Well it was a cool image but despite some people being able to send a rocket and a car to mars I can’t fathom out the intricacies of the new forum.

Printed on a circuit board in that car is the sentence

* Made on Earth by Humans *

It’s a new era. The payload that thing can lift into space…..  forget curiosity rover, you can put a tank on mars now

Core update:

Elon Musk said on a conference call with reporters that the launch “seems to have gone as well as one could have hoped with the exception of center core. The center core obviously didn’t land on the drone ship” and he said that “we’re looking at the issue.” Musk says that the core ran out of propellant, which kept the core from being able to slow down as much as it needed for landing. Because of that, the core apparently hit the water at 300MPH, and it was about 100 meters from the ship. “It was enough to take out two thrusters and shower the deck with shrapnel,” Musk said. That should be worth seeing on video: “We have the video,” Musk confirmed, “it sounds like some pretty fun footage… if the cameras didn’t get blown up as well.”

Lifted from engadget

And more rocket porn

Can anyone explain the hate people seem to have for Musk? Is it just simple jealousy that one man has the means to just say “**** it” and do stuff like this?

What ‘hate people seem to have for Musk’? Dont know what you been reading/viewing but that has certainly passed me by.

Personally prefer to see a few more folk like Musk.

Oh, it was linked to on the Bloodhound SSC Faceache page and just seemed to attract people pissing on Musk. You would think on there of all places the technical accomplishments would be appreciated but seemingly not. Littering space (don’t understand test payload), PR driven **** (don’t understand business), concentrate on getting Model 3’s built (don’t understand business) etc.

Post this on the bloodhound facebook page with the heading “Fastest rocket powered car in the universe”. See if that helps them calm down a bit.

I just can’t get enough of this.  Elon Musk is like a fictional character, a Bond villain with the same looks, back story (being violently bullied as a kid) wealth and ambition.  His story is amazing, his ambition is outstanding and ability to get stuff done is world leading.

The world needs people like him in it pushing boundaries and making the impossible possible.

With that sort of influence and technical reach he would be a scary figure if he ever went rogue.  lets all hope he doesn’t buy an extinct volcano for his HQ……

Still think it’s a waste, nasty chemical rockets.

Except they’re not. The boosters used by NASA for shuttle launches were solid fuel, the Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy/BFR use Merlin rocket motors which use a mixture of highly refined kerosene or avgas and liquid oxygen, called RP-1:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)
A couple of additional fun details regarding the car, not only has it got the ‘Don’t Panic’ label on the dash, but there’s a copy of ‘Hitchhikers Guide…’ and a towel in the glovebox, and there’s also a Hotwheels model of a red Tesla Roadster with a tiny space suited driver in the car!
The synchronised landing of the boosters was chuffing amazing, just remarkable, the last time I was this excited about a rocket launch was the Saturn 5 Apollo missions and the first shuttle.