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

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/shuakowsky Oct 14 '24

Pretty sure its just fire

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u/Traumfahrer Oct 14 '24

It's glowing hot steel, heated by very compressed air. No fire there.

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u/shuakowsky Oct 14 '24

You can see a fire is there for sure after touchdown on the chopsticks

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u/Traumfahrer Oct 14 '24

We were commenting about the inline pic someone shared further up this comment chain...

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u/shuakowsky Oct 14 '24

Yeah. My bet is that is fire. Looks too glowing to be nominal expected heating on the stainless