SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)

I'm curious how the realized design that's launching today compares to the Saturn V. This article from 2016 implies that the Saturn V has three times the payload capacity, but that the Falcon Heavy is twelve times cheaper to launch (adjusting for inflation), implying a fourfold advantage in cost efficiency: https://www.universetoday.com/129989/saturn-v-vs-falcon-heav...

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Post by slimshady94 » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

So why exactly would it orbit the sun for a billion years?

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Post by arnaudsm » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #5

Over a MILLION live watchers on this youtube link. Is that a record for youtube?

Felix Baumgartner had 8 millions live viewers on YouTube in 2012

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Post by giarc » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 8:40 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #5

Over a MILLION live watchers on this youtube link. Is that a record for youtube?

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/15/business/la-fi-tn-fe...

Looks like the skydive from space received 8 million.

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Post by SAI_Peregrinus » Tue, Feb 06, 2018, 8:40 PM UTC

slimshady94 wrote: post #7

So why exactly would it orbit the sun for a billion years?

No significant forces are expected to interfere with it and disturb the orbit enough to make it hit another object.