Musk wants to build spaceships

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#54
You guys are laughable. I hope most of you realize that humans have only been around for a few 10 thousand years. We get to F up the world for a few thousand years and then once we kill each other another species will come along and take our place. We are a short term species.
 
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VolStrom said:
You guys are laughable. I hope most of you realize that humans have only been around for a few 10 thousand years. We get to F up the world for a few thousand years and then once we kill each other another species will come along and take our place. We are a short term species.
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What an ignorant comment.
 
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Septic said:
I read where Tesla has improved the $/Kwh efficiency of the batteries so much that they can be profitable without the subsidies, none of the other EV car makers are remotely close to getting down to $100/kwh. The 100/kwh is where the battery reaches parity with gasoline engines without subsidies. I just bought a new car (Q5) and though I looked at ev's, my next one will almost certainly be one.
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Is this where Tesla adds fire suppression systems to the car? The fires without all that extra umph were already pretty spectacular.
 
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McDad said:
Better still. I wouldn't be violating the laws of thermodynamics, would I?
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Yeah, you'd be trying and Mother Nature will write you a big ticket for that; she doesn't like it when people try to screw with the laws of thermodynamics.
 
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VolStrom said:
Watch the TFLcar series on YouTube where the owners son backs one into the door frame and does what looks like minor damage. It took months and cost probably 5 times what a normal car would have cost to fix.
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That's my only hangup, really.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
His rockets suck
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The statistics say otherwise..

Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 84 times over 10 years, resulting in 82 full mission successes (97.6%), one partial success (CRS-1 delivered its cargo to the ISS, but a secondary payload was stranded in a lower-than-planned orbit), and one failure (the CRS-7 spacecraft was lost in flight). Additionally, one rocket and its payload Amos-6 were destroyed before launch in preparation for an on-pad static fire test.

A Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off with its first human crew in Crew Dragon to the ISS on May 7 it will be the first crewed spaceflight launch from American soil since Space Shuttle Atlantis in July 2011.

The Falcon heavy is successful 3 for 3 in launches.
 
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Septic said:
I read where Tesla has improved the $/Kwh efficiency of the batteries so much that they can be profitable without the subsidies, none of the other EV car makers are remotely close to getting down to $100/kwh. The 100/kwh is where the battery reaches parity with gasoline engines without subsidies. I just bought a new car (Q5) and though I looked at ev's, my next one will almost certainly be one.
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Wish the Q3 sportback was coming to the US. Loves very nice. Audi makes some nice vehicles even if they are owned by Volkswagen.
 
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Septic said:
I read where Tesla has improved the $/Kwh efficiency of the batteries so much that they can be profitable without the subsidies, none of the other EV car makers are remotely close to getting down to $100/kwh. The 100/kwh is where the battery reaches parity with gasoline engines without subsidies. I just bought a new car (Q5) and though I looked at ev's, my next one will almost certainly be one.
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After dealing with Tesla’s on a few occasions, no thank you. That battery will lose efficiency every time you charge it.
 
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Roustabout said:
After dealing with Tesla’s on a few occasions, no thank you. That battery will lose efficiency every time you charge it.
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This is their weakness and what’s stopping them from talking over . That and battery size . I know someone / company will eventually figure it out but until then , we ( I ) will just wait and watch .
 
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CagleMtnVol said:
The statistics say otherwise..

Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 84 times over 10 years, resulting in 82 full mission successes (97.6%), one partial success (CRS-1 delivered its cargo to the ISS, but a secondary payload was stranded in a lower-than-planned orbit), and one failure (the CRS-7 spacecraft was lost in flight). Additionally, one rocket and its payload Amos-6 were destroyed before launch in preparation for an on-pad static fire test.

A Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off with its first human crew in Crew Dragon to the ISS on May 7 it will be the first crewed spaceflight launch from American soul since Space Shuttle Atlantis in July 2011.

The Falcon heavy is successful 3 for 3 in launches.
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Carl Pickens said:
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A lot of those are probably the fail tests NASA makes them do. They have to do a series of tests to see how long after something bad happens does it blow. Or there was one this year where they were testing the crew module clearing the explosion radius.

There have been some explosions of real missions.
 
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