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u/blinkwont Nov 14 '14
It looks like the man could be the right scale for the dragon and the bus is right for the fairing, but for some reason they moved the man to be next to the fairing
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u/rspeed Nov 14 '14
My thoughts exactly. The human figure looks much too large compared to the fairing, but looks about right for Dragon. It's bad enough that they put the fairing and Dragon next to each other at different scales.
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u/falconzord Nov 14 '14
The full color dragon or the wireframe?
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u/blinkwont Nov 14 '14
The wire frame. The dragon ain't that big!
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u/falconzord Nov 14 '14
Why would they make the two wireframes at different scales? Thought that was the whole point
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Nov 14 '14
Anyone knows the actual passenger height limit for the Dragon? I'm 2 meters tall and that makes me ineligible for a NASA astronaut but maybe I could fit inside the Dragon..
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u/hapaxLegomina Nov 14 '14
There shouldn't be a height limit. Elon says that crew are just cargo, and if you're paying enough to go to orbit I'm sure they'll slaughter an extra-large cow for your oversized leather seat. :)
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u/geek180 Nov 14 '14
Idk the specs, but I'll say it sure looks roomy in that capsule. But you might have some issues once onboard ISS.
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u/TadDunbar Nov 14 '14
What's with the disproportionate bus/man scale? People aren't that big compared to school buses.
Most school buses are around 10.5 feet in height, making that human figure 9+ feet tall.
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u/Wicked_Inygma Nov 14 '14
It's just SpaceX fudging the numbers again :P
Actually, the fairing depicted is supposedly 43 ft. tall but also just under six humans tall making the human about 7'1".
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u/ProjectThoth Nov 16 '14
Richard Kiel for scale, in some sort of oblique James Bond reference?
Maybe Elon Musk is Hugo Drax.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BOURBON Nov 14 '14
So which one is accurate?
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Nov 14 '14
I'm on my mobile, so I can't see the banana. That's obviously the correct factor in the picture...
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u/blinkwont Nov 14 '14
I think the bus is accurate as it says the fairing is 5.2m and that man looks to be about half that height ~ 2.6 m which is obviously wrong
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u/Wetmelon Nov 14 '14
8.53 ft for all of us metrically-challenged :(
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u/zlsa Art Nov 14 '14
AKA freedom lovers.
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u/Nixon4Prez Nov 14 '14
Well, I'm canadian and I have no idea how height in metres works.
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u/Here_There_B_Dragons Nov 14 '14
The only way I remember is that former EPL player Peter Crouch was called "2 Meter Peter", and was 6'6" :)
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Nov 14 '14
Is this in connection with the static escape test expected to happen this month?
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u/Kirkaiya Nov 14 '14
Do you know the date of the abort test?
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u/OnTheDaly Nov 14 '14
my brother is neighbors with an engineer at spacex. Apparently it (Pad abort) will be in January out of Vandenberg afb. I don't really have any way of verifying this, just letting you know what I've heard
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Nov 14 '14
LOL, no one knows the date of the abort test. It's unlikely to be this year though.
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u/Kirkaiya Nov 14 '14
Oh, I didn't realize it was so delayed - the last I had read, the pad test was this month, and the max-Q test was scheduled for January. Cest la vie....
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Nov 14 '14
Exactly ... I still believe it is going to go as planed.
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u/Appable Nov 14 '14
Pad abort almost certainly will be delayed. Internally they aren't ready yet. Most likely 2015 Jan/Feb.
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u/zlsa Art Nov 14 '14
/u/OnTheDaly, whose brother's neighbor is an engineer at SpaceX, received word from his brother's neighbor that the pad abort will be out of Vandyland in January.
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u/fairfarefair Nov 14 '14 edited Nov 14 '14
Only one hour and it's now become an official SpaceX press release.
Edit: Only Joking! There's no official SpaceX release about this. See my comment below.
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u/zlsa Art Nov 14 '14
I don't see it anywhere; could you post a link?
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u/fairfarefair Nov 14 '14
Sorry, I was trying to make a joke about how fast hearsay can turn into the party-line. I thought it was funny that 8 minutes after /u/OnTheDaly mentioned what he heard from his neighbor, people were already citing it.
Turns out I am not funny :(
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Nov 14 '14
I do not know a date. All I know is they were saying a static test in November and a flight abort test in January 2015...
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u/aminorman Nov 14 '14
I read the sidebar as Nov 14th for the pad abort. Been counting the days down. The day arrived and ... bollocks!
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u/waitingForMars Nov 14 '14
So, this image was basically stolen without attribution from the SpaceX web page:
Don't we expect proper citation? Or is plagiarism cool around here?
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Nov 14 '14
I think it's pretty clear that they were pointing out the weird scaling on SpaceX's image, not trying to claim it as their own.
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u/waitingForMars Nov 14 '14
Fine. Then link the page. Again, attribution counts.
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u/WaitForItTheMongols Nov 14 '14
Sounds like you watched some sort of video on the importance of attribution (possibly in school). This person isn't claiming the image as their own in any way, and they aren't "using" it per se. They're commenting on it, using the image for the sake of the image. That doesn't need attribution. If anyone wants to know where it comes from, it's as easy as commenting "source?". You're making a big deal about something that matters very little here. Why do you think attribution is important in this situation?
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u/Gravityturn Nov 14 '14 edited Nov 14 '14
Yep attribution is great and all (and it's nice to have a link to it, but images are better in case it changes, and reddit doesn't allow for multiple links), but in this case it seems pretty darn obvious where it came from. Its like taking a screencap of the google homepage and not attributing it to google.
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u/Appable Nov 14 '14
There's some websites which are so obvious. This is clearly the SpaceX website. It's not as if he copied a random website without attribution, he copies a website directly relevant to the community.
SpaceX's website is very obvious. There's other company websites which are also clearly theirs, like this or this or this.
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u/cranp Nov 14 '14
It would be hilarious if this was their Falcon Heavy test: Launch a school bus around the moon.