SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST)

Re:SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST) by slimshady94 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:38PM (#16319367)

So why exactly would it orbit the sun for a billion years?

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Re:SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST) by SAI_Peregrinus on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:40PM (#16319386)

No significant forces are expected to interfere with it and disturb the orbit enough to make it hit another object.

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Re:SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST) by FLUX-YOU on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:44PM (#16319410)

Elon should issue challenges to go interfere with it to promote space development.

$1mm if you can rendezvous. $2mm if you can put a drink in the driver's cupholder.

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Re:SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST) by gremlinsinc on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:57PM (#16319512)

Doubt the incentive would be worth the cost... $1mm for something that might take $100m in R/D and resources to accomplish.

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Re:SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST) by genkaos on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:05PM (#16319643)

Following the same logic XPrize wouldn't exist.

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Re:SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch webcast (live 12:45 PST) by mrep on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:01PM (#16319570)

Proof that it could have gone to mars but also in a very stable orbit with little chance of hitting an object and infecting it with human biology that is on the tesla.

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