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AURAPTOR

Monday, October 14, 2013 4:57 AM

Crap. Cool video from SpaceX , showing lift off and landing of rocket.

Grasshopper

It won't post though, so again, apologies.

SECOND

Monday, October 14, 2013 6:41 AM

Grasshopper 744m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter)
Published on Oct 12, 2013

On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight.

Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up on atmosphere reentry, SpaceX rockets are being designed not only to withstand reentry, but also to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. The Grasshopper VTVL vehicle represents a critical step towards this goal.

Grasshopper consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage tank, Merlin 1D engine, four steel and aluminum landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

AURAPTOR

Monday, October 14, 2013 9:20 AM

Ahh... cool vids.

Thanks bunches.

Is amazing how we've progressed so far in technology that we've actually achieved 1950's sci fi level of getting rockets to land vertically.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, December 4, 2021 5:45 PM

The debate continues today

Is Elon Musk nuts?
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-suggests-anyone-over-103301991.htm
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Elon Musk suggests that anyone over the age of 70 should be barred from running for political office

SECOND

Saturday, December 4, 2021 8:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:

Elon Musk suggests that anyone over the age of 70 should be barred from running for political office

Musk was attacking 80 year old Senator Bernie Sanders @SenSanders for tweeting
We must demand that the extremely wealthy pay their fair share. Period.
12:09 PM · Nov 13, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Elon Musk @elonmusk replying to @SenSanders
I keep forgetting that you’re still alive
8:29 AM · Nov 14, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

Mr Musk, who had become the richest person in the world with a current estimated personal wealth of $271bn (£201.6bn), was called out by Twitter users who said his tweet was “excessive”.

Brian Altano, a video producer, said Mr Musk could “even pay a little every month, like how you pay your child support.” Musk is well known for dumping his many children, wives and girlfriends.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-mus
k-bernie-sanders-twitter-b1957625.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 7:56 PM

Another big Aussie telco signs with Elon Musk's SpaceX

https://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/internet/another-big-aussie-tel
co-signs-with-elon-musks-spacex-c-11257814

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 11:07 PM

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1693988850597826701

This New Yorker profile of Elon Musk is supposed to present him as some kind of supervillain. Read closely, and you'll see one example after another of how the regulatory state hinders progress.

Story 1: FAA tries to stop a SpaceX launch because some windows might get blown out if the rocket explodes. Couldn't the company just afford to cover the windows if it happened and reimburse the homeowners, well beyond what those windows were worth? I guess not. Must scrape the whole thing! The rocket did end up exploding, but no windows were damaged.

Story 2: Tesla is forced to do a recall because their automated software permitted people to roll through stop signs at 6 MPH. As the company points out, people do it all the time. Who cares? But it violates the rules! Recall all humans too, they might roll through stop signs.

Story 3: Tesla wants to replace care engine noises with farts or whatever the driver chooses. Not allowed. No reason even given for this one. There's just a regulation somewhere I guess which says cars can only go vroom vroom?

Throughout their interviews, government officials talk about the need to create a "safety culture." I noticed that this phrase was used independently by one person from FAA and one from the Department of Transportation. It must be a thing all bureaucrats say, not just specific to the lingo of one agency.

What a revealing phrase! Safety is not something you consider in terms of costs and benefits. It's the entire culture. Try to accomplish great things, there will be risks. At what point are regulators doing more harm than good? Everything from this piece seems to indicate that we crossed that line long ago.

Thankfully there are still men out there willing to push through. We owe them a lot.

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, June 7, 2024 1:21 AM

SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket on fourth test flight

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacexs-next-starsh
ip-test-flight-surviving-hypersonic-return-is-key-2024-06-06/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, June 9, 2024 7:33 PM

a retired Starhopper to Starship is a two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle

the Starhopper now a retired low-altitude prototype

SpaceX: Musk's huge Starship rocket avoids blowing up as fourth test ends in success
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/musks-huge-starship-rocket-avoids-blowi
ng-up-as-fourth-test-ends-in-success-13148881

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, July 19, 2024 2:33 AM

After Mars what next, Titan, Europa, Asteroids?

New Exploration of Titan's Seas

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/new-exploration-of-titans-s
eas/

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 4:53 AM

ESA Selects Four Companies to Develop Reusable Rocket Technology

https://europeanspaceflight.com/esa-selects-four-companies-to-develop-
reusable-rocket-technology/

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, December 12, 2024 8:10 PM

Cenk

pay your Taxes!

https://x.com/CatchUpFeed/status/1867177290033213592

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, January 1, 2025 4:05 AM

Remember how the wanted to ban Frog pics

"I am Kekius Maximus, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and X, servant to the vision of human progress. Father of many innovations, husband to the idea of interplanetary life. And I will achieve my goals, in this era or the next."

https://x.com/teslaownersSV/status/1874205515166957901#m

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 24, 2025 6:12 PM

SpaceX awarded $100 million to launch NASA's NEO Surveyor mission on Falcon 9
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-awards-planetary-defense-space-
telescope-launch-services-contract/

SpaceX rocket debris lands in Poland
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62z3vxjplpo

and now from other science

Largest known structure in the universe is 1.4 billion light years long
https://www.earth.com/news/largest-structure-in-universe-is-1-4-billio
n-light-years-long-quipu-superstructure/

THG

Monday, February 24, 2025 9:11 PM

Elon’s ultimatum lands with a thud

— Stopped in its tracks: By Sunday night, senior leaders at the FBI, Pentagon, Office of Director of National Intelligence, Homeland Security Department and State Department told their workers not to respond to Musk’s Saturday order until they get further guidance directly from their agency’s leadership.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-cybersecurity/2025/02/24/e
lons-ultimatum-lands-with-a-thud-00205655

I don't know why he is not required to take a drug test. He surely would fail.

T

THG

Monday, February 24, 2025 9:21 PM

Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, determined that over half of his posts on X are false or misleading—yet most of his political falsehoods go unchecked. ABC News/Reuters Elon Musk's own AI chatbot, Grok, seems to have turned against its creator—deeming more than half of his posts false or misleading.

https://www.ibtimes.com/elon-musks-own-ai-chatbot-labels-most-his-x-po
sts-false-misleading-plenty-his-posts-dont-3764515

T r u m p ’ s L i e s

Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies.
But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow
itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every
outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
Updated: The president is still lying, so we've added to this list,
taking it through Nov. 11, and
provided links to the facts in each case.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.htm
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MAGA is a lying machine.
That means MAGA itself has to be a lie. And
that means its minions are really stupid.

T

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, May 15, 2025 5:32 PM

Maga FlatEarth types are getting their way

it will be all Musk?

looks like its over for NASA, Environment Satellites, the Science Research and the National Science Foundation

Here’s what a Moon and Mars program would look like without SLS and Orion.
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1922390708855411070

they have a Capsule left but nothing else, an idea is to make the Solar System 'Pirvate' Commercial and expand COTS to cislunar space and COTS to Mars
...this was actually plan Bush junior, later modified by Obama and others...NASA is still following the original vision of Bush junior
more stuff has made it to Mars since
but Musk has landed nothing on Mars and his rockets are exploding

NASA JPL and the Chinese can however do a Rover land on Mars

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, May 29, 2025 2:58 PM

This is not what delivering Astronauts to the Moon is supposed to look like, its not Saturn-V Apollo

9th Starship and another failure with some partially successful feats

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, June 20, 2025 9:36 PM

they are having failures during testing now

SpaceX's Latest Starship Explodes During Ground Test

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 5:26 PM

the Japanese are back with Honda

Reusable rocket prototype successfully launches and lands
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-reusable-rocket-prototype-successfully.h
tml

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, August 14, 2025 4:13 PM

Air Force suspends SpaceX rocket project on Johnston Atoll

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/07/07/breaking-news/report-air-for
ce-suspends-spacex-rocket-project-on-johnston-atoll/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, August 23, 2025 11:33 PM

China Versus US - the race to the moon

yeah but even if China puts colonies in space history remembers the USA got there first

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 5:11 PM

with recent success can Bezos win?

“An internal SpaceX document obtained by Politico lays out a new timeline for the Starship Human Landing System (HLS)—one that would put the Artemis 3 astronauts on the Moon by September 2028 at the earliest. That’s more than a year past NASA’s mid-2027 target.“

SpaceX to Tell NASA the Moon Will Have to Wait
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-to-tell-nasa-the-moon-will-have-to-wait-200
0686982

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 6:33 PM

Elon Musk’s pivot from Mars to the moon
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-pivot-mars-moon-184425549.htm
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After 20 Years Of Mars Hype, Elon Musk Suddenly Decides The Moon Will Do
https://www.2oceansvibe.com/entertainment/celebrities/after-20-years-o
f-mars-hype-elon-musk-suddenly-decides-the-moon-will-do/

Elon Musk shelves Mars dream as SpaceX prioritises Moon city instead
https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2168630/elon-musk-shelves-mars-dream
-spacex-prioritises-moon-city-next-decade

Jeff Bezos Appears To Insinuate That Blue Origin Will Beat SpaceX To The Moon With Tortoise Picture, Musk Responds
https://officechai.com/stories/jeff-bezos-appears-to-insinuate-that-bl
ue-origin-will-beat-spacex-to-the-moon-with-tortoise-picture-musk-responds/

Musk Embraces the Moon
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/musk-embraces-the-moon/

THG

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 7:28 PM

Space X is run by a NAZI.

T

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, February 16, 2026 1:27 AM

What SpaceX Won't Tell You About Their First Failed Moon Mission

Everyday Astronaut

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, February 16, 2026 3:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Space X is run by a NAZI.

T

Shut the fuck up, you mindless little cunt.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 12:48 AM

Planetary Maps (Global Images)
https://stevealbers.net/albers/sos/sos.html
by Steve Albers