SpaceX and the prospects of Mars colonization.

[notbatman]

Musk fucking stinks and his rockets are bullshit hoaxes, stop promoting this crap as real you cucks!

Musk is unable to compete against the Russians. His rockets are much inferior to the Russian rockets in quality and reliability. So he had his lapdog John McCain ban the import of the Russian rocket engines.

I do not share your enthusiasm for Russian launch vehicles. The recent Russian experience difficulties with the launch. The European missiles are much more reliable. After Ukraine ceased to cooperate with Russia in the space industry serious progress in Russian in the field there.

Failures happen every now and then, and not just with the Russian rockets. The incidence of failure with the European and Space X rockets are even higher. Right now the Russian rockets are the most reliable.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rocket+failure

[bryant.coleman]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rocket+failure

There is a reason why the NASA is so dependent upon the Russian rocket engines (RD-180). The reason is that these rocket engines are the most powerful and most reliable ones. The European and American rocket engines can't even compete against them. The ULA came up with their BE-4 LOX/methane engine, but it was a miserable failure.

[notbatman]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rocket+failure

There is a reason why the NASA is so dependent upon the Russian rocket engines (RD-180). The reason is that these rocket engines are the most powerful and most reliable ones. The European and American rocket engines can't even compete against them. The ULA came up with their BE-4 LOX/methane engine, but it was a miserable failure.

All rockets are dumped in the ocean or are detonated mid-flight, it's a big scam.

[kirch]

looks a very distant dream and will not happen in next 60 yrs or till a fastest mode of transportation (atleast 100x times faster than the existing technology)develops

[Daniel91]

Space X is very developed technology and step closer to Mars colonization, I agree.
Still, there are many, many problems to solve before such event happen.
Cosmic radiation in space, weakening of the bones due to the lower gravity in space during a long journey, a storms on Mars, water, materials, energy, construction of settlements, delivery of materials and equipment from Earth etc.
So, in my opinion, we are still very far from such trip.

[BADecker]

One of the greatest problems is the economy that is close to collapse, even though it may not be known or spoken about much. When the collapse comes, we will be set back a hundred years or more. Technology will almost stop. People will be looking for ways to get food, rather than ways to play with ideas of going to Mars.

[Sithara007]

One of the greatest problems is the economy that is close to collapse, even though it may not be known or spoken about much. When the collapse comes, we will be set back a hundred years or more. Technology will almost stop. People will be looking for ways to get food, rather than ways to play with ideas of going to Mars.

I don't think so. The economy is doing good, and the stock markets are at record highs. I agree that the ballooning federal debt is a major concern. But now with Trump in power, he will take the steps to reduce it.

[Trading]

These are great news: http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year

But let's see first the falcon heavy on space this summer.

And then NASA astronauts safely transported to the ISS.

[notbatman]

These are great news: http://www.spacex.com/news/2017/02/27/spacex-send-privately-crewed-dragon-spacecraft-beyond-moon-next-year

But let's see first the falcon heavy on space this summer.

And then NASA astronauts safely transported to the ISS.

Mars colonization? Elon Musk and the giant NASA cock he rode in on needs to fuck off, we're not on a fucking globe!


Image source: NASA
-- http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00050/opgs/edr/ncam/NLA_401939772EDR_D0042956NCAM00313M_.JPG

[Sithara007]

And then NASA astronauts safely transported to the ISS.

Lol... the NASA astronauts were using Russian space shuttles till now, and there were no incidents. But let's see how this Falcon heavy performs. If I am not wrong, two or three of their rockets blew up in midair last year.

[BADecker]

SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon in 2018

The private spaceflight company will use its Falcon Heavy rocket to send the two paying passengers into space aboard one of the company's Dragon spacecraft. The two private citizens, who have not yet been named, approached SpaceX about taking a trip around the moon, and have "already paid a significant deposit" for the cost of the mission, according to a statement from the company. The names of the two individuals will be announced later, pending the result of initial health tests to ensure their fitness for the mission, the statement said.

"Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration," SpaceX representatives said in the statement.

Read more and watch the videos at http://www.space.com/35844-elon-musk-spacex-announcement-today.html.

[exemplaar]

Space X Falcon 9 CRS-10 To NASA's ISS Hoax - SpaceX Exposed Faking Space - The Earth Is Flat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3luC4Lc1p50

[GMPoison]

Space X Falcon 9 CRS-10 To NASA's ISS Hoax - SpaceX Exposed Faking Space - The Earth Is Flat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3luC4Lc1p50

It's amazing how a scheme as elaborate as covering up the fact that the earth is flat is so often uncovered by seemingly uneducated and illiterate 50 year old men on Youtube. Makes you wonder.

Oh wait... no it doesn't.

[BADecker]

Tardigrade in Moss

Is this an alien? Probably not, but of all the animals on Earth, the tardigrade might be the best candidate. That's because tardigrades are known to be able to go for decades without food or water, to survive temperatures from near absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, to survive pressures from near zero to well above that on ocean floors, and to survive direct exposure to dangerous radiations. The far-ranging survivability of these extremophiles was tested in 2011 outside an orbiting space shuttle. Tardigrades are so durable partly because they can repair their own DNA and reduce their body water content to a few percent. Some of these miniature water-bears almost became extraterrestrials recently when they were launched toward to the Martian moon Phobos on board the Russian mission Fobos-Grunt, but stayed terrestrial when a rocket failed and the capsule remained in Earth orbit. Tardigrades are more common than humans across most of the Earth. Pictured here in a color-enhanced electron micrograph, a millimeter-long tardigrade crawls on moss.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade.

[darkseid1199]

Even if Musk spends a lot of money on the Mars colonization, I am sure he will eventually reap the rewards, I believe Mars is filled with precious gems and they will mine these which will turn make a very good profit for Elon Musk and his company. I think he should take the initiative and reap the rewards.

[iamTom123]

The cost is not that easy and the challenge of those who will be there can be enormous. I don't see this colonization happening in my lifetime. Personally, I think it would be better if we spend all of our time and resources in making our own beautiful planet Earth much better and more life-oriented. We have to stop destroying our own planet because there is no other one where we can easily just evacuate and live.

[BADecker]

Tardigrade in Moss

Is this an alien? Probably not, but of all the animals on Earth, the tardigrade might be the best candidate. That's because tardigrades are known to be able to go for decades without food or water, to survive temperatures from near absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, to survive pressures from near zero to well above that on ocean floors, and to survive direct exposure to dangerous radiations. The far-ranging survivability of these extremophiles was tested in 2011 outside an orbiting space shuttle. Tardigrades are so durable partly because they can repair their own DNA and reduce their body water content to a few percent. Some of these miniature water-bears almost became extraterrestrials recently when they were launched toward to the Martian moon Phobos on board the Russian mission Fobos-Grunt, but stayed terrestrial when a rocket failed and the capsule remained in Earth orbit. Tardigrades are more common than humans across most of the Earth. Pictured here in a color-enhanced electron micrograph, a millimeter-long tardigrade crawls on moss.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade.

Actually, that picture looks like a stuffed animal "climbing" around on scraps of green carpet, with a light blue sheet in the background.

[Sithara007]

Even if Musk spends a lot of money on the Mars colonization, I am sure he will eventually reap the rewards, I believe Mars is filled with precious gems and they will mine these which will turn make a very good profit for Elon Musk and his company. I think he should take the initiative and reap the rewards.

He will never get a profit out of space mining. Although the diamond market is worth some $80 billion, only 5% to 10% of that actually end up with the raw diamond producers. The remainder gets eaten up by the middlemen and the jewelers.

[0xfff]

Tardigrade in Moss

Is this an alien? Probably not, but of all the animals on Earth, the tardigrade might be the best candidate. That's because tardigrades are known to be able to go for decades without food or water, to survive temperatures from near absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, to survive pressures from near zero to well above that on ocean floors, and to survive direct exposure to dangerous radiations. The far-ranging survivability of these extremophiles was tested in 2011 outside an orbiting space shuttle. Tardigrades are so durable partly because they can repair their own DNA and reduce their body water content to a few percent. Some of these miniature water-bears almost became extraterrestrials recently when they were launched toward to the Martian moon Phobos on board the Russian mission Fobos-Grunt, but stayed terrestrial when a rocket failed and the capsule remained in Earth orbit. Tardigrades are more common than humans across most of the Earth. Pictured here in a color-enhanced electron micrograph, a millimeter-long tardigrade crawls on moss.

Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade.

Someone needs to put some of those in a radiation protected container and launch them into space. Maybe when humans die out, space bears will be alive on another planet. 

[Malsetid]

Even if Musk spends a lot of money on the Mars colonization, I am sure he will eventually reap the rewards, I believe Mars is filled with precious gems and they will mine these which will turn make a very good profit for Elon Musk and his company. I think he should take the initiative and reap the rewards.

He will never get a profit out of space mining. Although the diamond market is worth some $80 billion, only 5% to 10% of that actually end up with the raw diamond producers. The remainder gets eaten up by the middlemen and the jewelers.

I think we're a bit going too far to the future in here. I don't think we're sure that whatever we get from mars can be used and utilized here. It may take a lot more study before we're able to do that. And if ever we take some items from mars, i don't think it would be easily available for normal citizens