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... Elon said he was gonna put monopropellant / cold gas thrusters from the Dragon capsule into the Roadster, at one point.
https://www.maxim.com/rides/elon-musk-says-new-tesla-roadster-will-actually-fly-and-hit-60-mph-in-under-1-second/
Its almost like this guy just fucking says shit, snd idiots believe him, for some reason, even though he's got a well established track record of lying about things that make basically no sense to lie about....
"I'm a world class Diablo player."
... as well as an entire solid decade of making grandiose business / product promises, and then delivering basically 1% of what he promised.
AutoPilot/Full Self Drive is totally real guys, it'll be perfect in a year or two... for a fucking decade.
Dude's blown up or otherwise destroyed about half as many heavy lift launch vehicles as the entire Apollo program, and so far hasn't even achieved orbit, much less with a payload, muchless tested the orbital refueling that his entire Starship system totally fails without.
Remember how we were gonna have rockets replace private jets?
Remember how the Boring company was gonna pay for itself by selling the dirt it dug up as bricks?
How's Hyperloop doing these days?
Isn't 0 to 60mph in 1 sec equivalent to ~2.7g
Kind of dangerous considering Saturn V reached a maximum of 4g during its first stage burn
Do people really believe this shit?
He has no idea about most of what he's talking about, still makes ever grandiose claims.
The rockets exploding is differen than the rest. It's literally rocket science and blowing up a bunch of test vehicles is kinda par for the course, and SpaceX has actually been pretty sucessful overall.
But that has zero to do with Musk.
Exactly. SpaceX has been successful despite Musk
Uh, no.
No rocket development program since the 1970s has blown up or lost as many rockets as Starship/HeavyBooster's development cycle has, proportional to how many rockets they built, flights they attempted.
And the entire fundamental design concept to be reliant on mass orbital fuel transfer, which has never been done, and will require a hell of a lot more development than drawings on napkins and CG renders... that's Elon's idea.
How many rockets has BlueOrigin lost?
Elon spent decades telling people he is an engineer.
When he roleplays as one, billions of dollars go up in smoke.
Aside from every other stupid aspect of such a stupid idea, I'm curious where he thought people were going to be able to get hydrazine to refuel the thruster.
Oh god that hadn't even occured to me.
Yeah... yeah.
I dunno, send it back to the dealer, have them do it lol?
I'm sure car mechanics will just be a-ok with handling hydrazine, rofl!
I can't even find barely any independent mechanic that'll touch a gas-electric hybrid, they're too 'complicated', apparently.
From your friendly neighbourhood hydrazine dealer of course. What, you don't have a hydrazine station next door? Are you some kind of a Poor or something?
Embrace extend extinguish. Hyperloop is doing fine, success achieved.
Wheres's that China vs US/California mass transit system map, change over last last two decades, map/meme thingy mabob when you need it...
Shudup mah Tesla is self driving me to mars. I mean the mun…