@Biokinetica: Why? Are you afraid they'll put a laser on the shuttle, turn it back towards earth and fry everyone?
Payload launches have already gone private. If we are ever going to realize affordable space travel, it has to get out of the governments hand and into the market place.
@futurist: It is possible that 1&2 got together and hoaxed that angle. I'm not sure why someone would then go through the trouble to make videos 3 (Mississippi) & 4.
I do have an issue that 3 doesn't show the flash, that in 4 appears to illuminate the entire area. If they were that close in 3, it would have obviously in the video, even being at a different side of the dome.
I was thinking about the "show off" part too. If you have a Lamborghini, part of the reason is to let people know that you HAVE a Lamborghini. Strobe lights seem to make that easily known.
Technically, since one guy is standing off to the side of the first guy, they are at two different , yet close in degrees angle. They second attached video makes it a little clearer that video on the right is being shot by the guy standing in the front during the video on the left.
On the top video at 1:04, right before the ground flashes, you can see two lights move below the dome near the bottom of the frame in the center video. There was also a flickering light behind the dome in that video too. BTW, 1:05 is the flash moment that looks like comes from the ball of light.
Not saying one way or the other, but just wanted to point that out.
I was watching a documentary on blaxploitation and they talked to several of the top actors of the era. Near the end of the documentary the actors finally got to point out the fact that they enjoyed the work, the money and the fame that came along with the movies. And that they missed it. It apparently was a win win win for everyone, the studios, actors and consumers.
Yes, I agree, they are getting very lazy with their jokes. Top Gear should make a more studious effort to provide quality jokes about every and not slack off so much when they joke about Mexicans.