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SpaceX successfully completed one of the greatest engineering achievements in the history of space travel on Sunday morning, launching the Starship spacecraft and then returning the Super Heavy booster used for the launch back to the launch site. The 232-foot Super Heavy booster blasted off at approximately 8:25 a.m. ET and returned to the launch site within minutes, where it was caught in mid-air by two massive metal arms that Elon Musk’s company refers to as its “chopsticks.” The company said it was a mid-flight decision to attempt the return to the Texas launchpad. SpaceX engineers could be heard cheering on the livestream as its host heralded the “absolutely insane” achievement, saying it “looked like magic.” WATCH: SpaceX’s Mechazilla catches Super Heavy rocket booster Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024 “This is absolutely insane!” the engineer said as the booster was caught. “On the first ever attempt, we have successfully caught the Super Heavy booster back at the launch tower. What an incredible feeling.” The return of the booster to Earth is a major milestone for the future of space travel. The ability to reuse rocket parts for multiple spaceship launches drastically changes the economics of the industry, putting Musk’s dream to “revolutionize humanity’s ability to access space” in sight. “With each flight building on the learnings from the last, testing improvements in hardware and operations across every facet of Starship, we’re on the verge of demonstrating techniques fundamental to Starship’s fully and rapidly reusable design,” SpaceX said ahead of the successful test. “By continuing to push our hardware in a flight environment, and doing so as safely and frequently as possible, we’ll rapidly bring Starship online and revolutionize humanity’s ability to access space.” The first time SpaceX launched the Super Heavy booster was last April. There was no intention for it to return to the launchpad as it did this morning, and it exploded before it would have been able to. A massive effort was undertaken to improve the rocket since then. One of the most important improvements was a rebuild of the Starship’s “heatshield,” designed for it to withstand the temperatures of reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The spaceship could be seen turning bright red as it flew through space, but the improved “heatshield” appeared to be holding up during flight. The Starship remained in its test flight, which is expected to last just around an hour. It will attempt to land in the Indian Ocean. Unlike the booster, the Starship isn’t yet built to survive the landing. More than three million people are tuned in to watch the livestream. Watch Starship’s fifth flight test https://t.co/LVrCnTv797 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 12, 2024

'It was malicious. It was intentional'

A South African witness details their strange experience with the Ouija board, proving to them that it was simply not a parlor game and that they made actual spiritual contact!I received the following account:"Hi. Most people won't believe me but for what it's worth I promise everything I tell you is 100% true and how it happened to the best of my memory however names have been changed.I was about 18 and hanging out with other school friends at my friend Joanne's house.I can't quite remember how we got onto the subject but towards the end of the evening, Joanne thought it would be fun to perform a seance! Joanne and her family were from Capetown, South Africa had a deep-rooted interest in the spiritual (or at least that's what Joanne made out to us)With the lights off and candles lit We all sat at a round table, with cards fanned out around the edge. Each card had a letter of the alphabet arranged A-Z and a shot glass placed in the middle. Joanne starts speaking out to the spirits in Afrikaans. I remember pulling a face and rolling my eyes (it was too dark for anyone to take offence) at the time I was an insufferable 'enlightened' atheist teen dork! You know the type, a bizarre 4chan edge lord who thinks any form of spirituality or religion is beneath me and my superior intellect! I never wore a fedora but I was damn close! However, what was about to happen made me question everythingIt started mundane enough, a few questions were asked, and the shot glass we were resting our fingers on started to move to and fro until eventually one of my friends asked 'the spirit' if they were associated with anyone in the room. The shot glass moved directly towards me. Incredulous I asked 'the spirit' if you're associated with me then what's my mother's maiden name?" My eyes fixated on the letters that spell out her maiden name (Jones) but the glass started spelling out something different. First, the glass went to "T" then "H" then "O" I thought then it was bullshit as it was completely wrong then I was struck by a horrific realisation!When my mom was 6 months old her biological father died of a heart attack and a year after that she took her stepfather's name! I completely forgot this at the moment as I was expecting the glass to read out the maiden name she had for the majority of her life but it was actually spelling out her original maiden name of Thompson!It was a fact so trivial that I barely remembered it myself! It was something never talked about even within my family as it happened so long ago! It would be hard to believe that any of my friends would know this esoteric piece of my family's history that occurred 20 years before I was even born but nonetheless, somehow it was being spelled out in front of my very eyes! THOMPSON! My school friends and I wouldn't talk about anything deeper than video games and tits at that age yet there's no way I ever mentioned this to any of them! It's not like one of my pot-smoking looser friends had a copy of my mom's birth certificate and none of them had ever met anyone else in my family. There was literally no way anyone could have known this!Before I could contemplate this for too long or ask any other questions to my ghostly associate Joanne's mom came into the room and turns the lights on and with a thick South African accent shouts something like, "Bloody hell Joanne, stop messing around with this silly crap!" And put a definitive stop to the proceedings.Of course, at the time I played it off as a prank but the more I think of it, the more my mind wanders. Did something actually paranormal happen that night? I know it's nothing dramatic or exciting, I didn't see an apparition or a cryptid, but unlike 90% of the crap you read online this experience is actually true, and something to this day I can't explain." A**********TERRIFYING ENCOUNTERS! INTENSE, RAW FEAR! | LIVE Chat | Q & A | Join Us! (REAL EXPERIENCER REPORTS)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! 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