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Falcon Heavy launch.

Thanks for posting... that was very cool.

They made that look so easy and had fun doing it.
 
Huh. It's amazing sorta* private enterprise has basically surpassed now in an instant (relatively speaking) what it took bureaucratic statist govt decades to reach. Even more amazing are all the anti-privatization socialists NOW completely unable to resist exalting in privatization's practical results when they've always denounced even the suggestion of it before.

* due to so very much of Elon Musk's entire fortune today (and thus all his "private" enterprises) being attributed to American taxpayer $$
 
That gave me chills. Multiple times. Just... breathtaking.
 
One has to wonder how long Musk's crew would have taken if they had to invent modern rocketry instead of just applying to modern materials and with modern tools.
 
Keeping living things and people alive through a rocket flight is an order of magnitude more difficult.
 
BobBalouski said:
Huh. It's amazing sorta* private enterprise has basically surpassed now in an instant (relatively speaking) what it took bureaucratic statist govt decades to reach. Even more amazing are all the anti-privatization socialists NOW completely unable to resist exalting in privatization's practical results when they've always denounced even the suggestion of it before.

* due to so very much of Elon Musk's entire fortune today (and thus all his "private" enterprises) being attributed to American taxpayer $$
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Where was it launched from, Eeyore?
 
phrodeau said:
Keeping living things and people alive through a rocket flight is an order of magnitude more difficult.
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"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," said Werner von Braun.
--T.Lehrer

Oh wait, wrong paradigm. Launching-em alive is no problem. Bringing-em back alive is the challenge. So is keeping-em alive in between. We don't want spam in a can, nor vacuum-dried space tourists. Bad for business.

Where will anyone go? When will the L3 Hilton offer zero-G sex excursions? We'll know private enterprise has its claws in the space business when orbits become boring. Will you take a Carnival Cruise to Phobos? With all those fat retirees and screaming kids? Ewww...
 


How much supposedly dangerous "climate altering" greenhouse gases were emitted in this little fossil-fueled orgy ?



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Hypoxia said:
"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," said Werner von Braun.
--T.Lehrer

Oh wait, wrong paradigm. Launching-em alive is no problem. Bringing-em back alive is the challenge. So is keeping-em alive in between. We don't want spam in a can, nor vacuum-dried space tourists. Bad for business.

Where will anyone go? When will the L3 Hilton offer zero-G sex excursions? We'll know private enterprise has its claws in the space business when orbits become boring. Will you take a Carnival Cruise to Phobos? With all those fat retirees and screaming kids? Ewww...
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http://moontruth.org/trump/2001SpaceStationTrump.jpg
 
DesEsseintes said:
It's a magic trick called empathy, Eyer, which gives insight into how other people think. But you have to have some people skills and ideally some friends.
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As soon as you finish fantasizing you're Musk's alt, feel equally as free to shove your wannabe "empathy" up your baby killer-championing ass. How's that for "people skills", comrade?

:D
 
islandman said:
One has to wonder how long Musk's crew would have taken if they had to invent modern rocketry instead of just applying to modern materials and with modern tools.
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Gee, I don't know. I wonder how long it would have taken the Wright brothers to fly a plane if they had started before George Bissel and Edwin Drake had struck oil in Titusville, PA or Henry Bessemer had figured out how to mass produce steel from pig iron?

What a stupid question. :rolleyes:
 
They sent a Tesla into space for a long-term journey. When the aliens intercept it and examine it, I think that coming to the conclusion that we are a very stupid race just might be appropriate.
 
trysail said:


How much supposedly dangerous "climate altering" greenhouse gases were emitted in this little fossil-fueled orgy ?



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Here ya go, doofus. Next time try doing a Google search on your own. :rolleyes:

SpaceX emissions:
The Falcon 9 uses two propellants, liquid oxygen (O2, no carbon here) and Kerosene a petrol chemical containing between 6 and 16 carbon atoms per molecule.
The Falcon 9 burns through 29,600 gallons of highly refined kerosene during its trip to orbit. The vehicle takes about 12 trips to orbit a year so that's about 360,000 gallons of kerosene a year burned in spaceflight. That converts to 2,460,600 pounds of kerosene burnt in a year of Falcon 9 launches. Since I enjoy the metric system, that is 1,116,000 kg of kerosene. Kerosene produces approximately 2.6kg of CO2 per kg of Kerosene burned. Basic arithmetic says that the rocket produces 2,902,000 kg of carbon dioxide during a year of SpaceX activities. Global Carbon Emissions 2014 3.23 x 10^13 total from SpaceX 2.902 x 10^6. This means that SpaceX is responsible for 9 one billionths of annual carbon emissions. This is not a significant amount.

https://www.quora.com/When-Elon-Mus...-he-is-trying-to-reduce-through-electric-cars
 
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