Change my mind. Elon Musk is the greatest man alive today.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. They're repetitive and usually turn nasty.
Live feed of Starship SN10 flight test [video]
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#122Change my mind. Elon Musk is the greatest man alive today.
Why would I? The pain and sacrifice he went through to get where he is right now is just crazy....sacrificing the multimillionaire lifestyle is not easy. I loved Lex's interview with Jason, he was talking about it as well.
yes i'm sure the richest person in the world is really suffering. get outta here
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. One day we will need to leave Earth. Maybe sooner than later. Would you rather have a spacecraft or not when that becomes a need? 2. Many rare materials are common in space. Even if we do not leave Earth, being able to bring those to us would do a great deal. 3. What if we discover life through exploring the cosmos? 4. Nobody settled new lands the first time they sailed the ocean (at least not very successfully).…
> 1. One day we will need to leave Earth. Maybe sooner than later. Would you rather have a spacecraft or not when that becomes a need? I don’t equate visiting another planet or planets with saving the human species. We have vast existential problems, mostly imposed by ourselves, right now on Earth. Let’s say we had a copy of Earth that we could travel to right now in a safe solar system with a healthy star. Is the hu…
> I don’t equivocate visiting another planet or planets with saving the human species.
All it takes is one big, unlucky rock hurlting through space hitting this singular planet of ours, and we're gone like the dinosaurs. Eggs in one basket, and all that.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
1. One day we will need to leave Earth. Maybe sooner than later. Would you rather have a spacecraft or not when that becomes a need? 2. Many rare materials are common in space. Even if we do not leave Earth, being able to bring those to us would do a great deal. 3. What if we discover life through exploring the cosmos? 4. Nobody settled new lands the first time they sailed the ocean (at least not very successfully).…
> 1. One day we will need to leave Earth. Maybe sooner than later. Would you rather have a spacecraft or not when that becomes a need? I don’t equate visiting another planet or planets with saving the human species. We have vast existential problems, mostly imposed by ourselves, right now on Earth. Let’s say we had a copy of Earth that we could travel to right now in a safe solar system with a healthy star. Is the hu…
Just FYI you probably meant equate instead of equivocate. Two other reasons to add on to the GP's post:
(i) improving our species fault-tolerance to astroids, and other existential risk is a good thing
(ii) efforts like SpaceX make science "cool again" in a way that it has not been since the Apollo program, and generally since the end of WWII
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's in the stream here, higher res than the twitter video posted below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOQkk3ojNfM
I don't think we can link specific times in a stream that is still going, so if you go to that link, rewind to T+14:30 shown in the top left corner
Yes that's how I found it, just by dragging the slider until I saw the explosion, then using left/right arrow for more fine gained time index placement.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, a giant asteroid just hit the Earth and wiped out all life on the planet rendering your questions meaningless.
If you want to prepare for that eventuality, instead of wasting your time and money colonizing Mars, you should be spending your time and money on doing asteroid surveys, and working on deflection strategies. It's far cheaper, and will save billions of lives. Your ROI from doing so is going to be a hell of a lot better. In comparison to that, colonization is a science fiction fantasy, in search of a problem to solve.
Why not do both?
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, a giant asteroid just hit the Earth and wiped out all life on the planet rendering your questions meaningless.
If you want to prepare for that eventuality, instead of wasting your time and money colonizing Mars, you should be spending your time and money on doing asteroid surveys, and working on deflection strategies. It's far cheaper, and will save billions of lives. Your ROI from doing so is going to be a hell of a lot better. In comparison to that, colonization is a science fiction fantasy, in search of a problem to solve.
I wonder if the people working on asteroid deflection strategies would find it useful to have a giant cheap general purpose factory-produced fully reusable rocket that can refuel itself in orbit and quickly reach various points in the solar system and deliver a significant amount of payload to them?
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of this story: The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty p…
“It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work – and learning from their mistakes” Why would they care about quality? If they learned from their mistakes, they would make two or three pots, each one heavier than the rest (smart students would just make one item, making sure it weighed at least 50 kgs). This probably would work if the teacher promised them 1 point for each mediocre ite…
I don't think many people take a pottery class purely for the grade! They obviously all desire to make good pottery along the way!
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#130It did land, then exploded right now. There was a fire at the base of the SN10 and apparently got to the tank after a few minutes. 99% success. Next time for 100% hopefully.
Definitely looked like it landed a little hard and then looked like it was leaning a bit after.
There have been successful falcon 9 landings that looked like they hit the ground harder than that. I suppose either Starship will need to be more gentle when it sets down, or the legs will need to be more capable.