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Wow. This is a HUGE milestone in space travel and exploration. Elon Musks (real life Tony Stark) company SpaceX successfully launched a rocket into space orbit, that was sent to deploy 11 satellites, and came back down vertically successfully and landed in it's original launch station. Was watching it with some of the engineers at work earlier during lunch and it felt so special, we were all in awe. It kinda felt like seeing the first rocket to ever launch.
Why should you give a f*ck?
Well before this, space exploration and travel meant that we spent hundreds of millions of dollars, sometimes up to a couple billion, developing a extremely advanced and complicated spaceship/rocket. Launching it. Then destroying it after we're done with it. Then repeating that process again. SpaceX successfully launched the first re-usable rocket. This is huge because we don't have to go through that whole process of recreating a rocket/spaceship and wasting billions of dollars. It basically slices the cost to travel in space by half, allowing us to have way more frequent trips up there. This simplifies space travel by a huge margin, it's a giant leap in the right direction for space aviation. The implications of this for normal everyday people is we are really close to achieving things like global wifi, since we can launch a shitload of satellites at a cheap cost now. The same company who just did this, SpaceX, already has plans for this http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-most-remote-locations-on-earth-10499886.html Soon we'll be snapchatting with out reer badiye fam. Imagine reer badiye nudes jheez.
Here's what SpaceX/Tesla founder (GOAT engineer of our time) has to say about this technology.
@SuldaanMethylamine
Wow. This is a HUGE milestone in space travel and exploration. Elon Musks (real life Tony Stark) company SpaceX successfully launched a rocket into space orbit, that was sent to deploy 11 satellites, and came back down vertically successfully and landed in it's original launch station. Was watching it with some of the engineers at work earlier during lunch and it felt so special, we were all in awe. It kinda felt like seeing the first rocket to ever launch.
Why should you give a f*ck?
Well before this, space exploration and travel meant that we spent hundreds of millions of dollars, sometimes up to a couple billion, developing a extremely advanced and complicated spaceship/rocket. Launching it. Then destroying it after we're done with it. Then repeating that process again. SpaceX successfully launched the first re-usable rocket. This is huge because we don't have to go through that whole process of recreating a rocket/spaceship and wasting billions of dollars. It basically slices the cost to travel in space by half, allowing us to have way more frequent trips up there. This simplifies space travel by a huge margin, it's a giant leap in the right direction for space aviation. The implications of this for normal everyday people is we are really close to achieving things like global wifi, since we can launch a shitload of satellites at a cheap cost now. The same company who just did this, SpaceX, already has plans for this http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-most-remote-locations-on-earth-10499886.html Soon we'll be snapchatting with out reer badiye fam. Imagine reer badiye nudes jheez.
Here's what SpaceX/Tesla founder (GOAT engineer of our time) has to say about this technology.
If you look at, say, the cost of a Falcon 9 rocket. It's a pretty big rocket. It's about a million pounds of thrust. It is the lowest cost rocket in the world, and even so, it's about $50 to $60 million, but the cost of the fuel, and oxygen and so forth, is only about $200,000. So obviously, if we can reuse the rocket, say, 1000 times, then that would make the capital costs of the rocket per launch, only about $50,000. There'd be maintenance and other things that we'd factor in there, and fixed costs and some overhead allocation, and what not, but it would allow for about a 100 fold reduction in launch costs, and this is a pretty obvious thing if you think at it applied to any other mode of transport. You can imagine if planes were not reusable, very few people would fly. You know, a 747 is about $300 million. You'd need two of them for a round trip, and yet I don't think anyone here has paid half a billion dollars to fly, and the reason is because those planes can be used tens of thousands of times and so all you're really paying for is fuel, and pilot costs and incidentals. The capital cost is relatively small. That's why it's such a giant difference.