Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it for its raw, mostly natural audio and for conveying the speeds and violence of a shuttle launch and booster descent.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Michael Interbartolo

Topic

space shuttle booster footage

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2014

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I immediately had to re-watch this pretty awesome video after reading the article: [VIDEO] It goes from liftoff to space and back to earth in a handful of minutes, and the enhanced (but real) audio is pretty creepy.

• This video of a booster rocket has excellent, mostly-natural sound: [VIDEO] It came to mind due to the airborne / hostile environment combination...

• There's deceleration involved as well. Here's a very nice video of the shuttle boosters on their way down to give you an idea of the velocities involved. [VIDEO] An enormous amount of inertia to overcome so 30% doesn't sound so unlikely.