Model 3 Vs Elio

[Elio Amazed]

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No spring loaded center punches were used in the creation of this avatar.

BTW, that's one nice freekin' car for $35K before incentives.
And... SpaceX has scheduled another mission with a rocket/barge landing for Friday.

Click here for the article.

 

[floydv]

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BTW, that's one nice freekin' car for $35K before incentives.
And... SpaceX has scheduled another mission with a rocket/barge landing for Friday.

Click here for the article.

If Elon Musk lined the landing circle on the barge with all the Model 3 prototypes he has, Space X would perhaps be better motivated to nail their barge landings.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

If Elon Musk lined the landing circle on the barge with all the Model 3 prototypes he has, Space X would perhaps be better motivated to nail their barge landings.

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[Rickb]

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No spring loaded center punches were used in the creation of this avatar.
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BTW, that's one nice freekin' car for $35K before incentives.
And... SpaceX has scheduled another mission with a rocket/barge landing for Friday.

Click here for the article.

Frankly, that may be the best freakin car on the planet for $35K.

 

[floydv]

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Space X, one of Elon Musk's companies besides Tesla, has attempted several reusable rocket landings on an autonomous drone barge in the Pacific Ocean. Basically, it's Elon doing his typical showing off, overthinking and making it too complicated. The results so far have been several crash landings (to be fair, they're getting closer with each one). Since his rival space company Blue Origin (run by Amazon's Jeff Bezos) has nailed several landings with its reusable rocket on dry land, I figured the rocket scientists at Space X can motivate themselves even more by forming a landing circle with Tesla's only Model 3 prototypes.

 

[Sethodine]

If Elon Musk lined the landing circle on the barge with all the Model 3 prototypes he has, Space X would perhaps be better motivated to nail their barge landings.

?

SpaceX has successfully landed their re-usable rocket on solid ground in tests, but the first time they tried to land it on the "drone barge" it kinda exploded.

Edit: Drat! Beat me to it!

 

[Rickb]

Space X, one of Elon Musk's companies besides Tesla, has attempted several reusable rocket landings on an autonomous drone barge in the Pacific Ocean. Basically, it's Elon doing his typical showing off, overthinking and making it too complicated. The results so far have been several crash landings (to be fair, they're getting closer with each one). Since his rival space company Blue Origin (run by Amazon's Neff Bezos) has nailed several landings with its reusable rocket on dry land, I figured the rocket scientists at Space X can motivate themselves even more by forming a landing circle with Tesla's only Model 3 prototypes.

It might be creative marketing strategy for EM, to volunteer 3 E series to use as part of there crash testing program and it would save 3 perfectly good Model 3's.

 

[Elio Amazed]

It might be creative marketing strategy for EM, to volunteer 3 E series to use as part of there crash testing program and it would save 3 perfectly good Model 3's.

Nah.
Just have Elon put one of the e-series into orbit...
Then deploy a tethered camera and shoot some video.
Footage showing the worlds first ICE vehicle in orbit.

The media would eat it up.

Now there's some free world wide publicity for you.

 

[floydv]

Nah.
Just have Elon put one of the e-series into orbit...
Then deploy a tethered camera and shoot some video.
Footage showing the worlds first ICE vehicle in orbit.

The media would eat it up.

Now there's some free world wide publicity for you.

Yes, but before it goes into orbit, make sure to dress up the Elio so it looks more like our favorite royal starfighter.

 

[goofyone]

Space X, one of Elon Musk's companies besides Tesla, has attempted several reusable rocket landings on an autonomous drone barge in the Pacific Ocean. Basically, it's Elon doing his typical showing off, overthinking and making it too complicated. The results so far have been several crash landings (to be fair, they're getting closer with each one). Since his rival space company Blue Origin (run by Amazon's Jeff Bezos) has nailed several landings with its reusable rocket on dry land, I figured the rocket scientists at Space X can motivate themselves even more by forming a landing circle with Tesla's only Model 3 prototypes.

SpaceX actually has a very good reason to land its first stage rockets on an ocean barge instead of on dry land, which SpaceX has also done successfully. It takes a lot less fuel to land out on the ocean than it takes to fly the rocket back to solid ground then land. This is important because this extra fuel can instead be used to lift a heavier payload and/or launch a payload to an orbit which requires a higher escape velocity.

Blue Origin has definitely developed an interesting reusable launch vehicle with some neat technology behind it however the booster they are using and their current goals with it are a very different than what SpaceX is doing. It only takes about 1% of the fuel, and thus a much smaller and less complicated rocket, to lift a sub-orbital payload straight up and down than it does to lift the same payload to the same height while also accelerating that payload to an orbital escape velocity of approximately 15,000 MPH which is needed to place a payload into orbit.