Riding the Booster with enhanced sound on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2014.
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Footage from a camera on a Space Shuttle solid rocket booster from liftoff through descent, with audio enhanced by Skywalker Sound from the original camera microphones. The sound is real, not foley.
HN recommends it for its raw, mostly natural audio and for conveying the speeds and violence of a shuttle launch and booster descent.
“I immediately had to re-watch this pretty awesome video after reading the article”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
I immediately had to re-watch this pretty awesome video after reading the article: ▶ this 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.
in “The Mysterious Mental Side Effects of Traveling into Space” · View on HN
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. ▶ this video An enormous amount of inertia to overcome so 30% doesn't sound so unlikely.
in “SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage” · View on HN
This video of a booster rocket has excellent, mostly-natural sound: ▶ this video It came to mind due to the airborne / hostile environment combination...
in “Drone Flies Into an Active Volcano [video]” · View on HN