{"id":"1793753892429-tech-segment","slug":"starship-ship-catch-attempt","title":"Starship ship catch attempt","summary":"The image is a real Hubble image of Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2, showing jets from a young star colliding with surrounding gas and dust in Orion. This is a personal comment, not a checkable factual claim.","publishedAt":"2026-11-04T00:58:12.429Z","channel":{"id":"tech","name":"Oncast Tech","language":"en"},"show":"Tech Tonight","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: The image is a real Hubble image of Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2, showing jets from a young star colliding with surrounding gas and dust in Orion. This is a personal comment, not a checkable factual claim.\nSource: [science.nasa.gov](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-a-turbulent-stellar-nursery) NAMES: HH 1/HH 2 = Herbig-Haro objects, bright patches of  (https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2117782127303381443)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"The image is a real Hubble image of Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2, showing jets from a young star colliding with surrounding gas and dust in Orion. This is a personal comment, not a checkable factual claim.","sourceName":"[science.nasa.gov](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-a-turbulent-stellar-nursery) NAMES: HH 1/HH 2 = Herbig-Haro objects, bright patches of ","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2117782127303381443","claim":"A newborn star’s first roar. Still buried in the dark cocoon of its birth cloud, a stellar infant hurls a blazing jet of superheated gas into space — a luminous, twisting column of energy that marks the violent opening chapter of a star’s life. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. ","author":"Black Hole (@konstructivizm)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/konstructivizm/status/2117782127303381443","name":"[science.nasa.gov](https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-views-a-turbulent-stellar-nursery) NAMES: HH 1/HH 2 = Herbig-Haro objects, bright patches of ","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Black Hole (@konstructivizm)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793753892429-tech-segment-starship-ship-catch-attempt","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/tech","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1793753892429-tech-segment-starship-ship-catch-attempt","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1793753892429-tech-segment-starship-ship-catch-attempt and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Chris","text":"SpaceX wants Flight 15 to catch both the booster and the ship."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Catching the booster was already insane. Now the whole thing comes back?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"Joe Rosa on X says Musk puts first-try ship catch odds at \"at least 50 or 60 percent.\""},{"host":"Matilda","text":"If that quote's real, 50 or 60 percent feels generous for something they've never done."},{"host":"Chris","text":"They'd never caught a booster either, until they did. Now it's close to routine."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"A booster comes back from a few miles up. The ship comes from orbit, survives reentry, then hovers by a tower."},{"host":"Chris","text":"It has survived reentry and landed in the ocean. The only remaining problem is precision."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Precision with an experimental vehicle that still needs a launch license. There's a reason the FAA hasn't signed off."},{"host":"Chris","text":"\"Only the FAA is left\" means the hardware's waiting on paperwork. That's backwards."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"It is not just paperwork, Chris. It's a skyscraper falling out of the sky."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Regulators have reviewed every flight. At some point you have to fly it to find out what breaks."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And if it breaks near the tower? You catch a rocket, not a demolition ball."},{"host":"Chris","text":"The tower already caught a booster. It didn't flinch."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That booster wasn't coming in from space with a belly full of reentry heat."},{"host":"Chris","text":"They solved the hard part of reentry. The catch is just the final hundred meters."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Then why does Musk only give it 50 or 60 percent?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"Presumably because he knows the ship can wave off and splash if the approach isn't perfect."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"A wave-off at the last second is not as easy as it sounds."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's why it's a coin flip plus ten. I'll take those odds."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"If they catch the ship first try, Starship stops being an expensive experiment."},{"host":"Chris","text":"It becomes the truck that flies. That's the whole point of the design."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I'll hold you to \"truck that flies\" when it belly flops into the Gulf."},{"host":"Chris","text":"If it does, the ocean is right there. We'll still get data."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Fine. We'll know soon enough."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Different violent birth: Black Hole on X posted a Hubble image of a newborn star firing a superheated jet."},{"host":"Chris","text":"A baby picture with a laser. Why should I care?"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That jet slams into the surrounding cloud and helps decide whether planets form. That's our origin story."},{"host":"Chris","text":"So a toddler tantrum that shapes solar systems. Fine, it's cool."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"NASA confirmed it: Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 in Orion."},{"host":"Chris","text":"You just like saying \"Herbig-Haro.\""},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I like a star that announces itself with a jet instead of a press release."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Different fight: Tokenwire on X says schools that refuse Google's AI features are losing access to Search."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That would be punishment. Basic search shouldn't require signing up for AI."},{"host":"Chris","text":"But Google says the product has changed. You can't keep the old search forever."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Kids use search for homework. A school district says no to AI, so they lose the library?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"It's not a library. It's a company, and companies retire products."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Search is infrastructure at this point. You don't get to yank it over an upsell."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's my point. If it's infrastructure, it shouldn't depend on one company's AI rollout."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"I agree with that point, but the claim is unverified— no official word from Google yet."},{"host":"Chris","text":"If true, school boards will go to war over this."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"The school board wars already started. This just gives everyone a better reason."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Google is tying search to AI, and districts have no clean way to opt out."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"They need an opt-out that doesn't break the basic product. That's product design."},{"host":"Chris","text":"But Google decides what it sells. The real question is whether schools have alternatives."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"They don't. And that's exactly why this fight matters."}]}