Topic: SPACEX FALCON HEAVY TEST LAUNCH (Read 417 times)

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE???
Seriously, Asking this question after all these years, After Elon Musk was ditched by his NASA heroes is unacceptable. It is akin to treason in the eyes of us SpaceX and Musk zealots.

You have lost credibility today..LOL.

Falcon Heavy can carry roughly three times the payload of the Space Shuttle and is thus the largest spacecraft in the history of mankind by a large margin. SpaceX is also a private company, while NASA is government funded.

What is the difference between this SpaceX launch and what NASA has been doing over the last few decades?
Sorry, I;m just lazy to watch the video nor read the TheGuardian article.

People tend to get extremely offended if you speak out against their holy religion that is science. So I try to be careful with my wording. But yeah, it's safe to say that we know absolutely fuck all about the universe.

I'm not sure if we need to go as far as trying to drop into some metaphysical realm (which I don't even really know what it's supposed to encompass). Physics keeps expanding, and if FTL was found to be possible I can almost blindly guarantee you that physicists will just put that into the scope of physics. After all, there's some bodies, or even just information, that is traveling with some assignable speeds, which is basically mechanical in nature.

But naming conventions aside, I don't think that there are any rules that are set in stone for all times. And so far all the evidence points towards that notion as well. So for me there's no reason to assume that FTL won't be possible in the future and it seems more of a question of when. Musk does indeed seem to be one of the first few steps towards that kind of research.

I tried, was full of shit and fallacies. Have seen worse sources of entertainment though.

Fine! I'll research. But its not interesting enough,

I first want to hear the conspiracy theory give me some background as to why scientists and textbooks everywhere would like us to believe that the earth is round and not flat??

Umm. It won't be an understatement if the known laws are the only ones we can observe and experience in the present form. For example, Does a duck know that there's a Newton's law. Surely it applies to her but she has no knowledge of it nor the capability to use it to her advantage.

We go inside matter and we get lost in more particles and more fields. We look upto the sky and there is no limit as to what can be observed and yet, we don't know what to make of that knowledge. What I mean is that we are essentially ducks as of now. We would really need to evolve ourselves to be able to observe or understand the higher phenomena.

Right. We would need to evolve as a species. FTL communication and matter getting transported as information is a possibility.


That PCB chip was fucking cool man..!

Galaxies, solar systems, faster than light travel, other civilizations? You guys are swimming in shit, it's up to your eyeballs!



Research Flat Earth

If indeed such a civilization exists within say 30 Light years, they would be looking out for anomalies. Anomalies like a strange non-planetary object circling around the major Solar systems. Like The Starman. We could be in for a major surprise soon enough if they notice the Tesla.

But if there was such a civilization, wouldn't they have contacted us by now? Its just that the time-frame to develop such a technology should be small enough for those beings to remember their history. They surely must be aware of the archaic forms of communication (waves in this case) to be able to talk to the lesser civilizations like ours.
The fact that we haven't heard from anybody despite around 30 years of SETI means they are nowhere within those 30 Light years. Even if they are, they aren't very ahead of us in technology.

That would require a civilization to actually have existed for a long enough time to be millions/billions of years ahead of us without having gone extinct. They would also have to exist in sufficient proximity of us...The upper speed of light and hence travel for all matter in the forms currently accessible to us means we simply cannot travel to or even observe the expanses of universe...physical laws that limit us to "speed of light" won't apply...
Given that there is a possibility to move to such a plane of existence, any civilization would probably need to exist for millions of years before thats possible...
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To say that our current knowledge of conveniently termed "Laws of Physics" is incomplete would be an understatement by large.
Creation of miniature wormholes is currently an impasse but may not be so in near to mid term future - human colony on Mars would need to communicate with Earth in real-time and if microscopic wormholes connect communication centers on both end we would already have faster-than-light (FTL) communication.

Ambition to populate nearby planets is a precursor to acquiring FTL communication capability and Elon Musk is a man symbolizing that whole idea.
Imagine if there is a sort of galactic inter-planetary Internet and we just need to tune in by becoming FTL capable species.
On the other hand all that we call "matter" can be reduced to information, and if you can stream that information it may be recomposed as "matter" on the other end.

Doors of Knowledge are wide open, we just need to be ambitious and brave enough to step through and further promote our own brand "Made in Earth by Humans".

The upper speed of light and hence travel for all matter in the forms currently accessible to us means we simply cannot travel to or even observe the expanses of universe. Like Vod said, its sobering and completely disappointing to realize that. But we don't want that right.

We want a scenario where these travels and observations are possible. That leaves one possibility. We as a civilization will need to to exist in a different form. A form where the laws of this "present matter" world don't apply. It becomes almost metaphysical and goes into the realm of spirituality but the more i think of it, the more i am convinced that there needs to be higher "planes of existence" where these physical laws that limit us to "speed of light" won't apply.

Like Dr. Manhattan from the Watchmen..

Given that there is a possibility to move to such a plane of existence, any civilization would probably need to exist for millions of years before thats possible. Its clear that we cannot exist on planet earth for millions of years. But maybe if we branch out and terraform enough planetary bodies, we can hope to survive long enough and become the super sentient beings that would be capable of Inter-galactic travel. So Elon is the first pioneer of this endeavour and Mars would be our first stop on this long road.

This all sounds completely mad but I don't see any other way that its possible..

Ohh and I am glad that a topic i started finally got some traction. Thanks to you Vod and BTCMillionaire..👍..I am writing this on a phone. Hope the formatting doesn't come out all trashy.

Yes, we just need to figure out instantaneous communication like in Speaker for the Dead.

If there was anyone who legitimately believed the earth was flat, this wouldn't change their mind 

It's a great technology that rockets are reusable with SpaceX.

Yeah, that is an awesome video.

But, it definitely puts stuff into perspective.

Case and point.

You need the Vision to get the company where it needs to go.

The same reason people talk about Bill Gates instead of Microsoft.

It takes a leader to make anything happen.

Why is everybody talking about Elon Musk, like he built his rocket alone by himself. He sure is a great guy, but SpaceX is company with over 60 000 people.

Excellent video.  Thank you!

Now I have to watch his 11:00 video on UFOs.