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TL;DR I could not find the answer directly in the article but in spotted it in the URL: elon-musk-is-really-really-excited-about-his-starship Edit: typo
by YouKnowBetter 8y ago
TL;DR
I could not find the answer directly in the article but in spotted it in the URL: elon-musk-is-really-really-excited-about-his-starship
Edit: typo
- ricardobeat 8y agoThe answer is “because SpaceX is actually building a stainless-steel starship, with first test flights planned for March”.
- gaius 8y agoUnless they have quietly invented warp drive, no they aren’t.
- noobiemcfoob 8y agoThe frustration at the misuse of the name will only drive further attempts at building the actual thing. Except it too will likely have an exaggerated name when it comes along.
- benj111 8y agoThey are calling it Starship, so the parent isn't entirely wrong.
- stoobs 8y agoIt's just pedantry about the name, must really hate the Starliner too, or the Starfighter, or anything else with the word star in it, if it can't physically get there.
- moccachino 8y agoI will establish a new small company, focused on innovating hygienic facilities for starships. I will call it Startubs.
- de_watcher 8y agoStarshits?
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- davedx 8y agoIf it can get to Mars then it could certainly fly itself into the sun too. Possibly wouldn't be the best use of SpaceX money, though.
- avar 8y agoThis is a common misconception. It requires much much more energy and delta-V to send a craft on a collision course with the sun than to send it to Mars, or even to send it outside the Solar system altogether[1][2]. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5lt50r/why_does_it_take_more_delta_v_to_hit_the_sun_than/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5lt50r/why_does... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#Interplanetary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#Interplanetary
- ZiiS 8y agoNot technically true. To dive into the Sun requires a much higher delta-v then to transfer to Mars. If you look at the Parker Solar Probe it is using a 7 year flightpath getting multiple gravity assists of Venus to miss by 6Gm at 200km/s.
- nominatronic 8y agoNope. It takes far more delta-V to get to the Sun than to get to Mars. To get to Mars you need to change your solar orbit from that of Earth to match that of Mars. The difference is a small fraction of Earth's orbital velocity. By comparison, you only need to add about 41% of Earth's velocity to escape the solar system entirely. But to get to the Sun, you need to subtract 100% of Earth's orbital velocity. It's a colossal amount of delta-V.
- benj111 8y agoOn the other hand where do you ultimately end up if you only add 40% delta V ?
- irrational 8y agoThat's so counter-intuitive. It feels like the sun is a giant gravity well and we just have to give something a bit of a shove in the right direction to fall down into the well. It's not like its rocket science.
- burfog 8y agoNo no, totally fine with "starter motor" and "bastard"
- _Microft 8y agoAs Scott Manley said [1] so nicely: If you're one of those people that wants to complain about this [name 'Starship'], please show that you're also complaining of Boeing StarLiner and at Lockheed Starfighter otherwise I'll presume you're biased against Elon Musk specifically. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVgEKBwE2RM&t=41 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVgEKBwE2RM&t=41
- gaius 8y agoI have never heard of the Starliner and the Starfighter went out of service before I was born but consider them both complained about too.
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- village-idiot 8y agoTest flight in this case does not equal “going to mars”, they’re doing a short 5km hop.
- rbanffy 8y agoShould the band be called "Jefferson Band" instead then?
- yread 8y agoAre you also worried about calling people who go to space astronauts vs cosmonauts?
- onychomys 8y agoRemember, Musk is the same guy who named his lane assist and quasi-auto-braking system "Autopilot". Dude doesn't always think through his word choice all that well.