Spacex Falcon 9 launch

Discussion in 'The Thunderdome' started by IP, Dec 21, 2015.

  1. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    I guess it is a high end electric battery and engine. Could be useful.
     
  2. lumberjack4

    lumberjack4 Chieftain

    When the space zombies come, you'll want a car.
     
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  3. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Starman, going to be cruising out to Mars and back for 1 billion years. Hell of a road trip.
     
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  4. lumberjack4

    lumberjack4 Chieftain

    Can't wait for China to shoot it out of the sky when it loops back around.
     
  5. hohenfelsvol

    hohenfelsvol Beer run

    And I heard there is a mannequin in the car so you can use the Mars car pool lanes
     
  6. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    Fake.
     
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  7. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    call me when it's an X-wing
     
  8. lumberjack4

    lumberjack4 Chieftain

    I still haven't seen a status as to whether or not the 3rd booster was successfully recovered on the drone ship.
     
  9. gcbvol

    gcbvol Fabulous Moderator

  10. gcbvol

    gcbvol Fabulous Moderator

     
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  11. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    Oh man, not Earth. Humans always make shoddy, cheap shit.
     
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  12. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Live Starman feed is my crack for the night.

     
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  13. lumberjack4

    lumberjack4 Chieftain

    Lost the 3rd booster. According to Musk, preliminary data indicates it hit the ocean "at around 200 miles per hour" a football field away from the drone ship. All things considered this has been an amazing accomplishment.

    They should be doing their final burn in about an hour to send Starman into an Earth-Mars Hoffman Transfer Orbit.
     
  14. fl0at_

    fl0at_ Humorless, asinine, joyless pr*ck

    Especially the English writing ones.
     
  15. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    Third burn was successful and will put it out towards the Asteroid Belt instead of Mars.

    Even though it will never happen, I would love for us to be able to get a shot of the car traveling through space in a few years. Seeing what the Sun does to the car would be interesting to me, as it will most definitely bleach the crap out of the car's colors.
     
  16. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    My understanding is the car will be unrecognizable in a couple of years, due to radiation and micrometeors
     
  17. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    We’ll just have to remember it’s the one parked in space.
     
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  18. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    Those are actually dents from alien female drivers
     
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  19. fl0at_

    fl0at_ Humorless, asinine, joyless pr*ck

    He can file a physical damage claim with his insurer.
     
  20. lumberjack4

    lumberjack4 Chieftain

    I wonder what caused them to put it in a different orbit. Unless they didn't want a car taking up space on a highly desirable transit route between Earth and Mars.
     

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