Elon Musk, keeping us on our toes:

techcrunch.com/2018/11/19/…

If he sticks with this new terminology, will we need to split the BFR tag into "falcon-super-heavy" and "starship" tags?

@called2voyage I thought that was just meant to be humorous, but sorting that out later would be quite a big job. There are Saturn-V and Apollo-Program tags, but no command module or LEM tags. Are there any 2nd-stage-specific tags already?

Even if there isn't, my first thoughts are that in this particular case it might be good to create the two new tags you've mentioned. But I have no idea of what that implies in terms of work or feasibility. But I could argue effectively the exact opposite viewpoint as well.

It is hard to tell exactly how humorous/serious any given tweet from Musk is.

That's why I said "if he sticks with [it]"

Orion is an upper stage with a separate tag from SLS.

soyuz-spacecraft gets a separate tag from soyuz-launcher

@uhoh ^

the command module doesn't have a separate tag, but the lunar module does.

issfd.org/ISSFD_2014/ISSFD24_Paper_S6-2_Guo.pdf

There is no Falcon, it is just Super Heavy.

@PearsonArtPhoto True, but I think "Falcon" will be tacked on if the term sticks. I admit that was speculation on my part.

True.

I think Raptor will replace Falcon, but...

@PearsonArtPhoto "will go to the Sun within 10 solar radii (RS) from the center of the Sun for the first time" Space is frighteningly large.

That report is actually really interesting. Found it to answer a question on the site.

One solar radius is huge too...

One of the early problems with Whereisroadster was that I was using a point on the sun vs the sun's center for some stuff. It showed some oscillating behavior as a result.

The distance was visible, because it was a half million or more miles.

I see the late launch only delayed the second Venus flyby by a few days. Do you know if there's an updated timeline for the mission trajectory somewhere?

@called2voyage I meant I thought at first that you were being humorous about redoing the tagging. Then realized you weren't

@uhoh Ah, ok

I would assume that parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/The-Mission/index.php#Where-Is-PSP is correct.

In any case, as far as retagging things are for BFR, I would just make synonymns, but not merge them.

@PearsonArtPhoto Yes, thanks. I wish they pointed out dates of Venus flybys and important perihelions though.

@PearsonArtPhoto But what if the BFR terminology goes away? Wouldn't that be confusing?

Dates?

ya I just realized that. I am not wearing my glasses

lol

no problem, I'm being lazy and you're trying to be helpful

I think I lost them in Thailand about eight years ago. But I'm not sure yet, so hesitant to invest in another pair.

BFR (Or Starship) is changing so often I don't think it is a big deal.

I mean, did we retag IPL to BFR?

@PearsonArtPhoto For now, I agree. I'm thinking more in the future if/when it settles down as it nears production.

I'm not proposing we do anything for now, wait until we actually have a better source for Starship.

Elon's Twitter ramblings don't always come true. I think this is right, but...

Good point. We shall see what naming sticks.

I kind of laugh that practically every tweet he makes ends up in a news article sometime.

Electreck.co is literally based off his tweets. :) Turns 4 words into a 1000 word article. I enjoy it.

They are the biggest culprit, but there are others.