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/r/pics/comments/7vp7yc/whuuuahl_dat_was_a_great_workout/
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"We'll be back.",
"Aren’t these guys expendable.",
"When you so swole they call 911.",
"Anyone seeking more info might also check here:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[Arnold and Stallone get shoulder surgeries together.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/phg5u/arnold_and_stallone_get_shoulder_surgeries/) ^**B** | 2042 | 5^yrs | pics | 949\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/results/u10049198) (B = bigger)*",
"Well I mean OP did wait 5 years, at least.",
"I wasn't calling out the OP as a reposter as much as trying to give actual context to the photo. I saw the photo, wanted to know what was actually going on, and looked it up on karmadecay to find out. This time, when it says \"Anyone seeking more info\", it wasn't just being polite.",
"That's fair enough, good call.",
"I didn’t realize that Stallone was that inked. At least, I don’t think he’s wearing a shirt. "
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“Whuuuahl, dat was a great workout”
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/r/pics/comments/7vp9f5/at_least_i_dont_have_to_worry_about_a_tree/
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"No car, no tree, no problem.",
"Bucket list #13 check",
"Jokes on you. Now you have a cool design on your mirror! Makes your car go faster!",
"A. you can now justify the purchase of that chainsaw you always wanted\n\nB. Free firewood. That's a \"win win\".",
"Why don't you have to worry anymore? It could always happen again."
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At least I don't have to worry about a tree falling on my car anymore
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/r/pics/comments/7vpa51/cool_looking_street_cat_in_thailand/
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[
"\"I'm sorry,...do you have an appointment?\"",
"Did he let you pet him?",
"My God, what happened to that tail?!",
"Silver tabbies are so rare. And so beautiful. ",
"So jelly. Didn’t see any like this when I was there 😢😢😢",
"urban camo version",
"Badass"
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Cool looking street cat in Thailand
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/r/pics/comments/7vpahu/my_last_trip/
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"Do a flip. ",
"TRIPLE LINDY!",
"Awesome picture....btw this could have been your last trip LOL\n",
"There was no room for it.",
"What does that even mean!!!",
"Thanks... Required precautions were taken.",
"I strongly advise that as a human being old enough to use a computer you should drop everything and watch \"back to school\" with Rodney Dangerfield. ",
"Pun intended",
"Nobody on this site is old enough to have seen that movie besides you and I. These kids have no respect, I tell ya."
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My last trip
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"That looks like fucking hell to drive with snow. ",
"Oh it most definetly is.",
"Where is this?",
"It's in Slovenia. Just by the Austrian border.",
"Really beautiful view, greetings from Norway"
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"Heart Road"
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/r/pics/comments/7vpfex/took_this_on_my_iphone_while_riding_in_the_car/
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"That’s it?",
"Camera is dope ",
"Thanks, it’s just a 6 too. I put one of the iPhone filters on it too. It was a lucky shot, I mess around a little with a dslr and this is one of my favorite all time shots."
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Took this on my iPhone while riding in the car this morning.
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/r/pics/comments/7vpfiq/my_dads_resemblance_to_this_italian_painting/
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[
"“Dad’s on a hunting trip and he hasn’t been home for a few days”",
"He also looks like an Albert Einstein who isn't very good at maths and drives a harley davidson",
"It’s actually a Tide ad ",
"This is great \n",
"Good at math and drives a Suzuki samurai ",
"Suzuki samurai sounds like a more hardcore way to die than seppuku. ",
"Only if you roll it. ",
"Meh",
"That is the guy from guardian of the galaxy vol 2",
"Kurt Russell?",
"I think that's a copy of a Louisiana painter named George Rodrigue's work. It's called \"Aioli Dinner\".",
"You’re absolutely right. Thanks for the source!",
"I have seen the original and grew up on New Iberia- you are spot on- and, small detail, notice the large amount of Spanish moss in the trees. Pure Cajun!"
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My Dad’s resemblance to this Italian painting.
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/r/pics/comments/7vpnw7/realizing_your_parents_allowed_this_to_happen_for/
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"How dare they let those kids play for even a *second*!",
"When I had to pay for glasses/contacts recently, I showed my parents the evidence of their terrible parenting skills. \n\nThey told me to shut up, rightfully so.",
"What’s the evidence of the terrible parenting? Difficult to tell what’s going on in the picture",
"Not sure what I’m looking for here.",
"I’m 6 inches from the TV after putting a diaper on her head. \n\nNo bad parenting."
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Realizing your parents allowed this to happen for much longer than it takes to pull out a cell phone during the 90s.
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/r/pics/comments/7vpo6s/note_left_on_car_of_disabled_neighbours_social/
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"Are you the said Ho? Or just someone who innocently parks where ever looks fine like a normal human.",
"Someone is paranoid",
"The social worker must be hot.",
"And freaking their own kids out whilst blaming imaginary prostitutes. ",
"i guess their kids are easily freaked out.",
"Looks like the author needs a social worker.",
"Woah. Paranoid much?",
"I can't imagine why the kids are so on edge.",
"Got any more of that, \"social work?\"",
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"Will you please have your neighbor ask why she used lowercase m's, t, and sometimes i? The lower case 'i' in \"DiRT\" is really freaking me out. Is she sending a hidden message? ",
"nothing screams overreaction quite like triple exclamation marks.",
"We've told Lauren time and time again that pumps and a G-string are not appropriate attire for a social worker.",
"> titty sprinkles!!!\n\ntheory confirmed.",
"Obviously they're a fan of [Colin McRae: DiRT](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/lv/b/b2/DiRT.png)",
"I do this when writing sometimes. Typically though a whole word or sentence will be in all caps, then the next word will be in lowercase. Not typically do I switch within a word. I do not know why I do this and have often wondered myself. ",
"If you read it backwards it almost sounds shakesperian... almost..\n\nHo!!! Elsehere dirt your do!!! Out kids my freaking are you!!! House my of front in parking!!! Stop!!!",
"I think I'm more affronted by the sentence fragment than the message as a whole.",
"Or just skeezy.",
"###HO!!!\n\nBest .sig file ever.",
"Who?? me?!!!",
"Now this person needs to start parking anything they can find there. Bikes, cars, giraffes, you name it. ",
"Bad Luck Social worker:\n\n Works to help the handicapped\n\n Gets mistaken for a whore by neighbors ",
"To be honest, titty sprinkles is fun any way you put it. Go ahead... try!!!",
"It's so enlightened for your community to pay for prostitutes for the disabled. Bravo!",
"Call the cops. Let them be the ones to tell the note-leaver that slander is an actionable civil tort and that the note constitutes criminal assault.",
"Your kids didn't think anything about it until YOU put the ideas in their heads.",
"Meth.",
"No, the person *behind you...*",
"You know this is legit because of how poorly it's written, based on the stereotype/expectation of someone who would be paranoid like this.",
"Nahh, it's written which makes it libel.",
"It's just upside down exclamation points.",
"Thats actually a bit spooky.. i lost the keys to my dorm door, so i cant really lock it. And im sitting with my back to the door while a new kind of steps just emerged from the hallway.. ",
"Not even slightly. ",
"Or dont waste their time and just solve this the old-fashioned way by talking a minute to that person.",
"a little bit.. the sentence structure is a little bit similar...",
"Methmom*",
"I'd say prostitution is a form of social work",
"People who use three exclamation marks aren't in control of themselves.",
"I'm guessing she freaked her kids out. Kids are very suggestible",
"Social worker needs a CPS officer to visit that wonderful \"Mom\" :) Lol!!",
"Ho,\n\nElsewhere your dirt do; \nmine children spook'd by you. \nThy carriage bypark'd mine house desist \nThine moral turp'tude's befell'd me pissed ",
"Neat!",
"Wait you just said slander is a CIVIL tort, so how does the note constitute CRIMINAL assault?",
"So....exactly how does this Social Worker dress for her job? We may be missing a key part in all this. ",
"YOUR COMMENT IS FREAKING ME OUT!\n\nHO!!!",
"Someone who writes notes like that -- \n\nAre they intimating the use of force or violence to bring about compliance with their stated desire?",
"..because, it's not \"Top of the muffin, TO YOU!\"",
"I'm not a fan of exclamation marks.",
"Two more 'HO's and he'll achieve peak Santa Claus.",
"Maybe she shouldn't dress like a thot",
"If they were reasonable and sane enough for that to have any good outcome, they wouldn't have left that kind of note in the first place.",
"Social workers.. the worst. Plying their 'support' and 'resources' right in the *open!* :-(",
"ho pics plz",
"Some neurotic people are people are freakishly possessive of street parking. Buisnesses think the spots in front of their building are theirs. The crazy lady down the street thinks the same.\n\nIt's frustrating because they automatically win. If you get the law involved, you've wasted a ton of time just to have them ignore the law and now also put sugar in your gas tank. You can't taze them to get them to get them out of your face because to some of your neighbors they will become martyrs. \n\nIt's just another way irrational aggressive people win.",
"Chances are the kids are imaginary too.",
"I love how this person has never seen someone dressed professionally before.\n\n\"Oh they dressed nice. Must be a prostitute.\"",
"Lauren has got her own style and we all need to adjust to it",
"Pretty soft kids.",
"If OP is both scary and a prostitute there is nothing paranoid about this",
"I’m sure they aren’t calling you a ho. They tried to shorten Home Owner and didn’t think it through at all. ",
"Is the author a pirate?!? Ho!!!",
"I'd say it's closer to a Seinfeld episode. They were more likely to assume the worst in someone only to find out that they themselves were the bad people. ",
"She probably stole some kids, so every time someone parks near the house they think they might be rescued from this psychopath, so they start acting out.",
"[thanks Spiderman](https://imgur.com/gallery/g6Xo4)",
"OMG CHILDREN, CHILDREN COME QUICK. THE PROSTITUTE IS VISITING THE DISABLED MAN NEXT DOOR. OMG, OMG THAT IS ILLEGAL CHILDREN. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS GONE DOWN HILL AND ISNT SAFE ANYMORE\n\n\n\ngee why are my kids so freaked out!?\n\n\n",
"what a beeaaaatch!",
"This was posted by Imgur user thereandsquare3. On [their Imgur page](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:UOBS8V6du2UJ:https://imgur.com/gallery/pc0Zi+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) they provide the following:\n\n> Assumptions were made: note left on car of disabled neighbor’s social worker\n\n> Context: I’m a Travel Trainer by profession — meaning, I teach people how to use public transit safely and independently (a free service provided through the local transit agency for people with disabilities, the elderly, kids, etc). I drive a lot in this job and often have to park my car on the road in my clients’ neighborhoods to avoid blocking their driveways. Last week I had 3 days in a row in which I had to meet the same client at 5:45am, and I couldn’t make it back to my car until 10:30am. I tried to stay out of the way as much as possible, but apparently it wasn’t enough for this person...lol.\n\n> To be clear, this does not upset me, and this is making the rounds in my friend group now. My revenge will be the embarrassment on her face when she realizes she left this note for the person teaching her neighbor’s disabled son how to get around independently.",
"I had a neighbour like that once. Except the spot she thought was hers was my appartment units alotted space.",
"/r/nocontext",
"typical trump supporter. \n",
"Inappropriately placed triple exclamation marks.",
"Well, yeah, we all do. But how many fucks do you give if someone parks there? I think therein lies the difference. ",
"Now, while I completely agree that the general law is that street parking is open to all, and being aggressively possessive about public things is a bad idea, why the fuck is it such an irrational idea that I *might* have slightly more call to the spaces in front of **my house** than anyone else does? \n\nIt's a perfectly rational impulse. Being an asshole about that impulse is a whole different kettle of fish. ",
"I think it really depends on how crowded the streets are. \n\nIn my neighborhood, street parking doesn’t happen. It would be very weird.\n\nAt my mother’s, everyone has single driveways. The streets are usually pretty full.\n\nSome places, you might have to walk for blocks. ",
"> IASIP \n\n**I**t's **A**lways **S**unny **I**n **P**hiladelphia \n\nFor those wondering when people use random acronyms you're not used to seeing.",
"I would follow that person to work and ask to speak to manager and HR. Show sign and ask of employee needs my services as well?\n\nJust cause.",
"It's irrational because the space is not on your property. I don't see how that's not obvious.",
"Yeah, I hardly ever hand write anything, and when I *do* I tend to use a weird mix of caps and lowercase. It's not intentional, it just sort of happens. :(\n\nThank god for computers! I can type at 100wpm, but my handwriting is completely illegible. It's worse than most 2nd graders... ",
"I admit that my opinion is just that, an opinion. I don't assume my opinion is the right opinion. \n\nBut I don't care at all about parking in front of my house and am kind of surprised that anyone would. Caring about it seems like a good way to stress yourself out.\n\nWe're talking about having to walk an extra ten or twenty feet to get to your door. Parking is such an organic thing that I feel lucky when I get to park on my own street.\n\nThe only scenario in which I can imagine myself caring is if I had a neighbor with mobility problems. And honestly instead of getting mad at everyone on the street who didn't know I would just approach the city about getting a designated disable parking spot immediately in front of their house. I would probably lose my shit at an abled person poaching that spot though.",
"Neither is the sidewalk outside of my house. This does not make it irrational to consider my own ability to utilize it to access my property to be slightly more appropriate than yours. \n\nIt does not require legal property rights for a sense of propriety to exist. \n\nI don't see how that's not obvious. ",
"> But I don't care at all about parking in front of my house and am kind of surprised that anyone would. Caring about it seems like a good way to stress yourself out.\n\nYou do recognize that other people might not just have different opinions than you, but different experiences as well, correct? \n\nIt's entirely possible to prefer to park in front of one's own house without it being a major, or even minor, source of stress. *Especially* in areas where there's plenty of parking available. \n\nIn my own neighborhood, there are only one or two weeks in each year where street parking becomes a major issue. Otherwise, there is plenty of space for everyone. So there's a sort of general agreement that you (and your guests) park in front of your house, and me (and my guests) park in front of my house, and you can pretty much tell the assholes because they're the ones that don't give a shit about any of that and just park wherever they want. We've only had one resident who ever got worked up enough about that to make an issue out of it, and they were an asshole, too. \n\n(please note, I am absolutely **not** calling you an asshole)",
"Tow em. Limited personal experience indicates it Fixes it after at worst fourth tow.",
"Can I have the juice in the fridge?",
"I don't know. Access to sidewalks is important but not specifically for you. It's important to keep the sidewalk clear, yes, so you can get to your house but also so other people can walk by your house. \n\nIf you and your house didn't exist that sidewalk would be just as important because it is necessary for everyone navigating the neighborhood.",
"I was trying to find a friend’s house in high school, before I had a smart phone, and I pulled over in front of a random house to call him because I was lost. Right after I pulled over a guy in a wife beater comes out of the house with a bat and starts walking quickly towards the car. I freaked out and took off. Not sure why people get so testy if you park in front of their house. \n\nIt was your average suburban neighborhood and the street was public. Some people are just crazy I guess. ",
"Yes, but some of us are still having difficulty remembering not to call her Larry.",
"I guarantee the mom always bitches out loud about the car and the kids are telling her when the car was there. No way they gave a shit about a random car lol.",
"They were not in control of themselves in the specific moment that they were using the marker. I don't think it's reasonable to then go on to assume they were actually still irrational just because they broke the exclamation point bank. It's been demonstrated that folks are much ruder to someone they can't see, and when they are talking to an imaginary ho i'm sure they wouldn't be polite.\n\n",
"Keep parking there, report the note to the police.",
"Always Sunny will often use the same formulae you described + dramatic irony. In Seinfeld we don't usually know what the twist will be, and it makes us laugh to have the realization dawn for us just a moment before... usually George.\n\nIn Always Sunny, we just watch 5 mentally unstable people make obviously horrible leaps in logic and mob mentality.",
"Are you ok?\n\nEdit: Ok, just making sure.\n\n[Here ya go](https://youtu.be/h0O7biX22SE)",
"When I was still renting I had someone open and park inside my garage during the day while I was gone. \n\nThey PUSHED a non running SUV into this garage with MAYBE 1 to two inches of clearance on either side/top.\n\nThe funniest part was the tow driver trying to figure out how to get the vehicle out the garage.",
"\"Excuse me sir, yes i found this note left on my car. You see, I'm a social worker and I just wanted to check in on you and your kids, because these kinds of notes can be signs of severely unstable households, and it would be a shame if the kids we're living in a situation where we would have to come in and tear your family apart.\n\nTake care of yourselves now >:)\"",
"Here in Florida, we were just casually fixing a piece of fence, it was around 3 p.m. We had nothing suspicious on and were just standing there for long periods. Anyone casually watching for more than a few seconds could figure out it was fence repair.\n\nSomehow, a person just randomly stopped, ran up the front door basically frantic about people 'breaking in'. Lol, we told her... \"this is our house, who are you exactly?\" \n\n\"Oh I was just passing by and saw someone.\" ....I replied \"Yeah, it's called fence repair in the afternoon.\" The lady actually had no reason, just paranoia and comically bad observational skills. \n \n\nHad another incident too in a parking lot here and an old lady in a van started backing out of her spot without looking as I was half-way passed her vehicle as she started to creep backwards. I just finished quickly getting out of the way while holding my hand up (so she saw me) and said something like \"Hold please, walking behind you.\"\n\nI didn't think much of it until she started following me from her van. She pulled alongside me and said \"I hope you *die*!\" and then drove away. Yeah, I deserved a death threat for letting her know someone was behind her vehicle... in a busy parking lot where it's bound to happen. \n\n",
"Lol...probably not. I did edit my comment though...",
"Maybe everything is imaginary. ",
"Fair point. It's still true that it's not the neighborhood, or the traffic, or even the city, that's given the responsibility for keeping the sidewalk in front of my house clear. \n\nIt's me. ",
"no",
"I bet the kids dont give a shit",
"You have more of a right to park there only if you park there first. Otherwise public parking is always first come first serve.\n\nYou own your driveway and garage, if people are parked there you can complain.",
"A sense of propriety without legal rights is usually referred to as \"entitlement\"",
"*why the fuck is it such an irrational idea that I might have slightly more call to the spaces in front of my house than anyone else does?*\n\nBecause *the general law is that street parking is open to all, and being aggressively possessive about public things is a bad idea*",
"I thought this was the Philly subreddit.",
"Uh, you don't have any special right to the sidewalk in front of your house that everyone else doesn't have. What are you talking about? \n\n>It does not require legal property rights for a sense of propriety to exist.\n\nFor it to be rational, yes it does. ",
"Shhh, don't try to explain a nuanced opinion.",
"!!! Just a box...",
">For it to be rational, yes it does.\n\nNo, it simply requires logic. ",
"Brutal. ",
"That's why being an ass about it is a bad idea, not why it's irrational. \n\nIt's rational because proximity is a thing that humans notice. ",
"Yup. And it's hard to argue that most other forms of entitlement are inherently irrational. \n\nAnnoying, sure, but the logic is sitting right there. ",
"Sure, but what does that have to do with the price of fish?",
"Yea because it would be YOUR property that would be spilling over onto property that you don't own. Damn right it's your responsibility if you don't wish to get sued by some idiot. ",
"Entitlement is literally \"feeling you deserve things you don't deserve.\" \n\nIt's irrational by definition.\n\n>the belief that one is inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.\n>\"no wonder your kids have a sense of entitlement\"",
"My neighbor has a sign demanding that \"rude, inconsiderate peices of shit\" need to pick up their dog poop from his lawn. \n\nHe now receives 2x the amount of dog shit. ",
"The proximity is just a coincidence though, street parking is a public space, do you have a greater right to sit at the closest bus stop bench to you too?\n\nIt sounds like your asking for a rationalization to excuse irrational asshole behavior. I think you know the answer, if you feel you own the space in front of your house on the public street you are simply an asshole, that is the rational explanation for why one would feel that way.",
"What I'm saying is that I don't expect to or feel entitled to parking in front of my house. And I don't have any feelings about it if I don't get to park in front of my house. When I can't park in front of my house I just park I just park in the next convenient spot. No reason to create strife in the neighborhood over imagined entitlements. I don't go around assuming people are assholes just because I don't get my way.\n\nI would not appreciate someone judging me for parking in front of someone else's house. I also don't expect visitors less familiar with the neighbourhood to conform to any rules other than the law. I see these judgements and expectations as unfriendly. There's enough conflict in day to day life that we don't need to invent more reasons for conflict.\n\nIf there's plenty of room and people happen to be able to park in front of there own house somewhat regularly that's a nice, convenient coincidence. \n\nKeep in mind. I'm not dictating how you should think. Just stating how I think and how I don't understand people who create an extra layer of internal rules so they can be upset about parking. I've never in my life payed attention to my neighbor's parking behavior.",
"No, the \"you don't deserve\" part is your addition, but it is not a general part of the definition. You *can* deserve something you feel entitled to, and that doesn't make it *not* entitlement. Hence the term being applied to thinks like Medicaid and Social Security. \n\nYou call someone entitled when they have a reason to believe they deserve something **whether they do or not.**",
"Hate to break it to you but it isn't. It is public property and just something that you have to deal with",
"Sounds like she's probably raising her kids to be just like that, and using them as an excuse for her delusions... sad.",
"Brother, it's my responsibility even if it's some garbage dumped there by someone else entirely. ",
"i read this as \"i'm a time traveller by profession\"",
"The difference is whether you are entitled or whether you feel entitlement. \n\nIf you were legally entitled to street parking, there would be a legal document saying you own or lease than piece of land.\n\nIf you were to feel entitled to street parking, you would have no such document but still vehemently believe anyone parking in \"your spot\" was in the wrong.\n\n",
"But usually by then, alternate side of the street parking rules have taken effect multiple times and their car should have a stack of tickets >_> (at least that's how it works where I live)\n",
"My street is pretty quiet, and I live two blocks from a suburban subway station, so we’ll get the occasional commuter for a day or two. Then we’ll get the random vacationer from out in the suburbs who parks for a week.\n\nWe also had an abandoned vehicle that the police weren’t really interested in, even after we told them it had Arizona and Pennsylvania plates (in Mass). We finally got them to tow it after several weeks.\n\nI don’t mind it, but for some reason they like to pick my house out of the houses on the street.",
"Really good handwriting for someone so paranoid.",
"Yeah I had to read that bit a few times until I was able to make it out as \"I'm a time travel trainer\"",
"She's putting too much faith in peoples willingness to face the fact that they were a complete dumbass acting WAY out of line.",
">The proximity is just a coincidence though\n\nYes.\n\n>street parking is a public space\n\nYes, already long since agreed.\n\n>do you have a greater right to sit at the closest bus stop bench to you too?\n\nNot at all, legally. But it's also not at all irrational for someone to have that perception, even though they'd be incorrect. \n\n>It sounds like your asking for a rationalization to excuse irrational asshole behavior.\n\nNot at all. I'm pointing out the fact that just because behavior is assholish, that doesn't make it irrational, and just because it's wrong doesn't make it irrational, either. \n\nIt's rational to perceive more entitlement to the public spaces adjacent to your own property. Plenty of people talk about \"my\" streetlight, \"our\" pavement, etc, but they're not talking about the street half a mile away. They care about where they are, not where they are not. \n\nThis is not irrational. Even when it becomes pure assholery. ",
"I had to do that once because someone was in my normal spot. It's not like theres a way to get around that when you have to leave for the airport. Then my asshole neighbor tried to have my car towed after just a week by telling the city my car was abandoned. \n\nNo one has more of a right to street parking. If anyone out there is trying to get cars towed over it, you're a dick.",
"Holy hairy man teets, batman!!!\n\nConfirmation confirmed.",
"The way she wrote that note makes me feel like they are lyrics to a song she's writing. ",
"I wonder which neighbor it was",
"You ever hear back from the owners of the vehicle? I would imagine they thought they had every right when doing something like that. Very strange.",
">Keep in mind. I'm not dictating how you should think\n\nAbsolutely understood, no perception on my part otherwise. \nOther people in the thread, though, well, they've got their own thing going on. \n\nPlease understand, I am absolutely not trying to judge you, or your perception, I'm just responding to:\n\n> ...how I don't understand people who... \n\nand attempting to allow for some understanding of why those people feel the way they do. \n\nIt doesn't require neurosis, or being crazy. And when it's understandable, it hopefully winds up being less frustrating. \n\nJust consider how you \"would not appreciate\" someone judging you for how you park, and ask yourself why their judgement is worthy of conflict, but them wanting to be able to walk their groceries from the car to their door without strolling by Jerry's house makes them neurotically insane. ",
"maybe it's this [lady!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JYDSOfunBE)",
"*I'm pointing out the fact that just because behavior is assholish, that doesn't make it irrational, and just because it's wrong doesn't make it irrational, either.* \n\n You are just wrong in this specific case though, because getting pissy that somebody parked in front of your house on a public street is the irrational, wrongheaded behavior of an asshole. You don't own the public road and have no more right to it than anyone else.",
"Wouldn't surprise me if she knows full well she's not a prostitute and just left it in an attempt to embarrass her to move on. She won't give a shit about what other people think as long as people aren't parking in \"her spot\".",
"They thought the garages 'were for anyone'...\n\nThey were assigned and paid for monthly. \n\nIIRC they ended up losing the apt due to no rent paid as the tow, impound, and repair costs(both from the SUV not working and damaged when tried to remove from garage) were too much for them.\n\nI kinda felt bad... but then again don't buy an escalade if you can't afford it. A 2k Hondo civic will last 10 years.. \n\nIn the words of the illustrious Tatiana... \"Choices.\"",
"I work code enforcement in a suburban community and it is insane how paranoid people can be..they will lodge complaints as soon as someone is parked a second over the time allowed on a certain street.",
"Wew and I thought the person that wrote the note was irrational. ",
"Same",
"My last house was a very quiet street and everyone always had their spots. Me and my mom shared these two spots depending on who got home first. However, sometimes my right door neighbors would park in the first spot, even though their spot was open. The first couple times its like whatever, we will just have to move the car before the mailman comes. But then it started happening every night. Then the one that parked a truck started taking up both spots. He no longer is even parked in front of his house anymore. So, I took his spot and parked in front of his house. Didn't have any problems from them the rest of the time I was living there after a couple nights of this. \n\nThis is also the same neighbor that called the cops on me because I sat in my car to eat my dinner after getting off work. At 10:30 PM. After a quarter of a year already being there. Weird guy. ",
"\"Social\" work",
"Exactly; unless you own that land, you have zero right to be mad at someone parking legally on it.",
"That's a thing in the Netherlands.",
"Maybe the neighbor gets a lot of prostitutes. Hard to find time to date when you have a disabled son . . .",
"GROSS! DO YOUR DIRT ELSEWHERE HO!",
"Then why did she have to leave the car till the next morning??",
"My dad is kind of like this. LEGIT after 72 hours of someone parking their car in front of the house - he freaks out and writes a note.\n\nI understand that there's penal codes that you can't park for more than 72 hours in a given spot - but come on pops! Little excessive",
"I mean he is being rude but people should really be picking up after their dogs if they're pooping on other people's lawns...\n\nI don't want your dog shit on my lawn, especially when I always pick up after my dog on our walks. It's basic courtesy.\n\nProbably got sick and tired of it so he made the rude sign.",
"Where I started the conversation I was speaking specifically about extreme reactions. Like calling someone a \"ho\" in a passive aggressive note left on a windshield. I literally mentioned possibly having to taze someone if they got in your face.\n\nWe're kind of talking about much more nuanced scenarios at this point.",
"If she's such and *expert* at public transportation, why is she driving around in a car....hhhhmmmmmmmmm\n\nsecret prostitute confirmed",
"In my city you can only park in the same spot for 24 hours. ",
"For a while I was driving a shitty old buick. It was about to croak on me, and I pulled off to a side street in a nicer neighborhood about a 5min walk from where I lived at the time just in time for it to die.\n\nWithin HOURS there was a \"move it or lose it\" police sticker on my car.\n\nBasically the uppity fucks couldn't cope with the paranoia of seeing a beat-up car parked on their (publicly owned) street, so they had called the COPS within hours.\n\nMeanwhile if you'd parked on the road where I lived, they'd probably have called someone once one of your tires blew out from the weather, and not a moment before.\n\nPoint is, you don't own the fucking street in front of or around your house. Anyone can park there. People you HATE can park there.",
"You might be trashy when...",
"If Yoda went back in time to visit Shakespeare.",
"Someone is perhaps... angry and aroused",
"Now you are obligated to pissing them off. Don't give up, keep parking there.",
"Accurate",
"Whoever parked that car, your mom's a hoe. ",
"I tend to shovel out a spot for my car whenever it snows, including a path up to the sidewalk for the passenger side. Almost without fail, someone from across the street and a house or two down will take that spot if it's not used right away. I'm not a big enough jerk to put the snow back after the spot's stolen, but I do like to imagine doing it.",
"all that crack u be smoking is whats freaking your kids out, ho. ",
">Florida\n\nYup",
"\"I didnt write that\". The end. ",
"\"LOOK KIDS! ANOTHER WHORE SELLING HERSELF ACROSS THE STREET\"\n\nSaid no mother ever.\n\nWhy are your kids even aware of what a prostitute is? If they're old enough to know that they're old enough not to get freaked out by imaginary ho's",
"I don't drive but I live with my parents and just round the corner from our house is a quiet road that residents park on. On this quiet road there are two houses that belong to our neighbours both of these houses are the only ones with driveways that open onto that street. Naturally there are signs asking that the driveways be kept clear for the residents of those houses to come and go. That's fine and one of them is sensible about it parking his car in the garage and keeping his driveway clear. The other family though, they don't park in their garage. They don't even park in the clear space outside it. They take up other spaces on the road that everyone else uses. But if you park on their unused spots your car just so happens to get keyed (no one's caught them at it) and passive aggressive notes are left and the city council get complained to. I think it's safe to say that if there were a fire no one in the neighbourhood would be overly eager to lend them a hand.",
"But you don't own the road, and in many places your property ends at the sidewalk.",
"You don't understand the argument for rationality being made as being separate from incorrect behavior or being an asshole. Moron.\n\nSee how that works? That is me being a rational, yet incorrect asshole. I made a rational conclusion based on your posts concerning your understanding of the argument, decided to make an incorrect decision to reply to it, and behaved like an asshole while doing it.\n\n",
"It's funny how stories like this make me indirectly self-conscious.\n\nFirst though: Oh gawd. Those people are completely clueless and have no idea what's going on.\n\nSecond though: OH GAWD!?! What completely ignorant and idiotic things have I been doing but am too stupid to know?",
"[Found the culprit.](http://hacksawjimduggan.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/4541886297.jpg)",
"Was the car insured and parked in a legal spot? \n\nIf you called the city to complain about a car parked legally, people probably just assume you are dick and downvote you. ",
"Yes, but that sign is only ever going to increase the amount of shit you get on your lawn. It's not like anyone before thought you wanted shit in your lawn, they just don't care and now you are also going to get the 'you can't tell me what to do\" people leaving shit in on your lawn as well ",
"Except you win by not being freakishly possessive and paranoid.",
"That's usually a city ordinance you agree too when you purchase the property. I'm in NYC and property owners are responsible for garbage pickup and snow removal for the sidewalks in front of their property, but that doesn't mean it's theirs. It's just the law here because it's for the good of everyone. If you don't like it, buy property somewhere else. ",
"Everything else aside, who the fuck calls for prostitutes at 5:30am to 10:30am? What ho's are up that early?",
"I did some travel training a few times, I generally wore jeans and a hoodie because you need to follow the kid at a distance to let them work independently and only step in if there's an issue. You tend to stand out on the bus if you're too well dressed. Chances are this woman was wearing fairly standard clothing.",
"What the fuck?",
"Daytime hookers. ",
"Actually you do have rights of ingress and egress, specifically for that reason. But that doesn't entitle you to the bits of sidewalk on either side. Basically the law is \"Only you can block your driveway, everything else is fair game.\" \n\nStandard disclaimers, Laws vary, IANAL ( what an acronym that is ) etc",
"I will never forget when my grandma called the police on her neighbor for parking like 1 inch into her grass on the side of the road. She didn't go ask him herself, and had the police do it instead, because \"people are insane and will kill people over stuff like that\". Yeah.",
"I was under the impression there are things you are entitled to, called your rights, and that you may correctly feel entitlement about them.",
"It has to provably cause some time of harm to the individual for it to be a legal case of slander or libel.",
"Interesting fact: It was the same woman.",
"When I see stuff like this posted online I always think, why do people always assume the worst in other people? ",
"There is no threatening language in the note, just name calling",
"I bet the other side has MAGA on it.",
"Thanks for sabotaging my joke, square. \n\nJk. It's interesting. I have almost zero knowledge of social workers. I know that they seem to be universally underfunded and that it's a stressful job with social workers being responsible for way too many kids. \n\nIt'd be nice if people were exposed to what life is like as a social worker. Maybe people would take them less for granted if there was some representation. But everyone knows dozens of teachers and they still get taken for granted.\n\nDamn. People don't care about kids. I made myself sad.",
"We all create stories in our minds every day. Quelling them before they make you seem like a psycho is usually a good idea. ",
"r/nocontext",
"Are you telling me that \n\nyou would find that note on your car\n\nand feel 100% perfectly comfortable with confronting the person who wrote it?",
"People... What a bunch of bastards.",
"Good bot",
"Yes, I would be comfortable laughing right in their face about it. And again, there is no threatening language in the note. ",
"Never heard “do your dirt” before!",
"I think you misread it, she's saying that she left her car in the early morning and then picked it up in the late morning of the previous day.",
"Maybe the prostitutes for the disabled son in the neighbors eyes. And finds it fucking retarded. ",
"I think I’ve solved the mystery of who wrote this. Judging by the last word, I believe this note was written by none other than Hacksaw Jim Duggan himself. Thank me later. ",
"> My revenge will be the embarrassment on her face\n\nI think your expectations might be too high",
"You are telling me that confronting that person --\n\nwho is 99.999% a mother with kids inside the house, who are \"freaked out\" and who is also \"freaked out\" about her kids \"freaking out\" --\n\nin the United States of America, where people get functional firearms practically free in their gods damned cereal boxes --\n\nwho *knows you by sight and that you are the person they wrote the note to* -\n\nthat confronting that person has a 0% chance of resulting in violence against you?",
"It bugs me that “my” isn’t capitalized...",
"Exactly this I don’t care. I have a corner lot so my front extends a pretty far way. I regularly have someone parking on one of the sides and don’t think anything of it. The only reason I would ever care is if the hoa tries to give me a fine for parking my vehicle on the street, but I am pretty sure that only happens if a neighbor complains about it and since it is a neighbor doing it I doubt they will complain. ",
"Travel trainers aren't actually usually social workers, from their comment I think this person isn't either it just kinda got mistranslated through chinese whispers. Both social workers and travel trainers can be pretty awesome though.",
"Haha yeah, that's what I will read too.",
"Traveler 5693, welcome to the 21st",
"> You tend to stand out on the bus if you're too well dressed.\n\nWhere do you live? Most people I see are going to work (suits or casual businesswear) or students or old people. I can't think of an outfit that would make you look \"out of place\" on a bus, but I'm not from the states.",
">He now receives 2x the amount of dog shit. \n\nSomeone is asking to have their dog shot or poisoned.\n\nI've never understood why people would risk their pets' lives over stupid things like this.",
"Do you not read well? I am saying that the note does not constitute a threat. ",
"Just imagine living next to a person who does this type of thing?",
"No one is explaining this. Please... what in the hell did this person *think* the social worker was doing? What is scaring her kids? What kind of \"dirt\" would someone just assume was going on by seeing a fucking parked car??? Why did she call her a ho??? \n\nHELP ",
"I also have a job that involves teaching people how to use public transportation. I’ve unfortunately scared lots of people when waiting for clients. People get freaked out when they see a strange vehicle regularly parked in front of their house, or a strange person loitering. This is a fairly natural response.",
"I understood that reference.",
"The B squad.",
"Ho...",
"I guess I don't know what a travel trainer is then. I thought it pertained to social workers from context?",
"How do you know how they dressed?",
"Report the note to the police.. for what?",
"Outside of a few metro areas (NYC, in particular), buses are widely held to be for those too poor to own a car. The last 3 cities I've been in, I would have been extremely surprised to see someone in business/business casual on a bus. For one thing, their reliability is awful. ",
"Directed by m night shamalamadingdong",
"Hahahaha. In San Francisco, if I do not park in my parking space, it calls for 30-60 minutes minimum search for an available parking space. It is very often 7 blocks away. If it is at night, there are no viable options. \n\nIt's infinitely worse in New York City. So, localities are very different in the level of tension around parking. \n\nI do guard the spot where my driveway exists. I have no rights over the pavement on either side so 2 cars can box me in so that I can't park on the street in front of my house. That's not me being uptight and controlling, that's me having a car that needs a space. \n\nAnyway, if you go to a big city, be aware that people have strong emotions because there is a high cost involved in finding parking. ",
"Paranoid mom syndrome should be in the DSM.",
"It's pretty much my favorite acronym. ",
"I don't understand this. You want to make sure no one looks at you? I see people in suits on the bus. I don't think twice about them.",
">If you don't like it, buy property somewhere else.\n\nAgreed.",
"Which was my purpose. I like conversations about nuance. \n\nLooked at it in another light, from my perspective, I tend to want to inconvenience other people as little as I possibly can. I kinda like parking in front of my house, a bit more than otherwise, and can believe other people kinda like the same thing, even if only slightly. So me parking in front of my house means I'm not parking in front of someone else's house, which means they get to walk their fun little concrete path from curb to door, and I get to walk up mine, and everyone gets a little bit more silly happiness in their lives for a moment. ",
"Oh, people don't seem to understand. The social worker is actually apparently perceived as doing some on call prostitution with the teenager. That's why \"do your business\" is used. \n\nAs to why do people get worked up in general, where I live, there is no \"another convenient spot.\" In the same way that in deepest rural Africa there is no \"another See's Candy outlet\" for like...I don't know what the actual situation is, but I'd guess 50 miles. ",
">My neighbor has a sign demanding that \"rude, inconsiderate peices of shit\" need to pick up their dog poop from his lawn.\n\nIf I saw that sign I wouldn't pick up my dog poop from his lawn either. I mean, he said that 'rude, inconsiderate pieces of shit' need to pick up their dog's poop. By implication, if you pick up the dog poop, you're in that category.\n\nI don't actually have a dog.",
"Exactly how I feel. I work downtown and a lot of people who work downtown bus to and from work. Some people dress nice, suits, etc. My work has no real dress code. Some people wear suits. I wear jeans and a t-shirt every day though.",
"*read in Dwight Schrute's voice*",
"Sod id my father and he'd bitch constantly is anyone parked there. He never actually confronted the person, he'd just rant inside the house about the how person is an asshole for parking in front of someone else's house.\n\nHe'd occasionally threaten to take a sledgehammer to the person's car if it wasn't moved in some arbitrary time frame, but never actually attempted to do that.",
"I don't want to be a dick, but there's a difference between parking your car for the day and leaving it there more than a week. Most places it is actually illegal to do that, for example, where I live, the limit is 72 hours. ",
"Use decent parking ediquite and park in front of the house you're visiting.",
"I was this guy once. I came from a really small town (no street lights, no gas station, etc), where you just kinda parked your car on whatever dirt road you wanted, and no one was bothered by it. When I went to college, my parents lent me their old minivan, but since the school was only a few miles from my house, I mostly rode my bicycle to school, and the mini-van just sat on the street. It never occurred to me that anyone would care (there was TONS of street parking, as it was a cul-de-sac, and everyone had garages and driveways), so it's not as though i was preventing anyone else from parking. Anyhow, one day I came out to use the van (after not having driven it for about a month), and someone had left a very nasty note threatening to have it towed because it was clearly \"abandoned.\" This was my first taste of suburbia, and it's been a strange and vaguely uncomfortable place for me, even 8 years later. I still don't fully understand the whole \"you have to drive your car every day\" thing. ",
"I honestly would either commit to public transportation or move. I can't deal with unnecessary drama. ",
"It Seems that the person writing the note signed it as HO!!\n\nTis a peculiar name....",
"Maybe note the numerous times I said that the \"getting pissy\" part was the irrational one. While there is no legal right to the street parking, it is entirely rational to feel slightly more entitled to the space directly in front of your property than anyone else. \n\nIt's not *correct*, in terms of rights of ownership and actual entitlement, but neither is the expectation of being called by one's proper title in a formal meeting, nor the concept of not being listened to while talking on the phone in a public place. \n\nLots of elements of what often gets seen as a form of courtesy are not legally enforceable. Doesn't make them non-rational. Humans often take proximity into account when it comes to possession. Shit, \"close to me, therefor mine\" is how property rights got started in the first place. \n\nIt's important for us to recognize that just because one crazy woman is irrationally angry about a parking space does not make all instances of people having a preference for parking nearer to their homes than further anything close to irrational. ",
"that lady needs help :(",
"Do people actually get hookers at 6 am ? If I saw a car parked outside my neighbor's house at 6 in the morning my first thought would not be a prostitute",
"Do people actually get hookers at 6 am ? If I saw a car parked outside my neighbor's house at 6 in the morning my first thought would not be a prostitute",
"Lots of clients do. I work often between 8am and 11am, before hotel check out!",
"The limit in my neighborhood was 4 weeks I think. The street parking wasn't ever full. Maybe 25% of the spots were taken at any given time.",
"I used to work next to the traffic department at a local government. Shittons of people would call in complaining about parking in their neighborhood. It's usually neighbors being absolute dicks to each other and dragging the local government into it. It always sucks.",
"Old people get so possessive of the parking in front of their house, as if they owned it...... but they don't.",
"I once did not bother to get the appropriate police signage to reserve two parking spots for the very large truck that would be coming up and spending 4 hours out front of the building (downtown). I arrived at 7 am, parked midway between the two spots I needed (I could've had a friend park in the other spot, but I thought I lived near reasonable people, who would use the other open spots that were available at that hour.) The moving truck would arrive at 8 am to 8:15 am. At 7:50 business folk started showing up. At 7:55 an enraged woman kept informing me I was using two spots, and I kept informing her I had a very large moving truck that was about to arrive. There was also a spot literally 4 cars down. So she whipped around and jammed her car in the half spot in front of mine. Then the moving truck showed up, I moved and I had them park up to her bumper, so they would only partially block the entrance to the parking garage all her bosses had a spot parking in.\n\nI still wish I could see her feel bad about being a bitch. ",
"Can confirm - 5:30am - 10:30am is not A squad hours",
"See... I thought so too, then thought, \"maybe \"homeowner\", to keep anonymous\". But, I do like the ending infuriated HO! Just a little more. ",
"*To be where I have been*\n\n*To sit with elders of the gentle race*\n\n*This world has seldom seen*\n\n*They talk of days for which they sit and wait*\n\n*All will be revealed*",
"The market will always have niches needed to be filled ",
"Do people not take transit to work where you live? I don't feel particularly out of place on the bus dressed professionally (Oakland/San Francisco).",
"Dress for the job you want?",
"Got time to read about some crazy? You will love this then: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-09-2016/the-incredibly-weird-tale-behind-the-bashford-antiques-clamping-story/",
"> Kids are very suggestible\n\nMy kids aren't. They used to be, but I told them to stop and they did.",
"Methamphetamom\"",
"Is that a new ice cream topping? I need to get out more.",
"if The_winner_man is a time traveler why didn't they go to Stephen Hawkins party? Is he (Stephen) not seen favorably in the future?\n\nEdit: spelling",
"I don't know about where you live but when I left Vancouver it was painfully easy and pretty cheap to have space blocked off and posted for my shipping pod. They gave me way more space than I needed and way more time than I needed. I lived in a pretty busy area but it made my life soooo easy. I would definitely do it again if the situation called for it.",
"I got DiRT 3 for free off some Steam deal. It's pretty cool imo. ",
"There are 2 definitions of the word",
"What the hell is wrong with people? Does she own the damn street? Paranoid much? I'm sure the kids don't give a shit.",
"I think it's more the combo of sitting alone on the bus and then following a random kid to the shops. ",
"You have any idea how many parties there are for time travelers?",
"It's still an awful rude reaction though.",
"Hoe*",
"drugs. its always drugs. am delivery driver. knock on doors and get \"WHO THE FUCK IS THERE!?\" like im a police raid or their drug dealer that they owe. we also employ a deaf driver who jas been shot at through a door because he couldnt answer.",
"You're not going to work. You're gonna stalk some kid (who knows you're following them) to a designated place and back. I used to go places the kid would actually want to go, so skate park, shops, college, cinema, grandparents house etc. ",
"DO YOU OR A LOVED ONE HAVE MESOTHELIOMA?!?!?!\nConfirmed confirmation confirmed.",
"I'm stealing this",
"haha gotem",
"dookers",
"Username checks out",
"I work with adults with intellectual disabilities. I had to work New Year’s Eve from 12-8pm at their CILA home in the community. We were throwing a Party that evening for them and their friends from other houses, so I parked on the road in front of the house so their friends (and the staff driving them) could get in and out of the driveway easily.\nWhen I got in my car to leave I thought there was snow on my windshield, but about 5 min into my drive home noticed it was a piece of torn paper. When I got home, I read the note apparently from the neighbor who lives across the way calling me inconsiderate for parking on the road and how thoughtless I am parking there when we had such a large driveway. Keep in mind, where I was parked was not at the end of their driveway, and being it’s a dead end street, these neighbors would never need to back out towards where my car was parked unless they felt the need to drive three houses over to a dead end.\nNo good deed goes unpunished I guess....\n",
"This butt lick near my house has bikes on kickstands chained up in front of his house so no one park there. I never need to park at that spot but if I did I sure wouldn't let those rusty old bikes stop me. ",
"Protocol 5",
"Am I the only one who finds their handwriting oddly satisfying?",
"It's basically you train a kid (or adult but was a kid in this case) to go somewhere by themselves. So say the kid needs to go to college, you go with them at first, show them how to buy a ticket, get the bus, find the right stop, get off, and go to where they want, then the whole thing in reverse to go home. Once they get it and depending on the disability it might be once or a bunch of times, then you just follow them, no help unless they ask or you see they need it, so like if they miss their stop or whatever. Down the line when you think they've got it then they go by themselves and you wait for them to get home or to phone you if they need you. Depending on the kid this can take 3 trips or 6 months, but pretty much everyone can learn to get around independently with enough support.",
"No need to steal. We're all methamfamily here.",
"Paranoid and perverted. A dangerous combination.",
"Er, those are...a little different",
"Potential harassment ",
"Good point. My sister, since having a few kids, always seems jealous of her sons kindergarten teacher, because of her \"skin-tight sweater(it was a fucking *turtleneck* lol)\" and pencil skirts. Shit, she was even jealous of her daughter's swim teacher for wearing a one-piece swimsuit that had mesh.....on the back.\nI think the neighbor in the post is jealous of attractive women.",
"I don't have to imagine, I used to :( my car was egged multiple times, and I was told to move my car off \"her property\", the street in front of her house. Well, actually it was in front of my yard, with less than a foot of the bumper over what would be her property...if she owned the street, of course.",
"If the person that they are visiting is disabled chances are the space in front of the home is designated a handicapped parking stall so unless they have a handicap placard or equivalent for the area they cannot park in front of the house that they are visiting ",
"That seems impractical. I often don't use my car for a few days. ",
">Er, those are...a little different\n\n... Yet the same",
"Just keep adding exclamation points.\n\nYeah.\n\nThat'll get your point across.",
"Stephen Hawking*",
"*claps for fellow RPDR fan*",
"Uhm, unless the way you're describing the car is just colorful storytelling, it's not really paranoia. Reporting an abandoned car to the police is a pretty reasonable course of action imo.",
"Sounds like a nice neighbourhood",
"She was a ho...fo show",
"In suburbia you do. You can't just drive down a random street and park in front of a house and leave your car and expect it to be there the next day. Why would you think you could? My town doesn't allow a car parked on the street for over 24 hours even in front of your own house. Of course, only complaints get enforced. ",
"99.9% chance this was left on the car by a Trump supporter.",
"ho!!!",
"Hawking is well liked, but he had English food and warm beer at his party.",
"> that confronting that person has a 0% chance of resulting in violence against you?\n\nAny confrontation for any reason has a non-zero chance of turning physical. That isn't the definition of criminal assault.",
"Your Honour, permission to treat the witness as hostile.\n\n--------\n\nYou are telling me that confronting that person --\n\nwho is 99.999% a mother with kids inside the house, who are \"freaked out\" and who is also \"freaked out\" about her kids \"freaking out\" --\n\nin the United States of America, where people get functional firearms practically free in their gods damned cereal boxes --\n\nwho *knows you by sight and that you are the person they wrote the note to* -\n\nthat confronting that person does not have a greater-than-background-statistical-probability chance of resulting in violence against you?",
"Lol. They are private parking spots. But that's insane.",
"The frumpy ones generally are. ",
"Haven't you ever seen pretty woman?",
"What is \"Do your dirt\" supposed to mean?",
"I can't decide if this person is blowing bong hits into their children's faces, or letting them listen to Alex Jones. Both are unacceptable.",
"I hope you don't have to interact with the public in your profession",
"I would only ever park there. ",
"It was a yes-or-no question.\n\nIn your estimation, \n\nWill confronting that person *not have a greater-than-background-statistical-probability chance of resulting in violence against you?*",
"Darcy forever.",
"It's moonlighting if you work during the day and have a side gig at night... is it dawnlighting if you work nights and pick up some stuff on the side come dawn? ",
"Everyone knows prostitutes dress in sensible Clarks and button-down Worthington tops. ",
"http://dallasvintageshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/hi_fashion_suit.jpg",
"Lookin' for sin in all the wrong places. ",
"I work for a social services agency and we've had some social workers sent home because they had no clue how to dress properly.\n\nSadly, some think \"business casual\" includes glitter on their pants and shirts so thin you could see the zebra pattern on their bras. :( (Note: not the straps, the cups). ",
"Also did you see the hors d'oeuvres? Atrocious. ",
"Wait, are you talking to me? If so, to clarify, my house did not have a driveway or a garage, which was why I was parking on the street. Also, no reason to get hostile; I was trying to share a story. ",
"I'm curious. What's the context here? What are you fixing?",
"Season 2 was 🔥",
"I did not.",
"A situation with you confronting a person having a greater-than-statistical-probability for physical violence does not a case for criminal assault make.",
"A Netflix Original series called “Travelers” about time travelers from the future. ",
"That was a yes-or-no question",
"Shitty old cars are not abandoned. Real people drive them, and reporting them as abandoned after just a few hours is being an asshole.\n\nAlso, someone driving a shitty old car is a person who is least able to put up with police bullshit, impound and towing fees. It's like complaining to the police that there's a hobo in the public park. It's something that villains do in kids movies because it shows how comically out of touch some people can be. ",
"Yeah but this seems more like the neighbor thinks that a social worker is a prostitute (weird assumption to make) and less about there being a premium on street parking. ",
"It’s definitely rude and ridiculous, but it’s not like this person knew the driver was serving a disabled client and was targeting them for it. They’re just somebody who got scared about a weird vehicle and also happens to be a moron. Pretty big difference. Also, I don’t know about where the person who took the photo works, but if the clients are located in a city (especially one with high crime, like mine), loitering can be seen as a sign of sketchy, illegal behavior. I can at least understand why someone might be nervous about a strange car or person, which is why I always make it a point to identify myself and have documentation on hand to show I’m a service worker.",
"Holy shit dude way to make a lot of assumptions and act like more of an asshole than anyone here",
"Stupid hot social workers, go be hot on your own time.",
"I'm a time traveler from the past. Bloop! Here I am again.",
"Stephen Hawkwing™",
"I was laid off several years ago. My husband and I decided to take that opportunity to retire, but we needed to fix our house up before we could sell it.\n\nI took a year to do the house, doing a lot of the work myself. When I was working, doing things like painting, installing moulding, weeding the garden, etc., I wore some old shorts and an old t-shirt. After a few months of working, they looked pretty bad, but I'm not wearing nice close to do dirty work.\n\nAlmost every single day in our upper middle class neighborhood someone passing by my house while I was working on it would stop me and say \"Are...are you the owner???\", like the couldn't believe a) I was working on my own house or b) someone who looked like me would own my house.\n\nI found it hilarious. I was sorely tempted to say \"Yep, just moving in. I need to make a place for my chickens and my old '53 Chevy that I'm fixing up.\"",
"If you like sloppy fifths you do!",
"Probably prostitution. Or maybe they think she's going there to do drugs. I'm guessing prostitution because they called her a \"Ho\". ",
"Why did you leave the note OP?",
"Look, what I'm saying is you were describing a wreck. If you're driving a car in such bad shape, put a note on your dash saying it's not abandoned.\n\nI'm not the kind of person that would call for such a thing at all, I wouldn't if the thing had been sitting there years. But I can totally see how others might. And reporting it to the police is perfectly acceptable by my book.",
"But are you also a ho?",
"They automatically win? Seems they’re far less mobile than me. ",
"You are of no use to us with your history of the past!",
"Even one is too many",
"One which I wasn't answering, I was commenting on the oh so subtle implication you were making.",
"The only time it makes me mad is when someone parks on the *opposite side* right across from my driveway.\n\nWe live on a narrow one way, so parking there makes it impossible for me to back out of my driveway.",
"What a fucking pillock.",
"That's a pretty specific assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if the person who wrote this is doing a little projection...",
"What if their counter revenge is they are disabled and think everybody that parks in front of their house is a Ho?\n\nAlso might be on to something with sex delivery service. That's genius.",
"In my estimation, no it won't. ",
"Season 1 was the 💣, Season 2 was 🔥, season 3 better be orgasmic.",
"Whose kids get freaked out by a car parked on the street?!",
"As a man, it’s really disturbing when you see that the biggest enemy of women is other women.",
"Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah nah, nahnahnahna",
"He actually goes on to threaten people later in as well. \n\nI don't have a dog so I actually think the sign is worse.",
"That would violate Protocols 1, 2B, and 6\n\n1)Everything you do as a Traveler should somehow further the mission's objective.\n\n2B)Do not use future knowledge for personal gain.\n\n6)No inter-team/deep web communication except in extreme emergencies or when sanctioned.",
"Offensive assumptions aside, where are you supposed to do your dirt if not within the privacy of your own home????",
"Ook you right in the dooker!",
"3 exclamation points at the end of each sentence. Thank you for staying consistent!",
"This drives me insane. You park in the driveway before the street.",
"oh i thought the neighbor thought she was a cheating wife, hiding her car down the block",
"I thought I was one of the only people who had even heard of Travelers...",
"Neighbor thinks the social worker is a prostitute coming over to have sex with person she's visiting. I have no idea why her kids would be freaked out by seeing a parked car. Called her a ho because she thinks social worker is a prostitute.",
"My wife is a visiting nurse. A few months ago, she got a $60 parking ticket while visiting a home bound patient. They should give caregivers some kind of dash pass to use while on the job. Ninety percent of her clients are grateful, nice people. Another eight percent are clueless, and two percent are entitled brats who constantly cancel appointments or who leave their house at the appointed time despite being technically home bound. Visiting caregivers (like the OP), deserve a lot of credit for what they do.",
"This is why commentary on this site is less than worthless.\n\nYou -- and so many others here -- suffer from the Free Speech Absolutist mindset, the notion that It's Not Illegal If I Can't Imagine It To Be Illegal / I Haven't Read a Court Case Specifying It Is Illegal.\n\nA tort is an act or omission that gives rise to injury or harm to another. That injury or harm can be to someone's sense of safety, their rights, their reputation, or other part of their self. Chasing someone out of public with libel about their profession and shaming their moral character is damn well assault, and any judge, attorney, cop, and reasonable person on a jury can understand that.\n\nThe person who wrote the note exhibits evidence of (literal, textbook) Borderline Personality disorder - she doesn't understand where her rights end (specifically her property rights, at the curb, and her right to represent the nature of someone else's business and professional reputation, in the libel).\n\nHer statement is clearly hostile, and any reasonable person can see that it is hostile. It clearly contains a threat, and an assault -- even though you (and others) fail to be able to articulate exactly what the nature of that threat and assault are, others are able to.\n\nAnd the social worker is almost certainly a government employee, and almost certainly an Officer of the Court, carrying out court-ordered work, which makes the act Interfering With a Government Official in the Execution of their Duty, at minimum.\n\n------------\n\nYou suffer from some manner of Video Game Respawn -- Excess Testosterone / Machismo delusion, where you cannot admit that you perceive a threat, lest you be seen to be weak.\n\nSo your commentary isn't just worth *less*, and isn't just *worthless*, it is actively *negative* in worth. It misinforms, it misrepresents, it strawmans, it equivocates, it writhes and weasels when attempts to pin it down occur. You are actively sucking the intelligence out of the world and destroying it, and aiding and abetting a culture of people being belligerent assholes and escalating violence in the most ignorant and hateful way.\n\nEven your commentary takes (likely unconsciously) a form that telegraphs that you *know* the point that's trying to be made because you've leapt, unbidden, for the purported loophole to escape the point you're contesting, without understanding the point at all and why the supposed loophole isn't a loophole.\n\nAnyone with a single credit in a social work degree would be perfectly aware of what it means when a woman tries to run another woman out of the public sphere with slander/libel of moral turpitude and plants a territorial flag and attempts to intervene in the perceived-private-life of one of her neighbours. \n\nI don't even have a single credit in a social work degree and I understand it perfectly.\n\n You should be ashamed. You *won't* be, because shame is something you have likely never felt, never experienced -- people who feel shame don't defend this kind of hostility as acceptable.\n\nGo ask your mother why you're wrong.",
"Protocol 2",
"This was obviously written by the Thundercat leader, Lion-O, Hoooo!!!!!",
"Self-fulfilling prophecy: nobody wants to go to such a lame party that nobody else showed up at. ",
"Yes, all of them!\n\nWhy would you go to Stephen Hawking's party, when you can go to Woodstock or Caligula's inauguration or the 100th anniversary of the first Mars colony?",
"Idk I always wanted to chill w someone from the 70s. Or any time I don't care",
"She thinks the social worker is a prostitute!",
"Asking for a friend",
"I would RAISE FUCKING HELL. ",
"You don't know how prostitutes dress, wait...",
"Yeah, I'm done.\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vpo6s/note_left_on_car_of_disabled_neighbours_social/dturwrf/",
"/r/insanepeoplefacebook",
"I think the trainer has made the assumption that this person doesn't know what she does. Maybe the neighbor is fully aware and is simply a cunt.",
"The Fox News of reposts.",
"From now on you have to wear a suspicious trench coat and blatantly do your makeup in front of your car. A couple of slow motion hair flips would be good, too.",
"The social worker was ALSO a prostitute.",
"Depends on where you live. Here working downtown means you work in a bar. Buses really only go to the mall, hospital, or walmart. It's mostly the elderly or poor that use them. And they aren't at all reliable. ",
"yea, this note screams mental instability. I really hope her \"kids\" are fictitious, for their sake..",
"I'm embarrassed because I don't know what the note is implying.",
"The same prostitutes that are up at 10pm. It's fucking not stripping. If you think I'm bullshitting go on backpage.",
"No offices downtown? What kind of city is this?",
"i read this as i'm a tinder traveller . and i immediately thought, damn you really are a ho. ",
"We had an overly aggressive HOA president a few years back. She harrassed one family in particular. One if the things was that they had a guest park in our lot during the day, every weekday, which is not a problem since most people are at work and there's not an issue with parking at that time.\n\nI was on the board at the time and largely ignored her on this topic until she brought it up at the annual meeting with about 20 people there.\n\nI simply asked her out loud if she was referring to the nurse who was doing in-home hospice care for the family's Grandmother.\n\nFucking shithead. Luckily she was removed and now lives elsewhere, though she rents out her house, which actually creates more serious parking issues.",
"wow smh",
"Even if you weren’t comfortable with it, that doesn’t matter. \n\nJust because something someone said made you uncomfortable doesn’t make it illegal, or assault. \n\nThe note in the pic is far from illegal. ",
"I don't think writing nasty notes meets any reasonable definition of actionable.",
">>After half a quarter of a year already being there. \n\nWouldn't it have just been easier to say 6 weeks? ",
"HO!!! Such a simple yet powerful sentence ",
"It bothers me that the t in FRONt is the only lowercase letter. ",
"Or park wherever it's legal, because you don't own the street just because it's in front of your house.",
"How hard did you fail out of law school?",
"Sorry, should just be quarter.",
"HO!!!",
"Portland ?",
"Trump is never wrong ",
"Right! Lol who just assumes the worst of someone because they park their car on the street to go to their neighbors house. Lmao I’m dying.",
"Small/rural",
"Again, shitty looking cars are not abandoned cars, and broken down cars are not abandoned cars. Reporting it to the police as abandoned after it's been left for a matter of hours is not only a shitty thing to do, but it's also an outright lie (and making a false police report is also a crime).\n\nPoor people don't have the money on hand to get a tow truck. When their car breaks down they walk home, get a friend and their tools, and they walk back and fix it while it's sitting on the street.\n\nI'm not sure why you're defending this blatantly unethical and shitty thing someone did. You're coming off as one of those supremely out of touch Disney villains. ",
"QUICK SWJ's, don your capes, crack your knuckles and get to outraging!",
"Gross! Do your dirt elsewhere! HO!!!",
"Good job enacting protocol traveler, protocol 5 until we get word from the director.",
"> we also employ a deaf driver who jas been shot at through a door because he couldnt answer\n\n\n wtf. I think it's time for a new job my dude\n",
"Anyone really believe the type of person to leave that note on someone's car would give a fuck if they were there to help or not?",
"To be fair being shot at through a door is probably much less scary when you are deaf. ",
"Either the face was priceless or she didn't care.",
"Santa is a dick these days. ",
"Should have ended like this IMO: …teaching her neighbors disabled son how to get around independently . HO!\n",
"Yeah but dat escalade tho.\n\nHard as fuck to drive a house down the street to show off.",
"It'll pay better than being a social worker.",
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news to that person, but I hardly believe that who ever wrote this will show any form of guilt or shame. More likely they will start a shouting match and try to come up with some other bullshit to justify the note. ",
"Wait till you hear she's her own parents too",
"How exactly does a travel trainer dress?",
"My wife was a CNA and part of the deal was dressing \"not like a nurse\" when doing home visits in order to be discreet. A \"nurse dash pass\" would betray this slightly.",
"Prostitutes making house calls at 5:45am... that doesn’t sound right",
"The back says stop by my place.",
"I've been binge watching season 2! Only up to traveler 4512 though..",
"Bored housewives.",
"Which emoji is orgasmic?",
"Hehe, I live in a neighborhood like that and it's true. If a 20 year old car was parked in front of one of our homes, within 5 minutes a video of you, your car and your licence plate would be posted on our \"Nextdoor\" social network app. Everyone has a camera or a doorbell camera and \"we don't take kindly to strangers\" LOL\n\nWe hate strangers in our neighborhood so much, we had an ordinance enacted that people can not even solicit door to door without a permit. If you want in our neighborhood, we have to know who you are.\n\nYes we are paranoid, but our streets are clean, our crime rate is very low, our schools are highly rated, and our home values are very high.",
"> Said no mother ever.\n\nMy mother made it a game to point out the prostitutes and drug dealers while we were growing up. Never freaked out about it, just a casual \"Hey look, a drug dealer\", \"Oh look at that, a prostitute\". She also taught us to be safe, aware of our surroundings, don't be distracted while walking around, don't make yourself vulnerable, etc.\n\nYou know, taught us to be self sufficient, not make yourself a target and how to identify things you may not want to be around/associated with and how now to be scared in a potentially dangerous situation. Things people would call \"street smarts\". \n\nTheres never a reason to be freaked out about a damned prostitute anywhere (except for an orgy, i'd be afraid of catching something), shes probably too high to do anything but lay there and be a human blowup doll.",
"From what I've been reading. After the vehicle has been inspected/observed to be abandoned by the police, most jurisdictions require 72 hours to pass before it is towed or impounded. That should be plenty of time to move the vehicle. \n\nBut I do agree, a couple hours then having it reported does seem extreme.",
"Actually everybody tried to RSVP but they could only reach his answering machine and it just kept repeating “hello this is Stephen hawking....hello this is Stephen hawking...” with no beep.",
"God, I just finished the second season and want more. It's so good.",
"Santa gets cranky this time of year",
"💦",
"> For one thing, their reliability is awful.\n\nThe two cities(1 very large population, the other a small college town) that I have experience with the bus system, it has been extremely reliable. It may come at a cost of wasting a few minutes at the start, transfer point and end of the journey, but what other shared transportation doesn't have those downfalls?",
"There are dozens of us! Really though, amazing show",
"How do you freak kids out at 0545 am...at 1030 am your Damm kids should be in school...",
"You just turned my salty night around with that comment",
"I absolutely loved the whole storyline for Marcie the first season. Really crazy. ",
"Hate to break it to you but there’s such a thing as manners, and if you don’t use your manners with others, others can often make you regret it. \n\nI’ve lived in dense urban neighborhoods where parking was bumper to bumper. So no one can realistically expect to find a space in front of their own house or apartment every day, and that’s fine. \n\nWhere I live now, though, there is plenty of parking in front of each house. So there’s no reason to ever park on front of anyone’s house but your own. But some people don’t care. So I’ve had trouble getting deliveries, had contractors take long walks with heavy fixtures, slipped on sidewalks, been unable to reach transportation to a doctor appointment while on crutches, and suffer lots of other inconveniences due to people with no matters. \n\nBut the street is public! you smirk. Yes, and so is the telephone number for police traffic enforcement, which permits street parking for only two hours at a time on my street. And what’s great about this *public* street as I get to watch while your car is ticketed if you park there for two hours and fifteen seconds, or towed if you’re a repeat offender. \n\nNow, for neighbors or people who are having parties, we never report cars that are parked too long. But we will, if you don’t remember your manners. ",
"This guy gets it.",
"In my city, ordinances are mostly written for the benefit of homeowners with off street parking.",
"Interesting that there’s an entire line of work that simply has zero parallels where I live because we don’t *have* public transit.",
"I was born in 1977. It took me over 40 years to travel to 2018. Is that close enough for you?",
"I think in some places busing is for \"poor people.\"",
"Why? It's not your space ",
"I used to be a driver/bodyguard for an escort agency. The girls dressed normal so to not stand out.",
"Cameleapord",
"> A Netflix Original series called “Travelers” about time travelers from ~~the~~ *a* future\n\nFTFY, since technically EVERY traveller is from an existance altered by the previous traveller.\n\nEdits: one day a traveller from the future will teach me how to use reddit formatting.\n",
"Okay, I'm sorry that I don't see a threat here. People who leave snarky notes are, by dint of their actions, not scary to me. If it happened to me, and I knew which house they came from, I'd wad it up and throw it on their lawn. ",
"Depends on the bus route. For instance, in Chicago the express busses from the north side to the loop are generally full of business people commuting. Other parts of the city are not that way.",
"I've never understood the people who think the spot in front of their house on a public street belongs to them. It doesn't (only in Chicago if you dig yourself out of snow and leave a chair there apparently, everyone else, tough shit.)\n\nI used to live on a cul-de-sac and our neighbor was cool 99.99% of the time. Unless you parked in the spot between our two driveways. Then he went apeshit and would call the city and report the car abandoned. He almost got the shit kicked out of him by my roommate who caught him putting my truck in neutral and moving it foward 5-10 ft. He claimed I was parked too close to the other side of his driveway (I wasn't and like I said it's not a through street so no worry about traffic.) All I said to him was just knock on the fucking door and ask like an adult, the truck could have easily gotten away from him and caused serious damage. Also the police frown upon breaking and entering. ",
"I used to be a driver/bodyguard for an escort agency. The girls dressed normal so to not stand out. Hoodies and jeans were pretty standard. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)\n\n",
"Mate, you're overreacting worse than the person who wrote a mean letter.",
"Lets frame it the way the neighbour saw it, a nicely dressed young lady parks at 0545 in the morning and then comes back to the car at 1000. What is she doing?",
"I love you...r style, random stranger",
"Nope, the important part is the skipped time. Unless you've never seen a smartphone before I'm not interested",
"should probably go see a heart doctor ",
"And who can't get their kids to calm down about a car in front of their house?",
"Marcy is my favorite! That actress really sucks you in",
"Considering the stupidity of the human race, I disagree.",
"Round these parts, you can't stay parked on the street for more than 72 hours. Street parking is kind of scarce is some spots. ",
"Not enough O's",
"LOL, I was reading this and thinking it sounded like here. ",
"Hey, it's a *public street.* Anybody can park any damn where they please, even in front of somebody else's house, even every day of the week. Just because someone owns a house doesn't mean they own the street in front of it.\n\nSome neighborhoods have \"permitted parking.\" This means you have to have a permit to park in that neighborhood, and they only give permits to residents. Nevertheless, if you *live* there, you can park any place you please. Some people are super entitled, thinking they own the street in front of their house.",
"You wrote that note or something very close to it, didn't you?",
"They're most likely not. They usually breed the most.",
"Take your upvote and get out.",
"Well! Look at the big shot that can math good.",
"better take it to the r/psychotherapricks ",
"People tend to view reliability of transport in terms of \"I can get where I'm going when I want/need to go\" which is what makes busses and subways in places like NYC and Chicago pass their test. Walk to the stop in many neighborhoods and a bus will show up within about 10 minutes. Maybe 30 minutes if it's 3AM. In places that want to make transit work, they identify high traffic routes and increase bus frequency along those routes until people start to see that the busses are frequent enough to not be a hassle and shift to using them. In areas that don't want to make transit work, they look at low ridership and cut service - except this doesn't push all of the current riders to the remaining runs, it makes a fair number of them give up on transit.\n\nHaving busses on a schedule and always meet that schedule is a different kind of reliability, but doesn't really entice people to use the bus unless it's basically a door to door direct route between their destinations. If you're ever in a position where being 1 minute late means waiting another hour for the next bus, you stop viewing it as reliable.",
"TIL that I need a social worker. How do I sign up?",
"I think things are just incredibly different where I live. The police around here actively encourage people to report anything that's out of place. Parking your car in a residential area and then leaving on foot would totally be something they'd respond to around here, you definitely wouldn't have to lie and tell them the car had been there longer.\n\nAlso, maybe those stickers are different where you live? Where I live, those stickers are put on objects that can't be traced to an owner, so cars without license plates, boats without registration numbers, etc. It gives you two weeks to remove the object, or it gets removed for you (you lose ownership at that point).",
"Tenant thought new neighbor was a hooker a while ago, as she kept getting in strange mens' cars that pulled up. \n\nMy response? The back seat? Uber?\n",
"Man, you're lucky. My mom never taught me what a drug dealer looks like, it's really awkward when you go up to randomly people to ask for drugs and they're like \"I'm 93 why are you asking me?\"",
"That's why cops never stand in front of the door, they are taught to stand to the side.",
"That’s really sad",
"Oh, humanity. Why are you the way that you are?",
"\nI’m sure In your head you’re the type of person to say something like this, but really it’s only on the internet. ",
"Contact OP for help if you survive.",
"Easy. Kids see the car and think, \"Oh shit, here we go again. Mom's going to go apeshit.\"",
"Another Trump voter shows the world how smart they are.",
"Nope, just being precautionary because whoever wrote that is fucking unhinged.",
"You forgot the J. The BJ squad. ",
"There was a man who would go out and line up bricks at the end of his driveway. He happened to live by a school bus stop and apparently sometimes parents would use his driveway to turn around in so they didn’t have to go out to the main road. As if the three feet they went in on really hurt his property. All that extra work everyday to protect his asphalt was so petty.",
"> Her statement is clearly hostile, and any reasonable person can see that it is hostile. It clearly contains a threat, and an assault -- even though you (and others) fail to be able to articulate exactly what the nature of that threat and assault are, others are able to.\n\nI don't agree, I don't think receiving a note like that would result in a reasonable apprehension of imminent injury. Which is something that is [required](https://www.expertlaw.com/library/personal_injury/assault_battery.html) for it to count as assault.\n\n> So your commentary isn't just worth less, and isn't just worthless, it is actively negative in worth. It misinforms, it misrepresents, it strawmans, it equivocates, it writhes and weasels when attempts to pin it down occur. \n\nI couldn't possibly have misrepresented your argument, because you didn't actually form one. Like I said, you were implying something, but you didn't actually go so far as saying it. I'd also like to know in what sense my posts were ambiguous? I think they were pretty clear and, at the very least, concice.\n\n> Even your commentary takes (likely unconsciously) a form that telegraphs that you know the point that's trying to be made because you've leapt, unbidden, for the purported loophole to escape the point you're contesting, without understanding the point at all and why the supposed loophole isn't a loophole.\n\nI wasn't \"unconsciously telepgraphing\" that, I outright *told you* I was aware of the point you weren't explicitly stating.\n\n> You should be ashamed. You won't be, because shame is something you have likely never felt, never experienced -- people who feel shame don't defend this kind of hostility as acceptable.\n\n*This* is an actual strawman. I didn't say I found the note \"acceptable\" on any social level. I just don't think it's assault, because there's no threat in there. Nobody could reasonably expect to be in any imminent physical danger just because someone put that note on their windshield.\n\n**EDIT:** By the way, some parts of your comment are somewhat ironic, considering [this](https://i.redd.it/lngletnnp8uz.png) is your most recent post.",
"My neighbors -.- they’ve raised their children to be even bigger spazzes than they are. It’s terrible!",
"Back when I was a house cleaner, my husband and I share a vehicle, so I'd drop him off at work and usually have about an hour to kill before my first clean. That early in the morning not a lot of stores are open, so there isn't much for me to do but sit in McDonald's or browse Walmart. When I didn't feel like doing that, sometimes I would just randomly park somewhere on the street and browse my phone or read a book.\n\nA handful of times I had some middle aged suburban mom come out in her housecoat and tap on my window demanding to know who I was or what I was doing there. ",
"I was born in 1963. So, since I was 7 in 1970, and 17 in 1980, I could be said to be \"from the 70's\"\n\nCome to Perth, I am happy to chill. ",
"How fragile are those kids that they get freaked out by someone parking outside?? Sounds like those parents are doing a terrible job. ",
"No kid on the planet sees a parked car and thinks, \"Oh nooooo, prostitutes!\"\n\nSource: I was a kid.",
"I hear what you're saying, but even with your framing of the information, I don't think \"she's clearly a prostitute.\" Obviously, you're right, that's what this neighbor thought. However, no *rational* person would make that conclusion without more information than we've seen presented here. Maybe I don't have enough exposure to prostitution-by-delivery to get why this is where the neighbor jumped. But the suggestion seems so totally ludicrous that the neighbor is beyond nosy and rather strays toward dangerously unstable and delusional. ",
"Why do people think they own the public space in front of their house?",
"The build up to the Helios episode is some of my favorite television ever!",
"Well mom is freaking the kids out not the 'HO'..LOL.",
"I wish the neighbor never asks for social assistance because I won't be there to help! Geez, people these days! ",
"Should have just taped the note on her door with their business card attached \"clearly you need the help more\".",
"> ETA:\n\nEstimated Time of Arrival?",
"No, that's a *pinned* post.\n\nthe only part of that which is ironic is that I wasted time arguing against Tier 3 rhetoric\n\nAnd ask me how I know you're not a woman -- every woman knows that BS like that note get followed up by thrown objects.\n\nYes, *reasonable apprehension of imminent injury* to person, as well as a reasonable apprehension of imminent injury to property and reputation. \n\nAgain: Go ask your mother why you're wrong.",
"It's called a fantasy, let us dream lol",
"ITT: People who leave mean notes must be mentally ill, and mentally ill people are bad people.\n\nHmmm",
"I doubt that the type of person who works with disabled people for a living is the same type of person who uses disability as an insult.",
"is social worker the new code word for call girl?",
"I read somewhere that Escalades were the most repossessed cars about 7 years back. Apparently people who like that kind of car are also the kind of person who can't afford it.",
"White middle class republican woman. ",
"You need to tell this Mr. Ho to chill...",
"They are more likely not to, but doesn't mean many don't recognize it as being an insult to most people, and I'm sure many would use that as a bludgeon as much as the next. Like a gay calling someone/something \"gay\" as an insult (I had some weird friends back in highschool).",
"I just can't believe people are dumb enough that they need to be taught how to take public transportation. Wtf",
"That’s excellent, that person needs to be shamed, hopefully to death.",
"Someone parking on the street is not out of place. WTF.",
"They were doing the dirt on top of the car for everyone to see! HO!!",
"more of a town than a city then. ",
"Why does \"ELSEWhERE\" have a lower case h? why does \"FRONt\" have a lower case t? what is going on?",
"Isn't it great? I haven't seen mid budget Canadian sci-fi this good since Stargate",
"There’s already Handjobs for the Handicapped. ",
"*scribble scribble*\n\n*Mouths \"lying to social worker\" under her breath*",
"As if those things make you trash.\n",
"I really hope they do ",
"It *reaaaaally* isn't.",
"I remember being a kid and totally freaking out about cars parking in the street. I would always be like “Mom, what the heck is happening? Are we going to be ok? I’m scared!”.",
"Well, thats messed with my head.\n\nI'm hoping her fictional kids get out of that shitty environment soon.",
"Rich people think being poor is a crime.",
"If you're afraid of social workers, there is probably a reason.",
"lol",
"I backed up my claim when it mattered, you didn't.",
"Her sub-story is fairly simply, yet very compelling and entertaining to watch unfold. I really like this show. *I really hope it gets a third season*.",
"I don't just throw out exclamation points all willy-nilly.",
"She's a Hacksaw Jim Duggan fan, Hooooooooooo!!",
"Yupp denial is one powerful drug. What's sad is if she were genuinely concerned about the safety of her children wouldn't she just as a parent want to go hear directly from the source?\n Ordinary fucking people man",
"/r/trashy\n\nEdit: Trashy on the part of the person who wrote the note, who writes something like that to a complete stranger?",
"Is that what they call them these days",
"> verything else aside, who the fuck calls for prostitutes at 5:30am to 10:30am?\n\nIt wasn't until reading this comment that I realized what the author of the note was trying to convey.\n\nThat's a pretty big jump to assume of someone parking there...",
"They're probably all cats or birds. Possibly a combination of both; who's to say",
"Especially when he has broken arms...",
"I've been watching through season to and saw that Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter of Stargate fame!) directed a number of the episodes. I'm enjoying the show.",
"\"What's in the b!o!x!?\"",
"Okay, so I need to elaborate some more, I guess? It's not weird to park in the street where I live either. What is weird, is parking in a street in a residential area and then leaving the area completely, on foot. Now, it isn't \"oh my god he has a butt where his face is supposed to be\"-weird, but it's \"why would you park your car three blocks down when you don't have to\"-weird.\n\nNow, obviously, if your car breaks down then you definitely *have* to park there, but this isn't immediately obvious to onlookers (in fact, nobody would know if you just parked it normally).\n\n**edit**: out of curiosity, can you only call the police in case of emergencies in the US? Where I live it's pretty normal to just call the police for relatively minor stuff so they can just check things out to see if they're OK.",
"Right five over crest, ho left 300.",
"Well, as long as you aren't pushing your broken down Escalade into someone else's garage, you're not doing too bad...",
"What great adults those kids are sure to become...",
" The problem is you get that one garbage family that has several dead cars. It's a nuisance, so people complain, and laws are passed.",
"There’s a movie called “The Sessions” that is tangentially similar to this. I remember seeing a trailer for it and wanting to see it, and then promptly forgetting about it. Thanks for the reminder!",
"I articulated a reason that a reasonable person would apprehend imminent injury to themselves due to the note. \n\nYour inability to understand the threat, the injury, or that I explained such happened - doesn't mean you're correct; it means you're incapable of reason because of your machismo.\n\nThe irony here: You're going to carry this attitude forward and one day it's going to lead you to do something incredibly ill-judged, because you don't see the threat as a threat, and something entirely foreseeable will occur to you, and you will never accept responsibility for your choices that allowed it to occur.\n\nhave fun sticking your dick in the gator's mouth, my dude\n\nbye",
"There was a lady on my street who would post urgent alerts on Nextdoor (which send text messages and email blasts to people) basically any time somebody parked or walked by her house that wasn’t white. ",
"If I were this social worker, I’d report this, for safety reasons, since you will likely be going back.",
"Quite frankly, don't park in front of other people's houses. Park in front of the house you are going to. Pisses me off",
"This is what *not knowing what the hell you’re talking about* looks like ",
"This is from a non homeowner and no car. Fu",
"'Multiple exclamation marks... are a sure sign of a diseased mind.\" -Terry Pratchett",
"Of course she did. Any kids that would be young enough to be \"freaked out\" by this would not have enough life experience to know why that situation would be creepy to begin with.",
"My wife was driving around to different neighborhoods to play Pokemon Go a while back. She was parked and playing the game when a woman came up to her window. She told my wife she was going to call the police if she didn't stop parking there. My wife was so shocked she couldn't respond. ",
"Thanks but this isn’t accurate! No not all social workers are trying to take your kids away. In fact we try to do the opposite! I appreciate the lame attempt at a joke, but let’s try to break the stigma so people who need help aren’t afraid of this exact thing. Thanks!! \nSource: am social worker",
"Camelopard\n\nFTFY",
">This creep hits on disabled kids!",
"you can chill with someone from the 70s... \n\nthere are lots of us who were around in the 70s... ",
"Man, people are fucked... I chalk this all up to, too much tv and a boring life. So you sit, staring out your window, letting your mind take control, and the only thing In that mind is law and order and csi. ",
"How naive she thinks the person who wrote that note would ever be embarrassed.",
"I had to read the caption 53 times.",
"We went from leaving passive aggressive notes to threatening a family in one step. That's too much escalation for my liking.",
"And unaware of how street parking works.",
"Man, your car story reminds me of the time this middle-aged, overly tanned woman started screaming at me for \"almost running over her\" as I was slowly backing out of my parking space. I held my hand up and apologized but instead she just called me a bitch... while her young son (or grandson or whatever) was standing right there. Some people, jeez.",
"LOL. Took me a moment to realize who this was. Yeah, it was Goleta, right off Turnpike. ",
"Your claim is that such a not will be followed by objects being thrown, yet made no effort to back that claim up.\n\nNo, I do not accept the premise that such notes lead to imminent physical danger based on your claim that they do alone. I am perfectly willing to admit that the general tone of the note implies that in future confrontations with this person there is an increased risk of it becoming a physical one. This would mean that should I approach that person, or even be approached by people in the vicinity of where the note was put on my windshield, I would be weary of them.\n\nThat doesn't, however, in my eyes constitute a case of assault because it lacks the imminence required. Quite honestly, if the note can be construed as a threat, so can your comments in this thread. Any reasonable person could see that pushing your buttons is sending you towards, and eventually over, the edge. It's been working so far.",
"Geraffes are so dumb. ",
"Interesting penmanship. It’s obviously not elegant or anything, but definitely not completely sloppy either and almost has an aesthetic quality to it while keeping this air of crazy.",
"Yeah, don't park in front of another person's house, it's rude.",
"Jesus where do you guys live ",
"Some people are just so overly territorial about their space, it's fucking wild.\n\nMy family and I were moving into this apartment once in a not-exactly-great area. Since the apartment was a bit of a walk away from the parking lot, my dad parked the van near someone else's parking space/car, with his back wheels on the grass. Some guy from the apartment underneath ours (the parking space was theirs but we weren't infringing on it) just gets out and starts screaming at us to \"GET YOUR CAR THE FUCK AWAY FROM MINE!\" \n\nWe ignore him initially because, well, the grass ain't their property, but 5 minutes later, he comes back out and starts screaming the same thing, but this time adding in, \"YOU CAN'T PARK ON THE GRASS, WHAT THE FUCK!!!\"\n\nI explained that we were just moving our things, but he was having none of that shit, because apparently he owns every blade of grass in a 5 foot radius from his parking space. I gave him this \"are you for real\" stare and he got frustrated and stormed back inside. \n\nWe moved the car afterwards because I didn't feel like dealing with a piece of trash like him, but I feel bad for the little kid I saw that lived with him. I sincerely hope he treats his son(?) better than that.",
"Men who are in committed relationships and don't want to get caught. They're \"just heading into work early, dear.\"",
"“Social worker”. ",
"What does “do you dirt” mean? ",
"No one cares. It was a funny joke. Get over yourself. ",
"Meth",
"Plot twist: the neighbor's son's disability is that both his arms are broken.",
"Ha! I'm highly proficient in protocol 4. \\*sniffles\\*",
"Reminds me of a time when I was going to a tutor and there was no space in front of their house so I parked in front of the neighbours house. Then he came running yelling about how we had no right to park there and that if I didn’t move he’d call he cops.",
"I don't think it implies mental instability. I mean, anybody would be a little unnerved if somebody parked in front of their house at 5:45am 3 days in a row. Now I will admit I don't get why the last comment is in the message, but oh well. ",
"I did naht.",
"Clearly written by someone who isn’t getting laid.",
"I'm also almost certain it was a joke. ",
"['Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.' -- Terry Pratchett](https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Multiple_exclamation_marks) ",
"and who pays for the same worker 3 nights in a row and lets them sleep over. Or which worker shows up before noon...",
"A loooong time ago, there was a series here on reddit where a white-trash family moved into a nice suburban neighborhood and immediately planted a junk car in the front yard, an above ground pool, the built a falling-down fence next to the neighbor's nice fence, and several other items. This was documented with pix and commentary.",
"I mean prostitution is a form of social work. ",
"\"Hey, you left this stupid note on my car and I took it personally so I'm going to try and abuse my position as a social worker to threaten/intimidate you.\"",
"My new favorite meme. ",
"My neighbor got in a fight with my dad about a tree in my yard.\n\nMy yard. Not my dad's.\n\nHe's trying to convince my dad something needs to be done about this tree branch that hangs over the fence (and has longer than I've been alive) and my dad's like this isn't my house. I have no authority over that tree and frankly I don't give a fuck.\n\nMy neighbor called the fucking police.\n\nSo I pulled up the Florida regulations on trees on property lines. Showed the neighbor and told the police officer that if my neighbor requires any permission or access to my yard while he takes care of that branch I'd be sure to allow it. ",
"Sure make seem even more like a raid!\n",
"They were born crazy too, not to worry",
"They should be ashamed. ",
"They don't own the fucking street. Fuck their house, and the space in front of it.",
"I’m not proud of it but I once went off on a car full of kids smoking pot and drinking right outside my house one time. There were plenty of other places to park and the people they were visiting lived over a block away. Plus my neighborhood had very aggressive cops. (This was right around the time of the Philando Castile shooting, and I lived like half a mile from the same police department) I didn’t need that shit. You want to do that? Go park in the abandoned walmart parking lot 3 blocks away. But don’t park right outside my door and do illegal things. That’s association by proxy. Same could be said for the hooker who decided my alley/driveway was a good place to take a John back when I was in college. I only realized what was happening when the motion light came on when I was smoking a cig and saw a mad scramble inside the car. But yeah, my driveway. That one was just funny though. ",
"5!!!s",
"You can now park your car in space. With a perfect view of earth.",
">must be an escort\n\nFtfy",
"Must be in the PNW",
"YEAH, HO! ",
"am I of more use since I barely comprehend what's happening in the now?",
"What the fuck does this mean? You're the second person who did that. What's the context? What are you fixing?",
"While interesting, i misread the first line of the context paragraph as: \" im a time traveler by profession...\". As a result the rest was a bit of a let down.",
"Judgmental freaks! ",
"Pretty sure the person is mistaking the social worker for a prostitute.",
"You sound proud of this. That's pretty sad in my opinion.",
"And they all lived happily ever after. I love that story. ",
"Damn, Santa's sure in a bad mood.",
"I want to park in front of your house so very bad.",
"> I really hope her \"kids\" are fictitious, for their sake..\n\nBut deep down we all know they aren't...",
"And parts of Australia",
"sadfeels.jpg",
"Florida and driving goes together like fire ants and a toddler ",
"I never understood why people think that the public road in front of, but not on, their property belongs to them. \n\nI once got lost at night and parked in the nearest neighborhood off the highway to look up directions, and after 5 minutes, this psychopath ran out if his house to confront me with a shotgun! He said he was fearful for his life due to the unfamiliar car (mine) in front of his house. \n\nHe was passive-aggressively helpful after I explained my situation (i.e. he told me I should just get back on the highway and drive until I found my exit...), but fuck, if he was fearful of his life because of my car, what sense did it make to leave his house and confront me? And this wasn't the sticks, it was a densely populated suburb in an affluent area. Sheesh.",
"Trashy because you have the skills to improve and repair your own home, and do. This world is fucking nuts.",
"How? How is it rude?",
"heroin epidemic in the apalachians",
"There is no way those kids woke up that early on their own. It had to have been the mother screaming about a stranger's car on the street.",
"Its better they ask if they don't recognize you. ",
"People thinking they own the public parking because it's in front of their home. I've also seen people who think they get a say over what their neighbors do to their home. Unless it's a HOA, or illegal, they can mind their own business and fuck their dislike. Grow up and realize you don't get your way all the time just because you're loud enough. Then again, the louder one often does get their way when authority is feeling lazy.",
"I assumed they knew the person was a social worker and worried the social worker was for their house. Individuals in the hood do NOT fuck with social workers, social services, child protective services, etc. ",
"Where I live the bars put out cones in front to let the bands and beer delivery guys unload from a nice adjacent parking space. Some day when I feel like getting a cone stuck under my car I'm just gonna run over it and park there.",
"This reminded me that time we visited my parents. My parents had a party and most of us carpool because their neighbors are those developments with narrow street. One of our cars parked in front their next door neighbor’s house(not her driveway, everyone’s garage is in the back). The neighbor knocked on the door and tell us to move the car because it parked on her parking space. ",
"I don't fucking get it.",
"this is why you have a locking gas cap.",
"I once told a \"friend\" that I like to go on walks. One day some guy drives by and calls me a ho for no reason. My \"friend\" asked if I'm a prostitute when I told her this. I deleted that bitch off of everything eventually. She was a little bit more \"sheltered\" than I, considering she thinks it's odd to go take a walk to run errands, you know, like normal people. \n",
"No asshole people do care. Sure it was a funny joke, but social workers are facing challenges 10x worse than anything you and maybe I will ever experience. No one is saying thanks, and many low-income households are actually scared of them. \n\nSo fuck you. People care. Get over yourself. ",
"This may just be my favorite thing I've seen on Reddit all night",
"Don't know how the app works, but I'd remove her from the group real quick",
"My mom once sent my brother out to replace a panel of our fence cause it was rickety and falling apart (my brother at the time was a teenager and worked with my dad fixing fences and roofs) and some woman came knocking on our door frantically talking about some 'hoodlum' breaking our fence lol. My mom informed her that the hoodlum was her son and he was fixing our old as shit fence. ",
"Apple doesn't fall far, eh",
"I’ve literally had neighbors before ask me not to park in front of their house and to tell my friends not to. I’m like, “wait, what? The street is public and there is only enough room in front of my house for one car. It’s a huge street”\n\nYeah that neighbor was an angry alcoholic who slashed my friends tires...",
"note writer on drugs...",
"Tell your kids to get the fuck over it lol",
"Is the writers’ name Karen with 3 kids and wants to speak to your manager?",
"crazy people make crazy assumptions. I'd be alarmed that this freak is going to keep winding up until there's an attack. I'd want to find out exactly who left that and have police or someone go explain to them what idiots they are. I don't think I'd dare approach them myself because if they're already this steamed up they're going to refuse to be corrected and it will turn ugly. This seems awfully like the work of a paranoid schizophrenic.",
"Yeah scared of social workers because the system is broken and alot of times the social workers aren't properly trained, are overworked or have too big of a caseload so stuff is overlooked/rushed, are inept, don't provide proper help/support, put kids in foster care which alot of the time is worse . I hated my CAS worker as a kid. They only traumatized me and humiliated me by pulling me out of class at school. Literally never helped my family at all. Not saying there aren't good social workers but low income families have very good reason to be scared of social workers.",
"At least she signed her name correctly.",
"Do your dirt??",
"[Stop writing.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EVNh85wF7hw/maxresdefault.jpg)",
"Even an older time you could challenge the person to a duel for insulting your honor. The good old days sure was good.",
"M night methoslamodingdong",
"> My revenge will be the embarrassment on her face\n\na person who writes notes like that is probably not going to do much soul searching after being proved wrong. instead they'll either ignore to evidence completely or take the 'well it could have been what I said' route.",
"Ok True story.\n\nI was walking past the local brothel some years ago. I saw an old couple pull up in a large van.\n\nThey then proceeded to take there very disabled son from the van and wheel him into the brothel. I am sad to say my initial reaction was disgust.\n\nAfter about 5 minutes I realised what loving and caring parents this person had and how wonderful the ladies in the brother where for caring for their sons needs\n\nI was humbled by the experience and it has changed my attitudes.",
"*GASP* YOU CAN'T MAKE JOKES ON THE INTERNET",
"#WAT?! THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS! ",
"What an *sshole",
"Their kids are freaked out by people parking cars on the street? I mean, it's either that, or this person told their kids that the woman was a prostitute, and then explained it thoroughly enough to bother them.",
"What if there's no parking available in front of that person's house? We are talking about parking on a public street, right?",
"Everything wrong with the suburbs",
"Probably not because OP spelled it as neighbour, which is not the American spelling.",
"Kids = Large collection of Galapagos iguanas. ",
"It seems to me, in my limited world knowledge, that upper income brackets have this stigma against doing things you v could pay other people to do",
"/r/travelerstv\n",
"The lady who wrote the note may of missed her old profession or just been housebound with the children so long she has gone loopier..\n\n Leaving the note was probably better than a Police sting operation though, they might of shot her for resisting arrest.",
"dress for the job you want ?",
"Not enough exclamation points, I guess she wasn't too serious",
"Goes to show you how much anybody interacts with their neighbors now. People are afraid of what they don't know and make assumptions ",
"A small one.",
"People are fucking mental. We had a renter across the street that went nuts because we were parking a car infront of our own house. It's ok though, she got evicted a week later and had her shit seized for not paying any bills, and all her furniture and appliances were rent to own BS.",
"Why would anyone be unnerved by that? It's public parking.",
"It goes both ways though. If someone is always parking infront of your house just because they can it can be extremely frustrating. Same for if 1 house always has 20 guests taking up the whole street. But bitching because someone parks there every so often is also stupid.\n\nThankfully everyone on our street is considerate and sticks to thier own house unless necessary to spill over. We only ever had 2 parking assholes so far.",
"I want to see the kids that get freaked out by a parked car on the street.\n\nFind one. Just one.",
"The problem isn't the note being mean but stupid. If it was just mean, it wouldn't be bad because anger is a temporary emotion. Stupidity is permanent.",
"Isn't it funny how we all unanimously assumed it was a \"she\" that did it?",
"welcome to florida",
"I imagine her reaction would be something like \"Whatever, she still a ho.\"",
"That's one of those things that says more about the parent than the kids.\n\nThey probably grew up watching paranoid momma checking the windows every 20 minutes...",
"You see what you look for. Why? Where are there prostitutes at 5 a.m.? I'm just curious, for a friend. ",
"How can it be frustrating if somebody parks in front of your house everytime? I dont get the mindset behind it.",
"For those of us that don't speak stupid, can someone tell us what \"dirt\" is supposed to be referring to? Is there an assumption based on no evidence that the driver is a prostitute?",
"Plot twist: it was the disabled son that wrote the note. Discuss",
"What kid does freak out because a car is parked in front of their house? It's not like they live miles off civilisation and a stranger car is cause for concern or a sign of shady business.",
"It’s the baby card. People like to add their kids to arguments to make them seem more urgent. It’s an appeal to emotion fallacy. She has no reason to not want the car there other than she doesn’t want the car there. ",
"Samir! Listen to me! You are breaking the car!",
"People need to learn they don't own the street in front of their house",
"She's just trying to use her kids as an excuse. I'm sure her kids don't give a shit. I reckon she's one of those paranoid parents who freaks out easily.",
"HO like Thudercats HO?",
"I think I found your cousin [A Pimp named Slickback](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2m1QvLYVOA)",
"Um... seems fair enough. Stop parking there. ",
"Definitely. If I was this person I would buy a notebook and sit in my car after the appointments while making notes about the client and looking at her house every few minutes, I guess I'm petty like that.",
"LOL She'll probably call the cops on you if you do that. 😂",
"My disabled social worker with autism, who only has one leg, and likes to write fake notes for imaginary internet points, would not approve of this chicanery. Solid post.",
"Lack of parking for you/your guests, could be tramping your lawn as they get in and out of the car, noise pollution, etc. Granted these are more first world/rural/suburb “issues” than in densely populated areas.",
"Yup. And then I'd show him the notebook and have the client confirm why I am there haha.",
"I'm a CNA and I voluntarily dress in scrubs. 1: have your seen the nasty shit this outfit has been around? 2: People know after a few moments who I am and what I am doing when I'm in public. I feel like it deflects stares from my clients and answers questions without having anyone asking out loud.\n\n\"Why is that kid sobbing in the middle of Walmart? Oh that person in scrubs is consoling him, there is something medical going on and it is handled.\"\n\nI've never been pestered about my parking, but I think the uniform may be helping to declare to the nosier neighbors that I'm a professional working a job.\n\nProps to your wife. Remember safe lifting! You only have one back!",
"Why do people like walking behind cars backing out of/into lots!? WHY!? ",
"Bruh you got some misconceptions about sex workers there.",
"Because he knew from the future historical record that the party had sucked.",
"Why do people insist they own the spot on front of house. Drives me nuts.",
"Just flashed on *Change Of Habit*.",
"I hope",
"Not sure of the state but where I am a nurse or social worker can do this exact thing.",
"Trump supporter obviously",
"That's what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.",
"This reminds me of the time our older neighbor called the cops because i got water on her lawn. I was 8 or 9 at the time. My mom had me wash some of her flower pots with the garden house. The neighbor next door called the cops because I was getting her grass wet. The cops were literally laughing when they came to the door.",
"I'm a woman but I see posts all the time in my women's groups that sound ridiculous and have no basis for fear or panic. ex: there was a man at the mall today! He walked by us twice! Keep your kids close to you! Wtf?!",
"Behavior changes real quick when money gets involved. Even if crazy lady still thinks she's right, she's not going to continually do something that costs her an arm, a leg, and a few hours of her time.",
"I'm a social worker and go to a LOT of homes. People will get pissed when I park on the public street in front of their homes. I've had people call the police on me several times for being a \"suspicious vehicle\". I've had people confront me and tell me I'm not allowed to park in front of their home on public property. \n\nI can understand being aware of who is around your home, but c'mon people. ",
"The person with way too many cats, no job, no family members nearby or alive and has bad hygiene. That’s the stereotype anyway. ",
"Same",
"Of the 6 or so houses on our little section of city block there are two disabled spaces. I won't lie and say that it can be a pain sometimes, but when I'm their age and somewhat immobile I'll be happy that I have a designated spaces so ultimately I'm fine with it.\n\nWhat I dislike is that the newest space (which happens to be my next door neighbor's) is big enough to fit a small bus and to add to that, she doesn't like parking under the oak tree because it gets her car dirty. She subsequently parks at the *very* front edge of the \"space\", many times with her nose hanging past the post with the handicap placard on it. Her new space is also a short distance from the other handicap spot which leaves just enough space for one, maybe one and a half cars between.\n\nThe neighbors have taken to using the back half of her spot so we can fit two cars in there. She might drive once a week and we get extra parking. Win win. I personally don't care if I have to park halfway down the block. Hell, the walk in from the lot to my office is a quarter mile. An extra hundred feet isn't gonna kill me.",
"Not if it was just a decal or something. I have a county parks pass and a university faculty parking sticker on my car, along with my school pickup lane tag on my rear view. Nobody gives them a second glance unless I’m entering the park, carpool lane, or have my car on campus and the parking police are roving.",
"The USA: where civility and tolerance go to die. My friend drove his disabled aunt to the grocery store. He exited the drivers side to assist her exit from the passenger's side. Before he could reach that side of the car, he was confronted and shoved by a stranger accusing him of misuse of a handicapped space. ",
"Really?? How do you get around? Does everyone just drive? What if you're drunk? or a child?",
"It doesn't matter. Sugar doesn't dissolve in gasoline, it just sinks to the bottom of the tank. Worst case scenario you have to replace your fuel filter. But it's not going to trash your engine or clog your fuel line. ",
"If only it was painfully expensive to be stupid...",
"**http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShameIfSomethingHappened**",
"Never thought of it that way but that is true. i wonder how social workers feel about the comparison.",
"She'll get her wish, too!",
"You're wrong!!!",
"\"What are you writi--\"\n\n\"Well,\" *clicks pen* \"You may hear back from us.\"",
"Thanks, methamphetafam",
"I only ever see females write sentences where each sentence ends in (multiple) exclamations. They're such an excitable bunch.",
"I just get annoyed by my neighbor who lives across the street. They park directly in front of my house instead of in front of their house. This makes it more difficult for my wife to park when she gets home. Why this person can't park in front of their own house or their own driveway just baffles me.",
"I have tried to work with many. Most are burned out and corrupt. Taking shortcuts to simplify the casework. Breaking up functional families struggling with poverty for no good reason and using buzzwords like 'optics'. Forcing children to return to dysfunctional homes because they have stable income. They call this a 'parenting' plan. ",
"Savage.",
"She doesn't care what euphemism you use. HO! ",
"Do you really think it's better to live in a neighborhood of crime, bad schools and low home values with strangers knocking on your doors at all hours trying to sell you stuff you don't want?\n\nSay what you want, but people are fighting to get into our neighborhood, not sitting in yours wishing they lived somewhere better and safer.",
"One time when I was 15 we were at the lake and decided to walk through the neighborhood down to the water after we got done playing paintball. I had on jeans and a grey hoody, my two friends had camo pants and grey hoodies and his female cousin who was wearing jeans and a hoody. All 4 of us were just walking down to the water talking and laughing when we see this old lady standing in her doorway watching us. We waved and said hello and she started yelling at us saying that we must be up to no good and she was gonna find out what we were up to. We told her we were heading down to the water and she said \"oh I'll find out what you're REALLY doing!\" and shut her door. We didn't think much of it cause we were just walking down the street at 8pm. The sun was just starting to set. We get down to the end of the block and a guy walks out his house and starts power walking towards yelling \"hey!\" So we stopped and asked what he needed. He started yelling at us about how we were harassing an old lady and we were obviously trying to break into houses. That's when I noticed he was carrying a fucking axe and told him, we were just walking down the street and now you're approaching us aggressively with a weapon. We'd like to just walk away now. He starts yelling at us about how were not going anywhere until he's done with us, so we fucking bolted. He's chasing after us and a truck pulls up and he hops in it and they start coming after us just as we turn a corner. We jumped in the bushes before they rounded the corner and they crept by super slow trying to spot us. As soon as they got past us we ran in the opposite direction so they would have to turn around to chase us and we cut through the yards to get away faster. We finally got a couple blocks away and figured they gave up and we're trying to catch our breath. One of our friends had asthma and was in a panic from what just happened and barely able to breathe. Then we see headlights light us up and we look and it's the truck again. I told my friend to hop on my back and I carried him as we ran the rest of the way back to the house and called 911. This was before we had cell phones... I'm not sure if anything happened with that guy, but we told them our story and that he came after us with an axe. I was really worried that he was actually gonna use it. ",
"Well, at least you corrected most of it. ",
"Don't leave us hanging! Which one was is?",
"I had an ex who's spoiled brat brother did not know what a phillips head screw driver was. He was 35 at the time. ",
"Did you have a moving van that says Tom's Repo by chance?",
"Depends where you live",
"If I had a drug cartel. That's what I would call my associates.",
"It can be.",
"So the letter writer assumes this car is owned by a hooker that shows up reliably at 545am to service a disabled person. I personally think a hooker that would do such a thing is a fine hooker and a credit to her profession. ",
"Prostitutes are normally dressed slutty and are looked at as dirty. \n\nAn escort however are nicely dressed and you pay them legally for a date which in some illegal cases can lead to sex.",
"When you start out, you're typically assigned to the first shift. It usually takes several years to work nights, where the real money is.",
"Found the H.R. person.",
"ah you're that lady lol",
"Sounds like she never should have been allowed to breed let alone live",
"God I’d subscribe to that feed just for the laughs",
"I usually skip over his name and insert a nonsense name in my head-imagine my surprise when, the one time I actually read it, his name is spot on! It's not even 11a and my day is made! ",
">how to get around independently\n\nI think that’s exactly why they’re upset ;)",
"I recently had to leap out of the way as a woman almost hit me with her car as I was walking in a crosswalk into Ross. She was probably going around 25mph and didn't even take her eyes off of her phone despite me banging on her car yelling fuck u bitch pay attention!! She just continued driving away.. everyone around was just as appalled as I was. She gave zero fucks. \n\nMy only hope is that sweet Karma has my back on that one, since the police in this particular town/county are only focused on their quotas. (All cops do in this area are radar for speeding and ticket minor traffic violations). Which I feel they do so illegally anyways. I do quite a bit of night driving and I often see cops sitting in turn lanes with absolutely no lights on, radaring. Quite dangerous especially when it gets foggy.",
"So because shes a nurse she should have a pass to illegally park?",
"Someone teach this lady how to use punctuation properly.",
"My grandfather always said, \"Never do a job you can pay someone else to do. You are taking away their job.\" He died relatively young and overweight, but quite well off.",
"A dad definitely didn't write this note",
"My buddy once observed a frantic white woman walking fast across the parking lot with 2 Black males close behind. He grabbed her and told her to stand with him until they pass and he will make sure she gets to her car. Turns out it was her husband and his brother and she was rushing to the car because she wanted to sit in the front seat. ",
"Self conscious people ask a lot of questions and generally wouldn't get themselves into this situation.",
"Some people really do think they own the street. I live downtown in a city and the vast majority of people don't have driveways so everyone street parks and sometimes you have to circle the block to find a spot. Well, one Friday I got sick and didn't drive all weekend and on Monday there was a little pink note on my car saying \"this is private parking!!\". On a public street. That doesn't do permit parking. Around the corner from my house. On a street that I've parked on for years. Sure, lady. If that was the case I would have been ticketed or towed. Have fun leaving notes on all the cars that legally park in front of your house!",
"If you weren't white, they'd probably just call the cops.",
"Escort!\n",
"Oh, they would!",
"Season three will fuck our ear and eyeholes so good.",
"This is someone that smokes way too much weed:",
"Once a concerned neighbor alerted me that a man was digging a hole in my yard with a shovel he'd taken from my basement.\n\nI was home at the time, he was obviously within my view. I still wonder what she thought he was up to.",
"Or a very easy woman. ",
"I mean this thread is assuming the worst of the person who left the note... Maybe we should all just give each other the benefit of the doubt.",
"Nailed it",
"Are you aware of any disorders, or lack thereof? It could be autism, in which case... yeesh, spazz?",
"No, they are disorder free. Good kids, terrible mother. Back off, and quit assuming every spaz is autistic. \n\nEdit: Im just playin. Still disability-free & a terrible mother though. ",
"because pot heads are the epitome of freaked out.\n\nI suppose you could be a kid.",
"Never got paranoid from smokin weed buddy? ",
"Is that what your joke boils down to? Maybe you should reword it to make sense so it wouldn't be such a shitty, inaccurate joke.\n\nYour joke is based on someone that smokes a lot of weed not someone who was paranoid once. More like this -\n\n>This is someone who just smoked weed for the first time.\n\nSee, this way it makes sense because major pot heads are the laziest most laid back fuckers in the world. Your joke is something that my grandmother might understand because she was fed a bunch of bullshit.",
"If you're on a standard suburban sized block for around here, it means you can't park there which can have various annoying side effects. It also means guests can't park there, so your arthritic grandparent needs to walk up the street or something.\n\nIf you spend a lot of time and money on your grass, some people wreck it. You cant mow your lawn properly if they are blocking it. Can't put your bins out infront of your house (this for very thin blocks though)\n\nAnd various other reasons and plenty more I don't know of I'm sure.\n\nBasically, if everyone just sticks to thier own house, then it's only quests, which are rarely all the time so no one minds unless they are an angry person.",
"Nah sorry.",
"Did you just reverse-social-justice-warrior me? \n\nI don't know how to feel right now...",
"Jeez buddy. You’re either trolling me or you have some kind of pro weed agenda broomstick up your ass. I made a joke that the lady mustve smoked too much weed cause she was p-noid as fuk. Wait a minute, you’re the lady OP was talking about. Fuk off to fuk offny land troll.",
"Everyone drives.\n\nYour least-drunk friend is the DD (Designated Driver). (In the past year or so, Uber has arrived and is a lifesaver for the drunk evening out)\n\nChildren get driven wherever they need to go by parents. (Hence the stereotype of the minivan-Mom dashing around town driving various children to and from various activities)",
"Kind of like having a permanent 'baby onboard' sign for their emotional Trainwreck of a life.",
"I assumed they were young goats, hence they couldn't understand other people having visitors ;)",
"And the dude in the hair piece the whole time? That's Bruce Willis.",
"Our next door neighbor has a tree right on the other side of our fence in the backyard next to our patio. The tree is about 40ft tall and shaped like redwood but has \"leaves\" like a juniper bush. It drops little BB-sized balls on the patio and makes a complete mess, to the point that we can hardly use it. When I asked them if they could trim their tree they said we could do anything we want on \"our\" side. Well, the tree is now half a tree from top to bottom! I normally don't do stuff like this but they moved in over a year ago and they either work from home or they're retired and they never come outside.",
"Months later that same asshole neighbor bought a gas powered stick chainsaw and trimmed everything on the block.\n\nI gave him a 18 rack of natty ice. ",
"At least she knows how to use \"your\" and \"you're\".",
"Wow, that sounds hard work. I thought the minivan mom thing was like helicopter moms, not just everyone who births children. \n\nI love my city.",
"I'm sorry you're getting downvoted, man. I think you have a perfectly cromulent point.",
"Doesn't bother me. But thank you. ",
"> Do you really think it's better to live in a neighborhood of crime, bad schools and low home values with strangers knocking on your doors at all hours trying to sell you stuff you don't want?\n\nGive me a break, I've lived in this house for almost 20 years and the only ones that have ever knocked on my door were Girl Scouts and school children with fundraisers. The biggest crime, someone spray painted the stop sign. If any neighbors see a strange car parked in the neighborhood, they will go ask them if they need any help. You have been watching too much FoxNews. ",
"I'm not talking about neighbors so much as strangers. Some people have the mistaken idea that they can control who parks on a public street. They have absolutely no authority to control who parks where on the street. It's **PUBLIC.** Anybody can park on any street, anywhere, as long as you do so within the law.\n\nIt would be like trying to control who uses a public park, or who swims in a public pool. No individual has any authority to control who parks on a public street.",
"> Yeah that neighbor was an angry alcoholic who slashed my friends tires...\n\nWell, vandalism is a bad trend to get started. Your neighbor lives in a wooden house, am I correct? Starting shit with other people is a very bad idea.\n\nhttps://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=GONPohJF&id=6D642F30A3CC3F7366F5DDFEFD2615C3CEF8BE2D&thid=OIP.\n",
"I owned several homes in my lifetime. The last one I owned for 27 years. I never was under the impression that I controlled the public street. The streets and roads are not paid for by the people who live on them. They are paid for by *everyone* in society. Do you buy gasoline? Then you pay for roads. Do you pay county sales taxes? Then you pay for streets, sewers and streetlights. They are *public* property. I have just as much right to park there as you or anyone else.",
"I have a coworker that likes to use her kid as an excuse for her feelings. \"I can't have another kid! My daughter would never get over it! She's so used to all of our focus being on her!\"\n\n...her daughter is 18 months old. She doesn't give a flying fuck.",
"Lol yeah. The only reason I didn’t retaliate was because I didn’t want to escalate. I slash his tires. He breaks my window. And so forth\nAlthough I kind of wish I had called him out on his bs...",
"www.spotcrime.com\n\nGo recheck your neighborhood. ",
"I'll take every downvote happily, it is total dick move to park in front of, let's say, my neighbors house every day instead of my own house. Additionally, if you are visiting someone's home you should park in front of their house. I don't know your circumstances to come up with your right to park anywhere, but in my neighborhood everyone knows this and follows it. Maybe you and your downvotey brethren live in busy areas where parking is difficult, I do not it's a dead end and mainly only residents park on the street. It's also illegal to park on the street overnight. Downvote away turds.",
"Turd yourself, you entitled fuck. You don't get to decide how public space is used. You own YOUR property, not the property of the public. Best check yourself.",
"It can be expensive depending on spending habits and life choices. If only it were *painfully* so.",
"Fuck you",
"I'm crushed.",
"I know. I wasn't being cute. I've had it happen to me."
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Note left on car of disabled neighbour's social worker.
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"They just knew you were going to eat half of them in one sitting so they were trying to make it easier for you. :P\n\n/s ",
"Dor sure drop them a message. They will replace them. ",
"You're not wrong 😅",
":-* I hope you have a great day with your Twix! ",
"Well crap -- now you can't tell which ones are Right Twix and which ones are Left Twix!"
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Valentine gave me a NEW bag of my favorite candy. Twix factory forgot to wrap half of them. #WhenTwixRuinsYourDay
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"Do you live in Australia, by any chance?",
"No (thank the nonbug gods). This is in Toronto, Ontario!",
"Maybe it's a moose, then."
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Unsure if real squished bug or fake or coincidence...
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[
"This picture made my day!",
"Pretty :)",
"Where are all the homeless spiders?",
"Looks like you don't have enough resources to build this tower here. ",
"Wait till a peace loving spider comes along...",
"Looks like a Forrunner ship from Halo 3. ",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/NplRFsP.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](http://www.cpburrows.com/independent-work/) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [Craig P. Burrows](http://www.cpburrows.com/).",
"What is this? An Eiffel Tower for ants?",
"[That's the quaalude spider's web](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uvmt2hxRFs)",
"It was initially built to be the entrance for the spiders world fair.",
"Nice. Thank you.",
"Under your bed. ",
"Was he on LSD? 'cause this how the tower would have looked like.",
"\n\n[More like the Melbourne arts center ](https://joy.org.au/sundayarts/wp-content/uploads/sites/276/2018/01/ArtsSpire1.jpg?x36712)",
"I have a renewed respect for spiders when I watched one snare and neutralize a roach in my bathroom. Spider-Bro!\n\nStill, a spider-tail freaks me out! http://today.ku.edu/2018/02/01/remarkable-spider-tail-found-conserved-amber-after-100-million-years",
"The tower of nope",
"Street credit goes to the spider.",
"I legit had nightmares for the first time in years after reading that article.... yay for science, bad for sleeping with the lights off",
"Must construct additional pylons!\n\n...\n\nNot enough minerals!",
"Web Du Charlotte......\n\nBaguette....bibliotech....muwah",
"Fuck spiders, but this is lit. ",
"Give that spider a `baguette`!",
"Next to the lent pile.",
"Tryna' make a flyful tower",
"Recreation?",
"\"This piece created by Webster Crowley, worlds most renowned spider artist, is a commentary on human frivolity.\"",
"Street name of said spider: lil' web"
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a spider's recreation of the Eiffel tower
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"This is not fat shaming ",
"Sorry, but promoting a healthy physique isn't fat-shaming. It's something that needs to be said since modern society can't say no to a three big Mac lunch. ",
"Oh no, is your daughter okay? I know when I see it suggested that fat people can lose weight (especially with pictures) I get all triggered and cry then I post it to the internets for confirmation of my feeling. ",
"She loses so much weight that her name changes from \"Rachael\" to \"Racheal\"",
"The answer is 6 months. ",
"Oh yes...ambionic fluid weighs about 2 lbs",
"Do you have a fat daughter? ",
"# If that first girl was 164lb with that figure, she'd be like 6'1\" good for her",
"HAHAHAHAHAAAAA",
"Also #thebootsgotskinny",
"Since the answer is 'less than', you could say 100 and be correct.",
"If this is fat shaming to you and your daughter, I think you're in for a hard life of being offended. It's like people look for reasons to be offended instead of realizing that the whole world doesn't think you're special. ",
"Fat calves are a thing. "
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My daughters math book is fat shaming her.
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"Where can I buy a ticket? ",
"No complimentary suspenders for the boys who come dressed wrong? That's sexist lol",
"Steep. In that case I'm gona need a lifelong coupon code for temple garments.",
"They get maxi skirts too",
"Ugh.\n\nCome on, Mormons.\n\n\"Low-rider\" needs to be hyphenated, and there should have been a comma after \"pants.\"\n\n\"Including the shoulders\" is not a complete sentence.\n\nHonestly, they should spend more time on their dress-code standards and more time on their writing standards.",
"This is a little over the top, but TBH, I'd rather my daughter grow up with standards like these than by trying to out-ho Miley Cyrus or whoever the flavor of the month currently is.",
"Can we get a spousal reimbursement tax write off? You know, like for every wife, 1% less due to God? And can Gfs count as .5%/per? We just might make this manageable and avoid hell too!",
"Until they get out on their own anyways and then lash back by behaving in all the ways they weren't allowed to while they were growing up.",
"If you want to get unto it, its actually worse than being exposed to miley cyrus. For boys, not being able to masturbate and not looking at porn bornes perversions in their minds. Its being a creep at the beach. Walking slowly through places to only catch a glimpse of something hot or sexy. Voyeuristic tendencies can get them in trouble.\n\nIts the same principle of the requirement of priests to be chaste, to abstain from sex. So they prey on those who wont speak up.\n\nFor girls, being in a sheltered space is good... until they need to leave the sheltered space. It leaves them to vulnerabilities they aren't prepared for. They either struggle and not give in, while being eaten by curiosity, or they give in and live with the guilt and live two separate lives.\n\nExposure is good to prep both sexes for those situations. But then again, a prom dance is already an intimate setting.\n\nOP, may we see the mormon poster that has the guide lines on how to behave at said dance?",
"It actually is possible raise a girl into a confident, capable, relatively modest woman who doesn't hate her parents. \n\nIt's not *automatic*, but there are millions of such cases.",
"> not being able to masturbate and not looking at porn bornes perversions in their minds\n\nWell, these are two totally separate things. My adolescence was in the pre-internet days and I was exposed to practically zero porn before college. Which didn't hinder my several-times-a-day fapping schedule in the least. It didn't turn me into a beach creep or a voyeur. My imagination was more than sufficient.\n\nFapping, to a certain degree, is probably good overall. But there's absolutely no obvious benefit to exposing teenagers to the pornographic fantasies of adults.\n\n> Priests prey on those who wont speak up\n\nA *very small percentage* of priests prey on children. And I'd bet decent money that, percentage-wise [more female school teachers abuse their students](http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/39783/) than priests abuse their parishioners.\n\nSome sexually repressed individuals do act out sexually in socially unacceptable ways. But some socially liberated individuals exposed to unlimited amounts of porn *also* act out in socially unacceptable ways. \n\nThere's no real evidence that the repression (or liberalization) itself *causes* that acting out. And even if it does, there's no evidence that repression causes more than liberalization. That's just a narrative that some people perpetuate for their own benefit. ",
"Yeah it's possible, but why is modest dress habits something worth wasting time worrying about? My daughters are being taught to respect themselves and protect themselves. Aside from that, I don't give a fuck how they dress.",
"Modest dress is certainly a part of teaching many people self-respect. It's not the one and only thing, but it's a good start in most cases. And certainly appropriate for formal occasions like prom.",
"Are you defining modest dress as in accordance with the guidelines in the OP? If so, I think it's more harmful than helpful",
"Loosely, yes. It's basically \"cover your tits and ass\", which is a reasonable guideline for kids.\n\nI'd personally be a little more flexible, but I agree with the general sentiment.",
"In New York and other locations being topless as a woman isn't legally defined as indecency. And for good reason. \n\nAgain, I just don't think about what my girls wear as long as they're engaged in a productive, self-fulfilling life. What that looks like is up to them",
"This may be anecdotal evidence to you if hadn't grown up in religous (cult like) circles. I've seen both, since ive stepped out from a cult-like religion. I consider the LDS church to be cult-like.\n\nJust for clarification: porn, when you're deprived of, restricted, and punished just for looking at softcore (not even mentioning hardcore here) you start looking at sears catalogs as substitute. That was porn. As you mentioned, imagination did the rest. \n\nAnd while you say they're separate things, many divisions of religion prohibits sexual lusts, which includes fapping sessions that you (and later I,) had so liberally. So this sexual repression had the creepy perversion that i mentioned. Again, unless you had parents and neighbors that were all in the same cult like religion, it's really hard to comprehend this. That having a fap session, when you aren't allowed to lock your door in the house ever, isn't so easy to get away with. LDS mormons also have these restrictions. So while now i can look at anyone in a bathing suit, and im sexually satisfied, i do not need to stare, or that it pulls me to perversions of any kind, back then a girl with cleavage showing or a short skirt would cause me to be a creep. That's me referencing OPs image.\n\n>But there's absolutely no obvious benefit to exposing teenagers to the pornographic fantasies of adults.\n\nThere isn't, but sheltering from isn't exactly a healthy thing either. In florida, my cult like religion disallowed the visitation of beaches. Because that would be in the \"pornographic fantasies of adults\" category. Again, mormons are like this. \n\n>A very small percentage of priests prey on children.\n\n>Priests prey on those who wont speak up\n\nDo you not see the irony of the 2 statements? \"Those who don't speak up\" and \"children\" are not the same, but there you are, saying children. So, either you know about the child abuse that happens to the point that it actually becomes public knowledge, or \"those who won't speak up\" would've stayed \"those who won't speak up\"\n\nAnd it's not that small of percentage, and as you so smoothly subverted the topic of conversation to female school teachers, i too, will do the same, with a relevant example. You remember how many women spoke up when Harvey weinstein, bill Cosby, etc., made the news? While it is \"a very small percentage\" to you, keep in mind there are hundreds more that won't speak up for every one that does speak. \nBut that wasn't even my main point.\n\n>That's just a narrative that some people perpetuate for their own benefit.\n\nWhat's the benefit? Fyi, again, being from the Mormon-like religion i know tens of example of these kids leaving the circles and going all out. I too had my wild flings years as well. And by that i don't mean just sexually, i mean with drugs and other illegal activities. It's a natural reaction to repression. I knew of the slutty pastors' daughters that lived 2 separate lives. It's cliche, it's so promulgated, and you say there's no evidence? Again, to you it may seem anecdotal, but then again, cult like religions are closed off to secular societies. So, either you are following blindly in defence of them, or you haven't actually been there, and are spouting off ignorance in spite. Or just to argue. Either way, good talk. ",
"Maybe you're too young to have met hundreds of completely \"liberated\", free love, casual sex females who are absolute basket cases, but I certainly have. And if you think that Miley Cyrus doesn't already have a life-long complex that will sabotage healthy, stable male relationships, then you aren't paying much attention.\n\nLike I explained elsewhere in this thread, being overly strict can be associated with problems, but so can being overly permissive. And it's not clear that either of those things—rather than alternate compounding variables, or even just genetic disposition—actually *cause* those problems. There are a great many neurotic people from all backgrounds.\n",
"> In New York and other locations being topless as a woman isn't legally defined as indecency\n\nSo in New York, it's OK for teenagers to go to high school functions with their tits out?",
"> having a fap session, when you aren't allowed to lock your door in the house ever, isn't so easy to get away with.\n\nAs a kid I learned to lay down on the floor on the side of my bed opposite the door. That way I could fap with the doors open, and I could look under my bed and see anyone coming down the hall before they saw me. Never got caught because no one expects someone to be beating off with the door open under their bed. :)\n\n> I knew of the slutty pastors' daughters that lived 2 separate lives\n\nI was part of the slutty pastor's daughter other life. But she went further with it than I did and ended up kind of fucked up. Her brother, who wasn't the rebellious type, seems to have ended up much happier. \n\nLike I said, there are no guarantees either way. And I'm not advocating extreme sexual repression. But I do think that enforcing a degree of sexual modestly that *leans* conservative is probably better for more people in the long run than leaning permissive.",
"Thanks for the laugh. I agree there's a middle ground. We also dont know the age of those kids addressed in OPs picture. My gues 16-18. usually seeing Miley twerk while being in the late teens should only illicit a revolting response. ",
"Ahhh, just like home"
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Flyer to Mormon youth dance or "How to Slut Shame 101."
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"Yeah, her ass/legs are way out of proportion to the rest of her body. ",
"Manly hand ",
"I mean I’ve seen guys rock climb while shirtless so doesn’t seem much different.",
"Man Hands! ",
"/u/ohiocoalman, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/ohiocoalman&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vq1ry/is_it_me_or_is_the_top_half_of_her_out_of_sync_w/?context=10\\))",
"Well I would of said man hands except I know there attached to a woman, she’s a woman with manly hands ",
"she looks too skinny except in her thighs and man-hands",
"It was a Seinfeld reference.....never mind "
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Is it me or is the top half of her out of sync w the bottom half?
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"\"Does this look like the beak of mercy?\"",
"Where was this taken? I've never seen a pigeon with plumage quite like this where I'm from. ",
"This was in my garden in England. North East coast. \nI've never seen a pigeon like this before or since. ",
"\"You came to the wrong neighbourhood motherfucker!\""
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Pigeon of doom
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"For a few seconds I was pissed because the bottom part of the image wouldn't load. I am not a smart man.\n\n(But seriously, that's an awesome photo.)",
"Damn. Both beautiful and dangerous. ",
"Majestic.😮"
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Thunderstorm over Arizona
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"Is this a small school? It’s cool that they take time out for something that might only peek the interest of a few kids.",
"It’s kind of small. Just an elementary with a few hundred kids. The kids actually stood up and cheered when it lifted off, and when the boosters landed. ",
"This is fantastic! Thank the people responsible. I was about that age for the Mercury launches and we had \"assemblies\" to watch lift-off and recovery on a shitty black and white TV set up in front of the auditorium. We were in awe and inspired by it. I am happy to see your child's school still sees the value in these sorts of things."
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"12:00\n\nWhat's the problem?",
"H.O.T.",
"there's a lot of possible answers to that one.",
"What about when the both point at the 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 10 or 11?",
"12:00\n\n1:05\n\n2:10\n\n3:15\n\n4:20\n\n5:25\n\n6:30\n\n7:35\n\n8:40\n\n9:45\n\n10:50\n\n11:55",
"It doesn't work like that.\n\nFor instance, when the minute hand is at three, the hour hand is a quarter of the way towards four, and when the minute hand is at six, the hour hand is half way towards seven.\n\nThe only time when both hands are exactly on a number, not between two numbers, is 12:00",
"For a clock who's hour hands click into place: \n\nn:(n*5) where n is from 1 to 12\n\n\nFor a seamless clock that doesn't tick: \n\n12:00",
"he should probably double-check #14",
"Lol it was a joke 😜",
"This depends on the clock type, some click into place when a new minute or hour is reached.",
"I am surprised his answers were not, \"Clocks have hands?\"",
"This is the only correct answer. \n\nThe hands *overlap* 24 times a day, but they only overlap *while pointing directly at a number* at 12.",
"Exactly. People need to look at clocks more often.",
">For a clock **who's** hour hands click into place:\n\nWhose.\n\n\"Who's\" means \"who is.\"\n\nYou can remember because determiners – words like his, hers, yours, its, theirs, ours, mine, and so on – don't use apostrophes.",
"My phone uses punctuation and autocorrects based off of whim alone.",
">n:(n*5) where n is from 1 to 11\n\nFTFY",
"Huh, that's odd. Most autocorrect programs wait until you've added a space before inserting an apostrophe, and they definitely don't correct \"whose\" to \"who's\" if the E has been entered.\n\nNow you know to watch for that bizarre misbehavior in the future, I suppose... and you can always go back and edit the errors that your naughty, naughty phone insists on throwing out!",
"He got Question 14 wrong...",
"Are you suggesting the hour hand doesn't move until the next hour strikes? ",
"They overlap 24 times a day but the hour hand only points at 12 twice a day. They overlap once per hour, and exactly where depends on what time it is.\n\nEdit: wait, no. They don’t overlap during 11:00, so 22 times per day.",
"No, since the hour hand moves continually, so by the time it was 11:55, the hour hand is already almost to 12.",
"Yeah, it is almost to 12... \n\n5 minutes away from 12 to be precise. ",
"At 11:55, the hour hand is not pointing to 11. It’s pointed a hair away from 12. They overlap five minutes later, but by then it’s 12:00.",
"I suspected something like that was the case when I typed my comment, but didn't bother to count.\n\nThe hands don't overlap every hour—they overlap every hour and five-point-something minutes, so only 11 times in a complete cycle, or 22 times a day.",
"Sounds right to me",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/29ud56/request_besides_1200_at_what_times_do_the_hour/cion0na",
"Wrong"
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Question 15 on my son's homework today
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"Go Space X! Glad to see it was a success. ",
"Watching that live was fucking insane!",
"one of the most amazing moments i have ever witnessed :) ",
"We just watched history. ",
"Amazing ",
"holy shit, seeing them land was the coolest thing I've ever seen. Hope the big guy landed as well.",
"What happened to the third booster? Amazing syncronised landing.",
"That was impossibly perfect. Congrats to the SpaceX team!",
"I literally teared up seeing this. My god it's so beautiful!",
"The feed cut out, no word yet on it's fate.",
"They streamed it live on a big stream across all Tesla locations – we're all just sad that we're not Elon's favorite child anymore",
"When they said \"synchronized\" they weren't kidding, goddamn. I never would have imagined they would come down at the very same moment like that. ",
"Yeah I was cheering and clapping, dog was concerned. ",
"[Gif of the double landing.](https://gfycat.com/InfinitePointlessDeviltasmanian) ",
"Watch the launch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c\n\nLaunch is 29:42 (although they may trim the video the times might change)\n\nOne of the best things I've watched.",
"What would I do with 20 billion dollars?\n\n[I'll tell you what I'd do.](https://i.imgur.com/5SCBryd.jpg)",
"This is so insane. Those are bigger than the statue of liberty, and they just gracefully returned from a suborbital trajectory with pin point precision.\n\nHumans for scale: https://imgur.com/gallery/eSl8o",
"damn you were quick hah\n",
"For those like me wondering just how massive these boosters actually are, [fucking huge is the answer](https://i.imgur.com/telK3Ps.jpg)",
"I teared up a little. Things like this are always so emotional",
"The synchronization of this is insane. They landed so close together and at the same time!",
"They will use this launch as footage in documentaries in the future ",
"This is sci-fi movie stuff brought to real life. We're witnessing history today.",
"But what about the core?!?!",
"This is straight up a game changer.",
"You said it",
"Dam that's beautiful! ",
"Those two boosters went into space, then fell down out of space and landed upright, a couple of hundred metres apart AT THE SAME TIME. Meanwhile, I managed to eat an entire bag of Tangfastics in less than twenty minutes. ",
"I dont know much about this but it just seems the acceleration is very slow to begin with.",
"It weighs 1,420,788 kg (3,132,301 lb)",
"this is memorizing ",
"wow those are way bigger than I imagined",
"This will probably be the most iconic photo of my generation.",
"It looks like some shit out of a SciFi movie",
"What movie is this from again? It is driving me nuts.",
"Office...*Space*",
"*Office Space*",
"I'm hearing it was confirmed lost, but I'm still not sure.",
"Spectacular double landing synchronization. A+ camera setup. \n\nAlthough, Space X Core Rocket Booster did not survive. Mission Control says they \"Lost the center core\" then camera become frozen. Unfortunate ending to an otherwise spectacular launch.",
"We are blessed history watchers on this day",
"They have Conjugal visits to mars :)",
"Welcome to a new day and age ",
"So..pretty heavy then. ",
"The big guy is the same size as the other two.",
"I couldn't believe how in sync they were. ",
"Ikr?!?!",
"Jesus Christ how the hell does it not blow over!",
"There was audio feed saying they lost the center core, but there's no confirmation regarding if they meant they lost telemetry/contact, or if the thing went Rapid Unplanned Disassembly, yet. We're still waiting on official word.",
"That synchronization was incredible! When I saw this live I thought someone screwed up and put the same feed in twice for the bottom two. ",
"How do they even land that neat? ",
"This stuff from the film's is cool\n\nThe evil aliens taking over the world not so cool",
"Was the third landing on the boat successful?",
"I definitely agree with that ",
"The amount of naked ladies is mesmerizing..",
"It was the same feed twice on the bottom. Despite what the guy said, you can see both feeds zeroing on the same pad at the end.\n\nSpacex can launch rockets, sure, but can't make a decent stream. Constant noise, wrong feed, boat landing missed, stream ended abruptly right after that (wtf happened to the third booster?).",
"Easily one of the most amazing things I have yet seen in my life. ",
"Not only that, but they landed a couple hundred meters from where they took off.",
"Humans are impressive at times.",
"Did you notice that the farthest booster leaned to the right after landing? Aha! Look at the landing leg. It's not fully extended. Good thing it didn't tip over.",
"Landed in the water about 50 feet off target.",
"> Rapid Unplanned Disassembly\n\nSpontaneous Mass Existence Failure",
"Same here. I get choked up watching launches, but that was something special. The cheers of the crowd at SpaceX helped, too. So many people watching their hard work roar off into space.",
"🌈E N G I N E E R I N G 🌈",
"> Meanwhile, I managed to eat an entire bag of Tangfastics in less than twenty minutes.\n\nThere's a livefeed I'd be willing to watch. Why are we wasting time and money on some rockets?",
"Dang",
"Man that was just something out of a sci-fi movie happening in real life. It blew my mind and totally didn’t look real. ",
"It's almost like it's a rocket launch and not a livestreaming movie production.",
"Those two boosters landing simultaneously on single plumes after falling from space -- and the fact that both boosters had previously been to space -- will probably be the most iconic moment of this era of spaceflight.",
"Coolest thing I have watched live since I was 15 in the summer of 1969. When those boosters appeared - fuck ME!",
"Don't talk to me or my son ever again ",
"NSFW sub.",
"God I fucking love being a human some times ",
"What percentage of that (roughly) is fuel?",
"Most of the weight when they're empty is in the bottom. The whole thing is hollow when there's no fuel and then you have the heavy engines and fuel pumps at the very bottom.",
"Can I get a banana instead? For science.",
"Have they confirmed it anywhere? It seemed likely from the livestream, but I can't find an announcement",
"Might be easier to do it this way, otherwise the disturbances the first rocket caused when landing might have disturbed the other one. Which could have exploded and knocked the first one out. \n\nThe camera angle was shit though, they could have set it up in such a way that you see both of them.",
"Men need this, we explored the seas and it will be men that go out into the unknown of space to explore. ",
"Damn, I thought it was a sub comparing real objects to people 🙁",
"Flat earth 🌏 ",
"That's still the last thing I heard. Fuck, 2 out of 3 isn't bad and maybe 3 is retrieved.",
"Not to mention the fucking missed fairing deploy.. Like, camera dude, you had ONE job you seriously didn't want to fuck up.",
"Some sci-fi shit right there",
"You can see debris from the right for one single frame on the stream, it's RUD.",
"I'm not convinced. Chances are high it's debris, but I really would rather hear it from official channels.",
"Are you really upset that the live video streaming from something falling from space wasn’t perfect? \n\nAnd I’m willing to bet they cut the feed from the drone ship and ended the cast because they lost the center booster. You can see the announcers say the got confirmation then both look at someone off camera and just stop talking and then look awkward for a bit. I’m guessing they heard the call that the landing wasn’t successful and then someone signaled to say nothing. ",
"I never felt so close to living in the future. Simply amazing",
"Well, in a way....",
"New Olympic sport: Synchronized booster landings.",
"I'd open my own space company... With blackjack... And hookers",
"Guy on coms said \"We lost the center core\". \nAlso, you can see the feed in the background behind the commentators. The smoke clears and there's no rocket. I'm pretty sure it went into the ocean.",
"Lost connection. Schrödingers core for now.",
"90+% of rockets generally.",
"Craziness. Thanks. ",
"Had that been done before?",
"Watched this with my family and had a tear in my eye. \"Humans are awesome\" was the verdict of my eldest son.",
"Real life or KSP screenshot?\n\nYou be the judge!",
"Not two at once. ",
"Did anyone else feel like the booster landings looked fake? (Not saying they were, just that they were so dang perfect it looked like a simulation).\n\nAlso, I know the launches cost about $90 million each, but does anyone know the breakdown of that? (Fuel, steel, each side booster, the license for launching, other possible licenses, the profit they make (as they’re a private business), the workers’ wages, the boats they have for re-landings, and other costs?)",
"I got weirdly choked up too. I thought it was off, but reading all the comments here I see I'm not alone!",
"That footage live was just unbelievable. I mean, it really looked like someone just reversed a launch. So incredible. ",
"And I think it's gonna be a long long time till touchdown brings me round again to find..",
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say this was a reverse gif.",
"History won't fail to notice how picture-perfect that twin landing was, and how closely it matched the simulations SpaceX advertised ahead of time.\n\nIt won't fail to mention that Musk dark-humorously predicted success if the rocket only cleared the takeoff tower, yet in fact the mission was almost entirely successful.",
"I’m amazed that the extra fuel required to resist gravity and land these successfully is less costly than replacement.",
"How *wasn't* it fully successful? Serious question. I'm out of the loop a bit and was unable to watch. ",
"Your son sounds cool AF. Give him some daps for me. (knuckle bump)",
"Well I have no complaints.",
"> but can't make a decent stream\n\nThey can make a fine stream. Also they can send a car to *frickin' Mars*.",
">Are you really upset that the live video streaming from something falling from space wasn’t perfect? \n\nWhat an age to live in. I used to think \"man I wish I was alive during Apollo\" but fuck that shit. Look at the shit we can do now. ",
"Is the center core another stage booster, or is that like the payload? ",
"Highly Accelerated Senescence Syndrome",
"There seems to be uncertainty about the center booster. It tried to land on a drone ship but the video cut out. Its probably toast, and hopefully didn't take the drone ship with it. \n\nThat's a small price to pay considering every booster was 100% expendable prior to SpaceX figuring out how to land them.",
"Centre core missed the drone ship and plopped into the ocean apparently",
"They recovered the 2 main boosters but lost the booster core (the middle portion)",
"I mean why just sell cars when you can *shoot them into fucking space*? ",
"It is still hard to find news on the core stage landing.",
"Basically another stage booster. The payload is the top head thing. ",
"It's officially at the bottom of the drink.",
"\"No it didnt explode, it was just a rapid unplanned disassembly\"",
"Where did you hear this? I have heard nothing through official channels, and a news conference is just starting, hasn't even gotten underway yet... **edit** Oh, news conference confirmed, hit the drone ship at 300mph because it did not have enough fuel.\n",
"I legit cried when I watched this live. Not an extended ugly cry...just a couple tears when they touched down.",
"It was so cool watching this on the livestream, I was yelling at the tv the entire time",
"Source? I heard audio feed saying \"we lost the core,\" but it was likely because they lost the feed, not the actual booster. Did anybody confirm it was destroyed?",
"Same. Looks like the core splashed and sunk but the booster could be out there.",
"so gangst",
"Watching the news conference now, core didn't have enough fuel to reignite all the engines, hit the drone ship at 300mph.",
"Know where there might be a high resolution image so it can be used as a background?",
"That synchronised landing was one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen",
"I was always impressed with these landings but then once you realize these are 10 storey buildings fucking landing in a dot from goddamn space. Really got me excited about the whole thing",
"Documentary narrator: \n\n\"as seen in this archival visual footage, this was the first simultaneous landing of autonomous drones that supported a payload of more than 100,000 lb by a public earth corporation. While terraforming kits are now available for 2 smeckels at every solar system general store, this would the pivital moment for the Tide corporation.\"",
"If you had animated it for a movie, you would have added a more slightly out of sync. But its smooth and real and i hope it actually a cheaper method of space flight. Im ready to retire in low g :-)",
"This is so exciting, a whole new era to space exploration is about to open up!",
"So I take it this sort of flying back and landing this is good to save money and resources so they can be reused right?",
"There it is.",
"The Russian judge deducted half a point on the landing, so not quite perfect. ",
"Cake",
"This is cool because it’s not a sci-fi movie still.",
"right but it just seems low to be able to take off only going ~400 kph\n\ngood thing im not a rocket scientist!!",
"It’s a Tide ad",
"Can you explain the significance to me? I know its a huge deal for space exploration but beyond that I'm relatively in the dark ",
"2 smeckels? I don't know what that is. Is it a lot? Is it a little?",
"Simul-fucking-taneously!!",
"At least not by Tide",
"The Tide Federation hasn't been formed yet so we'll never know",
"It's fucked.",
"The moon landings were well before my time, and learning about them it seemed odd how much it captivated people, but watching this was a small taste of what that must have been like for people back then.\n\nThere were points like this booster landing that give you chills to watch. If the mars colony ship concept launches in my lifetime that's going to be absolutely amazing. ",
"The science fiction of my childhood finally comes true. ",
"1000 smeckels equal one bar of gold pressed latinum. ",
"[I tell you what I'd do, ma'un...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A939QRRSNV4) (NSFW)",
"Humans are awesome. It is almost a shame that we shall have to annihilate them when the mothership arrives. ",
"Fuckin incredible. The future of American spaceflight right here. History made. ",
"And Sabacc",
"It didn't make it. There was not enough fluid to re-ignight the outer engines, only the center engine. It hit the drone pad at over 300 mph. Not too bad considering they were traveling at well over 1000mph\n\n(source: The press conference) ",
"They didn't cover it on the live webcast, although it's apparent that the hosts heard the main control audio feed, which said \"[We\\['ve\\] lost the center core.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B_tWbjFIGI&feature=youtu.be&t=2304)\" ",
"glad im not the only one who tears up for stuff like this lol",
"You can bet that somewhere between 18 months and 3 years from now, this sort of thing will appear in at least 2 popular SF movies. ",
"My husband and I held hands and sobbed. I flippantly asked for today off for No special reason and this is my reward? There must be a pattern somewhere.",
"It might be overly optimistic of me, but surely there's no way it'll be in pounds.",
"I remember staying up late to watch the live stream of the curiosity rover landing on Mars and the awe I felt when success was confirmed and everyone cheered. I had that same amazing feeling today, again watching history be made, live in front of us. ",
"FUCKING SCIENCE! ",
"So I was listening to Bill Burr talk about seeing the heavy metal band Meshuggah, and my brother asks to hear the song Burr was talking about: Bleed.\n\nFour minutes into the song we both forgot we had the launch live stream on the other monitor. Without planning, we watched the greatest moment in rocket history of our lives while fucking Bleed from Meshuggah was peaking. It was an unforgettable moment!",
"somebody eli5 how do they make these \"tubes\" to come down vertically. I'm guessing the engine is running to slow down the landing process, but what's holding the \"tube\" from tilting if engine is blowing from one positing (1 engine), not from four in rectangular position (4 engines)",
"Don't undersell it, 14 storey buildings with landing gear deployed.",
"+1 to this!\n",
"2 smeckels is about half a schmeckel. ",
"perfect launch and landing!",
"This would make an awesome wallpaper. Wonder if anyone can find a high quality wide copy. r/wallpaper for anyone else looking for a new background.",
"Yep. I don’t think people quite understand how insane this is. It’s like dropping a pencil off of a skyscraper and landing it perfectly vertical on a dime laying on the sidewalk. INSANE!",
"The falcon heavy lofts about 2x the mass of other boosters for 1/3 the cost. The reusable rockets are a big part of that.",
"On purpose mind you. The actual failure was 2 of the 3 engines failing to relight so there wasn't enough of a landing burn to slow down. It's designed to purposefully miss in that case. Isn't like they just failed to put it on the ship.",
"Stop trying to make fetch happen.",
"I got to see them in person. Seeing those engines fire up and have them side by side. Absolutely awesome moment. ",
"If you turn the picture upside down it looks like they are taking off.",
"How much extra fuel is required to land the boosters? Is it still economical? I don’t know the price of rocket fuel lol",
"Worlds most powerful rocket, built by a company that didn’t exist 10 years ago. Landed 2/3 first stage cores. I’m sure there’s a few other 1st I didn’t mention. ",
"Did anyone else cry? *wipes tears*",
"TheVerge reported loss of the center core, corroborated by an apparent SpaceX press conference. ",
"The most beautiful thing I've seen since Apollo 11.\n",
"Same. Amazing achievement",
"Its just a little under 1/12th of what that Waitress paid for her big fake boobies!",
"Today is the first day of the New Space Age. First the Moon, then Mars, then...*out there*.",
"Ahhh so your recovering a multi million dollar piece of equipment so it doesn't fall in the ocean and sink to the bottom every time you launch.",
"Rather than the past? ;)",
"IIRC, it’s actually three engines for landing. I don’t know exactly how they do attitude control, but I’d guess triangular distribution. ",
"I try and keep up with space x but it's mostly just through the major news outlets. Glad to see they are making big strides like that",
"Well, most of the time these stage 1 boosters aren't able to be used again. Theyre one and dones. It's terribly cost inefficient, but that's the way it is. SpaceX is working on reusable stage 1 boosters, meaning they can be used over and over again, hopefully even twice in one day eventually. What it means is that instead of having to build an additional booster for each launch, we can just use the same ones. They're incredibly expensive, and this technology will help not only SpaceX, but even NASA. It would be a key in providing cargo and other things for when we go to Mars, or other places. It saves money, materials, and time, which are all crucial for a successful space program. I don't know a whole lot about it either. What I've provided is just barebones knowledge. Maybe someone else could explain it more thoroughly and correct me anywhere I was wrong. ",
"am I the only one here reminded of \"Thunderbirds\" by watching this awesomeness!!??",
"Na\n Didn't make it sorry... 2mtrs to the right.",
"The narrator said that the two bottom streams were from the two separate boosters. But I swear those feeds are identical. LZ-1 has black paint while LZ-2 is painted white.",
"There are small thrusters on the top of the booster that allow it to turn itself and along with your gridfins that give it aerodynamic control. Also many rocket engines have the ability to gimbal or rotate to provide steering for the rocket.",
"Any link to this info?",
"Space travel was a govt dominated endeavor before this; SpaceX (A private company which used its own money instead of the public's money) wants to make space travel much more feasible for the general public and this was a huge step in that direction.",
"I'm pretty sure he spelled Weyland Yutani wrong.",
"It's neither. It's a Tide ad.",
"They had a press conference earlier and confirmed it was lost. It ran out of fuel or whatever they use to reignite the engines, not sure which. ",
"FYI, it wasn't 100,000 pounds of payload",
"This will definitely be one of the first scenes in Ken Burns: Cars in Space",
"Damn. ",
"WHy does it look so CGI though, the pics and the vids?",
"I think we just ended a previous era, and are starting a new one. \n\nThis photo has that \"artist's conception of the future\" look to it because nothing like this has been done in decades. It feels like we have finally arrived. ",
"You know who is alone? Spaceman in that Tesla car...",
"It was the same feed twice on the bottom. Probably just a mistake, but it's pretty obvious.",
"Yeah that's what she said.",
"This is what I've been looking for.",
"Okay....now WTF is my flying car?!?!",
"It was like a scoop and a half. I'm not a rocket scientist 😞",
"You can also watch Earth passing by in the background behind a car...and then Earth's *reflection* in the car's door [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M). It can take a bit, due to needing the rotation of the car to line up with the sun's angle.",
"I love technology ",
"More importantly, what's the ratio of smeckles to Schrutebucks?",
"The only point of this post is karma farming why would anyone care about this pic with the video is 1000x cooler. \n\nhttps://gfycat.com/BlindMeanGordonsetter",
"hit the ocean at 300 m/ph",
"You think imperial will still be used in the future?",
"I am and still dont know what the hell it is",
"That Tide Ad? Lol SB commercial ",
"What's the smeckle to flurbo conversion rate?",
"According to Musk at the press conference, two of the engines needed for slowing down for landing didn't ignite, the center core hit the water about 100 meters from the drone ship at over 300 miles per hour, and damaged two of the drone ship's engines.",
"https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980954/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-middle-core-failed-landing",
"Well not quiet, since the rockets have a controlled descend while a pencil you can't control. Still a great achievement though.",
"Holy fuck this is surreal",
"When those 2 landed at the same time I did a bit gf gave me the weirdest look ",
"Can someone do math if this analogy is accurate?",
"Starman firing up as we got the first shot of the space Tesla brought tears to my eyes. SpaceX has incredible tech with insane showmanship. If Spaceman played live with Neil coming down the ladder humanity would have died from awesome overload. ",
"This was the same feed. It was a mistake. ",
"I had the same feeling looking at the Tesla Roadster with the earth in the background. I've seen thousands of space photographs, but *never* any photos of red convertibles just crusing around in space. Totally unlike any prior space photo.",
"It will if sharpnel still hurts",
"thank you for posting that.",
"If you have to ask, you can't afford it. (I don't know either.)",
"I wouldn't say it's a government dominated endeavor. \n\nWithin the past two decades, most launches are commercial in nature. ULA and Ariane space make up the bulk of launches and they're both private companies. ",
"It was such an emotional moment. Historical! ",
"this guy links to the feed when they say it in the control room.\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vqiuc/falcon_heavy_boosters_landing/dtuoqm7/",
"This is how your great grandson's low earth orbit's honeymoon started.",
"> Those are bigger than the statue of liberty, and they just gracefully returned from a suborbital trajectory with pin point precision.\n\nwow, that really drives it home how insane that is.",
"Being there was insane. What a day...",
"These rockets are atleast 10 times bigger than i thought they were",
"I don’t think I’ve ever anthropomorphized anything quite as seriously as I did a couple booster rockets and a space mannequin today.",
"How about pure latinum? I have a secondary stomach full of the stuff. ",
"and nothing compared to the BFR they're working on now",
"Elon confirmed in the post-launch press conference that the center core plowed into the ocean about 100 m from the drone ship. The igniters for some of the engines failed so it couldn't slow down enough. An easily understood and easily fixed issue, and they weren't going to re-use that booster anyway.",
"I'm pretty sure he misspelled 'scrobbles', which is a common mistake.",
"Actually, this was just a Tide commercial ",
"Well I guess, but clean it off first. ",
"Well, it only costs 25 smeckels to take a ride down a set of stairs...",
"They are also responsible for [this amazing first!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"It was a dope stream but there were still plenty of hiccups - I mean it makes sense since they've never had to cover *this much all at once* before. \n\n My vote for best composed stream is [NROL-76](https://youtu.be/EzQpkQ1etdA?t=11m14s). Since the payload was classified it was the first time they had shown continuous coverage of the first stage booster from launch pad to landing pad. Also the debut of that zoomed in camera view of the landing burn, a shot they've used a few times since then, including today's Falcon Heavy stream. \n\nShout out to [Thaicom 8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPYOtCFSLKw) too, which as I remember it was the first time they broadcast the live view from aboard the first stage as it was returning. \n\nFun fact: The booster in the Thaicom 8 video was one of those side cores on the Falcon Heavy",
"Sorry, we don't take that Jablonian funny money here. ",
"Let me guess he linked Biggerthanyouthought",
"1 schmeckel = 1/10th of a bitcoin",
"what does it know now?",
"100% throttle would destroy the launch pad, so they have to start off slow and wait a while to step on the gas",
"So you're telling me there's a chance?",
"This is one of the reasons why landing is even feasible. The last bit of fuel is able to give huge acceleration because the rocket is so light.",
"Didn't have enough fuel left and as a result couldn't fire more than one engine on re-entry to slow down. Ended up hitting the barge at 300mph. Took out two of the barge's own engines too. ",
"I would love to see video of that control room. ",
"My boss went to a meeting right before countdown so I got to watch it live which was awesome. What a time to be alive.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svUJdzMHwmM\n\nWatch through the whole thing.",
"Wow, I thought they were big, but they are absolutely HUGE!",
"20000 chicks?",
"Like perfectly synchronized, wow",
"They were the same feed. You can see they don't rotate in mirrored directions, and you can see both the reentry burn and the start of the landing burn for the other core, since they were ever so slightly staggered on their way to the pad. \n\nI had a total blast still",
"manned missions to mars in just a few years!",
"No, remembering where you were at when you saw this is memorizing... Watching them touch down in this gif is mesmerizing... ",
"Pride yourself on war, why don't you.",
"So falcon heavy. Un-falcon-believable. ",
"You'll have to ask Mr. Boobie Buyer.",
"Told my twelve year old, \"you no longer need to be a government worker to get into space.\" ",
"\"Timmy, you have a question?\" \n\"Yeah. I heard that the guy who launched the first one of those used it to put an old style automobile in orbit around the sun.\" \n\"Really, Timmy? You know that's an urban legend. Are there any *real* questions?\"",
"I would have thought the obvious currency would have been tide pods, and depending on the color filling, their value would change. ",
"To be fair, I think SpaceX has always been Elon’s favourite child, he founded SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla wasn’t founded until 2003, and not even by him, he came on board later and mostly as an investor at first. I feel like Tesla has always kind of been his time sucking side project that at least at first, got a lot more attention. SpaceX wasn’t really grabbing tons of attention until 3-4 years ago.",
"Still smaller than my penis... under a microscope ",
"Such a cool thing. ",
"I was in Orlando for this. Too far away to really feel the booms, but it was still incredible to see from the ground. You could see the two side boosters coming down",
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"If I could get my life 1/20th as together as that landing then everything would be fine. ",
"Yeah, I've never seen it in that perspective. That's incredible! ",
"I watched the Felix baumgartner jump from space in related videos. \n\nIt’s amazing that we do stuff like that for fun. ",
"This looks like a video game screenshot",
"A Falcon 9, Spacex's smaller rocket, costs $60M to build. \n\n[This 2015 article quotes Elon Musk saying fuel cost is about $200k](https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/by-making-a-historic-landing-spacex-launches-new-age-of-spaceflight/)",
"Insert Fry money img. \n\nHow do I start to invest in Elon Musk companies?",
"> **Posting Rules**\n> **I. No screenshots**\n\nLiterally the first one. ",
"A photographer from Astronaut U (Purdue) quit college to pursue photography full time and has shot quite a few launches. He was there today. Check out his work and support if you are able :http://photos.tmahlmann.com/Rockets/SpaceX/Falcon-Heavy/",
"I thought that they were already reusable? I think some of the parts have to be replaced, but most of it can be used again. During the feed at some point they said they have reused some of the rockets 4 times? Also were able to land 21 of the rockets successfully. ",
"and then sell people fucking flamethrowers.",
"It’s not. ",
"This is so crazy, that it almost looks like CG.\n\nWe live in an awesome time! :)",
"I think it was near the drone ship, but an unfortunate loss nonetheless. ",
"A few years ago:\n\nSpaceX: \"Hey NASA, we're going to need some vertical landing pads poured.\"\nNASA: \"Wut?\"",
"fuck yeah, asparagus routing ftw",
"Maybe a self-guided pencil though?\n",
"Or Stanley Nickles?",
"Dead. ",
"Lithobraking is a legitimate strategy!",
"\"For the small price of 1 MOITA.\" You forgot your cryptocurrency in the future.",
"If we're gonna do half the things people are talking about us doing in thhis era of spaceflight, it had better not be!",
"[Enhance] (https://i.imgur.com/j463wtT.gifv)",
"Oh man you should check out Kerbal Space Program sometime.",
"I hope 'Of course I still love you' is ok!",
"Musk said that two of it's thruster pods were damaged.",
"How much is that in bitcoin though?",
"Also they had both already done that before",
"My family flipped out when they saw this! It looked like a scene from a science fiction movie!! Seriously, I could watch these things take off and land like a space port any day!",
"Holy shit. GettingOutofHand.meme",
"Ironic statement given that presumptuous accusation is a tool of a war and brutal truth is a victim of it.",
"Fuel is only a tiny fraction of their cost and a large percentage of the energy on the way down is dumped into atmospheric drag.",
"Thank you for this. I missed the live feed.",
"To shreds you say?",
"That’s what he said",
"Yep. The RCS thrusters fire and the grid fins move together in both streams, they both show the same glow from the other rocket at the top of frame, and in both streams you can see LZ-1 appear and then go out of frame, and LZ-2 appear directly below.\n\nOopsie.\n\nEdit: they've corrected it in this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE",
"Most of what you said was true, but the significance here is that we've never had a rocket this powerful. Especially not at this price. \n\nClarification: as the commenter below said we have had stronger rockets (Saturn v was a beast), but it cost 1 billion per launch compared to about 90 mil for the fh so yeah that's the achievement.",
"This rocket actually doesn't use asparagus staging (a technique from KSP for everyone else). The middle core simply throttles down its engines to consume less fuel. ",
"Damn I hope there's *some* video. That would be cool to watch.",
"Not to be confused for a shmackle, which is worth about 2 and a half smeckels",
"Elon officially owning the front page!! ",
"Looks like something out of a movie",
" Sort of confused about this launch mainly of the tesla car. What is the purpose of the tesla car? Is it just a publicity stunt for the car to orbit in mars? And if it heading towards mars how long will it take to reach mars? Is it aort of like a checkpoint when SpaceX ready to have manned mission to mars. I mean its cool what Musk did but im trying to figure out why he did it other than for a publicity stunt ",
"Where is the core?!",
"I hope someone makes one of those colorful minimalistic wallpaper designs based on this. Something with dark colours for my phone.",
"2 smeckles is 296 usd as per the writers although that was 3 years ago so factoring in inflation about 323usd.\n\nDan Harmon answered this question in an AMA: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/202owt/we_are_dan_harmon_and_justin_roiland_creators_of/cfz82c0\n\n",
"God DAMNIT, Tide ads are the new rick roll.",
"Another step in American history? ",
"Absolutely beautiful vision.",
"I read this in David Attenborough's voice and it was much better. ",
"Even whiter.",
"Schlemiel, Schmazle, Hassenpfeffer Incorporated!",
"They somehow ran out of the fluids they use to start the engines so only 1 of the 3 started for the landing burn. The 1 engine couldn’t slow it down enough and it hit the water 100m from the barge at 300mph.\n\nSource: Elon Musk in the post launch press conference",
"This is the stuff of future Doublemint Gum Commericals!! ",
"The Falcon Heavy only cost $90 million, so for $20 billion you could get 222 Falcon Heavys or 666 boosters",
"Exactly. Musk also explained in the press conference how perfecting that technology scales very very well. If I remember right, he said a Falcon 9 costs someone $60mill to launch a thing into space. Falcon Heavy costs someone $90mil, but has roughly 3x the weight capacity.",
"This picture is so sci-fi badass.",
"I’m so mad I was at work during this. If it wasn’t delayed I could’ve watched it live. :’(",
"Ah let's not forget the nasa contracts which saved the company",
"Agents of shield probably could have done this with Colesons convertible",
"What happened to the middle section? Anyone got the scoop? ",
"I know it's been said a thousand times already by others, but this was the coolest scientific feat I've ever watched live. If I had just happened to walk by a television when this was shown and didn't know what was going on, I would have assumed it was just some futuristic sci-fi. But this really just happened and it was beautiful.",
"You're just jealous, get over it. Just enjoy the moment. ",
"Elon making space great again!!!!!",
"nah they rebranded to something with a cleaner record.",
"Now I want a HQ wallpaper of these bad boys. 😻",
"God dammit... The Falcon Heavy was a Tide Ad? ",
"It should be noted that the mission was to test launching the Falcon Heavy, gather data and make improvements if needed. Musk stated before hand that he thought there was a 50/50 chance of being successful. He said that if it cleared the towers and blew up at a height not to damage the launch pad, then that would be a success.\n\nThe landing of the boosters was a minor thing. Also note that Musk said in the post launch press conference that he would rather loose the centre than the two side boosters as the side boosters had new titanium guidance fins, which are very exy to make. Also, testing the side boosters was more critical as they have a different profile to the normal Falcon 9 landing (due to the nose cone on the top of the boosters, which a normal F9 launch will not have after stage sepration). So over all, a very successful launch.\n\nMusk mentioned that he expected a big explosion at launch and a tire to rolll humorously down the launch site. He was hoping for success (as in getting the roadster to space), but the true success is getting data. ",
"Let me see that camera! ",
"Wait it hasn't? Then who keeps sending me membership cards in my email every five damn minutes. They don't even have a proper unsubscribe button at the bottom.",
"I heard that makes your hair fall out.",
"Per pappa Elon, it ded.\n\nIt ran out of the TEA-TEB they use to relight the motors, so it was only able to start one of three during the landing burn. Crashed into the ocean at ~300 mph.",
"Just proves we can send a vehicle into space and to Mars. This one will circle the sun for a billion years.",
"Didn't actually hit the ship, technically. Slammed into the water ~100 ft away from the ship. Still knocked it pretty good though, took out two of the four engines.",
"I love his podcast, and checked that song out the other day. That drummer is fucking insane!",
"Technically ignition fluid.",
"Technically this launch was a test for the new Falcon Heavy rocket. Normally for such a launch you would put a dummy payload like cement blocks but apparently Elon Musk thought that was too boring so decided why not strap in his original Tesla Roadster complete with \"Starman\" mannequin. ",
"If you watch the feed, you'll see a sudden covering of water on the camera. It's because the engine was firing as it hit the water and sprayed it everywhere. It obviously didn't hit the landing platform.",
"Did these launch from Cape Canaveral? I've just been wondering how they navigated the national and international diplomacy of launching this huge rocket? ",
"Speak for yourself",
"Oh ok. Thanks. ",
"Looks like they are taking off too me",
"Not that you can fly but I’ll ask anyway.. it means Big Fuckin’ Rocket, right?",
"Jesus. That’s fuckin’ colossal.",
"I watched the moon landings live. \n\nTrust me, I understand.",
"SpaceX can reuse them, no one else can do that. For example, the ones on the space shuttle just fell into the ocean and were done. This was a first because it was falcon heavy, it just doubled our heavy lift capability. ",
"Is there a gif of this?!",
"They normally launch a \"simulated\" payload on test flights. Generally something weighs a lot but isn't sensitive equipment or anything. Instead of that, he wanted to launch a car and a \"driver\" spacesuit. Works as a publicity stunt, but I also think it's just cool to see something like a car floating through space as proof of concept that the rocket worked.",
"Until someone catches your username on camera ",
"Could you imagine going up to one of the engineers on the original Apollo and saying “looks good, now make it turn around and land”",
"So you're tellin me. That both rockets. Landed at the same time!? How is that even a thing that is possible.",
"Neat!",
"Now all we need is a volcano base",
"The footage cut out when they were watching the center one I think, did that one land too?",
"I heard it had enough fuel but the outer two ~~boosters~~ engines failed to re-light",
"Officially it is Big Falcon Rocket, but we all know what it really means. ",
"High resolution of this image?",
"And the live footage of an actual car in Space will inform video game and cinema CG people’s art. This will be prime reference material",
"[And many hats.](https://imgur.com/JNPLj9P)",
"High resolution of this image?",
"*Falcon 9*",
"Uhh dude\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnaorqo6krg\n\nHalf a century ago",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnaorqo6krg",
"Ey that’s pretty cool",
"Exactly .0034102 bitcoins. ",
"I don't understand why they have to cut the live feed though. I knew it was unsuccessful the moment they decided to cut the feed.",
"2/3 ain't bad!",
"Well we'll know when it's formed. ",
"Big fucking rocket?",
"Nah. Both of those are sons. The real father left with the car. ",
"it missed the boat",
"exactly. never mind the official explanation, it's a big fuckin rocket.",
"If the rocket is clean it's a tide ad",
"Math.",
"Lets say a skyscraper is 200m tall, a dime has a diameter of 17.9mm (lets say for simplicity 2cm), a pencil generally has a length of 19cm (for simplicty I assume 20cm). So the relative size of those things would be: \n\n10,000 (skyscraper) to 1 (dime) to 10 (pencil)\n\nLets take the skyscraper as an analogy to the height the rocket/pencil falls from and determine what the size of the rocket and landingpad would be.\n\n[At booster seperation](https://youtu.be/j8wxV-lUsZg?t=1474) the Falcon Heavy was at ~61km...I will take this as the height dropped from but its actually more since the boostback burn doesn't negate vertical velocity (they only move back in direction of the landing pads but still move up for quite some time). Taking that number (going from the pencil analogy) we get the following sizes:\n\n~61m booster size and ~6.1m landing pad size.\n\nThe Boosters are actually somewhat smaller at an estimated ~[47m](http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/f9dims.jpg) (on legs, with cones ontop) but its in the same ballpark. The Landing pads are actually quite big with [86m](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Zones_1_and_2) diameter which would be ~37cm, so the analogy would be (adjusting for actual booster height):\n\n*Landing such a booster equates to hitting a pizza from the top of a 260m skycraper with a pencil.*\n\n",
"Take that, Kim Jong Un!",
"[and how](http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/59cdec88351ccf21008b5eb7-1804/spacex-rockets-falcon-1-9-heavy-bfr-youtube.png)!",
"Compared to the cost of the rockets, the fuel is very cheap. For this family of rockets, the fuel is liquid oxygen and kerosene.",
"I had just happened to the third booster?",
"I am ALL blessed history watcher on this day.",
"They didnt decide to, in the cast I was watching the announcers said several moments before the feed cut that it might due to vibration and what not. ",
"Rocket engines gimbal (turn in place), and there are attitude control thrusters and grid-fins as well.",
"or a schmako which my dog loves to give",
"[*Hail Tide! May our stains be forever eliminated.*](https://imgur.com/DOgOaLo)",
"They got approval from the FAA and I'm pretty sure that's it. Nothing international involved.",
"What can I get for Grookle these days, though?",
"You didn't show your work. ",
"I watched the preview of this before it happened and was thinking. Both boosters landing at the same time? Thats just showing off. Then it happened exactly like it did in this video and i was like whoaaa this is some stuff of the future. (Explicit launguage taken out)",
"> Is it still economical?\n\nI'd think so. While I don't know the cost of rocket fuel myself I think it's a safe assumption it no where near the ~$100Million each these rockets cost. ",
"Link by any chance? I've been looking and I can't find actual confirmation anywhere besides that same video that's going around ",
"Isn't that a meatloaf song? ",
"They didn't cut the feed, vibrations from the landing normally interrupt the feed, crashes even more so.",
"> Watching that live was fucking insane!\n\nIt sure as hell was, I was hyped.",
"lol, no, two engines on it failed to re-light, the two boosters landed safely.",
"r/nevertellmetheodds",
"It's breftaking...",
"My jaw was literally dropped as I watched that part live. Such an incredible feat.",
"it wasn't because of vibrations. there's a dope video out there where the thing slams into the ocean at 300mph and we didn't get to see it ",
"Is the BFR actually being built now, or is it still just a concept?",
"Abrupt molecular discombobulation. ",
"It's about 3.50 Doge.",
"yes, r/gifs\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/7vqjmr/two_falcon_heavy_side_core_rockets_landing/?st=JDCGO2JG&sh=bebaa2b6",
"Due to how the work, it probably did fully extend; if it is leaning that suggests that it landed a little hard and the \"crush core\" in the leg was partially crushed.\n\nAlso it is hard for it to tip over (though not impossible), as much of the mass is in the engines at the bottom of the rocket.",
"If you had woken me up today and asked me to identify this picture, I would have said it was CG.",
"My father who is 56 has never heard of spacex. I just showed him this and he is amazed. He’s now watching all of the landings on YouTube. ",
"Oh shit those are bigger than i expected",
"I'm fairly sure they won't be using pounds to describe that lol",
"imo they just didn't want the stream the actual crash",
"Tide wins the detergent wars.",
"The first time I saw one of these landing I was 100% convinced it was a fake video.\n",
"You absolute bastard. Take your upvote. ",
"There’s a gif of this in r/gifs for anybody interested:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/7vqjmr/two_falcon_heavy_side_core_rockets_landing/?st=JDCGO2JG&sh=bebaa2b6",
"You're absolutely right, I did mean engines",
"Don't undersell it, that's still impressive ",
"Ok ill enjoy this moment as a gif rather than a picture :)",
"except that it's a real life picture",
"I guess it missed the landing pad by about 100 meters and hit the water at a high rate of speed. I read somewhere that it ran out of propellant so could not slow down enough. Have not seen that confirmed yet though. ",
"Sexiest thing I have ever seen. #nojoke",
"*world history",
"at what time on the spacex channel live video?",
"It just looks too surreal I guess, but it looks pretty realistic to me",
"Why not post a gif?",
"I'm pretty sure Elon is starting at this while he fucks for the eighth time today.",
"I’d expect it’s a bit easier with the falcon 9, with all the control hardware they have. You don’t get much control at all with the pencil. ",
"Edge of my fucking seat!!",
"Mission Control: \"Uhhhh...Engine performance is nominal...\"\n\nCrowd: \"OMFG WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!111",
"it's real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXKpZCVytJ0 that's a fuel tank\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93rBH4Ysb8Y",
"History has been made with a car in the rocket and YES! It is true!",
"At 300 mph :(",
"I watched IRL and I promise I will never forget it. The reaction from the crowd as we saw them falling from the sky was insane",
"Yup, better to splash near the drone ship than obliterate it by \"landing\" a few hundred miles an hour too fast.",
"Earn that salary, Elon, you're a genius ",
"Ho-lee-shit....",
"The office erupted in applause. I mean, it's not like we didn't believe the technology works, it's just way cool to think about what it represents -- these are the early automobiles of space travel.",
"top head *thingy*",
"Yes a little too perfect. I can see it now \"They faked it on a studio just like the moon landing. Vaccines give you dumb\"",
"It doesn't matter. Bought out by Walmart.",
"I believe you are 100% wrong, the crash was powerful enough to damage 2 of the droneship's navigation pods, expecting video equipment to survive and keep transmitting is quite unreasonable.",
"That depends on the current prices of gaming GPUs.",
"r/fakealbumcovers ",
"lmao \n\netc see *magic*",
"Wow great screenshot.",
"\"Children galaxy wide have been warned by their embedded AI chip to stop attempting the Terraforming Pod Challenge.\"",
"[Watch in 0.25 speed, black piece on the right, visible a single frame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wxV-lUsZg)",
"I think I must be the only one that did not know about this",
"You gotta be Falcon kidding me!",
"What is it in Schrute bucks?",
"Still not metric?",
"So we have interplanetary economics and still you gringos won't align to the metric way of doing things?? smh",
"\"Who won, dad?\"\n\n\"They landed at the same time, son.\"\n\n\"So... it's a tie, dad.\"",
"Oh, except for landing on the FUCKING MOON!!\n\nAre you seriously comparing the recovery of two boosters to any of the Apollo missions, or even the shuttle, or ISS?",
"Can confirm\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16971200/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-success-roadster-orbit-elon-musk",
"If you have to ask, you can't afford it.",
"Literally drooled on myself laughing. May you become rich in smeckels my friend.",
"You best be believin' in SciFi stories.\n\nYOU'RE IN ONE.",
"that's 100k usd a chick",
"Clearly an american currency, given that 4 smeckels don't round up to a perfect schmeckel.",
"But what one really needs to know is how do they equate to Schrute Bucks?",
"That's what happens when you mix imperial with metric. ",
"This makes me believe more that Elon Musk is really just an alien trying to get back home and having to do it with our shitty technology. ",
"It's like a really long calculus problem.",
"These things are far lighter on the way down than they are going up, since they've burned off like 95% of their fuel already. Plus they'd also be slowing down a little with drag since they're light but still enormous. So it takes surprisingly little fuel to resist gravity and slow down enough before touchdown. Most of the extra fuel was probably used on the reentry burn since it had to completely reverse direction while going several thousand mph in space.",
"Fingers crossed that Musk's starbase is Big Mother Falcon.",
"Thanks!",
"I’m a tad bummed that the core stage didn’t make it back safely but the payload was delivered and hurtling out there. ",
"Which is insane considering how few people knew it was happening ",
"Wow I didn’t think they’d cost that much too make after getting the design down",
"Was the synchronization planned?",
"What's this? Spaceships can come back to earth? What? I'm sorry I live in the USA. Thanks NASA for not telling, showing me that those spacecrafts can come back.",
"Sorry, did you say \"so-fucking-heavy\"? ",
"This is unbelievable. I can't believe I am alive right now. ",
"Just think how much more publicity and hype they got for this launch all for the cost of an 8 year old used car and a dummy.",
"It's the work that will literally put humanity into space as a space fairing species. It's hard not to get emotional. They're working on our future, even if we don't live to see it",
"Because it's a subreddit for pictures. ",
"Core said \"fuck this shit\" and rocketed away into the black vastness of space. ",
"pivotal *",
"WAIT GUYS, this is our chance to speak to future reddit. \n\n\nFebruary 6, 2018. Today 2 rockets landed at exactly the same time, a massive earth quake hit Taiwan, Norovirus outbreak has hit security at the Winter Olympics in Korea, Apple released the homepod, a incident with a youtube star Logan Paul was forgiven by the public, The legendary great reddit switcheroo came to an end and oh yeah... that guy was President. ",
"Elon Musk the archetypical good Lex Luthor",
"Do you have any real money here or just made up words?",
"Right out of Buck Rodgers. Fuck.",
"That is one of the greatest metal songs every conceived, and so fitting for a rocket landing!",
"Those are almost a full 100ft smaller than the statue of liberty... Check yo self before your rocket explodes because you didn't check yo' staging.",
"Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, a proud alien dad watches his kid send his first intergalactic rocket through a nearby wormhole, successfully completing his 4th grade science project.\n\nEdit: typo",
"yes. Both on program, perfect.",
"did not mean shit",
"They're really big (like statue of liberty big) and carefully engineered to survive very extreme forces. ",
"Something something Stanley Kubrick...",
"And his wife?",
"[It officially is Big Fucking Rocket.](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/news/a28440/spacex-new-rocket-design-mars-moon-earth-flights-plane/)",
"My 86 year old Mom is now a convert. Watched Elon all afternoon.",
"I was watching it on the train, couldn't hold my excitement and people started looking at me.",
"Wait how did the great switcheroo end? ",
"Ah, thank you. ",
"Yeah, its not great for your health, but you dont have to Morn for me. ",
"/r/TheyDidTheMath ",
"It's like watching a sci-fi movie",
"Fuck yes it is.",
"unless I'm mistaken, these aren't the Falcon 9 though I'm sure they are heavily based. Unless Falcon Heavy just refers to using multiple Falcon 9s. I dunno I haven't researched anything just happened to be walking by the T.V. tonight when they mentioned the price. ",
"It’s 230’ tall so it appears slow but is a lot quicker than it looks. ",
"This is actually a landing picture ",
"> Meanwhile, I managed to eat an entire bag of Tangfastics in less than twenty minutes.\n\nThat's what's called a snacksident.",
"Wow, well, there you go. Clearly it makes sense, or they wouldn't do it. I guess the surprising part is how expensive the rockets are to make, but then I don't know what all goes into it whatsoever. Probably rocket science. ",
"My newest phone wallpaper.",
"The best thing about this is the butthurt tears over at /r/enoughmuskspam. Glorious",
"Watching the simultaneous landing of those two boosters felt like the “welcome to the new space age” moment for this generation. ",
"*Earth",
"more /r/theydidthesimplemath ...that was all rule of three.",
"https://imgur.com/a/1k30W . <-- look closely abou 40% in from the left edge.\n\nHere's my pic, un-zoomed-in of the booster landing event, taken from the 406 bridge. Those guys didn't look as sync'd in real life, but met up in the end. \n\nit was weird to see the two of them light up, waaaay up high, during their initial slowdown. Later, they appeared near the horizon, everyone cheered. A minute later, the sound came. Couple of nice sonic booms.",
"And 300mph too fast",
"Wait so these boosters take the rocket up and then fly themselves back down to be used again? That's fucking nuts",
"https://np.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/7uljtu/cyclist_wiped_out_by_kangaroo/dtlbprj/?context=3\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/7umyec/when_a_kangaroo_attacks_a_cyclist_it_leads_to_a/",
"To shreds you say?",
"2 smeckels is 0.00000001 of a satoshi",
"Technologies nowadays!",
"I thought it was \"Big Fully Reusable\".",
"Are you even Jewish? ",
"Holy buttfuck",
"Starman in the express lane.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/puN1E",
"My boyfriend went to that",
"How many bitcoins is a smeckel",
"Ugh, I'm emotionally scarred but accepting of that joke - I feel robbed.",
"Holy hecc. Truly a day for the history books",
"They said something about them not flying parallel as to not confuse some radar system I think it was.",
"Oh! I thought that was the obvious part haha. My bad. It was all over the stream/chat so I assumed the user asking the question knew. ",
"Ah'll think yer'll find they'll be smackeroonis, pal",
"Cool, ty for reply, \nI was looking for a confirmation statement to the effect, \nI watched the live feed (of course too big to miss) but not seen any direct statement from spaceX regarding the central core ",
"I've never seen even five minutes of that show and I still understood the reference. Jesus.",
"You said it, man.",
"It's about 10,000 Schrute Bucks.",
"What didn’t? That the core stage didn’t make it back? Well it would’ve been nice to have all three make it...",
"Not only are they reusable, those to particular rockets have already been used and recovered. \n\nIt's still interesting to launch a payload of that size (what it's capable of, not just a fucking car) for only $90 million per launch. It should lift something over 60,000Kg into orbit, which is roughly twice anything else flying. So that's kind of cool. ",
"Elon Musk is the type of billionaire we need more of. Yeah Gates is solving disease and stuff in the developing world but Elon musk sent a god damn red convertible into space blasting Space Oddity and his next big project is officially called the Big Fucking Rocket. Bloody genius that one is.",
"[test link] (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2ekjt8/how_do_i_make_a_word_into_a_link/)",
"An ear worm of my childhood. My mom once even tried milk and Pepsi...",
"It was so fucking precise and correct that it looked like a launch in reverse.\n\nEverything that happened today, this is what impressed me most.",
"Same - but most of my pals don't get it. Such is life.",
"\"Core\" is a synonym for \"booster\" in this context. The center core/booster didn't make it.",
"But what is it in Stanley nickles?",
"It's not bad. ",
"Yer man played Doom. That's all I'm sayin' :D",
"Lol verge not a reputable source",
"Can’t you falcon read?!",
"NASA on suicide watch",
"The pastor said that this is a sign of the fifth coming of Christ because never before have two giant objects landed so closely together.",
"This is my background now",
"There's plenty of public money involved here:\n\nhttp://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html",
"Smeckels are the crypto that finally worked. ",
"Honestly it made me tear up, i grew up watching 50s and 60s SciFi, Forbidden Planet comes to mind and this was that come real. So fucking awesome! ",
"We are dumber as a society for witnessing you post this comment. ",
"No one is expecting it to survive the crash. The moments leading up to the crash however? Shouldn't be a problem.",
"100m from it.\n\nedit; feet.",
"Stop trying to karmawhore. ",
"Is there a wallpaper for iPhone?",
"> ~~Math~~ *Engineering*\n\nFTFY",
"Street Fighter?",
"There was a lot of impressive things about this. The landing was absolutely incredible. Probably the most beautiful display of human engineering I've seen. Would love to saw it in person.\n\nThat liftoff though! Man, I bet it was amazing to see in person. I was amazed how it kept going faster and faster! I was wondering if I was watching the km/h correctly.",
"r/theydidthemath",
"I lol’d so hard at this :) ",
"**WE'RE GONNA DO IT...**",
"Even more impressive when you realize they are like 12 stories tall",
"It was already announced at the teleconference.",
"Far apart but never alone",
"I don't know why but I read that in Jeremy Clarkson's voice.",
"is it just me or does this look like a kerbal screengrab?",
"How long did the investigations last for Columbia and Challenger? The fact they diagnosed this in less than a day is astounding.",
"Yippie ki yay.",
"> Slammed into the water ~100 ft away from the ship. Still knocked it pretty good though, took out two of the four engines.\n\nThey're going to change the name to \"Even though you beat me up, of course I still love you\"",
"How much is it to launch with other companies, say their nearest competitor?",
"Fuck Elon Musk and his brand. How bout ending world hunger instead of a bs space pipedream and an electric car .001% of people will ever drive.",
"Theyll release that footage in about 2 weeks when they recover the drone ship and pull the footage. Just like they always do. Turns out its hard to maintain a livestream from a ship in the middle of the ocean when it gets hit by something going 300 mph. ",
"Why don’t you do something?",
"This landing was one of the coolest things I have seen. ",
"I can see where you get your name from",
"I am. Not world hunger, but helping to end poverty in my city.",
"Schmeicel? Like, the goalkeeper?",
"Amazing",
"First car in space?",
"How cool is that?? I mean I’m typing this from a phone that is more powerful than any computer when we did moon landings! \nThe tech we have is amazing and growing so fast. I really hope this reignites (pun intended) the passion for space travel. ",
"/r/me_irl",
"Not to mention a 10 storey building going 300 mph",
"I had one problem with the four video feeds . . .the bottom two were suppose to be the video feeds from the Falcon booster rockets but they both had the EXACT same video feed images . . . If there were two rockets landing side by side . . the perspectives would be different but it looks like they were the same video feed. Did anyone else catch that ?",
"From reading his biography he’s definitely more emotionally attached to SpaceX, but if I remember right, he considers Tesla the more critical endeavor because of the importance of addressing global climate change.\n\nIt’s almost like SpaceX is his hobby but he commits almost all his energy to it, while Tesla is his life goal but it requires less attention. That was just my interpretation.",
"What’s the ratio to Stanley nickels?",
"Star Trek was an economy and philosophy of Capitalism. Otherwise how else would you explain Elon Musk built the starship Enterprise!!!! ",
"I would love to see a camera feed in a Russian or Chinese meeting room, of the reactions of their space officials watching this launch + booster landing.\n\nI wonder what it's like for them realize that their country's nationalized space program is less capable than a single company's. A company from a rival country, (America) that currently has not one, but *multiple* space programs of this type competing to advance right now.\n\nI am not normally that much of a nationalist flag waver, but this achievement makes me very proud to live in the society that is such a fertile ground for this kind of innovation and human advancement. Where immigrants like Elon Musk are welcomed, and allowed to do their best work which ends up making the United States of America the world leader that it is.",
"Well didn't the NASA space shuttles technically do the same thing?",
"The system does not transmit immediately, it has to record, encode and then transmit, it takes a few seconds to get the signal out. When something hits at 300mph, it will cut out before showing anything really happened. Hence we saw the smoke from the engine, but nothing else. It was too fast for a human to react and cut the feed.\n\nBesides, they have aired literally every failure of theirs, and have made a whole highlight reel of their failures. It is quite insulting to say they cut the feed because they did not want their failure to be seen.... This whole thing had a slim chance to succeed and they still aired it live...",
"They were supposed to be, but there was some kind of error. Kind of a bummer, but I'll allow it.",
"I feel like the one thing 1950s sci fi predicted right was rockets landing upright.",
"And what’s crazy is that they’re about half the size of the largest rockets ever produced (although in terms of overall power or payload, I don’t know where the Falcon Heavy falls on the spectrum).",
"cool... any high resolution pic?",
"I've had Starman stuck in my head all day and it's been fantastic",
"This was a common objection to the space race in 1960s. Why send a man to the moon in this pointless dick-measuring contest with the Russians when there are so many problems to solve on earth. Yet the technological advancements that came out of the space program did much to help solving earthbound problems. TL/DR: space and solving world hunger can be complementary, not mutually exclusive/zero sum game.",
"Nice math but you need to consider that they have rockets and all kind of stuff on the sides of the boosters. It is in NO WAY comparable to throwing a pencil on a pizza... ",
"It didn't cut out seconds before the crash though, they pulled the feed. Pretty obvious they didn't want the video of it failing out there.",
"[Yup...they are big](https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/961027133391896576)",
"What would you launch?",
"> the ones on the space shuttle just fell into the ocean and were done.\n\nThe boosters were recovered and reused. However, they did require a massive amount of refurbishment which mostly canceled out the benefit of recovering them at all.",
"Any idea what the landing/launch pad is made out of to withstand the heat? \n\nAlso, any after pics of the ground under those boosters?",
"The only international thing they need is to register the rocket in the \"database\" and announce the launch day in advance. Otherwise fly baby fly.",
"Stupid and not funny comment. ",
"I feel like a sci-fi event thing finally became real . . and that is a ship landing properly",
"*Insert squidward meme of futureeeee*",
"I worked out the relative sizes and did the analogy for those as you can see in my wording.\n\nBut yes, the booster guides itself actively to the landing site via two burns, RCS and grid fins.",
"They haven't used the same booster more than twice, yet. After this launch, 8 boosters have been launched twice.",
"I enjoyed it 10x more than the launch. The twin sonic booms made the 7hrs waiting and 2hrs getting back to the instate worth it.",
"Hit 100m from the drone ship (designed to miss if there's something wrong) but that was still enough to damage 2x of the drone ships engines.",
"Hit 100m from the drone ship",
"Wow you're awesome! Thank you for the detective work!",
"LOL that's not better than using bricks as a test payload. They simply used a car instead of bricks, so that's not the innovative part. ",
"Bullshit, the feed was live and it cut as the smoke hit the barge, they didn't have time to cut it manually and they REVEL in their failures. I am done here, they did not cut the feed, the equipment was demolished., it has to record, encode, compress and transmit the feed, of course if it is demolished it isn't going to show the event that demolished it coming at it at 300mph, end of story.",
"So these are the two big sidepiece rockets?",
"Big guy crashed at 300 mph 100 meters away from its landing pad, right into the sea. It sunk :(",
"100 meters not 2. ",
"They confirmed that they lost the core into the sea. ",
"Hitting 100m from the barge, still enough to take out 2 engines though from the force\n\n",
"It’s gps guided. I don’t think it’s that impressive really. GPS has come a long way just look at google maps. ",
"Fuck off",
"you went back to the rug store?",
"Why isn't everybody on the planet freaking out about this right now? Elon musk just shot his personal goddamn Tesla into space and we have a live stream of it that we can watch.\n\n Boosters returned to earth and landed with pinpoint accuracy.\n\n I'm bouncing off the walls here and I'm trying to explain to my roommates what just happened and they are all like, \"Huh? Oh neat.... Wait my Facebook messenger just pinged... Oh it's Buffy... Hold on...\"\n\nI don't get it...",
"at 300 mph, it crashed into the sea. ",
"100 meters. ",
"they didn't even land at the same time lol",
"Well, it was all over my local news, the national news, and on at least five default subreddits that I can think of. It's all over my facebook feed, and it was announced by one of my local radio stations.\n\nWhile maybe some aren't exactly jumping for joy, there are more than a few of us who are really damn excited. Even if they did lose the central core booster.",
"I think its a little unfair to say they're bigger than the statue of liberty... Yeah, if you're talking about JUST the statue, that's true. However, when I picture the Statue of liberty, I picture it sitting on its huge pedestal which makes it a good bit taller than a falcon 9.",
"BFG soon",
"It depends.\n\nI know that's a shitty answer, but it really depends on where you launch to and a lot of other things. But average prices are higher for other competitors. Lets talk Low Earth orbit. \n\nFor the next generation, it is getting cheaper. ULA and Ariane are both planning heavy lift. ULA isn't close yet (2020, maybe) and is thinking $15-20 million per ton. Ariane is closer, though still at least a year off of first flight, and is promising $12.6 million per ton.\n\nSpaceX actually launched this thing and it worked pretty well. They expect $11.2 million per ton. \nReally freaking cheap in relative terms. \n\nElon Musk likes tossing around $500 per pound or $1000 per Kilo as his number and may be able to actually hit the mark one day. If not, $1250 per Kg is probably doable.\n\nHere's a [reddit link someone posted with existing launch vehicles and cost per Kg] (https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/62n47j/cost_per_kg_leo_for_human_spaceflight/) which shows how $1200 per Kg is a huge improvement over what we had to pay with older systems.\n\nThe big deal is how much it can launch to low earth orbit, as well as price. It does 54,000 KG for $90million [according to this page](http://spacenews.com/spacexs-new-price-chart-illustrates-performance-cost-of-reusability/) and the falcon 9 full thrust did half that for $62 million. So they are expecting this to be pretty economical.\n\nFor existing launch vehicles, \n\n\nI apologize for mixing imperial to metric but I read the imperial numbers this afternoon and I googled that SpaceNews article to double check and it was all $ per KG",
"You don't think they knew that their rocket was coming in 300mph too fast? Of course they had time to cut it. \n\nThey might release it eventually but in a controlled press release instead of during a live stream. Think whatever you want, but the evidence indicates otherwise.",
"The list of open positions at Spacex is mind blowing. ",
"There would be a lot more smoke there if they were",
"Good for you",
"All of that is indirect and would only manifest in at the very least a decade from now.",
"It seriously looks like a screen grab from a video game ",
"So like miniature falcon heavy boosters?",
"Where do you think we are going to have to go after this planet dies? ",
"Well they detached at the same time so they had no choice but to be synced up ",
"Because if we don't try and advance our species into space exploration, eventually, we face extinction.",
"Seeing as Musk just sent a car hurdling towards Mars I don't think anything is off the table.",
"They are falcon 9’s. The two side boosters were even flown on previous launches.",
"Yes it was the same feed, but you could see the other rocket just before landing so it's just a video feed mix up",
"but I didn't say bricks, did I? It's a car. With a little space dummy. In space.",
"It's not location as much as it is control of those thrusters. Rockets do really well at high speeds flying in single direction but it takes significant (I might even say immense) detail in the controls to be able to steer one of those rockets at low speed back to earth when all the booster wants to do is flop over due to it's high center of gravity. The weight of the fuel helps in this feat but it's still mind boggling",
"In my (admittedly American) mind, that era of spaceflight ended in 2011, when the Space Shuttle was retired.\n\nThat was an era where governments led the innovation and development of spaceflight. The government owned a country's entire aerospace industry, either outright or by being the sole customer of space-related services. Programs were monolithic, with subcontractor upon subcontractor until you hit NASA, the Air Force, or the NRO.\n\nThat's no longer the case. Increasingly, corporations are outpacing the government with their innovation and development efforts. SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Labs, Virgin, Sierra Nevada, Orbital ATK, and the like are vertically integrating what used to spread across tens or hundreds of contractors. While the government is still a major customer in the space industry, they're no longer alone. SpaceX has a solid customer base in communication satellites, for instance.\n\nAnd where the government has been involved, there's been an important shift: they are no longer the owners and operators of the end product. We've effectively gone from a \"purchase\" market to a \"lease\" one. Boeing and Lockheed built the Space Shuttle, but NASA owned and operated them (with lots of tech support). NASA doesn't own or operate any Falcons or Dragons. SpaceX does. NASA rents them. SpaceX can fly a NASA payload on one rocket, turn it around, and fly a commercial payload on it again. Same for Dragon.\n\nThe divide is even big enough that these eras have (decidedly uncreative) names: [Old Space and New Space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace).\n\nNew era, new most iconic photo. ",
"Wow, I just saw a video of this, a Gif of this, and the pic of this all stacked in my feed... ",
"Hit the Ocean 100m from the barge at 300km/hr. Only 1 of 3 engines relit due to running of out igniter.",
"Looks like Japanese SciFi from the 60's. (i.e. awesome!)",
"What \"we.\" Nobody alive today is going to space. Future generations probably won't. A very small percentage maybe will. Big maybe.",
"And then like a normal Falcon 9 launch the main booster would come back to living on a drone ship in the ocean. Although we didn't have confirmation that the main core did successfully land this time",
"Hit 100m from the barge at 300km/hr as only 1 of 3 engines relit due to running out of igniter.",
"Falling back from 60+km ...you accelerate until atmosphere hits you like a brick - the impressive thing is less knowing where the booster is but using that precious propellant in a manner that the booster ends up somewhere near the pad (1st burn), doesn't burn up or gets ripped apart in the upper atmosphere (2nd burn) or hits the pavement at 500kph (3rd) burn and doing so with very small margins of error.\n\n",
"Bill Gates is working on the world hunger bit, let Elon launch stuff into space.",
"That sucks because now people are gonna say \"see that's fake\"",
"Just fucking awesome.",
"So where is Elon’s car right about now?",
"Don't undersell it. Navigation is one thing. You still need to control the trajectory of the rocket.",
"Good fucking shot, Elon!",
"Yeah people have seemed to gloss over that fact",
"Usually they don't even fall to the ocean, they burn up in reentry.\n\nThese rockets would also burn up if they didn't do a certain engine firing high up before entering the atmosphere.",
"Yes but the car is just a test payload. Usually they use fillers of equivalent weight like a ton (2200 pounds) of bricks. This time, they simply used a car to fill the weight instead of bricks. Nothing impressive. ",
"True. I guess I just am unfortunate enough that I am surrounded buy the types of folks that are ambivalent to this kind of thing.\n\n I was two years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon… Although I may have been watching it, I certainly do not remember.\n\nThis is the run-up to this generation's landing on the moon event and I just don't get why there's not 24/7 coverage and people cheering in Times Square like it was back then… It's really sad that people are not as excited about this.\n\nSorry if I'm bringing everybody down lol!\n\nBy the way, thanks for the reply!",
"Yes, synchronized landing was so awesome when you didn’t need the outcome",
"Why do you people want to go into space? it's boring; just try watching the whole starman stream in one sitting.\n\nI'd rather play win xp pinball arcade.",
"I did too. I felt so much joy. My eyes started getting wet when I saw the dummy chilling in the Tesla on « Life on Mars ». I cried like a baby when the two boosters landed at the same time. So much beauty. Millions of years of evolution leading to this moment. What a time to be alive.",
" The human race, you insufferable cunt.\n\nDo you think the technology and the wherewithal to survive in space is just going to appear one day? Or maybe do you have to build a foundation first?\n\nYou posted that 1 trillion dollars could end world hunger. \nA single asteroid can contain 10 to 100 trillion dollars in metal. We will be able to bring one to LEO to mine. ",
"I want to quit my job and work for SpaceX. Take me Elon Musk!",
"Or \"You beat me because you love me\"",
"Man, you should have been here in Portland for the landing of Curiosity! We held a big viewing party at our local science museum, about 400-500 people showed up. And those last few seconds were tense as fuck, no one speaking, no one even *breathing.*\n\nAnd then they said \"touchdown, we're safe on Mars\" and the whole place erupted in loud cheers. I won't say it was the same level of achievement as the Moon landings, but the jubilation and joy in success were certainly the same.",
">Most of what you said was true, but the significance here is that we've never had a rocket this powerful. Especially not at this price. \n\nThe price I'll give you, but we've certainly had rockets this powerful (Space shuttle, Saturn V) regardless of whether you want to define it by payload or thrust, we just didn't have them *currently.*\n\nE.g., a *single* space shuttle solid booster produces 75% of all the FH stages *added together.* The whole shuttle launch has twice the thrust of FH, and the only reason it had 1/3 the *payload* is that that payload doesn't include the orbiter itself... The space shuttle had to put 135% FH's payload into orbit for every launch.\n\nSaturn V is the most powerful rocket we've ever had, at more than double both the payload and thrust of FH.",
"I'm not sure if Tide paid people to post that on every youtube video of a superbowl ad, or if the ad was just that effective. Either way, it is genius marketing.",
"Welp. I'm calling it. Falcon has officially replaced fuck in my vocabulary.",
"The fuel is kerosene, with liquid oxygen for the oxidizer. They are both cheap. (< $1/lb) ",
"So beautiful.. Sniff... ",
"I can’t even land a drone in 0 wind without smashing and these guys manage to do this.",
"https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980954/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-middle-core-failed-landing",
"True ,that just seems like sound advanced mathematics to me. Once you have the numbers right it all falls into place so to speak. Perhaps the most complicated aspect is the unknown like weather elements etc. can’t control that just make an educated guess and hope for the best. ",
"Well then",
"Nope, Chuck testa\n\nOr should I say.... Chuck tesla ",
"I like the high-vis vests. Just in case the rocket starts falling over, at least it can see the people and not fall on them.",
"Well howdy neighbor… I'm currently out of town right now but I should be back into Portland next month.\n\nHopefully I can meet you at the party during the broadcast of Elon's ship landing on Mars\n\nBTW, I miss OMSI!",
"Second most powerful. it is still, unbelievably, beat by the Saturn V",
"OMSI After Dark, man. Best parties around.",
"I worked there albeit via a contract for only a month through a group I worked with. Never met Musk, but I will say some of his executives are not exactly pleasant to work with/for. Just saying, but to be a part of what they do. May be worth it!",
"#prayforofcourseistillloveyou",
"Meh, the length of the pencil or the building doesn't matter. You would have to calculate using the area of the end of the pencil and the area of the bottom of the rocket.",
"spacex has existed since before tesla , it's about 16 years old actually.\n\nBut yes, still",
"If you were here right now, I would \"gild\" you\n",
"It truely was a beautiful day",
"> *this* era of spaceflight\n\nI suppose I could have read that wrong. *THIS* era may mean after the Space Shuttle/NASA. OK I can get that. - kinda.\n\nThis era of space flight is still under ~70 years old! Shoot the era of flight is just over a hundred.\n\nThe ISS is still going strong, we've put a rover on Mars, so I guess I don't see it as a new era, but a continuation.\n\nI appreciate your thoughtful response",
"Even the failures sound future as fuck",
"What a time to be alive! Amazing ",
"So - like - are we really buying this \"landing a rocket\" thing? I swear every time i see that it just seems faked. i'm pretty sure ya'll are pulling the wool over my eyes on this one. like - seriously - landing a fucking rocket upright? shit don't happen like that. ",
"Fast Unplanned Crash Kill Extreme Disassembly",
"F.U.C.K.E.D.",
"We live in an era where choreographed rocket boosters can land together. Unreal. Good work, SpaceX!",
"If you wouldn't control for wind with a 60+km drop you would miss the 87m diameter landing zone or the smaller barge.\n\n...I mean its all tweaking algorthims, looking how aggressive you can make those burns to save fuel and doing adjustments when you have issues and try anything you can to make your engines mroe controlable - consider what crazy amounts of power you unleash for seconds at a time, your ability to accurately do that is key to have any of this succeed, a launch is much easier in that regard.\n\n\nSpaceX had 7 failures and \"soft\" water landings before having their first successfull landing, since then they had 22 landings and 6 failures (or soft ocean landings).",
"Hurtling*",
"Not just any car, a Tesla. ",
"Yes and no. It was the main but there were three boosters that detached earlier in the flight. 2 of them properly remote landed for re-use and the third was still missing last I heard.",
"I’m a teacher, and I was trying hard not to let a couple slip out. I was just happy that my students seemed to understand how amazing this was, especially at this moment. Silly teenagers. ",
"How many uses do the get before they are not safe ? ",
"Cook, cook, where is my hassenpfeffer? ",
"Oh the times are changin. ♬♪♫",
"Dude asteroid capturing. Really??",
"Like pencil-sized ones?",
"Nuclear launch detected. Nuclear launch detected",
"...",
"Pretty sure you don’t need 20 billion dollars to do that... oh wait... maybe you do.",
"I just did some reading myself. It looks like the main booster ran out of fuel and couldn't fully reignite. As a result it missed the drone ship and hit the ocean at around 300mph.",
"You sound miserable. ",
"SpaceX was founded in 2002, but, yeah, it's still cool",
"The good news: It successfully landed on the barge.\n\nThe Bad News: It landed at 300 miles an hour and blew up the barge.",
"I have watched it 5 times since I saw it live, showing my kids, wife and the such.\n\nIt never gets old. By far the best launch footage recorded in any recent history.",
"as an engineer I would say it is impressive, but not insane. To common folk it looks insane, but it is exactly as we designed.",
"I'm not crying, you're crying! ",
"common folk: Insane!\n\nEngineer: See, I told you it would work.",
"Looks like a scene out of a sci-fi movie.",
"ITT: Lots of people who think engineering is magic.",
"Same, I thought there was something wrong with me.... I think the realization just hit me of how amazing this event is for humanity...\n\nOr maybe there just is something wrong with me ",
"Nice ",
"At T-minus 20 of today's launch he quite clearly says \"SpaceX Fuckin' Heavy go for launch.\"\n\nhttps://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c\n\nI'm on mobile, it's at the 29:30 mark.",
"260m is approximately 85 stories.",
"*slow clap*",
"What’s the significance of them landing simultaneously? Why do we need that to happen?",
"Is it because of its size?\n",
"im sure im not the first to say this, but i was sure it was all a joke.\n\n\nand then the first thing i saw on reddit, a day later as i get home from work, is a *fucking car getting shot into space,* just like in Elon's ridiculous instagram post. ",
"Hahahaha stahp.",
"Saw an interview, Elon said that if the cameras survived impact, he will release the footage. He said he is pretty excited to see what the crash looked like as well.",
"Big difference was this is in color.",
"Will that rocket come back from mars?",
"Whoa!!!",
"It certainly doesn't take away the euphoria I still have from watching that launch live.\n\nPrecision at its finest in almost every way. \n\nMy space boner won't go down.",
"Haaaaa!! That was amazing. ",
"Elon 100% confirmed to be a Culture agent from the Special Circumstances division.\n\nThanks for all your wisdom!",
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"2 out of 3 ain't bad with unmanned rockets. I'd give them a B-.",
"Let's hope they don't make a joke about Domestic Violence.",
"Don't forget he sold flamethrowers",
"this helps my brain make a little bit more sense of the absolute nonsense that i saw today^^^muthafalconconvertableinspaceWTF",
"100m away",
"...that doesn't change anything...",
"And do you expect world hunger to be solved sooner than that?\n\nAlso, Spacex is a private company. Why do *they* have to solve world hunger and not literally any other company in the world?",
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"I remember seeing 1950s scifi movies as a kid where they landed the rockets on another planet, and I mean, we all thought it was ridiculous. Post Star Trek, I caught *Amazon Women on the Moon* which is a 1980s comedy skit/film maybe 15 or so years ago late one night, and watching the rockets landing in the sci fi skit was laugh out loud funny to me, knowing, as any sensible 2005 person, that that's ridiculous. \n\n\nBut here we are. Looking forward to FTL rocket ships... don't laugh - that's what I did 15 years ago at landing a rocket.",
"Here's a person next to it [for scale.](https://i.imgur.com/j9n7WTi.jpg)\n\nSource: Instagram @\\_tom.cross_",
"I definitively thought it was a joke. One thing I've learned is to always take Musk's tweets seriously. I even thought the flamethrower was a joke.",
"Thanks for the stats I was semi familiar with their pst failures but looks like they’ve made a ton of progress. ",
"How many levels of irony are you on here?",
"I read it in spongebob voice : 🌈imagination🌈",
"He's a rare breed these days. He is literally a billionaire just playing around with money doing exciting, historic things and finding ways to make it just barely profitable, while having a few goofs and gags along the way. He has a cavalier and progressive attitude that should be admired.",
"The 2 that landed were fully synchronized and masterfully filmed. It should at least get a B+ or an A-",
"The cover up is that a Martian paid a shitton of money for that roadster. Xanxophloss Fllipdrad just thought it'd be a better way to pick up the martian ladies than using a boring old antigrav sled like everyone else in the underground cities region. ",
"Its the one that says \"BAD MOTHER FALCON\" on it.",
"This is really incredible, hope i can witness the first person to mars before I die.",
"South African making America Great Again!",
"This might be my favorite comment of all time",
"Now can you imagine the SLS? Its gonna be awsome!",
"That’s actually Tangfastic!",
"They've existed for 16 years, but point taken.",
"Technically the one in the foreground landed first. ;)",
"Whoosh",
"I've been a die-hard Philadelphia Eagles fan since I started watching football in 1989. Sunday night they beat the best coach, QB, and franchise in history, in an epic battle that had the most offensive yards in a single game in the history of the league, a game in which the greatest QB of all time threw for over 500 yards. After years of missed opportunities, heart wrenching losses, years at the bottom looking up, and all our rivals having already won championships that their fans held over our heads, the Eagles finally won a championship, and did it in the most impressive, most improbable way. It was the best feeling of my life, I felt so high that no drugs could ever even get close to that feeling, because it was a feeling of decades of turmoil and self loathing being lifted off my back, replaced with a cloak of magically pure joy.\n\nAnd then I watched this LIVE stream of twin boosters falling from space, gently landing with perfect synchronicity. The feeling I had Sunday doesn't even get close to how I felt watching this key moment in human history, and make no mistake, it *is* a key moment in our history.",
"I bet this is going to be the name of an alt coin in the future",
"I agree. Windows ME was a terrible operating system.",
"most powerful *active* rocket",
"In terms of thrust at liftoff the Heavy is near the top of the heap along with the Shuttle and Energia. The top dog is still (and will be for years) the Saturn V by a healthy margin which was half again as powerful as the Heavy is at liftoff. That rocket was simply ridiculous. In terms of payload the Heavy is the most capable in operation, but still a long way off....you guessed it, the Saturn V.",
"Oh his tweets are definitely jokes. He just turns them into real things afterwards cause he's fucking rich. ",
"Sufficiently advanced science, magic, indistinguishable, etc.",
"[62 years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNQRfn0GpjY&t=37m46s).",
"The guy is a goddamn living legend",
"We witnessed fucking history I can’t wait to tell my grand kids someday... it’s like when my grandpa told me about the moon landing ",
"It's rare a company of that caliber has pleasant execs. They exist for sure, but as Jordan Peterson notes.... Agreeableness as a trait does not predict success at the high end of careers.",
"Dunno man, he's making space way more than barely profitable. SpaceX is a different monster from Tesla.",
"This gives me chills",
"They’re 16 stories tall!",
"You're pretty fly for a fat guy and if I were you I'd add a nice little office too.",
"Same as the Delta IV Heavy. That asparagus shit just doesn't work out in real life.",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/NNkL54e.png)",
"> Landing such a booster equates to hitting a pizza from the top of ~~a 260m skycraper~~ 30 Rockefeller Center with a pencil.\n\nFTFY",
"It was playing Bowie's - Starman",
"Well fuck that. Better step your radar game up.",
"Its the middle one they are talking about. The core. Center rocket. The second stage is in space listening to david bowie. ",
"This is straight up science fiction turned into reality.",
"Unreal",
"I don't understand why you'd choose to make them land like this? Surely parachuted into water would be more efficient in terms of not having to carry so much wasted fuel up? ",
"I always wonder how Elon celebrates this stuff. It is literally some of the craziest shit anybody on the planet is doing right now. I have to imagine he’s just Scrooge McDuck-ing it into a mountain of cocaine. ",
"Yeah people think the double landing was a stunt. I mean, the whole launch was a publicity stunt on top of the craft's first testflight.\n\nBut it wouldn't make sense for them to land at different times. Delaying the reentry burn for one side core while the other lands by itself means the earth's rotation could screw with the delayed one's landing trajectory and waste fuel. It only makes sense that, since they both have to detach from the center core simultaneously, they both land within the same time frame.\n\nIt's still awesome that they can land such tall rockets.",
"What happened to the main component?",
"They uploaded [a revised version](https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE) of the stream a couple hours ago which includes both side booster views.",
"So? I don't understand the problem. Unless we are actually putting a sandwich in someone's mouth, we're all heartless fuckwads?",
"There are many reasons. Parachutes would be heavier than the fuel, and be single use. Boosters get damaged when landing with parachutes, parachutes are uncontrollable so you cannot make them land precisely. Saltwater damages engines and makes refurbishment difficult. You have to send recovery vessels and personnel to recover stages that land by parachutes, vs an unmanned droneship.\n\nAs for the fuel, they were already carrying this fuel as a contingency basis in case of an engine failure, if everything goes well the fuel that would normally be jettisoned can then be used to land. Fuel is also very cheap, it is by far the cheapest part of the rocket, it is just oxygen and kerosene. It costs only 200,000$ to entirely fuel a falcon 9 for the whole flight and landing, a parachute would be in the millions (For comparison the fairing alone on the upper stage is 6 million).\n\nAll in all spending 20-30K in fuel that would have been wasted to land precisely back at a processing facility is much preferred to any other alternative, even if they doubled the fuel usage of a falcon 9 and they spent 200k on on fuel for landing it alone it would be well worth the money.",
"And the third booster that didn't auto-land along with the other two. ",
"And he is marking them as \"not flamethrowers\" to get around customs. Sort of like Nathan Fielder's show \"Nathan For You\" when he rebranded fire alarms as musical instruments to get around customs regulations and tariffs as well.",
"Development costs though...\n\nIt cost SpaceX about $400M to develop Falcon 9, anothrr $1B for reusability, and Elon said about $500M for Falcon Heavy. So, $2 billion... ish... to get to this point.",
"The core is the third booster. Its the middle rocket. What are you not getting ",
"Kinda like how iron man lands.",
"Thanks! Damn, I really wish the core would have made it as well. ",
"Elon must have played Doom",
"There were a bunch of proposals for a reusable Saturn V, some more serious than others. Ranging from parachutes, to balloons, to shuttle-like wings. I can't find a reference to a SpaceX style retropropulsion landing proposal for it, though I'm sure there was one.",
"I thought there were three for return though?",
"I guess you could consider manufacturing and selling flamethrowers to commonfolk pretty progressive actually. Just depends on where you're trying to progress to.\n\nI typically think maybe the worst that'll happen is someone will burn property for views.\n\nThen I remember the amount of churches made out of wood.",
"I mean you'd figure that's a long ways to go for them to be totally even - I would expect little variances would build up.",
"My mind Instantly Shot to warhammer 40k's Dawn of war. Where the Tau(one of the alien races) building's were constructed by Orbial Platforms that Did basically this, then constructed buildings and then took off again. https://youtu.be/744QhyMlcBw?t=45 This is So hype. now we just need consistency, 100 out of 100 times, if not 1000/1000 times. ",
"First get the sweet car on mars. The babes will follow. ",
"Back in 2008 before the NASA contract came through, Elon was planning on killine one of the companies to keep the other alive. He could never decide which it would be.",
"Any idea if an HD photo exists? This is beautiful poster material",
"FH I believe is 2/3 the thrust of Saturn V, and 1/2 the payload",
">and will be for years\n\nHopefully not too many, BFR is coming for that title!\n\nAnd SLS and likely New Glenn are coming very soon to take FH's title of largest operating rocket",
"Not unless you have rocketman money, and also trade off of an increasingly revered forgotten scientist. I know why he picked Tesla but behind every genius branding idea is some public manipulation.",
"You laugh, but there are camgirls who eat for pay. ",
"Do they fuel it with a [big gas man](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-nMrdEt9Y)\n",
"I swear I bought that was the Stig in the car",
"Keep in mind that NASA didn't do this either. Yes I know about standing on the shoulders of giants, but clearly they were capable of this had they chosen to do so. NASA/the US is just as guilty of vision failure as anyone else.",
"A regular Falcon 9 costs $62 million, and that first stage is about $40m of that. It's pretty important. A Falcon Heavy has three of those, so potentially $120 million saved (though of course recovery and refurbishment costs quite a bit)",
"It feels like Orbcomm OG-2 (the first landing) all over again!",
"There's one on SpaceX's Flickr \n^^^(/u/AndPlagueFlowers)",
"Science has caught up with 1950s science fiction. This is [\"Tom Corbett - Space Cadet\"](http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/b4e36e6bcee004c71926f905176bad5d08650ee1/c=93-122-491-654&r=537&c=0-0-534-712/local/-/media/USATODAY/GenericImages/2014/06/08/1402260284001-Tom-Corbett-Space-Cadet-series.jpg) grade stuff.",
"He was saying that the human race accomplished something great today and you come with your negativity like a fucking iamverysmart 12 years old. \n\nDon't take it too hard, my dear assumption-making friend :) They're just words not a dick",
"It was a discussion not a party though. ",
"and don't confuse those Tide terraforming pods for candy!",
"A regular Falcon 9 uses ~$300,000 in fuel, so this is close to 3x that (not fully, because there's only one 2nd stage).\n\nBut $800,000 in fuel is nowhere near the $90 million price of the whole rocket (and that's the reusable price, a brand new one costs more to build)",
"Once again, life imitates art. The movie Heavy Metal did it with [Radar Rider](https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0?t=81) in 1981. Admittedly though, real life is cooler.",
"The middle booster of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket failed to land on its drone ship. ",
"that is so fucking sick",
"A shmuck pic would confirm.",
"lol. I don't know how you got so many things wrong.\n\nI did not imply every human is great. I said that the human race accomplished something great, and we should be proud of that. If you don't think this spaceX test was great then you should fuck off. This test is not the result of a \n single company working hard, it is the result of decades of work\n\nyou're the one who tries to be a smart-ass. I don't know where you got that.",
"I doubt they were intentionally hiding anything. They released a compilation of their landing failures on their own official YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ",
"Now redo the math with the horizontal distances? Like hitting a pizza one district over? A block away?",
"I cried too man. It’s ok 👌 ",
"I did not deny your claim. I said that your negativity is unneeded an that OP is not referring to each individual human, but rather to the human race as a whole. ",
"...Take your upvote and get out.",
"I thought it was playing Life on Mars, and the robot was called starman ",
"The man's an amazing role model, just what we need in these cynical times.",
"It's also fun to point out that they are trying to recover the *fairings* as well. The thing that covers the payload up. When I first heard this I thought \"Why?! Thats crazy\" until you learn that those things cost several million dollars. I guess when everything gets made out of titanium, everything is expensive.",
"They never intended to reuse the core motor though so its not a huge loss.",
"That would definitely put some waves over the ship. Where did you read this?",
"Nice, this version has the fairing separation in the right spot too. They messed up the timing of that in the live cast and weren't showing the view from the payload when the fairings separated.",
"> A+ camera setup.\n\nWhich makes it all the more baffling that their only cameras on the drone ship were still just the ones on the drone ship, which predictably went out due to vibrations just like before.\n\nWhy don't they have a camera at a distance with a long lens?\n\n",
"It be more unusual if they didn't land in sync. If you are off by a fraction of a second at the altitude they detached, you are going to miss your mark by miles not meters.",
"I stand corrected haha, so it is!",
"You can even see half of the ship's screen, on the hosts' view. It seems empty after the smoke clears.",
"Well done. You earned a cookie :/",
"They hit that pizza on a dime sized center point though. ",
"Musk said it during the post-launch press conference.",
"Just like the BFG isn't the \"Bio Force Gun\" in Doom",
"Skycraper ",
"Fair",
"My Sci-fi senses are tingling!",
"Well, not quite the same moment. Musk explained in the press conference that they were intentionally slightly out of step due to concerns about radar sensors on each booster.\n\n",
"No he is saying that a shockwave from an explosion would've caused the other one to move. Not just turbulence from the other rocket.",
"That's still 10 heavys",
"No, the rovers from the Apollo missions that we left on the moon get that honor. Certainly the \"fastest\" car ever made, though!",
"Never understood the name Falcon Heavy until I heard the guy say “Falcon Heavy ready for launch” and had to rewind bc I thought he said “Fuckin’ Heavy.” Knowing Elon, that’s no coincidence. ",
"No I too think ur dead wrong. A single core crashing into the ocean doesn't mean shit for SpaceX. 2 out of 3 cores landed successfully. I don't think any space company is as open as SpaceX is. If something fails the public will know about it live. They've done it before. They've aired falcon 9s blowing on the launch pad, on ascent, and while landing. A falcon 9 core crashing doesn't mean crap. They've landed falcon 9s too many times to count.",
"But I really get an eery feeling that this is one of those times where something crazy happens in the world, and you just can’t believe this is happening (like trump elected) and then you think about it and realize that you have seen this scenario happen already- you just thought it’d be relegated to the imaginations of sci-fi or historical dystopia. But this... might become skynet, we’re are in the opening credits with all the news clips of people cheering and happy.",
"Can you imagine going back in time to the 60s and showing this image to Apollo engineers? Their reaction would be something like, \"Why are those two rockets taking off at the same time?\" \n\n\"They're not. They're landing.\"",
"This is due to modern advances in technology and the fact that the failure happened while the booster was in Earth's atmosphere",
"100ft but it's the size of a skyscraper",
"Astonishing",
"Someone might drive a tesla through that wood.",
"I just love the little bounce.",
"Not to mention that $90m figure is less than a quarter of the cost of its nearest competitor.",
"The core stage is twice as big as these, if they landed it that would be INSANE",
"Musk said that they delayed one of them a bit to make sure there wasn't any radar interference from the other rocket. I don't think that aerodynamic disturbances would be that big of a deal, those things are huge. It is hard to see the scale, but there is something like five-6 feet of space between the engines and the ground when they are landed.",
"I thought he said hit the water? He kind of said it under his breath, maybe I misheard.",
"Didn't make it, but they weren't planning on using, I think, any of them. They have a new version coming out, version 5 or something. The final one for the Falcon series.",
"How do you manage to be such an insufferable cunt during a moment like this? God knows the kind of prick you must be on a normal tuesday",
"Math and engineering pay off!",
"400 kph is pretty damn fast. Not to mention, you have to go 400 kph before you can go 26,000 kph. \n \nIn all seriousness though, when you are still low in the atmosphere, you have to go slower because there is a lot more air to plow through. As you get higher though, the air gets thinner, so you can go faster without stressing the rocket too much. But before you get to that, the thing is just heavier lower down. Most of the fuel you use in a launch is to get more fuel in the air.",
"Sarcasm?",
"What I found amazing, wasn't this round of launches but when they retrieved that craft by landing on a barge. THAT was amazing. Getting something into orbit is easier then landing it in a controlled manner. And NO, not suggesting every part of this isn't incredibly difficult, getting something into orbit isn't easy at all, just compared to a controlled landing.",
"We can start solving world hunger right now by you eating my cock!",
"I was hearing 100 feet.",
"Sorry not hungry. You know it would be gone right? Go find a string out bum to bite your dick off. Or not. The choice is yours.",
"No it's not, the core stage is aslo a slightly modified Falcon 9 so same size as the booster, it just looks bigger because of the interstage and second stage on top of it.",
"Well according to this thread, 1 schmeckle is about 740 flurbos, and if the above post is correct that 2 smeckles is about .5 schmeckles, then we’d get 1 smeckle = 740/4 flurbos, or 185 flurbos.\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/5spfoi/schmeckle_to_flurbo_conversion/",
"They were infiltrating with \"roll Tide\" for quite a while in advance. Now we're just starting to see Phase 2.",
"The Weyland Corporation hasn't yet merged with Yutani Heavy Manufacturing Concern.",
"Even his jokes are serious. \"Hey, anybody want a flamethrower?\" \\*boom\\* ten million dollars of pre-orders in four days.\n ",
"Wow, is fuel really that cheap? Thanks! I just can't help but think that a vertical landing looks a bit more like showing off than practical. But thanks for the detailed reply, I'm sure bigger brains than mine have thought about it and come to the same conclusion as you have! ",
"I can livestream a car flying through space from my shitter... fucking cool ",
"I see him as the Howard Hughes of the 21st century. If Elon Musk were to set up some new company to mine manganese from the ocean floor, you'd think little of it, even if it's [really a cover story for salvaging Soviet nuclear subs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes#Glomar_Explorer_and_the_taking_of_K-129). Same sort of wild bold exuberance, somehow combined with actual results. I'm glad someone's working for an interesting future.\n\n",
"> 2 out of 3 isn't bad\n\nAnd that's why I'm never going to love SpaceX.",
"Now I want a pencil rocket with grill wings and a good control system, so I can throw it off my building and have it return to me.\n",
"It's always really tough when you love your X.",
"Give it a minute. ",
"I was a little shocked at how casually they plopped down. Took a while to sink in how absolutely incredible the technology behind it is. We truly live in amazing times for technology. ",
"It’s amazing we have people smart enough to engineer those yet still so many people who don’t believe in science.",
"Main booster? Hit the water at 300 mph due to engine ignition failure.\n\nMain spacecraft? Elon’s car is currently on its way to the asteroid belt.",
"That's so sexy I think it's fake. Clearly those are fake...I mean...real ones just don't have that...stability.",
"The larger something gets, the easier it is to handle.\n\nWhile it might seem the other way around, it is easier to fly a passenger plane than a business jet. And it is easier to fly a business jet than an radio controlled jet.",
"And I always thought the landing struts looked a bit whimsy\n\nAs it turns out, they are 2-3 times larger than expected ",
"Their reaction to that would look a lot like the ending of the first Kingsman movie ",
"This is just amazing. Something like this was the holy grail just a few years back. And just as soon this will be commonplace. SpaceX is ambitious, but is also delivering, so they have every right to be. What a time to be alive!",
"Technically \nThey are landing from the moment they take off then ^_^",
"You also need to account for the fact the air is a lot thinner from high altitudes.",
"About what would cost NASA just two build just one and a half similar sized rocket",
"gracias",
"Now do it again using imperial measurements.",
"Still waiting for gif to load...",
"I always thought that SpaceX was his life goal because his life goal was making humanity multi planetary. \n\nMoving us over to electric everything on earth is just a really nice to do he stumbled into.",
"And the pizza's actually in ~~hoboken~~ EDIT: Having done the math, bryant park",
"Based on the video of separation, the boosters split off about due north of the west end of grand bahama, or about 138 km from cape canaveral. Using the scaling above, that'd be 580 metres away.\n\nIf the skyscraper is 30 rock, the pizza's at bryant park.",
"I wouldn't worry, flamethrowers are illegal in Norway...",
"Young Sheldon nailed it",
"The return has active guidance using tiny flow-through fins.",
"When people voted in Trump to \"run the country like a business\" they were thinking a startup like what Musk happen to be running, not a money laundering, serial-bankruptcy operation like Trump/Putin 2016. Future is so close, yet, so far away",
"If you're japanese, they'll sound the same.",
"That's how it should be. Billionaires hoarding money kills the economy and human progress.",
"Yup, history was written with this launch.",
"Yes. NASA already has the concept and it is scientifically sound. ",
"Hurdling is the sport where you jump over small fences while running.",
"Tesla needs to start putting bananas for scale...",
"Its orders of magnitude more difficult to launch three boosters connected together, balance all the thrusts and forces so they don't tear each other apart on the way up, and have them separate successfully.\n\nLanding was the easy part, and its not that easy considering the center core failed.\n\nThe launch was the amazing part. The landings were just porn for space nerds.",
"Landing at the same time is necessary because there is limited area for landings at Cape Canaveral. The significance of the landings is reusability. Anything that falls in the ocean needs to be taken apart and refurbished. The goal for SpaceX is landing a rocket, refueling it, and launching it again a few hours later with another payload.\n\nUntil SpaceX perfected landings, most rockets were a total loss after delivery of payload to orbit, and even the solid rocket boosters on the Space Shuttle cost millions of dollars and months of work to refurbish. Its like flying from New York to LA and throwing the aircraft in the trash. Reusability saves dump truck loads of cash.",
"Elon mentioned during the press conference last night that they intentionally staggered the rocket touchdowns by a couple seconds because there was a slight concern that the signals from the on-board landing radars would interfere with each other.",
"Right in the feels my friend! Those boosters landing simultaneously brought me to the waterworks. The future of space travel occurring in front of us. ",
"Landing on a dot isn’t that impressive. I never understood why people are so impressed with long distance landings that hit their mark. The rocket has boosters to adjust trajectory and onboard guidance systems. What is impressive is the control system to maximize fuel efficiency for the corrections needed (a bad system will waste fuel overcorrections or even worse oscillations). Another thing that is impressive is the landing since their dealing with such massive structures. The amount of precision need to preserve structural integrity is insane. ",
"Musk must need the Boring company to work on his volcano lair.",
"It hit the ocean 100m from the barge, but that was still close enough to damage 2 of the four engine pods on the ship.",
"I hate such analogies. People do it all the time comparing Mars landings to golf shots. \n\nFirst dropping a pencil and hitting a golf ball are both unguided objects. Other then the initial drop/hit, no further input/corrections can be made.\n\nNow if the pencil has a guidance system along with some kind of trajectory correcting kinetic force generator, then it’s more comparable. The problem is still hard (getting it to land upright on a dime), but no longer impossible. ",
"Watch the gif posted below. They weren't exactly timed up. The closer rocket lands first. Still very awesome and impressive! ",
"How long until dual flame throwers are an option on Teslas?",
"Im not saying this as criticism but neither Tesla nor SpaceX are profitable by a large margin.",
"Wait, so it hit the water at 300mph and only *damaged* two engines?\n\nWow.",
"Also manages to make his futurism interesting and cool to even the dumbest mofo. Can’t remember everyone as interested in something slightly space related as red bulls 40k skydive, and this is way more interesting/useful.",
"Two engines on the ship 100m away, not two engines on the booster. The booster is essentially shrapnel and tinfoil now. ",
"Of course, humanity is clinging on to space travel as the last frontier to conquer. Without space, what would humanity look forward to? It makes sense then that anyone who cast shade on the vast emptiness is an enemy of our collective delusion and must be cauterized.\n\nI am not miserable precisely because I accept the meaninglessness of it all. You people can't understand that and project your own misery onto me in an effort to protect the safety blanket of lies you call \"exciting space exploration\" and \"human colonization\".\n\nThere is a reason barely anyone lives or travels to Antarctica. ",
"He said he’d sell flamethrowers as a joke if enough of his boring company hats were sold. And then actually sold fucking flamethrowers when they did. The guy is a legend",
"We are truly watching history in the making",
"Go watch the entire starman live feed video. After 5 minutes you'll know the answer. ",
"Elon actually isn't selling flamethrowers, since flamethrowers use a flammable liquid by definition.",
"It’s also against the rotation of the earth, on a much longer timeframe and several 100 kms away from the landing site. Its more like throwing a pencil on a guy slowly walking a pizza box ~half a mile over.",
"Thats what She said!",
"If a simolean and a cabbage had a kid, a smeckel would be the kid's retarded cousin. ",
"This might be the cringiest, most dick-for-brains comment I have ever read and this is in the era of trump. Impressive. Thanks for confirming your misery. ",
"1000! ",
"Thanks for the response, but that doesn’t answer the question, only presents another. If there’s such limited landing space, why now cram in TWO rockets landing simultaneously on the same plot, rather than cycle the landings (thus saving space AND heartache)?",
"I'm super impressed that they were reused for this mission. ",
"The real question is how reusable they really are. Is it just fill it up again and it’s ready to go, or only a few parts can be used up for a brand new rocket?",
"You can only cycle the landings so much with the available time, distance, and fuel. \n\nIt boils down to: they are capable of landing at nearly the same time and place, its convenient to have them land in the same vicinity, and it looks cool. ",
"Ooooo, makes more sense.",
"https://imgur.com/EucIfYY",
"> Are you really upset that the live video streaming from something falling from space wasn’t perfect?\n\nI was going to say \"obviously no\". But the downvotes show it was not obvious, so here it is, no I'm not upset.\n\nAt most a bit disappointed that the stream is not as good as it could be, it's not rocket science to do a nice stream. In hindsight ,that may be the issue. \n\n> And I’m willing to bet they cut the feed from the drone ship and ended the cast because they lost the center booster. \n\nI don't think so, I'm talking about the whole stream, not the drone ship feed. It ends quite abruptly with a \"was great, but\". \n\nThey could continue the stream, talk about stuff, show the launch from other angles, maybe even continue and steam the press conference. \n\nAlso, if they really wanted to hide the failure, will they failed, it was indeed obvious, and stupid to, since they announced it later anyway. ",
"The new one is going to be called the Big Falcon Rocket. Gotta love the way he names things.",
"And you responded with an insult, further downgrading the level.",
"Thanks! That makes sense! I knew fuel was expensive but I didn’t realize how much more expensive rockets themselves were. I figured boosters were cheaper",
"Your illogical, sputtering brain is an insult to developed brains everywhere. ",
"It was not the world's most powerful rocket, not even close. It was an economical rocket.",
"Agreed.",
"fuck no.",
"Well.. It has been doing that in the past lol\nhttps://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ",
"Oh, so, like, NBD: https://i.imgur.com/TvlQtzp.png Blows my mind.\n\nNow factor in how much extra altitude they gain after separation because they're still going up and reversing their ground track. JK",
"He's not a billionaire like Gates, you were more wealthy than him multiple times during the last 10 years. https://venturebeat.com/2010/05/27/elon-musk-personal-finances/",
"I was watching this in bed, and kept reading out the velocity. My Mrs *so* did not care. Then, when the boosters landed, even she went, \"Woah!\"",
"He did have his car models spell out S3X.",
"At least from what I’ve seen, the boosters usually tend to land in the center of the pizza in an area around the size of a dime away from the center of the pizza.",
"Yeah, the accuracy is quite astounding...I wouldn't be surprised if they generally now achieve an accuracy of <2m.\n\nI see no real way to utilize that accuracy with Falcon 9 or Heavy but I figure if replicated it will be valuable with BFR and the BFR Ship which should be a pain in the ass to move.",
"They corrected it in the archive video after the launch\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE&t=29m45s",
"I don’t think it was stupid. The vast majority of the public was focused on everything else so by not mentioning the failure to recover immediately was a great PR move. The major news outlets were already running articles on the success and not the center core so that’s how the general public remembers it. A perfect example is that everyone in my office had no idea that anything had happened until I mentioned it today. And even then they responded with “but I saw the two land?”. ",
"In Commericial Aviation a craft is designated 'Heavy' if Maximum Takeoff Weight exceeds 300,000 pounds. This is used mostly to judge and communicate Wake Turbulence minimums.\n\nThere might be different rules however for rocket names.\n",
"Have some respect man. This is an *engineering* feat.",
"Engineering at there finest - very exciting moment for humanity :P ",
"There's no way the engineers at SpaceX don't nickname this one the \"Fuckin' Heavy\".",
"Computers dude. Computers can do wild things.",
"They didn't name it the Fuckin' Heavy for nothing.",
"This was the by far the coolest part of the whole launch to me, seeing those boosters touch down bullseye style.",
"A gif is a picture format.",
"r/HFY",
"To be technical, it's an image format. On top of that, this is still a subreddit for still images.",
"Oh, didn't see rule VI.",
"Look dude, I gave an opinion and you responded by calling me miserable. That's an ad hominem; you're basically just attacking the messenger.\n\nI further develop my argument and you now reply with insults. At this point, you've reached the bottom of Graham's pyramid of disagreement and you seem to not want to move any higher.\n\nBut I didn't expect someone named \"KidAstronaut\" to even consider my position. You're just too invested in this space thing to accept it being anything less than the promised land.\n",
"Looks like \"Thunderbirds\" .",
"Man that was just something out of a sci-fi movie happening in real life. It blew my mind and totally didn’t look real.\n\n",
"You're a fucking dumbass lmao\n\nDo you even leave your own home?\nYour street?\nYour neighborhood?\nYour township?\nYour city?\nYour state?\nYour country?\nYour continent?\n\n\nHow do you function being so absolutely terrified of exploration? Do you only live online? Do you not believe in Google Maps? How do you discover new restaurants? Do you order delivery for every meal? \n\nI have so many questions for how someone develops such an absolutely moronic and non-sensical \"opinion\" or why you feel the need to belittle an entire population because you think, for some absolutely ASININE reason that space exploration is..like..bad or something. Or a waste of time. Who fucking knows what you actually mean, you haven't presented a single shred of reasoning behind your \"opinion\". \n\nIs Magellan your arch-nemesis? Did NASA touch your private parts? Do you consider compasses to be tools of the devil? Was Henry Hudson your always absent step-dad? Did Neil Armstrong give you a fun-size candy bar instead of a full-size on Halloween? I mean what in the actual fuck?",
"how does it feel to be WRONG?",
"OMG Yes! I actually stood up out of my chair in amazement. ",
"Does not compute, banana required.",
"We have the BEST engineers at SpaceX.",
"Calm down, Kid.",
"in any history, period. it's only ever gotten better, and this is the best ever.",
"lmao i was wondering the same thing because it seemed like there should be some aspects flipped or something",
"Did you see the corrected version, where the side booster views are proper?\n\nShit is amazing ",
"Well it’s been a very long time but that was on purpose. They desyncronized them so that the shock waves produced by each booster wouldn’t effect the other as much, and so that their radars wouldn’t interfere with eachother. "
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"That was impressive to watch. 10/10 gold medal shit right there.",
"This was an incredible thing to witness live!",
"My god SpaceX did it, they put a goddamn car in space. Mars he we come!",
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They Did It!
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"Seeing those two rockets land simultaneously was amazing",
"That was fantastic. Brings back fond memories of the Apollo launches. Congrats to the whole SpaceX team! Next stop, Mars.",
"Amazing! Just waiting for the visor to come up and it be Elon giving a thumbs up. "
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Elon Musk on his way to Mars
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"Amazing!",
"Elon Musk is my spirit animal. Bless him",
"Pretty sure that if we're using possessives, you belong to Musk, not the other way around..."
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Two Falcon 9 boosters landing simultaneously after the Falcon heavy launch.
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"Holy fucking shit that was epic to watch! Go spaceman! ",
"What about 3rd one?",
"That's just straight up showing off.\n\n*\"Suck it, NASA\"*",
"This moment was epic.",
"What would I do with 20 billion dollars?\n\n[I'll tell you what I'd do.](https://i.imgur.com/5SCBryd.jpg)",
"That was fucking amazing! "
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They did it! SpaceX just successfully landed 2 boosters at once, 5 minutes ago!
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"I sure hope he brought his towel!",
"Rocket man!",
"He should probably turn on the headlights.",
"Everyone get ready for the shop jobs.",
"List price of launching a car into the same orbit as Mars? 90 million dollars.\n\nActual value in terms of humor and hope for humanity? Priceless. ",
"I don't see a towel in that cockpit.",
"The fuck could Musk be any cooler?",
"Things like this are why Brave Little Toaster is the darkest timeline.",
"Don't panic and HODL!!",
"Anyone else get a Heavy Metal vibe from this?",
"42.",
"There is a towel in the glovebox, as well ",
"I wouldn't be surprised if this some had a cameo in Infinity Wars.",
"Correct, but what was the question?"
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Don't Panic!
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"That was AMAZING!\n",
"Just saw this in Florida! Now I know how everyone felt during the Space Race. Keep it coming Elon!",
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The exact moment my heart was going a mile a minute and my arms full of goosebumps. #science
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"IT SHOULD THOUGH. FUCK.\n\nNo reason to keep bringing that pic up.",
"But tha Karma!",
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This. Is. Never. Going. Away.
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"The world's most powerful active rocket *in three pieces*. But that is a great shot, and the stream was absolutely magnificent! The dual booster landing was nothing but astonishing.",
"It's truly amazing what Elon Musk has achieved, watching those two boosters land simultaneously was just breathtaking! \nAnd thank you, John, for always taking these Amazing photos of all the launches!",
"does anyone know if the core falcon 9 landed on the barge successfully? the feed cut out before it landed and the talking heads didn't mention it any further",
"what camera did you use?",
"Looked you up specifically for this! You take amazing photos my dude ",
"When I see sweet SpaceX photos now I just auto assume it's John Krauss (sp?)",
"I think it exploded/crashed. Feed tends to cut as it lands due to interference/vibration etc. \n\nStream then ended before any confirmation happened. ",
"I agree. If it landed successfully, I feel like they would have announced it right away, but they seem to be awfully silent about it.",
"No, but seriously, Elon Musk is just a man with a dream without his massive team of brilliant, hard working, and passionate engineers. They are the people doing the math, design, and construction of these unbelievable feats of engineering. ",
"I feel like he’s answered this before. Check his comment history ",
"Of course there's also a giant team behind it, but Elon does work on the engineering and design himself, and without the billions he's earned through his other ventures this would not have been possible at all",
"Someone linked it in the other thread. They said they lost it during the stream, so they weren't hiding anything. At the time they had no more details then that, I'm sure they will investigate and let us know.\n\nAll considering this flight was a huge success, they weren't even sure the rocket would work.",
"Kraus. One s.",
"My point is that it is now a couple hours after the launch, and there is still no word. Surely they would know by now...",
"Yeah thanks. I actually went and checked Instagram right after I typed it but then just left it.",
"#***ELON BTFO. CAPITALISM WINS***",
"SpaceX has been heavily funded by NASA through a program meant to help multiple companies develop new rockets. Which is kind of the antithesis of capitalism. Hmm.",
"Not just that, but a huge amount of his wealth and accomplishments are only made possible because he is funded by the government, ie, your tax dollars. ",
"Happy cake day",
"Nice birthday present, Happy Cake Day. ",
"Happy cakeday🚀",
"Love the big American flag on the top. 'Merica!",
"Your dildo is on fire op ",
"Looks like they're spending my money well. ",
"Its not the antithesis of capitalism at all. The existence of a free market and ownership of goods is what provided the profit motives for SpaceX to exist, and the investment infrastructure for their funding. Without the capitalist free market economy SpaceX would not exist. Without NASA, SpaceX might exist, but 0% chance without capitalism.",
"They obviously do, but they are focusing on getting good PR out of the other extremely successful parts of this launch. Which all things considered, I can't blame them for.",
"I was there today, what a great day. Amazing shot.",
"Elon mentioned in the press conference that the centre core only had one engine lit instead of the intended 3 due to them running out of the liquid used for ignition, so it came in too fast.",
"It ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean at 500 km/h\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42969020",
"Only one of the three engines ignited when it was landing which caused a failure and crash. Hopefully we'll see video at some point. The drone ship lost two engines when the center core crashed. Not sure if it crashed in the water or actually on the ship. It's reported it crashed at around 300mph. ",
"Great photo! You’ve captured an historical moment beautifully. Well done. ",
"I have no problems with my tax dollars going towards innovating space flight. ",
" By far the best publicity stunt ever! ",
"Severely underpaid engineers working 70+ hours a week",
"I wouldn't be surprised if he unveiled a mechanized crime-fighting suit. Dude is a real life Tony Stark.",
"As someone else mentioned only 1 of the engines ignited. From what I've read the core came flying in to the ocean at 300 mph and was 400 feet away from the barge. Sadly it missed and exploded into sharapenel, but still a victory I think as 2/3 of them returned.",
"It looks like a giant...",
"Preach. The median age of engineer is under 30. They all overwork themselves for low pay on crazy deadlines and then burn out. And then they are all depressed because that engineering is the absolute most cutting edge and they can’t hack it anymore.\n\n\nSucks. It’s why I get salty when people ring Musk’s bell without recognizing the thousand or so wunderkind making him look so good. ",
"Nope. Failed to fire 2 out of 3 engines and impacted the water at 200 MPH, damaging the drone ship in the process. [Sauce](https://www.space.com/39607-spacex-falcon-heavy-first-test-flight-launch.html)\n\nStill. Payload made the target trajectory, and that's the mission. They'll only get better and better at recovering those Falcon 9 cores. ",
"I was wondering when I would see your shots from today show up. \n\nReally glad you had good conditions and didn't have the beach closed like a couple weeks ago. Looks like the remote shutter worked perfectly.",
"SpaceX tends to post videos of their failures (which is amazing) so I think we'll get that at some point",
"It crashed.\n\nIt was already obvious during their live broadcast. \"We lost the video feed, it happens. We'll get back on that later\"... Yeah sure, pal.\n\nThey are PR pros. Focus on the good, ignore the bad.\n\nStill a big success, though, with the payload in orbit and two boosters landed successfully. Landing the core would have been the icing on the cake.",
"Such a rocket just to launch 1 car into orbit?!",
"It's the most powerful rocket in the world right now. It is capable of putting 130 tons into low Earth orbit. It delivered the payload mass of a car out to touch the orbit of Ceres, well beyond Mars. ",
"only 1 of the 3 core engines relit for landing, it hit the water at 300mph and about 300 ft from the barge. it sank the barge lol"
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Photo I shot of the liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket — now the world’s most powerful active rocket.
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"What is in the container on top of it? ",
"I think it is a candle.",
"They do get some appreciate but they also have to deal with a *lot* of shit. Beat cops see the worst of every neighborhood.",
"That’s one sad looking candle ",
"It's not like it's literally the most praised and glorified job in America, with dozens of millions of people that believe that the moment you put on the badge you are untouchable and above the law. \n\nYeah, totally thankless... ",
"> it's literally the most praised and glorified job in America\n\nUh huh. So why can 90% of Redditors sing [the refrain to this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tke_27wbW-0)?",
"Not gonna lie, I'd probably tear up if I saw that in person. It's good to see Deputy Flick was the type of guy to inspire a response like that. I hope the best for his family.",
"Soo just because it’s “not thankless” means we should just not thank them ever?",
"When a cop shoots an innocent civilian like that guy who got swatted, they dont even admit fault, and none of them give a shit....\n\nWhen a cop gets shot doing the job they knew was dangerous, we're all supposed to stop and mourn like its the end of the world? Nahhhh im good.\n\nI dont wish any harm on cops but them valuing their own lives more than the people they swore to protect sickens me...."
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A police officer was killed last night in a shootout at the apartment complex next to mine. Walked outside this morning to find this. Thank you Officer Flick and thank you to whomever left this message.
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"Is this a game?",
"? This is a photo from Space X...",
"This was from today's launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Inside was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, this is real.",
"lol ya just read about it after "
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Don't forget your towel. Godspeed!
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"Thank you for the nightmares.",
"But it looks like Lucas.",
"Spiderbros are cool. They get a lot of hate. I do my best to leave them alone after I noticed when I did flies in the summer started to go away. The bugs I hate are those super fast little fuckers with all the creepy legs.",
"Jumping spiders are adorable. Other kinds of spiders, maybe not so much.",
"House centipedes? Those guys are awesome. They also keep worse bugs out of your house. They can live for six or seven years if they have access to prey and water.",
"My brain doesn't know how to process 4 eyes into a face. I know the middle ones aren't giant nostrils, but if I make myself think of them as the eyes, the outer ones become unusual symmetrical moles. ",
"Most spiderbros are awesome. Don't know why people hate/are afraid of them so much. They mostly stay to their own little space, hunting other, more annoying insects - like mosquitoes.\n\nWasps on other hand... hate those little, prickly fuckers. Though I know they have their place in nature as well, and I try to avoid killing them indiscriminately.",
"Look at that cute face!!!",
"I LOVE Jumpers. They have LOADS of personality."
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Close up of a spider. Kinda cute actually.
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"Looks like some foot pronation going on there.",
"Tiny little baked beans!",
"Or tiny teddy bears!",
"*I placed my cat onto the scanner ",
"I didn’t, I tried to recreate the scan with better lighting but it didn’t come out right because she just wouldn’t stand still. \n\nShe jumped on the scanner while I was trying to connect the print/scanner to my pc, and I immediately hit the copy-button."
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My cat jumped onto the scanner
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"Elon you are a visionary genius, I salute you.",
"> the first rocket powerful enough to carry 140,000 pounds \n\nIn a few more years they may even be able to launch OP's mom!",
"Actually, the Saturn V rockets had a max payload of 310.000 lbs.",
"SpaceX should be a completely autonomous private chapter of NASA. No federal bureaucracy and red tape, but keep loyalty to the state and people.",
"Well well well, look what we have here a savage ",
"Include me in the screenshot",
"Thanks",
"Actually it was 261,000 lbs and nowhere in this post did it say the Falcon Heavy outdid that.",
"Hello 9-1-1? I'd like to report a murder.",
"Get in line.",
"sorry I meant the first rocket that powerful to be launched by a non government organization :/",
"This picture is from the static fire, though.",
"The payload to LEO of a [Saturn V](https://imgur.com/gallery/qv1aB) was 310,000 lbs. \nAnd, the title itself states that the Falcon Heavy is the first rocket powerful enough to lift 140,000 lbs. \nThat is inaccurate.",
"That is absolutely correct. Kudos to Mr. Musk.",
"Sorry to inject a little fact: \"Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support, according to data compiled by The Times. The figure underscores a common theme running through his emerging empire: a public-private financing model underpinning long-shot start-ups.\". Also, last time I looked Cape Canaveral was a federal installation.",
"It makes me wonder if technology is getting cheaper where the super rich can afford a space program. Or if the one-percenters are just making so much more money that they can afford to do it.",
"I came to say this...\nYes, it’s a non government agency, but it’s government funded, on government property, and no doubt had government employees help in construction and launching. \nSo the only thing that’s truly non government, is the name of the company. SpaceX.",
"Not government run is a very loose way of describing it",
"Que up.",
"Any time.",
">launched by a private space agency instead of a government run one.",
"\"Today marks a milestone, the first rocket powerful enough to carry 140,000 pounds was launched **by a private space agency instead of a government run one. \"**\n\nI wish people would take note of this. Private industry/capitalism can do a lot of good that government can't. ",
"That is correct.",
"The opposite is also true. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of spaceX and capitalism generally but using this as an anti-government talking point is absurd.",
"Is it really? Private industry innovation is amazing when there is a profit to be made. Innovations that come from military spending would be the only thing in my mind that rivals it. \n\n\nIt may just be just my opinion but outside of defense the federal government sucks. Everything they get mixed up in is bloated and inefficient. \n\n\nAnother example would be the USPS and UPS/FEDEX. ",
"I wish people like you looked at it realistically, as in terms of value, for starters. \n\nYou all repeat this same assertion and provide nothing resembling evidence, ever. \n\nLimbaugh?",
">It may just be just my opinion but outside of defense the federal government *of the USA* sucks. \n\nAs an aussie I'm pretty damn happy with my healthcare, education, postal services etc. In fact, things tend to get worse when the conservatives move things toward private control.",
"It's little thing called freedom mate. Looks like they took yours when they took your firearms. \n\nCrickey , I believe I can spend my own money better than the government can. ",
"USPS and UPS/FedEx. I mentioned in the last post. How about social security and medicare? SpaceX and NASA will soon be a prime example. \n\nJimmy Kimmel? ",
" Are you upset that they run at a loss?",
"Oh look another seppo that doesn't know a goddamned thing about how things work in this country yet are utterly confident in their ignorance. Good luck with that mate, hope the lax gun laws are worth kids getting shot in the face every other day.",
"He’s not funding it out of his pocket. Space X gets paid to build these by the government. They also get paid to launch satellites.",
"There’s no way for spacex to be a division of the federal government and not be bogged down by red tape and bureaucracy. ",
"Your space program is a bit lacking.",
"Well I did write my local member offering to glue a few hundred model rocket motors to a kangaroo, being a national icon and all, but they were none too impressed I'm afraid.",
"/r/titlegore",
"R/firststagecapitalism?",
"Awesome. Now we need something to put up on it.",
"SpaceX didn’t invent the rocket or figure out how to make them capable of putting people into orbit without killing them. \n\nIt was public money that made it possible for SpaceX to do what it did today. SpaceX built on top of all the really expensive and really risky fundamental research and engineering only a public agency could take on. NASA reduced the risks and challenges of spaceflight to a commercially tolerable level of risk.\n\nBasic research has no business plan. You get what you get and you learn what you learn. If meaningful advances in the science result then it opens the door to commercialization down the road. Exploiting technology is what private enterprise does best. Pioneering the basic science foundations takes an institution without a vested interest in the outcome. ",
"SpaceX’s loyalty is to its shareholders. You can’t have it both ways. ",
"Are you saying NASA engineers are morons because that’s a dumb thing to insinuate.",
"UPS and FedEx actually suck, are more expensive and don’t deliver letters.",
"At half the cost and using reusable rockets, unlike the ones NASA left sitting at the bottom of the ocean. ",
"Saturn V was built by Boeing too.",
"Thats 63.5 metric tonnes for the non-retarded folk...",
"Except for the max payload it isn't reuseable",
"Because not knowing a certain quantitative form makes you retarded?",
"Retarded? Or the other 17% of reddit?",
"Let the non-retarded folk build their own fucking space-ship then. ",
"The Saturn V was designed and built by Boeing though. Boeing didn't launch it though, NASA did that part. ",
"Fucking nailed it!",
"What did they send up besides fake dude in the car?",
"all three boosters are reusable (after refueling of course)... they landed safely... "
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"What is the 2nd word?",
"Little",
"Thanks",
"Well, atleast it's not a swastika"
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Found in a colouring book at my daughters guitar lesson.
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"Starman",
"Taken from SpaceX's launch today of the Falcon Heavy Test flight, which included a Tesla Roadster on the tip, with a \"Starman\" at the wheel, and David Bowie's \"Rocketman\" playing on the radio.\n\nCaptured from the launch video [@41:23](https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=41m23s)\n\nAnd here's a [live view of Starman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M), riding in the first car in space.",
"Fair enough",
"I'm just messing with you, I know what you meant. I thought the 'Don't Panic!' was a nice fucking touch.",
"No, you were right. He called the guy \"Star Man\". And yeah, the Don't Panic was pretty funny :D"
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SpaceX's Rocketman
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[
"Cool! We've exported a corrupt automotive industry to space! What will Big Business ruin next??",
"God damn right it will. ",
"/u/micronaught, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/micronaught&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vqqu1/1000_years_from_now_this_will_be_talked_about/?context=10\\))",
"I doubt it. When the first man reaches Mars, that will manifest for a 1000 years but while stuff like this is amazing now, it probably won't even be mentioned anymore in 30 years or so."
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1000 years from now THIS will be talked about.
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/r/pics/comments/7vqrmn/fuck_salt/
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[
"car wash time!",
"Looks to me like southern Ontario salt.\nI know my salts.",
"Kinda glad we don't use salt where I live",
"JEEZUS. How did you know that...?",
"Should be ecsatic! Salt is the spawn of the devil.",
"It's snowing this entire week...",
"still. wash it everyday if you have to. just dont let that stuff sit on your car longer than 48 hours. ",
"Icy roads aren't much fun either. ",
"Id like to meet the motherfucker that named it 'fashion bug'\n",
"OMG YES! You just **made** my day!",
"Neither are cars riddled with rust....",
"oh yeah??? My grandpa died fifteen years ago. Nobody gave a SHIT!",
"Please don't stop\n\n\nalso...\n\n**DON'T TALK SHIT ABOUT TOTAL!**",
"Yeah I know but it's pretty discouraging when you spend $10 and the next day it looks just like this...",
"You can see Audi Windsor on your front plate, friendo. ",
"I'm an idiot.\n\nEdit: you really zoomed in lol really had to get to the bottom of this"
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Fuck salt
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"/u/KingCon5, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/KingCon5&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vqru3/this_looks_photoshopped_but_its_not_spacex_has/?context=10\\))",
"Where will t Astronauts drive it? N o speedway on t moon!",
"The first car to escape the earth's atmosphere. Good job. Damn. ",
"Imma rocket man "
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This looks photoshopped but its not! SpaceX has successfully launched their Falcon Heavy along with this Tesla Roadster!
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[
"His real name is Major Tom ",
"Wait is this for real? Someone sent their car into space?\n\nI haven't kept up with space news. \n\nMy first question is why?\n\nEdit: wow thats amazing. Thank you spacemen for the explinations\n\nFollow up question, why do people still believe the Earth is flat???",
"Yup. Just happened about thirty minutes ago\nhttps://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=27m48s",
"It's Elon Musk. I am going to go with because he could. ",
"No. It's not.",
"SpaceX just launched their biggest rocket yet. They had to give it a test payload but because of high failure risk it couldn't be anything valuable so Elon Musk used his Tesla for the test payload, which is now heading towards the orbit of Mars. Check out /r/spacex !",
"Wow that's amazing!!",
"Guess you don't keep up. It's real and why not. \n\nI don't know you or where you are from so maybe keeping up with space travel is not your thing or hard to keep up with. I watched all the Apollo missions live including the first moon landing and Apollo 13 near disaster. I have a 35 year old son and we watched this together. Space travel is awesome. I recommend following what is going on. So fascinating.\n\nNow flat earthers? My belief is these people are lacking in some brain function. Low IQ and believe shit they read? My guess. Put it this way you won't see Steven Hawking or Bill Gates talking flat earth or Chemtrails or faked moon landings or any other conspiracy theory. Of course I put hard core Bible beaters in the same category of not bright. They believe in shit that's not real to. ",
"Yea it's tough for me to stay up to date with space stuff, guess it's not really my priority. It's super interesting and amazing that we can do all of these things. \n\nAnd I agree with everything you said about the flat earther/conspiracy loons. It just blows my mind that these people can still claim it's all fake with todays technology and previous space achievements prior to this."
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Tesla Roadster and Starman leaving Earth on their way to Mars
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"Im very curious, what does it do when pressed?",
"Takes you to a random room inside the factory.",
"Be cooler if the song came on instead. "
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This elevator has a shuffle button!
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"Full webcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c",
"Simultaneous? Seems to be a second or two apart.",
"**jerks-off motion**"
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A surrealistic, other-worldly experience just happened. SpaceX landed two of their Falcon rockets simultaneously!
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"Saw a mouse do that once. Really good Disney movie.",
"Saw a mouse do that once. Really good shrooms.",
"Saw a shroom do that once. Really good mouse.",
"Epic...\n\nFTFY",
"It’s cool, but I feel like taxidermy is disrespectful to the animals",
"I thought this was going to be Trogdor from the thumbnail."
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Historic taxidermy
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"Not gonna be as awesome if they crash and explode on landing",
"That’s true, but it’ll be a cool explosion at least. Fortunately these both landed successfully. ",
"Bro.... you were standing right by me. Did you hear the radio playing with the SpaceX broadcast?",
"Not sure if it was a radio, but definitely heard the stream. I was next to the sign, just to the left of the boat ramp. Where were you?",
"We were on the jetty towards the period, walked back with the stream playing. That’s probably when you heard us",
"If we keep launching these rockets, we'll eventually knock the Earth out of orbit and go careening into the Sun!\n\nCheckmate, atheists."
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Just two SpaceX boosters landing simultaneously. Hopefully will soon become a regular event but will always be just as awesome.
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/r/pics/comments/7vqwou/my_tooth_grew_in_perfectly_horizontal/
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[
"Oh you're going to have fun. This happened to me as well. My horizontal wisdom tooth compacted my rear molar resulting in a abscess. Got it too late. They had to pull both teeth and install a bone graft and now I am 'sans tooth'. Do not wait to have this removed you'll regret it if you do.",
"Fuck the system !",
"Remove. As soon as you can.\n\nYou freak of nature.",
"This is gonna have quite the impact ",
"This is the same situation I'm in now minus the removal. It's still there, still impacted and my rear molar is cracked and had a root canal done on it as a result. ",
"Seriously though, get that removed asap or you'll lose two teeth instead of just one.",
"Get it removed as soon as possible. ",
"Can't afford it; I live in the US.",
"You poor, poor bastard",
"My condolences. "
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My tooth grew in perfectly horizontal.
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"Live stream of Starman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M&feature=youtu.be\n\nEdit: Elon pointed out there is a mini roadster and Star man on the dash too. ",
"https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=KpNOzKYujbo&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDWMPe3wF9jQ%26feature%3Dshare\n",
"...what if he waves?",
"What do flat earthers have to say about this? ",
"Same thing they have to say about everything else, it's a conspiracy and fake.",
"That’s exactly what I thought of!",
"Same thing Trump supporters say about anything factual ",
"Real time video fake must all be cgi",
"you also have to remember you're arguing with people that are holding on to a theory that was popular in the 15th century.",
"The stormaker says it aint so bad ",
"I'm just going to leave this here. (Heavy Metal)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0?t=33",
"I hope that roadster can survive reentry, otherwise that guy is stuck up there.",
"I can actually say something about this as a former flat-earther myself. What you have to understand is that most flat-earthers are second or third generation at this point. These are no longer just people who decided that the world was lying to them. These are people who were taught and raised to believe that the Earth was flat. \n\nFrom young I was told that I was special, that because I knew \"the truth\" I was better than everyone else. I was isolated from other children and \"homeschooled\" until college, when I found out that it was all lies. \n\nThese people do not maliciously disregard information, they are trying to rationalize their entire existence.\n\nEven to this day my father's last words still haunt me, \"the world is like a t shirt on an ironing board, flat and wrinkly\"\n\nTldr; this is a tide ad",
"David Bowie would be so proud",
"This is the geekiest win ever.\n\nCan you imagine Elon’s giggles of glee looking at these pictures, that it worked out?\n\nRespect.",
"I wonder how long this stream will be available. I'd be curious to see the effects of the radiation on the roadster over time. ",
"When u fuck up the gps and it directs you to orbit. I hate when this happens.",
"You see, our lenses are round which means even if you look at a flat object from far enough away, it will appear curved, that means even if you fly up into \"space\" your round eyes will make the flat earth appear like it's round. This means flying to \"space\" with a \"rocket\" the earth will still appear to be round.",
"and to be honest not even *that* popular. \n\nThe people shit talking columbus knew the world was round, they just (correctly) thought it was much larger than columbus did and so he'd not have the supplies and navigational ability to make it all the way across the atlanto-pacific superocean\n\nPeople have known the world was round [pretty much since they figured out what \"knowing something\" meant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth) - cool sidenote, a guy called [Eratisthenes of Cyrene](https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm) worked out to a pretty good degree of accuracy how big the earth was using nothing but a stick, a well and some maths.",
"Actually, the Greeks already knew about the shape of the Earth, and in the 15th century it was already widely accepted as fact. So flat Earthers are dumber than ancient greeks",
"Should be a robot, and have it casually wave at the camera every so often. Freak everyone out.",
"This dude is a straight-up supervillain but when they were cooking him up they forgot to whisk in the 3 cups of evil.",
"Elon Musk posted a [video](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960992715579125760) with this view taken from launch control. You can hear someone saying “it actually really doesn’t look real. It’s like someone needs to work on their cgi”.\n\nSo yeah, nut jobs will dismiss this.",
"This has got the be the best HHGTTG reference ever made. ",
"If there's any movie that deserves a remake it's Heavy Metal. It had so much potential and was just kind of disappointing.",
"Typical liberal virus",
"The shadow of the earth against the moon is round and they weren’t idiots. I’m not trying to be reductive but the character Aloy made this point during the game Horizon: Zero Dawn and I think it bears repeating.",
"the stig knows no limits.",
"Try Heavy Metal",
"What was it that brought you to the dark side of sphericalness?",
"Is this the first photo in space taken by someone who's not a government official?",
"Not re-entering: the roadster is headed for a heliocentric orbit near Mars. It'll takea bout 6 months for it to get there. Once there... well, it'll probably be there for a billion years.",
"The ancient Greeks not only knew the earth was a sphere, but had it measured pretty accurately long before Columbus. Most people knew the earth to be round, but sailing too far from land was dangerous and scary. Also, they assumed the ocean was empty, so the distance from Europe's shore to Asia's around the world was too far for that day and age. Columbus was actually an idiot for attempting it without knowing a continent was there to resupply. Of course if anyone listened to the Vikings they'd know there was land there, but who listened to those guys? ",
"Pretty sure it's Elon saying that :P",
"\"Recalculating\"",
"Unless an alien steals it. ",
"While you are absolutely correct here, comparing flat earthers to the ancient Greeks in any capacity is still insulting to the Greeks. =P",
"Twist: it's actually Elon in stasis and when he enters Mars' atmosphere, he will wake up and declare war on Earth ",
"Of course it can. Just like the one back in '81.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/rYy_XJpI6uk",
"I have to wonder if he didn't set it up that way on purpose.",
"Is no one going to bring up the fact that Elon Musk is being celebrated for illegally dumping a car in space just because he has enough money to do so? That sets a pretty scary precedent for our future. #dontmesswithspace",
"Was it illegal?",
"That's a great question that I don't know the answer to. Not sure who governs space but if we think it's worth fining someone for throwing trash out of their car I think we should fine someone for throwing their car into space. \n\nSide note never thought I would have to say something like that lol",
"APPLE maps",
"Sounds like any other authoritarian religion to be honest. I was raised Mormon and echo the same kind of upbringing, being “special” because I had the “one true church”. Like most though, figured out it was a farce in college and I have been trying to figure my self out since.",
"Not illegal at all. He requested (and was granted) permission by the FAA. \n\n>all rocket payloads need a permit from the Federal Aviation Administration to launch, and Musk's sleek electric car is no exception. The FAA granted SpaceX that permission on Friday in a staunchly formal notice, which Keith Cowing posted on NASA Watch.\n\n>\"[Space Exploration Technologies is authorized to conduct ... a flight of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) transporting the modified Tesla Roadster (mass simulator) to a hyperbolic orbit,](\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/falcon-heavy-launch-spacex-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-car-2018-2)\" the FAA permit said.\n",
"Random people have taken pictures of earth with balloons before",
"Nobody \"owns\" space so what he did wasn't illegal. ",
"But was it right? Nobody owns the oceans but we know polluting the oceans has negative consequences. Why should space be any different?",
"Didn't know the FAA owned rights to grant disposal permits for space?\n\nEven if they did I'd argue that it's still wrong. Just like the oil and gas industry owns rights to dispose of salt water into injection wells even though it can lead to induced seismicity. ",
"You didn't say right or wrong, you said illegal, and it isn't illegal. ",
"That is a fact. ",
"If you want to make \"polluting\" space illegal I'm sure the states would be leading in fines since they've probably \"polluted\" it the most ",
"You just called it illegal and then said you don’t know. It’s not illegal, he requested it. And no, it’s not like polluting earth. I can’t believe you’d think sending a car in space is the same as throwing trash in the ocean. ",
"[Not illegal dude](https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/9/16742136/spacex-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-falcon-heavy-mars-international-space-law), and the advances in technology achieved by this exercise outweigh the infinitesimal impact of a car-sized piece of debris in orbit.\n\nNo offence, but unless we are practicing 100% emission free existences ourselves, we should abandon our high horses.",
"And it's not \"wrong\" either, given the learnings and advances in technology we gained from the launch vastly outweigh the negatives of putting something so small into a safe orbit.",
"I honestly can't even comprehend that this is real \n",
"This, [here's an easy to read article](https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/9/16742136/spacex-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-falcon-heavy-mars-international-space-law) on the matter.",
"Ground Control to Elon Musk \n\nGround Control to Elon Musk \n\nUnplug you Supercharger and put your autopilot on \n\nGround Control to Elon Musk \n\nCommencing Ludicrous mode, engines on (five, four, three)\n\nCheck ignition and may God's love be with you (two, one, liftoff)\n\n",
"You say David Bowie would be proud. \n\nYou know who else would be proud?\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat's here. *That's home.* ***That's us.*** \n\n*On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.* \n\n*The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings,*\n\n*Thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines,*\n\n*Every hunter and forager \nEvery hero and coward \nEvery creator and destroyer of civilizations` \nEvery king and peasant \nEvery young couple in love \nEvery hopeful child \nEvery mother and father \nEvery inventor and explorer \nEvery teacher of morals \nEvery corrupt politician \nEvery superstar \nEvery supreme leader* \n####*Every saint and sinner in the history of our species* \n\n##*Lived there on that glowing blue ball,* \n\n#***Suspended in the windshield of a Starman's Roadster.***",
"I fear radiation, harmful UV rays, cosmic dust, and atomic oxygen are going to ruin that beautiful paint job, but we’ll see. ",
"[Well played, sir.](https://i.imgur.com/grfKdRd.gif)",
"Spacelord motherfucker!",
"Don’t Panic! “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”! You gotta love the nerd in Mr. Musk!",
"People like you worrying about literally anything and everything sets a “bad precedent” more than this does ",
"This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever read ",
"sexiest #deepfake video I've seen yet!",
"Yo where my Uber driver taking me?",
"Technically, anything can be illegal as long as one person somewhere on the planet says it's illegal. \"Wearing blue shoes is illegal because I said so.\"\n\nLegality is only useful if there is some authority behind it. Who is saying that it's illegal that Elon Musk is afraid of?",
"No. Also, you there are lots of different levels of \"space\". The lowest level of space isn't even all that high.\n\nThere was a guy working for Red Bull who literally jumped from \"space\" to Earth",
"Seriously. There are so many more important things you could be doing nothing about besides whine than a single luxury vehicle orbiting in space.",
"So you're saying every government and private agency who's ever sent something into orbit and/or space has done something wrong? Under whose authority? ",
"Thank you, I knew it was from something but I couldn't remember what.",
"Is the Don't Panic there for reassurance or other reasons?",
"Who is in the drivers seat?",
"Roadster Nav needs to say \"recalculating\" and have a map of the solar system.",
"I cannot get enough of this. It’s a great day for Elon Musk and SpaceX. They have the world's attention now!",
"And drives it like it was stolen",
"Most nights, when you see darkness on the moon, that's not the shadow of the earth, that's the shadow of the moon. During every lunar eclipse I've seen, it just kinda turns brown/red. On google images there are some pics where you can kinda see a round edge, but it's only...kinda. I think a lot of flat-earthers think the earth is a disc, so I'm sure they'd find a way to warp lunar eclipses, too.",
"They said 12h for the live stream in the press conference. ",
"I hope if there’s a new civilisation in thousands of years with no world history and they make it to Mars someday just to find a fucking car from the idiots before",
"He said the same thing on the press conference - \"it's so real it looks fake.\" ",
"It's a reference to [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LlbF6DZjQ8)",
"Elon left his house keys in the glove box...",
"When people ask what I would do if I was a billionaire...\n\nI'd probably blow it up in a few days. Wouldn't be able to resist.",
"How awesome would it have been if Elon rigged up some system to make the dummy move a la Weekend at Bernies?",
"Shit. I'm currently reading it...this went Whoosh right over my head. I deserve to hear Vogon poetry now.",
"No. Majority of stuff sent to space had a technologic or scientific reason. What reason is there for putting a car in orbit?",
"I still have a hard time believing flat-earthers exist, and are not just trolling the rest of us.",
"Wait, so is it still in the rocket or is it free floating?",
"Dibs on band name Star Man's Roadster.",
"\"Don't Panic\" is a Heavy Metal reference? I'm with /u/sonicjesus, it's a great HHGTTG reference.",
"Is this becoming a meme or something?",
"Actually not, for a Heavy Metal reference he should have launched a '58 Corvette and had it play \"Radar Rider\"... instead of the David Bowie song his Tesla Roadster is actually playing. \n\nWhereas, \"Don't Panic\" is a direct reference to HHGG.",
"Genius move by Tide. Distract everyone from that whole \"eat the pods\" thing by making a new meme.\n\n",
"That’s what I’m thinking. Shouldn’t it be moving at like 18k mph? ",
"I am aware of the Hitchhiker's reference but this photo could practically be a still shot from the opening of HM.",
"I was at the Grand Canyon in 2016. The vast panorama kind of overwhelms your senses and it almost looks like one of those fake banners they pull down behind you at the photo studio. ",
"Someone call Guinness. I think this is the World's Most Expensive Commercial. And it is one impressive commercial. You've got to hand it to them.",
"I read this in Ron Burgundy’s voice",
"Definitely",
"This is hands down the most audacious display of science combined with badass I've seen in my lifetime. NASA has done some incredible things, but they have never dared to be as cool as this, nor as outrageous. Budget constraints aside, space technology has always been form following function to a very conservative degree, and Elon Musk comes along and in less than 10 years brings the space age back to the level of dreamers and visionaries. What an exciting time!",
"Where tf my Uber driver taking me?",
"Elon Musk.",
"Who cares?",
"Won't you take a ride ride ride ride\n\non Heavy Falcon",
"Oh wow. Brave man.",
"Musk just littered in space. \n",
"Holy shit that’s the best description of him I’ve ever heard ",
"Seriously wondering if the solar winds will blow the pain off too...",
"Really?",
"Tony Stark is real now",
"Does Elon believe in extraterrestrial life?",
"Do you think Douglas Adams ever imagined such a sight?",
"Wait, that's real? I thought that picture was photoshopped! \n\nEDIT: Cut me some slack, I didn't have time to catch up on the news today!",
">Oh freddled gruntbuggly,\nThy micturations are to me,(with big yawning)\nAs plurdled gabbleblotchits,\nOn a lurgid bee,\nThat mordiously hath blurted out,\nIts earted jurtles, grumbling\nInto a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]\nNow the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,\nAre slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,\nAnd living glupules frart and stipulate,\nLike jowling meated liverslime,\nGroop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,\nAnd hooptiously drangle me,\nWith crinkly bindlewurdles,mashurbitries.\nOr else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,\nSee if I don't!\n> (I probably won't!)",
"The Stig",
"100% real!\n\nIf it looks photoshopped it's cause in space there's no atmospheric occlusion so everything is super crispy to the eye (and camera). ",
"Whelp, got my new wallpaper!",
"The closest I got to having one of my toys in space was wrapping the parachute around the little green army man and trowing him as high as I could. Well done Elon, well done. ",
"If 10 years ago someone told me that mankind would launch an electric car into space, playing David Bowie on live stream and land both boosters in unison I would not have believed you. \n\n\nI would never have believed you.",
"“Mass Simulator” reason enough? ",
"It is moving at somewhere around 18,000 kph... which is closer to 11k mph",
"A live stream from the car. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2018/2/6/16981144/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-live-stream",
"I hope Spaceman brought his towel...",
"I posted this three times and mods kept deleting it calling it a “screen shot.”\n",
"Technically it came from space anyways. He just rearranged the matter and sent it back lol ",
"One of the girls I work with said she doesn't believe it's real because \"why would they put a car in space, it doesn't make sense\". And she was 100% serious and wouldn't budge.",
"Best pic I've seen so far of this mission....looking forward to the Mars view ",
"Well granted it’s the only description I’ve heard but I stand by what I said! ",
"Well, he worked for Google, but was sponsored by Red Bull.",
"If he says he'll go get them I'll believe him. ",
"I want to come watch that band play.\n\nShould be noted that I fully expect a cover/tribute to [this](https://youtu.be/JI5noh4OyXc).",
"It's personally the second best description I've heard but I forgot the best one.",
"All I can say is that this is so fucking cool!\n\n",
"It's both",
"The horror...the horror.",
"Your move, flat earthers.",
"give it time... ",
"From Wikipedia: \n\nAlthough Musk believes \"there is a good chance that there is simple life on other planets\", he \"questions whether there is other intelligent life in the known universe\".[166] Musk later clarified his \"hope that there is other intelligent life in the known universe\", and stated that it is \"probably more likely than not, but that's a complete guess.\"[167]\n\n",
"He also put a copy of the book and a towel in the glovebox",
"DONT PANIC love the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy reference ",
"Didn't see the \"DON'T PANIC\" until now - haha fantastic! ✋️😝🤚",
"Not that anyone cares what I say, but the Restaurant is on the other end of the universe..",
"...Take the next exit...recalculating...",
"That flat earth theory, though.",
"[Spaceman](https://i.imgur.com/yEBWRtB.jpg) here's one I snipped from the livestream.",
"They.are.trolls. a minorty will be actual believers... how do you not comprehend this?",
"Isn't it really hot in the sun in space? I'd imagine at being over 200 degrees in the sun the glues and plastics around that car would start to fail. \n\n[Well after researching it some more looks like the plastics and such will fail within a year.](https://www.livescience.com/61680-will-spacex-roadster-survive-in-space.html) ",
"i love the don't panic message, just another hitchhiker following instructions..",
"“Don’t Panic”",
"He also said \"Trippin Ballz\" a few seconds later. ",
"When the question was asked, \"What's the most ridiculous thing you would do if you were stupidly rich?\" Elon Musk replied, \"Hold my beer.\"\n\nHe was five.",
"Oh, its' in there... trust me... he's just playing the good cop role for now, we'll see in the end what his role truly was",
"Littering outer space in style...",
"Thank you.",
"Although to be fair it would he kinda hard to lead a team of rocket scientists and not be just a tad nerdy. ",
"How about you like, fuck off",
"this looks like a 90's music video\n",
"Like a rental...",
"Why isn't the audio working? XD",
"A lot of posts here stating that putting a car into space is illegal. First of all, it’s not in earth orbit so I don’t know of any laws against Leaving stuff in space. Second the most important issue would be contamination, since it is a Tesla built in a Tesla factory its probably covered in microbes. As long as this thing doesn’t end up accidentally crashing into Europa or mars, there’s no negative to having something orbit the sun. ",
"Honestly, I disagree. This is like putting a Starbucks on the beach. The universe is wonderful in it's own right and we just allowed someone to throw a hot wheels into the canvas as a commercial. Also, we have enough space debris; is this just an admission we're never going to have galactic travel, so fuck it. I know I'm over analyzing it, but it just feels wrong.\n\nEdit: holy shit the marketing \"fanboys\" jumped on this quick. Tell yourselves whatever you need to. This was nothing more than a cheap commercial.",
"> Live stream\n\nLooks like a four and a half hour clip to me.",
"How long before another car company puts a car into a similar orbit, but a bit faster.... ",
"That is crazy ive literally been whistling the intro to HHGG all day today ,when I saw this I got like full body goosebumps ",
"Jeeeez that looks like the next call of duty ",
"Lol \"rocket\". Right. ",
"Yea, but the universe needs a bit of commercialisation to get more people up there. If there's no money in it, it probably won't happen. Also it's heading toward the astroid belt instead of Mars at the moment anyway and space junk only really applies to things in orbit around planets. \n\nhttps://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars",
"never mind the millions of kids (and grown ups) around the world who are inspired and thrilled by this, putting a human scale object in space so that we can imagine ourselves out there. Don't you have *any* sense of wonderment and fun about this?",
"Don't Panic!",
"This is more akin to putting a pebble on the beach. Nothing in the scale of nothingness. It’s not on an orbit that should ever intercept anything of purpose. It is far from “fuck it” this is “fuck yeah!”",
"Well, what do they say when they fly from LA to NYC and notice that the sun rises and sets 3 hours earlier than normal? Or do they not believe in aerodynamics?",
"I don’t think it’ll get close enough to it for it to look like more than a red dot. If it gets to close mars will pull it in. \nEDIT: a word",
"Unless it's a lunar eclipse, I'm pretty sure the shadowed part on the Moon is from *its* shadow, not the earth's. We're just seeing it due to the relative angle of the sun over the horizon when lighting the moon. Also, the shadow on the moon *isn't* a circle, for this reason.\n\nI don't know where they got that from, it clearly changes shape in ways that don't follow a circular shadow pattern.",
"I am a 51-year-old American who has consumed more than my share of popular culture and witnessed some awesome, astonishing things, and I guess I have to say that is the coolest thing I've ever seen.",
"What are you talking about. The moon rover went into space almost 50 years ago. Having an actual space program would cause actual wonderment.",
"Rolled up in the glove box IIRC.",
"The space debris that matters is in earth orbit, not orbiting the sun beyond Mars. This is meaningless",
"It's unholy magic, by the power of Beelzebub, chicanery, or a fraud. You are all in on it. It is a worldwide conspiracy. The camera does not show the TURTLES!!!!",
"I guess I’ve never seen actual (not Hollywood) space movement, \nPost leaving our atmosphere. I know the Earth is a very big object (perspectively) But you’d think 11k mph would leave the earth in the dust. I guess not. ",
"The man kind could have done all of that 40 years ago. If you consider television as live streaming.....\nProbably the only significance here is the privatization of space program to bring some needed attention/money to space projects. ",
"Ah yes, that was pretty funny, the press guys all had awkward laughter. He's not exactly eloquent, but he is pretty interesting.",
"To be fair, I would also be disinclined to discuss geography with someone who was in the process of pillaging my village and raping my wife.",
"Stupid is as stupid does.",
"I believe it is currently in earth orbit and the booster will fire up again to change it to a solar orbit",
"DON'T PANIC",
"Heavy Metal",
"That's not how that works lol.",
"Where’s the towel you can’t very well hitchhike without it",
"Well, I mean, he did fire his workers when they tried to unionize...",
"you're mixing up two jumps: [one red bull athlete](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner#Red_Bull_Stratos)\n on October 14, 2012 and [one former google exec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace#Stratosphere_jump) on October 24, 2014.",
"DON’T PANIC! ",
"Would you rather they sent up a pile of bricks rather than an automobile? Because that's the default load simulation for this type of exercise. I personally think the car is more fun to look at.",
"`> Private organization whose stated goal is to colonize Mars.` \n`> Successfully launches an object beyond Mars orbit`\n`> Proves private enterprise can achieve interplanetary travel.`\n`> Sending back data about new pressure suit exposed to actual deep space vacuum.`\n`> Transmits awe-inspiring live HD video from LEO.`\n\nLooks a helluva lot like an *'actual space program'* to me.\n\nBesides, based on the past couple decades, it kind of seems like it was either this or don't go at all.",
"> It is far from “fuck it” this is “fuck yeah!”\n\nFuck yeah, man! This has been the most exciting day I've had in a long time. And maybe the single coolest thing I've ever witnessed. I'm so stoked by all of this. What a time to be alive, indeed. ",
"It was the first time I’ve cried in a long time. Tears of joy and hope lol",
"They're real, Bro - and they're Dumb. As. Shit. \n\nThe whole time believing they are somehow smarter than you 'cause they've figured out The Big Conspiracy and you haven't.",
"That was a live stream when I posted it. ",
"The battery will last 12 hours, then no more video. The car is not going to Mars - I blame lazy media for getting this message wrong. The car is now in a heliocentric orbit (that is, around the sun). It will cross the orbits of Mars and Earth, but never come close to either.",
"It is there... :)",
"I must be living under a rock, but is this a real thing?",
"Yah - the guy who paid to put it there today agrees. He said in today’s press conference (paraphrasing): Its silly - but sometimes you just got to do silly things. \n\nBesides - they usually launch a block of concrete to test a new rocket. Which is more fun?",
"It only needs to last 12 hours until the battery fails - then no one will ever see the car again.",
"It’s in the glove box - seriously.",
"I feel like these photos make me irrationally happy.",
"What happened to the third booster? I remember seeing that they had a drone ship, which I assume was to cater for it (please correct me if I'm wrong). ",
"I think the previous poster meant an actual government sponsored space program. SpaceX is looking to turn a profit out of this and we are benefiting as a byproduct.",
"This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time, by a huge margin.",
">`> Private organization whose stated goal is to colonize Mars.`\n\nIf it requires sending other businesses shit to space for profit to achieve that goal, I'm failing to see the problem.",
"I think they really missed out on a great prank opportunity. After about an hour of drifting and spinning through space, imagine if the head turned to look at the left camera. People would lose their shit!",
"They actually burned more, it'll reach the asteroid belt now.",
"Oh! I have a relevant tattoo! https://imgur.com/ZT4o46y",
"There's a copy of the book and a towel in the glove box too.",
"It crashed near the drone ship and got destroyed. Also damaged the drone ship.",
"2 out of 3 ain't that bad, but why did they choose to do a drone ship landing for the third, and not for the two boosters? ",
"50% of people are below average. Some are way below average. ",
"So.... are we done with the whole 'flat earth' thing yet?",
"All I could imagine would be just how freaky it would be if his arm twitched. ",
"But they also say the sun has a circular path over the Earth, so for them eclipses don't exist.",
"According to UAW, personally between the two I definitely give Musk the benefit of the doubt.",
"It'll turn out after all these years and many more \"unmanned\" car launches to space that he was just getting rid of his murder victims. ",
"Well my thoughts were more about creating more floating debris than the car actually being functional. We already have a lot of floating stuff around the earth. But if they can launch and freaking land the rockets I'm sure they have t all figured out. ",
"The 2 side boosters had enough fuel to go back to Florida whereas the Core didn't (it flew further). \nLanding on land is also easier than on the drone ship, more space and it doesn't move a bit.",
"You're thinking of median, but yeah, I get your point.",
"Thanks for the replies. All I saw was that they were preparing for the drone ship landing, but that was it. Any video that wasn't from the drone ship that shows the core trying to land? ",
"10/10 game of the year!",
"If only sound logic and photo evidence was enough... but alas",
"yup, google \"Falcon Heavy\"",
"allegedly there is a towel in the glovebox to ;)",
"[Here's my grab](https://i.imgur.com/BOvUrgq.jpg). I really liked the soft light on the car, and the shadowed Earth in the background.",
"Why are there not solar panels on at least the bottom of the car?",
"nevermind below - i misread the comment i was replying to ;)\n\n~~hot? no in the vacuum of space its actually VERY cold. There is no atmosphere to capture the heat.~~",
"No one pointing out the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy on the dash? \nWell played",
"He’s a Martian trying to get back home.",
"I get a sense that if I keep looking at it he might turn back. ",
"Limited work options after Top gear I guess",
"> Any video that wasn't from the drone ship that shows the core trying to land? \n\nNot that I know of.\n",
"That's disappointing. Hopefully something comes up! ",
"Thank you!",
"It's like 250 in the sun and -148 in the shade. \n\nThe average temperature of outer space around the Earth is a balmy 283.32 kelvins (10.17 degrees Celsius or 50.3 degrees Fahrenheit). This is obviously a far cry from more distant space's 3 kelvins above absolute zero. But this relatively mild average masks unbelievably extreme temperature swings. Just past Earth's upper atmosphere, the number of gas molecules drops precipitously to nearly zero, as does pressure. This means there is almost no matter to transfer energy -- but also no matter to buffer direct radiation streaming from the sun. This solar radiation heats the space near Earth to 393.15 kelvins (120 degrees Celsius or 248 degrees Fahrenheit) or higher, while shaded objects plummet to temperatures lower than 173.5 kelvins (minus 100 degrees Celsius or minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit).\n\nhttps://sciencing.com/temperatures-outer-space-around-earth-20254.html",
"I absolutely love the towel. Starman will get a lot of good use out of it for sure!",
"yes indeed, i can see i misread your post - sorry about that.",
"\"First, it's slightly more expensive; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on the front\" ",
"Thank you for my new desktop background. ",
"good grief the reflection is incredible",
"Did he forget his towel?",
"I love that this is way better, and way cooler than anything any government has ever done. ",
"To be fair, vikings were mostly traders. Vinking graves have been found to include rings with the inscription Allah",
"The moon landning is still cooler by far. ",
"http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/The_37%27s\nAt least the color is the same...",
"Nice ‘Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’ reference snuck in for extra geek. ",
"Looks you beat my by 1 hr",
"DONT PANIC is a nice touch",
"Is this the new littering? I don't approve of this.",
"I mean, this was obviously the inspiration.",
"Never happened. ",
"Sorry you are not in the club ",
"Seriously, first Trump, now a car that we can watch live fly through space. You can't convince me this isn't a dream!",
"But at least we now know that cars can drive off the edge of the flat earth",
"\"think about how stupid the average person is. now realize that half of everyone is stupider than that\"",
"Tommy Wiseu loves planet earth so much he convinced his friend Elon to come and save it. ",
"Love that Hitchhiker's Guide reference!",
"its the reason for a lot of things. religion, flat earthers, other conspiracy nuts, climate change deniers. everyone wants to feel superior. everyone wants to be \"in on the secret.\" everyone wants to think theyre the smartest. but no one wants to do the work. they hear \"earth is flat, governments are all in on it. heres proof that makes sense to me!(shows water on a plate and water on a basketball).\" its easier to reduce things down to understandable albeit incorrect examples rather than take an hour to read about gravity. its easier to say \"the government had secret programs for years. they still do. global warming is another one. its all secret bullshit\" than it is to say \"i dont know the difference between weather and climate, and im too ashamed to learn now.\" its easier to parrot what they heard on fox news than to type a question in google and spend 30 minutes reading from a few sources.\n\npeople are lazy. and they think \"freedom of speech\" means everyones opinion/theory/idea is just as valid as the next one. and if thats true, wouldnt it be nice to be just as smart as everyone else without actually having to learn stuff? hell ya!",
"Flat Earthers will say it’s Photoshopped ",
"Omg the earth is round, my life has been a lie",
"Pretty cool huh?",
"Love the \"Don't Panic\" on the screen!",
"This m guessing they are planning on bringing the Tesla back and seeing if it works?",
"Not if you were a straight adolescent male in the 1980s.",
"Unless it were to hit Mars straight on it wouldn't get pulled in. It would still be traveling well beyond escape velocity. It's orbit would change but not much else. You're right about it not being close enough for a picture though, even if it had any battery power.",
"I love the \"DON'T PANIC\" on the dashboard",
"Look at those cave men go :')",
"> but never come close to either\n\nNever? That thing will be in space for probably billions of years and crosses the orbits of 2 planets... Its definitely going to get close to 1 of them eventually.",
"I think I'd panic.",
"Is anyone else bothered he basically threw his trash away in space? ",
"Don't panic\n",
"Well... no. We certainly wouldn't have the Falcon 9 40 years ago - flight controllers simply weren't as performant/reliable as they are now.",
"[Spaceman!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCbAEkfXSDE)",
"Radar radar radar, rider! ",
"It starts out with fancy sports cars and by the tenth launch it’s just unmarked cargo vans with the windows painted over",
"HEAVY\nMETAL",
"We could definitely send a small convertible into mars orbit 40 years ago.",
"He’s literally Lex Luthor without the evilness lol ",
"nah he is a genuine super villain, we just don't know it *yet*\n\ndun dun dun... /s",
"> rings with the inscription Allah \n\npretty sure that was discredited\n\nEdit: the rings seem real, the burial cloth with \"allah\" was discredited (https://hyperallergic.com/407746/refuting-viking-allah-textiles-meaning/)",
"dude it's the bottom no sunlight will get there",
"Show this to people who think the world is flat.",
"Man I'm so hyped up for this new Daft Punk album.",
"Someone needs to make an edit of this whole launch and make it RAM's version of Discovery's Interstella 5555.\n\nThere is so much Daft Punk style in this it physically hurts.",
"Elon Musk said after the launch that you can tell it's real because it looks so fake, if they had faked it then the CGI would be way better",
"I was going to say. At the time there was nothing disappointing about it.",
"\"Make illegal U Turn\"",
"Gotta love that Hitchhiker’s Guide reference",
"Solar Roadways told me otherwise.",
"♪ ROCKET MAN ♪ take me by the hand, lead me out of the land ♪ that you understand ♪ ROCKETMAN ♪",
"https://youtu.be/xOXtETvZJhc",
"He needs to send out a random tweet in the distant future saying \"Dude, Where's my car?\"",
"I get the HHGTTG reference and I chuckle {hehe}. Musk can make any joke he wants. but...\n\nThis looks more like the ending of RepoMan, one of my all time favs. All that's missing is a Christmas Tree Air Freshener hanging from a mirror (\"There's one in every car.\").",
"That's why earlier people couldn't solve the problem. No sticks.\n",
"You should never pass up the chance to learn something. ",
"IQ is a normal distribution. Median and mean/average are the same.",
"Only the stupid ones really belive, the rest are just trolling. It’s probably the most successfull troll yet.",
"No no no, fake news the earth is really flat just go ask B.o.B ...... /s",
"What kind of camera can bend the flat earth to look like that? \n\n\n\n\n/s",
"Just wait a few days and orbital data will be calculated so we can keep following it with on-line trackers and calculate when it will be nearest Mars or Earth again.",
"[PANIC]",
"Flat universe. He is driving to Mars can't you see?",
"I wish Elon would have strapped a predator mask on the mannequin. So when aliens find it a billion years from now they would shit their pants when they remove the helmet. ",
"A stupid one. ",
"The Vikings sold blonde slaves caught as war prisoners across Europe and Scandinavia to the Arab elite together with amber and other unique Scandinavian merchandise. To have northern Europeans in your Harem was prestigious. Later The Arabs figured out how to sail to Norway and grab whomever young fair girl they fancied. ",
"Because the car is ballast - nothing more.",
"[Out Now!](https://i.imgur.com/xmN2kci.jpg)",
"Coming up: Starman pulls off his helmet and reveals himself as Scarlett Johansson!",
"Are you Ceres-ious",
"Flat Earthers are not real, they are an invention of Russian troll farms for the purpose of debasing the American political and educational system.",
"Falcon Heavy, just wow. However when i see the car and spacesuit I'm thinking Heavy Metal and the corvette.",
"*Hedgehogs turn wheel rapidly*",
"This reminds me of the opening to Heavy Metal.",
"Is the car literally free floating, or is it attached to a platform of sorts?",
"That seems to happen a lot on Reddit.",
"There was a camera on the ship, but it was pointed at the landing point not off to the side where the booster crashed. Unfortunately it's in the middle of the ocean so there were fewer places to mount cameras.",
"But that's not why this is impressive. The whole point of this was to prove that they could carry a large payload to space and then have the boosters land back on earth. It's the boosters that are the important bit. Everything else is for show. Reusable boosters mean more money for future space flights. As far as science is concerned, the boosters *are* the show. The car is just a symbol of that.",
"When will they post a streaming video?",
"\"He once drove his car on top of a rocket just before launch. We aren't sure how he did it, or why. All we know is, he's called The Stig\"",
"Fair enough ",
"I don't know exactly why you're happy, but if your reasons are like any of mine then I wouldn't call them irrational. \n\n I'm happy on the possibilities this proves and I'm quite sure only 10 years go people would have laughed anybody with those ambitions in the face. I'm pretty sure even experts thought landing and re-using rockets was a pipe dream with no basis in reality. \n\nI'm happy its lead by a man that is at the bottom (hopefully) as altruistic as he sounds and it's not a monster company like Lockheed Martin embedded in the military industrial complex. ",
"No, I had a conversation with one last night. This guy is right. They are real. They really think they've figured something out that they rest of us haven't. ",
"That's what I imagine starman listening to on his playlist up there now, Meatloaf 2 out of 3 ain't bad.",
"If that's true that's amazing.",
"i really like the ode to Douglas Adams. what a great author",
"Going to miss mars apparently....next stop asteroid belt!",
"Well recoverable launcher was not new for the falcon 9 heavy launcher, cost cutting was the whole and only thing for the entire SpaceX’s existence. \nIf judging by that the falcon 9 launch was not entirely a success is it, since they failed to recover one of the boosters. \n\nIf reddit wants to praise for progression at least applause the right things. I thought being critical is the whole point of science.",
"Holy shit! Where's that goal post go? Just yesterday it was at \"40 years ago we could do all of this,\" Now it's \"well, they already kinda did this already last year. And it didn't go *perfectly!*\"",
"Different argument, people are coming all over themselves for a car in space. Which is something we could have done ages ago. \nRecoverable launcher has not yet to be proven a cost cutter in the long term, it’s good to see more private competitions space program but that doesn’t change the fact that, the falcon 9 heavy launch is a good commercial success for SpaceX (now they can compete with bigger players like China and Russia), but not really a significant step anywhere as people made it to be. ",
"George Carlin!",
"Right, it's a different argument because you weren't right about the first one, so you move the goal posts to a different argument. You didn't start off with fiscal responsibility or competition with foreign governments as arguments against people's excitement. You came in saying we could do all of this 40 years ago(if you count TV as streaming) and ended it there. \n\nThere's plenty that Space X needs to do still, yes. It's a fairly new company that doesn't have decades of work to use. But, like you said, it's a success. NASA still had rockets explode on the launch pad but that wasn't a reason to dismiss them. That kind of thing happens when you're trying something new(recoverable launchers are in their *infancy*) and using that as a reason to be unimpressed is ridiculous. ",
"No one dismissed SpaceX. \nRecoverable booster and cheaper rocket was SpaceX’s whole selling point from day one. I would imagine since everyone is such die hard musk fan no one would be surprised that they recovered 2 boosters. \nIs it cool to see a private company can compete with government projects? Yes, now they will think twice before charging ridiculous fees to the tax payers. \n\nIs it a new development that they recovered a booster? No, SpaceX has done it already, good for them to expanded to the heavy class which made them a serious competition in the market. \n\nIs it big deal that some guy send a car into space. Not even remotely close. \n\nI won’t be this turned off if not that literally everyone on Reddit is rubbing themselves off of a damn car in space. No one will talk about it here if they used a giant metal block like they would normally do.",
"What I can never work out is why they think anyone would want to lie to them about the earth being flat. What's the endgame?",
"\n>No one dismissed SpaceX. \n\nYou did.\n\n>The man kind could have done all of that 40 years ago. If you consider television as live streaming..... Probably the only significance here is the privatization of space program to bring some needed attention/money to space projects. \n\nThen someone immediately calls you out about how it's not about the car, but the rockets. Yet here you are, still saying that people only care about the car when it's been explained to you that the car is the *symbol* for the step forward in technology on a level that simply hasn't been accomplished before. It's not as cool to just show pictures of stationary rockets(or just a \"giant metal block.\"I mean, if you're going to send something up that serves no purpose, why not make it cool, right?) after they've done their thing. That's a boring picture. The car is more interesting. And because cars are so big and heavy they required larger boosters than they have previously been able to get to land. That's a huge step.\n\n But that's not why you're so dismissive. You said it yourself. You don't like it as much because everyone else likes it so much. I know it feels good to be different and feel like you're smarter than the masses. But sometimes the masses get it right. Elon Musk and his company did a thing that hasn't and couldn't have been done before. And I'm going to stop you before you say they could have flown a car up there. Again. That wasn't the mission. The mission was to take a heavy payload, then, more importantly, *have the boosters return.* That has not been done on this scale before, and there's nothing you can say to change that.",
"I hope aliens one day come to earth and say \"dude, we found your car\" ",
"I love the subtle message in the dash \"DON'T PANIC!\"",
"I had radar rider playing in my head while watching the live stream",
"Did he take his towel?",
"Well, if there is a body in the trunk, it's a great way to get rid of evidence. ",
"You're a conspiracy and a fake.",
"If you have 1 intelligent person, and 10,000 idiots, guess who will win the argument?",
"That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about myself to dispute it.",
"Who cares? Stop giving attention to idiots.",
" This would make a rad tattoo",
"How did they launch it? Put it in a rocket and then release it once in space? ",
"Also average can be used to refer to median, mode or mean.",
"You are welcome. I had read the article two days ago.",
"Dad's army mate.",
"This timeline amuses me.",
"Yeah I heard really great things about it, and the pitch is unbeatable. Animated Sci Fi Anthology set to Heavy Metal, made during the 80's, the best time for Metal? But then I watched it and they had a few good stories but spent a shit ton of time on the \"kid basically lives a sex fantasy of being a black guy with a huge schlong\" and \"large chested woman fights a guy\". And the really interesting stories; space trucking aliens doing drugs, the bomber crew, and the trial with the zapp branigan type dude, were really short. \nI dunno, if I had watched it for the first time when I was 12 I would have liked it more but it's pretty compromised. Great concept, okay at best execution.",
"So long and thanks for all the fish!",
"His neck looks a little stiff. ",
"Chrisjen Avasarala will save us.",
"Well the radio wouldn't run the battery down as fast if the ballast had some solar panels on it.",
"Yeah, you're right. What was I thinking?",
"Without question, Den is the weakest of the stories. But the movie isn't about the stories so much as it's about tone, and specifically capturing the feel of the anthology magazine that inspired it. Taarna in particular is quintessential Heavy Metal.",
"I can respect that, I think I definitely had an idea in my mind of what I wanted to get out of it, and it gave me a little tastes of that, but didn't deliver what I wanted. I think it's partially my fault I didn't enjoy it because I built it up too much.",
"Also depending on who you talk to about it, people from my generation tend to really glorify it maybe unrealistically. ",
"Phase 2 is that he'll get the car back down. You heard it here first, folks.",
"You left out \"Something Something Bullshit Bullshit False Flag\"",
"In large, friendly letters.",
"The car is playing music nobody can hear",
"don't beat yourself up I'm just really really smart",
"What's the Heavy Metal connection, the picture itself? I haven't seen that movie in eons. ",
"\"Below average\" is a thing. \"Below median\" is not a thing said by anybody outside of classrooms. ",
"While that's true, it's not automatically true that 50% of X is below the average of said X.",
"Jokes don't need fact checking. ",
"SpaceX Engineers: “Sir the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!”\n\nElon: “NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!”",
"So much Back to the Future nostalgia ",
"Don't get me wrong, i love what Musk is doing. And I want to believe he is doing it not only for his company, but for all of us. \n\nThe real \"problem\" I see with this, is that we are not advancing as quickly as we could in other areas because there is little to no profit. And those fields that do see profit (pharmaceuticals, i am looking at you!) advance rapidly but overcharge because they can, and because non profit government projects are not competing to force a reasonable market price. "
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"What is this?",
"A dummy in a Tesla Roadster. In space.\n\nhttps://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/6/16981144/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-live-stream",
"Hey! Don't call him a dummy! You're judging him before you even know him",
"What a time to be alive.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"I for one am fucking stoked!",
"Besides, he has a name, it's Starman!",
"[YES!](https://i.imgur.com/IIsf4dS.jpg)",
"I had no idea the opening of Heavy Metal would be so prophetic. ",
"Yah, but what gear do you need to be in at touchdown?",
"https://i.imgur.com/Bd5pKCL.png",
"Trust me, if you knew him you’d agree with the dummy bit",
"Best comment here!",
"Only if we decide to live in it. \n\nOr you know, we could double down on coal. ",
"I posit that this is one of the coolest photos of all time. The photo of earthrise from the moon is incredible but this photo shows how trivial space travel is becoming. It’s getting so easy that instead of trying to send up some backup satellite (if it blows up, no big deal, but if it succeeds then yay more science). Instead it wasn’t a scandal for Elon to send his own personal Tesla Roadster. This photo is a signal of the beginning of humanities earnest and long term ventures into the solar system and beyond. ",
"The Earth looks too round, deff Photoshop #flatearthtruth",
"Are you suggesting the earth is migratory?",
"Awesome pic. Is this the first photo taken from space by someone who's not a government employee? ",
"Yeah. Shit sucks. Yay! science! ah shit wait its a commercial...",
"While it isn’t photoshopped, it also can’t be taken at face value, since that isn’t a real person.",
"Not at all, it could be carried...",
"Don't Panic!",
"But it doesn't have a husk!",
"This is pretty epic to see! I wish I would have caught the launch.",
"Is that the Stig?!",
"It's a video, so the exposure for each frame is ~1/24^th of a second, which isn't long enough to capture most stars.",
"It could grip it but the crust",
"It's a tide ad.",
"I thought the Roadster was going to Mars?",
"Some say he travels to mars on a Monday, All we know is HE’s CALLED THE STIG!",
"Yes. The future is now!",
"It's going into Mars' orbit, it's not actually going *to* Mars, unfortunately. This is just a proof-of-concept of sorts. ",
"That earth looks so flat",
"LEAPS & BOUNDS... ",
"Any higher res versions?",
"Stigs in Spaaaaace....",
"Are we watering plants with Gatorade? No. So we're not in the future yet. Getting close though.",
"Pink Floyd and this",
"SpaceX just uploaded it to youtube an hour or so ago: https://youtu.be/j8wxV-lUsZg?t=1",
"Or maybe they FORGOT TO PAINT THEM ON THE WALLS OF THE SET WHERE THIS WAS STAGED!\n\n #woke",
"[Should have used a 59 Corvette.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWMPe3wF9jQ)",
"It's actually not even going into Mars orbit. It's going near mars, but it will still be in orbit around the sun. \n\nIt and Mars will periodically approach each other on their respective orbits around the sun.",
"You are amazing! Thank you for sharing this. I will totally take some time to check it out. I've been hoping one day I can catch one of the Launches on VR.",
"Am I the only one that thinks this is pointless? ",
"Deciding that the payload would be a car with a dummy was as pointless as a box filled with weights, but the purpose of the launch was a test run of sorts...from what I can gather from comments. \n\nAlso a PR stunt to use a Tesla. ",
"And Bowie is playing on a loop on the car radio (though in space no one can hear you sing)",
"So sad that in this day and age pictures can't be trusted and have to have a tag saying \"not photoshopped\"... ",
"These pics confuse me. Did the just strap the car to the rocket body? I thought it would have been inside a capsule. ",
"TOP GEAR!",
"This is neat and surreal and all, but I dont like the idea of it being a publicity stunt. ",
"That reflection of Earth on the body and windshield is so crazy.",
"sounds like something a professional photoshoper would say! \n/s",
"It was for the launch. But once it got into space they released the fairings and this was inside...\n\nkinda like a giant kinder egg.",
"I don't think anyone thought it was a real person ",
"The earth and car are much brighter than the stars so they do not show up in the images. The cameras adjust the exposure of the image so it's not all white washed. Much like if you take your camera and focus on a light bulb the rest of the things around it become much darker, but if you increase the exposure too much it becomes glared ",
"Higher res [album](https://imgur.com/gallery/0w92Z) ",
"Upscaled [screenshots](https://imgur.com/gallery/0w92Z) of the same feed",
"I regret having only one upvote to give.",
"TL;DR: SpaceX needed to test its new large rocket that would be able to send stuff to Mars. To test rockets, you need a dummy weight, or payload. Instead of concrete or whatever boring thing they would usually use, Elon Musk put his own Tesla car in the rocket.",
"Carl Sagan would be proud.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThat's here. *That's home.* ***That's us.*** \n\n*On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.* \n\n*The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings,*\n\n*Thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines,*\n\n*Every hunter and forager \nEvery hero and coward \nEvery creator and destroyer of civilizations` \nEvery king and peasant \nEvery young couple in love \nEvery hopeful child \nEvery mother and father \nEvery inventor and explorer \nEvery teacher of morals \nEvery corrupt politician \nEvery superstar \nEvery supreme leader* \n####*Every saint and sinner in the history of our species* \n\n##*Lived there on that glowing blue ball,* \n\n#***Suspended in the windshield of a Starman's Roadster.***",
"They needed to test it anyway, why not have fun with it",
"This better be the background on every science teachers' smartboards tomorrow.",
"Where we're going, you won't need ears",
"See you space cowboy.",
"Also, every flat earth moron needs to shut the fuck up.",
"This is pure fucking gangster, Jesus Christ.",
"Elon Musk is a madman! It’s going to be fantastic watching the SpaceX show.",
"Helluva fantastic PR move for Space X as well. The amount of hype this event and the Roadster stunt within has been incredible.",
"Some say he once flew an electric roadster into space on the top of a rocket to orbit the sun for a billion years... ",
"this is maaajor tom to grouuund controooool\nIM STEPPING THROUGH THE DOOOOooOoR",
"I saw this pic earlier in the article about the launch. I glanced at it and thought: \"What a corny photoshop that is. I could do way better.\" ",
"“When the GPS tells you to take a left at the next satellite”",
"Makes me think of that scene in Heavy Metal",
"[There is like no way that wasn't done on purpose.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWMPe3wF9jQ)",
"Was exactly my thought too\n",
"Sorry if a repeat....so is that thing going to find its way to mars or is it going to stay in earth’s orbit? It has a rocket on it no?",
"Album Cover. ",
"Just finished watching this. Even though it already happened was still absolutely awesome to watch. I can't wait to see what happens next!",
"Had a similar thought when I first saw these pics: that fucker better not come back to Earth with the Loc-nar.",
"It’s not a matter of where it grips the crust! It’s a matter of weight ratio!!\n\nA 110,000 kg astroid is not going to carry the earth to another Solar system! ",
"Someday, elon musk will be able to get home.",
"Everybody thought he was kidding...\n",
"Like an 80s music video",
"i knew the future would have flying cars.",
"/s Dude, this is an old MTV commercial, they’re lying to you.\n\nThe earth is flat, the illuminati control the world, or some other garbage, wake up!\n\nEdit: Adding missing sass",
"Bahahahaha! Thank you! Here's an upvote. Cheers!",
"Dibs when it lands",
"Tide Pods: \"We're gonna try and hijack every other advert so that we become the centre of attention for a day\"\n\nMusk: \"Hold my beer\"",
"It's like Elon Musk saw the Top Gear episode where they tried to put a Reliant Robin in space and decided to one up them.",
"He's not the Stig, but he is the Stig's interstellar cousin!",
"We live in an age where an egomaniac blew 90 million putting a fucking used car in space and ignores millions of people starving on that planet being used for background to his bragging picture.",
"It’s not photoshopped, but it’s also not a real person. ",
"Picture looks pretty flat to me. Take that Illuminati.",
"If this reference was not made before I got here I would have lost what little faith I have left in humanity.",
"He's not The Stig. He's The Stig's Exo-atmospheric cousin!",
"Lol wtf dude",
"The Starman!",
"Cars can't drive in space this must be a NASA round earth scheme. They really should work on their photoshop skills it's just becoming unbelievably bad! /s ",
"carl sagan loves space-travel-as-car-advertisement\njesus.\nthis has taken advertising, a malady, to a new height. it was timed with the superbowl. if this is what it takes to inspire you, rather than some scientific experiment, well, too bad",
"Just cruzin to mars.. see ya in a billion years.",
"*Do you expect me to talk Dr Musk?* \nNo Mr Bond. I expect you to die. You see I am going to enjoy this very much. My henchman over there is going inject you with a very particular serum that I have derived from an orchid found only in the high canopies of the remote Amazon. It has the unique ability to paralyze your entire body while leaving your mind perfectly intact to enjoy the horror of your inescapable prison of existence. It will be quite painful, I assure you. \n*You’ll never get away with it!* \nOn the contrary Mr Bond, I will do just that. In fact, I have been building a very public electric vehicle company for the past fifteen years, vehicles with the battery power to support a human life for decades, while at the same time cultivating a very successful rocket company. \nYou see Mr. Bond, I am going to fit you with the latest in life-sustaining technology - space suit and all - in the finest of my electric chariots, and launch you into orbit somewhere between earth and mars in front of the entire world. \n*Absolute madness!* \nMadeness?! Would a madman launch a car into space Mr Bond? Would he? Five hundred and thirty days for each orbit of the sun. Oh how much fun you will have! I am almost jealous. You will become - the image of you sitting there, incapacitated in the silent vastness of nothing - you will become the symbol of my success and the future of our species! Don’t you see Starman? You are going to be part of history. Children will draw you there in my space suit, floating away, as they imagine the future and daydream about becoming astronauts themselves, completely oblivious of the helpless soul within. You truly are a very lucky man. ",
"We live in weird times. If someone 40 years ago said we would shoot a car into space to prove a point they would have been laughed at. Hell i would have laughed at him yesterday if i hadnt heard the news myself. ",
"Did....did you honestly think this was a real person? \n\nJesus. ",
"Amazing. Every word in that sentence was wrong.",
"Why are there no stars in the background?",
"Lol. No man. He says it’s not photoshopped. Well yes but it also isn’t real in that sense. It’s an interesting image, but it’s silly as hell too. ",
"I feel that if we add some neon and laser lines this would like something right out of the 80's.",
"Don't you mean BRAWNDO: The Thirst Mutilator?",
"We're up all night 'til the sun\nWe're up all night to get some\nWe're up all night for good fun\nWe're up all night to get lucky\n\nWe're up all night to get lucky\nWe're up all night to get lucky\nWe're up all night to get lucky\nWe're up all night to get lucky",
"Came here looking for this reference. Thank you.",
"Your cynicism and jadedness are noted. You'll excuse the rest of us for celebrating today's human and technical achievement.\n\nAlso, what does *any* of this have to do with the Super Bowl?",
"Damn. That's good.",
"That's here. That's home. That's us.\n\nDude, where's my car? ",
"The 5 year old child we all used to be is freaking the fuck out. ",
"We live in an age where /u/deMondo blew $600+ on a fucking phone to shitpost to Reddit and ignores millions of people starving.",
"What does Neil D Tyson think of all this?",
"I am because now we’re already polluting the universe with carbon emissions ",
"Whispers**its electric** ",
"\"He\" says it's not photoshopped?... Did you forget to change ur account?",
"We've had the ability to do this for over 50 years, and have launched things into space far more valuable and impressive than a mannequin in a car. ",
"It's got what plants crave! ",
"It’s got electrolytes.",
"Very well done! I love the plausibility of it, and I will forever wonder about *Starman.* ",
"To be fair before today a convertible in Earth orbit would have had to have been shopped!",
"In fairness if anyone had been willing to risk their $100,000,000+ satellite on this thing spaceX would have almost surely taken it.\n\nThey didn't send a dummy payload because they 'wanted' to, they did so because they needed to show the rocket works before any customers will use it, even if the ride was free!\n\nThat being said, typically dummy payloads are lead blocks so, good on them for doing something hilarious and cool with it!",
"GPS is all, “make a u turn...”",
"Exposure. The earth is soo bright that the camera is adjusted to keep the overall picture in a more balanced state.",
"Kinda shity, eh? That's not the flying car I was promised.",
"What’s next? The charge will be from the solar panels on the bumper?!",
"You actually could see stars in the background on the video stream, which was pretty dang cool. ",
"The Starg*",
"You actually can see stars in the video when the camera isn't pointed at earth, which was pretty awesome. ",
"Space truckin' around the stars. C'mon! *guitar riffs*\n\nLet's go space truckin'!",
"But it's so beautiful and clean. Or so I hear.",
"****record scratch****\n\n****freeze frame****\n\nYep. That's me. So.. I bet you're wondering how I ended up in this situation.",
"nah dude. Pretty sure he'd be glowingly proud we're venturing back out into the cosmos.\n\nThis wasn't a publicity stunt to sell cars. WE'RE GOING TO MARS!!",
"Yeah... this has to be the inspiration for it. holy cow",
"The radio needs a playlist. \nSpace Oddity. \nRocketman. \nMagic Carpet Ride.",
"Yup. ",
"Smart!",
"i don't understand why everybody's freaking out about the _car_, when we've been launching incredibly over-engineered probes out to the very reaches of our solar system. for fuck's sake, we have _pictures from the surface of mars_.\n\ni'm not denying the importance of the successful launch of the falcon heavy, but at the end of the day, it's just a rocket. a really big one, and a powerful and cheap one to boot, but it isn't really revolutionary. it's not a game changer. this was a test flight that was insanely popularized by elon musk's incredible PR skills.\n\npersonally, i've got my sights set on the BFR. if he can ever get _that_ thing off of the ground, then he's really accomplished something.\n\nedit: could you guys explain the downvotes? i know this sounds about as awful as a r/t_d subscriber posting literally anywhere else, but i would really like to know why this comment is being downvoted. if there's a new age of astronomy we're entering into, you can bet your ass i want to be in on that hype train",
"Like 600 years ago.",
"It will be in a elliptical orbit around the Sun, the farthest point of which will come close to Mars. So it won't be going to Mars like previous satellites and rovers but will visit it from time to time when their paths intersect.",
"*Starperson",
"~~No, I don't believe it has a rocket~~. I assume they've launched it with such a trajectory that it'll pass somewhere in the neighborhood of Mars before heading on to orbit the sun.\n\nEdit: TIL",
"I think you are overestimating satellite cost, sure there are some really expencive but nit that many in the ballpark of 100+ million us.\n\nStill good point ;)",
"[Good to see Hollywood is still using practical effects...](https://imgur.com/mbZed9P)",
"I wonder whether it's even remotely possible that there's some rich dead guy who wanted to be put in the suit and sent off to orbit the sun for a billion years...",
"I feel like this is gonna be Daft Punk's album cover very soon.",
"Don't forget your towel!",
"So you are saying if I can get that car down I can have it for free?",
"Huh, I feel like i should watch that at some point..",
"Watched the launch. Had forgotten about the car.\n\nFlipped my shit, as I was just old enough to remember seeing Heavy Metal on TV.",
"This is musk's penis, in orbit, forever. ",
"Couldn’t we at least launch like, I don’t know, a cut rate version of some bs satellite? Like the wish.com of satellites? Something cheap that we don’t care if it breaks but it could at least have the chance of being useful?\n\nLike a mirror or something we could at least shine lasers at for fun?",
"It's your one way ticket to midnight! Call it Heavy metal!",
"Any guesses how many desktops this will show up on ?",
"There are a lot of different segments in the movie, some are better than others, but if you like music and want a glimpse into the culture of a time gone by, I'd recommend it.",
"\"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.\"\n - William Gibson",
"I hate that they are deliberately shooting space junk into space. Shame on Musk for this one. He should know better.",
"Someone needs to make an app for tracking it or have they Already?",
"It’s truly an amazing time to be alive folks. We are approaching the singularity ",
"Little column A, little column B.",
"Will being in a vacuum damage the car in some ways?",
"Done. ",
"All we need is an “Interstellar” background <3 <3 ",
"[I captured this during the stream](https://i.imgur.com/YFffBp4.gifv)",
"Wait where are the ice borders? Fake photo",
"And on that bombshell...",
"IIRC they shoved a towel in the glovebox.",
"For the same reason stars are harder to see from earth when there is a full moon, and why we can't see them at all in the daytime.-- the earth is very bright when lit by the sun compared to the stars. If the camera were set at the proper exposure to see stars, the earth would look completely white and washed out. \n\nIf you want to see how this works for yourself, try to take a picture where you can see both the craters of the moon as well as stars in the background. It's not very easy to do at all, and usually requires taking at least two exposures -- one very short exposure of the moon, like 1/1000th of a second, and one very long one, perhaps 5-10 seconds for the stars. Then they can be added together in software to produce an image closer to what the naked eye can see. \n\n[Take this image for example.](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060629.html) Stars aren't much brighter than the shaded side of the moon(which is dimly illuminated by earthshine, which should give you an idea of just how bright the sunlit side of earth can be when viewed from space.) and the sunlit parts are extremely bright in comparison, to the point where the camera cannot see any details at all, only white. Looking at the day side of earth from space will be similarly bright. ",
"Or it's the dumbest snake oil publicity stunt in history. One or the other. ",
"As an aside, the flat earther who wanted to launch a rocket to prove the earth is flat once again failed to launch.",
"This is really going to spook some aliens someday.",
"We're (elon) going to catch it like it aint no thing (that's more predictable than a test load, heavy launch) and drive it around on mars. The first tourists there will win it as a prize. You can take it home if you would like, at your expense. Solar works there too. He just took every car maker downtown. And every space program. I think he might be lane meyer's little brother. There's probably two dollars in the glove compartment.",
"They tried that in The Martian. Blew up all the food for Mark Watney. ",
"Good luck trying to beat that Car commercial!",
"Seems like a silly thing to complain about fren.",
"That's lower res than [the ones I got](http://imgur.com/a/zVmsU).",
"It’s mounted on a rocket for the burn to get it into the final orbit. In the live feed they sometimes show it. ",
"As I've said in other posts... nice screen cap.",
"I work in the satellite industry and just quoted the typical Geosync sats. They are in the 50mil-100mil + insurance range.\n\nLEO satellites are much less expensive, this is true.",
"[Way longer than that.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cbIWMv0rI) ",
"An hour into an acid trip will do you justice.",
"Just out of curiosity, should we be worried about putting frivolous shit like this in space? Like, is [Kessler syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome) a concern here? Not that this isn’t amazing. It just seems like a danger. ",
"The moment The Future hit me was when I saw the footage of those twin boosters landing in sync. Fuckin' a man.",
"Nah man, this is only the present. Imagine what the future will be now that this is now!",
"So, actual shitty Photoshop is real life?",
"They will just say it is all faked. You can't win with that level of stupidity. ",
"Yeah, if they are not careful we will run out of space up there.",
"Read somewhere that the segments were commissioned to different animators hence the difference.",
"Well do you mean a type C asteroid or a type M? Obviously not S types...",
"[Who?](https://media.giphy.com/media/tKLq9YGlFGPxm/giphy.gif)",
"In short terms, no, not really. A working satellites cost millions. A small satellite may cost 50 to 100 million, while others cost 500 million or more. \n\nThis was a test, and test pay loads are used all the time on stuff like this. Boring metal or concrete is put up into space, and if it survives no one cares. Also, while the two falcons landed safely, the heavy core thruster actually crashed today, so in some ways, this was a minor failure. You don't put millions of dollars worth of a satellite in untested machines. And there isn't a cut rate or bargain bin satellite to toss up in space, doesn't really work that way. \n\nPlus the car and the passenger does serve a purpose. Musk is actually incredibly smart and this is all a wonderful advertising bonus for him. Who is going to be talking about anything other than this for a while, when it comes to cars or space? \n\nEvery frame of video, with the car rotating in space in front of the earth is like a background image for your pc, or a poster. What other car company can do anything close to this?",
"So there's now forever going to be a dummy in a car orbiting the sun until an asteroid or something blows it up?",
"That is one of those iconic moments, like the first time you saw images from a Mars rover, that you’ll never forget first seeing.",
"A hoopy frood *always* knows where his towel is...",
"There's one billionaire who can be forgiven for not becoming Batman.",
"Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?",
"Glorious ",
"Written by different authors too (taken from different segments from the Heavy Metal comics).",
"They need to test the rocket before putting a really expensive satellite or space probe on it, which would normally be done with something like a big chunk of concrete. Launching a rocket with no payload does not test its ability to lift things into space. Compared to the cost of the rocket, that car is not even a drop in the bucket. This is really not an example of excessive waste, but a rather genius PR stunt advertising both SpaceX and Tesla. One car costs far less than making or airing a TV commercial.\n\nThe goal of this project was not to launch a car into space, it was to build a practical, useful heavy lift rocket. I can't think of a better way to demonstrate a shiny new heavy lift rocket to your potential customers than lifting something heavy and fragile. Can you?",
"Dude. Elon has style. ",
"I uh... I think the universe can handle it.",
"Just wait til the sedative wears off\n\nDon't fuck with Musk",
"The segments were based on various serial comics that had run or were currently running at the time. Heavy Metal was very much like we see Shonen Jump now, a magazine that publishes serials from comics. They tried to imitate the original style but at the same time weave it into a cohesive plot. I'm not sure they were able to do that, but it's still pretty good and has a timeless soundtrack.",
"Yes",
"Wait till that Tesla comes crashing down to earth.",
"Depends what you consider useful. This PR stunt will likely see SpaceX getting a huge influx of new investors, which if you're a fan of the company and their goals like I am, is a massive benefit. Just brings us one step closer to Mars.",
"I know you probably aren't but I hope you said that because you're a gt fan",
"Thanks for this. It was one of my favorite movies when I was a teen. Imma go find it somewhere on the interwebs now.",
"He really should have sent a flat earther up there with him so they would shut up about flat earth.",
"This photo was taken in the past though.... and the future still hasn’t come yet.... everyday it’s just the present again.,..",
"Fastest car in the universe",
"Amazing.",
"Whispers **boogie woogie woogie**",
"Earth looks awfully flat, just saying ",
"Is it red, or yellow, or maybe blue? ",
"When I was a young man I saw Heavy Metal in the theaters. Today I get to relive that through a similar shot.\n\nI have lived in interesting times!",
"Not coming back any time soon. It is going on an elliptical orbit around the sun.",
"Snake oil? The real story is the rocket working successfully. Completely real next level oil. ",
"Anyway we can get this 2650x1080?",
"They said the same thing about throwing plastic into the ocean. It’s important to be the best curators as possible. A lot of junk is necessary on long trips, but any unnecessary increase in probability, no matter how small, of some random mission in the future getting blindsided by a damn car in space is just kinda dumb. ",
"If aliens ever find this floating in space, they're gonna be so confused. ",
">This image is not photoshopped\n\nKyrie Irving doesn’t believe you",
"They could have sent $60k in lead and had a better test than the car, but he was able to broadcast his car into space! Marketing at its best right there. ",
"proof? cause it looks fake af",
"If it’s not photoshop then where are the stars?",
"I think the point is that the Earth has survived for billions of years with random shit like cars and mannequins being shot up into space, why start now?",
"The Space X team are totally up for \"hey lets do this cool thing\", so someone likely suggested it from the movie. \n\nI mean, they wrote \"DONT PANIC\" on the inside of the car. These people are having the time of their lives thinking up little funny things to send to space.",
"Take that Flat Earthers",
"You default win though.",
"Plus one of the stories was an inspiration for The 5th Element.",
"This photo is going to be in the history books of the future",
"“There’s a starman waiting in the sky” ",
"Is the car still attached to a rocket, or is it just floating on its own in space? ",
"We don't NEED money to feed those people. We don't even need that much extra food. The only thing keeping those people from starving are the people at the top. What Musk is doing is what others need to be doing... Putting capitalism to its best use - building a better future for human kind. ",
"Bang.",
"Thank you, was hoping someone else saw the OBVIOUS Daft Punk glory.",
"This has to be, one of the coolest images of all time. ",
"Um, pretty much every milestone in space exploration has been \"just to prove a point\" I think people 40 years ago could handle it.\n\n\n\n",
"I was wondering where he went. ",
"Kerbal Space Program really needs to add automobiles now.\n",
"Psssst - ignore the viewfinder in the camera!",
"Truth",
"This will show up on a conspiracy website soon. ",
"For our American friends...\n\nKinda like a giant chocolate egg which cracks open to reveal a cool toy.",
"So like this isn't composites? Its one single shot taken from a camera? Isn't the earth spinning while that car is traveling at 22k mph? Something should be blurry at those speeds right? Did they show the camera set up pre launch? How did that stuff not melt passing the van allen belts massive radiation? Haaaalp someone thanks in advance",
"The oceans are a grain of sand in the Sahara compared to the vastness of space. ",
"We need this answered. Please. ",
"Not if you consider that all rockets were recovered. First time. Historic. ",
"Rocket maaaaan!",
"Most likely a flat earther. Can't have a round planet. NASA is fake. Rockets don't work in space. It's a huge conspiracy. They make billions telling us the world is round.",
"You learned nothing this past weekend?! It’s obviously a Tide Ad.",
"Like, there's an actual car that was delivered to space via one of the largest rockets in history and rockets that *landed themselves*. How is that dumb?",
"No, it’s going to orbit the Sun (a heliocentric orbit). It is an elliptical orbit the will cross the orbits of Mars and the Earth. And - based on the last burn, the orbit will extend to the asteroid belt.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBOgWYMBwo",
"Sorry - very limited bandwidth- cameras were streaming\n at 480p.",
"You to the top right the fucking now.",
"Anyone remember the Microsoft cow astronaut from the early 90s? ",
"No one wants to be the one responsible for blowing up the bosses car though. Highest stakes possible.",
"Checkmate scientists",
"This...I'm seeing the Heavy Metal reference everywhere, and it's perfect. Elon Musk is a glorious madman. Love the \"DON'T PANIC\" on the dash too!",
"Stop it! Stop it! No! That's not fair! You know I can't resist that beautiful voice!",
"You remind me of the time my ex friend bought a duckling. Fed it bread and fucking Gatorade - it died days later. Her opinion? \n\n*It must have been the runt.*",
"> *My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;*\n> *Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!*",
"At that altitude, the earth isn't moving very fast. In fact...at the scales we are talking about... 3000km a sec wouldn't make the globe move that fast for a still shot. Also...they hadn't reached the Van Allen belt yet in that photo. We'll see what happens to the camera, car, etc in the coming days as it flies out away from our magnetosphere and into the dark...with cosmic rays, solar radiation, etc. Guaranteed the paint will fade on the car, etc. But overall...that thing will be orbiting for thousands/millions of years. ",
"haha, nice",
"What’s a smartboard..?",
"And I'm floating in the most peculiar way!\n\n",
"fuck me I think you've cracked it, him selling flamethrowers just cements this theory",
"its just floating in space with Dave Bowie's \"Space Odyssey\" playing as it flies around Mars for YEARS. \n\nNo...I'm not kidding. This is real. Elon Musk is the GOAT",
"Probably the first metallic red object in space...\n",
"The Night King had them burned down months ago.",
"Plus there’s John Candy, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult. ",
"They're going to take it out, they're going to clean it ",
"Doesn't work without the /s mate ",
"Just looking for a drive thru.",
"Take that, Flat Earthers ",
"And the Stars look very different today!",
"**You guys are going to love the view when that thing explodes, knocking out all communication, electricity, water, sewage, hospitals, transportation, and food/medicine delivery to stores.\nI hope to hell everyone is prepared.**",
"> That being said, typically dummy payloads are lead blocks so, good on them for doing something hilarious and cool with it!\n\nThanks for mentioning this. I was considering this to be some stupid PR stunt for high and unnecessary costs, not just monetary. Knowing that they would have done it anyway puts my mind a little bit at ease. Although it would be better if they would have other \"useful\" applications for these kind of tests. It just seems like a waste.",
"https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=25m34s",
"https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=25m34s",
"It's what rich suburban schools use instead of chalkboards. Basically a giant touchscreen.",
"Water? You mean like from the toilet? ",
"lolwat",
"There’s another picture where you can see the interior of the car; on the dashboard screen is written “DON’T PANIC!” in large friendly letters.\n\nMarketing guys know their audience. ",
"There’s another picture where you can see the interior of the car; on the dashboard screen is written “DON’T PANIC!” in large friendly letters.\n\nMarketing guys know their audience. ",
"So tell me what good it did to launch a heavier rocket? And how did the car add to the mission? \n\nDoing something like this just because you can doesn't mean it's exceptional, will lead to anything productive, nor is it a good use of resources which by the way are public tax payer resources. \n\nShow me where he has one; made a profit for his shareholders or two; done anything beyond what we are paying the Russians to do already? He's wowing the world with technology using math and computational power that NASA had in the late fifties. \n\nThis is a stunt. And a dumb one at that. ",
"It didn’t “blow up on the launch pad”. \n\nDon’t Panic. It’s too late for panic.",
"This looks like a daft punk album cover.",
"Not really, because this isn't going to orbit earth, it's going to orbit the sun, a very long distance away from anything it could potentially crash into.\n\nAlso the rocket needed to be tested with payload weight of some sort, so it would have been a chunk of metal in any scenario. In this case they just used a car for that weight.\n\nThe picture's kind of confusing because it looks like the car is floating on its own, but it's [still attached to the upper stage of the rocket](http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/Tesla-Roadster-SpaceX-Falcon-Heavy-payload.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around|660:438). This picture was taken before it made its second burn out of earth's orbit.",
"They sent a 16k lbs payload to Mars orbit while fully recovering all three rockets used to launch it. It's revolutionary and more..",
"3, 2, 1, Let's jam.",
"Wow that sounds dangerous, I hope I don't choke on something like that while on the shooting range",
"You keep saying “we”. Musk built a private company to make space rockets. He gets to decide what they launch.",
"My man. Good looking out!!!",
"You are trying too hard",
"Is that Australia?",
"I'm old. It's like watching the moon landing footage.",
"I'll also recommend the music video for [The Parachute Ending](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCHM1do5Vqw) by Birdy Nam Nam",
"Serious question how come there are no stars in the background?",
"probably because the light reflecting off the car is too bright and is washing them out for how much exposure they used.",
"Why do you think all the evil corporations have **Global** Headquarters? They're rubbing our noses in it... Don't be sheeple! ",
"idk about that. You're not allowed to just shoot garbage into space without having a plane for where it's going to be. Although there is an orbit the use for space garbage they have to keep track of it so future flights don't crash into the garbage. That car is a pretty big piece of garbage floating out there would cause insane damage in a collision. I'd guess that have a return planned for it but IDK when that would be. If you have anything that says they are keeping it up there please link it to me.",
"We had one in the whole school but this was back in 2005. I think it used a projector and had a stylus like a dry erase pen and an \"eraser\". ",
"Space Stig = Spig? ",
"Lol @ people who have multiple accounts to try and back themselves up. \n\nJust take your downvotes like a man! ",
"You're gonna carry that weight. ",
"Yea, but it's still attached to the final stage of the craft...\n\nWait. Unless Elon's personal tesla came with RCS thrusters. ",
"The car was just used as a payload for weight. It could have been anything he just used it for publicity cus \"Space X sends a car to space\" sounds cooler than \"Space X sends a chuck of concrete to space\"\n\nSpace X isn't publicly funded it's a private corporation.\n\nNASA didn't have their rockets guide themselves back down to earth and land to be reused.",
"IDK if it still has airbags in it but they might inflate from the lower pressure around them. I bet they removed stuff like that from the car though and it's basically just a shell, with no battery and such, just for looks.",
"Oh cool to know, thank you :)",
"The camera is set up so that the car is the focus, so there is so much light nearby that the camera just doesn't recognise the stars as worth picking up. If the stars were visible, the entire earth and car would be super bright and you'd not see that.",
"Beat me to it. Take my upvote.",
"OK, \n\na) it's now the only rocket available that can launch anything over 50,000kg, essentially meaning you can build space stations with this thing. It also means you can put stuff in a higher orbit as well, not just big things in a low orbit, so adds a lot of flexibility that current launch vehicles don't have.\n\nb) the car is a stunt, but as they'd normally just launch a big weight on test flights Musk thought he'd have a little laugh.\n\nc) his rockets are the first to be able to be reused, and the two side boosters had previously flown. This means that instead of it costing $750M+ to launch these things (which is a very conservative estimate at what the STS and Saturn V cost), it costs $90M meaning more companies can get their stuff in space.\n\nSo basically, yeah, he's taken what NASA did in the 50s, but then basically made it 10x better and cheaper.",
"The car is only up there because it's a test flight for an unproven rocket. No-one is going to risk putting anything useful on that thing.",
"I mean, you can watch the video of it launching and check for yourself.",
"I'm gonna overlook the obvious lack of account swapping, but what do you mean by \"it also isn't real in that sense\"?\n\nIn what sense?\n\nIn the sense that there's a tesla on a rocket with a space suit in it?",
"Who's gonna risk putting a satellite on an unproven rocket?",
"It's going to orbit the sun, not earth, the risk of someone crashing into it in the future is basically zero. ",
"Cutting the cost of something from $500M-$1.5BN / launch to $90M isn't revolutionary?! I mean come on, how is that not a game changer. SpaceX have made access to space insanely cheap compared to what it was a few years ago.",
"Golf.on.the.moon\n\nI’m excited too but also annoyed that if it weren’t for Musk we would not be going anywhere fast.",
"I tried to show my friend the video he shrugged and then tried to argue that it's not that impressive . What an asshat .because the guy has spacex and lots of money.. so this is new exciting in our life time. ",
"i get they sent a car into space, but saying we live in the future like this will change everything just sounds stupid",
"Sometimes I think I'm dead and all this crazy shit that's been happening is really just my fucked up personal after life.",
"Ok I’ll give you that one...can you find a picture of the earth that does have stars in it?",
"As some one once said. The future is already here. Just not evenly distributed yet. This doesn't affect me or the billions others in the least in their daily lives\n\n\nI'm gonna call it a future when it's me flying in my solar powered drone to work",
"2018-02-06 is the official beginning of the future. ",
"For people with Galaxy S7 or newer turn your brightness down and drag the image from side to side and look at the space suits visor, you can see the wave of individual pixels lighting up...neat",
"Last I've heard was that anything going into space, costs its weight in gold. Not sure how true that is tho.",
"Nvm I did some reading around and figured out it’s all about light exposure ",
"Do you know how much light the earth reflects?\n\nTake [this](http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/07/earth-night-ISS-2012-e1441207040831.jpg) photo for example. That's taken at night, with a hell of a lot of reduction of light coming into the aperture of the camera, and you can only just about make out stars. \n\nFor a practical application of this, get a camera, and take a photo of the stars. Then do the same with a torch pointing back at the camera. See what happens!",
"Yawn. How many more times am I going to have to see this? Stop milking it.",
"Good on you! Yeah, sorry forgot the actual phrase that I needed :D",
"ahh ok. Yeah that makes sense. I wonder if we could ever generate enough trash to require a trash orbit around the sun.",
"And yet, for SOME reason, they played the wrong song!!!",
"You're a saint",
"GO AWAY! 'BAITIN!",
"Is that, is that the Stig?",
"It's called a \"Trans-Mars Injection\" orbit\n\n>[Musk's vehicle won’t be going to Mars, or even orbit around Mars. In fact, it could be several million miles away from the Red Planet. Rather, this launch would put the car into the kind of orbital loop that brings it close to Mars and Earth over and over again. The Falcon Heavy launch would place the Roadster into a heliocentric orbit, meaning that like the planets and comets and so on, it will be orbiting the sun. More specifically, the Muskmobile will go into a type of heliocentric orbit called Trans-Mars injection, which it is the easiest and least energy-intensive way to move objects back and forth between Earth and Mars.](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a16571489/elon-musk-space-tesla-mars/)",
"Textbook troll.",
"Some say he was only trying to avoid the tailbacks on the M25.\n\n\nAll we know is...he's not the Stig, but he *is* the Stig's billionaire cousin:\n\nSpace Stig!",
"As long as you’re thinking about that, and not the dead hooker in the trunk, Mr. Musk has done his job.",
"Oh, well done. That's the fucking kiss of death, that is.\n\nOur first manned mission to Mars is going to get t-boned by a dude in a red sports car, now.\n\nHeh, I'd love to see the insurance claim, where you have to draw a little diagram.\n\n'Well, here's my massive fucking spaceship, and here's this tool in his roadster cutting right across...' ",
"Big Boy was first",
"Same reason people in cities don't see stars at night.",
"They are so fucking bad, because powering this with a Pentium processor *must* lead to problems",
"So, that is not a real guy, right?",
"It was a test flight for the most powerful heavy lift rocket since the shuttle retired. They needed a payload. \n\nNow, they could have used a concrete block, but where's the fun in that?\n\nIn any case, fuck the shareholders. ",
"I think he took a wrong turn",
"Anyone going to Mars won't use the same path as the orbit path of the tesla payload, the tesla isn't even going close to Mars. ",
"No, not by a long shot. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of privately-owned satellites.",
"How are people not dying by the millions in these countries where those heinous murdering candy eggs are allowed to exist? ",
"It was either this or a concrete block or something. This is cooler. ",
"Ya don't say?",
"This launch means that throwing big things into space is no longer reserved for countries with huge budgets. Smaller countries and private firms can do things with this that only the Russians have been able to do for years.",
"It wasn't until you jinxed it...",
"> it's just floating in space with Dave Bowie's ~~\"Space Odyssey\"~~ \"Starman\" playing as it flies around Mars for YEARS.\n\n~FTFY",
"Actually America has kinder eggs again! Granted the toy is totally separate from the candy.. but we gottem!",
"no its detached from the second stage and has no thrust capability at all",
"An idiot's future. Pathetic showboating for what?\n\nr/toomuchmoney",
"its a test payload ,since nobody sends actual valuable cargo up on the first launch, it would normally have been a piece of scrap metal or blcoks of concrete\n",
"There's something poetic and obscene about Africa being in the background, too. ",
"...i have a feeling the bowie music isint having a huge effect",
"For rocket mass is a mass. No matter if it is gold, lead or 2002 midnight cherry Roadster. ",
"Only 2. Main booster fell into ocean. Sadly :c ",
"So it's just the car in that earth-to-mars heliocentric orbit? Cool. \n\nDid the second stage burn back towards earth? Or is it going to be orbiting somewhere near the roadster?",
"This post is not advertising. It's just astroturfing.",
"It's very nice to know there's a large heavy lift rocket around now that pushes the boundaries of cost efficiency by being partially reusable. But a car in space isn't that impressive. We've launched satellites into outer space for the last half a century. ",
"Yeah. I read somewhere were.oarly harmless. ",
"Musk is totally a super villain and this is totally plausible. Even though Craig is probably my favorite Bond I still think it's kind of a shame that they've moved on from most of the campiness purely because we will never see a Double O Seven film loosely based on Mr. Musk",
"That's the one. We had one in the entire school about the same time as you but these days they are often in every classroom of many schools, or at least the ones with good funding.",
"That's actually the same res.",
"\"he\" is the OP. It's in the title of the post.",
"It’s a #TideAd",
"People are saying that it's because of the car. This is not the case. It's the same reason why you won't see stars when you are on the light side of the moon. It's because of the Sun, it's like being in perpetual daylight. Science fiction films haven't helped with this, but to see the stars you need to block out the Sun (like the earth)",
"Finally we're handling future instead of Tide Pods",
"What the hell will aliens think about us now?",
"Does this count as a flying car?",
"Nice to see the stig found new employment after top gear ",
"\"Meanwhile, the upper stage seems to be doing just fine. After launch, Musk tweeted that it had successfully ignited its engine and raised its orbit as intended. Now, the upper stage will spend about six hours coasting through space — a move by SpaceX to demonstrate a tricky orbital maneuver for the US Air Force. That coast will take the rocket through regions of intense radiation that surround Earth called the Van Allen belts, where it will be pelted by high-energy particles. If the vehicle is still operating as it should by then, the upper stage will do another engine burn, putting the car on its deep space path to Mars’ orbit.\"\n\nFrom this article [here.](https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980954/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-middle-core-failed-landing)\n\nDefinitely DOES still have thrust capability... one last burn and it will be on it's way past Mars continuing on for an orbit around the sun and on. So long as that final burn is successful of course.",
"But, why? ",
" We have had a ban on foods with non-food parts inside since 1938, they just wouldn't make an exception for the eggs. It's not like a president went to the store and said \"I hate this candy in particular\". \n\nAnd as far as I've read the only people that died eating it are 3 UK children. ",
"The thing that confuses me is where is the camera? Was it strapped to the side of the car with a selfie stick?",
"Maybe the USA is the only country where children would put the whole thing in their mouth and try to swallow it without even chewing.",
"Not impressed. “I’m sending a car to an orbit roughly equal Mars’s!”\n\nMaybe he should have done something like send actual supplies to build a base there? This is an ego trip, and simple folks are slurping it up.",
"Better quality [here](https://imgur.com/a/7tm8h) \n\nAnd yes, I've already ordered a t-shirt with this splendid image! ",
"^(*sobs quietly*)",
"Fucking Apple Maps!",
"The earth is flat. This is proof.\n\n\n\n^/s",
"On the back of 4 Elephants? But what would they stand on?",
"I hate music ",
"Come to think of it I haven't seen Amber Heard around lately.",
"DON’T\nPANIC",
"If I don’t see you in the future, I’ll see you in the pasture",
"Uhhh, it was a test launch. Normally they send concrete up. No one in their right mind is going to send an expensive payload on a test launch with a \"50-50 chance of success\".",
"With a scrolling surface that shows different areas of the earth every once in a while? Where's the \"whole\" area depicted in all the flat earth theories?",
"Flat earthers say otherwise...",
"Tesla would now have the best ads ever.",
"[Space Mining Colonies](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford torus) are up next!\n\nWho would take a job in space? The pay would be astronomical! Great view from the desk! ",
"Probably the most significant event in history in the last 40 years besides 9/11",
"I bought one of those expecting the real thing.\n\nTalk about a total let down.",
"Cowboy bebop might be the best aesthetic",
"\"Not photoshoped\"\n\nThen why no Icewall? Checkmate round earther.",
"Finally, we're gonna get flying cars!",
"My new desktop wallpaper.",
"Look its jist turtles all the way down",
"https://streamerclips.com/twitch/lirik/VainDignifiedFrogDatSheffy\n\nThe part where they actually shot it out of the capsule still confuses me lmao. This clip literally looks like they faked it but they didn't I'm juts to dumb to understand whats happening.\n\nSo they have cameras on the outside to show the car as IF it were actually in space....before its in space?\n\nAnd then they actually launch it out of the rocket or whatever and then its actually in space. \n\nThis clip with no information basically makes this whole thing look like a conspiracy.",
"We finally got our flying cars.",
"It's Your One Way Ticket To Midnight...Calling, Heavy Metal!",
"You mispelled 'madness' as 'madeness'",
"I'd highly recommend watching the launches live if possible. Caught my first one finally with this flight, it was exhilarating to watch not knowing what would happen.\n\nAdmittedly after the first few flights these will start becoming less exciting and more common. Definitely keep an eye on BFR test flights in the years to come. those are sure to be a spectacle.",
"Checkmate flat earthers? 😂",
"they planned on detaching and using whatever fuel the stage had yet to change its orbit slightly. definitely not enough to go back to earth, so it'll have a similar orbit to the car.",
"final burn was successful, FYI. It's orbit goes out as far as the asteroid belt.",
"Radar Rider... keeps playing every time I see this.",
"I've seen this idea/joke several times. I got the \"mannequin is actually a dead man\" joke, but not why people joke it's James Bond.",
"No, Elon lives in the future. We're still early 2000's. Same but slightly better computers, internet, wifi, phones, TVs, etc.",
"A \"cheap\" satellite is still ~$50 million. No company is going to risk that on an unproven vehicle's maiden flight, from a company whose president gave it 50-50 odds of success.\n\nThis is common for every rocket. Test flights typically use a hunk of lead or concrete as a test payload. ",
"I wonder how fast the sun will destroy starmans dash.\n",
"Is the rocket clear? How can you see earth from plank the angles they showed?",
"As slow as they were flying over the carnival, is anyone really surprised it took grease lightning this long to get to space?",
"Don't even need to do that. just try to video the stars with your phone. can't do it. they are too dim to pick up.",
"It's impressive that every picture of the Earth is taken directly over the flat side.",
"Which continent is that in the picture? Can anyone help out?",
"Same reason there aren't any in photos from the moon. Camera exposure is set to see the car and earth like normal. Stars are too dim to actually be seen. If you set one up with enough exposure to see the stars, the car, sun , and Earth would be glowing white spots.\n\nYou can see this at home by trying to take a picture of the stars at night. odds are your phone camera won't be able to do it.",
"the radio is playing space oddity on a loop actually.",
"What a monumental waste.",
"SpaceX has videos on youtube of the launch and live feeds of the car and mannequin for the 5 hours after launch.",
"Came in here hoping to see a reference to *Heavy Metal*. Thank you.",
"Oh, so that's how hovercrafts work. You just have to get them up high enough.",
"Because you need some sort of dummy payload for a test flight. No one's gonna put a satellite worth $100 million+ on it. ",
"Out of everything he could send, he sends a fucking piece of shit car. \n\nBra-fucking-vo",
"> No one in their right mind is going to send an expensive payload on a test launch with a \"50-50 chance of success\".\n\nAnd yet they sent up a perfectly good $100,000 car...",
"I want a high quality 11 x 11 poster of this for my wall!",
"We just witnessed the launch of the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V and IT FUCKING LANDED ITSELF BACK ON EARTH. Quit being such a chode. ",
"American,\nI just had one a few days ago with an alligator inside, still salty that my wife wouldn’t trade me her shark",
"I never got to see the landings - My space memories are ISS, and shuttle disasters. I sadly got to see the decline in the space race, the end of the cold war kinda cemented it. \n\nBUT NOW Elon is like - sup bro, come at me other billionaires lets have a money-space fight! \n\nI'm excited that this just pushes us closer to commercial space industry that leads to commercial space tourism at an affordable level. ",
"I'm not talking about the rocket here. \n\nI'm talking about what was sent. Stay on topic here.",
"Heaven help us if it hits a teapot.",
"\"I see that you're enticed by my daughter's awesome rocking tits.\"",
"You mean the past? Because we’ve been doing this for 60 years. Only we’ve never deliver a payload as stupid and frivolous before.",
"No, lies. Its KinderJoy nothing like a kinderegg. ",
"What's the decay of its orbit? Is Spaceman going to be a photo op on Space Tours in 100 years?",
"might be the Queensland coast",
"Shitty drivers even in space ",
"Should we play Starman or Ground Control to Major Musk?",
"Probably best not to play the one about the spaceship crashing?",
"Just watched this show for the first time a week ago. Don't know why I waited so long. ",
"imagine someone showing you this picture 15 years ago with no context other than this is a real photo. my mind would've exploded",
"This expanded my flat Earth theory into the flat universe theory in which cars can drive to planets now. ",
"It's not even in orbit around earth, and it won't come anywhere near being in orbit of earth.",
">Yes, it **is** photoshopped.\n\n- The Flat Earth supporter",
"I've seen the real ones for years in the US at places like World Market. Still wouldn't buy one though; too expensive and milk chocolate tastes like boiled ass. I can't imagine the toys taste much better.",
"I couldn’t believe this, I had to actually use google and look it up. There’s a car in space! r/thatshitscrazy",
"WAAAH HE SHOULD HAVE USED THAT MONEY TO HELP HAITI WAAAH",
"Do the dumb dumb flat earthers think Musk is all in on the conspiracy too? ",
"That's probably terrible on the leather.",
"A) theoretically. Currently,.it has proven to be able to launch a car into space. Given the track record, it's.going to be a while (if ever) until we use Space X to launch anything important or expensive again. \nB) \" A stunt\", exactly. There is a reason NASA doesn't do stunts. \nC) reused after they've been completely rebuilt and with zero cost savings yet. \n\nJust because Elon says something, doesn't make it true. In fact, I would argue the opposite. He constantly lies. And everyone eats it up because he launches a car into space at great expense. Or he talks about a $250k super car or a fleet of cargo trucks but can't produce the $30k car he promised what, five years ago now? \n\nEven the one actually successful product he has produced was only successful due to huge govt subsidies. \n\nHe's nothing more than a modern PT Barnum",
"Didn't they get away with some sex in the movie because it was animated and not people? Risque for the time. ",
"Where do you think Space X gets their revenue? \n\nThere is a reason NASA doesn't reuse stages. And Space X only reuses parts, not \"rockets\". And quite frankly, they haven't even done that well. How many successful and useful payloads have they delivered? The answer is zero. ",
"> \"DONT PANIC\" \n\nIs there any other little things we should have caught?",
"[The Loknar future.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWMPe3wF9jQ#t=1m51s)",
"Wait that's an actual person? I'm out of the loop. What's going on here? Looks like a SpaceX suit",
"[In motion](https://i.imgur.com/4HMLRi3.gifv)",
"Yes it is ",
"Who would think this was photoshopped? This was all over the news and everyone’s social media feeds.",
"It's a shame boat anchors like my dad have tethered us down for four more years. We should all be talking about solar roofs not impending war with NK and bullshit memo stunts.",
"Well no wonder if you calculate everything based on a flat earth **insertWhatCanYouDoSmiley**",
"Nothing blew up on the launch pad. The rocket departed successfully, stage 2 is on its way to Mars, boosters have landed back at KSC, and the core fell into the ocean at 200 mph next to the drone ship because of a thruster failure. What should explode here?",
"WRONG WRONG WRONG its all fake Musk is a conman, you're all sheeple /s \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeokzvS-ge8",
"Heavy Metal.\n\n*Not the movie*",
"r/WritingPrompts",
"Do you know what's sad?\nThat on YouTube most of the comments are about how this is fake and how everyone that believes it is a sheeple and dumb and whatnot...",
"But that happened in the past",
" \n ——-Dun \n—-Du——-Dun \n————-Du——-Dun \n———————-Du \n——————————Dudun—-Dun \n—————————————-Du\n",
"Brb going to send The Stig out to gather me some rocks for the garden from the Sol asteroid belt",
"Crazy prepared.",
"This is a piece of populist advertising by a man who underpays and overworks people like Sagan. I highly doubt Sagan would admire the colossal waste of resources on display here.",
"> ning this. I was considering \n\nIf they really wanted to they could have sent lead AND the car. There was plenty of room. The fact that they didn't indicates to me that mass loading wasn't a major concern for them....\n\n",
"I definitely will! I have to say it's very exciting to see history being made in regards to space travel after no real apparent forward movement or new major developments in a long time. I also feel that even if there were new developments they really weren't talked about very much in major media. You had to subscribe more to the Obscure, or be a Reddit fan. Elon is making launches popular again. It is kind of a beautiful thing.",
"Did they not drive a car on the moon? ",
"It is pretty exciting!\n\nThe Mercury and Apollo missions were a big part of my childhood especially since my father worked as an aerospace engineer. He got us kids all kinds of swag such as stickers and patches. I wish we still had them!",
"What would you have him send into space on a test flight at his expense?\n\nThis is a marketing thing, and judging by the several news articles have been written about it, I'd say it's a pretty damn good one. ",
"There is a Tesla Roadster Hot Wheel glued to the dash that has a tiny Starman glued into the tiny drivers seat.\n\n[Seriously.](https://youtu.be/K59bJdhbB3I?t=525)",
"No, not yet ",
"In my opinion, nothing. \n\nLet's just start sending random objects in space. \n\nGood marketing, doesn't mean I have to agree with it.",
"Anyone have an optimized HD version for wallpaper on mobile?",
"Around 75k to build based on 25% profit from their revenue figures in 2015. So it was a 75k marketing campaign on top of a test launch (ignoring the costs to form, reinforce and balance a regular test weight), which also serves to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers.\n\nMcDonald's spent 1.46 billion on advertising in the US alone in 2016 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/192159/us-ad-spending-of-mcdonalds/",
"Oh it’s got a battery. The radio’s playing David Bowie. ",
"I wonder what the flatearthers are gonna say about this...",
"Three cameras. One on an metal armature to the left of the drivers door, one mounted out beyond the hood looking back, and one mounted behind the trunk looking forward. All are attached to the frame that attaches the car to the second stage spacecraft.",
"This is all totally badass and all but it's kind of a shame when these things don't blow up during the test launches as each explosion means one more flaw they've discovered and can work to fix so we can start putting people on the rockets.",
"Right. My bad.",
"Well, this will be the background on many a computers in short order.",
"http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42969020\n\nIt's a mannequin doe.",
"Long press conference. \n\n8:40 for place where Elon tells about Hot Wheels car on dash. \n\n9:40 he says he's tripping balls\n\nEdit: at 18:50 he talks about aliens possibly finding it someday and wondering why the little car in the big car.",
"I think OP thinks it's a person and not a mannequin.",
"While cool and all in reality we're catching up with 1969...",
"Put it in \"H\".",
"*We* don't live in the future. This mannequin lives in the future. We live on that blue orb in the background, full of idiots lead by idiots.",
"I don't know of any other easter eggs but I'm sure some exist. \n\nI just am and work with a bunch of nerds and I know what we're like :P ",
"When you thought the Edibles were not working so you ate 2 more.",
"Then I guess it's a good thing you're not in charge of marketing. ",
"I was just making a joke lol I guess people take the shape of the earth seriously. Stop being superficial people lol ",
"Your guess is based on a single outcome of a single marketing plan .\n\n",
"I'm not a marketing genius or a space engineer, but I feel like instead of wasting money on this. He could've invested it in something else that would contribute to the greater good.\n\nConsidering he almost went broke a couple of times and put everything jeopardy.",
"I wonder how many times this same image will get posted with a different title. I've seen 7 already",
"Everybody get up it's time to slam now\nWe got a real jam goin' down\nWelcome to the Space Jam\nHere's your chance do your dance at the Space Jam\nAlright\n",
"But, why?",
"I remember watching it as a stoner kid in the 90's and totally feeling like a stoner kid in the 80's. It was pretty cool.",
"they didn't recover all three, they lost the core; and they haven't sent anything to mars orbit. it's an elliptical orbit that intercepts mars orbit. also, the car itself didn't weight 16k pounds. it was more like 2.8k.\n\nrecovering the boosters is _cool_, but they've been doing that for a long time now. it's lost some of its splendor.",
"TIFU by building a really sweet ramp to jump my new car. ",
"Brawndo! ",
"Ah, that helps. Thank you for the detailed explanation!",
"Where's the camera that captured that image?",
"After the first stage separated and the second stage shut down, they spun it around to get a bunch of pictures.",
"Nobody who was aware of the rocket launch certainly. But if somebody without the proper context saw the photo with that caption, they might.",
"Why is this a big deal? we've been putting so much stuff in space for decades... \nalso, why is space travel so important for humans? (its like, lets leave this planet to the dogs, and find the next place we can fuck up). we're always running toward new, flashy, shiny things \"because it's THERE'. it may not even be the right path forward, but as long as we're 'going somewhere', we feel accomplished.\n\nI wish this was photoshopped.",
"Same reason exploring the oceans was important to humanity. We have an innate desire to continue exploring, likely a remnant of our time as nomads. ",
"Maurice?",
"Culture of a time gone? Dude, this just happened. In real life. ",
"\"Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning.\"",
"Wait I can't tell if serious. This is not a real photo.",
"All in one coninous shot?",
"Space X is a part of nasa. Therefore it is government. Therefor it is fake lol.",
"other than some communicaton hiccups, yes.",
"If it gets pasts the belts it says. Shouldn't we have no problem considering all the times we passed the belts on the way to the moon? ",
"Oh my goodness that's the best video I've watched my whole life. The way the payload opens up revealing earth with that soundtrack. Jezuz fucking christ that was perfect it made me tear up. Was like a movie but in real life wtf.",
"Apollo missions were designed with the belts in mind. This is just a regular falcon 9 2nd stage engine, with no changes made to account for radiation from the belts, so they weren't sure if it would survive.",
"You know that SpaceX does missions to supply the ISS and has put almost a hundred satellites into orbit right? So far this year it put Zuma into orbit (you'll probably go \"but waaa it blew up\" but that was on Northrop Grumman, not Spacex) and it's put up another governmental satellite. There's a further 16 missions slated for the first half of this year alone... hardly \"it's a while before we use SpaceX to launch again\"...\n\nLast year they launched more rockets than any other launch system, and have, so far, reused 6 of their rockets. Hardly \"completely rebuilt with zero cost savings\"...\n\nNASA doesn't do stunts, because it's liable to the taxpayer. Musk can do whatever the fuck he wants because SpaceX is a private company.\n\nWhile Tesla is behind schedule on the cars, they'll get there. The battery plant in Australia was well ahead of schedule and performing better than forecast.\n\nIf PT Barnum could cause a revolution in Space travel, then yes, SpaceX and Musk are just like him.",
"This is a real photo. SpaceX launched it up about 20 hours ago (and had a live stream of it going through space for about 12 hours after the launch)",
"Citations please.",
"On a big stick off the side of the car",
"It's a big deal because the Falcon Heavy is now the only super heavy lifting rocket in the world. SpaceX have reduced the cost of launching satellites by about 85%, reusing great big bits of them. I'm less fussed about space travel, but all of us every day use so many products that are linked to space travel (phones, internet, TV, GPS etc) that the reduction of price alone is huge.",
"It's testing out a new rocket, no-one wanted to put a really expensive satellite on it, so Musk put on his Tesla for shits and giggles (and a load of good PR)",
"Partially true, with the exception that Musk has started a new space age. The cost of launching these sorts of things has been brought down by SpaceX from over $1bn / launch to $90M / launch. This is far beyond 1969!",
"To be fair, falcon heavy can't carry anywhere as near as much as Saturn V....",
"If I had billions of dollars at my disposal I'd have sent up a rocket to intercept, retro burn this car, and throw it back at earth at a faster speed than we launched it at. Without telling a soul.",
">Apollo missions were designed with the belts in mind. \n\nNo other manned mission has attempted to even go near the belts since 1974. Nasa claims we lost or destroyed the technology. Now my thing is the big test on this space x was to see if the final booster/electronics would work after passing through the belts. Yet we have 6 manned missions where electronics were never a concern and we successfully sent man through it 12 times (6 there and 6 back)",
"Well, it was originally going to be over a billion years on the orbit (it's a heliocentric orbit, not an earth orbit) but then they decided to to an even longer burn than was planned, so I'm not sure of the current orbit it's on",
"No I just watched it and they don't show a continuous shot of the rocket leave earth and almost every time they switch angles it cuts to black. It starts with a car in space. There's reasons to be skeptical.",
"It's fake though.",
"Has anyone launched a road legal car before?\n\nThe only reason they launched that was because it's on a test flight of an unproven rocket and, unsurprisingly, noone wanted to strap a multi-million dollar satellite to it. So instead of it just being a big hunk of metal, Musk decided to have a giggle.",
"Of? Launching test rockets is unlikely to attract people to put a multi-million dollar satellite on it. So rather than just putting a big chunk of metal in it, Musk had a giggle.",
"Still revolutionary and amazing",
"The car, when launched, is in a big capsule with fairings around it. There are various cameras on the outside of the rocket as it's going up, and loads tracking it from the ground. \n\nWhen it got up to the place where the atmosphere is reaaaaally thin, they disconnect the 2nd stage (the top bit of the rocket) from the first stage (the really tall big that gets it there), then take the fairings off (because there the interference from the atmosphere is bugger all, so won't cause damage) and separate it.\n\nThat clip looks like it was just out of order in all honesty.",
"Test rocket, noone wanted to put a multi-million dollar satellite on it, so rather than just putting a load of weight in it and sending it up, Musk sent his Tesla for a laugh (and global marketing)",
"Test rocket, noone wanted to put a multi-million dollar satellite on it, so rather than just putting a load of weight in it and sending it up, Musk sent his Tesla for a laugh (and global marketing)",
"Test rocket, noone wanted to put a multi-million dollar satellite on it, so rather than just putting a load of weight in it and sending it up, Musk sent his Tesla for a laugh (and global marketing)",
"Yea this shit is super fake. No continuous shot, cuts to black whenever it switches angles, literally starts on the car in space. Its only on 'unlisted' in youtube so less people would have access to scrutinize after initial broadcast. That and the whole \"were testing to see if coms work past the V.A belts\" but wait? We've sent man to the moon allegedly. We've had 2 way communications through the v.a. belts for 40 years. Hell Nixon even 'called the astronauts on the moon' with no sound delay or interference in coms. This was in 1969 and they're telling you we don't have this tech today. Shits not right. ",
"And? We haven't had a reason to go back to the moon or beyond since the Apollo days. Public support for such things went down and NASA switched focus to the shuttle program and probes. \n\nAnd the big test was to test the Falcon Heavy as a launch platform, not whether a 2nd stage would survive the van allen belts. They were just unsure if radiation would affect the electronics of the stage.",
"No, but it is their new spacesuit design.",
"Won't that affect mileage? ",
"I really don't see a reason. everything shown, including fairing separation, is exactly as one would expect. And you see plenty of shots of the car orbitting earth in the 4 hours video feed.",
"We've never had a reason to go back word? umm bases, stations, all kinds of tests. That's ridiculous. We've got plenty of reasons. We just can't go back cuz if we fail, or better yet take real pictures it will prove they faked it the first time. The whole public support thing is also ridiculous. Plenty of people would rather go back to the moon then spend their tax dollars bombing 3rd world countries.",
"They aren't testing comms through the V.A. belts, they aren't sure the electronics would survive the radiation from the belts. ",
"Except its non continuous and starts in space. It could literally all be cgi and you'd have no way of knowing. ",
"Thankfully wind resistance isn't too bad up there",
"The electronics worked on all the apollos allegedly and they were doing the same thing. Pooping out and catching smaller stage vessels. But if we had this tech 40 years ago. And it worked 250,000 miles from earth through radiation, what's the big deal in doing the same thing 20,000 miles up?",
"Heavy Metal was made in a culture of a time gone by.",
"I mean, you can watch the entire thing on the SpaceX channel...\n\nhttps://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=25m41s",
"The car is a weapon.",
"No, but if you want to send a large parcel to someone in a neighbouring city, would you use a delivery company, or buy a plane, only put that one parcel in it and then when it's delivered the parcel blow the plane up?\n\nFalcon Heavy is a nice intermediate launch vehicle that can do heavy lifting, but also isn't so insanely heavy lifting that smaller projects can't use it. \n\nBFR is where it's at for real heavy lifting, but we're a good 5-10 years away from that.",
"Some Say: He can drive an all electric car around the world many times without needing a quick charge.",
"\"spreading humanity\" to the stars is not the same as \"saving us all from climate change related problems\"",
"Except like I've previously stated, that is not a continuous video shot. It breaks up just about every camera angle change. It also starts in space. It would have given them far more credibility if they had the camera on the entire time from launch. With what they show us you could literally cgi the whole thing for an 8th the budget and I believe that's just what they've done.",
"NASA only had full public support while we were have a technological dick-measuring contest with the soviet union. Yeah moon bases and shit sound fun, but if the funds aren't available then how are you going to pay for it? \n\nFact is public support dried up for the moon missions so NASA had to work with a more restricted budget, one that didn't allow fun expensive shit like moon bases. \n\nAnd for the matter of not going there the first time, the Lunar reconnaissance orbiter has photographed the Apollo landing sites from lunar orbit. Not to mention Indian, japanese, and chinese space programs have confirmed evidence of the apollo moon landings.\n\nBut hey, conspiracy theorists aren't ever gonna be swayed.",
"That's what the rest of Musk's projects are doing though. Plus, you know, the whole we need satellites for comms / GPS / TV / internet, all those good things.",
"So all the ground shots and continuous videos of the rocket launching into space are all faked as well then? cause there are plenty of amateur videos showing the launch from start to booster separation. In case you really think a rocket launch never happened.",
"Did you carry on watching when the boosters came all the way back down to earth? They are pretty good at showing pretty much everything. And if you believe that's what they've done then I'm impressed at how you get GPS or phone signal or TV or anything else that satellites do...",
"Because the tech then was designed with the belts in mind, while the tech in the 2nd stage here was never designed for it, so anomalies could have happened. \n\nAgain, no special modifications were made to the 2nd stage, so it was a case of \"we don't know for sure\"",
"Yeah, we're getting accustomed to greatness. Either way, the \"test\" of the FH was historic, a true milestone in space exploration. You can't downplay the achievement..",
"I literally already explained to you that the public would rather spend money on nasa than the military. However nasa just conveniently puts it on you and you accept it. Sorry guys looks like we don't care enough. Its really ridiculous to say there's no money. Its a very blanket excuse that people just kinda accept. Were the richest country in the world. There's plenty of moon money they just put it back on you and you accept it. About 11% of my check goes towards bombing brown children in this great country we live in. I as a member of the \"public\" would rather that money use a rocket to get is back to the moon than kill someone. ",
"Except that's not what I said at all. They def launched a rocket into low earth orbit.",
"Low earth orbit. ",
"then vote for a politician who wants to fund NASA. ",
"Normies cannot handle space deception. Nasa= to deceive in ancient Babylonian.",
"And it's too big of a stretch to go from lower earth orbit to what they are claiming for you?",
"Just like all the other fake photographs they put in the history books. Humanity is done if you all don't wake up.",
"Well yeah. Considering no manned mission besides apollo passed the belts and their incredible difference in distance. Some context for you, Challenger, Space lab, all of them were in low earth orbit, between 90 and like 6000 miles up I believe. The Apollo missions were 250,000 miles up. That's a huge difference. They launched a rocket in l.e.o and brought it back down is all. We've been doing that forever. ",
"That shot is from LEO...",
">then vote\n\nNow you're just opening a can of worms haha. :) I don't think were gonna sway each other but hey we're only human.",
"When people say we live in the future, what they really mean is an 80's scifi version of the future. They don't mean that a floating car in space will change anything, they mean it looks pretty similar to [this](https://youtu.be/DWMPe3wF9jQ?t=50s)",
"The shot from o.p? Nah that's c.g.i",
"I believe it's called Mars Heliocentric or it - essentially, where Mars would be when we are within the most efficient distance to launch to reach Mars.",
"Yes it is a can of worms. thats my point about public support. you and i would like to fund NASA more, but by and large its not an issue the public deems important enough to support at the voting block, which is a shame.",
"But this isn't a manned mission. Its for all intents and purposes no different than Cassini, Voyager, etc.",
"No the can of worms is you already have me telling you all this shit is fake you probally don't wanna hear me go on a diatribe about how voting in America is fixed too lol. ",
"Flat earthers are going to be happy that someone finally drove off the edge of the world. ",
"WoW.. look at that Flat Earth! 👽.....",
"The law is formally called the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the movement in interstate commerce of adulterated and misbranded food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, and for other purposes. It was passed in 1938 (during the tail of the Great Depression) in response to hundreds of deaths caused by the Elixir Sulfanilamide Disaster, and by predatory grey market antics targeting the desperate poor. These included impossibly cheap flour that was actually half concrete dust, coffee grounds bulked up with dirt, and chopped nuts that were mostly wood chips.\n\nIs it really unreasonable to have a law that states \"food cannot contain inedible items\"?",
"i actually want to see an edited version of this, just to clean up the graininess a bit and have it in 4k,1440p, and 1080p as a wallpaper, someone should really send up an 8 or 16k camera into orbit to take pictures of the earth ",
"Show one source for anything you are saying here. Zuma blew up. Facebook satellite, blew up. Hundreds of satellites? They haven't even successfully put one into the correct orbit. Reused six stages, not rockets and all of those were rebuilt basically from the ground up. Space X is a privately held company almost completely funded by NASA. ",
"spoiler alert: its currently orbiting the sun and will most likely continue to do so for the next billion years or so",
"this is ^^^^^^now",
"actually the final burn made the farthest point in its orbit to be deep in the asteroid belt",
"i think the gps just threw its hands up and said \"im fucking done!\"",
"its orbiting the sun, not the earth so its not like you will be able to see it in a telescope",
"basically yes. you can see in the starman feed they have 3 cameras, one behind the drivers head. one to the side, and one in the front. you can see the support structure for the side camera from the front feed, and the support for the front feed from the drivers head feed.",
"We've launched hunks of concrete and lead. so stupider payloads have been launched.",
"I think we found Ken M.",
"I still call it",
"Yes! Elon said they might get the video of it crashing down :3 ",
"i'm not any of that stuff. that's all name calling. some billionaire puts his new sports car in orbit and tweets photos. it's not a technical achievement. we put a vehicle that could travel to the moon and back on a much bigger rocket almost 50 years ago. i'd say it's a dummy achievement because that's a dummy, not a person.",
"[Yupp, no successful payloads, except the 43 successful payloads they've sent into space for NASA, DoD, NRO, and various telecommunications companies since 2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches#Past_launches)\n\nSeriously, do you think SpaceX hasn't done anything until now? And they do refly entire boosters, been doing it all of last year. their newest rocket variant will be online this year, with improvements made with rapid reuse in mind. Hell, the Falcon Heavy launch yesterday was using 2 refurbished rockets.",
"And where exactly would you like to send that weapon? Looks like Mars will have to worry about it\n\nRelevant Colbert: https://youtu.be/gV6hP9wpMW8",
"You seem mad and I'm not going to bother because it's like arguing politics with a trump supporter.\n\nAlso called it \"(you'll probably go \"but waaa it blew up\" but that was on Northrop Grumman, not Spacex)\"",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches#Past_launches\n\nAll but 4 of their 47 launches have been total successes. They've had 1 pad explosion, one flight failure, a failed payload due to primary mission overriding, and Zuma, a classified satellite which people say failed, yet also acknowledged that SpaceX wasn't to blame. For all we know Zuma is still doing exactly what its supposed to do.",
"when the german rocket scientists behind the v2 program declared success it was the military men who were most excited about space travel & yet they only planned to bomb people. this obvious, expensive viral marketing campaign tickles your sense of wonder, but it also cheapens it. i don't hate teslas or anything and you gotta give elon musk props for being the world's pre-eminent salesman. this is an achievement for salesmen to look up to and that's fine. but it's not much more than that unless you're a bit dim",
"Actually it *is* photoshopped because someone jpegged the fuck out of it in 1 day",
"[Elon says yes!](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/944783379022540800)",
"OPs image is in there at the same exact resolution dude",
"Thanks, Apple Maps.",
"Where are all the stars in the back drop?",
"The rockets sure aren't.",
"Is this real? There's a car in space now? ",
">SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, **with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets**.\n\nSource: www.spacex.com/about\n\nPlease go ahead and tell me more about how this was intended to sell cars.",
"The car doesn't really need an enclosure. The tires were deflated so they didn't pop in the vacuum of space, but I don't think there were any more major adjustments.",
"[It's real](http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy)",
"The picture was screenshots from a video, which means the exposure time had to be ~1/24^th of a second, not long enough to capture most stars.",
"The picture was is a screenshot from the live stream and the quality was set to 1080p which means the bad quality of the image was due to the (I think) 720p video camera they used.",
"If I could go 50 years into the past and bring one thing with me, it would be a picture of this. \nJust so I can fuck with the space program a lil bit.",
"You're clearly not even reading your own source. ",
"From [email protected] Fwd:FWD:fwd: Earth always poses on it's side for pictures!! Still flat!!!\n\nNEXT!!!!",
"this is the equivalent of citing a billboard. do you not have the capability to discern advertisement from fact? not that i don't have faith in the 'free market' but the huge investment with little or no chance for profit means space travel and colonization is a project that only a government could underwrite. space tourism may have an upside sooner than later, and maybe colonization or mining might one day. but the necessary tech is going to be so incredibly costly that only a government can pioneer it. i mean, i'm not saying it's snake oil but it's definitely just sales talk. you can't just believe everything you read on a billboard",
"In what way is this not a source for what you asked? Multiple successful missions for an array of customers, not just NASA and the government.",
"Gotcha. Thanks for the rundown. ",
"Best comment in this thread. Thank you",
"interesting... thanks for the response...",
"Bet your Ferrari can’t do this...",
"You have an incredibly narrow and myopic view on human motivations.\n\nI'm not buying what you're selling. Sorry.\n\nEdit. Also, thanks for the helpful insight into whether or not I am 'dim'. I guess I don't have to wonder anymore.",
"Elon Musk is a hell of a salesman.",
"It is really hard to find info related to this but it should be still attached to a rocket that will fire several more times. It was intended to be put into Mars orbit but it looks like they over did it.\n\nfinally found an article that mentions this: \nhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/elon-musk-space-car-overshoot-mars-asteroid-belt",
"Clever shop. Shopped none the less.",
"Because Elon Musk is almost a real-life super villain. ",
"well yeah, but what about it was so monumental? it's cheap, yes, the recovering of the boosters is cool, yes, it's the most powerful on the market, yes, it's a milestone of sorts, yes, but it's not going to have a massive impact. it just isn't. it's not going to cause an upheaval in space exploration; it isn't the biggest rocket ever made, either. now, if he launches people to the moon, that'll be something. if he launches the BFR, that'll be something. the recovery itself is certainly a milestone, but this is something that they perfected already -- it isn't a milestone unique to the FH. it seems, to me, like the FH isn't a leap forward but rather a perfection and logical extension of pre-existing technology.",
"We had them at a super ghetto school 10 years ago",
"Isn't the Kinder egg American? Didn't know it was British. Damn.",
"Its going to be orbiting the Sun in the asteroid belt, not Mars",
">What Musk is doing is what others need to be doing... Putting capitalism to its best use - building a better future for human kind. \n\nHow exactly is Musk doing this? By putting a car into space? While at the same time he stamps down on any chance for his workers to unionize? He's no different than any other capitalist. Hell do things that help others so long as these \"benevolent\" actions **benefit his bottom line**.",
"SpaceX Engineers: “Sir the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!”\n\nElon: “NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!”",
"You were down voted bc Liberals don't like it when someone calls out their Rocket Jesus overlord.",
"Pretty sure it’s Canadian. Mind you I’ve never been to Britland so can’t confirm.",
"But Kinder Eggs clearly state that there's a toy inside. Just like boxes of cereal sold in the USA often have toys inside ( not sure if they still do that, but as a child growing up in the 1980s, we always look forward to the toy inside a box of cereal). Cracker Jacks boxes had toys inside too. Why are toys in cereal boxes & Cracker Jack boxes not illegal in the USA?",
"You must have watched a delayed broadcast of the Super Bowl ",
"Because the toy is a physically distinct item that is just sold in the same packaging as the foodstuff. A kinder egg is completely encased in food. From the outside, the only thing visible is food. It's not the same as a toy submarine encased in a food-safe plastic bag, which you never get anymore anyway. To any literate customer it is indeed clear that there is a toy inside the egg, nobody's arguing that. It's just beside the point. You can't have inedibles within food, no exceptions. Making an exception for Kinder Eggs is, one, not fair to other companies, and two, will instantly introduce a regulatory nightmare as hundreds of manufacturers appeal for their own exemptions.",
"correct, it'll be doing that after it orbits Mars."
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"Why have I seen multiples posts of this today? ",
"This is from the [\"Live Views of Starman\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M) stream from today's Falcon Heavy Launch!",
"Thought it was a Heavy Metal remake lol",
"That's valid, considering how seeing a sports car in space feels pretty much science fiction."
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"Lol forward? haha... took me a minute ( I think)... Front wheel drive?",
"I read it as forward too but it's front wheel drive :)",
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"Today is my 20th wedding anniversary. When I was a mere slip of a lad at the tender age of 20, I met Jennifer at Fort Meade, Maryland, where the two of us were stationed for our advanced training in the US Army. I was “dating” a girl strictly online at the time (we never met), and had been since before I’d joined the Army, but I’d never really been in a proper relationship.\n\nI had just returned to base following a four day pass for Thanksgiving – this was in ’97 – and I was feeling miserable. I spent about an hour in my room, in the dark, weeping. I just wanted to quit and go home.\n\nI came out of my room and into the common area – it was bitter cold, so our check-in formation was held indoors that evening – and of all the people I knew, Jennifer was the only one that noticed there was something wrong. And then she turned around, and I noticed that she had a GREAT ass. She still does.\n\nSo I asked her out. We went to see Mr. Bean, and I challenge you to find a more dreadful film based on a British imbecile. It wasn’t Rowan Aktinson’s fault, it was just awful writing.\n\nIn the intervening years, we’ve been through a lot together, good and bad. There were times when I thought we wouldn’t make it, times when it was on the very brink of falling apart, but we always managed to bring it back together.\n\nI won’t claim that my relationship with her is perfect, but it’s nearly so, and I consider myself incredibly, incredibly lucky to have met her.\n\nHere’s to 20 more! Or 40. Or, hell, 80; why not?",
"DROP AND GIVE ME 50, SOLDIER. ",
"That’s so cool!! \n\nI also met my second husband while in the military. ",
"\"and I noticed that she had a GREAT ass. So I asked her out.\" - u/system_of_a_clown",
"This is probably the classiest wedding I've ever seen where the bride and groom were wearing camouflage. And I grew up in the deep south - I've seen a bunch. Congrats!",
"Y'all got clear skin",
"It was this easy in the 90's.",
"Hahaha, right? We literally went to our wedding right after class, and then we went to our evening formation. Every squad leader sounded off with something wedding related that night. It was all super chill and inexpensive, and I wouldn't do it any differently if I had to do it again.",
"You know what, you've got a perfect relationship there, it's not all beautiful flowers and butterflies, there's always problems, ups and downs, but if at the end you get to smile together, that's just the best relationship ever",
"You're not kidding. Dudes could wear Jinco jeans that you could hide a fire hydrant in, and still have no problem getting laid.",
"Thank you!",
"I didn't know Dwight Schrute was in the military.",
"My Aunt and Uncle have been married 47 years today. I hope you both celebrate that milestone as well",
"Same, thank you!",
"Congrats! That's an amazing accomplishment! Not being rude but you guys should start working to together to get healthy and be able to make it to 40 years! Best of luck and good job!",
"You're right, and we are. We've started doing kettlebell workouts and eating better. I think the fact that we're doing it together, and pacing ourselves, is going to make it more sustainable.",
"Man, another one to add to the celebrities I've been compared to before. Over the years, I've gotten Private Pyle (Vincent D'onofrio), Billy Corgan, Down's Syndrome Matt Damon (seriously, somebody called me that once), and Fat Leonardo DeCaprio.\n\nPersonally, the only one I really could see was Private Pyle, and that was 20 years ago.",
"r/progresspics\n\nIn case you both want some extra motivation. On nights where I’m tired or feeling too lazy to go the gym, I just browse there for a while and it gets my ass right up haha. Best of luck to both of you.",
"Quit being a dick. ",
"Congrats. And thank you both for your service. ",
"Thank you, I appreciate that!",
"That's awesome! Doing it together is great, my wife and I love it. It pushes us to work harder and not to cheat. We also make times to have good dinners and grub out. It's all about moderation and control. ",
"It's great because if one of us is feeling lazy, the other can remind them that they'll be happier and feel better after they've worked out."
] | 24 |
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Today is my 20th wedding anniversary.
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"Gotta love the \"Don't Panic\".",
"/u/Waldo_R35, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must directly relate to the event in the picture. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Waldo_R35&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vr9a0/when_you_take_a_wrong_turn_at_albuquerque/?context=10\\))",
"/u/Waldo_R35, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must directly relate to the event in the picture. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Waldo_R35&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vr9a0/when_you_take_a_wrong_turn_at_albuquerque/?context=10\\))"
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When you take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
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/r/pics/comments/7vrdgs/border_control_in_uae_catching_illegal_immigrants/
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"What exactly am I looking at, what are those people in? ",
"That container is usually used to transport liquids with trains ",
"Cement trailer..."
] | 3 |
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Border control in UAE catching illegal immigrants.
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/r/pics/comments/7vrdx3/not_the_highest_quality_but_tesla_roadster_in/
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"We have the live feed on one of our office monitors right now lol",
"We do too! Been watching it since 3:00pm EST!!",
"3:00pm EST happens when this comment is 21 hours and 10 minutes old.\n\nYou can find the live countdown here: https://countle.com/GY83134339\n\n---\n\nI'm a bot, if you want to send feedback, please comment below or send a PM.",
"Bad bot."
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Not the highest quality but... Tesla Roadster in Space with Starman as the driver
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/r/pics/comments/7vreot/printed_on_the_circuit_board_of_the_tesla_that/
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"Is that intended for an alien species, if so would it even mean anything to them? A bit pretentious to assume that they would know, not only English but also what Earth and humans are. And even if they have knowledge of us they would have their own name's for the planets......\nOr is it for future humans? Or just for lols? ",
"We sent a car into space....it's for the lols.",
"Don't have any idea how they would read that.. but yeah, it's cute :-)"
] | 3 |
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Printed on the circuit board of the Tesla that was sent to outer space
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/r/pics/comments/7vrfgp/this_painting_i_just_finished_needs_a_title/
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"\"mighty mouse bleeding from his mousehole..\"",
"Noted",
"Heroes under glass. ",
"We Watch the Watch... er... Mouse."
] | 3 |
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This painting i just finished needs a title. Acrylic on wood panel 36"×36"
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/r/pics/comments/7vrfoe/its_a_tide_ad/
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"I see the Tide marketing team was successful.",
"/u/VizWhiz, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/VizWhiz&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vrfoe/its_a_tide_ad/?context=10\\))",
"Damn. Ok. Lol. "
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It’s a Tide ad
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/r/pics/comments/7vrful/my_gf_after_4_pole_dancing_classes/
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[
"I don't believe you",
"10/10 would smash",
"Op : ”Hey sis, show me those dance moves you practice”\n\nOP’s sister : ”oh okay, sure”\nOP’s sister : ”why do you have your phone out taking pictures?”\n\nOp : ”no reason.... Good job sis”",
"Why would you have a pole installed in your house already after just four classes?",
"She's ready to turn pro",
"Plot twist, she already is.",
"Well shit... anymore pics ",
"Someone didn't tell you what she did for work before you two met.",
"That's a keeper OP",
"Rolltide ",
"I bet she was good at giving head after just \"4\" guys before OP too. ",
"nice click",
"..you sure your dad will be ok with your sister pole dancing for you while you take pictures?",
"Is your girlfriend single?",
"Just 4 classes and she installed a pole in her house… sure ",
"...And 4 years at the club...",
"4 classes? She's some kinda stripper virtuoso.",
"Because you want to"
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my gf after 4 pole dancing classes
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/r/pics/comments/7vrjrl/a_patriots_fan_took_a_photo_of_me_my_dad_and_my/
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[
"Now you know how us Saint's fans felt in 2009.",
"Ill never understand why sports mean so much to people. ",
"¯\\\\_(ツ)_/¯ I'll never understand a lot of things. U just gotta enjoy the things that do"
] | 4 |
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A Patriots fan took a photo of me, my dad, and my brother celebrating the Eagles first Superbowl.
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/r/pics/comments/7vrkyc/this_printed_on_elons_cars_pcb_just_shot_into/
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"submitted LITERALLY 6 minutes ago....",
"made in fremont CA by underpaid slaves who currently have a huge lawsuit going against him. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-13/tesla-a-hotbed-for-racist-behavior-black-workers-claim-in-suit",
"Made on Earth by Hupeople.",
"r/totallynotrobots"
] | 4 |
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This. Printed on Elon's car's PCB. Just shot into space.
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/r/pics/comments/7vrlk0/first_car_in_space_elon_musks_personal_roadster/
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"[Ahem...](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Apollo15LunarRover.jpg/1280px-Apollo15LunarRover.jpg)",
"uummm rovers aren't \"car's\". ",
"it's okay to admit you're wrong",
"Well you show me another production car in space and I sure will. ",
"you didn't say production car, you said car\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car\n\n>A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation. Most definitions of car say they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four tires, and mainly transport people rather than goods.\n\naside from running primarily on roads (which I don't entirely accept as it would mean 4-wheel offroad cars, demolition derby cars, and some Jeeps would also not be classified as a car), the lunar rover meets every one of those specs\n\nyou lost and your thread is dumb, repetitive, and pointless. Get over it",
"Jesus Christ mate, I omitted one word purposefully to make the title much more concious and get a neck beard going \"well technically...\". \nWell sorry if I didn't see a single post on the top of this sub with anything regarding this sort of image and I thought \"you know what this is awesome let's share it\" I don't browse 10,000 subs a day to be annoyed by finding this repetitive like you must. Go back under your bridge mate. I couldn't give a shit what you \"accept\". I have nothing to get over just amazed at how much of a tosser you are lol. ",
"You get nothing . You lose. Good day sir"
] | 7 |
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First car in space - Elon Musk's personal Roadster
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/r/pics/comments/7vrnrk/the_face_of_a_fire_that_sent_smoke_over_70_km/
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"Photo taken by Dave Johnson in Port Colborne, ON today at the site of a huge industrial fire that closed roads and sent thick black smoke billowing through town, and Buffalo, NY. ",
"What the hell happened? Did they deport that mother fucking smoke? ",
"Just some yummy smoked meat sandwiches being prepped.",
"\"That's a crown? I thought it was a big eyebrow!\"",
"A vinyl company of some sort is never actually heard of, despite living in this town... caught fire just before 8 am and the smoke blew lily crazy! Due to the nature of the fire (vinyl products) we’ve been told to stay inside and keep windows closed. Which won’t be a problem since it’s -15 Celsius outside. We are also hearing there’s no danger in the air, a tad contrary to the first statement but that’s all we have to go on as of 3:55 pm!",
"Stay safe, If you have painters masks it might be a good time to use them, or any other masks you might have. Can you smell it? ",
"I smelled it when I was driving earlier today, when I had my heat running in the car. Air smells fresh now, and thankfully I’m on the west side of town, and this was on the east. When I left the house all I saw was a giant black cloud. Very ominous. Here’s a photo my father-in-law took (was featured in the Buffalo News) https://imgur.com/gallery/NqFMj",
"yeah, you should at least keep 3M m95 masks on hand in case this happens closer to you. I have had 3 chemical fires in the past 16 years and evacuated 2x. You cannot have facial hair for these to work properly. I really like being prepared for anything and that would be a good thing to have if you live near industries like this. ",
"We actually do have some pretty heavy duty masks in the garage. Thankfully I can hold my breath long enough to get to them! Thanks for the tips! Much appreciated. ",
"I am a mod at /r/Preppers, we prepare for all kinds of things. If And no we are not doomsday weirdos. ",
"Lmao I hope you were refering to the face on the left side ",
"I am! I’m glad someone caught it lol ",
"It looks like a profile of The Red Skull from Captain America."
] | 13 |
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The face of a fire that sent smoke over 70 km across the Canada/US border today
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/r/pics/comments/7vrtbj/my_mother_ladies_and_gentlemen/
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[
"She was clearly on to something here",
"Keep hitting the monitor until it works again...",
"Tell mom to put it back in",
"I told you before, don't go leaving your bitcoins all over my desk. ",
"Something something every thread",
"So close...but yet so far.",
"Have you tried turning her off and on again? ",
"/u/jama211, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/jama211&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vrtbj/my_mother_ladies_and_gentlemen/?context=10\\))"
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My mother, ladies and gentlemen.
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/r/pics/comments/7vru7n/planet_earth_is_blue_and_theres_nothing_i_can_do/
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[
"Ground Control to Major Tom\nTake your protein pills and put your helmet on",
"Tesla Roadster, sent to space by SpaceX today, unmanned. the picture is from the Livestream",
"Commencing countdown, engines on. Check ignition, and may God's love be with you"
] | 3 |
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Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do
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/r/pics/comments/7vrw0g/ominous_photo_taken_after_the_64_magnitude/
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[
"Impressive that it's still somewhat together ",
"Agreed. I wonder if it’s leaning on another building we can’t see?",
"I saw this pic earlier today, I wonder if mine is of the same building: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7voxsz/huge_earthquake_just_hit_taiwan/",
"Makes you wonder eh.",
"I did as well. ",
"Did everyone make it out? ",
"I believe there were 2 deaths, sad, but surprising considering the damage.",
"2 dead, more than 200 injured. \n\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taiwan-earthquake-latest-updates-magnitude-tsunami-warning-hualien-damage-buildings-east-south-china-a8197496.html\n\nhttps://tw.appledaily.com/new/realtime/20180207/1293692/",
"Someone really needs to do a leaning tower of piza type pic wit dis.",
"It’s both your cake day today... ",
"Reminds me of Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road",
"Classic “soft-story” means of failure. Happens a lot in other countries and areas of the US where Civil Engineering/Structural engineering weren’t aware that these “weak column, strong beam” structures would have their legs swept from beneath them. Certain areas of LA and San Fran are in need of major retrofits with moment frames to take the lateral forces produce by seismic activity. \n\nSource: idiot civil engineer who tests retrofit moment frames.",
"Man imagine how terrifying it must’ve been during that catastrophe. ",
"Imagine being at the top and having to make your way back down. ",
"Thanks!!! Somebody cares!!",
"I'm pretty sure it's the same building. There's 2 more photos of it [in this news story](https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaking:-buildings-damaged-magnitude-6.4-172141403.html).",
"Apparently not: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vyjqq/this_building_is_a_little_bit_crooked_fortunately/"
] | 17 |
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Ominous photo taken after the 6.4 magnitude earthquake in east coast Taiwan
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/r/pics/comments/7vrwne/in_honor_of_the_space_x_launch_today_here_are/
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[
"TIL : Daft Punk is DJ'ing ol' Muskys Tesla Car Launch. This kids are going places. ",
"“Some say he pilots spaceships for Space X on weekends”",
"🎶Around the World, Around the World 🎶 ",
"Obviously these arent for EVA.",
"[I mean...it kind of is right now. ;-)](https://i.imgur.com/MB3H2ru.jpg)",
"For people like me who don't know anything about space suits: EVA apparently stands for extravehicular activity.",
"Yep just means doing space shit outside of a shuttle",
"That's exactly right. This is a flight suit, meant to maintain pressure and not much more. The spacecraft will provide protection from micrometeorites, extreme temperature changes, and life support systems. The suits used on EVA's are called Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMU's) and are much more difficult to make, since they are their own personal spaceships basically.\n\nEdit: I say this because I work at the company that makes the EMU's.",
"It helps that Starman doesn't need to stay warm/cool... or need water... or oxygen. You know, things that people like in space.",
"[And this is for Eva.](http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/evangelion/images/d/dd/Shinji_In_Plugsuit_%28Mugshot%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20121109004321)",
"Is this what the Boring Company will sell after the flamethrower?",
"Yikes. What's wrong with that kids arm. He's got the muscle development of an invalid.",
"Doesn't need to be muscular when he has a giant robot to do his fighting",
"To be fair, they're about as good to real space suits as the boring flamethrower is to a real flamethrower.",
"\"In honor of karma farming...\"",
"These seem like they should be the underlayers for the actual suits.",
"And he’s a whiny little shit.",
"Some say his left nipple is shaped like the Nurburgring.",
"I still blame him for the Third Impact",
"Truth.",
"For god's sake, please don't do a space shit inside the shuttle",
"https://i.imgur.com/8hNVxPb.jpg",
"If they somehow made a proper buttflap for one of these and you could reveal your tuchus for a brief moment of a time without harm, could you expose your butt to have the poop sucked out by the pressure difference? ",
"Get in the fucking robot, Shinji.",
"\"My name is Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite suit on the citadel\"",
"That makes more sense I was looking at that thinking \"there is no way those thin little gloves could keep your finger tips from freezing in the -454F of space.\n\n",
"Well not quite that low. In Low Earth Orbit (LEO) the temperature ranges from -148F in the shade to 248F in direct sunlight. So stuff gets hot too!",
"hmm TIL",
"Top gear. ",
"Also keep in mind that even if there is very low temp, there is almost nothing to take the heat away from your hand. Vacuum is an excellent insulator so exposing skin wouldn't Insta-freeze you. Your thermos keeps your coffee hot because there is a layer of vacuum between the metal layers so heat isn't able to transfer to the outside."
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In honor of the Space X launch today, here are their badass suits. . .
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"I love seeing a storm roll in.",
"😂😂 green grass in November?? What fresh hell is this??",
"But it's February ",
"Yes I posted it in Feb. But I took this pic in November.\n"
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November storm brewing
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/r/pics/comments/7vrysf/guys_i_get_it_can_we_stop_sucking_elon_off/
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[
"I know, he's not Tesla!",
"Not until he's done ;)",
"No. Suck it",
"we will never stop sucking off old musky",
"/u/Fiddle_Stix69, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Fiddle_Stix69&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vrysf/guys_i_get_it_can_we_stop_sucking_elon_off/?context=10\\))",
"i should have read rule number 1 before posting. sorry"
] | 6 |
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Guys I get it, can we stop sucking Elon off
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/r/pics/comments/7vs0gh/be_a_flu_fighter/
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[
"Well that escalated quickly",
"r/fellowkids",
"GET YOUR FUCKING MASK ON!!!! ",
"Everybody is Kung flu fighting",
"Except this year the flu shot doesn't appear to help much. So just wash your goddamned filthy hands. ",
"Their flu shots are THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! in town.",
"He'd probably deny the flu even exists. ",
"No love for the birthday redditors?",
"Lame . Just like the foo fighters . Lame!",
"I'd like to think that he'd be okay with this",
"I GOT ANOTHER VACCINATION TO TAKE!",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/tKy0w7Z.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. This was created by /u/Young_Dweezy's [sister](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/72r7fv/my_sister_got_to_decide_the_cvs_sign_today/dnkyj38/) at [this CVS](https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1558249,-85.5139637,3a,37.9y,226.63h,85.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sPWywWsbwb8AppQ1QlpCZ-w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) in Cookeville, TN on September 27, 2017.",
"Throw a Monkey Wrench in the Flu!",
"About 30 percent and if you do get it, it doesn't get as severe. Get vaccinated and wash your damn hands",
"Is the emphasis on that on the flu or the fighter?\n\nCool. I'll be a flu Fighter.",
"DONT WANT THAT FLUUUUUUU!",
"And I wonder\n\nWhen I get a shot for flu\n\nIf everything could ever keep me well forever\n\nIf anything would ever make me sick again\n\nThe only thing I'll ever ask of you\n\nYou gotta promise not to stick 'til I say when\n\nShe sang\n\nEDIT: formatting",
"Could I get a source on that? I have heard 10% and haven't heard that second part at all, but it's \"big if true\".\n\nI had this year's flu and wanted to literally die. No, I hadn't gotten vaccinated yet because I'm a dumbass.",
"It's was on my local news in a segment on the flu outbreak. I'll see if I can't find a secondary source when I grab a minute.\n\nEdit: For the 30% here's one: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/1028518001\n\nI'll edit again if I find another\n\nEdit: here's a study from 2015 suggesting it may lessen severity- https://www.asm.org/index.php/microbelibrary/367-news-room/iceid-releases/93626-influenza-vaccine-while-not-100-effective-may-reduce-the-severity-of-flu-symptoms\n\nAnd another as to why you heard 10% -https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/01/25/heres-what-you-should-know-about-the-flu-season-this-year/\n\nThe tldr is Australia is experiences a 10 percent effective rate because they only vaccinate the sick and the young.\n",
"Thank you for these! Scary stuff, indeed.",
"You are very welcome. I used to believe all this crap about the flu shot. I used to believe that it was a live virus that could give you the flu. I used to believe a lot of the conspiracy theories and then I got to the point where I was having pneumonia sometimes twice or three times a year. The last time I had it I actually broke a rib from coughing and my oxygen level when I was at the doctor's was below 80%. I'm one of those people that if I get the flu I end up with either severe bronchitis or pneumonia. I've gotten the shot every year since my doctor gave me a little tough love and haven't had a year like that since.\n\nMy family now gets the flu shot every year as soon as it comes out. It doesn't even cost us anything because it's so cheap it's covered by insurance. We just go to the pharmacy and get it as soon as we see that it's out. My daughter is young so we have to take her to the pediatrician's office but she will get it every year as well as all the vaccines that are suggested. \n\nI went from someone who is scared of vaccinating to being an enthusiastic supporter of it all because of a doctor that sat me down explained how most of them with work and explained how everything I feared with them is wrong.\n\nIt's not too late to get the flu shot by the way. They have been saying it on every News Channel. We still have quite a bit of time left the flu season and there are other strains that you could catch. So I strongly recommend going out and getting it. It seriously takes less than 5 minutes and that's only because there's paperwork\n\n"
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Be a Flu Fighter
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/r/pics/comments/7vs37m/times_square_in_1967/
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"r/oldschoolcool\n",
"It was supposed to be a scary place in those days.",
"the year I was born. A very good year.",
"Fellow 67 model here, can confirm the quality of that year 😁"
] | 4 |
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Times Square in 1967
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"If you haven’t yet, you can watch it live here: https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M",
"So much win from this event it's hard to pick a favorite but the rocket boosters landing perfectly and in unison was beautiful.",
"It's a publicly stunt rhubarb."
] | 3 |
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Never in my life did I imagine of seeing a car in space looking like it’s driving towards the earth. This is amazing!
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/r/pics/comments/7vs4i5/in_honor_of_black_history_month_to_all_the_black/
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[
"So you’re saying Piccolo is black??? I thought you would have gone with Mr. Popo at least.",
"RIP Bill Cosby",
"I have no idea how this picture is related to the comment....he is from Namek and not human....."
] | 3 |
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In honor of Black History Month, to all the black TV dads that showed us how to raise kids
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/r/pics/comments/7vs57b/great_shot_of_earth_seen_from_starman_pov/
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[
"Sadly, there are flat Earthers who see this and say its cgi. ",
"I was even quite upset when I saw only 100,000 viewers on Youtube.\n\nWhat a world we live in.",
"What’s going on here if it’s not photoshopped?",
"The official spaceX stream on Youtube had like 2.2 million viewers",
"There are flat Earthers all around the globe!",
"A car, with a dummy, is sent into space.",
"Shoulda \"gone\" before we left. Now just have to \"hold it\"."
] | 7 |
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Great Shot of Earth seen from Starman POV
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/r/pics/comments/7vs74o/the_local_girl_scout_troop_stopped_by_my_fire/
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[
"That's so sweet!",
"I know! Made my whole night! ",
"Did it come with candy?",
"Yep, everything that was on the note was in the bag. ",
"That's lovely.",
"Eyyyy youre the dude that licked a dogs butthole. Outrageous"
] | 5 |
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The local Girl Scout troop stopped by my fire station today and surprised us with some gifts. Made me smile.
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/r/pics/comments/7vs7h6/so_this_was_written_on_the_door_at_my_kids_daycare/
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[
"Looks like someone watched the shining recently. ",
"I pointed it out and one of the teachers just noticed it, the other one hasn’t even seen the movie...",
"spooky",
"Well the Rs are backwards so it can't be Danny. "
] | 4 |
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So this was written on the door at my kid’s daycare...
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/r/pics/comments/7vs80m/movie_translations/
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"> He's the guy. The time has come (is near).\n\nClose enough.",
"/u/vlasvilneous, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/vlasvilneous&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vs80m/movie_translations/?context=10\\))",
"Memes ARE screenshots, WTF?"
] | 3 |
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Movie Translations
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/r/pics/comments/7vs9gu/what_santa_is_doing_while_not_delivering_presents/
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[
"I bet Santa would be a hell of a pizza guy. ",
"Yeh if he can deliver millions of presents in under 12 hours I’m sure he could deliver a pizza in under 30 minutes ",
"Dog the Bounty Hunter sans shades."
] | 3 |
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What Santa is doing while not delivering presents on Christmas
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/r/pics/comments/7vsauz/its_a_good_night/
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[
"Swap the drink for wine and that’s my kinda night!",
"I’m a beer guy but understood! ",
"My God is bigger he can still be sovereign even with human free will... ***... and let the Calvinist triggering begin!***",
"That’s a sweet table. Bought or made?",
"https://i.imgur.com/a3gII1o.png",
"Made",
"Someone zoomed in to see the text. Lol",
"Question: does OP have a beard?",
"Except, I actually read lol, but very true. "
] | 9 |
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It’s a good night.
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/r/pics/comments/7vsb9z/doctor_maniamunias_a_great_and_wise_thinker/
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[
"Too wise to be gainfully employed I see. It’s a curse of the creative. [Vincent Van Gogh](https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/05/vincent-van-gogh-myths-madness-and-a-new-way-of-painting) was one such similar crazy genius!",
"Tell me the tale of this Renaissance man",
"A curse of the creative or one of the Creator?",
"I thought Charles Manson was dead"
] | 4 |
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Doctor maniamunias. A great and wise thinker.
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/r/pics/comments/7vsbyn/my_favourite_photo_ive_taken_floating_on_the_dead/
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[
"You just laying in a puddle! There is no water that leaves you that buoyant!!\n\nSource: I’ve never been to the Dead Sea. ",
"Watch out! Zombies!!",
"Jealous! I tried to drive there the back way from Petra and Google got me horribly lost. Fairly frightening experience.",
"Ive been there. I had a blister on my foot the size of a nickle."
] | 5 |
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My favourite photo I've taken - Floating on the dead sea
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/r/pics/comments/7vsccb/medicine_of_the_future/
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[
"I know those machines are life saving and amazing technology but they are terrifying to look at. ",
"We have one here at work for Urology and ENT surgery. Pretty dang cool. \n\nThe peripherals kinda remind me of old PC Joysticks. ",
"I had one used on me about 4 years ago. It was scary walking and seeing this thing and then realize a had to lay underneath it. "
] | 3 |
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Medicine of the future
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/r/pics/comments/7vsd1y/spaceman_checking_out_earth/
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[
"Plot twist: Elon Musk killed someone and stuffed their body into that suit, disposing of the body and evidence forever",
"literally right after the launch I sent a snap to my friends saying Musk had Jeff Bezos murdered and sent him into space with no trace....add the fact everyone was cheering for it the entire time. Let the conspiracy begin.\n",
"\nPic for that https://i.imgur.com/SwVDXDv.jpg "
] | 3 |
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Spaceman checking out Earth
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/r/pics/comments/7vsddi/the_mcdonalds_near_me_is_offering_52_free_big/
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[
"So... thats gotta be wrong, right? ",
"Seemed legit ",
"Disclaimer is probably so you get 1 per week for a year. Or it could be wrong.",
"[Heavy Breathing](https://i.imgur.com/l7uNLzL.jpg)",
"It's a free big mac per week, likely with purchase of something else. Not terribly uncommon, especially since they're pushing hard to get people to order their food from the kiosks, rather than utilizing real people as order takers.",
"If I had $25 I wouldn't be eating at a McDonald's though ",
"God I’m jealous ",
"The king appreciates your loyalty.",
"Where you live nigga?",
"Madison, WI. I’ll let em know you are on your way.",
"Lol \"use the kiosk and then go see a human anyway\"",
"For now. Eventually, that location will probably switch over to a fully automated place.",
"Thanks Bucciferro family! ",
"Made me laugh so hard ... quality reply",
"Yeah I just found it amusing. ",
"Yes, this should provide adequate sustenance for the Doctor Who marathon.\n",
"I refuse to use the kiosks for that reason. I don't want people to lose work.",
"Hence the reason they're offering 52 Big Macs for converts.",
"They can keep their blood burgers. BK is king!",
"They're still making money.",
"They must be desperate for that kiosk to take on. That probably means more employees being laid off "
] | 21 |
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The McDonald’s near me is offering 52 free big macs with a $25 kiosk purchase.
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/r/pics/comments/7vsgl6/im_a_photographer_and_captured_this_engagement/
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[
"Any of their kids will have an amazing jawline the likes of Rotten Robbie",
"This is a stunning picture! Love the warmth of it! It truly looks like a magical moment. :)\n",
"He reminds me a bit of Lurch from the Addams Family\n\nSweet capture, nonetheless : )"
] | 3 |
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I’m a photographer and captured this engagement last summer in Spokane, Washington.
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/r/pics/comments/7vshja/this_image_is_not_photoshopped/
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[
"I downloaded the live feed and extracted an image of starman from the Falcon Heavy camera.",
"No, the whole thing was just faked instead. ",
"[Link to the live cameras](https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M)\n\n(Edit: Not live anymore, but you can still view the recorded stream)"
] | 4 |
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This image is not photoshopped.
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/r/pics/comments/7vsibq/the_new_snow_is_super_shiny/
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"Looks like its pretty cold, enough that the flakes stay separate and sparkly",
"It was negative 2 degrees F outside when I took the pic.",
"Snow must have crunched under foot real nice too."
] | 3 |
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The new snow is super shiny.
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/r/pics/comments/7vsij3/jake_paul_the_super_savage_beast/
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[
"I'm sorry but I believe you misspelled \"giant fucking asshole who should be put down like a frothing piece of shit killer wasp\" ",
"Tool af",
"Never heard of this butt-hole. Let's keep it that way.",
"Jake Paul (guy in picture) is actually really humble and does a lot of good deeds for other people."
] | 5 |
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Jake Paul the super savage beast
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/r/pics/comments/7vsiw3/apparently_elon_musks_falcon_rocket_launched/
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[
"Really I hadn't heard. I wonder what a car in space would look like.",
"Hey. Yeah. It went well. Figured I’d update ya",
"I hope this stays up I know screenshots aren’t allowed on r/pics but it is kinda fitting",
"/u/Fullmetal_username, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/Fullmetal_username&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vsiw3/apparently_elon_musks_falcon_rocket_launched/?context=10\\))"
] | 4 |
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Apparently Elon Musk’s Falcon rocket launched successfully
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/r/pics/comments/7vslob/i_live_in_thailand_and_absolutely_love_how/
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[
"Thailand is a beautiful country but I’m sorry, this isn’t the photo showing it off.",
"Sorry you feel that way. I took this picture about two years ago and just thought it looked neat. The silhouettes and line work of the temple against the sunset made me feel like I was living in another time period. Interpretation is different for everyone though. Sorry you don't like it. ",
"Didn’t mean to sound like a dick. This is a great shot. I just though I was commenting of how beautiful Thailand can actually be.",
"No worries dude, again - interpretation is all in the eye of the beholder. <- That's the beauty of art. I'll post more periodically that maybe will catch your taste. ",
"👍"
] | 5 |
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I live in Thailand and absolutely love how photogenic this country is. Muang Chum, Kanchanaburi, Thailand [OC] [2448x2794]
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/r/pics/comments/7vsmjv/a_man_with_sunglasses_selling_lemonade_from/
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"That is a yellow tit.",
"There’s always money in the lemon stand. ",
"*burns lemon stand down for insurance money*",
"\"There is always money in the Lemon stand!\"",
"We throw away a lemon for every buck we take so no one finds out."
] | 5 |
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A man with sunglasses selling lemonade from inside a lemon
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/r/pics/comments/7vsmt9/fly_by/
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"DON'T PANIC!",
"Is there a higher quality version of this? It would be a great wallpaper",
"Sorry, I watching the livesteam and just grabbed this off the screen."
] | 3 |
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Fly by!
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/r/pics/comments/7vsoim/tesla_in_space/
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"Yasssss!",
"Love this picture. I also really like the dash of the car where it shows the image \"Don't Panic\"",
"Yeah I thought that was awesome!"
] | 3 |
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Tesla in space.
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/r/pics/comments/7vspms/house_passed_a_bipartisan_bill_sponsored_by_rep/
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"Unbelievable. What other group would need to pass a bill (or the equivalent) to force their members to pay for their own sexual harassment settlements?",
"One that's been stuffed full of badly behaved, criminals with no controls on how they spend a countries income including on their own dirty behavior.\n\nSo really, just the US Congress. ",
"Universities would be a good start"
] | 3 |
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House passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier that forces lawmakers to pay for their own sexual harassment settlements
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/r/pics/comments/7vsrmg/rock_balancing_level_9000/
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[
"I bet he started from the top ",
"Inuksut level 0",
"What a useless talent",
"Everywhere I travel, I knock shit like this down.",
"Photo by Michael Grab aka gravityglue.",
"That's super-impressive! But maybe you should get a job?",
"I'm not the person on the pic or anything related to this picture.",
"Those shoes though.",
"Man, why do you care? Do you say the same to people who have drawing or painting or pottery as a hobby?",
"It's really cool, thanks for sharing.",
"No, I do not. I meant the second part in jest, and apologize for offending your sensibilities.\n"
] | 11 |
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Rock Balancing Level 9000
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/r/pics/comments/7vst55/elon_musk_that_was_epic_thats_probably_the_most/
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[
"Same, Elon. ",
"Source for quote: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42969020 in re: \n\n- *Two [boosters] came back to touchdown zones on the Florida coast just south of Kennedy. Their landing legs made contact with the ground virtually at the same time.*\n- The third [core] booster was due to settle on a drone ship stationed several hundred kilometres out at sea. Unfortunately, it had insufficient propellant left to slow the descent, missed the target vessel and was destroyed as it hit the water at some 500km/h.\n- The Falcon Heavy is essentially three Falcon 9s strapped together.",
"Bonus image of **Musk's red Roadster in orbit**: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/520/cpsprodpb/1B27/production/_99915960_1.jpg -- Bravo ! \n\n- Full video documentary of Falcon Heavy, live from SpaceX: https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=9m55s",
"Finally someone uses the word Epic accordingly",
"See what happens when someone dreams and marries economics and engineering. Fucking get busy young people stop your social media bullshit. DREAM AND WORK HARD.",
"Seeing that made me do a goofy laugh clap thing.",
"Is there a high res version of this image floating around?"
] | 7 |
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Elon MUSK: "That was epic. That's probably the most exciting thing I've ever seen, literally."
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/r/pics/comments/7vsv7u/this_image_taken_by_spacex_hundreds_of_miles/
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[
"@the_amateur_historian\n\n>This image taken by SpaceX hundreds of miles above Earth shows a mannequin spaceman strapped into his unique space vehicle... which happens to be a 2010 midnight red Tesla Roadster electric car. Image taken several hundred miles above the surface of the Earth. February 6th 2018. It probably goes without saying that this is a unique moment in the history of spaceflight, as to be fair how often does a car end up orbiting our planet? Well, it's already happened a few times thanks to the lunar rovers the Apollo missions sent to the moon in the 1970s, although they aren't true cars if you wanna be technical. But back to the point, why would anyone on our planet want to send a car off planet and into the black void we call space? Well, the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, happened to own this particular car for several years, and the Falcon Heavy rocket that launched it into orbit was on its maiden launch and needed a dummy payload. So, what was better than a nearly 3,000 pound car? The risk involved with the launch was great and there was really only a fifty percent chance of it actually getting to orbit, so Musk made the decision to send: \"the silliest thing we can imagine\" into space. Originally people thought that it was a hoax, but that changed on December 22nd 2017 when Musk published pictures of the car before payload evaluation, and on February 5th 2018 he even published pictures of this: 'astronaut' resting in the driver's seat. The dummy was also named: \"Starman\" as a tribute to late British singer and songwriter David Bowie, and in the glovebox of the car there is a copy of the 1979 book: \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\", along with a towel and a sign on the dashboard that says: \"Don't Panic!\", and a tiny Hot Wheels model of the same car that also has a little model astronaut inside. Eventually the car and Starman 'himself' will be placed in an elliptical orbit around the sun that will take it to the orbit of Mars, although it's believed the car is never going to fly by Mars or enter orbit around it. Nevertheless, with all of the history of human spaceflight and all of the amazing accomplishments to take note of, this certainly is a notable event that absolutely deserves to be on the highlight reel, and Musk himself even said there's a chance the car will stay in space for an excess of one billion years if nothing happens to it. Millions of years from now, there's a chance we can stumble on that car again! Or at the very least confuse the heck out of some extraterrestrial life in the far future... but to finish this off, the only question this historian wants to ask is simple: Does he have good gas mileage up there?",
"https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960992715579125760 link to tweet",
"I hope he didn’t forget his towel",
"So long, and thanks for all the fish. ",
"Elon Musk says there's one in the glove compartment. Seriously.",
"Of course there is",
"*Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles \nI'm feeling very still \nAnd I think my spaceship knows which way to go.* ",
"Who took the picture and why does a dummy have a view that other dummies would pay millions for? ",
"And it’s *REAL*. \n\nEverything in my mind says, “Nah that’s just a rendering, some CGI...” \n\nNope. 100% real!\n\nUnbelievable human achievement folks. At this launch, I felt a tinge of what people must have felt in the 60s. All of the sudden our microcosm of existence felt incredibly insignificant, and any arguments or divisions we have are trivial. \n\nSpace exploration can bring us together. I believe it can inspire peace. \n",
"So is the car still strapped to the payload fairing, or did the fairing and car separate?",
"Fairings are useless once the atmosphere is thin enough, and so are released once the rocket reaches thin enough air (to cut down on mass).\n\nThis launch was no different.",
"If we could see it or visit it in America, yes. Unfortunately we will probably never see this car again other than pictures",
"It reminds me of the videoclip of Sing For Absolution from Muse, at 2:18 when the publicity screen in space is in the frame, a car fly by, I did think it will never happen, now I am not sure of anything. ",
"Thanks we had no idea......",
"And a copy of the book. ",
"It was a screen shot from the live stream. They had cameras from different angles on the car. "
] | 16 |
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This image taken by SpaceX hundreds of miles above Earth shows a mannequin spaceman strapped into his unique space vehicle... which happens to be a 2010 midnight red Tesla Roadster electric car
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/r/pics/comments/7vsw17/i_did_it/
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[
" Good job man, time between pics?",
"about 5-- 7 months ",
"Good work man that’s awesome!",
"I'm kinda the same as your before, what was your diet and routine?",
"diet was still ok. ate macs about once a week and a half. Reduced carb in-take overall. Reduced soda for as much as i possibly can.\n\n Invested in protein powder, 2nd hand dumb bells and a gym bench to workout at home in my room.\n\nAnd worked out using Mike Chang videos. \n\n",
"Lost in the jungle?",
"Stopped wearing camo? Good call man",
"searching for the gains"
] | 8 |
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I did it!!
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/r/pics/comments/7vsxqt/michelangelo_in_philadelphia/
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[
"Mike, Mike, Mike-adelphia",
"He's not wearing the frontispiece.",
"“The Gang Gets Romantic”",
"And it was in that moment, as he watched her fingertip connect with that of another man... Did he realize these hoes really ain't loyal.",
"r/accidentalrenaissance ",
"Except when it’s on purpose.",
"I spent two long years in Philadelphia because of a job. \n\nThat is the prettiest looking chick I've ever seen there. ",
"Definitely thought that was a dude with long hair",
"Lol...There's 5 million people living here. Half of them are women, and many are beautiful. This, by far, has to be the saddest attempt to dis Philly yet.",
"you guys are weird",
"That hand on the left, chop it off"
] | 11 |
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Michelangelo in Philadelphia
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/r/pics/comments/7vsygv/i_got_grazed_by_a_bullet_today_story_in_the/
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[
"I was in a 711 and a man came in and yelled give me your money. I rushed at him and because he was such a bad shot he missed and grazed my finger. I took him down and knocked him out. The employees called the cops and everyone clapped, I even got free food. It still hurt so much though lol.",
"No story so I'm calling it, it's a paper cut.",
"Lol were you there? It healed a little after thought",
"R/thathappened",
"LOL 😂😂 You wish xD ha cant even post right ha",
"But no one handed you a crisp $100 bill? No way this happened.",
"Ok :)"
] | 7 |
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I got grazed by a bullet today, story in the comments
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/r/pics/comments/7vt0ze/storm_waves_hitting_a_light_house/
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[
"La Jument lighthouse at the Northwestern part of France, Brittany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jument",
"Where's the picture with this thing covered in ice?",
"Well if this isn't a dungeon filled with ghost water type Pokemon then idk what is ",
"How has the lighthouse not eroded away?"
] | 4 |
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Storm waves hitting a light house
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/r/pics/comments/7vt16o/resident_of_hualien_taiwan_had_no_time_to_dress/
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[
"Misread this as \"President\" at first. Also how can we tell that's a dog?",
"It’s cold there too (57 F/15 C)",
"He [said](https://tw.appledaily.com/new/realtime/20180207/1293637/) so.\n\nDude loves his dog.",
"Grab what’s important and run. Dog more important than clothes. I would be in trouble as I sleep a la nude. ",
"protecting a friend makes sense.",
"What a wonderful person",
"Ten years ago, the apartment building my husband and I used to live in caught on fire. He grabbed the dog, I caught the cat. We ran out of the building in our pajamas. We didn't take our wallets, phones, photo albums, mementos. All that mattered was us and our precious pets. We suffered a great deal of water damage but we were able to save most of our belongings. That cold spring night, watching the building burn, made me realize what was most important in my life. Not my belongings but my family: husband, dog and cat. (Also, wear a sports bra to bed. I had to borrow a bra from my mother in law the day after the fire!)",
"This summer, I was woken up in the morning to banging on my front door and someone shouting my house is on fire. I was living my worst nightmare. The first thing I did was make sure I threw my two cats into a cat carrier and put the leash on my dog and send my fiance outside with them and try to keep hitting the fire with buckets of water until the firefighters showed up. I care for my pets more than some of my family/friends. I don't think I'd ever leave the house knowing they weren't safely out.",
"15 C is not cold. not warm but not cold either",
"Saving my puppy would trump wearing clothes any day.",
"I read the whole thing ",
"This guy has his priorities straight. ",
"But definitely not \"wear nothing but boxers\" weather",
"Bad to take a picture of an unclothed survivor.\n\nWorse to post it for the world to see."
] | 14 |
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Resident of Hualien, Taiwan, had no time to dress but did not forget his pet dog while escaping in M6 quake
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/r/pics/comments/7vt1fq/syrian_refugee_child_mistakes_the_camera_for_a/
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[
"What a sad world we live in.. ",
"Heartbreaking ",
"That is very sad",
"That’s terrible. ",
"Can we get a source on this? ",
"Here you go.\n\nhttps://nypost.com/2015/03/31/heartbreaking-moment-when-syrian-girl-mistakes-camera-for-a-gun/",
"Broke my heart to see this. Wow.",
"I try not to reply to bullshit comments like yours but I have two children and see both of their faces in this child's face and it makes me want to just hold her and give her a good home. A scared innocent child is not a laughing matter. So fuck you so much for that. What a shitty thing to say. You should be ashamed of yourself yet I'm sure you won't be.",
"Doing a bit more research I found that the child and her family fled the refugee camp to the city idlib And this is from 2015. I wonder what happened to her. If she is safe with her family or not. \n\nhttps://www.opposingviews.com/i/world/syrian-girl-depicted-viral-photograph-has-reportedly-fled-refugee-camp-her-family\n\nFurthermore Idlib is currently being bombed. ",
"Not to mention her father was killed in a bombimg. Some people are just stupid and say the worst things.",
"NO 😭😭😭",
"Ugh... soul crushing",
"What did this person say? What can be so funny about this...",
"Oh :(",
"No kid should see a camera and think \"got to raise my hands so I don't get killed.\"",
"I never believed this",
"To add to what you said, a person once told me when I have kids, that every kid will be my kid when I watch the news or read an article. It is true and now I tell everyone who is about to have a kid to prepare themselves for this. ",
"in 2015 it broke my heart....... IT STILL BREAKS MY HEART NOW....\nSO VERY SAD",
"Hope the camera person hugged the child afterwards. This makes me a sad panda. ",
"I'd still call bullshit. \nAfter that picture of that drowned \"war refugee\" kid, that was moved and positioned by the photographer, i'ts getting hard to believe these pictures.",
"😢",
"Unfortunately credible journalism has disappeared. I have trouble believing a camera is mistaken for a weapon, especially a kid in a war torn region. ",
"If you've ever watched a kid for 35 seconds this pose is gonna happen. ",
"More immigration propaganda. Add in more photos of \"crying teenagers\" after they destroyed their own camp and we can import another million of these savages.",
"I didn't mean to post it as propaganda. Just a pic and a story that struck me. Plus this picture was first published in turkish newspapers by a Turkish journalist.\n\nPlease don't be crude and presume malice on my part.",
"Mistook a camera for a gun?? If she’s a Syrian refugee she’s probably seen guns, when have you ever seen a camera that looks remotely like a gun??? And she doesn’t have her hands up, she has her hands clasped over her head, my 2 year old holds that pose all the time when she’s looking at things or just standing there, any multitude of reasons. Watch her for an hour and you could catch her in the pose on camera. I believe she’s a refugee but I don’t believe she’s raising her hands because she thinks it’s a gun, give the girl more credit than that, she’s smarter than that.",
"Am I the only person that isn’t reminded of “Kindergarten Cop” when they see this?",
"I'm calling B.S. this is from a game of Syrian says...",
"It's probably a good idea though, considering how easy it would be to conceal a firearm inside a camera.",
"I don't know if it would be all that comforting to be hugged by a gun-toting foreigner.",
"I seriously doubt thats whats happening here. I know what the article says.. ",
"Not saying you did it personally. You probably just thought it's a cute/sad/whatever picture.",
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"well when you see a picture and read a story behind it you come to some sort of a conclusion am i right? further more i believe that the narrative was being told by journalists to highlight the ravages of war and not a propaganda piece for immigration. Why because it was taken by a Turkish journalist,Osman Sağırlı, for a turkish newspaper and was then posted on twitter by a Palestinian journalist\\photographer who posts this in arabic. In addition at some point BBC did a further investigation on this to make sure the story was correct. Neither of these journalists audience was Western citizens who would be swayed by reports in Turkish and\\or Arabic news sites \\ newpapers.\n\nThe Turkish journalist has his own instagram account you can see he does take photos of children in conflict zones (not just syria but world over). \n\nnow i dont think any of this was set out to be a propaganda. Plus i feel that if you can't really help someone in suffering you shouldnt go out of your way to belittle it.\n\nPersonally I think you fear of immigrants is coloring your views in such a way that you are unable to look at things fairly.\n\nnow if you still dont want to believe in that this is propaganda or some sort of conspiracy against western civilization than please go ahead by all means. Though i did make an honest effort to prove you otherwise and on your side you have nothing concrete to offer.",
"> Personally I think you fear of immigrants is coloring your views in such a way that you are unable to look at things fairly.\n\nNo doubt about it. I can't really be unbiased when my continent is being ravaged by these people daily.\n\nHowever, I sincerely appreciate your effort to explain this to me in a civil manner. You are, most likely, absolutely correct here and I'm just being paranoid. But, again, I don't mind being paranoid in our current political crisis.",
"Bless her"
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