“One day, humans will glide effortlessly among the stars. And they’ll think on earth. And they will remember Elon Musk. Legend.”
The closest galaxy to earth is Andromeda.
“with a SpaceX rocket’s current tech, it would take roughly 75 billion years to reach Andromeda”
I have become an Elon Musk fan in the past year, due to his purchase and reforming of Twitter, his support of trump, and just a general admiration that some nobody from South Africa can become a business Titan in the United States. that said, Musk did not found the company Tesla. he was an early investor and he rode the wave of government subsidies. as for his rocketship company, I don’t think it’s that profitable. he calls his rockets starships. I think the most famous starship was the Enterprise on Star Trek the TV show and that ship, along with musks rockets, don’t go anywhere near Stars other than our own. never mind the distance between galaxies, just the distance between stars is immense. Maybe traveling between stars is possible, it’s just not possible with today’s knowledge. maybe it was never possible. if we do have so-called aliens on our planet maybe they’re not from other stars, they’re from Earth? it seems like the electric car business is not as good as it used to be, for good reason cuz it’s a crappy product in my opinion, so I’m a little bit surprised that Musk is spending so much time helping reform Washington DC. if I were him I’d be a little more concerned about Tesla Profits crashing. but with his wealth maybe he has no concerns other than what to name his 15th child. 🙂
The Chinese are producing EV’s that make Tesla’s look like junk, which they are, at half the price. They out compete “us” in every way possible. That’s the main reason co-president Musk is eager to wrap up the Ukraine debacle in order to focus on starting a war with China. This one won’t be a proxy war but the real deal. In the course of your Musk fandom you might consider the old adage that behind every great fortune there is a great crime.
The Chinese are producing so many EVs that it’s impossible for anyone to even buy them fast enough.
https://insideevs.com/news/672926/china-abandoned-electric-car-graveyard-byd-geely/
sorry but I don’t agree with that old adage about behind a fortune is a crime and I’m very doubtful that China EVS are of higher quality than Tesla’s. my beef with EVS has to do with the fact that they’re coal fired, and they’re subsidized and they shouldn’t be and also when your battery goes bad you have to spend $20,000 on a new one. I just bought a good used battery for my old van for 50 bucks, and it won’t spontaneously combust into a fire that will take 40,000 gallons of water to put out
The practicality is irrelevant, Musk is reviving what is almost dead in our thoroughly demoralized society, and that is aspiration. A confident and well informed population is hard to control, which is why superstition, ignorance and fear are so heavily promoted by authoritarian regimes. It doesn’t do them any good, because their technology stagnates and is overtaken by wiser rivals.
Right on…
The technical problems surrounding interstellar travel are indeed daunting. Not so regarding the technology required to fake such a venture. And people like the microwit Gail Alfar would just accept it. Such folks are legion, the majority. Actually the majority neither know nor care about any of this. Should Muskrat devote the resources necessary to developing tech that could actually achieve intergalactic travel the mission would nevertheless be doomed to failure from the get go. Based on SpaceX’s current record the Starship Elon would have a high probability of exploding a few miles above the Earth
Why should we waste money on interplanetary travel when that same money could be used to sustain all the drunks, drug addicts, bums, and give all the trans sex changes?
I think you are ignoring history regards booster failure at SpaceX. NASA exploded MANY rockets as it developed various size increments of booster. Some on the pad and many downrange. The difference is NASA started on the east coast of Florida, where downrange was a region not particularly populated by aircraft, so we rarely heard about it.
Using the launch location on the west side of the gulf places the downrange location at a heavily traveled region of airliner routing so we hear about those unplanned disintegrations.
From my point of view, at least we still have someone in the US working on space travel, and not doing as our government has done, spent tons of resources on equity projects. 200 years for now, which will be more important: How many drug addicts we saved, or mining colonies on the asteroids?
Yeah, but wasn’t the quote “glide among the stars”? She didn’t say go to another galaxy. Intergalactic travel is totally out of the question forever. But, the nearest star is about 4 ly away. It might be doable someday. Would take 50,000 years right now, but who knows? That Cybertruck might be modified to make the trip.
In a millenium or two I imagine our current understanding of the universe may change as drastically as it has done over the past millenium, but exploration is essential to encounter yet to be experienced phenomena, from which new insights may be gained. Currently science has pretty well stagnated, with that unshakable belief that all that can be known has been discovered, so everything reverts to quoting from authorities rather than experimentation. Original thought challenges the ostensible monopoly of wisdom of the guardians of this knowledge and is strongly discouraged. We have been here before, and the outcome was not good.