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[Starver]

"Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen!  The Pacific is odds on favorite, but we have very generous prices for Australia... again... The continental US has seen some heavy spread betting, mainly concentrating on Los Angeles area and the Hollywood sign, Mount Rushmore (damaging just one specific quarter), the Whitehouse (and/or Capital building) and impaling itself directly upon the Empire State Building spire.  There are some pundits going for Big Ben (sic), the Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids, the Taj Mahal and Christ The Redeemer, whilst quite a large number of small bets in roubles and bitcoin have gone towards it landing directly upon a Syrian aid convoy.  Apart from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, we aren't taking bets on the People's Republic of China or its extensive maritime claims at all for...  reasons, but the Republic Of China is still an option... "

[Culise]

Couldn't they send out a special mission with a rocket to lock into the main station port and prop it up enough for it to regain stable orbit? I mean, I'm not sure if that would be cost effective, but I'd guess it probably is, considering that its an entire space station being lost :U

It's also retired.  It's been inactive since 2013 and already intended for reentry between 2016-2017, which means it's unlikely that they would have changed their plans in the interim.  They wouldn't be salvaging a working station; they'd sending it up to tweak the reentry course at most, which isn't nearly as cost-effective. 

[mainiac]

whilst quite a large number of small bets in roubles and bitcoin have gone towards it landing directly upon a Syrian aid convoy

Figures.

[andrea]

http://www.spacex.com/webcast

Elon musk talking about his mars plans in 3 hours, 50 minutes.
A bit surprising the talk wasn't delayed due to the falcon 9 explosion, but half of his fan base would have died of hype ( or hype withdrawal?) had he delayed more.

[TempAcc]

Also, apparently china recently activated it FUCKHUEG new radio telescope to search for pulsars and aliums.

[Max™]

Far Universe Check for Kinda Huge Unambiguous Evidence of Greenmen

[andrea]

before the conference starts, spacex posted a promotional video of how they envision mars colonization.

That huuuu(uuuuuuu)ge thing that goes up seems to be their planned rocket.

video

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Watching right now, I missed most of it but Elon is not a great speaker in the q&a, he's got a real bad stutter.

[andrea]

he had that bad stutter for the whole speech. My poor untrained ear is struggling to listen to him.

But, hey, he got me some great pictures of rocket stuff, so I'll forgive him for not being a good speaker

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Ugh, fucking Funny or Die's idiot reporter trying to ask a "question" that's just a joke. A joke that wasn't funny.

[Radio Controlled]

Ugh, fucking Funny or Die's idiot reporter trying to ask a "question" that's just a joke. A joke that wasn't funny.

Yeah, they clearly didn't do any screening of the questions beforehand.

he had that bad stutter for the whole speech. My poor untrained ear is struggling to listen to him.

But, hey, he got me some great pictures of rocket stuff, so I'll forgive him for not being a good speaker

It was an interesting presentation, though he indeed isn't the most natural speaker, that's true.

Link to the video to those who missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YxNYiyALg

[LordBaal]

I waited for it and missed because had to driva back home.
There's any brief on the presentation I can read?

[Max™]

Huh, didn't know he had a stutter, sounds like more of a pain in the ass than mine, I don't double as much as I get stuck on the start of words with certain sounds. Trying to start a sentence with a soft vowel is a nightmare sometimes.

[Radio Controlled]

I waited for it and missed because had to driva back home.
There's any brief on the presentation I can read?

Here's something: http://futurism.com/elon-musk-mars-colony-all-his-key-points-from-todays-announcement/

Better summaries will probably become available later, as people have more time to make 'em, but it's something.

[Levi]

Here is Ars Technica's view/summary on the Elon Musk Mars thing:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/musks-mars-moment-audacity-madness-brilliance-or-maybe-all-three/