Serious Truly smart people is like that

[Engeng]

Musk Wants to Build a Rocket

That Will Get You Anywhere on Earth in an Hour
By
Dana Hull
and
Perry Williams
29 September 2017, 14:19 GMT+829 September 2017, 16:42 GMT+8

Elon Musk Aims to Get You Anywhere on Earth in One Hour

Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has long dreamed of creating a human colony on Mars, is planning to build a new rocket ship code named “BFR” capable of traveling anywhere on Earth in under an hour.


If the concept becomes reality, Musk said a journey from New York to Shanghai can be done in about 30 minutes. The surprise announcement means that his Space Exploration Technologies Corp., which has already disrupted the aerospace industry with reusable launches, plans to ferry humans not just to distant planets but across this one as well, setting up a potentially competitive challenge to the commercial airline industry.

Elon Musk in Adelaide, Sept. 29.

Photographer: Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images
“If we are going to places like Mars, why not Earth?” Musk said Friday at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Toward the end of Musk’s highly technical presentation, animation played on a big screen behind him, showing scores of people getting on a high-speed ferry in New York, then boarding the BFR on a platform in the water. The spaceship then travels to Shanghai in roughly half an hour.

"Fly to most places on Earth in under 30 mins and anywhere in under 60," Musk wrote in an Instagram post after he’d left the stage without taking questions. "Cost per seat should be about the same as full fare economy in an aircraft. Forgot to mention that."


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With many commercial satellite operators as customers, the revenue from those contracts will help fund the development of the BFR, which would be capable of carrying satellites to orbit, crew and cargo to the International Space Station, and complete missions to the Moon and Mars, said Musk. He said the BFR would contain 40 cabins capable of ferrying roughly 100 people at a time.

 

[Engeng]

Wow so smart to think of such a bright idea that can bring improvement to people. Not like shameless covert and overt manipulative jiuhukia only thinking of harming people and so damn proud of it.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Hope he die of cancer soon. World dont need such people who will use up resources damage the earth.

 

[KNNBPCB]

Hope he die of cancer soon. World dont need such people who will use up resources damage the earth.

If he uses up resources that were meant for evil people, that would make him both smart and clever. :p

 

[glockman]

This Elon fucker is too smart for his own good

 

[KNNBPCB]

This Elon fucker is too smart for his own good

Or as some would say: "Too clever by half." :p

 

[Engeng]

Hope he die of cancer soon. World dont need such people who will use up resources damage the earth.

You taking plane or car or bus don't use up resources damage the earth? So you go die of cancer first. And he is developing towards 100% reusable rocket so no wastage of resource at all.

 

[Engeng]

This Elon fucker is too smart for his own good

Low class thieves are eyeing to steal from him. Too smart for his own good only if his invention got stolen by such low class criminals that are proud to call themselves smart when in fact they are pieces of shit.

 

[Engeng]

Or as some would say: "Too clever by half." :p

Never heard before. What earth language is this?