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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qo78R_yYFA Come and watch Elon Musk talk about how he wants SpaceX to get to Mars over the next decade. The SpaceX Mars Architecture Discussion starts in 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YxNYiyALg (stream) The better dicsussion and questions & answers will be over at the spaceflight thread in the SAL subforum. Or join us in #spaceflight on irc.synirc.net e: 
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That Tesla + Solar City merger is going to go just fine and all the Wall Street analyst chicken littles are just unambitious stodges. "Uhh gonna sue Elon this can't be allowed to happen!" cry about it more. Dude is the only billionaire doing some super cool space stuff.
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Sep 27, 2016 19:30
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Can't wait for us to colonize new planets, but due to realistic distances in space, our divergent evolution will result in new distinct species of humanity which can then war with each other among the stars...
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Sep 27, 2016 19:32
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I can't wait for humans to meet alien life and then brutally subjugate it. Be like some Klingon warrior code assholes being dicks to us and we'll just smile and obliterate all your worlds with cloaked nukes and von Neumann machines and strip mine the remains.
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Sep 27, 2016 19:52
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"Hello?" Elon Musk sat in his leather executive chair talking into his solar powered smartphone. His girlfriend was on the line again and it sounded like she was upset. "Did you change your facebook status to "single" without breaking up with me?" she said. Elon Musk sighed, "Listen this thing isn't working out, i think we need to take a break, permanently." Elon Musk's girlfriend became audibly agitated, "But things were going so well!? Why?" Elon Musk put on his expensive Ray-Ban sunglasses, and leaned back in his leather executive office chair, which cost over $1000 and had adjustable lumbar support. "Sorry babe, I only want to gently caress guys in space and get pounded by Astronauts now. On mars."
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Sep 27, 2016 19:58
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I for one am glad a guy is doing big dumb ambitious technology things with his piles of money. The fact that silicon valley types are also enjoying it is a small price to pay.
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Sep 27, 2016 20:05
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Strategic Tea posted:The fact that silicon valley types are also enjoying it is a small price to pay. They hate it and poo poo talk Tesla and its shareholders all the time as just having faith rather than any solid investment rationale. It's pretty great. Maybe because he's like "I wanna go to Mars" while they're all "I wanna disrupt bicycles."
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Sep 27, 2016 20:06
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I am rooting for NASA's insane asteroid capture mission. Elon Musk has some cool ideas and tons of money, but SpaceX is all over the place and getting too big for their britches. They should focus on one thing and do that thing really good. Like NASA and Mars robots.
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Sep 27, 2016 20:22
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Roylicious posted:They hate it and poo poo talk Tesla and its shareholders all the time as just having faith rather than any solid investment rationale. It's pretty great.  even betterWe have a three point plan to democratise yogurt shopping by connecting users and content (yogurt) creators. What do you have rocket scientists? e: Also "for the first time the rocket's performance will exceed the actual size of the rocket"
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Sep 27, 2016 20:29
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shoophobo posted:Elon Musk has some cool ideas and tons of money, but SpaceX is all over the place and getting too big for their britches. They should focus on one thing and do that thing really good. Like NASA and Mars robots. On the other hand, SpaceX is profitable right now.
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Sep 27, 2016 20:31
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I'm very excited for this. Step 1) Steal underpants. Cannon_Fodder fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Sep 27, 2016 20:39
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Lol we're going to die on this rock. Which, honestly is a good thing. The rest of the universe hasn't done anything to deserve being contaminated by humans.
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Sep 27, 2016 20:54
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skeletonotherkin posted:Lol we're going to die on this rock. Which, honestly is a good thing. The rest of the universe hasn't done anything to deserve being contaminated by humans. All the stars are Terran.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:06
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Libelous Slander posted:Can't wait for us to colonize new planets, but due to realistic distances in space, our divergent evolution will result in new distinct species of humanity which can then war with each other among the stars... I know this is unreasonably optimistic, but I hope we learn how to fully excise peaceful economic/cultural soft power instead of violence by the time we get far enough and diverge. Warfare has considerably dropped since 1945, at least, which is what makes me hopeful.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:18
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Roylicious posted:On the other hand, SpaceX is profitable right now. Pfft, profit is for chumps, I'm gonna mainline everyone's web search data and become an information broker  *is shot by james bond*
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Sep 27, 2016 21:21
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Tweezer Reprise posted:Warfare has considerably dropped since 1945, at least, which is what makes me hopeful. Pretty much only because we know we'd obliterate each other in nuclear fire if something like WW2 were to ever happen again. Those blue aliens? The Navi or whatever? We're gonna rain asteroids down onto their world and afterwards we'll pretend like we didn't know they were there and it was all a big tragic mistake (while strip mining the planet).
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Sep 27, 2016 21:25
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Elon Musk has so far fielded questions such as: - Want to do a FunnyOrDie video about sending Michael Cera to Mars? We have millions of views on YouTube. - Can I give you a kiss? - Do you want to go to Mars? - I brought a book for you, can I throw it on the stage? - I went to Burning Man and it was a shithole, is Mars going to be a shithole?
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Sep 27, 2016 21:26
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Can't get enough of that Elon's musk. 
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Sep 27, 2016 21:28
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If you bang a dude alien is it gay? What if the alien ladies have the penis? I read a documentary called Space Tits and I don't know what's what in space. Does Mr. Musk have a plan for that?
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Sep 27, 2016 21:29
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 Elon is open to suggestions for the name of the first shuttle that goes to Mars You know what to do goons.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:30
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Also he likes Kerbal Space Program which is a good game.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:31
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Roylicious posted:Pretty much only because we know we'd obliterate each other in nuclear fire if something like WW2 were to ever happen again. Dude I dunno. It genuinely seems like most people would be abhorred of that kind of behavior these days. I know it's the "wiser" and safer route to assume we're always terrible Hobbes-style, but I just got that hope, man.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:32
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Mr. Jive posted:Elon Musk has so far fielded questions such as: Adding one to this list: - I've got a 30 ton electric bus outside, would you mind checking it out after this is over?
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Sep 27, 2016 21:33
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Tweezer Reprise posted:Dude I dunno. It genuinely seems like most people would be abhorred of that kind of behavior these days. I know it's the "wiser" and safer route to assume we're always terrible Hobbes-style, but I just got that hope, man. We would be but we'd do it anyway and that's the true horror of humans. The aliens won't know what hit 'em. I mean really we're in the process of wiping out pretty much any particularly cool/interesting animal you care to name in the name of dick powder and iPhones. If some alien life is in between us and AI fuckmachines then bro it's all over for them one way or another.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:37
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There is no logical reason to subjicate an alien race or even land on their planets for resources. All resources that we need are more abundant in the asteroid belt or rings around other planets. We need to leave the planets with life alone or else we get hosed by those Black Monoliths from 2001
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Sep 27, 2016 21:46
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[sees someone who cant land his tiny rocket in a tight space & it randomly explodes with little provocation] This is the guy I would gently caress extremely.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:48
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Fried Watermelon posted:There is no logical reason to subjicate an alien race or even land on their planets for resources. Humans are not rational actors.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:48
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I believe the #1 motivation for colonizing Mars is not necessarily to act as a stepping stone to colonizing other worlds (maybe far, far into the future) but more to act as a Human Disaster Recovery program when we inevitably annihilate all signs of life on Earth.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:50
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a man is dead because he used tesla's autopilot exactly as intended and advertised lmao
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Sep 27, 2016 21:51
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Elon Musk: truly a howard hughes for the modern age
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Sep 27, 2016 21:52
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OMGVBFLOL posted:a man is dead because he used tesla's autopilot exactly as intended and advertised lmao He died for the greater good
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Sep 27, 2016 21:55
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Jim Lovell, Astronaut - Gemini 7, 12 Apollo 8, 13 posted:"...we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. It wasn't a miracle, we just decided to go." Humans are  when it comes to exploring. We do it just because why not.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:55
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Fried Watermelon posted:There is no logical reason to subjicate an alien race or even land on their planets for resources. I just assumed we'd annihilate each other with relativistic asteroids out of a fear that the other party would annihilate us.
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Sep 27, 2016 21:55
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Roylicious posted:On the other hand, SpaceX is profitable right now. i didn't realise tech companies still did anything as prosaic as make any money ever
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Sep 27, 2016 21:58
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OMGVBFLOL posted:a man is dead because he used tesla's autopilot exactly as intended and advertised lmao Actually he had his hands off the wheel and wasn't paying attention while watching a DVD.
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Sep 27, 2016 22:00
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Roylicious posted:Actually he had his hands off the wheel and wasn't paying attention while watching a DVD. Engineers playing jenga on the freeway on twitter, a marketing lady on NPR joking about how you can read a book while driving, etc etc etc adding a disclaimer that "don't actually do any of this awesome poo poo you will definitely be able to do, make sure to always keep your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road even though you totally won't need to" doesn't mean poo poo
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Sep 27, 2016 22:09
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I don't think Tesla's position has ever been anything but 'you still need to be paying attention' regardless of what some people on Twitter did and I feel like given the fact that driving is a super dangerous activity anyway harping on this one fatality as proof of anything is a bit silly and premature considering the government agencies haven't even concluded their investigation yet.
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Sep 27, 2016 22:15
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Fried Watermelon posted:There is no logical reason to subjicate an alien race or even land on their planets for resources.
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Sep 27, 2016 22:16
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I feel like sitting in a car carefully watching for mistakes as an AI drives it is actually more stressful and taxing than just driving
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unironically seize the assets of every rich person and give them to elon monks
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