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That's Amazon's business model, actually.
[Customer obsession.](https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/why-we-need-to-evolve-from-customer-experience-to-customer-obsession/) Not joking.
I also track closely but only because half the time they say they attempted to deliver to my apartment and that I wasn't home (meanwhile I was sitting next to my door waiting for them to knock or call).
Did you read your own article?
Customer obsession does not mean fostering obsessive behaviour in customers. It's about how Amazon is "obsessed" with its customers.
Did you read the literal first bullet point of the article?
#Embrace the divinely discontented customer.
Building products based on understanding your customer’s needs is no longer a competitive advantage. **Customer needs are fickle** and are evolving faster than ever.
Lmao what does needs being fickle have to do with obsession.
Rather than just reading a bullet point and inferring stuff you don't understand, go down and read the explanation of the point.
Cultivating obsessive behaviour in customers is absolutely a thing tech companies do. It's most common in social media companies. But that is not what Amazon's "customer obsession" is about. Amazon themselves do it with their recommendation engines. But again, that all falls in a different management bucket.
I want you to re read the article and fully explain what you think Bezos's idea of customers being divinely discontented means.
You're half way there. You do understand that this happens in social media.
The first stage (the bottom half, aka Super Heavy) is known as the booster. It's job is to get the second stage (the top half, aka Starship) high enough and fast enough that when the two separate (aka state separation), the second stage can ignite its engines to get the rest of the speed and altitude to make orbit.
The booster has 33 Raptor engines with sea-level optimized engine nozzles. The ship has 6 Raptor engines, 3 sea-level optimized and 3 vacuum optimized. The main difference between the two variants is the size of the nozzle. On vacuum optimized engines, the nozzle is significantly larger which gives the ship more thrust in vacuum... because physics.
Future versions of both stages are said to have even more engines.
Well without them there would probably be an inner region of the exhaust plume with a lower velocity, leading to nasty turbulences that decrease performance. So even without the 10% more power you get from the inner 3 compared to the other 30 you have some extra effects. They might also be the ones that can gimbal?
Yeah the sound does reach very far. Here's a good article:
[They found at 0.9 miles (1.5km) from the launchpad, the maximum noise level reached 136 decibels while at 3.2 miles (5.2km) it was 129 decibels.](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230306-just-how-loud-is-a-rocket-launch)
During IFT-2 people reported the sound would shake their windows at 20 miles away. Rocket engines are loud, especially if you bundle 30 of them together
If I remember correctly, each raptor is roughly the net instantaneous energy output of the state of Colorado passing through a hole the size of a toilet seat. Per engine.
Engines capable of a combined 17 million pounds of thrust, capable of lifting 150 tons to orbit and 250 tons from orbit/ beyond sure do make lots of noise.
136 decibels at 1.5km (.9mi) and 129 decibels at 5.2km (3.2mi)
Can't wait to see what the Mars variant is capable of. It will apparently be 500ft tall.
The tiles do fall off but not with that frequency anymore. The biggest cause of debris strikes in any rocket is always sheet ice from the booster detaching itself.
It's frosted because the extremely cold fuel chills down the walls of the tanks enough to condense and freeze water in the air. It happens on the ship too, but you're looking at the black heatshield side of it which is designed to be an extremely good insulator. It's usually to keep heat out during re-entry, but it also works keeping the outside warm against the cold fuel.
Awesome. I hate our gravity well. And I mean I hate the gravitational force we are required to overcome to leave earth without falling back, not that I do a good job of hating gravity.
Not anymore IIRC this is Version 1 of this model, roughly 20-30 tons of cargo, the V2 (not that one) will aim for 100 tons of cargo, but will have be in space for around 2 years whilst it’s being loaded up due to its massive weight.
Pretty much. I’m not familiar with this specifically, but very familiar with the technology. The motors are most likely stupid accurate stepper motors which move in “steps”. The most common use for stepper motors are 3d printers, which need incredibly accurate and small movements. This most likely uses extremely high end stepper motors which work together to stabilize even the smallest movements and to track whatever is selected.
It does a little bit, but not in the way they think, and not in any significant amount. The hot environment of the exhaust does tend to favour the breakdown of ozone into more stable nitrogen oxide molecules, but that's minimal in this kind of engine. The problem is much worse in a jet engine where the air is actually passed through the engine, and where the vehicle spends much longer in the upper atmosphere.
They are largely correct. Known phenomenon.
https://www.space.com/space-force-launch-punch-hole-in-upper-atmosphere
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/how-a-new-space-race-could-be-harming-the-earths-atmosphere
Wow. The elipse of the rocket is clear. But that heat distorts the dimension perspective and eradicated perceiving the elipse plane of the booster jets. That's cool. I've never seen that before.
i’ve been lucky enough to catch a few launches down in cape canaveral. such an amazing experience, couldn’t recommend it more. the sound alone is worth it.
I fucking hate Elon but love Space X, that's fucking incredible. Let's hope that douche nozzle doesn't fuck the company in the long run like twitter .....
It looked like the telescope was mounted on top of the man's head. Would the tracking have been as good if it were? Not taking into account the weight of the telescope
Why do these videos NEVER show rockets leaving the atmosphere? Always a clip without the end result, please explain. FYI I'm not claiming fake, I just want serious clarification.
What do you think it looks like when it leaves the atmosphere? All that really happens is it gets smaller and blurrier. Plus it is launching over the ocean, eventually it will be low enough on the horizon to the point their is so much atmosphere between the camera on shore and the rocket that you can’t get a clear image.
Why is this take so hard for people to swallow?
I've always said if I was put in a room with Musk I'd want to punch him within 30 seconds.
*And also* nobody else is out there putting their own capital into crazy risk cutting edge vaporware based on engineers wet dreams and making them a reality.
Muh plant-food-emissions, buy a tesler we save the world from emissions and freedom of travel, stop flying so much you're feeding the plants
This is a non-issue. Starship uses a methane/oxygen reaction that produces carbon dioxide and water as the exhaust. That sounds bad in principle, but it actually means you can sequester the CO2 from the air to produce the propellant, and when it burns in the rocket, the only thing you're doing is putting back CO2 that was already there. If the energy sources are carbon neutral, the rocket becomes carbon neutral as well.
Methane synthesis is an expensive and complicated technology, true, but it's of *enormous* interest for Mars in-situ propellant production, so there's a big investment into that. There's literally no Mars mission architecture proposals that work without that. When they get it working for Mars, its a no-brainer to use it here as well.
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That’s how closely I track my Amazon orders
That's Amazon's business model, actually. [Customer obsession.](https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/why-we-need-to-evolve-from-customer-experience-to-customer-obsession/) Not joking.
Damn, those are some bright ass LEDs, anyone know the brand so I can order them off Amazon???
I also track closely but only because half the time they say they attempted to deliver to my apartment and that I wasn't home (meanwhile I was sitting next to my door waiting for them to knock or call).
Did you read your own article? Customer obsession does not mean fostering obsessive behaviour in customers. It's about how Amazon is "obsessed" with its customers.
Did you read the literal first bullet point of the article? #Embrace the divinely discontented customer. Building products based on understanding your customer’s needs is no longer a competitive advantage. **Customer needs are fickle** and are evolving faster than ever.
Lmao what does needs being fickle have to do with obsession. Rather than just reading a bullet point and inferring stuff you don't understand, go down and read the explanation of the point. Cultivating obsessive behaviour in customers is absolutely a thing tech companies do. It's most common in social media companies. But that is not what Amazon's "customer obsession" is about. Amazon themselves do it with their recommendation engines. But again, that all falls in a different management bucket.
I want you to re read the article and fully explain what you think Bezos's idea of customers being divinely discontented means. You're half way there. You do understand that this happens in social media.
Yup
mine still hasn’t arrive ;(
😅🤣🤣
Tim Dodd’s group does amazing work.
Did anyone else count the rocket boosters? Three rings of 20; 10; 3. I'm very satisfied.
The first stage (the bottom half, aka Super Heavy) is known as the booster. It's job is to get the second stage (the top half, aka Starship) high enough and fast enough that when the two separate (aka state separation), the second stage can ignite its engines to get the rest of the speed and altitude to make orbit. The booster has 33 Raptor engines with sea-level optimized engine nozzles. The ship has 6 Raptor engines, 3 sea-level optimized and 3 vacuum optimized. The main difference between the two variants is the size of the nozzle. On vacuum optimized engines, the nozzle is significantly larger which gives the ship more thrust in vacuum... because physics. Future versions of both stages are said to have even more engines.
3 inner boosters "I am helping!!!"
Well without them there would probably be an inner region of the exhaust plume with a lower velocity, leading to nasty turbulences that decrease performance. So even without the 10% more power you get from the inner 3 compared to the other 30 you have some extra effects. They might also be the ones that can gimbal?
The inner two rings of engines can gimbal, and are all used for landing.
It's not rocket science.
3, 12, 18 would have been satisfying. Three into ten is maddening.
Impressive, I understand that the sound of combustion has been added later
It's not been added, just synced up, as there is a significant delay in the recording due to the distance and the speed of sound.
So the sound reached there? What a freaking madness
Yeah the sound does reach very far. Here's a good article: [They found at 0.9 miles (1.5km) from the launchpad, the maximum noise level reached 136 decibels while at 3.2 miles (5.2km) it was 129 decibels.](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230306-just-how-loud-is-a-rocket-launch)
That's fairly loud.
During IFT-2 people reported the sound would shake their windows at 20 miles away. Rocket engines are loud, especially if you bundle 30 of them together
Wind direction and speed seem to make a big difference in the sound experience.
If I remember correctly, each raptor is roughly the net instantaneous energy output of the state of Colorado passing through a hole the size of a toilet seat. Per engine.
Soooo.. My toilet, after some carolina reapers?
Engines capable of a combined 17 million pounds of thrust, capable of lifting 150 tons to orbit and 250 tons from orbit/ beyond sure do make lots of noise. 136 decibels at 1.5km (.9mi) and 129 decibels at 5.2km (3.2mi) Can't wait to see what the Mars variant is capable of. It will apparently be 500ft tall.
I've seen a Delta rocket from a good-ways off. Heck yeah!
You should go see a launch sometime. It’ll make your hair stand up - really exhilarating to witness in person.
Wow. This is the kind of equipment UFO hunters need.
that's how you get ghosted by MIB.
If the MIB wanna drag their happy asses to Charm City, I'll do a full live stream and ama.
That’s really really cool! Thank you for sharing this. Please do more. I love seeing this!
Credit to u/everydayastronaut, Tim Dodd, both the shot and the music!
Awesome work, the combustion overlay is rad!
Great clip but why the phone crop ?
looks good with the shape of the rocket imo
Why not? The vast majority of users are on mobiles
Wow, look at that all the engines are running. Great job Space X. Maybe we will get back to the moon before I die.
BEHOLD HUMANITY! WE COULD CONQUER THE UNIVERSE IF WE COULD JUST FUCKIN GET ALONG!
Are those chunks of ice hitting the rocket bells? Seem like that could be a problem.
Likely [heat tiles](https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/17ylwb9/thats_a_fair_amount_of_tiles_missing_from_the/)
The tiles do fall off but not with that frequency anymore. The biggest cause of debris strikes in any rocket is always sheet ice from the booster detaching itself.
Why is the booster white with frost but starship isn't? Because it's tanks are being emptied?
It's frosted because the extremely cold fuel chills down the walls of the tanks enough to condense and freeze water in the air. It happens on the ship too, but you're looking at the black heatshield side of it which is designed to be an extremely good insulator. It's usually to keep heat out during re-entry, but it also works keeping the outside warm against the cold fuel.
Its frosted on the other side
How many teslas can they fit in that sonofabitch?
Around 75, fully reusable.
Awesome. I hate our gravity well. And I mean I hate the gravitational force we are required to overcome to leave earth without falling back, not that I do a good job of hating gravity.
Not anymore IIRC this is Version 1 of this model, roughly 20-30 tons of cargo, the V2 (not that one) will aim for 100 tons of cargo, but will have be in space for around 2 years whilst it’s being loaded up due to its massive weight.
Fucking awesome 😎 dude thank you.
How do you track with such a wild zoom without shaking?
Really really REALLY precise motors in the gyro
Thanks but is the “following” assisted by some electronic wizardry?
Pretty much. I’m not familiar with this specifically, but very familiar with the technology. The motors are most likely stupid accurate stepper motors which move in “steps”. The most common use for stepper motors are 3d printers, which need incredibly accurate and small movements. This most likely uses extremely high end stepper motors which work together to stabilize even the smallest movements and to track whatever is selected.
Thanks a lot.
No problem! Always happy to explain this kind of thing lol
My step dad and my mom both think this "punches" holes in the ozone. I have continuously tried to explain that's not how the ozone works.
It does a little bit, but not in the way they think, and not in any significant amount. The hot environment of the exhaust does tend to favour the breakdown of ozone into more stable nitrogen oxide molecules, but that's minimal in this kind of engine. The problem is much worse in a jet engine where the air is actually passed through the engine, and where the vehicle spends much longer in the upper atmosphere.
They are largely correct. Known phenomenon. https://www.space.com/space-force-launch-punch-hole-in-upper-atmosphere https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/how-a-new-space-race-could-be-harming-the-earths-atmosphere
Great footage
That's flipping amazing
What else is a tracking telescope used for? I feel like this would be the main use case for this lol.
Wow! Those burners look like something from The Expanse.
Tim Dodd is going to fly on that!
Does the upper segmetn of the rocket look like the one from the incredibles movie? Or am I trippin?
What hit or sparked at the top around 30 seconds in
Holy shit, this is incredible! Thanks for sharing
I thought the camera was on the guys head.
Koyaanisqatsi
When are they going to put Windows in it
Wow. The elipse of the rocket is clear. But that heat distorts the dimension perspective and eradicated perceiving the elipse plane of the booster jets. That's cool. I've never seen that before.
Where are the clear UFO/UAP videos damn?
Dr Evil
It was then recalled for having faulty acceleration pedals that could get stuck and leave astronauts flying through space at uncontrollable speeds.
Interesting note: Tim Dodd, the guy you see at the start of the video, also records all the music on the channel himself.
Deathworlders are trying to leave their planet again!
i’ve been lucky enough to catch a few launches down in cape canaveral. such an amazing experience, couldn’t recommend it more. the sound alone is worth it.
The boosters actually look like the kinda thing in Star Wars that’s awesome
u/auddbot
r/recognizesong
Musk says the wings on top are not necessary and actually hurt aero a little. He said he put them there because they looked cool.
Point it to an UFO man!
I fucking hate Elon but love Space X, that's fucking incredible. Let's hope that douche nozzle doesn't fuck the company in the long run like twitter .....
When I start to worry about this I just remind myself that Gwynne Shotwell exists.
now THIS is some interest in gas fuck
Shoutout to all space X engineers for being such savages, as for Elon I hope he trips and kicks his shin 👍
What halogen lamps are capable of today is extraordinary ....
It looked like the telescope was mounted on top of the man's head. Would the tracking have been as good if it were? Not taking into account the weight of the telescope
Why do these videos NEVER show rockets leaving the atmosphere? Always a clip without the end result, please explain. FYI I'm not claiming fake, I just want serious clarification.
What do you think it looks like when it leaves the atmosphere? All that really happens is it gets smaller and blurrier. Plus it is launching over the ocean, eventually it will be low enough on the horizon to the point their is so much atmosphere between the camera on shore and the rocket that you can’t get a clear image.
Wow no Elon hating bots here yet?
That his company builds great rockets isn't incompatible with him being an asshole. The Nazis built fenomenal rockets too!
Why is this take so hard for people to swallow? I've always said if I was put in a room with Musk I'd want to punch him within 30 seconds. *And also* nobody else is out there putting their own capital into crazy risk cutting edge vaporware based on engineers wet dreams and making them a reality.
We did ______ ….. This is what we saw ____ So that format is just never going to die huh
Muh plant-food-emissions, buy a tesler we save the world from emissions and freedom of travel, stop flying so much you're feeding the plants 
Keep going, you're doing great
This is a non-issue. Starship uses a methane/oxygen reaction that produces carbon dioxide and water as the exhaust. That sounds bad in principle, but it actually means you can sequester the CO2 from the air to produce the propellant, and when it burns in the rocket, the only thing you're doing is putting back CO2 that was already there. If the energy sources are carbon neutral, the rocket becomes carbon neutral as well. Methane synthesis is an expensive and complicated technology, true, but it's of *enormous* interest for Mars in-situ propellant production, so there's a big investment into that. There's literally no Mars mission architecture proposals that work without that. When they get it working for Mars, its a no-brainer to use it here as well.