Live! Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket, maiden flight

[beesonthewhatnow]

Why do you think you can see the Moon?

Because the man that looks after it leaves the light on, duh.

 

[bimble]

Because the man that looks after it leaves the light on, duh.

Its a rabbit not a man, silly.

 

[gosub]

Wernher Von Braun was nice to a lot of people.

And was safer company than Jackie

Still couldn't get past the doorman of the BAe chalet at Farnborough... If you ain't got a ticket you ain't coming in (senior management were mortified)

 

[Crispy]

Does Musk do engineering or does he just have lots of money with which to pay very good engineers?

Both. He's not formally trained as an engineer, but reportedly has a voracious curiosity and capacity for soaking up knowledge, very smart and a photographic memory. Day to day, SpaceX is actually run by Gwynn Shotwell. Musk's official post is Chief Technology Officer and he has a hand in the design of all their rockets and spacecraft. But he's also hired a lot of very smart people. Head of propulsion Tom Mueller for example.

 

[gosub]

Both. He's not formally trained as an engineer, but reportedly has a voracious curiosity and capacity for soaking up knowledge, very smart and a photographic memory. Day to day, SpaceX is actually run by Gwynn Shotwell. Musk's official post is Chief Technology Officer and he has a hand in the design of all their rockets and spacecraft. But he's also hired a lot of very smart people. Head of propulsion Tom Mueller for example.

What do you think Applied physics is?
There's very few engineers who wouldn't put their physics degree down as formal training

 

[gosub]

Launching Elon Musk's car toward Mars was a backup plan — here's what SpaceX actually wanted to do with Falcon Heavy's first flight

 

[Fingers]

 

[Crispy]

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While trump is indeed a dumbass, and musk is indeed from south Africa, what he actually said was:

 

[Fingers]

While trump is indeed a dumbass, and musk is indeed from south Africa, what he actually said was:

Just double checked that myself. Shame :-(

 

[gosub]

Just double checked that myself. Shame :-(

Wants the work and needs the launch pad : (

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

While trump is indeed a dumbass, and musk is indeed from south Africa, what he actually said was:

Do people who create this endless fake shit around Trump not realise that the prick is in power because of their dicking about?

 

[Old Gergl]

Because the man that looks after it leaves the light on, duh.

Its a rabbit not a man, silly.

The rabbit's name was...

 

[tim]

Both. He's not formally trained as an engineer, but reportedly has a voracious curiosity and capacity for soaking up knowledge, very smart and a photographic memory. Day to day, SpaceX is actually run by Gwynn Shotwell. Musk's official post is Chief Technology Officer and he has a hand in the design of all their rockets and spacecraft. But he's also hired a lot of very smart people. Head of propulsion Tom Mueller for example.

Reportedly being the key word here, I don't doubt that he's an intelligent man, but he isn't Kim Jong-Il.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Do people who create this endless fake shit around Trump not realise that the prick is in power because of their dicking about?

Fake news.

 

[2hats]

An update on the eventual fate of the roadster. Numerical integration runs indicate that the orbit is roughly stable for the next few centuries, then over thousands of years it elongates as it is drawn out by Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which, as we reach tens of thousands of years, really starts to push it around. At some point (before/by hundreds of thousands to millions of years) an encounter with Jupiter will quite possibly eject it out of the solar system, the Tesla becoming a future ‘Oumuamua’, wandering interstellar space (or at least kick it out towards the Kuiper belt, into an eccentric, highly inclined, very long period orbit - tens or more thousands of years period about the Sun, instead of the current 1.6 years). In the unlikely event it doesn’t get booted out, the orbit will continue to degrade, elongate, aphelion being drawn out by Jupiter, perihelion being lowered by the Yarkovsky Effect (solar radiation induced thermal forces). Over some tens of millions of years it will spiral inwards, to become a Sun grazer, meeting vaporisation at a final encounter with our star.

 

[weltweit]

Any warranty will have long run out by then!

 

[2hats]

Any warranty will have long run out by then!

Most of it will have turned to dust within a million years.

 

[SpookyFrank]

An update on the eventual fate of the roadster. Numerical integration runs indicate that the orbit is roughly stable for the next few centuries, then over thousands of years it elongates as it is drawn out by Jupiter’s gravitational pull, which, as we reach tens of thousands of years, really starts to push it around. At some point (hundreds of thousands to millions of years) an encounter with Jupiter will quite possibly eject it out of the solar system, the Tesla becoming a future ‘Oumuamua’, wandering interstellar space (or at least kick it out towards the Kuiper belt, into an eccentric, highly inclined, very long period orbit - tens or more thousands of years period about the Sun, instead of the current 1.6 years). In the unlikely event it doesn’t get booted out, the orbit will continue to degrade, elongate, aphelion being drawn out by Jupiter, perihelion being lowered by the Yarkovsky Effect (solar radiation induced thermal forces). In some tens of millions of years it will spiral inwards, to become a Sun grazer, meeting vaporisation at a final encounter with our star.

How much damage would it do if it crashed into, for example, Swansea?

 

[2hats]

How much damage would it do if it crashed into, for example, Swansea?

You want me to do the X millions of improvements joke with you?

 

[SpookyFrank]

You want me to do the X millions of improvements joke with you?

Not really no.

 

[redsquirrel]

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That would be the Musk was a member of two of the fascist Trumps advisory committee's for nine months.

 

[Supine]

How much damage would it do if it crashed into, for example, Swansea?

None as whatever is left will burn up on entry. They don't normally fit tesla with heat shielding plates (yet).

 

[a_chap]

Most of it will have turned to dust within a million years.

Lifetime warranty on parts tho

 

[Crispy]

super cool stabilised footage of the whole thing:

 

[T & P]

super cool stabilised footage of the whole thing:

Ms T & P kept remarking how the angle at which the rocket was being shown on TV during the ascent looked wrong, and at times positively pointing downward. She had a point. I don’t remember seeing a rocket launch before that resembled a nuclear missile attack

 

[coley]

Whys the silly bugger got a steering wheel? Thought Tesla was big on autotomonous cars .. ain't going to impress any aliens it comes across

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Whys the silly bugger got a steering wheel? Thought Tesla was big on autotomonous cars .. ain't going to impress any aliens it comes across

It'll stop the body whose hands are stapled to it floating free. Well, that's what I'd do if I was a billionaire space mogul getting rid of an adversary.

 

[2hats]

Ms T & P kept remarking how the angle at which the rocket was being shown on TV during the ascent looked wrong, and at times positively pointing downward. She had a point. I don’t remember seeing a rocket launch before that resembled a nuclear missile attack

Tracking camera perspective of the gravity turn… (vertical scale below greatly exaggerated)

 

[tim]

Whys the silly bugger got a steering wheel? Thought Tesla was big on autotomonous cars .. ain't going to impress any aliens it comes across

Who knows, those aliens could be as gullible as the Muskophiles who post here

 

[NoXion]

Whys the silly bugger got a steering wheel? Thought Tesla was big on autotomonous cars .. ain't going to impress any aliens it comes across

Autonomous cars still have steering wheels: