4n3k 29m ago

1st of all, SpaceX is a private company, not a goverment agency and they pay for these launches themselfes. 2nd of all, single F9 launch with a reused booster costs ~65m iirc. 3rd of all, if you say that rockets and other space stuff is a waste of money, then at least aknowledge that NASA gets less than 26 billions a year, and the army gets over 900 billions just to kill people 

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u/Aternal 10m ago

SpaceX is a public company that has received billions from the government and exists to generate shareholder profit.

Comparing that to federal agencies that serve public interest?

How the fuck did you manage to shit out such an upside-down comment?

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u/Tymi4n3k 2m ago

But I meant like, these Falcon 9 rockets with satellites get money from the people that book launches or SpaceX itself pays for Starlinks. I know that they recieved billions, I didn't say they didn't, but it's still not much compared to hundreds of billions for the army

(I'm not feeling well, maybe that's partially the reason why my comment may look "shitty". Tho I'm not defending myself by that) 

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u/BSK_Darksol 54m ago

But planes and chemtrails bad, am I right?

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u/Tymi4n3k 33m ago

Do u know how much pollution planes cause, compared to rockets? 

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u/BSK_Darksol 8m ago

Honestly, I hadn't thought about it. I had assumed that because it was a "more powerful" fuel, and measured in tons, it would be much more polluting.

Although my comment was more along the lines of people who criticize NASA and believe in chemtrail conspiracy theories often being fans of Elon and not having a problem with him and the pollution that his company causes (at least in my experience). It should be noted that I also thought the rocket had exploded. I had never seen a launch like this before, it's amazing.

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u/Tymi4n3k 2m ago

It's okay Ye, it's amazing 

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u/Demon_69 53m ago

What if.. it was actually pollution behind cool looking trail.. What if.. it was actually some alien life being erased..

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u/No-Abalone-4784 59m ago

What is this doing to our atmosphere? What about all the debris it's spewing into the ocean?

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u/usec47 1h ago

Yelon Mush?

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u/Smear_Leader 2h ago

God busted

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u/According-Try3201 1h ago

i wonder if what we see is the pollution?

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u/ouyawei 1h ago

It's the water vapor that you see, you don't see the CO2

(When you burn kerosine it produces H2O and CO2)