Frontier - please add the Tesla Roadster as a POI in the SOL system.

[signal11th]

Didn't you hear? Having more money than small countries makes you a god amongst men, and all the peasants must lick your boots.

Personally, I don't give in to that mentality. Mr Musk, whilst possessing a significant amount of money, is still just flesh and blood.

Until he does something that directly affects me, I will not give him the "tribute" that so many people think (wrongly) he "deserves".

Is my inner-communist showing? I hope it is.

That's the problem with the "web/world" these days you can't show appreciation for one small part of something without being held responsible for the rest of it. I don't think he's a god I don't know they guy, he might be chill he might be a complete meron I don't really care. Just because I think what he's accomplished in a relatively short space of time is something to be admired considering 80% of the world think getting out of bed in the morning is something of an achievement. Oh and Communism is great on paper but doesn't really work in reality.

 

[Winterwalker]

I wouldn't mind seeing the Roadster added as a hazard to space traffic ..
You can drop on, see and read the history but you do get a damaging drop from supercruise on it's POI.

Might take a while to work out where it should be in 3304 though ..
Roadster was last seen veering (pretty wildly) off it's intended course I think?

I guess the launch to be quite important historically though, as it does tend to democratise space if you can bring the launch prices down. This is something Mr Musk might well achieve.

 

[Winterwalker]

I don't agree, but I get your point. So OK, if Frontier thinks it's tacky to put what could be construed as a Tesla advertisement in the game, then make the car smashed up a bit so you can tell it's a car with a spaceman inside, but you don't really recognize it as a Tesla. That's probably gonna be accurate anyways once it hits the asteroid belt.

It's a funny one this because, yes, they wanted a payload that wasn't going to cost them much, being as it was a test. Yet Musk made his money from the electric car, ostensibly an environmentally responsible piece of kit. So I don't get why you'd want to launch what is effectively junk, on back of that. If the aliens find it, surely they'll think humanity isn't content with just turning it's own planet into a junkyard, why stop there right? I get it why it's fun .. but it's still quite contradictory not to aim at the Sun.

 

[Winterwalker]

I mean ya, they could have simulated mass with water or concrete or something cheaper as they often do. I think the car was just to get people talking and excited, which it clearly has done. Take away the "spaceman and car in space" part of it, and the Falcon Heavy test launch would have been a footnote in the news. He's clearly trying to inspire people to get more excited about space and technology and it seems to be working.

Weirdly there's maybe something allegorical in it; Space is big yes .. but then again the Industrial Revolution thought Earth was big, when it started chugging out atmospheric coal pollution. In a way Musk demo's that we haven't learned much in the intervening .. or maybe, either by accident or design, he's calling people out.

edit: Still reckon - if it did get added to game - the Roadster should be as a hazard though.

 

[Winterwalker]

It's a really good point you make. I think in this case, it was necessary to leave some "space junk" out there. The whole point of the test was can we launch heavier mass payloads and reach Mars (or other planets in general). One of the cool things about SpaceX though, is that the reusable rockets cost less money, but also we're trying to bring as much as possible back to Earth so there will be less space junk added with each new launch.

I agree totally SpaceX is important because reusability of rockets, I just think they could have aimed the payload at the Sun .. They've just put a different kind of junk into outer space, so they wouldn't have to launch junk boosters. Doh! hehe. Just a bit weird.

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[Juniper]

It was 'junk' on Earth too. People tend to forget that.

Also, it's Elon's car. He paid for the construction of it. He did the same with the rocket that launched it. They had to send something - and this was a test mission.

The space industry relies on PR, and this was a masterstroke.

 

[andrak]

I'd prefer if they took the time to make this a decent game instead of adding non interactive, non gameplay, sight seeing guff like this.

 

[Old Duck]

I'd prefer if they took the time to make this a decent game instead of adding non interactive, non gameplay, sight seeing guff like this.

That would imply they have game designers on staff, instead of 100 graphic artists

 

[andrak]

That would imply they have game designers on staff, instead of 100 graphic artists

I really do hope they get game designers on staff since they seem to be absent. The asset generation team, effects, audio, etc seem to be years ahead of the game design... anyway, off topic.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

Didn't you hear? Having more money than small countries makes you a god amongst men, and all the peasants must lick your boots.

Personally, I don't give in to that mentality. Mr Musk, whilst possessing a significant amount of money, is still just flesh and blood.

Until he does something that directly affects me, I will not give him the "tribute" that so many people think (wrongly) he "deserves".

Is my inner-communist showing? I hope it is.

That's one of the things I dislike about him, it seems almost nobody questions him and those who do generally get fairly angry answers.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

That's one of the things I dislike about him, it seems almost nobody questions him and those who do generally get fairly angry answers.

I know right? I knew my post was going to receive flak. That's why I published it. To make a point.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

That's the problem with the "web/world" these days you can't show appreciation for one small part of something without being held responsible for the rest of it. I don't think he's a god I don't know they guy, he might be chill he might be a complete meron I don't really care. Just because I think what he's accomplished in a relatively short space of time is something to be admired considering 80% of the world think getting out of bed in the morning is something of an achievement. Oh and Communism is great on paper but doesn't really work in reality.

Also man can dream.

 

[Vicktore Beskor]

They should make a Tesla bobblehead on the Frontier store I would buy that

 

[Devari]

Extremely talented? I doubt so.

You need to have Engineering talent to establish and run a company like SpaceX. They're going to be delivering payloads into orbit for something like 1/3 the cost of what space agencies currently do this for. Who else has even tried to accomplish anything close to that type of technical achievement in the private aerospace industry?

 

[Arindor]

Probably ninja'd, but I'll say it anyway: Tesla SRV please FD.

 

[-Denali-]

You need to have Engineering talent to establish and run a company like SpaceX. They're going to be delivering payloads into orbit for something like 1/3 the cost of what space agencies currently do this for. Who else has even tried to accomplish anything close to that type of technical achievement in the private aerospace industry?

Even in the Apollo days NASA spent 80% of its budget on contracted work. My grandfather was on the team that manufactured the Apollo return capsules. The difference now is that NASA isn't paying the overhead to produce the designs. I'm not so sure it's fair to compare the cost of buying custom built goods to that of selling services though. The landing on a pad thing is great, and it is a huge cost saver. In the end the company retains the IP and has continued need for the production system. All of that makes it more cost effective, especially when combined with the difference technology has made in capabilities.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

You need to have Engineering talent to establish and run a company like SpaceX. They're going to be delivering payloads into orbit for something like 1/3 the cost of what space agencies currently do this for. Who else has even tried to accomplish anything close to that type of technical achievement in the private aerospace industry?

I'd argue any rocket engineer (which aren't that rare I believe) could have done it, its just a matter of money which he happens to have a lot.

Also, this:

On a serious note, Elon didn't really make this, he funded it. If you actually want to congratulate somebody you can try and look up for the engineers and scientists that made this possible and I'd also like to say not everything Elon says or does is right, for example, his idea to use the BFR as a passenger hauler.

 

[Cosmo]

The material that the Tesla is made of will degrade overtime due to high radiation. Only the steel chassis would remain.

So if Frontier puts this in-game it would be a non-descriptive Steel chassis of a car. This doesn't require approval from Tesla.

 

[Bryan K]

The material that the Tesla is made of will degrade overtime due to high radiation. Only the steel chassis would remain.

So if Frontier puts this in-game it would be a non-descriptive Steel chassis of a car. This doesn't require approval from Tesla.

the carbon fiber components should still be intact. The resin may not hold up on the outer layers, but the carbon fiber sheets should be okay.

I wonder how long that spacesuit will last?

 

[Adhock]

Do you know how many epic stuff happened in our history? How many of them got a POI?

Yes, something neat happened. It wasnt in the top three most important events in our history...

I'd call a reusable rocket engine now classified as the most powerful rocket engine ever with a production cost HALF of anything NASA commissioned a pretty big deal.