SpaceX launch

[That is Nice]

I'm going to give you a link to an unlisted video on the SpaceX channel on Youtube.



If you're going to watch this, skip to 28:46, because all that you're going to see before that is photos with music playing in the background and some shots of the crowd waiting for Elon Musk to speak.

In this video, he's talking about sending a paying customer on a trip around the Moon and introduces us to the wealthy sacrificial victim passenger, whose expensive ticket purchase made this all possible. I haven't sat through the whole video, but let's say it's not the most reassuring thing I've ever seen. Very clearly, if something breaks down on the craft, this passenger won't know what to do.

The video is a recording of a live stream that ran tonight.

[That is Nice]

The chat was off for the stream, keeping us from saying things like "Run, Forrest, run!" (which maybe was the idea). I haven't seen the whole thing, yet, as I did get distracted while watching this all happen live, but I could have sworn I hard Elon Musk talking about what the proper procedure for landing on a gas giant would be.

If so, that's not reassuring. Any attempted landing on one of those would be suicide. Forget about the astronauts surviving, the ship itself would be melted or vaporized by the heat deep in the atmosphere and there's no solid surface for them to land on, anyway. Just a series of gradual transitions between phases in the interior. I hope I misheard that.

[That is Nice]

Not a launch, yet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/scie ... enger.html

^ (Trigger warning: there are ads on this site)

"Elon Musk on Monday evening introduced Yusaku Maezawa, founder of the online Japanese clothing company Zozo, as his first customer for a voyage around the moon aboard a SpaceX rocket.

...

Mr. Maezawa’s intent to follow in the contrails of American astronauts, who first looped the moon in 1968 aboard the Apollo 8 mission, was announced at an event at the company’s headquarters in the Los Angeles area. The expensive trip would cost at least tens of millions of dollars, if not a couple of hundred million, and when it would occur was not yet announced. Neither Mr. Musk nor Mr. Maezawa would disclose the price.

Mr. Maezawa is to ride a yet-to-be-built rocket known as the B.F.R. on a journey that would take four to five days. The rocket would not be ready for the trip until 2023, Mr. Musk said, and would cost from $2 billion to $10 billion to develop. He added that Mr. Maezawa’s ticket would make a meaningful contribution to the project’s completion.

While SpaceX’s technological achievements are significant, Mr. Musk’s forecasts of SpaceX’s timelines have usually turned out to be far too optimistic.

... "

A trip around the Moon is a little more interesting than a launching of cargo into orbit, even if this ship isn't going to land of the Moon. Assuming that it's ever launched and that this isn't just a PR stunt by Musk.

https://www.livescience.com/63617-space ... -moon.html

Still, even given the practical problems of landing wealthy passengers (who travel with an expectation of comfort and usually without the technical skills that an astronaut would have to have) on the Moon, near future space tourism is not impossible. There are near Earth asteroids. "Landing" on one of those would be more like docking with it, given the very, very low gravity.

While giving the very rich yet another luxury to enjoy might not sound like a thing calling for much celebration, money does make this world move, these days, and tourism can give a profit motive to help encourage space exploration. Once people are out there, there are nickel-iron asteroids to mine, so maybe this can become the start of some real progress, even if the initial motivation for said progress might seem a little frivolous.

[Garyoler]

"Once people are out there, there are nickel-iron asteroids to mine, so maybe this can become the start of some real progress, even if the initial motivation for said progress might seem a little frivolous."

Hmm, good point!

[John Done]

Despite the fact, SpaceX launches lots of missions to orbit in order to investigate the atmosphere and the possible life on Mars. They don't also forget about satellites for the Internet. I heard they have already reached a speed of 100 MB and launched more than 400 satellites. They plan to launch more than a thousand.

[TommyJ]

In addition to them, there are still a huge number of startups and companies that can help conquer space. Each in its own niche. I would like people to know more about this. Is there a topic thread here? I would like to share my knowledge with interested people

[TommyJ]

I would like to share with you a new British project. It's called Skyrora.
They took on the mission of developing British space launches.
Their main activity is the launch of small satellites that can help humanity as a whole to observe climate changes, receive satellite photos in real time, and much more.
These are the UK space news:
https://www.skyrora.com/blog/uk-space-news
Just look at it

[Ugly Dougly]

The operation was a success. Unfortunately the patient didn't survive.
https://youtu.be/egHxiX40eJY

[Ugly Dougly]

I would like to share with you a new British project. It's called Skyrora.
They took on the mission of developing British space launches.
Their main activity is the launch of small satellites that can help humanity as a whole to observe climate changes, receive satellite photos in real time, and much more.
These are the UK space news:
https://www.skyrora.com/blog/uk-space-news
Just look at it

You didn't join eplaya just so you could promote your commodity, did you?

[Zona]

So why is space different from sports? You seeing this? Now check this, I know that guy. So, war now, or what the fuck is going on?

People are not sharing with you, that science is just guessing on the future, and here we are with a truth.

Many of you have lived it.....I do every day.

The future is all just you can pull out of an old box.

This is working...

[Zona]

This person, this thing that is Mr Musk. I know, and we know, the future.
Easy as that.

Go to school, and really rip it up, like me.

The entire thing is just

[The Rod]

what

[DoctorIknow]

I'm not a poet lover or spaced out enough to enter the Zona zone.

[Captain Goddammit]

I would like to share with you a new British project. It's called Skyrora.
They took on the mission of developing British space launches.
Their main activity is the launch of small satellites that can help humanity as a whole to observe climate changes, receive satellite photos in real time, and much more.
These are the UK space news:
https://www.skyrora.com/blog/uk-space-news
Just look at it

You didn't join eplaya just so you could promote your commodity, did you?

He never said anything else and hasn’t shown the slightest interest in anything Burning Man.
He’s a spammer.