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Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


hyperloop more like hyperpoop.

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BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

Solar lovely

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

BONGHITZ posted:

Solar lovely

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

is elon musk the new steve jobs w/r/t nerd dickriding


cause im tired of hearing about how elon musk is gonna jerk off on the surface of jupiter in 5 years or whatever poo poo

yes

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp
he filled the cult of personality vacuum, not the personality vacuum

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
i like elon musk a lot more than steve jobs but definitely lol at everything about him

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar
elon didnt lose the rocket, it's right there. maybe he lost a few pieces of it though

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Maximum Leader posted:

volvo self driving cars are happening, uber/google cant do real engineering and stand no chance against established swedish engineering prowess. the whole conversation is moot, the americans are doomed beforehand.

lol no they're not

quote:

Volvo's North American CEO, Lex Kerssemakers, lost his cool as the automaker's semi-autonomous prototype sporadically refused to drive itself during a press event at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

"It can't find the lane markings!" Kerssemakers griped to Mayor Eric Garcetti, who was at the wheel. "You need to paint the bloody roads here!"

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

the code is just one big ol' switch statement loaded with traffic rules

linoleum floors
Mar 25, 2012

Please. Let me tell you all about how you're all idiots. I am of superior intellect here. Go suck some dicks. You have all fucking stupid opinions. This is my fucking opinion.
self driving cars are the hydrogen fuel cell cars of the 21st century

loving stupid idea that will never work

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
watch elon musk build a solar powered road

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
If you look closely at the vid from US Launch Report you see the ignition source near the propellant loading umbilical. Now that is not to say that was the exact cause. But there is overwelming consensus from SpaceX that it was not the fault of the rocket. And this is only speculation, but my opinion is based off deductive reasoning based on the fireball created... From the video you can see the the 2nd stage ignite and in turn rupturing the first sdage and as you seenthere was a cascade of fuel much like a Guinness cascade coming down.

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

linoleum floors posted:

self driving cars are the hydrogen fuel cell cars of the 21st century

loving stupid idea that will never work

lol what

post again

please

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

you know that car that you drive around in every day? turns out, it doesnt exist because internet dumbass is threatened by it

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Breakfast All Day posted:

you know that car that you drive around in every day? turns out, it doesnt exist because internet dumbass is threatened by it

what

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

linoleum floors posted:

self driving cars are the hydrogen fuel cell cars of the 21st century

loving stupid idea that will never work

agreed

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Breakfast All Day posted:

you know that car that you drive around in every day? turns out, it doesnt exist because internet dumbass is threatened by it

oh my god, you're posting from the original timeline

burning swine
May 26, 2004



SpaceAceJase posted:

If you look closely at the vid from US Launch Report you see the ignition source near the propellant loading umbilical. Now that is not to say that was the exact cause. But there is overwelming consensus from SpaceX that it was not the fault of the rocket. And this is only speculation, but my opinion is based off deductive reasoning based on the fireball created... From the video you can see the the 2nd stage ignite and in turn rupturing the first sdage and as you seenthere was a cascade of fuel much like a Guinness cascade coming down.

Liquid fueled rockets are crazy dangerous. All it takes is a little bit of fuel touching a little bit of liquid oxidizer and you get an explosion like this.


Read "command and control" by Eric Schlosser for a very detailed examination of this kind of incident (in that case a titan II)

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Elder Postsman posted:

lol no they're not

lol @ relying on painted lane markers

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

qirex posted:

let's keep interest rates at nothing forever it's good for the economy for companies to go 10 figgies into debt in 3 years then spectacularly melt down

-leading economists

one thing is sure however - musk himself will probably stay stupid rich his entire life, trump style, despite all his projects tanking

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

is elon musk the new steve jobs w/r/t nerd dickriding


cause im tired of hearing about how elon musk is gonna jerk off on the surface of jupiter in 5 years or whatever poo poo

I just wish the world would get better

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

BONGHITZ posted:

Solar lovely

Maximum Leader
Dec 5, 2014

Elder Postsman posted:

lol no they're not

yeah obviously they are going to have problems in third world countries like the US, Cambodia, Venezuela etc. where the roads aren't maintained.

fuck the mods
Mar 30, 2015
jet fuel can't melt steel beams, but this rocket just happened to explode? hmmm

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

gently caress the mods posted:

jet fuel can't melt steel beams, but this rocket just happened to explode? hmmm

In cases of legitimate melting, the rocket can just shut that down

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



elon musk sucks

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
yes, but it's nice to see a rich guy waste a lot of money on making sci-fi stuff instead of just yachts and patent suits.

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

maniacdevnull posted:

In cases of legitimate melting, the rocket can just shut that down

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

is elon musk the new steve jobs w/r/t nerd dickriding


cause im tired of hearing about how elon musk is gonna jerk off on the surface of jupiter in 5 years or whatever poo poo

I wish he would try this and get compressed into a lump of metallic hydrogen

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe

maniacdevnull posted:

In cases of legitimate melting, the rocket can just shut that down

Rockets just explode because they're lazy and want time off to goof around on the launch pad

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder

maniacdevnull posted:

In cases of legitimate melting, the rocket can just shut that down

lol

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Shaggar posted:

lol @ relying on painted lane markers

says the man living in the state that can't fund its roads

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

maniacdevnull posted:

In cases of legitimate melting, the rocket can just shut that down

triple sulk posted:

elon musk sucks

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

elon musk is ok but his one flaw is lacking a middle initial so that rms and esr groupies would glom onto him too

Jimmy Carter
Nov 3, 2005

THIS MOTHERDUCKER
FLIES IN STYLE
to be fair it's not like many other people with comical amounts of net worth are doing cool poo poo

oh cool another casino being built


someone give Boom aviation whatever money they want I wanna see people padding expense accounts with supersonic flights

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
EFM

elon loving musk

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
I've been told that in the case of a legitimate zuck the rocket has a way of shutting that whole thing down

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Maximum Leader posted:

yeah obviously they are going to have problems in third world countries like the US, Cambodia, Venezuela etc. where the roads aren't maintained.

the minnesota drivers test actually had a question along the lines of "what do you do when you can't see any road markings"

it occurred to me that you probably can't see the markings on some roads 4 months out of the year

Malcolm XML
Aug 8, 2009

I always knew it would end like this.

hobbesmaster posted:

the minnesota drivers test actually had a question along the lines of "what do you do when you can't see any road markings"

it occurred to me that you probably can't see the markings on some roads 4 months out of the year


self driving car tech is trivial in 99% of cases, so trivial that iphone hacker dude could do it with cots parts


the hard part is that 1% and most systems now will basically go "lmao u handle this"


its gonna be a clusterfuck

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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
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Shaggar posted:

lol @ relying on painted lane markers

yuuuuuuup

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