Who's watching the spaceX launch?

@Scarfface It may not be the most powerful, but it doesn't need to be. The core and the two side boosters (which are basically just Falcon 9's) will all be reusable (and landing them is a mission objective). It's by far the most efficient way to get shit into space.
IIRC the launch cost to haul 8 Tons into LEO is less than 100 Million. Compare that to the over 1 Billion Dollar cost per launch for the Saturn V :P

@Scarfface That's SpaceX's goal. Reusable rockets. Eventually to establish a self-sustained base on Mars. Who knows? A lot to go wrong. They should get experience on the Moon first. At least there would be hope of rescue, if things went bad.

@zhafar I've been watching the test landings, very impressive 👍

@abe182 I missed it. The link still has it sitting on the ground

@abe182 oh no 😟

@Scarfface it's OK I'll Google it :)

@SW-User its a rocket.. Watch it 😛

@SW-User But he's launching an electric car playing Space Oddity towards Mars D:

@Scarfface my 144k idsl connection over the phone lines is not fast enough for video. and only the ultra rich have cable as cable is hyper expensive.

@trackboy I don't know how you can see it then 😟 maybe the news will cover it later

@Scarfface hope its on the nightly news on broadcast tv. we don't have cable. just antenna for the tv.

@Scarfface Even if the core botched the landing, we have now a super efficient launch vehicle that'll carry us to Mars and Tesla playing Space Oddity on its way to Mars.
What a wonderful day.

@SW-User the tesla bit is hilarious, musk is so funny

@Scarfface Soon SpaceX will announce that it was Musk in the Space Suit. He's going home :)