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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1380 on: 12/19/2017 11:50 pm »
Could make an awesome BBQ grill with a grid fin.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1381 on: 12/20/2017 02:34 pm »
Looks like something out of Star Wars. Boys, we're going to have an extra special party here next month.  :o
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1382 on: 12/20/2017 02:42 pm »
Looks like something out of Star Wars. Boys, we're going to have an extra special party here next month.  :o
All I need is a cockpit with a joystick R2D2 behind me and lets light this candle! 8)
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1383 on: 12/20/2017 02:44 pm »
Could make an awesome BBQ grill with a grid fin.
Could handle some "Texas size" steaks! ;D
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1384 on: 12/21/2017 01:52 am »
Quote from Falcon Heavy:  Do these side boosters make me look fat?

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1385 on: 12/21/2017 04:33 am »
Iridium employees take some time out from payload processing to work on team-building activities.
« Last Edit: 12/22/2017 12:22 pm by deruch »
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1386 on: 12/22/2017 12:24 pm »
There's... uhh.. something developing on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/7ledab/this_ia_an_imge_ff_the_roadster_on_the_payload/
Are this Talulah Riley and Elon in the car?

Yes, photoshopped of course. I'm surprised the leak originated over there but considering what that subreddit is about, I guess I shouldn't be.

I can almost guarantee this is not accurate.  One of the goals of the first flight will be to prove out it's lift capability.  There is no way just a roadster is event close.  Even if that pedestal is solid steel, I don't thick that would even be close.

Maybe, in addition to the copy of Hitchhiker's Guide and the towel that are going to be in the car, they replaced the battery with an equal volume block of depleted uranium.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1387 on: 12/22/2017 05:05 pm »
I can't sleep. Could you use TEA-TEB to light a barbeque grill?

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1388 on: 12/22/2017 05:23 pm »
I can't sleep. Could you use TEA-TEB to light a barbeque grill?

Sure... But I hear it leaves a funny after taste to whatever you cook after lightoff...  :D
« Last Edit: 12/22/2017 08:45 pm by John Alan »

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1389 on: 12/22/2017 08:44 pm »
Somebody making a test flight decided to stop and watch the launch tonight. We're all gonna fly.  8)
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1390 on: 12/23/2017 01:33 am »
Elon just posted a pic of his roadster in the payload fairing;
https://www.instagram.com/p/BdA94kVgQhU/

However, I suggest reading his comment, which I pasted below, with bolding by me;
"elonmuskA Red Car for the Red Planet

Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring.
Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies
, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel.
The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit."

Read the bolded part, remembering that this is the guy who founded "The Boring Company".

I laughed myself silly when it clicked what he'd done here.  ;D

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1391 on: 12/23/2017 02:03 am »
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/944399853316055040

LOL. You know Elon is joking around.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1392 on: 12/23/2017 02:06 am »
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1393 on: 12/23/2017 02:09 am »
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/944399853316055040

LOL. You know Elon is joking around.

He's an internet prankster! ;D

What a frakking surge though. Remember when it was all about keeping the forum up? Got that sorted. Then tonight the news site got hit like never before....because of LA folk hitting space sites to work out what the launch was after finding out it wasn't a UFO. Crazy!
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1394 on: 12/23/2017 02:36 am »
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/944399853316055040

LOL. You know Elon is joking around.

He's an internet prankster! ;D

What a frakking surge though. Remember when it was all about keeping the forum up? Got that sorted. Then tonight the news site got hit like never before....because of LA folk hitting space sites to work out what the launch was after finding out it wasn't a UFO. Crazy!

Thanks for keeping it together Chris. When I saw the first video post of what it looked like in the skies above LaLa land I thought folks are going to think crazy and say crazy and do crazy because thats what Los Angeles does. I was born there, I know. That's why I got the heck out of there.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1395 on: 12/23/2017 07:25 am »
One Falcon 9 (slightly used) ~ $60 million
Ten Iridium satellites ~ $350 million

Freaking out most of southern California - priceless!

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1396 on: 12/23/2017 12:13 pm »
Kind of reminded me of "The Nexus" from Star Trek Generations... ;D
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1397 on: 12/26/2017 04:45 pm »
Not mine, yet obligatory

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1398 on: 12/26/2017 06:06 pm »
Does this mean a static fire with payload attached??

Just in case there's so much thrust that the hold down clamps fail ;)

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #1399 on: 12/26/2017 06:32 pm »
Does this mean a static fire with payload attached??

Just in case there's so much thrust that the hold down clamps fail ;)

It's happened before.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091993/

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