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A Japanese private rocket company called Interstellar Technologies tried to test-launch its Momo-2 rocket from the Japanese island of Hokkaido today (they are on the other side of the date-line) but the rocket engine quit a few seconds after launch and the rocket fell back and exploded. Kind of sad, I like to see these things work.

It was supposed to reach outer space (Japan's first private rocket to accomplish that). From the looks of it, it's much smaller than a Falcon 9, apparently a small sub-orbital 'sounding rocket'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...m1cR-b0gj0
Peculiar that in the segment of footage where what sounded like a countdown in Japanese was being verbalized, the latter was still going on after the rocket launched, albeit ultimately crashing. Maybe over there they actually continue with up-counting. That's done in the West, too, but it's not vocalized by an announcer (it seems unnecessary once the vessel has lifted off, is going somewhere even if it ends in disaster).

Of course, like bad lip syncing in old Godzilla and martial arts movies, maybe somebody severely botched matching the audio track to the visual sequence. But such seems odd or rare when there's no translation to another language, anyway; and these audio-visual recordings surely aren't old-school films manipulated by hand, but files mediated by digital technology. Anti-piracy software might deliberately knock the sound out of alignment if a copy is made, but that measure too seems kind of oddball for a banal rocket launch that's going to worm its way over various news coverage around the world, no matter what.

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(Jul 1, 2018 05:03 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]Peculiar that in the segment of footage where what sounded like a countdown in Japanese was being verbalized, the latter was still going on after the rocket launched, albeit ultimately crashing. Maybe over there they actually continue with up-counting. That's done in the West, too, but it's not vocalized by an announcer (it seems unnecessary once the vessel has lifted off, is going somewhere even if it ends in disaster).

Of course, like bad lip syncing in old Godzilla and martial arts movies, maybe somebody severely botched matching the audio track to the visual sequence. But such seems odd or rare when there's no translation to another language, anyway; and these audio-visual recordings surely aren't old-school films manipulated by hand, but files mediated by digital technology. Anti-piracy software might deliberately knock the sound out of alignment if a copy is made, but that measure too seems kind of oddball for a banal rocket launch that's going to worm its way over various news coverage around the world, no matter what.

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lol
no.
that is called culture.
The counting shows things are happening and in control and gives a concept of focus for liniar time progresion to formulate the centre of the event.

it is like the americans and their obsession with flying their flag even when they are just going to the toilet or the mail box.
its a bit weird from outsiders looking at it.

or Greeters at slave wage super marts what-ever-they-are-called-in-the-usa 'target stores' ?


freedom is not accomplished by being a racist segragationalist while flying a flag.
freedom is also not just flying a flag.
freedom is actions.
thats probably part of the psychosis, all that inbred racism and genocide festering into guilt issues that is beaten out on the flag instead of their wifes. on church on a sunday.
strange culture indeed.


each to their own.