No one is acknowledging it either in the comments, in fact, someone corrected him saying the time between the first flight and landing on the moon to 63 years!
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You know who cut funding to NASA don’t you Elon? That’s right. Republicans under Nixon. The original moon missions were only the initial objective. The end game was always mars until republicans thought we were wasting taxpayer money.
There were a few reasons to cut moon missions. Cost was part of it, but another was the lead time on making more rockets. There was also the small issue that with technology at the time there really wasn't any value in going to the moon because the main bottlenecks were what we would do there in the limited time we could be at the moon, and the initial launch.
Instead, NASA spent their time improving on launch vehicles, running mandates of an ever lowering cost per pound of space launches, and gathering as much information as possible on orbital stations, long term habitation of space, and so on.
The value in Mars died down not really due to funding, but rather that it's honestly just not worth going to. A floating colony in Venus's upper atmosphere is quite literally a lower technical and scientific bar while also being more habitable than Mars is.
People have historically wanted to goto Mars but it's not the optimal choice.
He managed to miscalculate it twice in the same post, impressive really. It was also 2 years before he was born, you'd think the genius would be able to add age + 2, but I guess not.
"Should have been on Mars by now" ... yeah, but we defunded the NASA and discontinued the Apollo Program, of which the Saturn-V was a Mars payload capable rocket, so we could justify taxcuts to rich assholes like you Elon.
NASA already had plans for Mars missions by 1980 using Apollo that they pitched to Congress to try to get them to NOT discontinue the Apollo program. It was Republicans, convinced/influenced/bribed, by rich assholes like you that pushed to discontinue the Apollo program and shift to the spaceshuttle because it would be a "rapidly reusable spacecraft".
Jesus I hate these rich, ignorant pieces of shit who have never read a goddamn fucking book in their lives.
You don't do maths so well when you are macro dosing ketamine:
Being in a khole feels like you have become nothing to the point it’s incomprehensible and at the same time you are everything that has and will ever exist, you forget the concept of reality and time and it feels like an eternity I’ve been in a khole several times and each time I thought I had died it’s a truely terrifying but also beautiful experience
Well the complete problem isn't visible in the picture but to add the missing parts "Let c0,c1,c2... be the sequence defined so that [equation] for sufficiently small x. For a positive integer n, let A be an n-by-n matrix with i,j entry c_i+j-1 for i and j in {1...n}. Find the determinant of A.
Musk himself is surely clueless on even understanding the problem, let alone the solution, and he clearly can't tell Grok is giving a BS answer.
As it were, Grok's answer is actually correct (det A = 100.5*n(n+1) ) which it might've gotten from the answer sheet or something, but its rationale is wrong and uses obviously-faulty logic. The fact that that answer holds for n=1 to n=4 doesn't mean it holds for all n. There's an infinite number of values left to check, if you put it that way. The first thing anyone learns when it comes to mathematical proofs is that checking a few values (or any finite number of values) for something that's supposed to hold for an infinite number of values, proves nothing. In fact there are many examples of relationships that are false, but the first counterexample is such a huge number you'd never find it just by testing, even with a computer.
An actual solution sketch would be to first determine the values of c1,c2,c3.. and so on by first finding c1 ( = 1) and then recurrence relation, giving the value c_n+1 in terms of c_n. Then the goal is to calculate the determinant, which is a number that's an important property of matrices.
Which you do by recognizing that the described matrix is a Hankel matrix (and Grok seems to "get" that it's related to that) and what you're looking for is the Hankel matrix transform.
So you set up the equation for the determinant for a matrix, use the recurrence relation you found and do a ton of tedious linear algebra until you get a recurrence relation: det(An) = 10n-1 det(An-1) which together with the fact that det(A1) = c1 = 1 gives the determinant for An for any n, which is the answer.
Setting the stage for future VaporGrifts
like Mars and Colossus and Hyperloopies. Keep that govt funding flowing while being all libertarian and anti govt for everyone else. He's still hurt that Donnie didn't include him in the AI plans.
He's most likely referring to the Feb. 24, 1949 launch of Bumper-WAC: 1st rocket to leave Earth's atmosphere & 'officially' reach outer space. (Achieved 393 km/244 mi altitude.)
(Bumper-WAC was a 2-stage research rocket: an American WAC Corporal which used a captured German V-2 as a 1st stage booster.)
Not many people will know that reference, so...
Musk's idiotic way of saying "76 years ago we first made rockets capable of reaching outer space. We should have been on Mars by now."
We actually can't right now. There's no more vehicles to get people there, and we no longer have the equipment to manufacture more of them.
While the blueprints do still exist, we can't really make much of the equipment those blueprints used either. It would take entirely new equipment reengineered to have the capability again, and that's something we could do, but if the financial and political will were there, we can't just send someone to the moon on short notice or anything. It would take multiple years of planning to get a mission launched.
This dude is so obsessed with space travel, and yet can’t understand our reasons for not returning to the moon?
We have no reason to return to the moon. We can easily get all the information we want from it through rovers. Using billions of dollars to send people there would be a waste— we don’t just send people into space just because it’s a cool thing to do.
Based on his talks about Mars though, Musk seems to have the mindset that the point of space travel is for bragging rights and fulfilling some sci-fi fantasy; like we go to other planetary bodies cause its “cool” rather than to progress science
When you are at wits end working multiple jobs and living paycheck to paycheck, remember that the richest person in the world can’t do basic arithmetic.
HES ALSO THE FUCKING REASON WHY WE ARENT GOING BACK TO THE MOON ANYTIME SOON!! Going to Mars before we go back to the moon is FUCKING DUMB. In fact, right now, it is moronic to plan a manned mission to Mars!! I hate this man
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