Via Geeks Are Sexy, here’s the live feed:
3:10 Eastern Time, which means… not at 3:10 Eastern Time, sorry. Expect a delay on this launch, because there’s always going to be a delay. Heck, it might not even launch today. But if it does, Elon Musk is going try to send a Tesla to Mars.
OK. I’m not particularly enamored of our current self-appointed tech barons. But I have to give him style points for using a car with ‘Space Oddity’ playing as ballast payload.
In truth, Elon is only above average with his tech stuff. But his true genius is PR.
Bingo.
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Elon’s brilliance has been in inspiring people to invest money (bet, in other words) on him .. and then inspiring engineers to make cool things.
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Mew
Whatever you think of Musk, I will give props because that shot of Canaveral where two of the boosters are both landing at the same time… wow. Just wow.
Rockets that “… take off and land vertically, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended.”
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It’s about damn time.
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Mew