Elon Musk 2018 Vow

[Hobbes]

The Falcon heavy lift vehicle has been moved to the launch pad in preparation for a possible late January launch.

The Falcon heavy lift rocket, at 5 million pounds thrust, is the most powerful rocket since the Saturn 5 moon rocket (7.5 million pounds thrust).

It's capable of placing more than 140,000 pounds into low earth orbit.
It's basically 3 falcon launch vehicles bound together.

 

[Snake]

Maybe he could re create the opening scene of the movie "Heavy Metal".

 

[dlbleak]

Long read but very interesting. Mom and dad spend the winters in South Padre and drove over to check it out.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/space-x-texas-village-boca-chica/606382/

 

[ignerntbend]

Who is Elon Musk?

He's the guy whose hemp alloyed metal is revolutionizing the defense industry.

 

[Hobbes]

In other news, the spacex dragon spacecraft passed it's emergency abort rescue test last month.
The spacecraft rocketed away from the booster in flight and splashed down successfully.
It was one of the last major tests before NASA approves manned flights.
We could see Americans lifting off from American soil again, for the first time since the shuttle program ended, as soon as May or June.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/...liminary-results-from-crew-dragon-abort-test/

 

[dennishoddy]

Long read but very interesting. Mom and dad spend the winters in South Padre and drove over to check it out.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/space-x-texas-village-boca-chica/606382/

We drove past Space X last year when we wintered in that area. There is a very unique gun range just up the road which was our destination.

 

[k4ylr]

Hoping to a make a launch this year at the Spacecoast. Also, a bunch of Teslas are going to be at the Route 66 museum in Sapulpa on the 22nd and then at the Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford sometime in March if anybody wants to kick tires and make extension cord jokes.

 

[billt]

Elon Musk's claim to fame are government supported electric cars.... Which have yet to turn a profit, and stand on their own from a profitable standpoint. I'm as sick and tired of hearing about electric cars being, "The wave of the future", as I am about, "Medicare for all". Neither one will EVER be financially viable.

You will never hear a Democrat explain how they'll pay for, "Medicare for all", because it can't be done without bankrupting the nation. Nor will you hear Musk, (or anyone else for that matter), explain how you will heat an all electric, battery powered car in Fargo in January. When it's -40F, and the batteries are less than 40% efficient. Again, because it can't be done.

Or else tell us how they will air condition the same, when you are driving through the California desert in June, when it's 118F in the shade. Again it can't be done, because it would take more energy to run the heat and A/C, than it would to power the vehicle. The range under those real world conditions would make the vehicles all but useless.

You cannot legislate technology. And until battery technology catches up with these heavy energy demands, electric cars are nothing more than expensive, Jay Leno toys with pretty paint and styling.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Elon Musk's claim to fame are government supported electric cars....

Might be how you came to know his name, but his claim to fame will always be paypal. His original online banking business in the 90's became the platform paypal works on. Space X, The Boring Company, countless other ventures, the guy has a knack for being on the forefront of new, massively successful ideas and movements in tech.

Before you're too critical of electric vehicles, try to keep in mind, we're 135 years into the technology of the combustion engine. Cars didn't become fast until the 60's. They weren't powerful until the 70's. They weren't efficient until the 80's. They weren't comfortable until the 90's. They weren't all of the above until the 2000's. And it's safe to say there were people who said the same thing about motor carriages back then. How could they ever compete with horses...

In the grand scheme of things, electric vehicles are still very young. All politics asside, to dismiss the technology as "It'll never work, it's a waste of time" seems incredibly shortsighted.

 

[billt]

Might be how you came to know his name, but his claim to fame will always be paypal. His original online banking business in the 90's became the platform paypal works on. Space X, The Boring Company, countless other ventures, the guy has a knack for being on the forefront of new, massively successful ideas and movements in tech.

Before you're too critical of electric vehicles, try to keep in mind, we're 135 years into the technology of the combustion engine. Cars didn't become fast until the 60's. They weren't powerful until the 70's. They weren't efficient until the 80's. They weren't comfortable until the 90's. They weren't all of the above until the 2000's. And it's safe to say there were people who said the same thing about motor carriages back then. How could they ever compete with horses...

In the grand scheme of things, electric vehicles are still very young. All politics asside, to dismiss the technology as "It'll never work, it's a waste of time" seems incredibly shortsighted.

It is not the cars that need to be further developed. But rather the batteries. And they are already at the top end of development. There are limits to everything. And in this case the demands exceed those limits.