This is the most impossible launch moments ever captured this close
A camera sat beneath Starship’s Super Heavy booster as all 33 Raptor engines ignited at once
Inside each Raptor, methane and oxygen produce combustion gases approaching 3,000°C, or roughly 5,400°F
Then the full engine array erupts, hammering the launch mount with supersonic exhaust, violent shockwaves, extreme acoustic energy, vibration, water spray and enormous clouds of steam
Yet the camera kept recording through the entire ignition sequence from directly beneath the mount, without the view ever clouding or fogging
SpaceX team engineered a way to capture footage from the most brutal launch environments imaginable
The camera system behind this shot may be almost as impressive as the footage itself
Orcas pulled up and surfed right alongside them.
At Sunset Beach in Port Waikato, New Zealand, a pod of orcas joined two surfers in the lineup and rode the same waves just a few feet away. One guy ducked under a wave and came up face to face with a dorsal fin bigger than he was.
They weren’t hunting anyone. They were just checking out something new in the water.
There’s no record of a wild orca ever killing a human. Still doesn’t make it any less unnerving to look up and see one that close.
Would you have kept surfing or paddled in?
🎥 Port Waikato, January 2025
This is genuinely one of the most insane fucking videos I’ve ever seen.
Drone footage of SpaceX Starship completing its first-ever intact soft splashdown after a full landing burn.
A a 52-metre steel tower, taller than the Statue of Liberty, falling from space, reigniting its engines, flipping upright and gently landing in the ocean.
Absolutely mind-blowing. 🚀