Cybertruck: Musk "better than what we showed."

Bird Freak wrote:

Reisender wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:
Its great they are already updating and changing. Maybe one day it will go into production.

Yah that Elon. What a guy. The same idiot who said they’ll be able to land and reuse rockets some day.

Wait.....,

Waiting. They have all blown up so far so whats your point?

You mean they have all blown up except the 76 successful missions that have been reused in the last two years. :). Lol.

I think you might be referring to the test SN series “Starship” rockets that they have been testing lately.

Reisender wrote:

Bird Freak wrote:
Its great they are already updating and changing. Maybe one day it will go into production.

Yah that Elon. What a guy. The same idiot who said they’ll be able to land and reuse rockets some day.

Wait.....,

Waiting. They have all blown up so far so whats your point?

To further appreciate what Elon has done, consider this:

The NASA rocket surgeons are saying that landing the Space Shuttle is like threading the needle from 10 floors up a skyscraper with winds blowing at 50 miles an hour.

For my Cybertruck, just doing the 120 from Merced through Tiioga Pass to Lee Vininng on full FSD mode pulling my trailer will be good enough for me.

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.

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.

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

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

Bird Freak wrote:
Its great they are already updating and changing. Maybe one day it will go into production.

Yah that Elon. What a guy. The same idiot who said they’ll be able to land and reuse rockets some day.

Wait.....,

pianotuna wrote:
Texas still has about 3900 customers without power.

The folks who can afford it with hybrid grid tied systems were fortunate.

Well I just checked and the power outage map website thingy says 629. Do you really think that’s from the storm almost a month ago?
Cmon man...

I agree even "free market" prices should be capped at 2x or 3x the past 90 day average rates.
Careful what you wish for.