SpaceX Tuesday...

[Beati Dogu]

Musk has already Tweeted that the rocket will have a:

12 m rocket booster diameter (39.37 ft)
17 m spaceship diameter (55.77 ft)
122 m stack height (400 ft)


The Saturn V by comparison:

10.1 m largest diameter (33.0 ft)
110.6 m stack height (363.0 ft)

So yeah, it's big.

[SystemParanoia]

ninja-lewis said:

Slight delay - should start any moment now.

This video has appeared early - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA

Edited by ninja-lewis on Tuesday 27th September 19:49

excellent

[p1stonhead]

I wish I could live so much longer just to see if/when this happens!

[Brother D]

p1stonhead said:

I wish I could live so much longer just to see if/when this happens!

How short a time-frame do you have? I can see this happening within 20 years

[p1stonhead]

Brother D said:

p1stonhead said:

I wish I could live so much longer just to see if/when this happens!

How short a time-frame do you have? I can see this happening within 20 years

I'd love it if that were true but (and I know nothing of this technology) I'm skeptical at a fairy high level at the moment.

Sounds all very Star Trek to me right now although I know it's a bit past that at the moment.

[London424]

They've said they'll start sending in 2 years!

[RobDickinson]

London424 said:

They've said they'll start sending in 2 years!

Red Dragon mission in 2018, will be a dragon II with possibly no payload.

Its then or 2020.

[Sylvaforever]

Frack! the've only gone and built and built the cryogenic tanks for it!

[p1stonhead]

Some bloody morons in the audience!

[Beati Dogu]

Pity about the utter dick heads asking the questions.

[RobDickinson]

Building large scale composite structures for space is hard. Oh here is a HUGE tank we already built...


and wtf is with these questions, someone please screen them what a mess.

[Beati Dogu]

LOL Great minds think alike.

[RobDickinson]

550 tons to LEO :O

20% chunkier than the Saturn V but a lot more lift.

42 raptor engines..

:O

[Beati Dogu]

They should make the first few a "B" Ark for some of the retards in the audience and their SJW friends around the world. They get to go to Venus.

[p1stonhead]

fk me how did they just let every moron in this place?! Why not fill the place with scientists!

'Can you come out and see my electric bus?!'

Edited by p1stonhead on Tuesday 27th September 21:32

[RobDickinson]

electric buses..??

[p1stonhead]

God he seemed so deflated at the end. This is his future vision for us and those questions were beyond cringy.

[Sylvaforever]

Russian lady had a valid query.

bor.......

[RobDickinson]

So the plan is to launch a 122m rocket with space ship into LEO

Land the rocket back at the launch pad, drop on a fuel tank , refuel

launch that up to the space ship to refuel it in LEO

Then land the booster and fuel tank back on earth

Then fly 100 people to mars.

Rinse/repeat...

[Sylvaforever]

Beati Dogu said:

Pity about the utter dick heads asking the questions.

x10