Elon Mush a Douglas Adams Fan

[ElectEngr]

Heard on MSNBC that the Tesla launched yesterday had the phrase "Don't Panic" on the dashboard.

Wow, Musk is a Douglas Adams/Hitchhikers Guide fan.

http://www.businessinsider.com/falc...dster-says-dont-panic-on-the-dashboard-2018-2

I wonder if this will boost sales of the books.

Along with "Space Oddity" they should have "Journey of the Sorcerer" and "Spaceman" by Harry Nilsson on the cd

"Share and Enjoy"

Later,
ElectEngr

 

[ZiprHead]

I want a good quality photo of the one in the link to use as my desktop wallpaper.

 

[funinspace]

I wonder if there is a towel in the glove box...

 

[TSwizzle]

I always associate the phrase with Corporal Jones from Dad's Army. Anyway, what a fantastic achievement.

 

[bilby]

I always associate the phrase with Corporal Jones from Dad's Army. Anyway, what a fantastic achievement.

There's probably wasn't room to write "They don't like it up 'em!"

 

[RavenSky]

I wonder if there is a towel in the glove box...

 

[Thomas II]

 

[ZiprHead]

That was pretty cool, T2.

My wife's grandparents lived in Florida for a while. They got to watch a shuttle launch once from about five miles away, the closest the general public is allowed to get. They said the sound and feeling was tremendous. You can feel it from five miles away.

 

[Terrell]

delete

 

[Playball40]

What was sad to me was that the news agencies had no idea what the reference "Don't Panic" was about. I would have liked to have seen Douglas Adams recognized.

 

[ElectEngr]

Got to "hear" a Thor launch in 1976 out of Vandenburg. There was a heavy fog ceiling, but I guess, range saftey let the laucn go on. It put up a polar orbinting satellite.

Later that year, I saw a Minutman launcn down to Kwajalein Atoll.

Both times, there was a loud boom then a loud rumble that kept on for several minutes. A few years later, saw another Minuteman launch.

The Space and Missile Test Center (SAMTEC) would have ben my "dream job".

Later,
ElectEngr

 

[Malintent]

Flat-Earthers have added Elon Musk to their list of government-controlled liars about a spherical Earth.
Apparently, he made his rocket model out of an old blimp before placing it in front of a world-record-breaking size green screen and CGI'ed the shit out of his fake launch.

 

[Elixir]

Flat-Earthers have added Elon Musk to their list of government-controlled liars about a spherical Earth.
Apparently, he made his rocket model out of an old blimp before placing it in front of a world-record-breaking size green screen and CGI'ed the shit out of his fake launch.

A friend of mine brought her whole family to the launch site and watched the launch and the recoveries. It was a very convincing illusion.

 

[Malintent]

Flat-Earthers have added Elon Musk to their list of government-controlled liars about a spherical Earth.
Apparently, he made his rocket model out of an old blimp before placing it in front of a world-record-breaking size green screen and CGI'ed the shit out of his fake launch.

A friend of mine brought her whole family to the launch site and watched the launch and the recoveries. It was a very convincing illusion.

according to the flat-earthers, your friend is an agent of the government, or an otherwise bought sponsor of their propaganda...

It's better than watching Olympic gymnastics... the convoluted poses one must make to maintain that worldview.

 

[Elixir]

Flat-Earthers have added Elon Musk to their list of government-controlled liars about a spherical Earth.
Apparently, he made his rocket model out of an old blimp before placing it in front of a world-record-breaking size green screen and CGI'ed the shit out of his fake launch.

A friend of mine brought her whole family to the launch site and watched the launch and the recoveries. It was a very convincing illusion.

according to the flat-earthers, your friend is an agent of the government, or an otherwise bought sponsor of their propaganda...

That's impossible. She and her whole family are card-carrying trumpsuckers!

 

[Malintent]

according to the flat-earthers, your friend is an agent of the government, or an otherwise bought sponsor of their propaganda...

That's impossible. She and her whole family are card-carrying trumpsuckers!

That's more proof they are bought and paid for!

 

[Elixir]

according to the flat-earthers, your friend is an agent of the government, or an otherwise bought sponsor of their propaganda...

That's impossible. She and her whole family are card-carrying trumpsuckers!

That's more proof they are bought and paid for!

She'd be a big-ticket item - she just sold her one-woman Company for $4.8m!

 

[Malintent]

That's more proof they are bought and paid for!

She'd be a big-ticket item - she just sold her one-woman Company for $4.8m!

Well that explains the Trump support, then. The tax cut made her hundreds of thousands of dollars on that sale (if it was done this year).

 

[braces_for_impact]

I want a good quality photo of the one in the link to use as my desktop wallpaper.

These are the best I've been able to find.

 

[ZiprHead]

I made my own from the live feed.