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News conference on Monday will give more details. Alain Fournier |
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On Friday, September 14, 2018 at 9:30:58 AM UTC-7, Alain Fournier wrote:
News conference on Monday will give more details. Alain Fournier SpaceX says its BFR will fly someone around the Moon; we have questions: "On Thursday evening, without any advance notice, SpaceX tweeted that is had signed the world’s "first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle." Moreover, the company promised to reveal "who's flying and why" on Monday, September 17. The announcement will take place at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. There were only two other clues—tweets from Elon Musk himself. Was the rendering of the Big Falcon Spaceship in SpaceX's tweet new? Yes, Musk said. And was he the passenger? In response to this, the founder of SpaceX simply tweeted a Japanese flag emoji. This would seem to be a strong clue that the passenger is from Japan. Or maybe Musk was enjoying the epic Seven Samurai movie at that moment. By announcing this on Thursday, and waiting four days to provide more details, the company has set off a big guessing game as to who will fly. Of course that is an interesting question, but we have many other questions that we'd like to see answered before that. We've included some of those questions below, along with some wild and (slightly) informed guesses. Musk even answered one of them for us." See: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...ave-questions/ |
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On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 7:26:15 AM UTC+2, William Elliot wrote:
BFR? Bare Foot Rocket? Without visiting the SpaceX website, and drawing on my more juvenile side, I rather suspect the acronym is more in line with the BFG from the original Doom computer game. And no it wasn't a Big Friendly Giant, or a Big Friendly Gun. Take care regards Frank |
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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message
... In article , says... On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 7:26:15 AM UTC+2, William Elliot wrote: BFR? Bare Foot Rocket? Without visiting the SpaceX website, and drawing on my more juvenile side, I rather suspect the acronym is more in line with the BFG from the original Doom computer game. And no it wasn't a Big Friendly Giant, or a Big Friendly Gun. This is absolutely the case. They've changed it to Big Falcon Rocket and Big Falcon Spaceship, for obvious reasons. It's been shrinking a bit though. As announced last night, starting out with identical engines in BFR and BFS hurts performance of BFS a bit. But, it's a reasonable simplification to allow BFS to test fly without BFR. And it will provide a minimum path to a viable vehicle. Musk did say that later some of the BFS engines could be swapped to a vacuum version for more performance. Sounds a lot like they're aiming for a BFR/BFS 1.0 that's as simple as possible to get it flying as soon as possible. Ayup, another example of him going with the "make it work, and then make it better". Still, Musk says it might cost anywhere between $2 and $10 billion to develop (he initially said $5 billion when asked how much it would cost to develop). Sounds about right. Jeff -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net IT Disaster Response - https://www.amazon.com/Disaster-Resp...dp/1484221834/ |
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William Elliot wrote on Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:26:12
-0700: On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, wrote: SpaceX says its BFR will fly someone around the Moon; we have questions: BFR? Bare Foot Rocket? BFR == Big ****ing Rocket (a 'cleaned up' version is Big Falcon Rocket) -- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw |
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BFR == Big ****ing Rocket (a 'cleaned up' version is Big Falcon
Rocket) I've hear McCall cawing with such linguistic eloquence about his great grandmother's pokadot blummers, that I've rewarded him a position in a select list of orators whose blathering will never again reach my screen. |
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William Elliot wrote on Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:01:18
-0700: BFR == Big ****ing Rocket (a 'cleaned up' version is Big Falcon Rocket) I've hear McCall cawing with such linguistic eloquence about his great grandmother's pokadot blummers, that I've rewarded him a position in a select list of orators whose blathering will never again reach my screen. Yes, people like you apparently have an aversion to simply facts. -- "Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid." -- Heinrich Heine |
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