Elon’s Falcon 9 boosted four non-professional astronauts into orbit yesterday morning. My friend happened to be getting ready for a daily, early morning walk, and captured this historic picture about 11 minutes after launch. Scared the $h!t out of her because she didn’t know what it was. Thought it was cool enough to post.
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Now THAT’S Way cool…But…er…um…Shouldn’t that be going Up and not sidewayz?
Askin’ fer a Fiend! 
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Earth’s curvature I guess.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! The old 'Coriolis Effect 'ey what?
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Indeed.
The sun is beyond the horizon from her vantage point, but the rocket was high enough into orbit that the sun shown through it’s contrails nicely.
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“You think yer 'Vulcin phunnie don’t cha?”
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That comeback took awhile my friend, yer slippin’!
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Popular to contrary belief I’m not here ALL the time.
Since you posted I:
Rotated my tires
Painted my shed
Had the cat fixed (not by my hands!)
Cleaned all my guns
and ran the Marathon (wphew) 
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It all comes back to the significance of the passage of time, doesn’t it?
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WHAT? Oh, yeah that’s truly Zen Bruh! 
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I give credit where credit is due:
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You’re quoting Kamala Harris?? Really? Seriously??
There goes yer credibility Bro! Flussssssssssssssssh! 
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Me thinks he was makin’ fun of Ole cackles 
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Yepper, (w/ me thrown in for good measure)
Senor Ronaldo likes his ‘Two-fer’s!’
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Cackles, if elected, may as well have most of us in shackles.
But the SpaceX thing is awesome. Can’t wait to watch the spacewalk tomorrow.
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It’s a combination of earths spin, and the trajectory to achieve low earth orbit… (17,500 mph) yeah, the launch starts vertically to clear the majority of earth’s atmosphere, but then needs to accelerate to stay in orbit!
It’s almost like the parabolic arc of a bullet trajectory,… except that once it hits its apex it is going so fast that it keeps missing the planet as it’s trying to fall back down!
Seriously, if it wasn’t for the angular momentum the mission would just plummet straight back down!
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Super cool pic!
For as often as SpaceX does these dusk launches to create those light shows I’m somewhat surprised that anyoneDOESNT know what they are by now!
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Thank you Sir for the Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong explanation
(and then the insult in the second one) You gotz to 'member I wuz burn a por black chil in da south ( Southern Queens!)
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Insult we trust.
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And THRUST! Don’t forget the thrust!
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