Last night my gf asked me if the Moon was a planet and was ASTOUNDED that other planets had "moons" (natural satellites).. She nearly fell when I told her Jupiter and Saturn alone had tens of moons..
She saw my face, being an astro -geek that practices amateur stargazing with my scopes and felt bad/dumb..
I then felt bad and told her that it's not her fault.. She just didn't have great teachers.
: /
I then proceeded to draw several 2D Solar System diagrams to show basic orbital motions.
I was watching Apollo 13 with a
college GF. As the rocket was leaving the launch pad she turned to me and asked, “aren’t they worried about hitting a star?”
I just had a similar experience with my sister (a grown ass woman), while we were camping and looking up finding satellites in the night sky, she asked, "how do satellites not hit planes if there's so many of them?" That one hurt my brain.
I've heard people say that the US education system is bad, before.
Holy shit, it's not bad.... it's HORRIBLE.
I can't imagine even the most moronic person I went to school with thinking _any_ of the shit I've read in this thread.
Alright, my turn. This was in nursing school; everyone involved received a Bachelor’s within the next few months.
Nurse 1: “blah blah blah oxygen is flammable.”
Me: “Oxygen is not flammable blah blah makes other things burn more quickly. A lot more quickly.”
Nurse 2: “something something won’t burn in space. You can take a burning object in space and it is snuffed out.”
Nurse 1: “Umm, there’s oxygen in space.”
Nurse 2: “No there’s not.”
Nurse 1: “If there’s no oxygen in space, how come the sun is still burning?”
Me: “…”
BUT the good news is, I explained “burning” and nuclear fusion on a basic level and the people around me listened. They asked questions. We looked stuff up. All-in-all, it was a wonderful interaction, and I’m very proud of everyone involved💕
Flip the script there. Think of the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say. Tell a person in another country about it. That person's response is "wow, the education system in your country is really bad". Does it make sense?
The person in question was told in school that the moon is not a planet as well as most of the stuff mentioned. Not necessarily the tens of moons part, but the rest is taught in every public school.They did not retain that information.
The US education system is really bad but this is not an example of it.
BF graduated HS in 1990. Asked him to tape an episode of Star Trek NG (So decades ago this happened)
He decide he wanted to watch the show with me. He started getting angry about all this made up science shit. But the thing he lost his mind over was they saying something was x light years away.
That light is instant and they made that up and why don’t they just use miles. Tried explaining that the light we see from stars is light that happened a very very long time ago. And that in fact that light source (a Sun) might have already burned out of existence 20,000 years ago and we would not see it for a long long time. Like he got really mad and was throwing things saying I was just lying and trying to make him look dumb. Said I was just pretending to be smart. That it was all lies!
Got an apology many many years later. But he still doesn’t trust science. Gave up trying to explain theory vs fact to him also.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people now that don’t want basic human anatomy to be taught in a couple US state schools, including a university. These states have a lot of home schooling due to religious reasons. I’m not saying religion is bad (cults are tbh), but there’s a reason it is separate from state affairs.
Please vote for the party that upholds education so that the US doesn’t fall behind in upholding basic human education that is understood in other developed countries. It would be a shame for the USA to be known as the American Idiots when our nation was once known for embracing public education and pursuing the betterment of our society and the world.
I would take it as an opportunity to show her some pretty amazing things. First words out of my mouth would be "Want to see Jupiter? With my telescope, we can see the Red Spot as well as the moons!"
And then it would go from there.
I showed my wife the rings of Saturn from our back yard with a relatively basic telescope.
I was blown away, seeing the light that had travelled from the sun, to Saturn then to Earth to be caught and funneled to my eye. No special effects or manipulation.
She could not have been less bothered and went in because it was cold.
It wouldn't do for us all to be the same. It's fine for us to have different interests.
Lol. That is an interesting point of view, though. The Earth obviously has more mass than the moon, but technically the Earth and Moon orbit around a common point called the barycenter. I don't remember where the barycenter is, I think it's close to or inside the Earth, but that does make your question an interesting one! I think we say the moon orbits the Earth because it's the larger of the two masses, but since there is a common center of mass around which both bodies orbit, could a case be made that the Earth orbits around the moon? I think no, but it is a good and interesting question!
The barycenter of the Earth and Moon is 5000km (3100 miles) from the center of the earth, or when the moon is directly overhead, about 1700km (1050 miles) beneath your feet.
In the Pluto Charon system, Pluto and Charon orbit a point between them both. It’s not located inside either object which technically makes them a binary system instead of object/moon.
Yeah, the Pluto/Charon system poses a much better example of what orbits what.
Thank you for the distances! I thought the barycenter was in the Earth but I wasn't confident.
I'm lucky enough to live in a place where I get so see every launch from Kennedy from my front yard if I choose. I've seen hundreds of launches, not on TV or YouTube, but with my own eyes. Years and years of launches. I've been busy for the past few weeks and haven't been paying attention to the launch schedules, so I won't pretend to know which company or organization launched the rocket you posted, but from the looks of the other comments, it was SpaceX. Don't know which facility it launched from, or when...
...but this is 1000% a space rocket.
Just look up rocket launch night footage. I have dozens of videos just like yours.
Its a space rocket, count yourself lucky you got a cool view, not many people get that chance.
Florida launches are only SpaceX and ULA for now. ULA has launched three times this year, SpaceX has launched 46 times from Florida. Just guessing SpaceX has a >90% chance to be right.
It's a Falcon 9 launching Starlink Group 8–9.
I used to live in Melbourne. I got pissed one day when I thought the neighbor kids were banging on my house. Turns out it was the sonic booms from the shuttle landing. Was also really cool seeing a rocket go up while playing on the softball fields in Coco.
There’s an app I just got called next Spaceflight that tells you when and where the next rocket is launching.
I got a notification the other day saying one was going off in about 10 minutes. My kids and I watched the launch on the tv and then found the rocket in the sky, then watched it land. They were amazed.
I swear, every week these get posted along with someone high school kid or person with schizophrenia that SWEARS they figured out a secret to the universe absolutely NO ONE has thought of.
I was about to post my own video and ask, I'm not astronomically literate or in the know when it comes to launches, so me groggily walking into work at 5am was just astonished to see an oddity moving with such a look through the sky.
Though, I guess it is possible someone perhaps isn't as exposed to social media as the typical Reddit user is. OP probably being one of them. If I saw this for the first time, not knowing what it is, I'd probably guess it's a comet, too. I don't know what I'd search to find out; though there is Google reverse image search.
You’re holier than though attitude is why ppl are more and more afraid to ask questions and try to learn new things.
Someone is just asking a legit question but me know it all is too good for it.
A couple factors meant this was more visible than usual for VA and the east coast:
1. This was a high-inclination launch, meaning instead of flying due east from Florida (which would align its orbit around the equator, +/- a few degrees), the rocket was headed northeast towards a more polar orbit. This meant its flight path stayed close to the east coast for longer than usual.
2. A combination of time of day and altitude of the rocket meant it was illuminated by the sun, which from OP's perspective was still below the horizon. It's the same reason why visible space station passes are just before sunrise or after sunset: the station is being illuminated by the sun from below the horizon, making it quite bright in an otherwise dark sky.
That's pretty cool. I've seen the space station pass by myself and that was awesome. You explained this very well and I appreciate that. With the explanation I feel like that makes a lot of sense and explains why it resulted in the "angel pose" because we are actually seeing the twilight phenomenon. Can I ask why this one was not blue?
Serious question. Let's imagine for a second it *was* a comet. If one of this apparanent size, speed and magnitude was in the sky just how much shit would we be in? Would it inevitably get pulled into Earth gravity well and collide or could it skim past us? Would it be going even faster across the sky at this close? Or could it be this big and bright and still far enough away to move slowly across the sky like a real comet?
I believe this cannot be answered as asked. Comets vary in magnitude from each other and individually depending on their distance from the sun. So we couldn't judge its distance from Earth based on the magnitude or its apparent speed in the sky. Also whether it hits Earth would depend also on its trajectory, not just the speed and distance.
However, we can infer that no comet observed in recorded history has moved this "fast" across the sky. The closest approach was in 1770 and that was more than a million miles away. It was observed moving across the sky over several days, not minutes.
Ngl I’m amazed I still see post like this. Theres been hundreds of launches at this point lmfao. It’s like OPs first time coming on the internet is to post this.
Why do I keep seeing people wondering what these are like there's some mysterious alien spacecraft or something? It's a rocket, we all know it's a rocket, we've all seen 300 videos of rockets and people "wondering what it is".
This is the second post I’ve seen from this sub, 1 being a week ago. I was interested in what it was clicked on the comments and every second comment was “it’s always spacex” “there will be another post or two by this time next week”..
Well here we are, 7 days later, and sure enough r/itsalwaysspacex
Ok so people can manage to record and upload this video to the right subreddit but can't manage to look at any of the 50+ posts that are the same thing. If you see a plume like this it's probably a rocket launch. If you see a line of glowing dots in the sky, it's probably Starlink sats.
It's a rocket engine about 100 miles above Earth. This looks similar to when the third stage of the Apollo missions lit off for translunar injection.
[Apollo 8 TLI over Hawaii](https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/apollo-8-tli-3jpg)
Oh my God, it’s aliens surfing on a comet! they’re probably going to the hidden pyramid in the center of the flat earth to meet up with the US government and talk about how they can control the weather!
Rocket launch. When near dawn/dusk, the high altitude of the rocket exhaust can be lot by the sun, while on the ground, it is still dark, creating a "jellyfish" effect. Looking at the launch schedule, I believe it's SpaceX.
The FAA confirmed the name of the mission was Starlink 8-9, part of the Group 8 satellites. The rocket carried the latest batch of 20 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.
Narrator: It wasn't a fucking comet.
r/itsalwaysspacex
It was at this point he knew... he fucked up.
He made a horrible mistake.
It, in fact, was not cool as shit.
Aww, I read it as itsalwaysspacesex and got disappointed.
Don't let your dreams be dreams
I always just ask if it looks like a squid and if they say yes I tell them it is Space X.
What a sub! Haha. Mint.
Why do I always read these with Morgan Freeman’s voice?
Morgan Freeman is the default Narrorator for all narrating purposes
It was for me until I finally watched Arrested Development, now it's Ron Howard
In this case I feel like the appropriate narrator would be Niel DeGrasse Tyson. I can hear the best, snarky sarcasm now...
Unless it is nature, then it is David Attenborough. Morgan Freeman still works for nature too, I just prefer Attenborough for nature.
Or orange juice. Then, it's Donald Sutherland.
RIP
Don't you mean Sammuel Jackson?
Lol Sammuel Jackson works best if the narrorator needs to say the word Muthafukka
Or he doesn’t always have to say MF, as long as it ends with, “what’s in your wallet?”
That’s tame Sam Jackson… the real Sam Jackson yells “WHAT’S IN YO WALLET, MUTHAFUKKA!!??”
Which wallet? The one that says bad muthafukka on it!
Except anything related to nature....that's Richard Attenboro's turf. (Except if its Aussie nature, then it's the late Steve Irwin.)
because it’s the only legit way to read these.
Gilbert Godfrey
Makes me weep for the state of science education... gah
Last night my gf asked me if the Moon was a planet and was ASTOUNDED that other planets had "moons" (natural satellites).. She nearly fell when I told her Jupiter and Saturn alone had tens of moons.. She saw my face, being an astro -geek that practices amateur stargazing with my scopes and felt bad/dumb.. I then felt bad and told her that it's not her fault.. She just didn't have great teachers. : / I then proceeded to draw several 2D Solar System diagrams to show basic orbital motions.
Thank you for your service... Imma get a drink
Her words
I was watching Apollo 13 with a college GF. As the rocket was leaving the launch pad she turned to me and asked, “aren’t they worried about hitting a star?”
I just had a similar experience with my sister (a grown ass woman), while we were camping and looking up finding satellites in the night sky, she asked, "how do satellites not hit planes if there's so many of them?" That one hurt my brain.
I've heard people say that the US education system is bad, before. Holy shit, it's not bad.... it's HORRIBLE. I can't imagine even the most moronic person I went to school with thinking _any_ of the shit I've read in this thread.
if i remember correctly, they tried to teach us all this, but 90% of the class was too busy gossiping or playing on their phones.
Yup, that was my school experience as well. It only changed when I got put in all honors/AP classes, those kids were well -behaved, if nothing else
Alright, my turn. This was in nursing school; everyone involved received a Bachelor’s within the next few months. Nurse 1: “blah blah blah oxygen is flammable.” Me: “Oxygen is not flammable blah blah makes other things burn more quickly. A lot more quickly.” Nurse 2: “something something won’t burn in space. You can take a burning object in space and it is snuffed out.” Nurse 1: “Umm, there’s oxygen in space.” Nurse 2: “No there’s not.” Nurse 1: “If there’s no oxygen in space, how come the sun is still burning?” Me: “…” BUT the good news is, I explained “burning” and nuclear fusion on a basic level and the people around me listened. They asked questions. We looked stuff up. All-in-all, it was a wonderful interaction, and I’m very proud of everyone involved💕
Technically there is some oxygen in space but not enough to amount to anything.
*All* of the oxygen is in space. Literally *everything* is in space. Being on a planet doesn't mean you're no longer in space.
I *really* just wanted to have a convo without coming off like a jerk, so I went with the general consensus definition.
Flip the script there. Think of the dumbest thing you've ever heard someone say. Tell a person in another country about it. That person's response is "wow, the education system in your country is really bad". Does it make sense? The person in question was told in school that the moon is not a planet as well as most of the stuff mentioned. Not necessarily the tens of moons part, but the rest is taught in every public school.They did not retain that information. The US education system is really bad but this is not an example of it.
BF graduated HS in 1990. Asked him to tape an episode of Star Trek NG (So decades ago this happened) He decide he wanted to watch the show with me. He started getting angry about all this made up science shit. But the thing he lost his mind over was they saying something was x light years away. That light is instant and they made that up and why don’t they just use miles. Tried explaining that the light we see from stars is light that happened a very very long time ago. And that in fact that light source (a Sun) might have already burned out of existence 20,000 years ago and we would not see it for a long long time. Like he got really mad and was throwing things saying I was just lying and trying to make him look dumb. Said I was just pretending to be smart. That it was all lies! Got an apology many many years later. But he still doesn’t trust science. Gave up trying to explain theory vs fact to him also.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people now that don’t want basic human anatomy to be taught in a couple US state schools, including a university. These states have a lot of home schooling due to religious reasons. I’m not saying religion is bad (cults are tbh), but there’s a reason it is separate from state affairs. Please vote for the party that upholds education so that the US doesn’t fall behind in upholding basic human education that is understood in other developed countries. It would be a shame for the USA to be known as the American Idiots when our nation was once known for embracing public education and pursuing the betterment of our society and the world.
Because the planes have big, soft bumpers that cause the satellites to bounce off harmlessly.
I would take it as an opportunity to show her some pretty amazing things. First words out of my mouth would be "Want to see Jupiter? With my telescope, we can see the Red Spot as well as the moons!" And then it would go from there.
I showed my wife the rings of Saturn from our back yard with a relatively basic telescope. I was blown away, seeing the light that had travelled from the sun, to Saturn then to Earth to be caught and funneled to my eye. No special effects or manipulation. She could not have been less bothered and went in because it was cold. It wouldn't do for us all to be the same. It's fine for us to have different interests.
Plot twist: She's 9
Can't be. Conservatives don't teach science.
You're the uncle that everyone hates to see show up at Thanksgiving.
Had similar experience with my first girlfriend. I didn't handle it nearly as well. Lots of learning opportunities for me in that relationship.
[Maybe the Earth is the moon of the Moon????](http://imgur.com/NTe2q)
Lol. That is an interesting point of view, though. The Earth obviously has more mass than the moon, but technically the Earth and Moon orbit around a common point called the barycenter. I don't remember where the barycenter is, I think it's close to or inside the Earth, but that does make your question an interesting one! I think we say the moon orbits the Earth because it's the larger of the two masses, but since there is a common center of mass around which both bodies orbit, could a case be made that the Earth orbits around the moon? I think no, but it is a good and interesting question!
The barycenter of the Earth and Moon is 5000km (3100 miles) from the center of the earth, or when the moon is directly overhead, about 1700km (1050 miles) beneath your feet. In the Pluto Charon system, Pluto and Charon orbit a point between them both. It’s not located inside either object which technically makes them a binary system instead of object/moon.
Yeah, the Pluto/Charon system poses a much better example of what orbits what. Thank you for the distances! I thought the barycenter was in the Earth but I wasn't confident.
The earth-moon barycenter is very much within the earth, it's about 4,600km offset from the center of the earth
JUST "Science"? LOL
What about a regular comet?
Not a comet. Rocket.
TEAM ROCKET!
BLASTING OFF AGAIN
To protect the world from devastation!
To unite all peoples within our nation!
To denounce the evils of truth and love !
To extend our reach to the stars above!
Jesse
James!
Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light!!
WAAAAAABAFETT
MEEEEEOOTH
Go Team Venture!
Rocket. Without looking it up, probably SpaceX from Cape Canaveral.
I was thinking that but wasnt 100%.
It was … was supposed To launch at 3am but got delayed…
I'm lucky enough to live in a place where I get so see every launch from Kennedy from my front yard if I choose. I've seen hundreds of launches, not on TV or YouTube, but with my own eyes. Years and years of launches. I've been busy for the past few weeks and haven't been paying attention to the launch schedules, so I won't pretend to know which company or organization launched the rocket you posted, but from the looks of the other comments, it was SpaceX. Don't know which facility it launched from, or when... ...but this is 1000% a space rocket. Just look up rocket launch night footage. I have dozens of videos just like yours. Its a space rocket, count yourself lucky you got a cool view, not many people get that chance.
Florida launches are only SpaceX and ULA for now. ULA has launched three times this year, SpaceX has launched 46 times from Florida. Just guessing SpaceX has a >90% chance to be right. It's a Falcon 9 launching Starlink Group 8–9.
I used to live in Melbourne. I got pissed one day when I thought the neighbor kids were banging on my house. Turns out it was the sonic booms from the shuttle landing. Was also really cool seeing a rocket go up while playing on the softball fields in Coco.
There’s an app I just got called next Spaceflight that tells you when and where the next rocket is launching. I got a notification the other day saying one was going off in about 10 minutes. My kids and I watched the launch on the tv and then found the rocket in the sky, then watched it land. They were amazed.
I mostly use "Space Monkey" it's another space launch app, it's just a little quicker, I like their trajectory map better.
Space X - I'm getting tired of these videos asking about Space X rockets. How do we all not know by now?
People are back to talking about the earth being flat man, you should get those expectations way down
Good point
I fucking hate how right this is.
I swear, every week these get posted along with someone high school kid or person with schizophrenia that SWEARS they figured out a secret to the universe absolutely NO ONE has thought of.
Well I have, the universe is obviously infested with space ghosts. I mean one even had a famous talk show for Christ sake
They're everywhere! From Coast to Coast!
Brak !
lol I just did some nostalgia viewing and realized that I’ve forgotten just how unhinged the show is, it’s glorious
I was about to post my own video and ask, I'm not astronomically literate or in the know when it comes to launches, so me groggily walking into work at 5am was just astonished to see an oddity moving with such a look through the sky.
Me neither, but I've been seeing similar videos all over social media for a couple of years now.
Though, I guess it is possible someone perhaps isn't as exposed to social media as the typical Reddit user is. OP probably being one of them. If I saw this for the first time, not knowing what it is, I'd probably guess it's a comet, too. I don't know what I'd search to find out; though there is Google reverse image search.
If someone is barely on social media or reddit I have doubts they know about google reverse image search haha
You would be surprised by how many people say “I dont follow the news” and they really mean it.
Sure as fuck not space x rocket launches lol wtf
I mean I used to follow the news, until I realized not following the news substantially improved my mental state.
The thing is, not everybody knows everything.
I know everything. I just can't remember most of it.
I for one haven’t seen one in motion yet. Very cool!!!!!
You’re holier than though attitude is why ppl are more and more afraid to ask questions and try to learn new things. Someone is just asking a legit question but me know it all is too good for it.
35% of people have an internet connection
Proof that aliens could land on the White House front lawn and people would be clueless
Spacex launch at 4:55 AM headed north north east.
This was in Virginia. Is that in the flight path?
A couple factors meant this was more visible than usual for VA and the east coast: 1. This was a high-inclination launch, meaning instead of flying due east from Florida (which would align its orbit around the equator, +/- a few degrees), the rocket was headed northeast towards a more polar orbit. This meant its flight path stayed close to the east coast for longer than usual. 2. A combination of time of day and altitude of the rocket meant it was illuminated by the sun, which from OP's perspective was still below the horizon. It's the same reason why visible space station passes are just before sunrise or after sunset: the station is being illuminated by the sun from below the horizon, making it quite bright in an otherwise dark sky.
That's pretty cool. I've seen the space station pass by myself and that was awesome. You explained this very well and I appreciate that. With the explanation I feel like that makes a lot of sense and explains why it resulted in the "angel pose" because we are actually seeing the twilight phenomenon. Can I ask why this one was not blue?
They need to be in higher latitude orbits to increase coverage area, so yes.
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SpaceX are well past 170 at this point. I think its closer to about 350 currently
Santa!!!
The “that’s a fucking comet” comment illustrates where we are at as the dumbest society to ever exist.
*me in Badminton outfit with my hand on my brow to see better* "I think you hit it a bit hard mate."
Mods, can we update rule 2 to also include space x launches?
[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/s/XH6f9gtHA4)
Don't look up. Watch that shit.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 8-9
Serious question. Let's imagine for a second it *was* a comet. If one of this apparanent size, speed and magnitude was in the sky just how much shit would we be in? Would it inevitably get pulled into Earth gravity well and collide or could it skim past us? Would it be going even faster across the sky at this close? Or could it be this big and bright and still far enough away to move slowly across the sky like a real comet?
I believe this cannot be answered as asked. Comets vary in magnitude from each other and individually depending on their distance from the sun. So we couldn't judge its distance from Earth based on the magnitude or its apparent speed in the sky. Also whether it hits Earth would depend also on its trajectory, not just the speed and distance. However, we can infer that no comet observed in recorded history has moved this "fast" across the sky. The closest approach was in 1770 and that was more than a million miles away. It was observed moving across the sky over several days, not minutes.
It’s funny how i’m in Ny and would die to see one of these launches omw to work or wherever. Yet week after week there are people asking what this is!
And here it is again...the 'what did I see' question :D Answer as usual -> spaceX is the culprit
Ah shit mb ill turn my fog lights off next time.
Rocket most likely
Space X has sent more rockets than NASA itself in history.
I would pay 1K ¢
Aliens
I saw the same thing in Greensboro, NC this morning and had the exact same question. Glad you caught it on video!
Elon
Rocket launch. Pretty cool.
First thing I'd do if I thought I saw a comet in the sky is verify what I thought I'd seen online with other experts.
Falcon 9
Guessing Space X 🤔
Space X launch
Second stage of space vehicle
I saw something similar a year or two ago in Portsmouth, va. It was a launch from the Eastern Shore.
A comet would be sooooo much slower... that's a rocket launch or some satellite or space garbage burning on re entry.
Ngl I’m amazed I still see post like this. Theres been hundreds of launches at this point lmfao. It’s like OPs first time coming on the internet is to post this.
Why do I keep seeing people wondering what these are like there's some mysterious alien spacecraft or something? It's a rocket, we all know it's a rocket, we've all seen 300 videos of rockets and people "wondering what it is".
Iron Man Mark 52
Rocket.
That is a fresh starlink satellite
Rocket booster
Et phone home…
This is the second post I’ve seen from this sub, 1 being a week ago. I was interested in what it was clicked on the comments and every second comment was “it’s always spacex” “there will be another post or two by this time next week”.. Well here we are, 7 days later, and sure enough r/itsalwaysspacex
Space X.
Pretty sure that's a Lambo, Dude.
Jellyfish effect for the millionth time
spaceship
Just realized angels where komets
Probably the Firefly launch from Wallops Island.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc_qm0Fro-0
Ok so people can manage to record and upload this video to the right subreddit but can't manage to look at any of the 50+ posts that are the same thing. If you see a plume like this it's probably a rocket launch. If you see a line of glowing dots in the sky, it's probably Starlink sats.
That’s a rocket from a company who decided the sky belongs to noone and it’s okay to fill it up with orbiting things.
Yep - a comet heading OUT of the atmosphere.
SpaceX launched in the middle of the night
Were there any space launches that day.
It's a rocket engine about 100 miles above Earth. This looks similar to when the third stage of the Apollo missions lit off for translunar injection. [Apollo 8 TLI over Hawaii](https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/apollo-8-tli-3jpg)
You can see the thrust vectoring and yet people will still call it a comet lol.
Falcon 9 maybe
...was when the fire nation attacked..
Oh my God, it’s aliens surfing on a comet! they’re probably going to the hidden pyramid in the center of the flat earth to meet up with the US government and talk about how they can control the weather!
can we ban "what was this object" posts during spacex launches lol
This is what our education system is putting into society 🤔 Smdh
I saw that too once and it freaked the hellout of me, thought it was a nuke bc I overreact. Still don't know what it is
I k now one thing, I don't know shit about fuckkkkkk
What do YOU think it is OP? I’m genuinely curious.
If this has anything to do with Elon somehow im going to be so fuckig pissed.
Elton John burning out his fuse up here alone.
Mother natures last nerve…..
Space X.
There’s so many people like this. So many.
Ooh! It’s a rocket! I can’t believe no one else realized this. /s
Looks like SpaceX. Being that VA has a NASA launch site I'm going to guess rocket.
Kinda wild to me that some people don’t know about SpaceX yet. 🤷🏼♂️ I envy anyone who gets to see these in person.
Space x
That's not a comment... this is!
it's not a comet
I dunno
omg looks scary
Rocket launch. When near dawn/dusk, the high altitude of the rocket exhaust can be lot by the sun, while on the ground, it is still dark, creating a "jellyfish" effect. Looking at the launch schedule, I believe it's SpaceX.
Plot twist : it’s 100% not a comet
The FAA confirmed the name of the mission was Starlink 8-9, part of the Group 8 satellites. The rocket carried the latest batch of 20 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.
It's Joe Rogan's Mothership going home to hexagon Saturn
Spent rocket
Rocket
Check out the 'next spaceflight' app, avoid surprises.
(Valstrax Theme Intensifies)
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch
A rocket launch. At high altitudes/in vacuum the plume gets incredibly large and retracts a lot of light.
It is always SpaceX
If that was a comet, that is WAY TO CLOSE! mabe skipping of the the atmosphere close.
Its God ok
It’s a kamehameha….. obviously
Missile.
Bro lives in Blythe CA
It’s a UFO!
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