Wow
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:54 pm
Just fucking wow.
Launch at about 1:45.
Then skip to about 9:15.
Unreal.
Launch at about 1:45.
Then skip to about 9:15.
Unreal.
Maybe extravagant but not really so much.Rooster wrote:The dual landing of the boosters looked like that Nork video footage of Kim Jung Un’s multiple ICBM launches in reverse. And while Elon Musk can spend his money in any manner he wants, it seems rather... extravagent to launch a sports car into space. Pretty cool day for space travel though.
No.smackaholic wrote:If they had a reasonable expectation for success, wouldn't it have made sense to put an actual satellite up, rather than another piece of orbital debris?
No rocket was shown going to space.Buttsy wrote:after it got up into space
Huh. I did not know that. Thanks for making me just a wee bit smarter this morning, Mikey! Do you suppose for purposes of weight, throw, and mass, that the car was a shell, empty of its’ engine and drivetrain or that this was probably a complete automobile?Mikey wrote:Maybe extravagant but not really so much.Rooster wrote:The dual landing of the boosters looked like that Nork video footage of Kim Jung Un’s multiple ICBM launches in reverse. And while Elon Musk can spend his money in any manner he wants, it seems rather... extravagent to launch a sports car into space. Pretty cool day for space travel though.
It was a test launch and they would normally put a dummy payload on top of the piccolo pete, like a big rock or something. In this case Elon wanted some PR so he put a $200,000 roadster (used) on top instead. Expensive wheels but in the overall cost of this launch pretty much chump change, and probably worth a lot more in the aforementioned PR.
Rooster wrote:Huh. I did not know that. Thanks for making me just a wee bit smarter this morning, Mikey! Do you suppose for purposes of weight, throw, and mass, that the car was a shell, empty of its’ engine and drivetrain or that this was probably a complete automobile?Mikey wrote:Maybe extravagant but not really so much.Rooster wrote:The dual landing of the boosters looked like that Nork video footage of Kim Jung Un’s multiple ICBM launches in reverse. And while Elon Musk can spend his money in any manner he wants, it seems rather... extravagent to launch a sports car into space. Pretty cool day for space travel though.
It was a test launch and they would normally put a dummy payload on top of the piccolo pete, like a big rock or something. In this case Elon wanted some PR so he put a $200,000 roadster (used) on top instead. Expensive wheels but in the overall cost of this launch pretty much chump change, and probably worth a lot more in the aforementioned PR.
I disagree.Mikey wrote:No.smackaholic wrote:If they had a reasonable expectation for success, wouldn't it have made sense to put an actual satellite up, rather than another piece of orbital debris?
Says the total fraud who has watched the video of WTC 7 dropping in perfect controlled demolition and yet refuses to believe the basic physics right before his eyes? The same toxic punk who pretends to be a "pilot" and insists the pentagon just swallowed a 757? The same tedious impostor who still desperately supports the Trump/Pence malignancy?Left Seater wrote:Why would it have mattered? You wouldn’t believe it and would have had 7 excuses.