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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #40 on: February 12, 2018, 06:35:29 AM »
Since he claims to not be American his ass should be deported and his assets confiscated and returned to the American taxpayers.  8)

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #41 on: February 12, 2018, 07:28:23 AM »
Well, he was born in the Transvaal, South Africa.  He has South African, Canadian, and US citizenship (as of 2002).  So I'm thinking that your suggestion on deporting and seizing his assets probably won't work. 


Personally I don't think he's any worse than any business entity these days.   Yes, he does get tax incentives but then quite a few other businesses wanting to build their plants in different states do as well.


Whatever he's doing for the space program and the US in general is ok by me.  Cost of the Falcon 9 Heavy launch is less than a 100 Million dollars.  Cost of one shuttle launch is nearly a Billion.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #42 on: February 12, 2018, 09:00:37 AM »
Maybe this has something to do with the specs being metric....... :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:



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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #43 on: February 12, 2018, 12:00:32 PM »
Yes it is funny, but Elon Musk didn't actually send the second tweet shown.  But still it is funny.

https://www.snopes.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-dumbass/

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #44 on: February 12, 2018, 02:48:23 PM »
Ah, the best part about todays' "news" is that it is free and unfettered by any of those pesky facts.

Brian

Yes it is funny, but Elon Musk didn't actually send the second tweet shown.  But still it is funny.

https://www.snopes.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-dumbass/
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #45 on: February 12, 2018, 03:07:29 PM »
So Conrad, the stage one boosters, landed back at the cape successfully, the stage 2 booster (or main booster) had a malfunction and went in the drink and caused minor damage to the recovery drone (robotic floating landing pad..I think) and the third stage eventually boosted the car towards hopefully a successful Mars orbit (someday). <--did I get that all correct?

The part I can't seem to find any info on is...did the third stage eject the car at some point ? ...and if so where is the third stage headed?

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #46 on: February 12, 2018, 03:15:39 PM »
Yes it is funny, but Elon Musk didn't actually send the second tweet shown.  But still it is funny.

https://www.snopes.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-dumbass/

If it were true and he had tweeted that, Musk would be the dumbass. He is an American citizen and he built his companies and wealth here with a LOT of help from American tax payers.

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #47 on: February 12, 2018, 08:10:51 PM »
So Conrad, the stage one boosters, landed back at the cape successfully, the stage 2 booster (or main booster) had a malfunction and went in the drink and caused minor damage to the recovery drone (robotic floating landing pad..I think) and the third stage eventually boosted the car towards hopefully a successful Mars orbit (someday). <--did I get that all correct?

The part I can't seem to find any info on is...did the third stage eject the car at some point ? ...and if so where is the third stage headed?

I was confused over that part as well...  I would have loved to seen that payload ejected from the main craft.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #48 on: February 13, 2018, 04:15:12 AM »
Soooo, no one is considering the possibility that this isn't just an elaborate hoax? Has anybody got pictures other than what ol'Muskie has provided?

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #49 on: February 13, 2018, 04:21:20 AM »
So Conrad, the stage one boosters, landed back at the cape successfully, the stage 2 booster (or main booster) had a malfunction and went in the drink and caused minor damage to the recovery drone (robotic floating landing pad..I think) and the third stage eventually boosted the car towards hopefully a successful Mars orbit (someday). <--did I get that all correct?

The part I can't seem to find any info on is...did the third stage eject the car at some point ? ...and if so where is the third stage headed?

I believe that you have it mostly right. I'll see if I can find what's what.

Here's a bit more info about the Falcon Heavy.

http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy

And the center booster

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spacex-reveals-why-falcon-heavy-center-booster-crashed-205835911.html
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #50 on: February 13, 2018, 04:22:24 AM »
Yes it is funny, but Elon Musk didn't actually send the second tweet shown.  But still it is funny.

https://www.snopes.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-dumbass/

Oh well, see my sig.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #51 on: February 13, 2018, 07:53:46 AM »
I'll see if I can find what's what.

Thanks Conrad!

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #52 on: February 13, 2018, 04:53:18 PM »
Soooo, no one is considering the possibility that this isn't just an elaborate hoax? Has anybody got pictures other than what ol'Muskie has provided?


No and No.  I also believe we (US) went to the moon.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #53 on: February 13, 2018, 06:06:53 PM »
If you wait til the right time of night you can step off the edge of the earth on fall on the moon.

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #54 on: February 13, 2018, 07:12:56 PM »
And what time would that be?  If it's after 10, I'm in bed by then so no stepping out.   Has to be before 10.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #55 on: February 14, 2018, 03:55:55 AM »
Soooo, no one is considering the possibility that this isn't just an elaborate hoax? Has anybody got pictures other than what ol'Muskie has provided?

I was wondering when someone would bring this up.

I think that there might have been a witness or two watching from the Space Center. A friend of mine was even there and he's fairly reliable.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #56 on: February 14, 2018, 03:59:38 AM »
I do what I can.  :)

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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #57 on: February 21, 2018, 07:11:08 AM »
http://spaceweather.com/

THE ROADSTER AND THE STAR CLUSTER: Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla Roadster is doing things no electric car has ever done before. On Feb. 6th it left Earth onboard a Falcon Heavy Rocket. On Feb. 8th it crossed the orbit of the Moon. Yesterday, the Roadster paid a visit to a star cluster:



"I captured this series of photos from my cozy home office in New Jersey using a remote-controlled 0.5-meter telescope at the Chilescope observatory a few hours north of Santiago, Chile," says Michael Keith. "The Roadster was at a distance of 3.7 million km from Earth--a new record! Although it is was very dim (about magnitude 19.8) I wanted to try to capture it because it was close in the sky to a nice globular star cluster: NGC 5694 is much farther away than the Tesla Roadster, alnost 115,000 light years from Earth."

Since NASA published orbital elements for the Roadster on Feb. 8th, amateur astronomers have been tracking the electric car, with groups leapfrogging over one another in an effort to capture the most distant photo of this unique spacecraft. Among photos submitted to Spaceweather.com, Keith's is the record holder. For reference, 3.7 million km is almost 10 times farther from Earth than the Moon. This record will surely fall as astrophotographers around the world continue tracking the interplanetary Roadster. Whether anyone can take a more beautiful photo than Keith did, however, remains unknown. Stay tuned.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #58 on: February 21, 2018, 01:26:34 PM »
What happens when the astronaut runs out of air?  I mean, I can understand an electric car running in space, no engine you know.  But the astronaut is going to run into serious problems at some point.
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Re: Congrats to SpaceX!
« Reply #59 on: February 21, 2018, 01:28:31 PM »
I think people smart enough to drive in space would be smart enough to leave the windows rolled up and the doors closed. Geez Jim.....

Brian

What happens when the astronaut runs out of air?  I mean, I can understand an electric car running in space, no engine you know.  But the astronaut is going to run into serious problems at some point.
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