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Episode 33, design patterns. Take it away, Patrick.

So I was watching the live launch of the newest SpaceX flight going to the space station.

Oh, nice.

The dragon capsule.

And it was like at work, I felt like it was momentous.

We were all standing around my monitor and watching the rocket lift off and everything.

And they had said it was not a main mission objective, but the first stage, the big rocket part, was supposed to come back and try to land.

And they want to eventually reuse it.

But they said it didn't have a large chance of success. So I was hoping to be able to watch this

thing come back down, but they didn't have any video whatsoever of that part of it for unknown

reasons. And it took until like just recently that they, this is like, you know, it launched

like last week.

And then this week they just finally announced that it did successfully do that part of the

mission where it deployed these like lander legs from the first stage and then hovered briefly

above the ocean and then fell into the ocean.

But because the seas were really bad, it got destroyed in the ocean.

Oh, no.

So you can launch something like the thing that launches something up to space recover it with rocket engines to slow down

but then the ocean water can destroy it it's like oh so a couple of things on this one uh i heard this

crazy story that i guess it's not that crazy, but the idea is like helium,

I guess there's a finite amount of helium.

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