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> I'm sorry but you are embracing yourself. I do love embracing myself. In all seriousness, I am already aware and have seen everything you have posted. Nothi
by computerex 8y ago
> I'm sorry but you are embracing yourself.
I do love embracing myself.
In all seriousness, I am already aware and have seen everything you have posted. Nothing that I have said is wrong.
> So, yes, it doesn't exists yet but they are very clearly building it and working on it right now.
It is ingenuine at best to post things like this on twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1043250540379926528 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1043250540379926528
When they don't even have a launch vehicle yet, let alone a man-rated launch vehicle. Not to mention the other billion challenges in a crewed 7+ month flight. These are some of the challenges in human certification: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/npg_img/N_PR_8705_002C_/N_PR_8705_002C_.pdf https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/npg_img/N_PR_8705_002C_/N_PR_87...
Hell, forget BFS, Dragon2 isn't even human certified and isn't expected to be human certified till 2020 as per the U.S government.
> Your constant claims that everybody is just "drinking the Kool aid" and your the only one smart enough to understand what is really going on is just false. I and others understand exactly what SpaceX current capabilities are, what they are doing in the short term and what they are devloping in the longer term. That's why we are exited.
I am not the only skeptic calling bullshit on Elon's premature announcements. Also, just look at some of the comments in response to his twitter announcement about Mars base alpha.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13099898/mars-death-risk-illustrated https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/30/13099898/ma...
BTW, I think you're the one "embracing" yourself with the number of typos in your comment.
- nickik 8y agoFirst of all, human certification is only if you want to fly with NASA. If Elon does not want to fly NASA he doesn't have to human rate it. The mars picture was not an 'announcements', it just a concept.
- computerex 8y agoClearly you haven't been following along, but NASA is SpaceX's primary customer. If SpaceX does not man rate the BFR, they'll go bankrupt real quick. Additionally, spaceflight is under the domain of the FAA so there are a crap of regulations there that they have to be compliant with even if they aren't flying with NASA. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/human_space_flight_reqs/ https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
- nickik 8y agoNASA has not booked or given any indication that they care about BFR specially for humans. There is a large difference between being the primary costumer of SpaceX and BFR. If NASA wants to fly Astronauts on BFR, then SpaceX can tell them that they have to pay for human rating. SpaceX development targets that, they just don't go threw all the paper work. Also, the reality is that this 'human rating' is really not clear at all. NASA has no clue how to human rate anything because nothing was really human rated according to the NASA guidelines. They specially have no idea how to human rate a shit that goes to Mars. Every-time they do a rating it is a new and different process. The problem with this process is well known in the industry. The reality is SpaceX simply couldn't develop it fully human rated because its not clear what that even means. All they can do is build the best possible ship and see where the dice fall.