SpaceX launch a success!

I watched it, I didn't really know the background details but it seems like some interesting exploration on the horizon.

 

He seemed to have abandoned the Tesla company itself though.

Some strange stuff going on.

 

Its still a ridiculous cost though.

$90 million per launch for 70 tonnes, thats about 3 cement trucks. Better than anything nasa previuosly had.

But still nowhere near commercially viable for anything.

You'd have to get that down to under $5million for 70 tonnes

 

He's too intelligent to just make a car. He wants bigger things for man.

 

It was freakin brilliant. I fkin LOVE the 21st century.

 

Welllllll, the fuel was kerosene, so.....................

 

great another junk car in space.

 

Faaaake.

 

Elon Musk is an interesting fella

 

When I heard of this, it bothered me. What is the point?....and why do we need a telsa to orbit forever? for what reason?
I am for space exploration and things of that nature, but this seems rather pointless to me. There are enough threats of things from outer space hitting the earth and wiping us out, and the more crap we launch shit up there for no good reason.....the more we are garbaging the heavens....and who is to say....these things won't fall on someone's head someday?

 

Well, you call him a visionary.

I'd say he is the biggest con artist on the planet at the moment

 

.....or, he knows there is no way to get self driving cars to work, and he bails before everyone is like "hey, wheres my friggin money?"

 

you are missing the point...this was a test...they have to send something out as a test of the system so why no a car?....you should be happy we don't send monkeys anymore that get euthanized up in space before they too orbit forever.......you have a cellphone at the very least...it has an invisible beam straight up to one of those satelites every time you turn it on....how do you think they figured that shit out?......did you want them to stop testing once your phone was working because moonbeam didn't need a biggier satellite?

i usully do not get excited over space shit but the launch was truly mesmerizing

 

I watched the YouTube of the falcon lift off and it was awesome.

Elon Musk and I are close in age. I know when he was growing up he had a dream. That car idea was planted by a movie intro. Imo, He woke up one day and said " I'm going to make that car in space happen irl"
Elon got it visually almost perfect to the movie. Aside from different car and landing.

Heavy Metal 1981

 

https://www.cars.com/articles/2013/11/how-quickly-does-the-tesla-model-s-battery-charge/ and Electric Cars--How Much Does It Cost per Charge?

I guess it's much cheaper to drive a Tesla. They need to make more places to charge up. Like every gas station. It presently costs me about $3.00+ to buy a gallon of gas. According to Scientific American it's approximately $.75 of charge for the same amount of mileage as a gas powered engine.

EDIT: Considering the amount of time it takes to charge (about an hour for a full charge with a range of 300 miles) I can just imagine getting to a gas station and there being a couple people already charging their ev's.

 

Is she really missing the point?

The launch is on youtube, it was pretty bizarre, Nikelodean like presenters, at the end there was a red sports car with a mannequin in space, a hitchers guide to the galaxy Dont Panic sign on the dash. Rocket part was cool, some very high def cameras, but it was weird

This test was a success, but what is he going to send where next time, and how often

I dont see a viable business model, how is he going to keep all those people on the payroll if no one wants to send anything anywhere often enough

50 years since the moon landings next year, and in 2018 this is where we are?