By Jo Nova
I mean, wow.
The SpaceX fifth Starship rocket is 19 stories tall and they caught it first try with the Mechanzilla chopsticks.
Musk: “This the largest & most powerful flying object ever made at more than double the thrust of the Saturn V Moon rocket. ”
The tower has caught the rocket!!
pic.twitter.com/CPXsHJBdUh— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
If Elon had not jumped in with the Orange Hitler Man, this would have been on every news channel.
Seen from a distance we can appreciate just how fast it was hurtling toward the ground. The pre-launch information mentioned that the rocket would decelerate so rapidly it would cause audible sonic booms in the area.
The tower has caught the rocket!!
pic.twitter.com/CPXsHJBdUh— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
The rocket at launch:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024
Elon Musk commenting on the lawfare being used to slow launches: “The next fight of Starship is ready to fly. We are waiting on regulatory approval. It shouldn’t be possible to build a giant rocket faster than the paper can move from one desk to another.” More on ZeroHedge
The thunderbirds were doing it years ago…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhk_-v0SMs
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Musk is a completely different kind of Human and seems to complete his ideas in very quick time.
How he manages so many things at once is spooky and I often think he is so way out there that he belongs in a special category by himself.
But then again I’m never going to buy a Tesla EV from him. A safe convenient ICE vehicle suits me just fine.
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What sets Musk apart is he isn’t afraid of failure, and is allergic to playing it safe … in everything he does. Sometimes it works sometimes it fails spectacularly (Cybertruck, Hyperloop). Elon doesn’t care one way or the other. Every failure is viewed as a learning opportunity that allows his companies to move forward with new knowledge (of what not to do). SpaceX failed A LOT in it’s early years, but every failure was used to improve of their next launch, and Elon never lost faith in his engineers to figure things out.
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I suspect that he may have given his engineers a few tips along the way too. He’s definitely a “think outside the box” kind of guy.
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Saw the footage this morning. Astonishing, I can recall the scepticism not that long ago when early attempts at even launches failed. All the naysayers were wrong. Makes NASA look passee.
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I heard Elon say he is running into approval problems. They have to show how they don’t land on a shark or a whale in the ocean. I thought it was a joke, but no it’s not.
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California is blocking SpaceX from doing launches for Space Force satellites because he supports Trump. I hope Elon sues the pants off them, but I suspect Space Force will play the national security card and solve the problem for him. It’s not like there is another vendor out there who can reliably launch their satellites for them. They need the satellites and SpaceX is the only game in town. They will either override the California commission or Elon will say screw it and do the launches from Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/12/us/spacex-launch-california.html
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Elon has said he will initiate litigation today against the Californian Government. Musk has gone from Hero to Zero for the Democrats. He’s gone from Zero to Hero for Republicans.
Democrats are toxic and support Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin over Musk – which shows just how lunatic they are.
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Meanwhile, off the coast of America massive floating wind farms are getting fast approval.
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No floating wind farms have been approved. Five leases have been sold off CA and eight more are due to be sold Oct 29 for the Gulf of Maine. Project approval is 5 to 10 years out.
But massive fixed bottom wind projects are indeed being approved for construction at a rapid rate and several are under construction, what the industry calls “steel in the water”.
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Thanks, David. Appreciate the correction. The result is the same.
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Musk is an industrial titan, the likes we have not seen since Henry Ford.
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It is a great achievement and if Musk was not associated with Donald Trump, it would have been trumpeted everywhere.
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The Communist party of the UK (aka: the Labor Party) decided to not invite Elon Musk to its upcoming investment conference. Mean tweets or something.
Talk about plain stupid. Then again Communists are evil in addition to being stupid.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/11/labour-investment-summit-is-dead-on-arrival/
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That’s bad, but not as bad as Biden not inviting Musk to his EV summit a few years ago.
Holding an EV summit to promote increasing EV sales without inviting the guy whose has a 75% share of the American EV market was ridiculous. And that was BEFORE Elon bought Twitter or began supporting Trump. It was because Tesla was non-union and Biden’s union donors told him not to invite Musk.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/business/tesla-snub-white-house-event/index.html
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Ain’t socialism grand, if you don’t kiss their arse they will try to destroy you.
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Why didn’t the Space Shuttle ever hang a left and sail to the Moon?
I remember being under the impression that was the intention.
I think such is the premise of the second ‘Airplane’ movie.
What capabilities did that little Apollo system have that the shuttle lacked?
That would have prevented a Moon jaunt.
Being a 60’s kid, hard to believe I made it to 2025* and there’s been zero human (outside the magnetosphere) space travel.
*(Well not quite yet … I am unvaxxed and exercising regularly.)
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Never say never they say. If I were to buy a BPV, it would be a Tesla no worries. Because at least they build their own charging stations and have so for years. Plus I have always had an admiration for Elon. He’s just a doer and has no shame in telling people to “go &%$#!! yourself”. We once had so many more people in corporates and companies of his ilk. Now they’re mostly staid, boring politically correct drones or DEI hires. You can almost predict what they’re gong to say before they open their mouth. With Elon Musk, it’s wow most of the time. Australia should proposition him to build a cybertruck factory in this country. Hell, we invented the pickup / ute in the first place, why not?
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