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WoundedKnee said:
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.
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Why you gotta be an asshole about everything?
 
Colonel Hogan said:
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:
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You mean Félix du Temple de la Croix. Unless you're so fucking old that you can't tell the difference between an apple and an orange anymore.
 
Hey dimbulb

NOT EVEN CLOSE
Christ, you're gullible (and not real bright).
How the fuck do you think they get that liquid oxygen?

Where the fuck do you think they get the electricity for those ginchy Teslas?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:​

William_James said:
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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Colonel Hogan said:
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:
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I won't get into the flap over who flew first in what. I'll note that the Wright Flier aircraft killed ~80% of those who ever flew one, including Wilbur. Yes, they pioneered suicidal powered flight, almost the Kevorkians of their era. Autogyros are much safer. Juan de la Cierva is a hero.

ObTopic: Musk's private-enterprise achievement is built on decades of costly gov't research and engineering in many countries. He can choose to launch whatever he wishes, but an orbital brothel might attract the wrong attention.
 
That was fucking amazing. "And the falcons have landed". My mind is blown.
 
RoryN said:
All posturing and opinion thereto aside, just appreciate that there's an automobile in space with "DON'T PANIC" on the dashboard, with its windshield overlooking the planet Earth right now. And you can see it on live webcam. :cool:
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Nice that he’s able to indulge his any whim.
Well, any whim other than waking up next to amber heard.
 
Hypoxia said:
I won't get into the flap over who flew first in what. I'll note that the Wright Flier aircraft killed ~80% of those who ever flew one, including Wilbur. Yes, they pioneered suicidal powered flight, almost the Kevorkians of their era. Autogyros are much safer. Juan de la Cierva is a hero.

ObTopic: Musk's private-enterprise achievement is built on decades of costly gov't research and engineering in many countries. He can choose to launch whatever he wishes, but an orbital brothel might attract the wrong attention.
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Yeah, and de la Cierva died in a crash of a DC-2, so I suppose you might want to smear the name of Douglas Aircraft while you're at it.

And none of this was the point. The point was Islandman's absurd disparagement of any innovator's contribution to scientific or technological advancement for the mere act of standing on the shoulders of prior contributors.

Shall we dis Einstein for not discovering gravity?
 
Hypoxia said:
I won't get into the flap over who flew first in what. I'll note that the Wright Flier aircraft killed ~80% of those who ever flew one, including Wilbur. Yes, they pioneered suicidal powered flight, almost the Kevorkians of their era. Autogyros are much safer. Juan de la Cierva is a hero.

ObTopic: Musk's private-enterprise achievement is built on decades of costly gov't research and engineering in many countries. He can choose to launch whatever he wishes, but an orbital brothel might attract the wrong attention.
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"You didn't build that..." :rolleyes:
 
Colonel Hogan said:
Shall we dis Einstein for not discovering gravity?
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I didn't know I was dissing anyone except maybe Kevorkian. And, funny you should mention gravity. I just wrote in another thread:
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Nobody knows how it works. Newton hated gravity as "action at a distance", woo-woo stuff. Other forces have particles but nobody's found gravitons. It's piteously weak as a force but holds the universe together, and us to Earth. It doesn't work at subatomic scales. Elsewhere, its numbers work perfectly.

Nuclear and quantum physicists can't talk to each other because gravity. I have a book: GRAVITY IS A PUSH. And a poster: THERE IS NO GRAVITY, THE WORLD SUCKS. Both make as much sense as the varied hypotheses floating around. Gravity isn't even a theory but try jumping off a building to test it. Even my cat knew better than that. YMMV.

Without grokking gravity, we can't have antigravity. Without antigravity, we'll have to use those nasty, polluting rockets to get off the planet before the next extinction-level asteroid strike. What a pickle.
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Yeah, building and launching big fucking rockets is great. Doing so on a profitable commercial basis is great. But Earth-launched rockets can't sustain much in the way of space industry and exploitation. We need cheaper ways out of Earth's gravity well. And we need ways to drag asteroids around. Bring the mountain to Mohammad, as it were.
 
Colonel Hogan said:
Yeah, and de la Cierva died in a crash of a DC-2, so I suppose you might want to smear the name of Douglas Aircraft while you're at it.

And none of this was the point. The point was Islandman's absurd disparagement of any innovator's contribution to scientific or technological advancement for the mere act of standing on the shoulders of prior contributors.

Shall we dis Einstein for not discovering gravity?
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"for the mere act".........you're clearly better at absurd disparagement that me.

Musk build a better rocket, he did not invent a new form of propulsion. Why does this simple concept escape you?
 
trysail said:
Hey dimbulb

NOT EVEN CLOSE
Christ, you're gullible (and not real bright).
How the fuck do you think they get that liquid oxygen?

Where the fuck do you think they get the electricity for those ginchy Teslas?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:​
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When shown his "point" is irrelevant, the dimbulb tryfail moves the goalposts. Maybe next time he'll do his own Google search, first. :D
 
Evidently Musk's Roadster has overshot its mark and is headed towards the asteroid belt with a collision with Ceres possible.

I wonder if the airbags will deploy ahead of impact.
 
Totally proves the point that only a dummy tries to drive a Tesla in space.
 
islandman said:
"for the mere act".........you're clearly better at absurd disparagement that me.

Musk build a better rocket, he did not invent a new form of propulsion. Why does this simple concept escape you?
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It didn't escape me nor am I aware of anyone who has suggested that Musk invented a new form of propulsion. A better rocket, especially one of that size, seems to me to be worthy of the praise the company is being given and the euphoria of those who brought the project to fruition in the time frame they have.

Apparently not to you.
 
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