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Elon Musk's SpaceX will be launching flight 50 for the Falcon 9 tonight with a payload of Spain's Hispasat satellite. That satellite weighs about 6 ton and is the size of a bus, according to Musk, and will be the largest satellite SpaceX has flown yet.
You can catch the livestream right here!
I let a Tesla drive me up the highway from Sydney to the Hunter Valley and I was absolutely shitting myself.
This week on Static we are all about the dollar dollar bills y'all. We talk smart phone prices, microtransactions, tips for saving money (including some questionable ones) and the cost of going to space!
SpaceX founder Elon Musk reminds us of Marvin from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. In addition to being a perpetually miserable robot from outer space (citation needed), he also has a brain the size of a planet. But how did he get so gosh-darned smart?
DNA and upbringing probably had a lot to do with it - but so did reading the right books at the right age. Here are five books that Musk reckons everybody should read; from weighty science-fiction to breezy business tomes. Best of all, they're all mentally accessible to the average person.
Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Amazon Australia bleed cash to destroy Aussie retail, Time's Top Ten Gadgets this year (and yours), Elon Musk delivers on his promise to get a battery into South Australia within 100 days!
In a wild coincidence I bought my partner a new notebook (she's a bit of an office stationery addict) a new notebook that had "I survived another meeting that should have been an email" emblazoned across the cover. It turns out this is one of Elon Musk's tactics for cutting through dumb meetings.
