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[Mr Skrunts]

Elon Musk

Every other post on social media is about him

What are your thoughts?

[TheBoy]

Well he* uses the old NASA method of getting shit done, unlike the new NASA driven like a government department or large corporate.  Sometimes risks have to be taken to progress, which is why space races are only ever good for space exploration.


*Obviously I'm talking about SpaceX rather than the head. But he allows those risks.

[Mr Skrunts]

Piecing all the posts together regards all the tech he is creating especially with optimus I find it all fascinating in what he is trying to achieve.

[ronnyd]

I know that space is fairly large,  but how much junk are we going to have flying over the planet when his million satellites get into orbit? Let alone all the other stuff others are sending, plus what's flying around already. It's gonna get crowded. 

[STEMO]

I know that space is fairly large,  but how much junk are we going to have flying over the planet when his million satellites get into orbit? Let alone all the other stuff others are sending, plus what's flying around already. It's gonna get crowded. 

It would only take a few of them to collide and create a good bit of space junk. Then it would end up like a motorway collision in fog. The more that got hit, the more junk to destroy others.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

[STEMO]

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.

Yep.....we are talking big numbers when it comes to 'space'

According to Google if Voyager can keep going at the same velocity for 73000 years it could reach the nearest star.....other than the sun.

I may decide to stay around to witness that.

[STEMO]

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.

Yep.....we are talking big numbers when it comes to 'space'

According to Google if Voyager can keep going at the same velocity for 73000 years it could reach the nearest star.....other than the sun.

I may decide to stay around to witness that.

When you put it like that, it makes you realise just how futile the concept of space travel to other, earth-like, planets is. We will live on this rock until either we destroy it, or it destroys itself, and then no one will ever know we even existed.

[Raeturbo]

And to think that just one of the Rocketdyne F1 units of the Saturn five Assembly on the Apollo programme had 55.000 BHP fuel pumps to supply it!  They were incredibly powerful but not even like a candle in the realms of space. 

[Raeturbo]

Most powerful jet engine ever built, 134.000lbs thrust. Rocketdyne F1 1.500.000lbs thrust. Over 11 times more powerful,  and the Saturn five Assembly produced more power than the whole of Spain at blast off, and burned 13.4 tons of propellant per second. But still just a spark🤣

[TheBoy]

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.

Yep.....we are talking big numbers when it comes to 'space'

According to Google if Voyager can keep going at the same velocity for 73000 years it could reach the nearest star.....other than the sun.

I may decide to stay around to witness that.

Shame the power is likely to run out on both Voyagers in the next decade or so 

[Raeturbo]

Yes but they already exceeded by far what was expected of them fair play…

[TheBoy]

And to think that just one of the Rocketdyne F1 units of the Saturn five Assembly on the Apollo programme had 55.000 BHP fuel pumps to supply it!  They were incredibly powerful but not even like a candle in the realms of space.

We all knew Saturn 5 was a opps off big machine, but when I went to Kennedy and saw the one they have on display, it made the hairs on my neck stand up.  Enormous and epic.  Anyone going to that part of America with even the slightest interest is science or space, I'd recommend a full day there - get there when it opens, you'll be unlikely to see everything before closing.  Far better than any of the stupid gay parks in Orlando by a country mile.

They had a capsule that the crew touch down in the sea there as well. Piddly little thing

[TheBoy]

Yes but they already exceeded by far what was expected of them fair play…

Yup, how many projected 5 year life projects do you know of still having a team of engineers reimagining and reprogramming it 50yrs later.