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The hype was precisely this: "Falcon Heavy sends a car to Mars" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/st
by SirLJ 9y ago
The hype was precisely this:
"Falcon Heavy sends a car to Mars"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=...
- mikeash 9y agoThey’ve been abundantly clear since the test payload was announced that it was not actually going to Mars, but rather into a heliocentric orbit with an aphelion around Mars’s orbit.
- SirLJ 9y agoElon Musk On Feb 2018 1:24 PM "Falcon Heavy sends a car to Mars" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=...
- mikeash 9y agoAnd that’s what happens in the video.
- SirLJ 9y agoMaster BS
- mikeash 9y agoDid you have some sort of point you wanted to make here?
- SirLJ 9y ago“Tesla won't be making it to the asteroid belt, as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk originally claimed.” https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/elon-musks-tesla-overshot-mars-orbit-but-it-wont-reach-the-asteroid-belt-as-claimed.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/elon-musks-tesla-overshot-ma...
- mikeash 9y agoOh no, they slightly miscalculated their initial estimate of the result of their depletion burn!
- SirLJ 9y agoIts called rocket science for a reason...
- mikeash 9y agoAre you under the impression that mistakes never get made in rocket science? Because a naive reading of your comment would indicate strong agreement with me, i.e. rocket science is really hard and mistakes are made.
- SirLJ 9y agoCramer: Elon Musk is like illusionist David Blaine, a master at misdirection https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/cramer-musk-like-illusionist-david-blaine-a-master-at-misdirection.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/cramer-musk-like-illusionist...
- mikeash 9y agoYou’re going with Jim “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble.“ Cramer on this?