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mladenkovacevic
Countdown was halted at 47 seconds... Team reviewing data... Now clock reset to 13 minutes. Test fire possibly aborted?
mattmillr
From their twitter: "May recycle and try again today, watch for update."

http://twitter.com/#!/spacex

reitzensteinm
Just in: Flight computer aborted rocket hold down firing. Anomaly addressed. Cycling systems to countdown

Might not be long now?

jcarreiro
I just tuned in, and it looks like the clock is still holding at T-13.
fsckin
It's moving again... T-12
cdrxndr
The antici ...

pation.

greg_bt
Looks like its back on, countdown is at just under 12 minutes.
ndcrandall
Looks like they got over some of the difficulties

"Final Readines Poll in progress"

Countdown sequence resumed at T-13

bodski
Countdown has resumed (~12 minutes)
mladenkovacevic
Also just to manage some expectations.. the rocket will not fly.

This is just a firing of the engines I believe.

reitzensteinm
They REALLY need to say that on the page. This has the opportunity to spread virally and the crowd doesn't manage expectations very well :)
pavel_lishin
Yeah, I just managed to embarrass myself in half a dozen IRC channels. More so than usual.
lutorm
Which part about "STATIC FIRE TODAY" did you miss?
rflrob
For an enthusiast, it may not be clear exactly what "Static Fire" means. While Static means non-moving, it also means the hissing noise on mis-tuned analog connections, and it's not inconceivable that it has another overloaded meaning.
nknight
> For an enthusiast

I think you're misusing that word. A space flight and/or specifically SpaceX enthusiast would recognize the terminology instantly.

Assuming you mean something like "amateur" or "layman", thinking anything without the word "launch" in it is in fact a launch still seems a remarkable leap of illogic.

yaix
My guess would be, the "static" part.
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stevejabs
That was it?
pdubs
Yeah I kinda felt that too, but then I thought "that's a spaceship!"
jessriedel
Was the test successful? Rather underwhelming visually.
lutorm
Yeah, all the water and steam obscures the view... They did say "good static fire" before ending, though.
henrikgs
Looks like it. This is extremely exiting stuff in general but I agree with you on this stream in particular.
mladenkovacevic
Hehe yeah not quite as thunderous as a Saturn :P But consider this like the rocket version of a Prius :)
ChuckMcM
And with Saturn V once you turned it on, you were going to burn through all the fuel whether that was a good idea or not :-)
mladenkovacevic
I can't imagine how the astronauts felt sitting on top of that behemoth. I don't think I'm exaggerating at all by saying that I would've shit my space-diapers long before the countdown reached zero.
ChuckMcM
I saw a fascinating talk last week from the guy who heads up the NASA vibration lab. According to him there is so much vibration of your head during launch that its damn difficult to read the gauges much make intelligent choices about what to do next. This was a real concern for the Constellation program which had a lot of vibration issues.
jurjenh
Just my luck to switch to this and see the top comment:

  elonmusk Woohoo, rocket hold down firing completed and all looks good!!
  41 seconds ago · reply · retweet · favorite
bugger, I always seem to just miss the boat. Oh well, I guess it wasn't too spectacular from the comments here.
danielweber
It fired for two seconds. There really wasn't going to be much to it anyway, unless something went tragically wrong.

Still nice to see them proceeding through all the hoops, though.

mukaiji
there are entrepreneurs. and then there is Elon Musk.