WOW: SPACE X & A PERFECT LAUNCH!!!!!!

[Baz Ares]

Next time you think "I can't do this". You're wrong.

 

[Baz Ares]

Just COOL!

 

[Baz Ares]

So, Little Red Roadster is the fastest car in the world:
And OFF WORLD!

0-60 Speed — 2.1 seconds
0-100 Speed — 2.4 seconds
0- 10,848 Speed:— 180.13 seconds
Final Speed for Heliocentric Orbit — 26,600 km/h So FAR!

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yeah it's just fantastic that we have essentially went back 50 years in technology concerning space.
Since NASA was slashed out of existence....we instead have a $billionaire playing in space.
America has had nothing but a few L.E.O. launches the past decade.
There is nothing to be excited about here. The 2010's is a lost decade, let's hope it doesn't lead to another lost decade. But it probably will.

A bit of a cynical response ^^^ to what was amazing. But, did you watch the launch and how the two side rockets returned to the exact landing spot at nearly the same time?

that side rocket landing was pretty neat....

 

[Wry Catcher]

If we are serious about our environment, then we should already be mining H3 on the moon.
Because America dumped our space program indefinitely, it will be China. Who is well on their way to having first moon habitats by 2040, and mining for H3 by 2050 or sooner. H3 is purported to be worth 100's of $Trillions and be an enormous benefit to the environment since it is the only real chance of replacing coal and other fossil fuels.
But hey....let's ooh and ahh over a single rocket.

There is still time for our nation to once again lead the race to space. It cannot happen unless We the People elect a proactive Congress, and those members of Congress are well educated in Science and not solely in law.

We desperately need a dynamic leader in the White House, one with a wide range of knowledge, curiosity and a desire to put our planet and its people as job #1. One who is motivated to putting together the resources of our nation with the technical genius we saw today in the private sector.

And yet, last election we put up perhaps one of the most corrupt politicians in Washington, and a Real Estate Billionaire.

Sadly, some did; not all of us and not most of us.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Yeah it's just fantastic that we have essentially went back 50 years in technology concerning space.
Since NASA was slashed out of existence....we instead have a $billionaire playing in space.
America has had nothing but a few L.E.O. launches the past decade.
There is nothing to be excited about here. The 2010's is a lost decade, let's hope it doesn't lead to another lost decade. But it probably will.

A bit of a cynical response ^^^ to what was amazing. But, did you watch the launch and how the two side rockets returned to the exact landing spot at nearly the same time?

Yay! And this is what we have accomplished in the past 30 years? The ability to make reusable launch rockets?
It is not cynical. It is true.
We gave up our space program. A program that, if remained active and funded, we would most likely by now be planning the first habitats on the moon and reaping $trillions of revenue from a super clean energy source.
Just how concerned are we about global warming when the best, most realistic source of clean energy stares down on us every single night and we are doing absolutely nothing to get it. But, China is.

Yay! And this is what we have accomplished in the past 30 years? The ability to make reusable launch rockets?
It is not cynical. It is true.


sad but true

 

[Wry Catcher]

Yeah it's just fantastic that we have essentially went back 50 years in technology concerning space.
Since NASA was slashed out of existence....we instead have a $billionaire playing in space.
America has had nothing but a few L.E.O. launches the past decade.
There is nothing to be excited about here. The 2010's is a lost decade, let's hope it doesn't lead to another lost decade. But it probably will.

A bit of a cynical response ^^^ to what was amazing. But, did you watch the launch and how the two side rockets returned to the exact landing spot at nearly the same time?

that side rocket landing was pretty neat....

Yep! It looked as if it was from a Science Fiction Movie. If an only if we set our eyes (as a nation) on the stars, and not spending so much money on defense, we would be much safer and respected.

 

[westwall]

If we are serious about our environment, then we should already be mining H3 on the moon.
Because America dumped our space program indefinitely, it will be China. Who is well on their way to having first moon habitats by 2040, and mining for H3 by 2050 or sooner. H3 is purported to be worth 100's of $Trillions and be an enormous benefit to the environment since it is the only real chance of replacing coal and other fossil fuels.
But hey....let's ooh and ahh over a single rocket.

There is still time for our nation to once again lead the race to space. It cannot happen unless We the People elect a proactive Congress, and those members of Congress are well educated in Science and not solely in law (or in keeping their own job).

We desperately need a dynamic leader in the White House, one with a wide range of knowledge, curiosity and a desire to put our planet and its people as job #1. One who is motivated to putting together the resources of our nation with the technical genius we saw today in the private sector.

You forget, it was obama that killed the Space Shuttle system years before they were due to be retired. That set the space program back decades.

 

[Wry Catcher]

It was a nice launch, very awesome for the private sector.

The Falcon Heavy though, still doesn't have the thrust of a Saturn V that first came in to service over 50 years ago.

I think Elon rocket spec's out better. As half the size.

Let's look at the basic statistics. The Falcon Heavy stands 230 ft (70 m) tall, its core has a diameter of 12 ft (3.66 m), and when fully assembled with its side boosters is 40 ft (12.2 m) wide and weighs 3,132,301 lb (1,420,788 kg). The Saturn V with its three stages in place, tops out at 363 ft (110.6 m) tall, has a diameter of 33 ft (10.1 m), and tips the scales at 6,540,000 lb (2,970,000 kg).

On the other hand, the two-stage Falcon Heavy has nine Merlin 1D main engines in each of its first stage elements burning supercooled liquid oxygen and kerosene to produce 5,548,500 lb of thrust. Then the second stage takes over with its single Merlin 1D engine to punch 210,000 lb of thrust

That's remarkable when compared to the Atlas and Ariane rockets of today, but now let's look at the Saturn V. Its S-IC first stage has five Rocketdyne F1engines that, when set loose, generate a staggering 7,610,000 lb of thrust as it burns kerosene and liquid oxygen.
Falcon Heavy vs. the classic Saturn V

No question it's a big leap in technology. However what is always fascinating to me is the technology and the speed of the technolgy that went into the Saturn V when you consider it was over 50 years ago.
In fact when you consider the pathetic pace of todays space achievments, it is absolutely mind blowing to realize that in just a space of 8 fucking years we went from a mere sub-orbital flight to putting men on the moon.

We went from Kitty Hawk to the Moon in 66 years, less than the average life span of our species. Sadly our species has fought too many wars in that short span of time, at a cost of blood and treasure way beyond the cost of going to Mars and putting a colony on the moon.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yeah it's just fantastic that we have essentially went back 50 years in technology concerning space.
Since NASA was slashed out of existence....we instead have a $billionaire playing in space.
America has had nothing but a few L.E.O. launches the past decade.
There is nothing to be excited about here. The 2010's is a lost decade, let's hope it doesn't lead to another lost decade. But it probably will.

A bit of a cynical response ^^^ to what was amazing. But, did you watch the launch and how the two side rockets returned to the exact landing spot at nearly the same time?

that side rocket landing was pretty neat....

Yep! It looked as if it was from a Science Fiction Movie. If an only if we set our eyes (as a nation) on the stars, and not spending so much money on defense, we would be much safer and respected.

i dont know if that will ever happen Wry....i dont know why the all the countries with a space program dont team up and get there together instead of everyone competing with each other......

 

[Baz Ares]

Yeah it's just fantastic that we have essentially went back 50 years in technology concerning space.
Since NASA was slashed out of existence....we instead have a $billionaire playing in space.
America has had nothing but a few L.E.O. launches the past decade.
There is nothing to be excited about here. The 2010's is a lost decade, let's hope it doesn't lead to another lost decade. But it probably will.

A bit of a cynical response ^^^ to what was amazing. But, did you watch the launch and how the two side rockets returned to the exact landing spot at nearly the same time?

Yay! And this is what we have accomplished in the past 30 years? The ability to make reusable launch rockets?
It is not cynical. It is true.
We gave up our space program. A program that, if remained active and funded, we would most likely by now be planning the first habitats on the moon and reaping $trillions of revenue from a super clean energy source.
Just how concerned are we about global warming when the best, most realistic source of clean energy stares down on us every single night and we are doing absolutely nothing to get it. But, China is.

Yay! And this is what we have accomplished in the past 30 years? The ability to make reusable launch rockets?
It is not cynical. It is true.


sad but true

Really, Why so hard on the Private Sector? We have LAWS!



On 5 November 1990, United States President George H. W. Bush signed into law the Launch Services Purchase Act.[21] The Act, in a complete reversal of the earlier Space Shuttle monopoly, ordered NASA to purchase launch services for its primary payloads from commercial providers whenever such services are required in the course of its activities.

Commercial launches outnumbered government launches at the Eastern Range in 1997.[22]

The Commercial Space Act was passed in 1998 and implements many of the provisions of the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990.[23]

Nonetheless, until 2004 NASA kept private space flight effectively illegal.[24] But that year, the Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act of 2004 required that NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration legalize private space flight.[25] The 2004 Act also specified a "learning period" which restricted the ability of the FAA to enact regulations regarding the safety of people who might actually fly on commercial spacecraft through 2012, ostensibly because spaceflight participants would share the risk of flight through informed consent procedures of human spaceflight risks, while requiring the launch provider to be legally liable for potential losses to uninvolved persons and structures.[26]

To the end of 2014, commercial passenger flights in space has remained effectively illegal, as the FAA has refused to give a commercial operator's license to any private space company.[27]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_spaceflight

 

[Baz Ares]

It was a nice launch, very awesome for the private sector.

The Falcon Heavy though, still doesn't have the thrust of a Saturn V that first came in to service over 50 years ago.

I think Elon rocket spec's out better. As half the size.

Let's look at the basic statistics. The Falcon Heavy stands 230 ft (70 m) tall, its core has a diameter of 12 ft (3.66 m), and when fully assembled with its side boosters is 40 ft (12.2 m) wide and weighs 3,132,301 lb (1,420,788 kg). The Saturn V with its three stages in place, tops out at 363 ft (110.6 m) tall, has a diameter of 33 ft (10.1 m), and tips the scales at 6,540,000 lb (2,970,000 kg).

On the other hand, the two-stage Falcon Heavy has nine Merlin 1D main engines in each of its first stage elements burning supercooled liquid oxygen and kerosene to produce 5,548,500 lb of thrust. Then the second stage takes over with its single Merlin 1D engine to punch 210,000 lb of thrust

That's remarkable when compared to the Atlas and Ariane rockets of today, but now let's look at the Saturn V. Its S-IC first stage has five Rocketdyne F1engines that, when set loose, generate a staggering 7,610,000 lb of thrust as it burns kerosene and liquid oxygen.
Falcon Heavy vs. the classic Saturn V

No question it's a big leap in technology. However what is always fascinating to me is the technology and the speed of the technolgy that went into the Saturn V when you consider it was over 50 years ago.
In fact when you consider the pathetic pace of todays space achievments, it is absolutely mind blowing to realize that in just a space of 8 fucking years we went from a mere sub-orbital flight to putting men on the moon.

We went from Kitty Hawk to the Moon in 66 years, less than the average life span of our species. Sadly our species has fought too many wars in that short span of time, at a cost of blood and treasure way beyond the cost of going to Mars and putting a colony on the moon.

Did not WWII get us to the Moon?
By allowing Germans to by-pass normal immigration laws?
I would call these Germans some of the First Covert WWII Immigrants in America.

 

[HenryBHough]

Let's see what's the push-back when Musk's toy orbital car collides with and destroys a Chinese satellite.

 

[MindWars]

 

[Baz Ares]

Let's see what's the push-back when Musk's toy orbital car collides with and destroys a Chinese satellite.

They filed a flight plan with NASA. All good

 

[Baz Ares]

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said at a press event for the just-launched Falcon Heavy that SpaceX will now begin focusing in earnest on ‘BFR,’ the code name for its next big space launch vehicle. BFR (aka ‘Big Fucking Rocket’ in case you lack imagination) will be designed to be a vehicle capable of using a single stage to make it all the way to orbit, with fully loaded tanks.

 

[Baz Ares]

Funny...

 

[Wry Catcher]

If we are serious about our environment, then we should already be mining H3 on the moon.
Because America dumped our space program indefinitely, it will be China. Who is well on their way to having first moon habitats by 2040, and mining for H3 by 2050 or sooner. H3 is purported to be worth 100's of $Trillions and be an enormous benefit to the environment since it is the only real chance of replacing coal and other fossil fuels.
But hey....let's ooh and ahh over a single rocket.

There is still time for our nation to once again lead the race to space. It cannot happen unless We the People elect a proactive Congress, and those members of Congress are well educated in Science and not solely in law (or in keeping their own job).

We desperately need a dynamic leader in the White House, one with a wide range of knowledge, curiosity and a desire to put our planet and its people as job #1. One who is motivated to putting together the resources of our nation with the technical genius we saw today in the private sector.

You forget, it was obama that killed the Space Shuttle system years before they were due to be retired. That set the space program back decades.

How do you figure it set us back decades? The fleet was old and the technology for the future required larger rockets with more payload if we were get to the Moon and establish a base for further exploration - to Mars and the Asteroid Belt.

 

[Wyatt earp]

it was incredible! just awesome!

I didn't watch it but I am impressed how much vision and tax payer money musk can do ...

He is another Trump Jr.

 

[Old Rocks]

Let's see what's the push-back when Musk's toy orbital car collides with and destroys a Chinese satellite.

Now that is just fucking stupid. That Roadster is in Heliocentric orbit, the Chinese satellites are in Earth orbit.