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by Cheeky Devlin » Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:59 pm

twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/960980050022752256



twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/960980689276604418


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by Cheeky Devlin » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:00 pm

Moggy wrote:
Cheeky Devlin wrote:We're totally going to Mars at some point. It's crazy exciting.


That’s Musk’s dream and I think he may well be the guy to do it.

I think the first human on Mars is a long way off, but I think it’ll be a company that does it, not NASA.

Absolutely. Very exciting times.

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PostRe: Space!
by Mini E » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:03 pm

Wow.

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PostRe: Space!
by Moggy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:05 pm

twitter.com/exploreplanets/status/960980643747217408



:wub:

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PostRe: Space!
by Preezy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:29 pm

Absolutely incredible stuff. So there’s now a Tesla hurtling through space, this is now a thing :lol:

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by D_C » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:50 pm


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by Peter Crisp » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:55 pm

That will be a bugger to repair if it breaks down.

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by Dblock » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:56 pm

Space is fake, flatearth is the truth!

''Saying it's because I was controlling you and making you sad when actually I just asked you to wear some trousers'' :lol: :lol:
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by Peter Crisp » Tue Feb 06, 2018 9:57 pm

Dblock wrote:Space is fake, flatearth is the truth!


Yep, where are the turtles for a start.

Vermilion wrote:I'd rather live in Luton.
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PostRe: Space!
by Moggy » Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:01 pm

Dblock wrote:Space is fake, flatearth is the truth!


The trouble with you Dblock is I actually think you believe that. :lol:

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by Xeno » Tue Feb 06, 2018 10:03 pm

You would have thought this would be the ideal time to start reading HHGTTG.

So is the suit hooked up to monitoring equiptment to test it long term or is it fake?

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:43 am

Preezy wrote:Absolutely incredible stuff. So there’s now a Tesla hurtling through space, this is now a thing :lol:


It's going to Mars too. :lol:

Elon Musk has to be the leading contender for Man of the Century so far.


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:wub: Epic. Awesome. Spectacular.

Shame the central core didn't make it, but damn that was exciting to watch.

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PostRe: Space!
by Moggy » Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:34 am

I don't know why it makes me so happy, but every photo I have seen of the Tesla car in space has made me smile and feel all gooey inside. :lol:

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PostRe: Space!
by Rax » Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:35 am

Incredible scenes. Space is awesome.

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PostRe: Space!
by Squinty » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:15 am

I thought that rocket was in reverse. That's quite an achievement.

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by OrangeRKN » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:41 am

This is goddamn incredible

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PostRe: Space!
by Moggy » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:00 am

OrangeRakoon wrote:This is goddamn incredible


It really is and private space flight is developing at an astonishing rate. It was less than 15 years ago that SpaceShip One became the first private craft to go into space, now we have the Falcon Heavy, a craft that can carry enormous loads into space and can vertically land its boosters.

Astonishing progress!

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by Cheeky Devlin » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:05 am

It's quite damning that it's taken this long to reach this point. Private companies shouldn't have to be the ones who are taking up the slack left behind by NASA who've spent decades pottering about in the back yard rather than pushing things to their next step. Admittedly that's most likely due to funding, but they should have been developing and driving down the cost of this stuff long ago.

Finally good to see some progress being made though. Exciting times.

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by Preezy » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:12 am

They really should paint the booster rockets so they look like Thunderbird 1.

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by Moggy » Wed Feb 07, 2018 11:15 am

Cheeky Devlin wrote:It's quite damning that it's taken this long to reach this point. Private companies shouldn't have to be the ones who are taking up the slack left behind by NASA who've spent decades pottering about in the back yard rather than pushing things to their next step. Admittedly that's most likely due to funding, but they should have been developing and driving down the cost of this stuff long ago.

Finally good to see some progress being made though. Exciting times.


We would see amazing progress if we told Trump that we would change the name of Mars to “Trump Planet” if he gave NASA the funding to land people there.

Although he’d probably want to paint the whole planet gold.


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