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This may go down in history as the most amazing (and maybe most expensive) art project of all time. I am just flabbergasted; this is astounding. I sincerely h
by daeken 8y ago
This may go down in history as the most amazing (and maybe most expensive) art project of all time. I am just flabbergasted; this is astounding. I sincerely hope that the BFR comes to fruition in the way SpaceX has been billing it, and reasonably close in terms of timeline.
- robertAngst 8y agoIts an Elon project? 1 in 10 odds it happens?
- ehnto 8y agoThose are good odds in the grander timeline of space travel.
- cloudwalking 8y agoWhich Elon project has failed?
- angersock 8y agoModel 3 still a bit rocky, eh?
- function_seven 8y agoSure. Not a failure, though. I see them on the road almost daily. And I’m in a nondescript suburban town far from the Bay Area.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoI'm in a suburb outside a city in Australia and see half a dozen Teslas when I walk to the park with my kids. It's absolutely mind blowing how far and fast they've reached.
- function_seven 8y agoHa. If you were looking to win the "farthest from San Francisco" game, I think you just did. It is amazing, isn't it? There's no guarantee that TSLA will still be around in ten years, but I bet their cars will be, along with the industry that was forced into existence by a non-incumbent player.
- isostatic 8y agoWell technically this one wins: http://www.whereisroadster.com http://www.whereisroadster.com
- adventured 8y agoIt'll outsell every luxury sedan in the US in its first year. If that kind of outcome gets you implicated for failure, BMW must be distraught as it looks at those dwindling 3 series sales figures.
- brian-armstrong 8y agoWe will know the results of the Thai rescue operation shortly when the lawsuit comes to an end
- manicdee 8y agoThe lawsuit is completely unrelated to the rescue operation, and the rescue operation was never a Musk project. FWIW all the people trapped in the cave were rescued.
- daeken 8y agoI would take those odds for sure. Longbet?
- occamschainsaw 8y agoIt's not just about the odds of this project. Missions like these make the public interested again. We might very well be in the beginning stages of a public-private space race, with "space startups" popping up in multiple countries (SpaceX, Blueorigin, [sic] ULA, Onespace[0]). These things can snowball, especially if somebody finds a way to extract resources from the Moon and asteroids. [0]https://www.space.com/40662-china-first-private-spaceflight-launch.html https://www.space.com/40662-china-first-private-spaceflight-...
- justAnotherNET 8y agoAll we need is next gen super conductors making He3 fusion possible and the race is on.
- rdl 8y agoMissing deadlines by a year or two on something otherwise believed to be impossible is a great way to consistently “fail”, I think.
- la6470 8y agoA better use if this money would have been to try and eradicate proverty and hunger in Africa or unemployment in Europe.
- spiralganglion 8y agoThis is an "art" project because of the media/domains involved, but it's not an art project. It's very low-brow, but not the sort of independent low-brow that bursts with charm and zeal. It's too transactional, too structured, too contextualized, and too eagerly public. At best, this sort of big-money, one-off commission leads to the Teleharmonium and EPCOT and the Saatchi gallery, not Schiele or Baraka or I-Be Area. If this project succeeds (which I hope it does, since that'll be good for humanity's efforts to get more active in space), it'll produce some works that can be appreciated as art. But it won't produce classics. People will forget about the works. The advancement into space will rightfully overshadow them. The works won't inspire other artists, and they won't advance any movements. They'll be curiosities studied by space historians, not art historians.
- colordrops 8y agoThat's a lot of conjecture for art from unknown artists that hasn't been made yet.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoI had a friend like you once. On seeing someone just for a brief moment, she could comment for hours, saying things like "This person will never be rich", "Oh, she definitely has bad relations with her husband", "Obviously he's the kind of person that will fail every project". It turned out that most of her predictions that I could verify turned out false. She got some gut feelings and choose to follow that, but the data sample at her disposal was too small and she jumped to the conclusions way too fast.
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- igravious 8y agoSchiele or Baraka or I-Be Area ? Schiele or Baraka or I-Be Area ? An expressionist painter (now dead), a non-narrative movie-length documentary by someone who still lives, a series of deranged surreal video shorts also by someone living. The only thing that unifies those three things is that you used them in a sentence together. Can I play? Tanguy or Man with a Movie Camera or Dead Mall Series ! Did I win‽