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re: SpaceX to fly passengers on trip around moon in 2018
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:10 pm to LSUAlum2001
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:10 pm to LSUAlum2001
First one will burn up, and this will end.
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Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:14 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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kind of like when a deer jumps out in front of your car.
ain't no pussy deer hurting my truck.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:14 pm to kywildcatfanone
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First one will burn up, and this will end.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:14 pm to kywildcatfanone
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First one will burn up, and this will end.
That's the kind of optimism we're looking for!
EDIT: Also, the first three Apollo astronauts literally burned to death on the launch pad and it didn't stop us from fixing it and moving forward. People died early and often when airplanes first came around and now you can be anywhere on the planet with 400 of your closest friends in under 24 hours. Shipwrecks have been a fear of sailors since the first one left the beach and now we have floating cities of 5,000 people that travel the seas. Disasters will happen. They won't stop progress, though.
This post was edited on 2/27/17 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:15 pm to NYNolaguy1
Go ahead and count these two souls in the lost category for 2018
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:17 pm to Vegas Eddie
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Go ahead and count these two souls in the lost category for 2018
I bet bill paxton would like his body to be a test pilot
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:19 pm to LSUAlum2001
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If it can avoid the two large-arse objects in its nearest vicinity, you should be good to go until you land.
I think it's a little bit more complicated than just not running into the moon or earth (though those things are definitely among the risks).
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:21 pm to Chucktown_Badger
I'd be more worried about somehow leaving orbit and just heading off into nothingness. Knowing I'm going to run out of air/food/water within days would be far worse
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:34 pm to Chucktown_Badger
quote:From an automation stand point, navigating to the moon and back is significantly easier than navigating city traffic. The former is just a matter of mathematics, while the latter involves thousands of unpredictable fools getting in the way of mathematics.
I think it's a little bit more complicated than just not running into the moon or earth (though those things are definitely among the risks).
This post was edited on 2/27/17 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:34 pm to Chucktown_Badger
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I want to be damn sure that guy isn't going to lose his damn mind.
Day 4
Posted on 2/27/17 at 5:56 pm to NYNolaguy1
I'd go with specifically one of these ladies, to level the score a bit-
(HINT: NOT 2 or 3)
(HINT: NOT 2 or 3)
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:01 pm to NYNolaguy1
Now we get to watch all the liberal snowflakes melt, this will be glorious.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:17 pm to Asharad
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The former is just a matter of mathematics, while the latter involves thousands of unpredictable fools getting in the way of mathematics.
So there's not really any unpredictable things that can happen with a rocket launch, in the vacuum of space on a trip around the moon, and reentering the atmosphere without destroying the ship? I think I might be missing the metaphor, because the number of catastrophes (as a percentage) in space flight are exponentially more than accidents that occur between cars.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:46 pm to NYNolaguy1
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Musk said the company would launch its Dragon 2 spacecraft on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket and that the two passengers would be flying solo, without the assistance of professional astronauts. Dragon 2, he said, is designed as an autonomous vehicle.
IOW, he's asking for chimps.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:52 pm to NYNolaguy1
Excellent. If you made the Earth the size of a basketball, then the Moon relative to scale would be 30 feet across the room. Since 1972 you know how far we've gone from that globe: 3/8 of an inch. That is fricking embarrassing.
But this is what I'm talking about. An actual date instead of 30 year bullshite which every President since Nixon has said. I'd rather Elon actually eventually do a Moon Landing on the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11. This is before that, so I'm guessing that could still be on the table.
But this is what I'm talking about. An actual date instead of 30 year bullshite which every President since Nixon has said. I'd rather Elon actually eventually do a Moon Landing on the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11. This is before that, so I'm guessing that could still be on the table.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:59 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Also, the first three Apollo astronauts literally burned to death on the launch pad and it didn't stop us from fixing it and moving forward
That was back before we became a country of zero-tolerance pussies.
If something goes wrong and those passengers end up dead, the pressure on Musk will be enormous.
Luckily, he is stubborn enough to tell the collective outcry to go frick itself.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 7:01 pm to Broke
Yep. I admire fearless pioneers, but I'm more of a fearless vacationer kind of guy.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 7:44 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Also, the first three Apollo astronauts literally burned to death on the launch pad and it didn't stop us from fixing it and moving forward.
Firstly, they didn't burn to death. They were asphyxiated by the smoke. They also died after 16 successful manned launches that equated to almost 2,000 hours in space.
Elon Musk is trying to run before he can crawl. He hasn't even put a man in space yet. Now he wants to send passengers to the moon by the end of next year.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 7:53 pm to RollTide1987
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Firstly, they didn't burn to death. They were asphyxiated by the smoke. They also died after 16 successful manned launches that equated to almost 2,000 hours in space.
But that's still a pretty high percentage of putting your life on the line. 1/16 is a terrifying stat when you are the one being exposed to it. That's a 6% chance of getting killed. You like those odds when you're in Vegas, but not when your life is on the line. Russian Roulette at minimum has a 16% chance of getting killed for perspective.
This post was edited on 2/27/17 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 7:58 pm to OMLandshark
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You like those odds when your in Vegas
shite no son. Blackjack doesn't come close to those horrible odds
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