Great and amazing advances in technology on the horizon!

[Jeff Lebowski]

I can't think of a less credible verbal approval, sadly enough.

I guarantee you that uncle Ted can find one/make one up in about 10 seconds using Google.

[Omaha 680]

I can't wait to take the hyperloop to the "Big Fucking Rocket" and go to Shanghai in 30 minutes.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled revised plans to travel to the Moon and Mars at a space industry conference today, but he ended his talk with a pretty incredible promise: using that same interplanetary rocket system for long distance travel on Earth. Musk showed a demonstration of the idea on stage, claiming that it will allow passengers to take “most long distance trips” in just 30 minutes, and go “anywhere on Earth in under an hour” for around the same price of an economy airline ticket.

Musk proposed using SpaceX’s forthcoming mega-rocket (codenamed “Big Fucking Rocket” or BFR for short) to lift a massive spaceship into orbit around the Earth. The ship would then settle down on floating landing pads near major cities. Both the new rocket and spaceship are currently theoretical, though Musk did say that he hopes to begin construction on the rocket in the next six to nine months.

In SpaceX’s video that illustrates the idea, passengers take a large boat from a dock in New York City to a floating launchpad out in the water. There, they board the same rocket that Musk wants to use to send humans to Mars by 2024. But instead of heading off to another planet once they leave the Earth’s atmosphere, the ship separates and breaks off towards another city — Shanghai.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/29/16383048/elon-musk-proposes-city-to-city-travel-by-rocket-right-here-on-earth

[Jeff Lebowski]

I can't wait to take the hyperloop to the "Big Fucking Rocket" and go to Shanghai in 30 minutes.



https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/29/1...-here-on-earth

lol. I love Elon Musk.