Cybertruck: Musk "better than what we showed."

[Yosemite_Sam1]

That's why I love Tesla. It's in constant improvement and innovation -- and they install it on their units even if already sold.


Updated Cybetruck by Q2

[Yosemite_Sam1]

thomasmnile wrote:
I got to see the final Apollo launch from the Vehicle Assembly Building parking lot (my friend's dad was worked for NASA PR). About 5 miles from the pad. Lit the night sky like sunrise; you could see the shock wave rolling across the swamp. Most awesome thing I've ever seen.

Maybe we'll time our Florida trips for this launch and pre-book for their launch tickets.

I guess it's too dangerous to have the ringside seats.:B:W

[thomasmnile]

I got to see the final Apollo launch from the Vehicle Assembly Building parking lot (my friend's dad was worked for NASA PR). About 5 miles from the pad. Lit the night sky like sunrise; you could see the shock wave rolling across the swamp. Most awesome thing I've ever seen.

[pianotuna]

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
I had the pleasure of watching the 2nd last Shuttle launch. It was amazing, and I realized anyone who would take such a ride must be just a little bit nuts!

Go for a night launch if you can--I was able to see the 2nd stage ignite.

Do they sell tickets for good viewing?

In a way they do.

I was 7 miles away it it still shook the ground.

[Yosemite_Sam1]

pianotuna wrote:
I had the pleasure of watching the 2nd last Shuttle launch. It was amazing, and I realized anyone who would take such a ride must be just a little bit nuts!

Go for a night launch if you can--I was able to see the 2nd stage ignite.

Do they sell tickets for good viewing?

[pianotuna]

I had the pleasure of watching the 2nd last Shuttle launch. It was amazing, and I realized anyone who would take such a ride must be just a little bit nuts!

Go for a night launch if you can--I was able to see the 2nd stage ignite.

[Reisender]

thomasmnile wrote:
I watched the last Starship flight from start to finish. On landing I noticed it seemed like it had a bit of a lean to it. There was also fire coming out the bottom and a remotely operated deluge nozzle was lobbing water at the base trying to extinguish it. Maybe that was why SpaceX ended the webcast before the big bang? The explosion video that made the rounds of the Internet was not from SpaceX.

Anyway, seems like the concepts they're testing had some measure of success. Space is hard. My wife was born and raised in Brevard County, FL and had a front row seat to many of NASA's FUD'S or whatever Elon calls his failures.

That said, I'm still fascinated with the cartoonish appearance of Starship. I'm waiting for Marvin the Martian & Bugs Bunny to step out of it.

Elon calls them RUDs or Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.

[Yosemite_Sam1]

thomasmnile wrote:
I watched the last Starship flight from start to finish. On landing I noticed it seemed like it had a bit of a lean to it. There was also fire coming out the bottom and a remotely operated deluge nozzle was lobbing water at the base trying to extinguish it. Maybe that was why SpaceX ended the webcast before the big bang? The explosion video that made the rounds of the Internet was not from SpaceX.

Anyway, seems like the concepts they're testing had some measure of success. Space is hard. My wife was born and raised in Brevard County, FL and had a front row seat to many of NASA's FUD'S or whatever Elon calls his failures.

That said, I'm still fascinated with the cartoonish appearance of Starship. I'm waiting for Marvin the Martian & Bugs Bunny to step out of it.

I'm envious. I have not seen one and that's on my bucket list.

[thomasmnile]

I watched the last Starship flight from start to finish. On landing I noticed it seemed like it had a bit of a lean to it. There was also fire coming out the bottom and a remotely operated deluge nozzle was lobbing water at the base trying to extinguish it. Maybe that was why SpaceX ended the webcast before the big bang? The explosion video that made the rounds of the Internet was not from SpaceX.

Anyway, seems like the concepts they're testing had some measure of success. Space is hard. My wife was born and raised in Brevard County, FL and had a front row seat to many of NASA's FUD'S or whatever Elon calls his failures.

That said, I'm still fascinated with the cartoonish appearance of Starship. I'm waiting for Marvin the Martian & Bugs Bunny to step out of it.

[Yosemite_Sam1]

Reisender wrote:

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.

And Teal launched rockets meant to blow up for an actual failure tests.

Same tests they regular do in collision safety tests for cars..

But whatever, let's just hate and heckle.:p

[Sjm9911]

I heard that tesla redesigned the windows, they dont break now.

Sorry couldn't help myself.

[Reisender]

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.

[Bird_Freak]

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?

[Yosemite_Sam1]

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.

[Groover]

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.