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Anyone follow Space X developments? I only recently started learning about what they are now capable of and it's pretty fascinating and exciting.
Tonight they plan to launch the largest unmanned rocket into orbit, delivering a Tesla sports car into space. All three rocket boosters will then automatically return home and (hopefully) land on their pads, to be reused at a later date.
Cool animation video below:
Awesome!
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Space X / Elon Musk on 10:20 - Feb 6 with 6784 views
Costs (maintenance, cost of material, power cost of maintaining a vacuum over long distances etc.), dangers (thermal expansion between joints and in tubing (tube will be warmer at top than bottom too causing tube curvature causing tubes to pull apart.), vacuum collapse at a breach, braking force, etc.). The tube for travel has to be perfect in condition or problems could be catastrophic. The basic theory is sound, just like an air hockey table, but everything around it makes it useless and ludicrously expensive.
To have this over a suitable range (travel from one area to another) the cost would be ludicrous and the dangers would multiply. There are severe problems with test track already, rust and expansion gaps and this is only over a 1.2 km, straight test track.
Space X / Elon Musk on 12:39 - Feb 6 by swanjackal
Costs (maintenance, cost of material, power cost of maintaining a vacuum over long distances etc.), dangers (thermal expansion between joints and in tubing (tube will be warmer at top than bottom too causing tube curvature causing tubes to pull apart.), vacuum collapse at a breach, braking force, etc.). The tube for travel has to be perfect in condition or problems could be catastrophic. The basic theory is sound, just like an air hockey table, but everything around it makes it useless and ludicrously expensive.
To have this over a suitable range (travel from one area to another) the cost would be ludicrous and the dangers would multiply. There are severe problems with test track already, rust and expansion gaps and this is only over a 1.2 km, straight test track.
But apart from that it’s going well.
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Could have pointed out that currently it isn't what the Hyperloop was originally advertised as, a complete vacuum transport system, and not the partial vacuum that is currently in place.
Because if he'd chosen Space Y (Spacey), he'd have landed on a fourteen year old boy.
Ever since my son was... never conceived, because I've never had consensual sex without money involved... I've always kind of looked at you as... a thing, that I could live next to... in accordance with state laws.
You don't know whether West London is the same as everywhere else?
Elsewhere I said, not everywhere else.
I don't know whether the increase in people owning Teslas instead of similarly priced cars is unique to here for some reason (people being swept up by the trend for electric, electric charging points all over the place etc) or whether it is the same in other places. Do you not understand?
If you are attempting to make some point about their price, I'm aware that they're expensive, but I'm also aware that you see lots of similarly expensive cars in many places, including Swansea.
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Space X / Elon Musk on 11:30 - Feb 7 with 6269 views
Space X / Elon Musk on 20:20 - Feb 6 by waynekerr55
They've taken over the classic car place on Hogarth roundabout note, haven't they?
Yes. They also have a showroom in the Westfield shopping centre (or at least they did have, not sure whether they've shut it now after opening the one on Hogarth roundabout).
See loads of them about now.
When I asked my earlier question I was thinking the rise in electric is happening very quickly, and we have charging points going in all over the place. Don't know if elsewhere is the same.
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Space X / Elon Musk on 11:47 - Feb 7 with 6252 views
The more involvement in space exploration from the private sector the better, even if eventuallly it'll result in the odd cockup like in the case of LV-426.
Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.
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Space X / Elon Musk on 23:29 - Feb 7 with 6093 views
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