/sci/ - Science & Math

With the ground immediately leaping to the "Cosmonauts did it!" senario, we see that the Russians have not changed the way they tun their stations since Mir.

We need to get control of our own program back -- working with them is not going to be possible in the long term, the cultural differences are just too ingrained.

>>9078489
>Rockets are heavy as fuck simply due to the fuel needed to lift the rocket's thrusters and fuel tank.

And the fuel needed to lift the fuel. Unless you have some new ultralight fuel, this will remain an issue.

>>8786549
It is.

I think his basic gig is finding things that are not really economical to do, and getting the government to pay him to do them. He is, I think, noticeably scammy in the electric car for the masses he got the government to subsidize for him, then what he makes is a luxury toy for rich folks. Doesn't mean it is not a pretty neat car, or that he can't hire competent engineers.

I see less of that side of him in the rocket biz, just little things like "NASA announces maybe trying a lunar flyby in year X, Musk next week announces a couple of unnamed guys are going to pay him to do a lunar flyby in X-1! Really! No fooling!" Maybe he's telling the straight up truth, but it looks like he's just trying to freeze NASA out of the attempt.

But in any case, he can still hire competent engineers and build a good system, if that's what he wants to do.

I am not going to suck his dick and join his fanboidom, but I nonetheless hope his rockets fly all over the damn place and help kick the world's space efforts back into gear.