Elon Musk says "Kerbal is awesome"

[cptdavep]

So I was reading a chat on reddit with Elon Musk ahead of todays Falcon 9 launch and spotted the following exchange:

[–]FoxhoundBat 904 points 8 hours ago

In order to use the full MCT design (100 passengers), will BFR be one core or 3 cores?

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[–]ElonMuskOfficial[S] 1488 points 8 hours ago

At first, I was thinking we would just scale up Falcon Heavy, but it looks like it probably makes more sense just to have a single monster boost stage.

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[–]Skov 1167 points 8 hours ago

Nice to see you are doing things the Kerbal way.

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[–]ElonMuskOfficial[S] 2984 points 7 hours ago

Kerbal is awesome!

Yes, that's right, Elon thinks Kerbal is awesome!

[RainDreamer]

Next time, you can just click permalink and give us the URL.

Also, we got another shoutout in the same thread when ask what Space X used for testing software(likely a joke, but still): http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk_ceocto_of_a_rocket_company_ama/cnfr2kl