Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/09/starship-sn8-explodes-on-failed-landing.html
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Damn. 2020 could have done with some good news. Still darned impressive though.
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Let me save you an hour and a half of staring at a metal tube:
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Video in the post starts about 4 seconds before it goes boom.
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Weird: started at the beginning for me.
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What @Ratel said. It started at the beginning for me too. Maybe needs a review?
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“https://youtu.be/ap-BkkrRg-o?t=6842”
Starts 6842 seconds in.
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Same for me. Played from the start.
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I am sure @orenwolf is already on it. You can rest assured.
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OK, at around 1 hr 54 I began to feel sorry for it… 
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I didn’t feel sorry for the bowl of petunias though.
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It’s not really a problem in the big scheme of things. 
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That Lunar Lander game of yore we were all playing last year told me it fired too late.
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Yep, same for me. it’s easy enough to jog to the end.
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Hmm. That’s not the URL I got when I clicked on the video and did the ‘copy video URL’ thing - did not have the ?t=6842 stuff, just this:https://youtu.be/ap-BkkrRg-o
Anyway, I saw the boom. Off to sleep on it now. 
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I haven’t been following this at all. So…
Observation on launch: Going up, it sounds like a drum solo.
Question: Is it pronounced “snate”?
Observation on landing: Oh, the huge manatee! Or in this case, “Incredible work, team. Nice work.”
Observation on design of the manatee:
Gordon’s Alive?
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Out of curiosity, anybody know: that long horizontal descent before going back vertical in the final seconds: normal? or evidence of serious failure already. Awesome camera tracking, though.
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Does look like something out of Thunderbirds on the way down, which I approve of.
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The camera seemed to show quite a few buildings or other structures precariously close to where it went boom. Impressive trust they have in the guidance systems.
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