SpaceX launch a success!

Still, its not really that exciting.

A more cost effective rocket launch, but its not like a brand new type of engine that could get us to Mars in a week.

First Space shuttle launch was 1981, back then I thought by 2018 we would be way ahead of where we are now.

We have gone backwards really

 

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Lol

 

first launch of the last thing in hell the rest of the universe needs; another stupid car. well at least its electric.
actually the launch mechanism/technology while not conceptually new for the most part, the dawn of non-government space,
something fiction about science has been looking forward to since long before sputnik.

i have mixed feelings. glad it was done. but why in the expletive expletive, an expletive car?
(i understand a personal payload instead of a contractual one, to avoid liability if anything had gone wrong. i'm just less then thrilled by the choice of it.)

 

I don't really follow developments in space exploration, so I am not clear on why this launch is significant or how it differs from anything that NASA has done in the past. Is it because Musk funded it privately?

 

The shuttle was a backward move. It was designed for nothing more than low earth orbit. It was also 2/3 larger than the original concept at the behest of the military. As a platform for deploying massive satellites, delivering groceries to space stations and spying, it was more than adequate. But it could never reach out, like to the moon.

On a more sinister note, it was really great at deploying secret military hardware. Anyone who doesn't think we have guns in the sky is deluded. The shuttle was also very reliable, even with the two deadly failures. They should have built an updated model so we could assemble deep space craft in orbit. We'd probably be on Mars by now if they had.

 

Privately and at a fraction of the cost

That's about all I know too

Well, aside from the fact that his ultimate goal is a bit different from NASA too- he wants to seed Mars and build a colony there

 

cool sonic boom .

 

That plus the reusable rocket (which I guess part of what kept the cost down).

 

I understand that it was a test flight, so they didn't want to put a pricey pay load in it, but couldn't they have put something in it that could be used for some future mission?

 

Any development in space exploration is exciting. The more (and especially diverse, not just government funded) parties invest and stimulate research and actual space missions the better.
Its just unbelievable positive from my POV that some rich investors and private enterprises give new boosts in this field. Its terribly expensive and most governments budgets aren't getting any bigger. The wallets of the filthy rich are though, so excellent if even a few of them commit and invest in this, esp. when they also have a goal and vision.

 

Y'all ready for marshrooms???

 

I'm sure there are countless scientists that would love the opportunity to launch their important projects into space. This pointless waste to launch a car and a dummy is irresponsible and absolutely disgusting.

 

I feel the same way, relaxxx, about this particular launch, but then I got mocked and insulted for begrudging people of their cell phones, baby food and whatever else and for wanting monkeys to be used instead.....

 

Musk sent a Tesla car to the asteroid belt. Now if he could just deliver the backordered ones to his customers on earth.


Worried about your Tesla Model 3 order? Don't panic — yet
Marco della Cava, USA TODAY
Published 7:01 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017 | Updated 9:45 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2017

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...tesla-model-3-order-dont-panic-yet/770100001/

 

I think Tesla was going to go under anyway

But will even faster now due to Hyundais Nexo and the inevitable copycats

I'd put money on hydrogen cars over electric ones, in fact, I have

 

I'd prefer horses and bicycles.

 

Supersonic horses.