Cybertruck: Musk "better than what we showed."

rjstractor wrote:

Reisender wrote:

rjstractor wrote:
^^^ All they have to do is get one to do that without exploding shortly after.... ;)

Lol. I think you may be a bit out of touch. Falcon has been successfully landed and refused 76 times. Here’s the first one a couple years back.

https://youtu.be/sX1Y2JMK6g8

Are you possibly referring to the starship prototype tests?

Don’t worry. You are not the only doubter. Boeing is full of old engineers who told Elon that it couldn’t be gone. Lol.

Here is the last one...yesterday. It’s pretty much a biweekly event.

Course they must have been on crack to think they could land a rocket on a barge.

Wait,,,

https://youtu.be/5jNE58xBr9g

Yes, I was referring to yesterday's explosion, somewhat satirically. Historically, rocket launches have a hideously high catastrophic failure rate, and it will likely be SpaceX that will make that failure rate drop to a reasonable level. I know that SpaceX is almost literally light years ahead of other companies in making space travel a commercially viable idea. I personally don't think space travel is really a practical thing, but the incredible technologies that are developed in the process of exploring space make our own world better.

I agree that space travel is not practical but crossing the Atlantic wasn't practical either in 1620. Less than half of the Pilgrims survived the first year. I hope that nobody expects to conquer space without a few casualties.