Comments by "Gabor Rajnai" (@gaborrajnai6213) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

  1. The Cybertruck got its new name, the Swasticar...
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  2. Nope gasoline is CH, where hydrogen is 1 gram per mol weight, and when you burn it you form CO2 where O has 16 gram per mol weight, so one kilo of gasoline forms 2-3 kilos of CO2.
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  3. About Chernobyl: for some reason they dropped boron enriched sand into the reactor like crazy, which would have no effect unless to stop an uncontrolled chain reaction. So I guess they really thought it is possible, and as long as they were the engineers who built the reactor on the first place, so it is not as scientifically inaccurate as you would think.
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  4. Well Saturn V was a human rated system, which took even the Falcon 9 a decade to achieve. And Starship is definitely not Human rated.
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  5. Statistics is a strange thing. The more data you have the less individual errors count. Global mean temperature is a highly combined factor.
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  6. I would say an engineer is a down to earth and cautious scientist or a businessman depending on where he works, although I hold a degree on both fields. Now regarding to Musk, he certainly does not think as an engineer, since he always cuts corners, which is highly unusual in the profession.
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  7. Elon knows more about religious cultists than anyon currently alive on Earth!
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  8. Someone tell Musk that he dont have to go to Mars with his rocket. Adolf is hiding on the Moon.
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  9. Elon Musk leader of the dodgy department.
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  10. 100%
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  11.  @furriesinouterspaceUnited  Well, it actually works, not like Starship...
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  12. Well no Phil, on the rovers you are dead wrong. Putting a Mossbauer spectroscope into a rover is by no means a total geological survey, and literally nothing can subsitute a real onsite scientist 100%. Rovers are nice and all, but give like 30% of the picture, even if some put an entire lab on it which is pretty much impossible.
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  13. Thatswhy bumpy ground is a problem I guess.
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  14. I love this guy, he is the funniest conman EVER!The face of that cultist guy, as he realize he payed 400 bucks for two bricks into his "affordalbe house" 🤣🤣🤣
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  15. This will be the first time Musk delivers ahead of schedule...
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  16. Well, no, if you take out the price of the sanctions Roscosmos is still the cheapest satellite launcher on the market.
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  17.  @chudchadanstud  Yeah, sure and Teslas werent mean to be full self driving 10 years ago. Isnt this is what called gaslighting?
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  18.  @furriesinouterspaceUnited  You actually know, that with a rocket THAT big, they cant do otherwise, thatswhy you didnt see Saturn V's destroyed in the launchpad. Because if that would happen, it would have the explosive force of a mini nuke, and noone on site would survive... So no, they were pretty sure it will lift off, or they were all suicidal.
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  19. Except xsitter. Which lost 20 billion of its worth the moment he took over.
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  20. Its not that, thatswhy Musk is in a war with Biden, because he doesnt let his workers to unionize.
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  21. Well, they dont actually need to take those life support systems, and all the sht you described on a Mars voyage. Theres the concept of cycler stations, those are on a resonant orbit between Earth and Mars, so in theory a smaller spaceship is enough to get to the station and off from it.
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  22. Why does a car manufacturer, which has at least 3 products on its backlog dealing with building autonomous robots?
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  23. Well 20 tons of battery is not moved easily.
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  24. SLS actually demonstrated that its working, so the real question is if Musk will pay additional penalties, if the whole Moon landing will be postponed because of his little project.
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  25. It is impossible to do it, but otherwise good idea.
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  26. Google Alphabet is frontrunner in self driving cars. Tesla doesnt even qualify for the race.
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  27. We cant even live in the oceans or deserts of this planet, although it would be a piece of cake compared to live in Mars.
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  28. Oh come on, this is the auto industry, they will be bailed out even if Musk would run around naked in Times Square burning money.
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  29. No longer. Artemis made a successful launch.  @user-rn3rn6nl3h 
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  30. Well in theory it can be done, since humans dont have LIDARs, and they can drive. The problem is with the software, its an incredibly difficult task to be as precise i visual interpretation as the human brain is.
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  31. Yeah and Musk will face the same problem what the soviets did, that blowing up a small rocket on the launchpad cause small troubles, while bloing up a big rocket on the launchpad wipes out their entire spaceprogram. It took them 6 months just to rebuild Baykonur when the N1 blew up. @lazarus2691 
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  32. They were cheating from the getgo. They literally used icebuckets so the early roadsters didnt catch fire during their media shows. Then they sold those to real people, a good engineer doesnt do that. And they didnt change the company culture eversince, just nowadays they risking the lives of their customers with full self driving craziness.
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  33.  @ipolodesign  We are on it. But first of all using natural gas instead of coal solves 80% of the problem.
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  34. Some of the people objectively dont understand why Elon Musk and his company actually harmed the combat against climate change. So lets start with the obvious, 60% of all CO2 emissions are coming from public heating. To combat climate change passive houses, net zero heating systems, and better insulation are the absolutely the 0th step. Meanwhile Musk derailed the whole topic towards road transport, which contributes to less than 10% of the overall GHG emissions. Today we are at a point, where governments give tens of thousands of dollars as tax incentives for very rich men to buy electric cars and show off, while they threaten ordinary folks that they will ban their gas heating, who in turn become climate sceptics, because they dont intend to freeze during the winter. This whole topic became a secondary agenda of car manufacturing states who want to get ahead eachother, thatswhy spending billions to build EV infrastructure from taxpayer's money, meanwhile totally abandoning any house renovation projects. Considering that he actually declared war on the most environmentally friendly way of road transport, railways. His cars will never be as efficient and climate friendly as a train is, let it be a passenger train or a cargo train, yet he wanted to crack down on both with Hyperloop and Tesla Semi respectively. By diverting funds towards the EV industry, the charger points and everything which should be solved from his fortune, or from his customer's wallet, instead of government money he is actually draining resources from existing and newly built rail projects, like the San Francisco highspeed rail, but even the ordinary rail infrastructure is in shambles, there are train accidents in the US every single year like East Palestine, entire bridges collapse, there should government money go not to these phantasmagories. I absolutely appreciate early adopters, but its not the duty of the general public to foot the bill of their hobbies. His other project, SpaceX makes even less sense. If we cant solve the climate crysis on Earth how the hell will we ever colonize such a hostile planet as Mars? Nohow. Even if it would be done like ever, it would be a ticket for the superrich to get away from the problems they caused, I again dont see why the community should give funds to such enterprises, superrich are superrich, they should finance their escape plans. And whoever lets this guy to put a chip into his head is certified insane.
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  35. Because thatswhere his cultist comic con fanboys got their ideas about rockets.
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  36. You should be grateful we didnt. Nuclear reactors of the 50s and 60s had a predicted failure rate of 1:10000. Now what happens if you have 10.001 of those belongs to the realm of Bayes statistics, but its not a good sign. Nuclear safety should be imperative, because that makes a widescale nuclear future possible.
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  37. Ok but they didnt want to power solar farms with it only wanted to make their arctic brighter.
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  38. By raptor engine's evolution I guess you mean, the never in the flows of time a raptor was relit in a microgravity environment, so it will or will not be able to operate, noone actually knows. And since basically everything Starship is centered on the premise that they can do this, thats a pretty fundamental question, rater more important than catching the grainsilos, because if they cant do it, there wont be Moon, there wont be Mars, and there wont be LEO either.
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  39. The volume of it can be reduced, although not all of it can be mitigated. And that would make nuclear horribly expensive.
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  40. US satellite launch market is 1 bill USD annually. The guy stole 11 billion overall from US taxpayers, just for his rockets. Can you do the arithmetics, how long US companies could shoot satellites to the sky annually for free if Musk wouldnt exist?
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  41.  @wizardemrys  Sorry to inform you but SLS IS the most sophisticated rocket system in existence today, and it wasnt built by SpaceX.
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  42. No, we hate him, because he is the enemy of public transport, shat down many train projects around the world, and want to force me into his electric cars. He is not a good man, made more harm than good.
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  43. I guess a rocket turning into a giant fireball speaks for itself...
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  44. I dont get it? Carbon capture and storage costs money, yes, so what should we do? It is an absolutely demonstrated technology, which we use in the natural gas industry to clean up methane from excess CO2, so your heaters can use it, compressing it or injecting it back is not an issue, thatone we do when we store gas for the winter season.From a technical standpoint it could work like charm with a coal fired powerplant.
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  45. Its called greenhouse effect, well because you can measure it in a greenhouse. Plants emit the carbon dioxide at night which doesnt let your greenhouse to cool down.
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  46. Well, thats apples vs oranges, Proton aluncher is capable to put 22.8 tonnes to low earth orbit, Falcon 9 without reusability is capable 9.5 tons to there. But regular satellite launches dont need those requirements.  @davide_00 
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  47. Proton not barely beating Falcon 9 , it has double the payload capacity, my friend, it was used to build the ISS, and made a circumlunar orbit, not some model rocket like Falcon 9, it is a heavy duty lift vehicle. Soyuz 2 also have 8500 kg payload capacity to LEO, which is technically one ton less than the Falcon 9 s 9500 kg, but for that both stages of the Falcon have to be sacrificed, so it wouldnt be an average pricetag launch, it would cost around 60-80 million, while you could get the same from the Russians for 40. @lazarus2691 
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  48. oh yeah, when phil went to full based on the woke feminists, and the theocrats, it wasnt political, but now, that he is going after the fascist grifter oh you cant be political.......
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  49. In trucks you want cargo capacity to be the maximum. You cant legally have a truck heavier than 40 tons, so if 30 tons is the truck and the battrries that would put 10 tons as useful cargo. Diesel is way better.
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  50. Lol, the report literally stated, that autopilot is more dangerous than a human.
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  51. I have to give credit to Trump, with the brainworm guy, the Russian amazon, the alcoholic crusader and Space Hitler he put together such a cabinet where Trump looks like the adult in the room....
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  52. Lol Even thats a lie by Musk, He combined all of Model Y and Model 3 sales together. Its like saying Merdedes S class is the best selling car in the world, by adding to the S class every A and C class which are sold.
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  53. Come on man, if SpaceX would be an order of magnitude cheaper than the industry, they would send up full loaded satellites for 5 million dollars. Even Musk does not claim that. Truth is Russians are still cheaper, but their space industry is sanctioned as well as all of their economy. Musk has a temporary advantage to call at best, to figure out how can he become cheaper than the Soyuz, because he cant rely forever on that will be the case. Thatswhy he needs Starship, because Falcon 9 wont be competitive on the long run.
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  54.  @thomaspeck430  Lol we have landed rockets you know in the Moon 40 years ago, so tell me when Musk is there...
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  55. I always wanted to ask: why do they want to put a turbine on the front of the car which travels in supposed vacuum?
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  56. Was Musk hiding under the grass in the abandoned hole, so TF is stalking him? For some strange miracle Linus techtips guy didnt went back to the place where he onanized 5 years ago about our bright new future to see what it became. johndoe2-ns6tf 
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  57.  @valis992000  Yep, we had General Dynamics building, you know, the Saturn V around 1966. Kindof an awesome rocket too, way better than anything Musk has designed up to date. Or the Atlas rocket family from Lockheed from 1960, which can do 90% of what a Falcon 9 can, and 110% of what the satellite contractors want it to used for and doesnt cost 10 billion govt money to reinvent... Actually you could run all the satellite launches in the world for free for 3 years just by giving to sat launchers the subsidies Musk received to his rocket for the government. Musktards generally speak as if no other company built a rocket before Musk ever, meanwhile there are a dozen just in the USA, who were basically sidelined by the govt for a decade so Musk could have better business opportunities. To be honest he halted human scientific progress by a decade because ISS couldnt be utilized for its full potential of a crew of 6+ because he had to figure out a capsule, which any company, who built one in the last 60 years of spaceflight could do in a matter of few years.
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  58. The question comes into my mind is how on Earth do these idiots have a hundred thousand grands for these cars? I mean they certainly didnt put it togther from their brainproducts.
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  59. You mean that Californian legal authorities actually LET those cars driverless? Do you realize that the footage where the car tried to kill the cylclist is from 2022?
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  60. Superconductor you wanted to say, because we have a ton of room temperature semiconductors. But you would be suprised, because its harder to debunk thatone than to debunk Musk, because in theory thats not entirely impossible, and in analytical terms to produce lk99 with the right amount of impurities is not as easy.
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  61. Russians had this idea to light up the arctic during the winter. It can work.
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  62. Cant he just get some clever people to invest that money what he steals from his followers into projects which actually makes sense? Oh sorry I forgot that outlandish claims are part of the business model.
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  63. Hydro and geothermal are baseload power. Hydro is actually the best, most versatile type of energy among all options nuclear added.
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  64. Why doesnt he sell tickets to the andromeda galaxy?
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  65. She didnt sold her shares, as Bankman did.
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  66. There were 68 incidents involved 747-s and one invoved a Concorde.
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  67. From all the boosters and rocket engines the only thing from the space shuttle which didnt land intactly was the main fueltank. The difference was that in the good old times they used parachutes to get those things back.
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  68. Yeah that was kindof demagogic from Phil to measure the radiation near the damaged block, since that part was the most extensively cleaned up. You can find spots in Chernobyl exclusion zone, or in south Belarus which are really hot even today. Even that wildlife sanctuary hypothesis is debated among researchers, there are some studies made on trees groving there which actually shows increased deformation and cancer among the plants growing in the exclusion zone compared to standard european forests.
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  69. Boeing execs fly things into orbit regularly, yet they are not exactly the most popular people among Musk fandom. Boeing execs are not tech Jesuses, they do what they are payed for doing their job, quite abysmally recently, everybody understands that, then why should Musk be above critique. I really dont see what Musk made what wasnt already made before him. Ok so we can send stuff up into space, not that we couldnt send stuff up into space a priori, not that there werent the SaturnV or the Energija, which could send up 100 tons into space, if it was needed, but there never was a real incentive to send up 100 tons into orbit, except some quirky government projects. Maybe it will be commercially viable, most likely it will fail as all of its predecessors failed. It wont make space business cheaper, like ever, not because his rocket concepts dont work but because capitalism doesnt work thatway, capitalism works in a way that if he can charge NASA for 80 million per seat on his capsule, he will charge NASA 80 million per seat in his capsule, he wont cut prices for the sake of cutting prices, noone would do in his place.The only thing what could cut prices would be competition, but theres no real competition in the space industry. 70% of all satellite launches is done by governments, Americans wont send up their crucial satellites on Russian rockets, Russinas wont send up their crucial satellites on American rockets, and Chinese wont send up their satellites on both, its a national security concern. Let alone I dont see why lets say his hypersonic passenger liners would actually help humanity, on rocket launch combust more GHG gases than 50 jets, its an incredibly wasteful way of transport, thatswhy nobody even tried it before Musk. Clever people first calculate, what they actually want to achieve, not going in headon, because technology which supports their wild ideas doesnt grow out of the ground, if they sketch an idea. Yeah Musk could sketch giant electric rocket engines on his rockets, and sell it as groundbreaking innovation, yet as long as giant electric rocket engines dont exist it is a mundane enterprise. He uses the Steve Jobs recipe with some more credibility, Jobs sold computers with a promise that one will save the world thatway, Musk sells EVs, they dont sell physical products but visions, and objectively their most sought after products are Tesla stocks. What Elon Musk really do, is taking well known sci fi concepts from the past, which were all tried and failed and try to push them through with brute force and advertizing, hile gathering a bunch of sci fi fans behind his projects to support him.
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  70. I think TF would get along well with Rogan.
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  71. Put an areospike in front of your highspeed rail. That alone can reduce drag by 50%.
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  72. Im in a little bit of AI, and what my humble knowledge says about it, definitely noone wants to develop an AI which drives a car, and capable of moving an android around. Because to drive a car, you actually dont need those functions like moving the chassis on legs, so the development and the resources would be basically wasted.
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  73. Why it shouldnt go supercritical? That would significantly reduce its overall volume.
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  74.  @obviousmaths4368  Well there is no way you could keep it under 30 C and 100 Bar unless you store it above 1000 meters. The hydrostatic pressure and geothermal gradient in the aquifer will be higher below regardless, so it will be supercritical, no matter what we do. That would be a problematic limiting factor, since most of the oil and gas wells are actually deeper than that. Letting it change phase in the aquifer would most likely result in fracking, then calculations need to be done if the barrier rock's tensile strength is enough not to crack.
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  75. Well, he had the audacity to get Blue origins into court, because they proposed a different lander, which in the end can be the saving grace of Artemis.
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  76. Teslas are banned in China to drive near government or military properties. They are afraid of NSA is using their sensors to spy on them.
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  77. What if he would name his new shiny rocket the ... V2
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  78. I would concur on the optimism about geoengineering. If it would be so easy to counter global warming by injecting stuff to the atmosphere, then it would be solved by itself, because warmer temperature means higher humidity means more clouds, means higher albedo, means lower temperature. I dont say it cant be done, but not on your scale of 8 billion tons of SO2. Truth is, we dont know exactly how much mount Pinatubo, Krakatoa, or the global dirty coal industry put into the atmosphere, we can just speculate wildly about it, but volcanoes tend to put more gases into the atmosphere by a single eruption than what humanity ever put into there.
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  79. Noone knows if it was inaccurate, but the reactor engineers of the time thought about it as a possibility, so its not that far fetched. Honestly Chernobyl type reactor was a half military reactor which was capable to process unenriched uranium and turn it into weapons grade plutonium, add that together with a ton of unburned graphite moderator near the lava, that it was in the end of its entire refueling cycle which means the lava contained pretty effective neutron sources to start up the chain reaction, and you can see why they were afraid.
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  80. Thermal expansion in railways is solved by adding centimeter gaps between each rail segment. Now if you add a centimeter gap into a vacuum tube to expand... well, you wont have vacuum anymore.
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  81. Well, no plants dont have the capacity to do the trick on the long run. If you look around you see mountains which contains limestone, it is pretty common, while seeing mountains out of coal is pretty extraordinary. 1% of the CO2 can be permanently captured in organic matter compared to inorganic material.
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  82. Cause its cool... On the other hand robotaxis would make a lot of sense if they could be made, cars arent used 90% of their life.
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  83. You dont spew toxic, carcinogenic asthma causing materials into the air with gas, and it could be solved with coal pretty easily. If only that would be the problem, we would have a happy fossil fuel industry.
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  84. Why do you think he is building a rocket to Mars? Because that will be the only place where his investors wont find him, when the whole mountain of crap he built collapses...
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  85. It reminds me the good old days when I won 200 bucks from a muskrat 4 years ago, who was willing to bet, that Musk will send this hunk of metal to orbit in 2020. I told him, that not even he wont send sht to orbit thatyear, but I bet on he wont even fly the booster rocket. Won both.
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  86. Well, Apple made it although Jobs never lost his cult.
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  87. Most likely that will happen unless they are outcompeted. But its a hard thing now, since their evaluation was unrealistic, they will fall under their real value when sht really hits the fan, which they might not survive.
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  88. Well, if you get it from the atmosphere yes. If you get it from the exhaust directly it is maybe 1 kg CO2 to 10 kg of exhaust, but there are ways to push it above 1 kg of CO2 to 4 kg of exhaust, where it can be done economically.
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  89. Lol never thought that German universities are THAT rubbish...
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  90. Lol Musk cant make a bigger rocket engine without tackling combustion instability. Even NASA couldnt solve it on an exact scientific basis rather by trial and error, thatswhy we cant build F1 engines anymore.
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  91. What if we would send up satellites filled with argon and neon and write a giant Coca Cola sign into the night sky?
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  92. Just them being horrible people in horrible companies doesnt mean, they are actually overselling their products.
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  93. Lol, I think Musk is actually betting right. You think that frauding more people puts him in a worse position than Bankman, while it actually puts him into a better position. He and his company is too big to fail now, the government will bail them out of anything and everything.
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  94. Elon open sourced grifting.
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  95. Well, they can afford Space Jesus's bonuses...
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  96. Let us assume, that the shortsellers of Tesla do actually know what they are doing, and the foreseeable correction is not the apocalypse of the western civilisation.
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  97. Its cute that you think TF, that politicians or buisness tycoons actually care about money. You know these people can print the stuff. Yeah, they cant give it to anyone, because then it would become worthless, but they can finance vaporware out of it.
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  98. Yeah we have already seen with Brexit where does it lead when these wackos running amok. They will not only wipe US wealth, but will defend them losing their jobs their money, and their livelihood day by day by telling that others are suffering more than them...
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  99. By soyuz I guess?
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  100. Well those sats over the ocean are not necesarily useless, those can reflect sunlight into the ones, which are in good position. I dont think it is such a bad idea, I would certainly pay a few bucks just to troll an entire city for an hour.
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  101. Come on thunderfoot, this is not fair. The guy is clearly went crazy, we shouldnt hit him while he is on the floor.
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  102. Nope, he is attacked, because his companies are not startups anymore, and Musk still behaves as running a startup, while in fact he is running the biggest car manufacturing company on the world, at least on paper. He could get away with some overhype while he could maintain this garage business view, but from a big manufacturer everyone awaits reliability.
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  103. I was here laughing at him, when he was the shining star of the democrats. Simply because 90% of what he is saying is either doesnt make any technical sense, overpriced, or outright dangerous, I mean some people literally died in his cars, because they believed in this autopilot BS. Yeah we all know, that small businesses sometimes have to oversell to stay alive, everybody did that, but now the game has changed for Musk and his gigacorporations. Regarding Twitter I only have some problems about how he handled the technical staff, he fired lots of good coders, who contributed not just to twitter but to the coding community as well.  @pablorages1241 
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  104. I like that you not calling it an outright BS, which possibly it is, but not yet proven conclusively. BTW the problem with quantum computing is not that we cant build those machines, but those computations are well, based on quantum effects, so intrinsically unreliable, and would require error searching in the level or greater complexity than the problem it intends to solve. So the real question there is not some magnet, but if an efficient algorythm can be applied for a given problem, so it is not entirely cloud eating either, just very problematic.
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  105. No you dont, your phase array antenna would cause serious troubles to the TCAS system of the airplane.
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  106. Yep, that would work, although that would make it even more expensive.
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  107. Remember ze rocket needs to be pointy!
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  108.  @AWAVAVA  It works...
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  109. The government is wasting money by exactly putting money into Musk. He is a capitalist, he should risk his own wealth and his investors money and get away from subsidies, which should be outright banned. @liquidsnake6879 
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  110. Did anyone realize, that Musk is basically building the spaceship from Flash Gordon?
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  111. A mile long train is a huge mass, thousands of tons, so accelerate/decelrate it requires a shitton of energy regardless of friction. Thats the not a free lunch part of it. Yep I guess the main problem with the regenerative braking thing is that they mainly do it, when they stop for unloading, and when they stop for unloading they actually dont need the power.
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  112. Well, the truth is, he is juggling from the very getgo to fund these projects, he constantly oversold on everything, most of us knew that all the way along, and it is kindof tolerable for a very small company. However now Tesla and SapceX are big companies, so their fraudulent practices should be cut back, and they should be absolutely chased away from government money and influence.
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  113. The sunk cost fallacy...
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  114. To be correct he could have reached orbit, but until they demonstrate a retrofire with the engines FAA wont let it to happen.
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  115. They made bootstrap, which I use quite often. So Musk should burn in hell, if he destroys Twitter.
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  116. I actually looked it up, and Florida's average annual temperature was 69-70 F during the 1900s and 72-73 F today.
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  117. Jalopnik had an article about the Tesla semi and roadster event, what you like to refer to: From Q1 2017 through Q1 2018, Tesla was losing $7,430 per minute. The company was just figuring out how to get Model 3 production up and running, and that cost a whole lot of money. Elon Musk admitted that the company was “less than a month from bankruptcy” at the time. If you’re a company in dire straits, and cash is key to your survival, you’ll do anything to get your hands on some, right? Would you make up some specs about some new products and pass a hat around the room to get some “deposits” for your wildly unrealistic promises? The Tesla Semi event, at which the Roadster was launched, might have been the turning point for the company. Rather than selling off some of his ownership of the company, Musk sold promises at $250,000 a piece, and has yet to honor them. Tesla had a Kickstarter campaign, and it’s not delivering perks. That quarter billion just for the Founders Edition cars probably helped the company quite a bit, and there’s no telling how many $50,000 deposits the company got and still holds. Much the same way Starbucks isn’t really a coffee company, Tesla isn’t really a car company.
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  118. I love how democracy starts out as an idiot has the same voting rights and freedom of expression as a scientist, and ends in a way that the idiot is free to express its idiocy, while the scientist shouldnt deal with politics and should shut the f up...
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  119. To the Mars?
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  120. Well, the main problem with nuclear, is that nuclear fans are always overselling it to the point it looks like safer than walking in the park. Then Fukushima comes. Then the industry is ruined because the average voter feels that he was lied to. Then a few years later nuclear fans overselling it. Rinse and repeat. Even if you go to a tour into a nuclear reactor. It is a living paradox. It cant be damaged, yet you cant touch anything, it is absolutely secure yet you cant take a pic because of terror risk. It doesnt harm you yet you have to go through measuring stations in every half meters. Totally transparent, yet you cant visit 3/4 of it. Simple men simply feels something is off there. Honest communication would be way more effective. Other industries thend to learn this lesson way more early.
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  121. There were 22 malfunctions listed on spaceflight related incidents attributed to NASA, most of them were non lethal, and the mission achieved its goals anyway.
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  122. Yeah I only feel sorry for his employees and the cars.
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  123. He has an entire video about it.
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  124. Well in theory he could make Hydrogen fuelled engines for his suborbital rockets, that would have somewhat less impact on the climate. The heating problem can be managed. If I would be Musk, and develop such a rocketship for passenger transport, then I would make it actual airworthy. If he manage to launch a spaceplane into suborbital flight, that can bounce on the atmosphere multiple times, increasing the travelled distance, and reducing reentry load.
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  125. Its not that it doesnt work, it simply consumes more resources than the gains it give compared to a normal high speed rail.
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  126.  @nkesteren  Well, US engineers seriously worked on a spacegun, which is a sound idea, except that not a lot of things survive a 100 G acceleration which you would intend to send into orbit.
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  127. Lol no, Google Waymo is the only car in the world that is anywhere near FSD anyone who is in the car industry can affirm that, and even it has accidents. Your tesla is a dangerous road nightmare, which can kill someone even if you keep your hands on the wheels.
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  128. I dont want to pretend that I understand molecular dynamics that much, but actually the difference between tha pH of 7 and 7.44 for d2O would certainly make up for a 1% sugar solution. Isnt it possible that you simply taste heavy water as less acidic than normal water?
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  129. Dont worry, he will bring egg prices down with... racket technology!
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  130.  @ipolodesign  Nuclear is slow to build and expensive too. If he gets his spreadsheet and actually calculates that with 15-20 years to build a powerplant, how many time it takes to push it up from 10% to 70% of total electricity production, he will realize it would take a 100 years or so.
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  131.  @ipolodesign  We could build NPP-s but those alone simply cant be the solution, because we cant build enough of them before the climate crisis will be horrible. We need alternatives.
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  132.  @lelagrangeeffectphysics4120  Ahh, oil will never run out. Really abowe 140 dollar per barrel it is financially viable to make oil out of coal through Fisher Tropsch cycle, like the nazis did in WWII. And we have goddamn lot of coal, it would take tens pf thousands of years to burn the whole known reserve. The problem with that of course it is a climate killer. But oil companies will do it for sure, its not worse than the shale oil stuff they do in Canada.
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  133.  @ipolodesign  We have to gain time for the transition. It will take time regardless.
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  134. Yeah RMBK looked so sweet of an idea on paper, no wonder soviets built them like crazy.
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  135. America fkck yeah...
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  136. Yeah, definitely those will never ever climb down on a lava cave unlike a real scientist. Heck NASA has flown at least 5 of those and still cant answer the question why the Martian surface is so oxisidized, which is pretty obvious since its a red planet. Was it abiologic, if so how the free oxygen was generated, can we somehow replicate the process, or there were cyanobacteria, like in earth, but then why dont we find the fossils. We know way more about the Moon thanks to the astronauts who took their geology classes seriously, and the geologist, because they picked up the rigth rocks, and brought those back.  @alexturnbackthearmy1907 
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  137. Yeah, thatswhy it is called a Ponzi scheme. Because noone wants to buy a Tesla car, everybody wants to buy Tesla stocks. And Tesla stocks dont have intrinsic value behind them without the cars. Its the same sht with crypto. Some people tried to explain it for years to simps, that if you hear the world faith in the world of investment, then pack up your money and run.
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  138. What could be the secret of Nicola Tesla, that he became such a scammagnet?
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  139. Bitterness? Musk cultists are fun as hell. We dont want you to stop invest in Musk, we only want to have a good laugh.
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  140. Thatswhy I love Musk. I have some Musketeer colleagues, and just cashed in on them last year on two bets, that neither his boosters will return to the launchsite, nor their starship will go into orbit.Although Im not entirely proud of that, because a gentleman doesnt put bets on things which are certain as death.
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  141. Well, technically there's not too much deltav difference between sending his rocket into a polar circumlunar orbit, or sending it into an equatorial transfer to Mars.
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  142. Well, unfortunately transportation only amounts to 10% of total CO2 emissions, from that road transportation only amounts to 20%, and the real solution for that is still public transport, not electric cars.
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  143. I would highly doubt that Australia is the biggest exporter of black and brown coal in the world, so they are per capita counted as the biggest polluters.
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  144. No they wont. Not because Starship wont reach orbit, I think it eventually will, but the orbital refuelling will never work as it is intended. A rocket does not deliver too much fuel into orbit, so Musk has to launch dozens of these rockets to fill up one., Meanwhile the one parking in orbit cant maintain its fuel for months, its cryogenic, so either they blow it off regularly, or it will explode. This is, what Musk came up with actually a horrible idea.
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  145. Well, the whole system is actually against innovation. Americans are greedy over Chinese because they manufacture for less, Chinese want to get every new invention for free, we dont work together, and dont use the best things found around the world, rather pushing certain groups interests ahead. Russians actually have a way better idea for cheap space transport than Musk has, think whatever anyone want, but they are really good in rocket tech, regardless of their military actions, they even have the working engines, yet noone wants to push it forward, and they dont want to share it.
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  146. I wonder if Tesla is still the most shorted stock on wall street ever...
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  147. Well, if the courts invite in any experts on full self driving, and ask them the single question, that by any software update according to existing industrial standards regarding robotaxis and self driving cars any Tesla model would ever be able to function in a full self driving mode with the currently installed hardware in them, the answer would be a categorical no. They dont have radars, lidars, and a ton of other sensors installed, which real self driving cars all have. Teslas sold today will never ever be self driving cars. So Musk pretty much made such a lie as Holmes did.
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  148. He goes for the too big to fail status and government bailouts.
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  149. They dont invest in Musk. Bill Gates actually shorting Tesla, the only company Musk owns and actually worth something. The average Musk fanbase is investing in him.
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  150. Oh BTW the Cybertruck is not a Mad Max vehicle. Its an updated DeLorean concept. The fun part is that DeLorean was a Ponzi scheme too.
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  151. With good safety a NPP builds forever. With less safety it would be easier but on a scale large enough it would be certain disasters.
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  152. ALL HAIL TO THE WHITE PAPER!
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  153. Christians and judaists lost the scientific argument at the moment, when their creation myth was debunked. As far as logics go why would god the almighty have any reasons to tell anything but the total truth to his followers. If that part of the holy texture is not true, then how can we know which parts are true and which parts are fairytales?
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  154. I had an electric car in my childhood too, it was radio controlled, but grew old pretty fast.
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  155. Because no matter what the media says humans especially scientists are 100% more clever and versatile than machines will be in the next few decades.
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  156. I wonder, dont we have gigantic pipelines carrying oil and natural gas in thousands of miles through mountains and bumpy Earth?
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  157. Its not the CO2 but the free calcium and magnesium dissolved in water is the problem there. Yep sure you take a million years those will dissolve from unstable silicates, and capture carbon, but we dont have that much time.
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  158. I can imagine the people who go to Mars with Elon thrown out of the airlock when the company gets into financial troubles...
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  159. It was designed thatway on purpose. The core thought of the designers was that if you pull out a control rod, then water enters the canal, which is a good moderator, but if you put cheap graphite at the tip of the control rods then when you pull out them graphite will enter the canals, which is even a better moderator, so your overall efficiency of the reactor will be higher.
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  160. I think we had hybrid cars before Musk came into the scene, so thats not that big deal, and affordable spacetravel is not that affordable at all, since he got so much money from the government, that he could shoot all the worlds satellites for free for straight 3 years from just that.
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  161.  @martinkubis3340  Its not the problem of generating 30.000 USD with a car annually, its the problem that a car which would be able to generate that amount of cash wouldnt cost 30.000 USD to buy. And even if it would you wouldnt generate that amount of cash, well, because there are no free lunches, if a car can be used as a taxi at virtually zero cost, then the price of an average taxiride would drop, because you know, supply and demand.
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  162. They cant land that watertower in rough terrain, because it will fall into one side.
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  163. We all knew Amricans are idiots when they declared a war of independence on the metric system, so theres nothing new here....
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  164. Joking? He owns the US government. He literally has a key to Scrooge McDuck's vault now.
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  165. He is the space Jesus, the cultleader of our times...
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  166. You do realize, that rockets existed 60 years before Musk.
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  167. You mean the space shuttle, which knew everything what starship intended to know? @ThyBountyHunter 
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  168. No, starship is not capable of holding any cargo, floating to anywhere, or even do a single orbit around the globe. Musk selling some of that, but none had happened yet. But regardless, the main problem will be the same, landing vertically is a nobrainer compared to flying with mach 15+ on the upper atmosphere and not burning up the whole glider structure.  @ThyBountyHunter 
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  169. Yeah, he is directly inspired by N1 because he directly faace the similar issue the soviets faced namely combustion instability in gigantic rocket engines like the F1, which would result in serious explosions. The technical side of it is if you increase the size of the combustion chamber, then the fuel and oxidizer wont completely mix there, some unused fuel and oxidizer will leak out, and burn where it is not supposed to burn, eating up the engine itself. Soviets and Musk know how to build tiny engines, but they dont know how to build big engines, only NASA knew that, and they didnt figure it out by exact calculations but by trial and error, so it is questionable if they could build it again. @korana6308 
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  170. You can add sugar. Left handed sugar cant be processed by your enzimes, so it will just leave. Noone exactly knows why, but there is a terrestrial consensus that plants produce right handed sugar, and plant consumers can only use right handed sugar as well.
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  171. You know whats really frightening is not actually that we can see Musks brain melting down live on air, but the "respectable" journalists washing out everything what he does just because he stole a crpton of money. People his man is a lunatic, doesnt matter how much money he has he needs help.
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  172. This is all office politics for NASA. They dont want to go back to the Moon, they demonstrated that they can do it 60 years ago, and thats all. It would drain all of their resources if they really wanted to do it, and it wont offer thatmuch scientific return. Space enthusiasts want them to go back to the Moon. Now it happens that the same space enthusiasts, who wants them to go back to the Moon are the very same people who idolize Musk. So then either Musk takes them to the Moon, or he wont, but the blame is not on NASA anymore, they are completely clean, and that happens to be exactly what they wanted. So they spend the price of one of their sophisticated rovers to get the scifi nerds off their tail, its still peanuts compared to a real Moon mission, and they can continue interplanetary robotic expeditions.
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  173. Im just thinking loudly, what if Musk would teach monkeys how to drive, put them under the engine room cover, have some banana refill tubes in the mega charger stations?
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  174. Well, the geological definition of an ice age is that you have icecaps on the poles, so no, we didnt exit it yet.
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  175. Except, if you tell on twitter anything bad about Musk's cars, or you live in a real dictatorship, because then Musk will ban you immediately.
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  176. We have serious grid problems in Europe due to solar recently, which will make it less feasible. They simply overproducing sometimes and underperforming other times, both of them put strain on the whole grid.
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  177. The S Klasse was actually always the car which showed us the near future of the automotive industry...
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  178. A minor correction thunderfoot, practically all of what you call "diesel" trains are diesel electric trains. Did you think that someone puts a gearbox big enough on a mile long train rack? These are running on DC electric motors fed by a diesel generator, so the electric motor for regenerative braking what you miss is actually there. Thats the case with almost all high power diesel applications, we never use the mechanical energy of the diesel engine directly just to generate electricity with it. And batterries are not the only option to store regenerative braking energy, flying wheels could work as well.
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  179. Hybrids are cool though. EVs are bonkers, thats right.
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  180. Did you expect that the EU will lap your shoulders or what?
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  181. My heil goes out to you...
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  182. Just visit the Hyperloop testtube, or the Boring company tunnel. Whoopsie, those are gone...
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  183. The rocket which actually flied around the Moon? Oh thats so booring...
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  184. Well I would say that its not a coincidence those pesky rocket engineers use hydrazine and not methane as their propellant for long duration flights. Because hidrazyne remains liquid forever, they dont have to put an entire cryogenic cooler into orbit just to maintain the fuel in liquid form.
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  185. He is not a youtuber but an academics, who has a phd in chemistry, while Musk has an MBA of business, so basically how to sell snake oil to idiot.s
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  186. The whole launch market gives a revenue of 4 billion annually. So if thy spend 3 billion in RnD cost annually, that money will never return. Nope Musk is pretty much spending the NASA money, otherwise he would go bankrupt, because no investor would give him money with such returns.
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  187. Yeah, but unlike starship SLS actually works.
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  188. It doesnt work that way. There is hydrostatic pressure in the pore spaces regardless of what they are filled with, there is no difference if its water or CO2 or oil or gas.
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  189. Yeah, fame money, titles, these are things what matters outside the scientific community. Inside the scientific community theres the chalk and the blackboard, and whoever can defend their thesis with the chalk in the blacboard wins the argument. In theory. In practice scientists are petty humans as well, who do pretty ugly things, even if they know full well thats somehow hindering progress. Even Einstein played a dirty little game with Swarzschild, because he didnt liked the idea of black holes initially, although he knew full well, that the math is good.
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  190. Actually in defense of Musk I dont see how else this could go down. He entered into the car manufacturing market, where mammoth brands literally doing this for 100 years, he had to cut corners to compete with them. By cutting corners he put himself into a very tight schedule to deliver at least the minimal not to look a fraudster, then the Covid came, and the declining production would push him out of the market, so he got himself into trouble with the government. Now the Chinese, who based their business model to the same presumptions as Musk are outcompeting him while the EV market is collapsing. The ones who you should call out is not Musk, he is a merchantman overselling his product, but the press who enabled his routines.
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  191. It came into my mind, that instead of pressurized nitrogen they could use liquefiednitrogen. I wonder how does it expands, but that would make a really cold gas thruster. It would only work in vacuum with some heatsource though, what if for example it would be mixed with regular water, or even better boiling water. Both of those would require insulation, but in weight thats nothing compared to a high pressure cylinder. Wonder how that rocket would run in that hyperloop tube.
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  192. You wanted to summarize why the world is such a fked up place, or what? And you got your answer as well, its a fked up place, because of idiots and cult followers, who dont want to listen to basic science rather listen to fairytales what they read in a scifi book.
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  193. It very easy to conclude that trees are not the solution, since if you look at a geological strata limestone takes kilometers while paleosol eg the soil formed when the strata was above water is measured in centimeters.
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  194. Yeah Tesla costs 50 billion annually to the taxpayer, SpaceX costs 10 billion annually to the taxpayer, Stalink costs 8 billion annually to the taxpayer, the only thing is Neuralink where he doesnt leech the world dry. Now as a taxpayer I would say I personally dont use any of his services so I want my share back. What if the richest man in the world would actually pay for his own toys?
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  195. He told electric carswill never work -so he basically copied down GM's electric car He was told battery energy storage will never work -so he buys them from Panasonic He was told space rockets will always be single use. - Except the space shuttle which flew before even Musk came into existence SpaceX now makes money from every flight at costs nobody can compete with. -Maybe because SpaceX stole that much government money, that they could shoot all the world's satellites for free for 3 years in a row just from that money He was told that space based communications always fail.- Except that we communicate with satellites since satellites are orbiting the world, but otherwise had satellite mobile networks, when Musk was a teenager in South Africa.
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  196. Says the guys, who promised civil war if not their candidate wins? No dear you will be under flak every single day of your reign...
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  197. This is the future that I have been waited for - said by a man, who has a ticket to a rocket, which explodes in front of his eyes. Musk fanboys are really funny chaps.
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  198. Ahh, and one minor correction. Burning fuel is usually not that great factor in your electricity bill, of course it depends of the type of your fuel. 90% of the thing you pay for is that you have to build a powerplant, make an energy transfer system to your house etc, and the evil capitalist energy company recuperates those costs.
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  199. Lol no Thunderf00t, you got the heatshield thing wrong in spaceships. That heat what the heatshield dissipates is actually the result of the compression of gas molecules between the spaceship and the supersonic shockwave. It is incredible heating, however it is still a fraction of the real kynetic energy of a deorbiting spacecraft. BTW heatshields arent made out of some super duper materials, the Apollo heatshields were out of some aldehyde resin, Russians used simple plywood. About the general idea of icecubes to the oceans, well, lol.
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  200. Yeah Musk pretty much mimicking the soviet space program....
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  201. Balloons would probably way more cheap.
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  202.  @JontyLevine  well we need an even spread, so fitting up tons of aerosols is maybe not as effective than send away a few thousand meteorological balloons with smaller payloads along the jetstream.
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  203. I didnt know that nowadays spreading antivaxer conteos became a center-right thing...
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  204. I hate to counter you Thunderfoot, but the UN report which gave the casualties to 4-5000 range was redacted by its makers, because it was full of factual errors. Of course since then all nuclear lobbists using those numbers, but science is a hard lover, even the team, who completed it thinks that its a massive underestimation, but it cant be referenced in any scientifically punctuate discussion, since its redacted. The real values of fatalities due to Chernobyl are potentially in the 100.000 scale, even if we use a way downplayed Hiroshima model, which is the only scientifically accurate model we have based on 4 decades long observations to the survivors of the nuclear effects.
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  205. Well, yeah, Americans are kinda fcked. I guess the world will be marching behind China in a few years...
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  206. Lol I guess you wont bust Lindzen, although he is the most credible climate change denier of them all. That would be an epic feat. Whenever you hear US is retreating from some international treaty regarding to climate change you can have an educated guess, tha Richard Lindzen is somehow behind it. But noone dares to touch the guy he has such a pedigree in atmospheric physics, besides that he is basically payed by coal and oil companies.
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