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IschKabibble

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You think there are any other civilizations out there working to master the laws of physics like we are?

 
Left Hook Larry

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Other civilizations have already mastered the laws of physics and are watching us. The universe is far too old and even if we were behind 10,000 years (a blip in the universe time scale) the technology gap would be huge.
 
lueVelvet

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UKTT-God Save the Queen said:
Other civilizations have already mastered the laws of physics and are watching us. The universe is far too old and even if we were behind 10,000 years (a blip in the universe time scale) the technology gap would be huge.
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But that shouldn't diminish our own accomplishments... ;)
 
Simpleman

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I now want to see them reuse that rocket. Not being sarcastic or a downer either, it's just a lot of stress on all of those parts. I do hope they pull it off.
 
ThatOneDude

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This shit is awesome. One of the women I work with's son is a rocket scientist working on this so we stream all the space x stuff to the TVs around the office.
 
Simpleman

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Didn't some other company do this first? I thought there was somebody before space X, about six months ago maybe ?
 
IschKabibble

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Didn't some other company do this first? I thought there was somebody before space X, about six months ago maybe ?
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First time we've launched a rocket and landed it back to earth in the upright position.

Edit: There were earlier attempts to land one on a barge in the ocean before they could obtain permission to land at Cape Canaveral. But they weren't successful. Maybe that's what you're thinking of...
 
lookoutawhale

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here a little article on it from a couple days ago ThatOneDude @Sophia_Helwani

Tesla Is Now Better at Parallel Parking Than You

Eric Hal Schwartz - Staff Writer
01/11/16 @2:41pm in Tech

Tesla Motors (TSLA) has decided to help its drivers with that most-challenging of driving tasks, parallel parking, by teaching the car to parallel park itself with the new Summon feature of its Autopilot system. Tesla announced Summon in its latest update, beamed for download to Tesla cars as part of the latest software package. Summon is in beta at the moment but it's the latest move toward Tesla's self-driving car dreams. Basically, Summon makes a Tesla automatically park itself and pull out of a space. That means not only getting in and out of parallel parking spots, but also opening up and driving in and out of a garage by itself too.

Tesla is far from the only company interested in making a self-driving car, but Autopilot is considerably more advanced than most of the other competitors. Google's (GOOGL) self-driving car is still working out the kinks for turning right on red, but both Google and Uber are working on building a self-driving taxi service.

Tesla meanwhile is integrating aspects of self-driving tech into the cars rather than waiting until there's a way to make the car fully autonomous. Unfortunately, that's led to some less than safe behavior. Musk said that some changes to the Autopilot software that lets a Tesla drive itself in certain circumstances would be altered. He'd seen videos of the "crazy stuff" some people do using the Autopilot feature, and is concerned about rider safety. That doesn't mean there won't continue to be advances in the tech, but a more cautious approach to how and when it's deployed will be a part of the strategy.

Musk has touted Autopilot's learning ability and how it makes the car capable of adapting to drivers in a way to make driving the car safer and easier, even stopping accidents. However, just because the car can parallel park doesn't mean you can sleep through a road trip, at least not yet. But whether from Tesla, Google or another company pioneering self-driving and self-parking cars, that reality is not too far off.
 
lookoutawhale

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Simpleman said:
I'm confused; what is this then:

Jeff Bezos Brags About Rocket Landing With Mic Drop First Tweet
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From what I read the rocket that Jeff launched was weaker and doesn't pack enough punch to send a spacecraft into orbit. I think thats why it wasn't hailed as hard as the Space X rocket.

The major difference between SpaceX and Blue Origin

It is a historic moment for Blue Origin, and SpaceX — who has launched and landed reusable rockets at their test site near Brownsville, Texas since 2012 — congratulates them, telling Business Insider:

But, as Musk pointed out on Twitter, there’s a big difference between “space” and “orbital.” A suborbital rocket doesn’t pack nearly enough punch to actually launch a spacecraft. That means the Blue Origin rocket landing was much easier to pull off than all the so far unsuccessful attempts Musk’s SpaceX company has made:

Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30. The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2015

In other words, Bezos’ rocket would need to be about 100 times more powerful to actually launch something into orbit.

So Bezos may have won the warm up round, but Musk’s company could still pull off the world’s first reusable orbital rocket.
 
Simpleman

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lookoutawhale said:
From what I read the rocket that Jeff launched was weaker and doesn't pack enough punch to send a spacecraft into orbit. I think thats why it wasn't hailed as hard as the Space X rocket.

The major difference between SpaceX and Blue Origin

It is a historic moment for Blue Origin, and SpaceX — who has launched and landed reusable rockets at their test site near Brownsville, Texas since 2012 — congratulates them, telling Business Insider:

But, as Musk pointed out on Twitter, there’s a big difference between “space” and “orbital.” A suborbital rocket doesn’t pack nearly enough punch to actually launch a spacecraft. That means the Blue Origin rocket landing was much easier to pull off than all the so far unsuccessful attempts Musk’s SpaceX company has made:

Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30. The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2015

In other words, Bezos’ rocket would need to be about 100 times more powerful to actually launch something into orbit.

So Bezos may have won the warm up round, but Musk’s company could still pull off the world’s first reusable orbital rocket.
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Thank you. Makes perfect sense now.
 
BeardOfKnowledge

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UKTT-God Save the Queen said:
Other civilizations have already mastered the laws of physics and are watching us. The universe is far too old and even if we were behind 10,000 years (a blip in the universe time scale) the technology gap would be huge.
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It's just priorities. Some beings spend their resources traveling the universe, some spend theirs trying to destroy it.
 
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