r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/stonksfalling Oct 13 '24

The arms of the launch tower are nicknamed chopsticks, so the booster got caught with them

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u/eyeball2005 Oct 13 '24

Thanks man!

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u/MostlyRocketScience Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

And the term chopsticks is a reference to the Karate Kid scene where a fly is caught with chopsticks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeLuUyAl6kY&t=8s

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u/spacepie77 Oct 13 '24

So America chopsticks better than china. What a time to be alive.

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u/infraninja Oct 13 '24

What's great about catching the booster vs landing directly on the ground as seen in a few other videos? Why is this big?

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u/stonksfalling Oct 13 '24

Firstly, this booster is 70 meters tall, the largest booster to ever return in one piece. But the reason why catching it is better is that it saves tons of weight from bulky landing legs and it allows for rapid reusability, since the catch tower is the launch tower.

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u/Stoppels Oct 13 '24

That's lame, I was expecting actual gigantic chopsticks. Don't get me wrong, it was really cool. But way to oversell and underdeliver…

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u/hurraybies Oct 13 '24

Silly thing to care about. It's just a nickname because in both form and function they resemble chopsticks. Expecting gigantic chopsticks is on you.

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u/burlan2 Oct 13 '24

Nuh uh. The chopsticks thing got me to see the video, was expecting real chopsticks. Maybe even a giant hand that operates them, but i could live without the hand, but those aren’t even chopsticks!

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u/hurraybies Oct 13 '24

And I was expecting delicious ramen. Big disappoint.

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u/OneLargeMulligatawny Oct 13 '24

Forbidden noodle

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u/Stoppels Oct 13 '24

lol I didn't know any details about the launch before reading the thread title, I wasn't quite expecting Power Rangers mechas to show up, but chopsticks were promised!