Space and stuff

[chrismpw]

They still need to launch at the appropriate time in the orbital periods otherwise they just go to empty space where the planet could have been.

I could link some sites that explain it all, but I am afraid that @BigBlueNose will get a headache reading something about space in the 'space and stuff' thread.

Yes, but waiting for just one target planet to be in the right zone is preferable to waiting for 2 or 3, like they did with voyager.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Cgi

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams and rocket boosters can't land themselves.

 

[DualityNSNO]

So, is it appropriate to call "sci-fi" just sci now?

Also really cool of Elon Musk to do all the weird stuff that Bond villains in the older films would do but without actually trying to take over the world.

 

[paultheblue]

I always remember a lad at school who was called Boggy Marsh being asked by the teacher does he know what space Is?
He thought about it for a moment then replied
"That blue stuff up there"

 

[Lee Smith]

A projection surely? Can't be at mars orbit yet!!

Tesla Roadsters are fast, but they're not THAT fast lol

 

[NEWSWEETTOFFEE]

An enterprising youtube channel have captured the whole flight to booster separation and return to landing....uninterrupted:

I am surprised that it only took nine minutes for everything. Majestic!

 

[sageyefc]

Oh look! A troll!!!

You do realise you can go to Florida (of California) and actually watch these yourself right?

Do you think the earth is flat as well?

Next you'll be trying to tell me the moon landings were real

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

It is Space Oddity

Correct, and I have it on an original from when it came out so dont even know why I put that.

 

[peteblue]

An enterprising youtube channel have captured the whole flight to booster separation and return to landing....uninterrupted:

That is a fantastic video. Another step along the development route for normalising space travel........

 

[canuckblue]

The thing overshot its heliocentric Mars orbit and will now enter the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Now we'll see how a Tesla handles in traffic.

 

[chrismpw]

The thing overshot its heliocentric Mars orbit and will now enter the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Now we'll see how a Tesla handles in traffic.

Oh great.....
So the odds on a collision deflecting an asteroid to hit earth .....
..... Just before Everton win the title in two years time ffs

 

[canuckblue]

Oh great.....
So the odds on a collision deflecting an asteroid to hit earth .....
..... Just before Everton win the title in two years time ffs

Depends how good the driver is.
Joking aside, the Tesla's not big enough to alter an asteroid's orbit.

 

[chrismpw]

Depends how good the driver is.
Joking aside, the Tesla's not big enough to alter an asteroid's orbit.

Who knows. Going fast enough, got lots of energy. Could kiss one sideways.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Who knows. Going fast enough, got lots of energy. Could kiss one sideways.

A classic hit and run.

 

[canuckblue]

Who knows. Going fast enough, got lots of energy. Could kiss one sideways.

It would be orbiting in the same direction and at roughly the same speed. More of a fender-bender than anything.