You will find him outside of Panucci’s Pizza.

definitely put Minority Report before Edge of Tomorrow, but both are excellent movies

Legend is perhaps most notable in that, if my Tom Cruise-lore memory serves, Cruise was so dissatisfied with the process of filming Legend and the direction it was taking his career that he pushed for several then-unheard-of creativity demands (over things like script, movie edits, and even marketing) when selecting…

The Mummy, Legend, Interview With the Vampire… okay, fine, everything is science fiction now.

In addition to just being a great sci fi movie, Edge of Tomorrow has an extra thing that makes it great: If you are someone who generally dislikes Tom Cruise like me, you get to watch him die over and over and over and over again.

Could you PLEASE update the title of this. JFC that’s annoying.

That’s indeed one strategy for terminating a rocket. It’s not really germane, though, as that still isn’t what happened in this case. This rocket didn’t shut itself down. You can see in the video it took some time for the thrust to completely stop, and no matter how a range safety system functions, it always does so…

That rocket did not self destruct.  It shut off the engines and let it fall back to earth.

the Chinese rocket capable of carrying 590 tons to orbit, while SpaceX’s two-stage reusable rocket can carry 605 tons

well this didn’t age well

OK, it looks like Starship also touched down in the ocean, although it took a hell of a beating on the way down. :D

Sorry to partially disappoint; the Booster successfully landed in the ocean only a short while ago. (WHEEEEEE!!! What an amazing sight. :D)

The SpaceX team is an example of just what a bunch of brilliant engineers and scientists can accomplish when the idiot C-suite is out of the way.

(Stupid Kinja double-posting...)

I hope so. I love the idea of the chopsticks - “Legs add another 10% mass to the rocket because they have to be so sturdy? Let’s just catch it mid-landing using the already existing grid fins!”

Can’t edit my original comment anymore, but there’s a really interesting discussion of the heat shield and tile issues with Starship over on one of the SpaceX sub-reddits (including an actual Shuttle tile engineer):

I do wish they were also doing a flyback test of Super-Heavy instead of ditching it in the Gulf, but I can understand why that’s on the back-burner. It’s much more important that they successfully get Starship fully tested, since if need be they can use it in an expendable configuration - and the last thing they need…

Every accusation is a confession with narcissists. 

What you say.

Some people are happy with test explosions like this because they feel that it exposes the fraud of “NASA” and “Space” and “Satellites”.