Jackson Jambalaya

Overpromise, under-deliver. Just like Tesla.

“Is it silly, nooooo? When a rocket ship explodes. And everybody still wants to fly...”

- Prince.

Cool KF - Fascinating science Musk is pursuing.....but who are these three sixth-grade girls commentating on the event?

There's a YouTube channel called Common Sense Skeptic that has thoroughly debunked Musk's plans to put people on Mars. It's quite eye opening. He's like a child with far too much money who is eager to put people in real danger for a sci-fi movie dream.

when millennials do science...

Wow that explosion was nearly as big as a transport truck full of Tesla Model 3s!
Mars is interesting for exploration but it is not some Ark to save humanity from Climate Change.
Mars has already experienced an “extinction level event” and is unsuitable for colonization.
Btw I love Edgar Rice Burroughs, but Barsoom is just fictional.
The John Carter/Princess of Mars books are better than the movie and better than all pop scifi.

Thomas Edison tested over 6,000 different organic materials to find the perfect filament for his improvement on the incandescent light bulb. Give the man credit you couch potatoes. A little poem /i/ wrote.....

I shot an arrow into the sky, How it lands I no not why.
I get assailed on all sides, But, I promise no one will die.
Thank GOD for all the thinkers, tinkers, but, not the stinkers!
Drop the mike & leave the stage Anonymous.

There's a very vocal and blind cult of personality around Elon Musk. It seems much of it is centered on his pursuit of flashy projects that capture the imagination of science fiction nerds and the Comicon crowd. Those who grew up watching Star Wars and Star Trek and other futuristic Hollywood productions that portray a fantastical world of spaceships and laser beams and robots. The problem is, just like those shows, 90% of what Musk's proposing is far better suited to fiction.

He has some credibility through Tesla, a company that has delivered on products and really pioneered the way for the current progress in the field of electric transport (even though he merely took it over from the founders rather than provided innovation). Since then he's used the sizable capital investment sent his way and his larger than life personality to push ridiculous notions that "look cool" but are practical nightmares.

Everything from hyperloops to driving tunnels under cities to thousands of internet satellites is geared to make comic book geeks spooge from sheer excitement. SpaceX is the granddaddy of them all, promising a colony of a million people on Mars by 2030. This is nothing but sci-fi pipe dreams mixed with recklessness. Just look at the damage done to Boca Chica with multiple massive explosions and rockets that just tip over in the storage facility. Would you board one of those in 9 years for a one-way trip to a planet with no resources, no atmosphere, and an average temperature of -81 degrees?

Sorry, gotta go to my Zoom English class. Miss Carson will be mad if I'm late again and may hold me back from moving onto Jr. High.

Say what you will about Musk, the dude wants to improve the world and pulls out no stops to do so.

@7:14
Here is 9 and a half minutes of when former Nazi rocket scientists, the Greatest Generation, and their Baby Boomer kids do science

Say what you will about Musk, the dude wants to improve the world and pulls out no stops to do so.

Not true. He wants to enrich himself and indulge in science fantasy with outrageous goals and impractical methods. If he wanted to improve the world he wouldn't be regularly dropping 50 megaton bombs on a wildlife preserve in south Texas.

And there is a HUGE difference between testing filaments in a small laboratory and sending giant tanks of explosive fuel hurtling to the ground in front of the world. That Edison comment is an incredibly ridiculous analogy!

Anyone who played Doom (2016) knows that Mars has a portal to Hell where the UAC will harvest Argent Energy on an industrial scale. And that the occasional demonic manifestation and worker death is nothing more than an acceptable workplace hazard.

Unfortunately, anyone who played Doom Eternal (2020) knows that what happens on Mars never stays on Mars. And unleashing Hell on Mars will eventually lead to Hell on Earth

A wise man once said, “Mars ain’t the kinda place to raise your kids. In fact, its cold as hell.”

Better follow the science...

Never understood the hate this guy gets. Sure he is eccentric and makes the occasional odd remark on twitter, but who else out there is innovating like his companies and actually delivering? I’d much rather someone like this be the richest man in the world as opposed to someone like Bezos or Jack Ma. At least Elon’s companies take chances and are willing to go big.

@9:50
I don’t hate Elon. I hate his personality cult, his worshippers. Same went for Steve Jobs. Pseudo-intellectualswith potbellies and unkempt beards, wearing ironic tshirts idolize these guys as if they have founded a religion. Despite the same numales claiming to be atheists themselves.

@10:38 - you sound incredibly smart, maybe even a genius. I can tell because only really smart people use words like pseudo-intellectuals and unkempt. Maybe if you use some of those big words around the space nerds, they will be impressed with you too and you can make some friends. Just a thought.

1:57's sarcasm did make me smile,

But I also think 1:57 may worship the Sheldon Cooper character on the "Big Bang Theory" TV show.

1:57's comment was identical to something that character would say . . .

I'm not really aware of details regarding the purpose of this test, but if the goal was to land another space craft in the same position that it launched, I say the objective was a success.
(Even if on one engine).

To the consternation of NASA, Elon has proven that it's easy to do such maneuvers with these spacecraft.

But:
(Cars explode almost every day . . . even after sliding off of road/highway in normal weather ).

10:38 here.

I am just a woman who wishes men would be men again instead of manchildren with facial hair.

Being a man isn’t about the stuff you own. You can’t buy manliness.

" You can’t buy manliness."

Agreed 100 percent !!!
Way too many "metrosexuals & Soyboys . . . along with Sissy Men" walk among us.

But please explain what that has to do with one of Elon's spacecraft experiments ?

@4:33 - I think I have identified your main issue, you are looking for love in the comment section of kingfish. Try posting your profile at only farmers. They’ve got just the type of man who would appreciate your sandwich making skills.

@8:43
You are projecting. 4:33 never said they were looking for love.
Weak men lead to hard times. And weak men are why we are a nation in decline.