Now everything is possible. It was one of the most remarkable achievements of mankind, only comparable to the invasion of Normandy, the construction of the great pyramids and the discovery of America by John Cabot in 1497.
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Putting a man on the moon was a great achievement. Blasting a meme car into orbit around the Earth isn't. The only achievement that's going to supersede everything else is putting a man on Mars
It would be big, if true
But the earth is flat, quit rejecting God. Grow up.
look at doughs !
The rockets landing themselves was the achievement. What a waste of nice digits.
>Holy shit the retards are buying it
Cheaters and scammers get ahead. That's the only message this is sending.
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this, we have been in the brink of a societal break down without the USSR's help and people are talking about bringing our community of hairless apes to the space for cheaper. Can we fix on what's actually important ?
>world changed
>still can't lift as much as the Saturn V rocket developed in the 1960s
Do you have any concept of what a specialist device the Saturn V was? That shit was not at all fit for mass production. Comparing the Falcon Heavy to the Saturn V is like complaining that every commercial airliner isnt the Space Shuttle.
Poorfags will NEVER be important. 90%+ of all people are replaceable cogs.
Leaving this place isnt just important but necessary if we want to survive. With one rocket launch and booster landing Elon has accomplished more than the combined achievement of your entire genetic line a million fold.
Yes user, he eventually creates a rocket to push all important people to and we recreate Elysium. Or worse, we just ship society with all of its problems to another planet so we end up with more fire than what we started with. Are you this much of an idiot ? The only good thing to come out of space exploration is that it pushed our society to be more developed technologically. Otherwise, there's 7 billion people in the world who could really use some slack. Actually, make that a bit less than that. Gotta count the ones who have enough power to make their problems other people's.
>fuel in a tube fireworks are the most advanced technology the human race has managed to create and it's very important!
Everyone can see how silly this shit is at this point shillanon. Give it up. Shit's a joke.
>more orbital shit
>not even a moon landing
get your ass to mars you god damn fucks.
The interesting thing here is you can send a greater variety of materials into orbit more cheaply. Theoretically an entire industry of ship construction could start in orbit now allowing entire fleets that ferry materials between planets to be constructed.
But noone landed on the moon.
Note that I am also not saying that you should use the money spent on that rocket to give gibs to niggers, but to say it's the"most important thing to happen in this century" is literally the media sucking Elon Musk's tiny dick over something that's going to do jack shit for humanity. Wanna know what's the best thing to come out of the 21st century? The actual development of Nuclear Fusion reactors some based scientists are working on. They finished it in 2016 and have been working on it for over 20 years. Don't see the media talking about it that much though. Wanna know why? The media knows literally nothing about what progress actually looks like.
The boosters landing themselves was cool as fuck and looked unreal.
Why are people still bullshitting around with firework tier combustion rockets when it’s obvious that the government has and is hiding something much better?
elon musk sent a car to space? i'm impressed, so ground breaking
he's done so much progress, we're already at the level of 60s soviet union!
i think we need to give this man an extra trillion dollars so he can do more of that amazing work
>The interesting thing here is you can send a greater variety of materials into orbit more cheaply. Theoretically an entire industry of ship construction could start in orbit now allowing entire fleets that ferry materials between planets to be constructed.
Yay, more useless stuff up there to start the Kessler syndrome to obiliterate space travel forever
Yeah , Imagine having our own Saturn ring, except it's a fucking sphere and it's all over us.
Finland I know you haven’t seen the sun for a few months but that doesn’t mean you have to be depressed all the time.
The ability to successfully mine asteroid resources will create the first trillionaires.
This is the point of SpaceX
Too much too soon. When 90% of the planet is retarded, you can't just blow them out so hard when you're already blowing them out with bottle rockets.
Still plenty of money to be made with bottle rockets.
There was 0 hours of clear sky in my city of Jyväskylä in December.
What's the corporate tax rate for space mining
I'm so behind on deliveries, i know lets send a top model to space. This guy is retarded
>the discovery of America by John Cabot in 1497
Wat?
Gay.
>yfw your trillion dollar scam somehow pulls off
It would be retarded to make something like elysium. Such a shit movie. With their tech they should easily be able to terraform. Also why fuck around with earth at all as it is in that movie
>one of the most remarkable achievements of mankind
>invasion of Normandy
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>1 post by this ID
oh, of course
sage
kek
> discovery of John Cabot in 1497
Another Italian discovered America, Cristoforo Colombo in 1492.
>The ability to successfully mine asteroid resources will create the first trillionaires.
So just to get this straight. Mining material here on Planet Earth is "meeehhhh, who cares!" but mining material on asteroids with the same composition as Earth is "wuhhh, look, we are going to be trillionaires!"
Shit doesn't have more gold and platinum and stuff on an asteroid as it does have in the Earth's crust.
>>the discovery of America by John Cabot in 1497
>Wat?
What do you mean, what? Memeflag education everyone. He doesn't even know when North America was discovered.
>Another Italian discovered America, Cristoforo Colombo in 1492.
He discovered some Caribbean islands. Saying Colombo discovered America is like saying dudes who "discovered" New Guinea actually discovered Australia.
>can take 17 ton payload to Mars for $90m
>it cost $1.6 billion for NASA to put the space shuttle into orbit every time. Total project cost $209 bilion.
At this point, we should be crowdfunding for a mars colony.
Exclusive? What is so exclusive about this?
Soviets had rockets that landed themselves?
Here's your fucking (you).
+ we should be happy for government to get out of space exploration.
Erik Thorvaldsson (Eric the Red) discovered what is today Greenland and thus North America circa 970 A.D
this doesnt look like an armour from 970 a.d
when was the drawing made
I think it goes beyond that. Mining asteroids will be done by automated robots. One could manufacter millions upon millions of them, hell they could use the initial resources to set up a 'factory' and manufacture themselves on site. When mining complete, they recycle themselves back into basic scrap. Then onto the next asteroid. I think with AI(if benign), it will become a machine god so to speak. We tell it what we want and it makes it happen. The AI could mine asteroid for materials, then engineer and manufacter giant self-sustaining space colonies. Overpopulation wouldn't be a factor at that point. You could produce as many colonies as you needed, and place them in their own unique solar orbits.
Have a (you) for being the real retard.
>who is Leif Erikson
I honestly don't know pol/and bro.
I guess they made it little bit fancier in books like in /picrelated
0%. The intergalactic empire will be founded on tax evasion. Just like the US.
>Erikson
"Son of Erik"
In Serbia it's ић , In Scotland it's mac(mc) , in Ireland it's O' etc.
>Imaginary friend
>grow up
pick one
You Germans just can't quit, can you?
Whats the point of sending a car anyway? Its a useless and extremely expensive and wasteful publicity stunt even if its real
Fifteen thousand years from now some astronomer is going to be very puzzled while scanning the night sky in trying to prove once again that the earth orbits the sun and sees a fucking automobile with a man inside. We really should have put it in a more visible orbit rather out in the asteroid belt.just to better mess with the future.
sageorino
en.wikipedia.org
Something like this?
When the Vikings came to America, the Indians told them they were not the first whiteman to show up, and that there was a massive land in the south known as "white mans land" filled with lots of near naked screaming men, these would be the Celts, mostly Walsh, Scottish, and Irish.
Disrespectful faggot. Lets see him launch his bitch-ass rockets from the African continent.
It's about cargo capacity versus cost.
Elon just cut the cost of putting that meme-car into orbit by about 95%.
This means we can now go to Moons of Jupiter for less than it cost to go to our own Moon in the sixties.
The first launch of a new type of rocket is incredibly risky. Therefore it's traditional to send a boilerplate or dummy payload. Usually they send up a block of concrete or something because it doesn't matter then if the rocket blows up.
That doesn't really have the same impact as sending up a car with a spacesuit driving it. It's not really as fun either.
You don't really want to use something useful like a satellite because they are actually expensive and it's likely they're going to be blown up.
Apparently SpaceX did contact NASA and a few others asking if they wanted to risk a payload on the first launch but they all declined.
How NASA fakes the space experience:
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5 scientific experiments that prove Earth is stationary:
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COOL, let's go to a moon of Jupiter and build a Burger King so we can start raking in those Space buxx!
ummmm no