Most people have heard of SpaceX, the company by Elon Musk that was the first to fly and land an orbital class rocket. However few people I talk to seem to have ever heard of their next rocket, the SpaceX Starship. That’s a shame though as your really, REALLY should be paying attention to it!
The ramifications of SpaceX’s Starship is astounding as we’ve covered previously but how safe will it be to fly in and would you hop on board anytime soon?
While we cover a lot of future technology on this site, SpaceX’s Starship has the potential to fundamentally alter all of humanity in a heart beat over the next decade and I’m not even talking about a Mars base.
This week OpenAI posts their fully complete GPT-2 model, EFF wins a huge victory for travellers coming into the USA, Brave v1.0 launches, Gattaca is no longer science fiction and SpaceX nails yet another Starlink launch with a number of other firsts plus more!
This past week has been an explosion of tech with the new Surface Duo and Neo, Tesla’s huge V10 software update, Skydio finally launching their second generation drone and more. We’ve also got great news with China shutting down huge amounts of coal plants, the OnePlus 7T going official and trials confirming that senolytics really works in humans.
This evening at a private event SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed their not-so-secret Starship Mark 1 design. On display behind him dwarfing their very first Falcon 1 rocket, the 50 metre high rocket looks like an absolute beast. If things run to schedule, Musk wants to have it fly to orbit in the next 6 months!
There’s been a lot of disruption that has occurred over the last two decades and even more that’s happening now. So today we’re looking at what the biggest disruptive technologies out there are and how they will change your future day to day life.
This week we get a bunch of awesome news and leaks with specs of the OnePlus 7T coming out, new telepresence robots, microprocessors made out of carbon nanotubes and an update on when you’ll first ride in a flying car!
Today SpaceX launched and landed their prototype Starship spaceship called “Starhopper” with amazing grace and ease.
In this weeks Tipping Point we look at China’s effort to rule CRISPR, a fantastic new “forest” replacement, the upcoming date for SpaceX’s Starship update and how Australian EV’s will soon make sounds for safety reasons.