the cult around this guy is baffling, except for paypal i've yet to use anything he built.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
didn't even build this - it already existed at another company that his company (X.com) merged with.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 April 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
Toupee-pal more like (he wears a wig or has implants or something)
― everything, Monday, 24 April 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
T MINUS TEN MINUTES!
https://www.facebook.com/Floridatoday/videos/10155860010880937/
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
or try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
pls tell me someone strapped Musk to the nose
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
isn't there a left wing podcast you should be listening to?
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
pls tell me you have better things to do than harsh my buzz, comrade
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
idk I think it would be a win-win
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
okay that was fucking cool
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
the car + the 'don't panic!' thing was a little gross but w/e
the boosters just coming back home to their own separate landing pads was the best part imo
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
Welcome back lil guys!
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
yeah the booster landing was amazing, the live footage from the rockets themselves was boss
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
coworkers were watching this across the row from me.
main comment i heard was "lotta white dudes"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
as much as i loath this kind of thing as an early example of advertising/marketing in space, i have to admit this is kind of riveting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/ZZ_Top_-_Afterburner.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
are we sure spaceX isn't just faking all this footage? when the boosters re-landed, i don't know, looked pretty fake to me
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
that really is something, though, when it happens at about 38:00 into the video the late great posted. that's just fucking amazing.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
I don’t think the third booster made it? No footage was shown.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
a billionaire putting a car on mars in an age of record inequality is very "Whitey's On The Moon" imo
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
xp
Yes nothing was heard or seen of it, don't know tbh
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
otm xp
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Taking nothing away from the people involved in making this happen, which I'm sure has been mind-bendingly complex, but watching that video I've never before seen so clearly the Kubrickian link between a spaceship and a caveman getting excited over a flying bone
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
you're a flying bone
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
Tracer OTM. I appreciate the scientific accomplishment here, but it's a douchy thing to do and I'm afraid we'll see way too much of it in the coming years. Sending a car into space huh? What's next, sending a monkey into orbit? (j/k)
Like this fucking guy. It's a very vain way of polluting space.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
ugh I thought LBI's gizmodo link was an Onion article, and I appreciated the effort of setting up an external website, but thought it possibly a little on the nose that they picked a real company name
literally did not realise my mistake until I'd read the entire article and scrolled back to click on the link
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
back to today's launch, twin landings cool, anything to do with the car ugh
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
haha wow, well I can't blame you for mistaking it for the Onion. All too real though, sadly.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
Lost opportunity not to have a small bit of robotics in the car passenger so he could wave and move his head randomly. Looked like a dead guy.
― nickn, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
I was wondering that if instead of burning heavy lift on a car, the test could have been used for something useful - like sending a camera and a drill to ‘Oumuamua. it's possible, but the orbital mechanics stink.https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/11/10/project-lyra-sending-a-spacecraft-to-1ioumuamua-formerly-a2017-u1-the-interstellar-asteroid/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
guys hate to be the bearer of bad new but elon musk fucked the rocket and died rip
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link
seems aspirational when you write it like that
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
he died doing what he loved fucking a rocket and dying
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
that flat earth dude wherever, isn't that the thing
afaik that guy wants to die in a halfassed rocket launch and has appealed to flat earth people in order to fund his suicide rocker. good grift really
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:49 (six years ago) link
lol check this shit out, what cant elon musk do
The curvature of the Earth got people talking as photos and videos were shared of the SpaceX #FalconHeavy launch. https://t.co/Cod7JFblSI— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) February 6, 2018
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:50 (six years ago) link
thank u elon for finally proving real ppl and not government shills can show the earth curvy
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
real earths have curves
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
Elon and Tesla are doing its best to ensure my work days are never dull. But this is pretty awesome, I’ve had starman gently spinning all day long on my second screen, it’s very relaxing.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 08:31 (six years ago) link
#imwithFET
Wow, lots of activity since last night, as though a) this is the first time anyone pointed a funny lens at the earth, or b) the imagery in any way contradicts modern FET. If it were that simple, who wouldn't already be convinced?— Flat Earth Today (@FlatEarthToday) February 7, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
What do they regard as a "funny" lens, I wonder? Non-rectilinear? The long focal length lenses folks shoot with from the ISS are rectilinear. I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole (which isn't a hole, it's a disk), but if I shoot a flat horizon at sea level with a 400mm lens and then I shoot with the same lens from 500km up and the horizon is curved, what then? Someone with more patience than me is having this discussion with them right now on Twitter, right?
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:12 (six years ago) link
http://www.in5d.com/images/5d-agharta.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
i assume all is now clear
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
Gotcha.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
like many, many things, that makes me want to reread Against The Day
― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
I get the "putting your car into space" move as tacky, but having spent some time working in a space-centered STEM educational outreach program for kids, I read it a little less cynically.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
if they asked you "why" what would you say? my son asked me that; i had no answer
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
I mean they had to deposit some sort of payload out there as part of the test, right? Why not make it something attention grabbing and fun? It’s a striking image and I see it as an easy springboard into deeper topics.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
(FWIW, even though I worked in the program mentioned above, I am not an educator, this just absolutely came across as something they’d love)
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
yeah i don't see how this is any worse than launching another satellite that will be used by world govts to spy on everyone
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
i thought it was crass and self-promotional, the opposite of what space exploration should be about
back in the.. 90s i guess? disney had an idea to launch three massive interconnected rings into space, to orbit the moon. they would be packed tightly into a spacecraft and inflate once in orbit, and the reflected light from the moon would illuminate them and create a visible mickey mouse logo. eventually the rings would deflate and crash into the moon. i recall mockery and eyerolling at the time and they finally nixed the idea. (this is of course impossible to google for, but trust me)
anyway, this feels like that, but thankfully smaller scale
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link