Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
|
|
|
Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 27, 2016 - 01:41pm PT
|
Elon Musk just finished his presentation which disclosed SpaceX's Mars planetary mission architecture.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
The new Interplanetary Transportation Vehicle literally DWARFS the ol Apollo V rocket.
|
|
brotherbbock
climber
Alta Loma, CA
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 02:20pm PT
|
That sh#t is gonna blow up.
|
|
Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 02:22pm PT
|
I hope his ego will fit into that rig.
|
|
eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 03:18pm PT
|
I haven't even looked at the video and Reilly's post is already cracking me up.
|
|
sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 03:19pm PT
|
Humans in their current state don't deserve to go interplanetary. Not when you have fukin Donald j drumpf as a representative of the species
|
|
Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 03:30pm PT
|
Deep Cryo Fart Powered Rockets!
|
|
jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 04:09pm PT
|
I'd rather be in this baby, cruising the cosmos!
Courtesy of coupled differential equations
|
|
John M
climber
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 04:30pm PT
|
I hadn't really been paying attention to Elon Musk, but this video is fascinating. The first 20 minutes or so is just music. Don't know why, but once he starts his presentation the story is compelling. His accomplishments are astounding. 2/3rds of the way through the video.
Looking at his background. If its true he started with 28,000 dollars from his father after getting a BS in physics from Penn and only staying 2 days at Stanford for his PHD, and started his various companies, then that is quite remarkable.
|
|
10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 05:41pm PT
|
I hope his ego will fit into that rig
Gone rape me a planet. Its my destiny and the very best my species can do.
We are not done f*#king up this planet yet, and he wants to f*#k up another one.
|
|
High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 05:48pm PT
|
tfpu, bdc.
I've been following along as well.
It IS going to happen. Lucky future!
|
|
WBraun
climber
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 05:54pm PT
|
All living entities already have the capabilities to travel anywhere both in the entire material manifestation and the spiritual manifestation.
There is no way you can "make" this as it's already permanently built into every living being.
Your attempt is artificial and results in ultimate failure due to being completely clueless to consciousness itself ......
|
|
dhayan
climber
culver city, ca
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 05:55pm PT
|
Musk is just another dangerous confused idiot...
|
|
Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 06:58pm PT
|
Jihn M writes:
"If its true he started with 28,000 dollars from his father..."
28 Grand, and FIVE BILLION DOLLARS in Government subsidies!
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
"Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, together have benefited from an estimated $4.9 billion in government support..."
He's not stealing sawdust. He's stealing the wheelbarrows.
|
|
clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 08:02pm PT
|
|
|
10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 09:21pm PT
|
Musk is just another dangerous confused idiot...
Not sure about that, but he is a narcissist.
|
|
Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 10:28pm PT
|
His vision is small and petty compared to having the vision of making what we have here and now richly sustainable - that is the big vision.
|
|
Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 10:45pm PT
|
Musk is a visionary who's put all of himself and everything he's got into many projects, most of which are breaking new ground in science and technology. The inspiration he brings to so many is worth every investment dollar, and the setbacks which are costly and many, are a small price to pay for the seeds of innovation and discovery that are being planted in the minds of generations to come. Say what you will about the man, but the dream of human exploration and the evolutionary advancement of our species are alive and proliferating in he and people like him.
Or you can say, "Don't waste ma tax payer money on all that space man voodoo Martian crap! Ol' Donald's gonna set all you mother truckers straight, why I'm so mad, I'm mad as hell and I don't know why! My neighbor's mad and that makes me mad too, and I still don't know why! My brother died in a boating accident, he coulda swam with two hands and he wouldn't let go of that beer, and then the prop got 'im, damn it cut off his damn head an dammit, he saved that beer! We got that Schlitz can bronzed an mounted on his casket the way he woulda wanted god dammit an am so mad I cai'nt see straight now! God dammit!! Why do I need a background check to get me a gun an a pressure cooker?"
|
|
john hansen
climber
|
|
|
Sep 27, 2016 - 10:54pm PT
|
I wonder if there are any microbes we could send to Mars that would start producing oxygen . not sure how well the gravity could keep the atmosphere ..
Is it possible for the gravitational field of Mars to hold any created atmosphere enough to make human life possible out doors ? Would it be like the summit of Everest?
Or would we be perpetually indoors relying on a contained enviromment.
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!