Yes. Yes it can. I had just created my sim. Sent her outside while I finished decorating the house and BLAM! Game Over 
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Starship SN15 - High Altitude Flight Test
Starship SN15 might launch on May 4th or May 5th for yet another high altitude flight test.
- The FAA has authorized the next 3 launches (SN15 - SN17).
- Flight TFRs for both May 4th as May 5th.
- No road closures announced as of yet.
Will update as info becomes available.
Update May 4th: Launch scrubbed due to high altitude winds, another opportunity tomorrow.
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Starship SN15 - Hop Today?
07:35 pm UTC: Road is closed and we just got a pad clear, so we may be getting a launch today?
09:12 pm UTC: Propellant loading it seems … Condenser
09:39 pm UTC: Farm venting started
09:47 pm UTC: SN15 venting
10:12 pm UTC: Engine chilling (Raptor)
T-01:00 All systems are go!
Website has updated to include SN15 information
https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/index.html
Result (Spoiler)
Looked really smooth, I’d say congrats! Yes still a small fire, but I think it will be fine this time
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Chinese rocket inbound 
The Long March 5B rocket, which is around 100 feet tall and weighs 22 tons, is expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere “around May 8,” according to a statement from Defense Department spokesperson Mike Howard, who said the US Space Command is tracking the rocket’s trajectory
The European Space Agency has predicted a “risk zone” that encompasses “any portion of Earth’s surface between about 41.5N and 41.5S latitude”
Update:
Debris from an out-of-control Chinese rocket likely plunged into the Indian Ocean, just west of the Maldives, on Saturday night ET, China’s space agency said.
Most of the huge Long March 5B rocket, however, burned up on reentering the atmosphere
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Phys.org: In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma ‘hum’.
In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma 'hum'
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So I am sitting up late tonight,mostly because my mom nearly cut off her finger with electric hedge clippers…yeah,another story most suited for someone with a degree in behavioral issues…anyway, am trying to unwind on the front porch in the nice cool air that has settled in tonight. Suddenly, I hear, " Get out here now and look at this! What the hell is that?" Naturally I start looking around to see if there is a pair of glowing eyes or a pack of some hairy wild beasts roaming the street. Seeing nothing on the ground, I look up. Dot…dot, dot, dot…dot…dot., etc… It’s a string of Elon Musk’s Starkink satellites. I busted into the loudest laugh! Then yelled to my neighbor across the road to inform him about what he was seeing. He and his wife had a good laugh and he replied, “Thank God! I thought we were being invaded!”
What a night I am having! 
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I thought you lived in Arkansas. It sounds more like Transylvania. 
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Not much difference. 
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" The children of the night " 
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Lol that’s so funny. He does have a very odd neck, come to think of it.
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SciTechDaily: Bursting the Hubble Bubble: Powerful Ground-Based Telescope Will See Further and Clearer Than Hubble Space Telescope.
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As someone who was playing hookey so I could stay home and watch the Challenger liftoff, I tend to get really concerned when manned launches are turned into carnival-like sideshows…I hope all goes well.
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I must admit, the thought of Richard Branson drifting off into the void has its attractions.
Sadly, when I looked into it further, I discovered that he’s actually only going to “the edge of space”. And he’s not going in a spaceship - it’s just a particularly high-flying aircraft. The whole thing appears to be a bit of a cheat.
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Unfortunately, physics don’t allow drifting off into the void on suborbital trajectories…
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Not planned to even happen this year, but somehow has to try beat Jeff Bezos.
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So the craft made it to a height of 82km, which is still within the Mesosphere and 3 kilometres before reaching the Thermosphere, which according to the Kármán line is not quite considered to be space. Pretty cool accomplishment none the less!
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Apparently, the US sets 50 miles as the cutoff point where “space” begins… 
…Americans…sheesh… 
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