At the time of this writing, it looks like the star-man and his Tesla Roadster will miss Mars. But such uncertainty's are Hail Mary's when thrown. There will always be those who cry foul and those who desperately hope for a miracle. Elon Musk and his SpaceX A-Team have thrown a Hail Mary to the disbelief of everyone in the world, especially those who ask why launch a Tesla Roadster into space with a mannequin. It seems everyone has not asked the most important question. Which player on the space field will catch the Hail Mary and when? Or will it be an entirely new player as of yet unknown? Whoever catches this Hail Mary will forever be remembered as the hero. What happens if SpaceX can catch their own Hail Mary? This seems even more exciting altogether, because what Elon Musk has done was bring the entire world a renewed hope for something more and something better.
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Added on 23 Feb 2018:
What Elon Musk has done is the greatest commercial PR stunt the world has ever seen. What can surpass this stunt? It most likely would be the group who returns the car to it's original owner.
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Prophecy:
SpaceX and its Falcon Heavy has more versions to come.
The second iteration of Falcon Heavy will have four side cores and a central core to form the "X" shape. The center core can be hollowed out if desired in order to load long building trusses or space station frame works. This decision will be based on weight and desired length of building trusses. The center core can also be as it already is. Four side core thrust should be around 30,425 kN at sea level. With four side cores and center core the the thrust should be around 38,031 kN at sea level.
The third iteration of Falcon Heavy will have six side cores and one central core. The payload faring may also evolve into a larger aerodynamic conical shape.
The extra large Falcon Heavy will have the central core and two side cores as you see now and adding two side cores into the gaps where a side core and a central core come together. Total thrust of all seven cores should be around 53,244 kN at sea level. Total thrust of six cores with a hollowed out center core will be around 45,638 kN at sea level.
This scaling-up idea will make its way to the newest generation of rockets to come by every space-faring agency in the world, maybe even the ITS Launch Vehicle.
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Added on 10 Feb 2018:
SpaceX should begin to engineer all of their rockets for any sort of reconfiguration, A device or a system which shall be titled the Universal reconfiguration device or system. What this universal reconfiguration device or system will allow you to do is position your side cores and center cores any way you want them positioned. Whether it by three side by side, A three rocket "Y", A four, five, six or seven rocket setup.
SpaceX should assign several star teams and one team who would be the black sheep group (not a team). They will not be permitted to discuss any aspect of the development of the universal reconfiguration device or system. Once the teams have achieved working devices or systems. They each will then have a show and tell. It will be hoped that each team and the black sheep group will come up up multiple patent-able devices and systems. The best one would be considered the one to use while the others can be resold for a profit or not. The reason why to do this. Is to prevent what has happened with Dyson, Maglica, others and myself. Because other corporations took their ideas and made them better. Perfectly legal but it happened.
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Personal note:
I'm not comparing myself to those great inventors. I only included myself because I've learned hard lessons of inventing and trusting those who should not have been. I've lost two inventions. One of them on purpose in order to teach a lesson. Even ideas which seem funny can be marketed for profit.
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http://www.spacex.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITS_launch_vehicle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket) "I do not like this name!!!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_engine_family)
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The US Government has threatened to shut off funding for the ISS, which means the planned de-orbiting of the ISS will occur. Because, if a de-orbit is not planned. It is coming down anyway without regular refueling to maintain current LEO or Low earth orbit. This may be something that SpaceX want to consider purchasing if the other Nations involved would agree to it. Which is not likely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station_program
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Added on 10 Feb 2018:
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2017/10/musk-money-problems-unedited-11-oct-2017.html
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Elon Musk has a serious money problem. His current output of more than 500 million dollars spent so far on SpaceX is going to be more than 500 billion dollars which must be spent in order to safely as possible go to Mars with all of the necessary toys. So how does Elon Musk get way more money? More businesses? Yes. But that still will not be enough. Elon Musk will need to develop new technologies in every category. These new technologies can be created with his own version of a scientific space station, which can also be evolved, scaled up and modularized so that the scientific space station can travel around the moon and back as well as travel to Mars. Elon Musk will need many of them.
Think about it for a minute. Go and research how much money NASA made for everyone everywhere who got involved with any aspect of technology. They are still making money from old NASA ideas and inventions while NASA is being starved into becoming a museum relic.
NASA ROI is anywhere from $7-$14 dollars for every one dollar spent. NASA did this because of all of the inventions they created. Then the US government took away their funding. All of the technology you enjoy was originated by NASA. Go read the below content. Want to turn the US economy around? Reinvest in NASA their former ***4.41% of the federal budget. Then in about 10 or so years the returns will come in. Ooops, this is about how Elon ain't gots no cheddar.
Elon Musk and his SpaceX must build a multipurpose space station. Elon Musk must develop new technologies and then turn them around into usable products for his SpaceX, Skynet(LOL), Tesla, Solar and Boring profits. The speed of any new technology ROI should be much faster than it was during the 1970's and early eighties. As the modern day human being now understands what new technology means. Because of this new attitude, people all over the world will embrace something new and Elon Musk can profit from all of them, then transfer those funds back into SpaceX.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
http://www.21stcentech.com/money-spent-nasa-not-waste/
217 PDF pages of NASA spinoff technologies. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/pdf/spinoff2008.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
Top 15 from Apollo. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/5893387/Apollo-11-moon-landing-top-15-Nasa-inventions.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-elon-musk-net-worth-2017-10
https://www.sciencealert.com/elon-musk-spent-1-billion-developing-spacex-s-reusable-rockets-how-fast-can-he-actually-make-it-back
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apos-much-costs-elon-musk-174654521.html
https://www.investopedia.com/university/elon-musk-biography/elon-musk-net-worth.asp
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Added on 11 Feb 2018:
Classified Conceptualization's:
It is truly important to keep even ideas secret from the world. Because, from a simple idea or even from an observational standpoint. Those who also desire to go into space. Will see what you are doing and mimic it in some manor. There will even be those who thirst for hate, war/conflict, Chaos, Death and every form of lawlessness. They to will desire to escape this prison of a planet in order to selfishly profit from it without any concern for anyone else.
Right now every nation which can prepare for war by modernize and expanding their military forces are doing so right now. Yes, all of the wealthy nations of the world. This includes Russia and China. Both of which have witnessed what Elon and his SpaceX team have done. They each are making plans to copy SpaceX,right now. Thus, leap frogging the USA, Europe and every other nationalized space agency in the world.
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Added on 11 Feb 2018:
Golf Course like residential engineering.
I think long cities along the mountain ranges of Mars. This also includes deep in caverns as well as craters. The middle of the caverns and craters would be for landings and launching of assets. I think you will want to go deep into Mars. For all of the protections you can get. Then allow the sands of Mars to bury your exterior exposed settlements. This will add additional protections to some minor degree.
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https://sputniknews.com/science/201802081061482857-china-rocket-falcon-heavy-launch/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a16761777/russia-super-heavy-rocket/
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From the get go. Anyone who travels to Mars must understand and commit themselves that they and their future children will remain on Mars. The new human martians will have to have everything staged for them prior to their arrival. All sites of interest on Mars must also have their own launch and landing zones. I've Mostly written about this before. Look below.
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https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2015/05/artificial-planetary-magnetic-fields.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2014/08/star-builders-prophecy-unedited-18-aug.html
https://john-mackechnie.blogspot.com/2013/05/mars-valles-marineris-unedited-13-may.html
https://www.quora.com/Why-has-Elon-Musk-chosen-Mars-as-the-next-planet-to-colonize-and-not-any-other-planets/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/If-Mars-is-uninhabitable-why-try-to-inhabit-it/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/If-we-terraformed-Mars-would-there-be-animals/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/What-technology-would-it-take-to-colonize-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Would-it-be-possible-to-build-a-Mars-colony-in-the-Lycus-Sulci/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-NASA-is-taking-people-to-planet-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/When-we-colonize-Mars-are-we-going-to-keep-religion-out-of-the-new-planet/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Wont-you-agree-as-soon-as-you-think-of-space-time-you-create-a-border-What-is-beyond-space-time-But-why-would-there-be-a-border-horizon/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/From-your-point-of-view-what-specific-problem-would-we-need-to-solve-to-make-interstellar-travel-possible-i-e-what-holds-us-back-from-being-able-to-travel-between-star-systems-from-a-technology-standpoint/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Will-human-ever-live-on-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Wouldnt-we-have-to-remelt-the-Martian-core-to-generate-a-magnetosphere-to-properly-transform-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Can-Mars-be-terraformed/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-building-a-Mars-colony-the-next-big-space-mission-Why-not-a-colony-on-our-very-own-moon/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Can-objects-rust-on-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Should-we-collide-Europa-into-Mars-to-terraform-it-faster/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-to-collide-asteroids-on-Mars-to-create-atmosphere-faster-make-climate-warmer-and-add-water-and-oxygen-to-the-atmosphere/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/If-Mars-was-covered-in-plants-genetically-engineered-to-survive-in-a-martian-atmosphere-how-long-would-it-take-for-them-to-replace-the-CO2-with-oxygen/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Can-we-build-a-self-sufficient-colony-on-Mars-that-will-require-no-extra-produce-from-Earth-once-established/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Where-would-be-humans-be-going-now-if-NASA-had-pursued-the-space-race-beyond-the-moon-landing-to-Mars-moon-stations-etc/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/How-long-would-it-take-to-terraform-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-of-building-a-city-on-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Is-going-to-outer-space-the-only-way-to-save-humanity/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Has-Elon-Musk-given-up-on-the-Earth-Hes-trying-to-colonize-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/If-SpaceX-perfects-reusable-rockets-what-would-the-cost-of-rockets-be-if-they-were-reused-to-send-cargo-to-the-moon-and-back/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Is-NASA-hiding-evidence-of-intelligent-alien-life/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-evidence-of-a-nuclear-war-long-ago-on-Mars/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-nearest-stars-outside-our-solar-system-that-would-be-a-satisfactory-long-term-energy-source-for-a-large-scale-space-station-habitat/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Would-it-be-possible-to-build-a-Mars-colony-on-Arsia-Pavonis-or-Ascraeus-Mons/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-humans-want-to-colonize-Mars-while-there-are-billions-of-people-living-in-poverty-wars-and-hunger-on-planet-Earth/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/What-plan-can-turn-Mars-into-a-planet-of-trees-and-oceans/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-every-major-country-merged-their-space-programs-and-pooled-their-money/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/Which-areas-of-space-exploration-would-benefit-the-most-from-additional-research/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/If-people-migrate-to-Mars-how-will-the-territory-be-divided-by-the-nations-of-the-earth/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/In-anticipation-of-colonizing-Mars-would-it-be-useful-to-crash-a-large-number-of-water-ice-asteroids-comets-onto-the-surface-first/answer/John-MacKechnie
https://www.quora.com/How-would-the-climate-of-Mars-change-if-it-got-an-oxygenated-environment/answer/John-MacKechnie
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*Reference to the first Apollo landing on the moon. July 20, 1969.
** Yes Skylab, the Space Shuttle and the current ISS was pretty exciting. But, nothing compares to the moon landings. The moon landings were celebrated by the whole world. NASA is very good at sucking the fun out of anything cool and making everything absolutely boring from everything exciting.
*** Yes, I am absolutely in favor of the restoration of the NASA budget back to 4.41% plus a little more. Without adding to the national debt. Plus a massive expansion of the Pell and other educational grant programs instantly for everyone immediately. For a duration of 12-20 years starting right now.
It is your responsibility to ascertain the truthfulness and validity of any content expressed. I do the best I can.
I use copy and paste for your safety and security. What you see is what you get. No hidden stuff or surprises. I have a dislike and distaste for surprises. So I'm not gonna give you any. Without forewarning.
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Added on 14 March 2018:
https://www.quora.com/If-we-were-to-create-a-Mars-colony-where-would-we-make-it/answer/John-MacKechnie
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