Musk revises Mars ambitions
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Musk revises Mars ambitions
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#2The article does not do his talk justice. It is definitely worth watching the whole thing: https://youtu.be/S5V7R_se1Xc
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#3Who cares if Musk's predictions are realistic? He is doing us all a tremendous service by keeping Mars in the public conversation.
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#4I think the new, smaller BFR is still too big. It seems to me like a rocket about the size of the New Glenn [1] would more sense.
But then I'm not a rocket scientist.
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#5Who cares if Musk's predictions are realistic? He is doing us all a tremendous service by keeping Mars in the public conversation.
Realism is a difficult thing to predict. If you're conservative in your estimate of what is probable, then you probably will choose to do nothing. If you are too liberal, you may say I'm a dreamer (But I'm not the only one). If you manage to peg it to the true probability, then you will probably fail to inspire the imagination, and thus fail to motivate the ones that will help you achieve. Knowing this, you let your dream be a bit inflated, and by doing so you achieve more than you would have if you had said outright what was truly probable.
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#6Who cares if Musk's predictions are realistic? He is doing us all a tremendous service by keeping Mars in the public conversation.
For sure it's not a "tremendous service" for us all. It's just free marketing for his very real products.
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#7Last year, it was the Interplanetary Transport System, but now Musk has regressed to using the original, cheeky "code name" BFR, in which the B stands for big, the R stands for rocket, and the F stands for fun. (Not really).
I'm always astounded that apparently we still can't say fuck lest some bogeyman (real or imaginary) jump out and make you regret it.
It's a fucking word. For fuck's sake. I mean, at the point where it's used more often as garnish in it's various adverb and noun forms than it's original verb form, you know, to fuck, how bad can it really be and why do we need to penalize the usage so?
Now watch this get auto-depressed by HN's incendiary comment detection filters.
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#8Sending humans to Mars seems less attractive to me than sending robots to Ceres. Is there an argument for Mars that doesn't include the phrase "multi-planet species"?
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#9Last year, it was the Interplanetary Transport System, but now Musk has regressed to using the original, cheeky "code name" BFR, in which the B stands for big, the R stands for rocket, and the F stands for fun. (Not really). I'm always astounded that apparently we still can't say fuck lest some bogeyman (real or imaginary) jump out and make you regret it. It's a fucking word. For fuck's sake. I mean, at the point whe…
Is this an American cultural thing, or are other cultures just as averse to public swearing?
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#10The article does not do his talk justice. It is definitely worth watching the whole thing: https://youtu.be/S5V7R_se1Xc
Agree. I don't entirely agree that he's "revised" so much as got more specific.