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Posted: 13:53 - 08 Feb 2018 Post subject: |
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I don't believe in science
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no matter about stage 3 it was never meant to be reused
I think he just gave a big fuck you to NASA and pointed the way forward
but hats off for the launch and the dual touchdown
did what he said he'd do
may have overshot but it was a test launch ____________________ I have become comfortably numb
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Quote: | A flat-earther who witnessed this week’s SpaceX launch says it was a hoax – and that Elon Musk has been ‘groomed’ to help fool people into thinking intergalactic travel is possible.
Justin Harvey, 30, saw the rocket take off from his home in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday but is convinced the craft ended up landing in the Atlantic Ocean.
He thinks the launch, and other space exploration, is an elaborate hoax to distract people from the existence of other lands beyond an ‘ice ring’ that surrounds Earth at the North and South poles.
Justin told Metro US: ‘I thought, there’s another typical rocket launch, I’ve seen plenty of them.
‘I didn’t think too much of it.
I personally don’t believe in space travel, so I thought it was humorous at first, and then I was anxious to see the videos later, and see how real it looked
‘Even Elon himself claimed that it didn’t look very real
‘Most of the time the rockets do a parabolic curve, over to the Atlantic ocean, and they’re most likely retrieved out of the water.
‘They always go over and out, because what goes up must come down, and there is no outer space.’ |
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oldpink wrote: |
I think he just gave a big fuck you to NASA and pointed the way forward
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Erm I wouldn't call it a fuck you, I'd call it a "Hey look I have enough funding to try all the stuff taxpayers don't want to pay for."
And as far as successes go, the only thing they did was managed to land the rockets back on Earth. Space X already admitted they failed at achieving the Mars orbit, which is very bloody important if their aim is to send people in that direction later.
Meanwhile NASA and the ESA managed this with the Cassini mission 21 years ago
https://www2.mps.mpg.de/images/projekte/cassini/trajectory.jpg
after which the probe orbited Saturn for 12 years, before being told to dump itself into Saturn's atmosphere, all as planned, and not before deploying the Huygens lander which successfully gave us images of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. 21 years ago. And this is just one random mission I thought up off the top of my head. There are tons. Voyager 1 is another great example. Or the Hubble space telescope.
So really I don't think it's a fuck you to NASA at all. NASA, the ESA et al have achieved far, far more than Space-X the space-tech engineering firm have ever achieved. All they did was successfully test a reusable rocket, which is great, but anyone who thinks this has put Space-X ahead of any of the major space agencies is just a sucker for public hype. |
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Nobby the Bastard wrote: | It wasn't about going to mars, it was about putting satellites in orbit as cheaply as possible. |
So this post is misleading? :
rpsmith79 wrote: | The ultimate plan for Mr Musk and SpaceX is to sent humans on a one way trip to Mars, he already has a waiting list i believe
Quote: | MISSIONS TO MARS
Our aspirational goal is to send our first cargo mission to Mars in 2022. The objectives for the first mission will be to confirm water resources and identify hazards along with putting in place initial power, mining, and life support infrastructure. A second mission, with both cargo and crew, is targeted for 2024, with primary objectives of building a propellant depot and preparing for future crew flights. The ships from these initial missions will also serve as the beginnings of our first Mars base, from which we can build a thriving city and eventually a self-sustaining civilization on Mars. |
Sauce https://www.spacex.com/mars |
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chickenstrip wrote: | Nobby the Bastard wrote: | It wasn't about going to mars, it was about putting satellites in orbit as cheaply as possible. |
So this post is misleading? :
rpsmith79 wrote: | The ultimate plan for Mr Musk and SpaceX is to sent humans on a one way trip to Mars, he already has a waiting list i believe
Quote: | MISSIONS TO MARS
Our aspirational goal is to send our first cargo mission to Mars in 2022. The objectives for the first mission will be to confirm water resources and identify hazards along with putting in place initial power, mining, and life support infrastructure. A second mission, with both cargo and crew, is targeted for 2024, with primary objectives of building a propellant depot and preparing for future crew flights. The ships from these initial missions will also serve as the beginnings of our first Mars base, from which we can build a thriving city and eventually a self-sustaining civilization on Mars. |
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oldpink wrote: | and so far Musk is in the lead there and has got quite a few contracts under his belt |
Privatising the act of taking things from Earth to space, is all that has happened. Not exactly a giant leap for mankind.
I think there will be quite a lot of NASA and ESA bods who are quite a bit peeved with the Space X hype right now. Loads of utterly clueless fanboys are sat getting boners over the Musk Phallic Object, blindly jumping to the conclusion that Musk and his crew just are the best at doing space stuff now, no questions asked, because a single clip of a rocket doing rocket things on TV said so.
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | I reckon NASA and the like are making careful preparations |
They are. https://www.nasa.gov/topics/journeytomars/index.html
And, come to think of it, Mars prep was talked about ages ago, with a 1 year long mission in a closed Mars-like environment on Earth, and I think something happening on the ISS too.
But meh it wasn't Elon Musk so who cares, Space X are still the best, he's the god of reinventing the wheel everything.
Sounds more and more like Apple and the Steve Jobs bum club every day, it really does. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 75 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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