Congrats to SpaceX for a (so far) perfect launch
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Very impressive.
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Very impressive.
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That simultaneous booster landing was AWESOME! Hoping to hear the core landed successfully too.
They should have cut to a panel of judges holding up signs with 10s on them!
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Very impressive.
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Very impressive.
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"Disappointing tens" :laugh:
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"Disappointing tens" :laugh:
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Very impressive.
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Very impressive.
It is, but the irony of a guy who makes environmentally sensitive electric cars, building a rocket with the carbon footprint the size of jupiter is staggering.
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That simultaneous booster landing was AWESOME! Hoping to hear the core landed successfully too.
It is a fine piece of engineering is it not!
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That simultaneous booster landing was AWESOME! Hoping to hear the core landed successfully too.
Impressive!:thumbsup:
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Very impressive.
Looks like Stig is driving the Tesla! ‘Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars.’ Thats going to ruin the paint job. Liked the 'Dont Panic!' nod to Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy, nice touch. Shame they arent going to land the roadster on Mars. That would make quite a sight driving around past the NASA explorer.
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Very impressive.
May have been said (or not), but the whole outer-space, flying car with rock music playing driven by an astronaut-suit-wearing character sounds a bit "Heavy Metal" to me! Think that Blue Oyster Cult should be (if not already) a part of the sound track. Hmmm, licensing issues prior to launch perhaps; who knows, but a car launched into space seems a bit hazardous to me --granted it would burn up in the atmosphere of any planet, but still seems a bit immature and slightly down plays the fact that a rocket was legally launched by a private entrepreneur. The rocket could have had a bit more consideration for brand as the name is kind of underwhelming. Never the less tis progress (good or bad).
I was unaware of that...
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It is, but the irony of a guy who makes environmentally sensitive electric cars, building a rocket with the carbon footprint the size of jupiter is staggering.
He's addressed this in the past - electric engines don't provide the thrust required, because they have very little exhaust, and batteries are much too heavy. If you happen to be able to get thousands of m/s of delta v out of an electric engine, though, that would be something the entire world, (and maybe universe), would be highly interested in.
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He's addressed this in the past - electric engines don't provide the thrust required, because they have very little exhaust, and batteries are much too heavy. If you happen to be able to get thousands of m/s of delta v out of an electric engine, though, that would be something the entire world, (and maybe universe), would be highly interested in.
Do we have to put a Tesla in orbit, or send something to mars?
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May have been said (or not), but the whole outer-space, flying car with rock music playing driven by an astronaut-suit-wearing character sounds a bit "Heavy Metal" to me! Think that Blue Oyster Cult should be (if not already) a part of the sound track. Hmmm, licensing issues prior to launch perhaps; who knows, but a car launched into space seems a bit hazardous to me --granted it would burn up in the atmosphere of any planet, but still seems a bit immature and slightly down plays the fact that a rocket was legally launched by a private entrepreneur. The rocket could have had a bit more consideration for brand as the name is kind of underwhelming. Never the less tis progress (good or bad).
I was unaware of that...
TheRaven wrote:
Blue Oyster Cult
Space Trucking, Deep Purple.
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May have been said (or not), but the whole outer-space, flying car with rock music playing driven by an astronaut-suit-wearing character sounds a bit "Heavy Metal" to me! Think that Blue Oyster Cult should be (if not already) a part of the sound track. Hmmm, licensing issues prior to launch perhaps; who knows, but a car launched into space seems a bit hazardous to me --granted it would burn up in the atmosphere of any planet, but still seems a bit immature and slightly down plays the fact that a rocket was legally launched by a private entrepreneur. The rocket could have had a bit more consideration for brand as the name is kind of underwhelming. Never the less tis progress (good or bad).
I was unaware of that...
Highway Star, Deep Purple. :)
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Do we have to put a Tesla in orbit, or send something to mars?
The Tesla in orbit is a publicity stunt - you need a heavy unimportant payload for the first flight of a rocket, to test. You don't wanna lose the rocket, _and_ lose a client's multi-billion science project, and no insurance company will go near you if you're planning it. Rocket companies generally send up something unimportant - the Saturn V's maiden voyage, Apollo IV, took with it a fake Lunar Module, the LTA-10R. In sending a Tesla into orbit, Musk has expertly crafted a giant hype machine that anyone interested in space ex, science, nerd culture, and even automobile techs, are all part of. I mean, just watch the launch broadcast. It's a professional spectacle. Here it enters the philosophical, though. Do we need to send something to Mars? In my opinion, yes. Human longevity will outlast the Earth's ability to nurture it, and we will need to migrate, as a species, to another world, or - much more difficultly - to a flotilla. It is instrumental to the survival of our species that we get experience in setting up off-world colonies, exploring legality, funding expeditions, and the like. In doing so, we might cut a couple thousand years off Earth's ability to sustain our life, but we'll gain billions, so that's that. Life on Earth will continue after us, likely until the energy of the Sun runs out - we'll find it hard to change that on our own.
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The Tesla in orbit is a publicity stunt - you need a heavy unimportant payload for the first flight of a rocket, to test. You don't wanna lose the rocket, _and_ lose a client's multi-billion science project, and no insurance company will go near you if you're planning it. Rocket companies generally send up something unimportant - the Saturn V's maiden voyage, Apollo IV, took with it a fake Lunar Module, the LTA-10R. In sending a Tesla into orbit, Musk has expertly crafted a giant hype machine that anyone interested in space ex, science, nerd culture, and even automobile techs, are all part of. I mean, just watch the launch broadcast. It's a professional spectacle. Here it enters the philosophical, though. Do we need to send something to Mars? In my opinion, yes. Human longevity will outlast the Earth's ability to nurture it, and we will need to migrate, as a species, to another world, or - much more difficultly - to a flotilla. It is instrumental to the survival of our species that we get experience in setting up off-world colonies, exploring legality, funding expeditions, and the like. In doing so, we might cut a couple thousand years off Earth's ability to sustain our life, but we'll gain billions, so that's that. Life on Earth will continue after us, likely until the energy of the Sun runs out - we'll find it hard to change that on our own.
and sod the carbon footprint?
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Looks like the start of "Heavy Metal".
