The point is that it’s nowhere near Earth to cause an issue like Kessler Syndrome, which the space junk comment is clearly referring to.
The car is space junk like every other test payload or probe we’ve ever sent out into space that we’ve lost contact with is space junk.
Better fine the US government or NASA for all the Saturn V upper stages that are floating around up there as well. Nearly every Saturn V third stage was sent into an orbit around the sun after the Lunar injection maneuver, they’re all still up there. In fact, they lose track of those and “rediscover” them all the time because. The three-body problem is not fully solvable with our current technology, and the further out you get from initial conditions the less accurate calculations become.
SpaceX rockets don’t add Methane to the atmosphere. When you burn something, you’re not adding that thing to the atmosphere, you’re adding byproducts from the combustion, and Methane isn’t one of the byproducts of any rocket fuel.
Starship uses methane as a fuel, but that’s not at all the same thing. Methalox engines are one of the cleanest burning rocket fuels after Hydrolox. When burnt, methane just becomes CO2 and water vapor along with a bit of NOx (Nitrous Oxide, aka laughing gas, aka that boost you see in Fast and the Furious) as well.
Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are Kerolox (Kerosene, RP-1) engines. RP-1 is basically just a highly refined kerosene. When burnt, it will produce CO2, water vapor, NOx, carbon soot, carbon monoxide (which again mostly becomes CO2) and a little bit of sulfur compounds. The exhaust is nasty but it is not that different from what a normal internal combustion car produces. And even with the large amounts, it is still lower than what cars/trucks/SUVs output to get everyone in your city back and forth to work, the grocery store, and home on a daily basis.
Not really here, this would have been a dummy weight either way since it was the test payload for Falcon Heavy. So *something *was going to be sent up. The Tesla specifically was a publicity stunt, but a similar weight was going into a similar orbit.
The bigger question is why they lost tracking on it in the first place to where they weren’t sure what it was. This wasn’t from any sort of failure, this was a planned and fully successful launch payload into a planned orbit.
I mean it makes sense, I just finished the anniversary edition on my smart toaster so they had to come up with a new way to make me pay for it again.
it’s senior board members that are the real problem, the ones making the actual decisions and putting profits over anything and everything else.
Most of the board members at these companies are CEOs of other, often related and even partnered companies. While the CEO at a given company isn’t the only one to blame, CEOs in general covers the vast majority of the fuckers.
Good fucking luck with that hurdle.
They need a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; or a conventio called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures. Then it has to be ratified by the legislatures of three-quarters of the states.
Even if they managed a super majority on both sides of Congress for Trumplefuck, there’s no way they’re getting 38 States to agree to that.
EVs don’t use the brakes nearly as much as regular ICE vehicles. Regenerative braking can provide nearly every bit of braking necessary for everyday driving.
Interesting that this template seems to be being used in every department with absolutely no changes. Not sure if that’s because they’re trying to do the absolute minimum required, or because they can’t change the template at all.
They should probably work to finish all those NEOM projects first. They’ve got a pretty big chuck o’ change announced for that already, something around $1.5 Trillion already.
Fuck… Most of it was on video, because most of the Capitol has surveillance cameras. We watched it happen, live on TV.
The fact any of these vultures still have a job trying to claim otherwise just shows how effective Republican propaganda is.
His plan is to fuck them over anyway, just so other organizations know that it won’t make a difference. They’re an enemy if they ever air anything against him.
That’s because the Democratic party has been conservative for decades, regardless of the bullshit they’ve been saying. The only “liberal” parts have been some social stances for over 20 years. As soon as economic issue come up its been full speed ahead for whatever businesses want.
To be fair… that State is on fire pretty regularly, the President has nothing to do with that, the shitty utilities not maintaining infrastructure properly are usually to blame.
This entire thread is filled with people that know absolutely nothing about Space but the basics modern “media” poorly conveys, but feel the need to comment and display their ignorance proudly just because they hate Musk. It’s quite sad actually for an actual Astronomy community, there’s worse discussion in here than reddit.