David S. Wallens
David S. Wallens Editorial Director
3/2/19 9:53 p.m.

Overnight autocross?

Black Friday?

Lost a bet?

How about SpaceX launch. We have too many trees here at the house to really get a good view, but down the street there's a park that offers a pretty good view. With the naked eye we could track it all the way from liftoff to stage separation to landing boosters. And then, about 6 minutes after takeoff, we heard it. 

Here's a medicore/crappy cell phone photo.

nutherjrfan
nutherjrfan UltraDork
3/2/19 9:55 p.m.

I was going to go with last call but that's much more cool. smiley

Floating Doc
Floating Doc Dork
3/2/19 10:04 p.m.

Oh yeah, I've really got to go down there for a launch

TurnerX19
TurnerX19 Reader
3/2/19 10:15 p.m.

When I lived near GRM I saw several shuttle launches from the park. The sound 6 minutes later is still loud!

Pete Gossett
Pete Gossett MegaDork
3/3/19 6:08 a.m.

I was trying to imagine any (good) reason I’d be standing in a parking lot at 2:49am, but you got me with this one David - I’d totally have been out there too. 

Brian
Brian MegaDork
3/3/19 6:55 a.m.

My first thought was unveiling a modified Delorian.

captdownshift
captdownshift PowerDork
3/3/19 8:32 a.m.

I was expecting high school aged type recreational cannabis use. 

Ransom
Ransom PowerDork
3/3/19 9:47 a.m.

Okay, fine, score one more for living in Florida. cheeky

But seriously, that's really cool.

1988RedT2
1988RedT2 UltimaDork
3/3/19 12:35 p.m.

I was gonna go with "car-jacked outside of a bar in the bad part of town," but this was almost certainly more fun.

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