Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
You’re still not getting it, Nuff!
Live! Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket, maiden flight
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joustmaster
offcumdun
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I think Nuff might be my grandma
nuffsaid
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You’re still not getting it, Nuff!
Sorry - I don't like the car, it feels like a dumbing down of space. Like people riding a banana boat behind Christopher Columbus. Lets actually do the hard work working stuff out before we play around with it.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
How is it dumbing anything down?
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
joustmaster
offcumdun
If they did the normal thing of just sending up some lump of metal as the test weight, would you be complaining about that?
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
I had a Ford Falcon back home, the meaty V8 with CFC air con, before they went eco . . .
** I know, nothing to do with the thread other than the Falcon, but feeling a bit rebelish at work today, and knocking off soon! **
Nice. Wasn't that the model of the car in Mad Max? My mate who lived in Aus. for several years said it was.
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
I'm fully on board with comments in the Guardian.
A more worthy payload?
Musk is not without his critics. Many wondered what the point of the expensive stunt was. Should the most powerful rocket of our age not have carried a more useful, worthy payload?
Space oddity: how Elon Musk and SpaceX sent a car towards Mars
Great science and an odd stunt.
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
How so?
He's put a rocket in space. Not new.
With a car in it and a dummy....for publicity and the lolz.
It's gone off course and is on its way into the asteroid belt..
He got to do it because he's really loaded...and good for him. He had great scientists working with him.
He also thinks he'll be able to populate Mars....well...that'll be something to write home about when / if it happens.
It does prove one thing...money can buy you practically anything you want.
It is very cool seeing a car in space...to the emotional sounds of Bowie. Its a "wow" moment.
The science and info they collect will be interesting. And yeah..it's great that someone is looking at populating Mars...... I wonder will Trump sign up to go?
joustmaster
offcumdun
I don't think you understand what a test is.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Why should anyone listen to what a Guardian journalist has to say on this subject? Their opinion is worth about as much as that of anyone else who isn't an astronomer or rocket scientist. Quite possibly less, considering the crap the Guardian comes out with.
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
Mars One
As the bronze coin they're selling says......
"THE NEXT GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND"
Bronze 2014 Coin - Mars One Webshop
Elon launches on suffragette day ....... can't think to change mankind to humankind.....
Whatever about life on Mars...it looks like Elon fancies inequality on Mars.
As the bronze coin they're selling says......
"THE NEXT GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND"
Bronze 2014 Coin - Mars One Webshop
Elon launches on suffragette day ....... can't think to change mankind to humankind.....
Whatever about life on Mars...it looks like Elon fancies inequality on Mars.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
You don't really think that the launch date was chosen because of its political significance do you? Do you know what a launch window is?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
hows mould going to respire in a vacuum
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Some spores might survive, but they'd be inactive. There's no atmosphere for either aerobic nor anaerobic respiration, there's nothing to eat, and the sunlight has lots of sterilising UV.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
This wasn't about putting a rocket into space or a car into orbit. It was a proof of concept test.
At the moment companies who need to put up satellites have a few (but not many) choices. All are hugely expensive and time consuming. Rockets are fired into space and discarded. This particular rocket can carry double the payload of its nearest rival at one third of the cost and return most of the big bits safely to Earth. This is an enormous technological achievement.
Regarding the car. They also needed to show that this particular system could lift something into space and put it into orbit. The car is about double the size and weight of the average commercial satellite. Satellites and scientific instruments, "useful stuff", that could have been put on board cost millions. This was a maiden test flight and they were half expecting it to blow-up on the launch pad. Nobody in their right mind would put anything that expensive on board. The car was simply the proof of concept. Given that Musk has spent/raised hundreds of millions on this I think he can be allowed his little bit of "whimsy" as you put it.
Oh, and this ...
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Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
It's just a coincidence....obviously.
But if Elon is going to alter Neil Armstrong's quote why not make it "humankind"?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Yeah, he should have sent men to the moon to play golf instead.
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
This wasn't about putting a rocket into space or a car into orbit. This was a proof of concept test.
At the moment companies who need to put up satellites have a few (but not many) choices. All are hugely expensive and time consuming. Rockets are fired into space and discarded. This particular rocket can carry double the payload of its nearest rival at one third of the cost and return most of the big bits safely to Earth. This is an enormous technological achievement.
Regarding the car. They also needed to show that this particular system could lift something into space and put it into orbit. The car is about double the size and weight of the average commercial satellite. Satellites and scientific instruments, "useful stuff" that could have been put on board cost millions. This was a test flight and they were half expecting it to explode on the launch pad. Nobody in their right mind would put anything that expensive onboard. The car was simply the proof of concept. Given that Musk has spent/raised hundreds of millions on this I think he can be allowed his little bit of "whimsy" as you put it.
Oh, and this ...
Yes I know it's cool and it's the biggest rocket ever. And it will carry more than anybody else.
It's the Bugatti of space rockets as opposed to the Micra that NASA has.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
I keep watching this, it just doesn't look real. Struggling to get my noggin round what I am seeing.
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
He's planning on sending the first woman to the moon
