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"Livestream starting soon". Does anyone know what time they're starting? (And please use a numeric timezone, I'm not a walking timezone database.)
God, my lifetime would be so boring if it wasn't for people like Elon.
SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA
In this case, it's pretty clearly not just a rocket. Both Bezos and Musk admit that this is their fantasy from when they were boys. We're never going to live on mars, this is entirely about mythological projection. The phallus is central to the purpose of this endeavor.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was supposed to start at 1:30PM CST [0], but it sounds like it is delayed [1] a few minutes [2]. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=1%3A30+cst [1] https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/780835809696092161 [2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/780838839644483586
> CST sigh Central standard time I'm guessing, so mid-US I guess "central" and "standard" mean here, so I'm guesstimating GMT-7. That would put it around 8:30 GMT.
For what it's worth, i too hate when people say things like "EST","CST" etc. Not only are they difficult to remember, but they're ambiguous. i.e. AEST is Australian Eastern Standard Time, but no one includes the A when it's spoken and rarely when its written, which often means when two people over email say "lets talk at 9am EST", hopefully they're on the same continent, or they will miss each other by around ~14 hours.
In this case, it's pretty clearly not just a rocket. Both Bezos and Musk admit that this is their fantasy from when they were boys. We're never going to live on mars, this is entirely about mythological projection. The phallus is central to the purpose of this endeavor.
1: http://thejohncarterfiles.com/2011/12/carl-sagan-on-the-magi...
This is so pleasant to see after being bombarded with US presidential politics. Science, hope and progress!
The earth isn't the problem - The problem is the human brain. We aren't genetically capable of processing the world we have built.
Expect there to be Trump IV vs Clinton IV 2117 hosted live on Mars if we haven't made significant improvements in human engineering.
"Livestream starting soon". Does anyone know what time they're starting? (And please use a numeric timezone, I'm not a walking timezone database.)