SpaceX's Mars Colonial Transporter: What do we Know so Far?

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1. Isn't the thing called ITS? (Interplanetary Transport System)
2. 100 years ago we thought it wouldn't be even possible, now we have been to the moon, gone faster than the speed of sound, and sent robots to Mars. Where will the next 100 take us?
3. faggot
4. I don't like your voice gtf out of here lmao
5. sorry i cant watch this video... watching this guy is torture
6. I would have loved to watch this video, but he should have had a real person do it.  Not this stupid robot.  It doesn't even sound real.
7. I loathe this guy's voice!!!!!!!!
8. God what a total freak! Nerd of the year award
9. And what do you think about the Elon Musk Livestream? Any video coming soon?
10. If the Earth was flat and the space program a fake then how is it we can all chat with these powerfully devices called the Electronic computer. We also need the World Wide Web and the Internet. Sattillites must exist since the internet would not exist otherwise. These people that try to claim it's all fake are ridicules.
11. It is now September 21st, so we will know very soon!
12. Sept 2016 target date for Mars!
13. my spaceship that I am building it can take off and land from anywhere and you don't have to worry about burning up on reentry and IT Supplies its own gravity field while you're inside the craft my spacecraft only takes one hour to go to Mars and one hour to get back
14. elon musk and others keep using Antiquated Aerospace equipment they keep using old rocket instead of new Advanced propulsion flight anti gravity displacement
15. Is this still going to happen?
    
    First of all, i was very excited about this at first, but i have serious doubts...
    And you have some serious balls if you actually going to Mars with this organization.
    
    How much muscle loss, and radiation exposure will you have when you land on Mars?
    And how will this possibly affect the mission any further on a planet with lower gravity then Earth? Do you really trust the existing technology and low budget used to establish a permanent base on Mars?
    
    Also, you will be the most isolated human ever, far from mother planet Earth.
    In a hostile environment not suitable for humans, knowing you will never come back home. The landscape will be desolate, rock strewn, harsh and craggy.
    Your clarity of vision will be stark, since there is almost no
    atmospheric haze that distorts and clouds celestial objects.
    When you look up you won't see a blue sky.
    Your sense of isolation will be acute.
    The psychological impact of this moment will be profound....
    For the rest of your life you will be able to only physically
    interact directly with only your fellow colonists.
    These circumstances will probably cause mental illness in at least some of the colonists.
    Even the most highly trained astronauts suffer the side effects of isolation, and these are people who know they will be coming home.
    Do they train you guys enough in the psychology of isolation?
    
    In addition, how will colonists deal with the lack of modern
    medicine, sexual relationships, pregnancy, raising children, ageing and
    death. And knowing everything will be shown on TV probably 24-7?
    We already know that surveillance can cause stress and such.
    Making it one big TV show isn't something you want to do when colonizing
    a planet for the first time right?
    
    I would be less sceptical if i knew it wasn't a one way trip.
    Maybe we should wait until we figured out how to get you guys back in case of emergency? The current launchdate seems unrealistic.
    
    (sorry for any English grammar mistakes)
16. Elon Musk needs to look at Anti-Gravity & Faster than Light type Technology!...We live in the 21st Century now and the Rocket Engine is Old School Tech!...Remember NASA Retired the Space Shuttle!...and the Secret Space Program has been traveling to the Moon and Mars since the early 60's and 70's!...and Believe Me They Are Not Using Rockets To Get There!...God Bless!
17. To me it seems too risky to build such a giant rocket without experiences in that. They better should build the Flacon X and Falcon XX first and go to the moon with. And a booster with 30 engines is also not a good design, so better develop bigger engines first.
18. His voice is annoying , no offense to you colonist
19. SpaceX is having enough trouble mastering rocket technology, which is hundreds of years old. This is not to imply that SpaceX engineers are idiots, but only that it's a primitive technology that was never designed to be used in such a controlled fashion. If you want to be successful in space, you have to take that ancient technology off the table. It's not even a fiscally viable option anyways. To control rockets requires complex mechanical and electrical systems will thousands of points of failure. I have great empathy for the engineers who perform the PFEMAs on those systems. There are simpler, more elegant, more cost efficient, and (most importantly) safer options.
20. Just the name Mars Colonial Transporter. I love Elon Musk.