Elon Musk

isn't there a left wing podcast you should be listening to?

pls tell me you have better things to do than harsh my buzz, comrade

idk I think it would be a win-win

okay that was fucking cool

the car + the 'don't panic!' thing was a little gross but w/e

the boosters just coming back home to their own separate landing pads was the best part imo

Welcome back lil guys!

yeah the booster landing was amazing, the live footage from the rockets themselves was boss

coworkers were watching this across the row from me.

main comment i heard was "lotta white dudes"

as much as i loath this kind of thing as an early example of advertising/marketing in space, i have to admit this is kind of riveting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/ZZ_Top_-_Afterburner.jpg

are we sure spaceX isn't just faking all this footage? when the boosters re-landed, i don't know, looked pretty fake to me

that really is something, though, when it happens at about 38:00 into the video the late great posted. that's just fucking amazing.

I don’t think the third booster made it? No footage was shown.

a billionaire putting a car on mars in an age of record inequality is very "Whitey's On The Moon" imo

xp

Yes nothing was heard or seen of it, don't know tbh

otm xp

Taking nothing away from the people involved in making this happen, which I'm sure has been mind-bendingly complex, but watching that video I've never before seen so clearly the Kubrickian link between a spaceship and a caveman getting excited over a flying bone

you're a flying bone

Tracer OTM. I appreciate the scientific accomplishment here, but it's a douchy thing to do and I'm afraid we'll see way too much of it in the coming years. Sending a car into space huh? What's next, sending a monkey into orbit? (j/k)

Like this fucking guy. It's a very vain way of polluting space.

ugh I thought LBI's gizmodo link was an Onion article, and I appreciated the effort of setting up an external website, but thought it possibly a little on the nose that they picked a real company name

literally did not realise my mistake until I'd read the entire article and scrolled back to click on the link

back to today's launch, twin landings cool, anything to do with the car ugh

haha wow, well I can't blame you for mistaking it for the Onion. All too real though, sadly.

Lost opportunity not to have a small bit of robotics in the car passenger so he could wave and move his head randomly. Looked like a dead guy.

I was wondering that if instead of burning heavy lift on a car, the test could have been used for something useful - like sending a camera and a drill to ‘Oumuamua. it's possible, but the orbital mechanics stink.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/11/10/project-lyra-sending-a-spacecraft-to-1ioumuamua-formerly-a2017-u1-the-interstellar-asteroid/

guys hate to be the bearer of bad new but elon musk fucked the rocket and died rip

seems aspirational when you write it like that

he died doing what he loved fucking a rocket and dying

that flat earth dude wherever, isn't that the thing

afaik that guy wants to die in a halfassed rocket launch and has appealed to flat earth people in order to fund his suicide rocker. good grift really

lol check this shit out, what cant elon musk do

The curvature of the Earth got people talking as photos and videos were shared of the SpaceX #FalconHeavy launch. https://t.co/Cod7JFblSI

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) February 6, 2018

thank u elon for finally proving real ppl and not government shills can show the earth curvy

real earths have curves

Elon and Tesla are doing its best to ensure my work days are never dull. But this is pretty awesome, I’ve had starman gently spinning all day long on my second screen, it’s very relaxing.

#imwithFET

Wow, lots of activity since last night, as though a) this is the first time anyone pointed a funny lens at the earth, or b) the imagery in any way contradicts modern FET. If it were that simple, who wouldn't already be convinced?

— Flat Earth Today (@FlatEarthToday) February 7, 2018

What do they regard as a "funny" lens, I wonder? Non-rectilinear? The long focal length lenses folks shoot with from the ISS are rectilinear. I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole (which isn't a hole, it's a disk), but if I shoot a flat horizon at sea level with a 400mm lens and then I shoot with the same lens from 500km up and the horizon is curved, what then? Someone with more patience than me is having this discussion with them right now on Twitter, right?

http://www.in5d.com/images/5d-agharta.jpg

i assume all is now clear

Gotcha.

like many, many things, that makes me want to reread Against The Day

I get the "putting your car into space" move as tacky, but having spent some time working in a space-centered STEM educational outreach program for kids, I read it a little less cynically.

if they asked you "why" what would you say? my son asked me that; i had no answer

I mean they had to deposit some sort of payload out there as part of the test, right? Why not make it something attention grabbing and fun? It’s a striking image and I see it as an easy springboard into deeper topics.

(FWIW, even though I worked in the program mentioned above, I am not an educator, this just absolutely came across as something they’d love)

yeah i don't see how this is any worse than launching another satellite that will be used by world govts to spy on everyone

i thought it was crass and self-promotional, the opposite of what space exploration should be about

back in the.. 90s i guess? disney had an idea to launch three massive interconnected rings into space, to orbit the moon. they would be packed tightly into a spacecraft and inflate once in orbit, and the reflected light from the moon would illuminate them and create a visible mickey mouse logo. eventually the rings would deflate and crash into the moon. i recall mockery and eyerolling at the time and they finally nixed the idea. (this is of course impossible to google for, but trust me)

anyway, this feels like that, but thankfully smaller scale

I dunno, most of space is kinda empty and dull. Gotta fill it with something wacky hey.

What's the plan for this car then? Is it just going to eventually crash into the sun?

"i thought it was crass and self-promotional"

I mean... it can be more than one thing. Unfortunate side effect of having space exploration headed by a private company.

The amount of debris in space may not be a pressing issue yet, but it soon will be. http://stuffin.space/

Shooting disco balls into space because you're a dumbass billionaire doesn't sit well with me at all (but I'll concede it's different from Musks effort here)

disco balls would be better imo

"Musk occasionally performs a ritual called anointing. When the he encounters a new scent, he will lick and bite the source, then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue. The purpose of this habit is unknown,"

Elon Musk Hedgehog -photoshop experts please produce this!