I was somewhat disappointed in the non-massiveness of the explosion in the video. The nose cone wasn’t even damaged!
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Love that!
As kids we were taught a similar triangles method using a yardstick held at arm’s length. I used this for a tree I want down, just using paces as my unit of measure. Figured the tree was 15 paces high. That sounds useless until I walked 10 paces to the house. Hmmm.
21 hours in and no mention of alternative units of measurement a la the “F you metric system” topic.
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Just attach big, sproingy ACME springs underneath the landing gear! Why does no one listen to me??
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It’s a great idea!, cos if you drop the rocket from a great hight it’ll bounce straight back into orbit thus saving fuel!
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For the record, the insanely useful ImageJ/Fiji also has that functionality.
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Because that tree is measured in trees obviously.
In fact it is the Tree so you can’t cut it down and they put the house there to stop you.
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Look I’ve just got an insanely tweakable reverb pedal that I was going to sink hours into, don’t show me a rabbit hole like that!
That looks amazing. Just too too much!
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That looks like video from a spherical camera. The drone could fly in fairly safe and simple lines, and all the fancy swoops, turns and rolls would happen by selectively cropping the spherical video in post-production.
This is an ad video, but it gets the point across:
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It’s CGI. Look how the shadows of the rocket and the buildings point in different directions.
There are other clues. The general shininess of everything. The lack of any roads around this remote desert base. No way to get the rocket from a transporter vehicle onto the launch pad. The fact that the rocket blows swirls of dust off the launch pad it supposedly would have blown the dust off a minute earlier, on a windless day.
The lack of a fixed, ground level view of the landing, which would be the best way to gather visual data.
This is a very fancy version of painting a big woolly dog up to resemble a panda.
It’s not the only video. There’s this single shot from a distant observation spot on the ground (which is quite boring):
Another, better ground-tracking video is only available on Weibo.
And there’s also a montage that includes multiple angles from the launch and landing pads as well as on-board cameras. In some of the shots you can see drones buzzing past as pixelated dots. HD video on Weibo, low-res repost on Youtube:
And a photo of the aftermath:
I think if somebody was going to go through the trouble to fake all this, they’d also just go ahead and make it look like a complete success.
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Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
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It’s a wide angle lens
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that, and it would assume the ground is perfectly flat which it doesn’t seem to be
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