If Falcon Heavy was a Rock n Roll super group who would be in it? Discuss.
I hear Peggy opened up a special payload for use in the BEAM today...
Elon Musk @elonmuskTechnology breakthrough: turns out chemtrails are actually a message from time-traveling aliens describing the secret of teleportationElon Musk @elonmuskWhy did we waste so much time developing silly rockets? Damn you, aliens! So obtuse! You have all this crazy tech, but can't speak English!?2:44 PM · Apr 1, 2017https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/848244577521647616
Quote from: padrat on 03/31/2017 05:53 pmQuote from: Proponent on 03/31/2017 10:51 amWould you buy a used rocket from this man?OMG.....I think that needs to go up on a wall at work somewhere.I about fell out of my chair.....I book of faces'ed it:https://www.facebook.com/groups/spacexgroup/permalink/10155247401606318/Quote from: CraigLieb on 03/31/2017 06:06 pmQuote from: CraigLieb on 03/27/2017 03:10 pmWe are beginning to see the designs of Elon, the evil genius... (pinkie firmly planted in corner of mouth)The fairing will deploy cold-gas thrusters and small pop-out grid fins to stabilize into a flyable aeroshell, navigating to a selected capture zone. At which point, the very large airship will open up it's large under slung cargo hold and the fairings will fly in and be caught in nets. The airship will then make its way to Elon's secret volcano lair ... which opens up it's hidden landing pad area, etc. Submarines or fast boats will return the shells to shore for additional processing. I was really close here... thrusters (check - sort of) flyable aeroshell (sort of again, check) airship = really large bouncy castle (check)volcano lair ... welllll, we don't know the whole plan yet, really so I still have a shot. If he's in the market for a secret volcano lair I'd recommend the South Sandwich Islands, probably Saunders. What do they have going for them that an aspiring supervillain like Musk might like? * Remote * Rarely visited * Rough seas and fierce storms * Towering cliffs of rock and ice * The essential "huge active volcanoes" for your boring machines to build a lair in. * On Saunders, an added bonus: it's believe that the top of Mount Michael has one of the world's few persistent lava lakes. But it's so little explored that nobody knows for sure, we just have hot pixels on IR images to go by. * Huge population of penguins for you to Neuralink up as your minions. * If you want to launch some conquer-the-world doomsday weapon you're going to want it on a polar orbit so that it can target all locations on the planet from a low altitude with frequent passes - so you don't need an equatorial site. * Disputed territory - opportunities to play the UK and Argentina off against each other as part of your Machiavellian schemes.
Quote from: Proponent on 03/31/2017 10:51 amWould you buy a used rocket from this man?OMG.....I think that needs to go up on a wall at work somewhere.I about fell out of my chair.....
Would you buy a used rocket from this man?
Quote from: CraigLieb on 03/27/2017 03:10 pmWe are beginning to see the designs of Elon, the evil genius... (pinkie firmly planted in corner of mouth)The fairing will deploy cold-gas thrusters and small pop-out grid fins to stabilize into a flyable aeroshell, navigating to a selected capture zone. At which point, the very large airship will open up it's large under slung cargo hold and the fairings will fly in and be caught in nets. The airship will then make its way to Elon's secret volcano lair ... which opens up it's hidden landing pad area, etc. Submarines or fast boats will return the shells to shore for additional processing. I was really close here... thrusters (check - sort of) flyable aeroshell (sort of again, check) airship = really large bouncy castle (check)volcano lair ... welllll, we don't know the whole plan yet, really so I still have a shot.
We are beginning to see the designs of Elon, the evil genius... (pinkie firmly planted in corner of mouth)The fairing will deploy cold-gas thrusters and small pop-out grid fins to stabilize into a flyable aeroshell, navigating to a selected capture zone. At which point, the very large airship will open up it's large under slung cargo hold and the fairings will fly in and be caught in nets. The airship will then make its way to Elon's secret volcano lair ... which opens up it's hidden landing pad area, etc. Submarines or fast boats will return the shells to shore for additional processing.
Quote from: TripD on 03/31/2017 03:50 pmIf Falcon Heavy was a Rock n Roll super group who would be in it? Discuss. Dave Grohl, Brian Cook, Tosin Abasi and Bruno Mars.(ducks)
<snip>According to Jeff Foust, Elon said might be "fun to try a Hail Mary" and recover the second stage.
My apologies to all Spacex, KSC, SES, workers involved in this launch. All the launch imperfections the burnt grid fins and loss of video can all be attributed to....I jinxed it Opened the celebratory beer during terminal count.Yep total rookie move- such arrogance on my part- I feel terrible. I'm sorry.My only explanation is:Who wants to watch history being made without a beer in had.
Falcon Heavy demo in mid-late summer? Silly payload you say? Core on OCISLY?
Quote from: andrewsdanj on 04/02/2017 06:44 amFalcon Heavy demo in mid-late summer? Silly payload you say? Core on OCISLY? I vote for a gigantic (>250M diameter) inflatable pig placed in a slowly decaying LEO or a sparsely populated MEO.
Totally off topic...Whats the difference between LARS and LARS-J.This is the first time I noticed you were different people. You both seem very knowledgeable.
Quote from: rsdavis9 on 04/02/2017 10:18 pmTotally off topic...Whats the difference between LARS and LARS-J.This is the first time I noticed you were different people. You both seem very knowledgeable.He's LAR (not Lars). Not the same person. He is a mod, I am not. I'm an armchair opiniator shouting at windmills.
Quote from: Lars-J on 04/02/2017 10:22 pmQuote from: rsdavis9 on 04/02/2017 10:18 pmTotally off topic...Whats the difference between LARS and LARS-J.This is the first time I noticed you were different people. You both seem very knowledgeable.He's LAR (not Lars). Not the same person. He is a mod, I am not. I'm an armchair opiniator shouting at windmills. But both are seemingly very into LEGOs.Edit: and why wouldn't you be...LEGOs are awesome!