Agreed, they launch. They go up, then turn sideways, then go off over the ocean and land in the ocean. I meant it was fake in the sense that it doesn't go 17,500 mph into space.
Where is your evidence of that? I have seen zero reports from anyone saying they have seen this rocket come down and a LOT of people were there to witness the launch.
Just saying "holy crap, that's fast, how did they manage that?" is not evidence of fakery.
Answer the real question here: do you believe the rocket goes 17,500 mph into space?
I don't know how fast it is going but if that is the numbers quoted then yes, I believe them because they are in line with numbers I've heard about other spacecraft.
How is it accelerating to that speed? Well, basically: F=ma. Make the "F" big enough and you'll get enough "a". And the rockets SpaceX use are incredibly powerful.
They generate a LOT of thrust, that generates a lot of acceleration.
I've seen in another thread that some of that acceleration happened when the craft was outside of our atmosphere in which case there is no atmospheric drag so that makes it easier to accelerate an object. If you don't understand how all this works then look it up. It isn't rocket science. Well...OK, it is rocket science, but the high level "if you generate a lot of force it generates a lot of acceleration" isn't hard to understand.
An Airbus A380 is about 1.26 MILLION pounds when fully loaded. I struggle to understand how they get off the ground, they are absolutely massive. I do understand about lift but even so, they do look too big to fly. But they do. I've been one one a few times. Me not understanding exactly how it generates quite so much lift does not mean it isn't true.