Parts of the SpaceX Falcon-9 Rocket Found Off the Isles of Scilly (bbc.com) 29
New submitter AppleHoshi writes: The BBC is reporting that a large chunk of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket, which exploded shortly after take-off from Cape Canaveral earlier this year, has been found 4,000 miles away, in the sea off the Isles of Scilly. The recovered section is approximately 10m (32ft) by 4m (13ft). It was discovered by a local coastguard patrol, though they didn't recognize it until they scraped off a layer of goose barnacles.
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To lose part of your rocket.
I had no idea that Elon Musk is Jewish!
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Well he did get his fortune from PayPal, arguably one of shadiest companies on the internet.
True, but my understanding was that most of the shadiness came along after he sold it. Do I have it wrong?
Re: Well now that's just plain silly (Score:2, Interesting)
No that was Elon. Dodgy as fck bank that didn't follow bankingregs and lobbied/astroturfed to avoid early closure till it was toobig for the cfedit card companies to pull the plug. I wonder how you Elon astroturfers will rewrite this crash bit of his history?
This is the top of stage 1 of falcon 9. (Score:3)
http://www.spacex.com/sites/al... [spacex.com]
I don't know if it's clear what launch it's from. Several have gone into the ocean, both from attempts at landing on the barge, and ditching in the ocean.
This is the top of the first stage. There may be an empty helium tank inside this acting as flotation. The helium tanks are really robust, and have separately survived even really fast impacts.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.c... [nasaspaceflight.com]
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Or the bottom of stage 2. It depends on what photo you look at. They said there is an american flag with Falcon 9 near it. Which would match the bottom of stage 2.
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News for nerds? Sure. Stuff that matters? No.
BBC is wrong, it's NOT from the exploded rocket! (Score:5, Informative)
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but a Reddit threat is not and never will be a source.
Neither is Slashdot, so who cares? OP gave you the primary information, if you need more confirmation in order to decide if this is "good" or "bad" or something else, you can do it yourself.
And if your research is for a more important purpose than personal satisfaction, you really should be ashamed of asking someone else to do your job.
Goose barnacles? (Score:4, Interesting)
Wikipedia to the rescue:
In the days before it was realised that birds migrate, it was thought that barnacle geese, Branta leucopsis, developed from this crustacean, since they were never seen to nest in temperate Europe,[2] hence the English names "goose barnacle", "barnacle goose" and the scientific name Lepas anserifera (Latin anser = "goose"). The confusion was prompted by the similarities in colour and shape. Because they were often found on driftwood, it was assumed that the barnacles were attached to branches before they fell in the water. The Welsh monk, Giraldus Cambrensis, made this claim in his Topographia Hiberniae.[3]
Since barnacle geese were thought to be "neither flesh, nor born of flesh", they were allowed to be eaten on days when eating meat was forbidden by Christianity,[2] though it was not universally accepted. The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II examined barnacles and noted no evidence of any bird-like embryo in them, and the secretary of Leo of Rozmital wrote a very skeptical account of his reaction to being served the goose at a fast-day dinner in 1456.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re:Goose barnacles? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Goose barnacles & cargo ships (Score:1)
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90 euros per kilo
Are barnacles some sort of delicacy, or is the price just due to the space rocket association?
I thought they were just things that clogged up the bottom of boats.
found by Fishermen, towed to harbour by Coastguard (Score:1)
Found by HMCG is wrong. Fishermen found it, coastguard towed it in.