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Seems okay. But I don't get the purpose of Moon or Mars colonies. What is there to do there? Is it a fob basically? Does it really decrease travel time to other planets by much?
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I was watching it live yesterday, was really awesome, the double landing of the boosters was great.
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is it better than Saturn V or not?
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fei123456 wrote:is it better than Saturn V or not?


It depends, saturn V had more payload, and was awesome, but if we factor in the price the launch it, FH should win by a safe margin
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Saturn V is very old. The last launch was 1973.
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Another PR event for Elon Musk to bask in public attention and get enough hype to keep investors interested.
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Dolan wrote:Another PR event for Elon Musk to bask in public attention and get enough hype to keep investors interested.


Well yeah, when you make the largest openational rocket in the world, and use it to launch a car to the asteroids belt, and live streams it, its quite clearally a pr sturt.

Nonetheless, a great feat. And now those investors have seen that the rocket works, and can thrust their billion dollar payload into it.
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i think it's NASA who made the rocket with Musk's money
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Given the circumstances of our Generation, we have to make it possible to colonialise one of the exo planets that were found. Maybe humanity can learn out of its mistakes on earth and make it a better place for upcoming generations ;)
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Lenari wrote: Maybe humanity can learn out of its mistakes on earth and make it a better place for upcoming generations ;)

I doubt that. :sad:
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Lenari wrote:Given the circumstances of our Generation, we have to make it possible to colonialise one of the exo planets that were found. Maybe humanity can learn out of its mistakes on earth and make it a better place for upcoming generations ;)

not when a profit is out there to be made... we will still destroy planets until aliens stop us
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My only hope from this is that Elon Musk will move to another planet and we will stop hearing about every lil shit he does in the media.
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rockets are cool
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Tesla posted a loss of US$675.4 million in Q4 of 2017, a huge jump from the US$121.4 million it lost in the same quarter of 2016.

Gotta keep those PR events coming.., coz the business model doesn't work, so need to constantly be in the spotlight with the public. After all, those contracts from NASA won't come if you don't get everyone to love your image of trailblazer and interstellar hero (fart).

Take into account that Tesla is posting these financial losses despite having a business model which relies on state subsidies for those who buy electric vehicles. So even with major state subsidies the business model still doesn't work. But hey, I am taking you to Mars, get it? Don't watch the financial statements, look how cool my PR events are...
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Nobody's throwing any fit here, m8. It's just that his company is basically financially unsound and living on state subsidies. While he's putting out all these PR shows that are meant to keep his investors' anger at bay.

If you let this guy on his own, let the free market do its work, he couldn't fund these events that are meant to keep the normies in a starry eyed state.

Does the US really need to subsidise this guy's PR shows for his financial interests?
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Basically how typical Western nerds and redditors relate to Musk:

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Some context to the things I was saying earlier. Wall Street investors don't trust Elon Musk much and take whatever he says with a big amount of salt:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/elon-mu ... alyst.html

Sure, yeah, it's cool to explore other planets/space, but I'd rather see someone who isn't such a media attention-seeking junkie do it, like some unassuming team just doing their job. And imo we should be realistic that at this point, we'd be paying insane amounts of money on something that doesn't have an obvious return on investment, maybe besides getting access to more rare metals or new ways of producing energy. Other than that, for all we know now, the proximate space holds a bunch of empty rocks showered by high radiation waves and with modest potential for having an atmosphere.
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This might be a bit off-topic, but it's kinda related to the kind of businesses Elon Musk runs.

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-model-3-tear ... 1822678045

It is true, though, that this company that deals with launching rockets is another line of business with very different types of clients and it might actually have more chances of being financially solvent. The electrical vehicles business, though, looks quite shaky at the moment, in financial terms.
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I'm just glad humanity makes progress somewhere
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