SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]

Post by Ajedi32 » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:32 PM UTC

numlock86 wrote: post #107

betwixthewires wrote: post #91

Man, Elon Musk is awesome. Just putting the fact that I just downloaded a user manual for a multi planetary spacecraft in PDF format into historical context, if you think about how thus all came together it really is amazing. We went from "this guy is nuts" to "oh yeah this is probably going to happen." When Tesla first came into public view, the idea that a car entirely electric powered that drives itself developed…

What really stands out is the impact of this guy, too. Imagine he just wouldn't have done those things. Imagine no PayPal, no Tesla, no SpaceX ... it's easy to say "Yeah, someone else would have probably done it then." but that's just not right. Otherwise we'd see a lot more of those things by now. Sure, there are some now, but most if not all are the result of him setting the bar in the first place.

Post by Pelic4n » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:47 PM UTC

DarmokJalad1701 wrote: post #162

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Absolutely no irony. That's how Elon Musk happened. If you want more Elon Musk that's how you can get them I guess. Soon you'll have an army of geniuses building that cool space utopia for billionaires while the rest of us can stay in the dying world they left us. Our NeuraLink(tm) units will get us through the day, rewarding mining enough rare earth metals with dopamine hits and pain suppression! (That, that was iro…

Stop parroting debunked allegations. https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/iivbk5/elon_m...

Post by skykooler » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:54 PM UTC

elihu wrote: post #52

Ballu wrote: post #44

"The cargo version can also be used for rapid point-to-point Earth transport." Why no one is talking about this. This will be game changer if can be done with bigger payload. There are models created earlier that using rocket technology/mechanism, LA-HK can be reached in 2 hours. This can have huge impact on avionics esp with trade.

That seems very expensive and inefficient compared to planes or ships. What's the use case you're imagining where a plane is just too slow? The only thing I can think of is if some service like FedEx can amortize the cost of the launch across a very large number of low-mass items and charge a premium for fast delivery. Still, I'd assume that this would use vastly more fuel per mass of cargo moved than a plane, and sh…

Post by skykooler » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

WizardAustralis wrote: post #135

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There's a difference between discussing legitimate issues versus going on a tirade rants full of misinformation to prove your point. That's what these channels do. For example one of their videos says that Starship isn't possible because of space radiation. Which is a much discredited idea and has been for years.

The issues of space radiation is far from discredited. It is one.of the major issues that still doesn't have an elegant solution. One.idea that SpaceX is proposing is to try and get the trip to Mars to 6 months. It will still be a serious issue but it would at least be better than the typical trip proposal. One of the reasons I posted that channel was because they seem to have really done their research far beyond th…

Post by _Microft » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:05 PM UTC

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If Ashlee Vance's biography of Musk can be trusted, he worked different jobs as ancillary worker doing things like selling fruits, cleaning grain silos or even ovens in a factory. As student he is said to have hosted parties for students in a house he and a fellow student had rented to pay for the rent (same source).

Not trolling, but the second point casts doubt on it all, given that I have a hard time imagining Musk hosting parties, let alone getting people to pay for them. This is also pre-hair, pre-money Elon Musk we are talking about.