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2017-09-29 Science & Technology

Anywhere on earth in 1/2 hour with Musk's new BFR rocket

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Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 01:42|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I am getting upset with Chrome interfering with posts.

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 01:45|| 2017-09-29 01:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Live blogged details from the speech

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 02:02|| 2017-09-29 02:02|| Front Page Top

#3 From the National Defense point of view I am troubled that he will be shutting down his F9 production lines to begin building the BFR.

Perhaps DOD should buy them?

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 02:36|| 2017-09-29 02:36|| Front Page Top

#4 He said that?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-09-29 09:12|| 2017-09-29 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes. He's going to build a stockpile then shutdown and retool for the BFR.

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 09:27|| 2017-09-29 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 space news on it

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 15:27|| 2017-09-29 15:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Once you have a fleet of reusable Falcon rockets, why keep building more? he believes by next year he will already be serving 50% of the total launch market.

Posted by si vis pacem, para bellum 2017-09-29 16:18|| 2017-09-29 16:18|| Front Page Top

#8 We found the finite count of remaining Shuttle missions was OBE and really needed to pull some out of the closet. Nobody is going to stop or dismantle capability.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-29 19:00|| 2017-09-29 19:00|| Front Page Top

#9 a nice write-up

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 20:24|| 2017-09-29 20:24|| Front Page Top

#10 The video

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-29 21:12|| 2017-09-29 21:12|| Front Page Top

#11 3dc, I removed the quotes around the URL in your post, which seems to have fixed the problem. I do not know why this sometimes works.

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