I was driving up to San Francisco yesterday, and today I’m at the Foresight Vision Weekend. There was a session on longevity (including cryonics) this morning, and now there’s a panel on blockchain and it’s potential applications. One of the panelists says that one app he’s woring is with a company that wants gas stations in space. I’ll have to talk to him later.
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So what do you think of Elon Musk’s plan to send his red Tesla to Mars on the first Falcon Heavy launch?
The man has a certain style … 🙂 Can’t wait for the envirofreaks to complain.
Phil Plait has some more details, specifically about it being sent not into an orbit around Mars, but “a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the sun”.
http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/elon-musk-on-the-roadster-to-mars
An elliptical orbit between Earth and Mars orbits … Would that make it a potentially hazardous roadster, with a chance of hitting Earth at some point in the future?
Can you imagine the insurance premiums?!? Though with Geico, he could save 15% immediately…
Add SuperDracos for attitude control and he can go the full “Heavy Metal.”
Need a shuttle with a cargo door in the bottom:
https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0
I wonder if the space gas station company is somebody we’ve heard of. The first startup that comes to mind is Altius (Jon, was it you?!).
OT: How can I find out what hardware a given Linux kernel version can support?
“Can’t wait for the envirofreaks to complain.”
Here’s one:
https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover/status/936902065808293888
So, the future has flying cars after all! Flying cars in space!
Musk delivering on the future!
Any update from the conference?
To be honest I got bored as it seemed much to much like 70’s guru talk in LA..
The car thing was silly. 🙂 I expect they won’t do it, if only because of payload integration costs.
50 million miles to the amp!