The Astronomy Thread
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Oldbased
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I've already seen people on social media say the car with the planet was some decent CGI but not movie quality( I shit you not )
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Zapatta
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I posted in pol thread alluding to the whole presentation looking like is was made with the Star Citizen Online Demo engine. grphx package , fonts, ultra hi res vid, it almost looks fake.
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Oldbased
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That video of the failures had several that also ran out of propellant in the past. I wonder if it was due to the longer burn and distance than the other 2( miscalculation or maybe the burn was more important than saving fuel for landing during mission ). The center core burned for about a minute longer than the 2 boosters before stage 2 booster.
That is the funny part of it all. It does look fake but at the same time I was laughing at some of them like tell me REALLY what a car looks like with Earth behind it in space.
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Welp Musk is not helping to stop disbelief by making the whole thing into a love letter to HHGTTG and the first Heavy Metal movie. I mean only thing he didnt do is walk around in Ripley's exoskeleton loader carrying the monolith from A Space Odyssey.
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Fuck you, you made all those parts! Tell every chick in every bar you ever go to, you glorious bastard!
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Theres no payload for SLS aside from Orion.
But we already had a Orion launch vehicle, the Ares I.
But we already had a Orion launch vehicle, the Ares I.
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decided to actually do the math on this. all-time Tesla sales totals are way smaller than i thought they were. and i made a whole lot of hoodliners while i was there. i'd say odds are actually more like 5%.
and made $10.50 an hour doing it, sigh.
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Borzak
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In what state/area do you make $10.50 working on Teslas? Poorest state in the union here and the McDonalds here starts at $11.00 to be competitive enough to get workers. At least they did less than a year ago. But I'm pretty sure the McDonalds is a loss leader for the complex it is in.
I haven't really followed the space-x deal. What do they use for stabilzation on the way back down vertially? Small thrusters or combination with other stuff?
I haven't really followed the space-x deal. What do they use for stabilzation on the way back down vertially? Small thrusters or combination with other stuff?
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Ukerric
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The official name for that other is the Big Falcon Rocket. Use another word at your peril
BFR is scheduled for 150 tons to GEO.
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Ukerric
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The MRN already has a ship called the Mark Whatney, I expect them to have the roadster on display at Londres Nova (the capital)...
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Oldbased
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Amazing isn't it? They look fairly small until you see them on the drone ship or pad with people around them. All that gogo juice takes up some room.
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meStevo
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Twitter speculation that Jupiter could eventually eject the Tesla from the solar system, interstellar space junk!
After a few thousand years the orbit gets really eccentric (less and less like a circle). I need orbital images to really make sense of some of this stuff though.
It certainly won't be around for a billion or whatever years like the expected Mars heliocentric orbit (orbit around the sun, reaching at times as far as the orbit of Mars)
After a few thousand years the orbit gets really eccentric (less and less like a circle). I need orbital images to really make sense of some of this stuff though.
It certainly won't be around for a billion or whatever years like the expected Mars heliocentric orbit (orbit around the sun, reaching at times as far as the orbit of Mars)
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