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re: Serious Question: Would anyone here fly on a SpaceX rocket?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:14 am to Lonnie Utah
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:14 am to Lonnie Utah
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Would anyone here fly on a SpaceX rocket?
On the inside or outside?
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:20 am to DWaginHTown
Yes Like W&J I'm gay for space
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:23 am to Lonnie Utah
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SpaceX and every other space flight orgnizaton has the fortune of being able to learn from Nasa's hard earned lessons...
Hasn’t nasa lost a lot of the knowledge they used during the moon landings?
Forbes
What exactly is Elon piggybacking on from them if they lost the knowledge?
This post was edited on 3/7/25 at 6:28 am
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:26 am to Lonnie Utah
I would do it if I was young. Doubt they let old people like me fly on a rocket.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:44 am to Havoc
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You sound like a dumb frick.
Yeah, I'm the dumb frick that builds and programs his own flight data computers with GPS tracking to record the flight data of my own rockets and transmits it back to a remote base station....
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This post was edited on 3/7/25 at 7:54 am
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:45 am to Lonnie Utah
Liberals are idiots.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:54 am to Proximo
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Hasn’t nasa lost a lot of the knowledge they used during the moon landings?
The argument laid out above by Forbes is a bad premise. First off, today we wouldn't go to the moon on a machine as primitive as the Saturn V. In the early days, pretty much every Nasa rocket was built by hand. While we still have the blueprints for the Saturn V, what we've lost is the intuitional knowledge of the guy that milled the part, soldered the electronics or assembled everything. However, that's not how we manufacture things anymore, so it's a bit of apples vs oranges argument. With the advent of robots, 3d printers and CNC machines things are not manufactured or assembled like they used to be. So while the statements are true, they really don't apply.
The things I was specifically talking about were hatch doors that swing outwards, high oxygen environments for space capsules and not routing electrical cables by combustibles. While they seem like common sense to us, those were the sorts of things that cost lives or almost cost lives in the early days of the space program.
Again, I'm not saying the "fail fast" engineering approach is wrong, I'm just saying it seems a curious choice to me. But for the most part, I'm, cautious/coservative in my decision making and naturally risk averse.
This post was edited on 3/7/25 at 6:58 am
Posted on 3/7/25 at 6:54 am to Gaston
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Liberals are idiots.
Yeah, that's why I voted for Trump and bought the kid a MAGA hat for Christmas...
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:00 am to nola tiger lsu
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No you wont
Nonsense. A trip currently costs about $250k. I’m willing to spend $100k on it if need be. I have, hopefully, about three decades of health left. I’ll be shocked if, during that time span, you can’t buy a ticket for a few hours in space for $25k-$50k.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:03 am to Lonnie Utah
I'd do it.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:12 am to Lonnie Utah
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Serious Question: Would anyone here fly on a SpaceX rocket?
Sure. I would love the chance to blast off and orbit the Earth for a while.
But I sure as hell wouldn’t want to try to go to Mars or something like that. That just reeks of slow death.
I guess the better question considering yesterday’s launch and the previous one is would you knowingly book a flight that passes through Miami on a day when a SpaceX launch is planned. That seems like a pretty reliable risk.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:12 am to Lonnie Utah
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bought the kid a MAGA hat
Where does one find that?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 7:31 am to Gaston
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quote:bought the kid a MAGA hat
Where does one find that?
Most days, on his head...
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:42 am to llfshoals
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At my age, no just not in good enough condition.
I'd do anything to go to space. The older I get, the easier that decision will become. If I go and die at 70, let's say, its certainly better than dying at my current age of 50. As long as my eyes and brain are still working, I don't need to be a physical specimen to sit in a rocket and experience the ride and view. I'll pay a good bit to experience it, so I hope in 20 years, it becomes a reality.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:45 am to Lonnie Utah
I'd fly on the ones with the Dragon capsule he regularly sends crewed to the ISS. I would not get on Starship though. Not yet anyway.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:50 am to Lonnie Utah
to the OP - what rocket WOULD you fly on? The Crew Dragon seems to operate pretty well on a Falcon 9.
Why are you showing unmanned experimental rockets as examples? I mean, I know why you are doing it, but share with the class.
Who else is sending humans into actual space? And I'm not counting the Amazon penis rocket.
Why are you showing unmanned experimental rockets as examples? I mean, I know why you are doing it, but share with the class.
Who else is sending humans into actual space? And I'm not counting the Amazon penis rocket.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:53 am to Lonnie Utah
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But it also puzzles me that he has so much money that SpaceX's mode of operation is to simply build things to fail.
This is why he's worth hundreds of billions and you lease a Toyota Corolla.
Blue Origin tried the prove it first theory, and they just laid off 1000 plus people. All they can do is launch celebrities into "space," or about as high as you could go in a high altitude balloon if you prefer.
NASA tried it with Artemis, and that program is headed for the scrapheap, they have wasted a decade for nothing.
Boeing is a shell of their former self.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 9:59 am to MoarKilometers
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Has a lower launch success rate than the delta 2, and has never delivered a payload to another planet.
Check your math, but also... why isn't Delta 2 dominating space flight then?
Does the moon count? There's an actual live moon lander that hitched a ride on SpaceX.
ULA has a 100% success rate, but what good is it when you launch 4 times vs Space X launching 138 times?
How are we even arguing this?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:02 am to concrete_tiger
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This is why he's worth hundreds of billions and you lease a Toyota Corolla.
Blue Origin tried the prove it first theory, and they just laid off 1000 plus people. All they can do is launch celebrities into "space," or about as high as you could go in a high altitude balloon if you prefer.
NASA tried it with Artemis, and that program is headed for the scrapheap, they have wasted a decade for nothing.
Boeing is a shell of their former self.
Immature shot at the beginning of the post aside, This is the type of discussion that I was looking for. But all it does it point to the failure of other companies/organizations. It doesn't really highlight the merits of "Fast fail engineering". For Blue origin and Boeing, you have a point. But Nasa's human space flight program is another animal and I'm not sure it's fair to compare the two.
Let me ask this question: If NASA was run like SpaceX, and exploded rockets almost every time they sent them up, how you would feel as a taxpayer? It's easy to support SpaceX's engineering approach when it's not our money, but what if it was? I get that failure is part of engineering, but epic and spectacular fails every flight? Is it really the best engineering pathway?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 10:03 am to concrete_tiger
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ULA has a 100% success rate, but what good is it when you launch 4 times vs Space X launching 138 times?
That's a good question.
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