The Stuff of Science Fiction

[BarryBobPosthole]

We live in a cool time.

This is just friggin awesome.

BKB

SpaceX makes historic rocket landing
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/08/tech/spacex-historic-rocket-landing-irpt/index.html

[Hombre]

Elon Musk is a stud. Tesla, space x, hypertrophy. No idea how he does it

[Thumper]

Cool stuff for sure. The one statement in that article that stood out the most to me, was the very last sentence.


"We will be successful when this becomes boring," Musk said.

When I was growing up, you could ask ANYONE when the next launch was coming up and they could tell you. When I was in school, anytime there was a launch, they'd sound the fire alarm (fire drill) and the whole school would file out onto the playground/football field and watch the launch. We never talk about launches any more and I doubt we've even discussed what's going on aboard the Space Shuttle here. It's routine and mundane these days. Yet, here we are talking about SpaceX. For now anyway.