GRtak
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So this happens later today. Waste of a decent Roadster if you ask me.
NecroJoe;n3545584 said:It would have been better to launch something useful into space with this test, but Elon's roadster was likely much cheaper than any sort of research satellite they could have launched, no?
That said...I can't deny how striking the videos are of the open-top car in space.
GRtak;n3545591 said:
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prizrak;n3545598 said:Well is it doing anything useful?
NecroJoe;n3545601 said:Even if someone hated Tesla and Elon with all of their being, I mean...they butt-first landed two rockets the height of the Statue of Liberty, side-by-side and simultaneously (rockets that have already BEEN to space, mind you), and shot an open-top red convertible towards Mars with nods to Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy and David Bowie...maybe I'm nothing more than a 11-year-old boy, but all of that is fuckin' cool. :lol:
JCE;n3545604 said:It's now space debris, which is trash.
prizrak;n3545590 said:Talk about space trash
bone;n3545613 said:they need some cargo to create balast
and like any company would risk developing a satelite, only for it blow up during a testflight of a rocket
and no insurance company would've covered it
but they should've just sent trump...just tell him he'd be back soon, and leave him there!
It's a cool stunt but if you think critically about it it makes little sense. The "car" is basically just space trash now. Boosters landing is geek boner inducing but that means that they have a lower cargo capacity due to having to accelerate all that fuel that is not being used for boosters. There is a reason why neither NASA nor the Russians land boosters that way and it has nothing to do with technology considering fully automated landers have existed since at least early 90s.NecroJoe;n3545601 said:Even if someone hated Tesla and Elon with all of their being, I mean...they butt-first landed two rockets the height of the Statue of Liberty, side-by-side and simultaneously (rockets that have already BEEN to space, mind you), and shot an open-top red convertible towards Mars with nods to Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy and David Bowie...maybe I'm nothing more than a 11-year-old boy, but all of that is fuckin' cool. :lol:
GRtak;n3545608 said:It is what humans do. We go some place and leave our mark, often in the worst possible way. At least this was done with style. It will also be an interesting museum piece someday. I wonder what the first cars in space will be worth. The Lunar Rovers, and a Tesla Roadster, who would have thunk?
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