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Re: One step closer to Mars
[Re: Joe4majors]
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08/06/20 09:52 AM
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MarkAlan
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Well I believe that it would take many years to get Starlink up and running, along with generating a profit. All I can say is it better be a very big profit. I also dont believe they are anywhere near ready to fly to another planet, much less live on one. It is very difficult to fly to the moon, and if you have an issue its only 3 days away. Mars has a window of one shot every 26 months. If you miss that window you cannot get to Mars. If you have an issue on the way, it is very possible no one can get to you to help. Flying to the space station is no where near as complex as going to the moon,or mars. They have made one flight, with a crew. I do believe they will some day go, but it will be a group effort, not just one company doing it, due to the amount of resources, and cash that will be needed.
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Re: One step closer to Mars
[Re: Joe4majors]
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08/06/20 10:47 AM
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Geno
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Starlink is signing up beta testers now. They will not be years in the coming.
I am starting to love the brilliant bassturd. He just sold his mansion in CA after telling Alameda County that he would bail on them and relocate to TX or NV if they didn't let him go back to work, he opened the CA Tesla factory against the county's orders, was on the front lines and asked that only he be arrested. They backed down. I hope he moves all of his assets away from CA. Very sad to see the state in the shape it's in as most of the folks in the rural areas are good people just like the rest of us but they get outvoted by the metro areas which are mostly insane.
He's accomplished in 6 years for less than 1 billion dollars what Obama said would take 12 years and cost 26 billion as far as space travel. He builds and sells inexpensive civilian flame throwers (kind of sad ones but they still work). He built gigafactories for the mass production of lithium ion batteries designed to be entirely self-sufficient, running off of both solar and wind energy and reduced the price of production of the batteries his cars use by 30 percent. He refused his Tesla salary in order to have as much money as possible going to forward the advancement of electric cars. His foundation benefiting the world makes donations ranging from $200k to $600k per year, many of them going towards disaster relief. In order to be as efficient and cost-effective as possible, the foundation website is simply a plain, non-flashy page with a list of where the grant money goes to:
Renewable energy research and advocacy Human space exploration research and advocacy Pediatric research Science and engineering education Development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity
He smoked a doob and had a glass of whiskey on national television.
He would be a far better president than any currently on the ballots or in office but he claims he doesn't want the job as he doesn't easily suffer fools.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
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Re: One step closer to Mars
[Re: Joe4majors]
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08/06/20 10:57 AM
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Goatkiller
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Elon Musk = Your tax dollars at work.
No government employees were harmed in the making of this mess.
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Re: One step closer to Mars
[Re: Joe4majors]
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08/06/20 11:36 AM
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MarkAlan
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Starlink is in Beta test, but look at how many are in orbit for the test. Plus he must show the speeds promised or they will remove the approval for the network. If he passes that test, and he probably will, to start making money, he is looking at 3000 plus sats in orbit. It takes time to get them up. I do believe they will, but it just takes time. Now profit from them would be a whole new thing. "He's accomplished in 6 years for less than 1 billion dollars what Obama said would take 12 years and cost 26 billion as far as space travel." And you think they did this without any help? That would be wrong. I have worked the program for 5 years. If you go back and look the USA had an option for getting crew to ISS. It used existing solid rocket boosters from the shuttle. The program also included what is today SLS. Obama and his crew mandated the use of commercial partners. The whole plan is to turn over ISS to commercial partners for research, and move on to Gateway, which is a small station in lunar orbit. Have a system that can transport to the moon surface, and then build as system to go to Mars.
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Re: One step closer to Mars
[Re: Goatkiller]
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08/06/20 12:22 PM
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Joe4majors
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Elon Musk = Your tax dollars at work.
NASA = 10 times your tax dollars moving at a snail's pace
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