How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster

We know that technological breakthroughs only come after a series of failures. The main thing is that you learn from your failures and move on. Elon Musk's company SpaceX has had its share of spectacular failures, every one of which was highly publicized and enshrined on YouTube. That's the way of the world today.

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Since there's no reason to shy away from their failures, even if they could, SpaceX has released a compilation of their duds, crashes, and explosions on the way to achieving private space flight. Just imagine how many millions of dollars went into these clips. Look closely, and you'll see that their successes are included, too. -via Gizmodo


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wouldn't it be cool if little pixie humans inhabited the model city at night?
i dare someone to to the museum, sneak in past closing and peer into a few of the apartment windows.
could you imagine how small their rice wine cups are??
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I think there are some 20 cities in China with over 8 million people that you and I have never even heard of!
want to see a glimpse of the future? this 15 min film was at Sundance a couple years back - you will laugh and be scared to death at the same time:
www.atom.com/funny_videos/haha_america/
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Tried the Atom.com video and it just came up with..

"Error loading module http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/video_player/services/view/atom.com/AtomGui.swf error:[ProgressEvent type="error" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 bytesLoaded=0 bytesTotal=0]"
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I think what in the future the river aren´t blue and the trees aren´t green, this are black....
I´m spanish and I don´t speak english....sorry for my fail!!
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So they expect one day Shanghai will be "finished" and there won't be hundreds of cranes? That's one of the first things you notice there - how many construction cranes there are.
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America has to step it up because China is coming up and America is coming down with its 9 trillion dollar debt. God does not bless America anyone, we killed it, threw it away, and ignoring it. Good Job!
But .. it doesnt have to end like this if we get our American roots back..
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I guess that if you have to accomodate over 20 million people then the helter-skelter forest of skyscapers that we see in the model is no surprise- but that doesn't make it a desirable urban setting to be in.
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