Space Travel and the Search for Habitable Planets/Alien Life
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Thousands of people stuck together in a spacecraft Cybertruck would go nuts in a couple of years.
Maybe form some type of cult or start massacring each other when there's not enough jelly beans or vodka for everyone.
The whole tin can would implode because some autistic kid they forgot to jettison pressed some red button.
Maybe form some type of cult or start massacring each other when there's not enough jelly beans or vodka for everyone.
The whole tin can would implode because some autistic kid they forgot to jettison pressed some red button.
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The ship will need to be enormous: 50km long x 25km wide x 6km high
Everyone will have a 9 to 5 job on the ship so that people don’t get bored and remain productive.
An artificial gravity will need to be discovered to make any of this stuff feasible. A large spinning disk that imparts centrifugal force on people won’t work.
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Welp, this is demoralizing. All of those dreams about interstellar travel that Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and other sci-fi shows depicted are utterly crushed by the harsh realities of physics. But could there be another way?
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Vger 1 will be in contact with Earth until 2036. It’s traveling at almost 11 miles per second and yet it won’t reach the Oort cloud for many more decades.
The distances that would be involved with interstellar travel are mind-boggling.
The distances that would be involved with interstellar travel are mind-boggling.
what spacecraft
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Musk’s giant spacecraft that will allow humanity to populate habitable planets in other solar systems.
what is it called
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It’s on the drawing board. But as we all know, Elon is the man with a plan. Big things await us in the near future.
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People often learn more from things that don’t work out than they learn from things that succeed.
Hasn't there been four failed launches last year alone? Pretty damn expensive lessons, still doesnt explain why they keep blowing up
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Four? That seems like fake news. Nevertheless, each launch provides copious amounts of useful data that can positively impact future launches.
It’s important to have a CEO who is forward looking and who tries to do what others think is impossible. Big dreamers with big goals can make the impossible…possible.
When it comes to interplanetary spaceflight, the timeline isn’t as important as getting it right. Human spaceflight is tricky business and we want it to be as safe as possible for the astronauts.
Can you explain how SpaceX learns from constantly blowing up rockets? They can't be learning much if they keep blowing up.
Ok well you can dream in one hand and shit in another and we'll see which one fills up first.
Dreams are meaningless if you're making claims to investors and fans and constantly fail to live up to them. Are we gonna be spending the next 20-30 years perpetually dreaming that we're just 4 years away from a Martian colony?? Lol
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SpaceX posted on X soon after the explosion: “Success comes from what we learn, and today’s flight will help us improve Starship’s reliability.”
CEO Elon Musk called the second Starlink explosion a “minor setback.”
“Progress is measured by time,” he posted on X.
“Following the successful landing, an off-nominal fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the booster’s landing legs, which resulted in it tipping over,” SpaceX said. (a nothingburger)
It appears that you don’t have the constitutional fortitude to be the CEO of a spacefaring company. Everything is cutting edge technology and there will always be a few mishaps. But the best of them are constantly getting better and learning from prior experiences.
I’d say that Musk’s SpaceX has done remarkably well.
In 2025, SpaceX conducted 80% of U.S. space launches, indicating a significant share of the market in the commercial space launch industry. This reflects SpaceX's growing dominance in the sector, with a record launch cadence and a strong presence in the commercial space market.
And just look at all of these upcoming launches and completed missions:
https://www.spacex.com/launches
How is Musk saying that any different than when, I dunno, San Francisco deals with their 50th smash-and-grab robbery and they say some shit like "we're working on the problem"?
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I’m surprised I have to explain this to you.
In one case, a man at the forefront of space and possibly interplanetary travel and who created a rocket launching company from scratch has publicly stated minor setbacks will not stop him from forging ahead with humanity’s destiny to conquer the cosmos.
In the other case, utterly useless politicians refuse to enforce the law in their feces infested shytehole of a city and they resort to flat out lying about it whilst not developing a single effective idea to fix the problem.