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Old 02-06-2018, 07:57 PM
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Breaking News ... Don’t Panic

Elon Musk’s alter ego and his personal Tesla roadster are now in Earh orbit .... heading to Mars!





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Old 02-06-2018, 09:59 PM
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I've got to be honest, I fail to see the point in such an exercise. Perhaps because I found physical cosmology dreadfully boring in undergrad, but I've never gotten that excited over anything Spacex has done.

What exactly is Mr. Musk trying to prove here?
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Old 02-07-2018, 12:40 AM
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I've got to be honest, I fail to see the point in such an exercise. Perhaps because I found physical cosmology dreadfully boring in undergrad, but I've never gotten that excited over anything Spacex has done.

What exactly is Mr. Musk trying to prove here?
Basically they needed a simulated load to put in their new heavy lift rocket for testing. This new rocket allows for larger satellites, station components or trans-planetary spacecraft to be pulled out of the gravity well. Honestly if this was NASA it likely would of been a fancy lump of concrete....which is kinda boring even though it does the job.
Elon knew there was a 50/50 that this rocket on its first launch was either going to blow up on the pad or it was going to make it to space, so if it was going to make it, why not stuff something stupid inside as the test load? Why not his car?

Also SpaceX is a private company, unlike NASA which just needs to keep congress happy. Being able to not only launch the largest rocket since the Saturn V (and cost 1/10 that of the competitors rocket) AND doing so with the boss's car inside is an amazing PR stunt which also shows confidence to the investors which Elon needs for the BFR project.
To scale just how publicized this was, the youtube stream at one point had nearly two million active watchers and EVERY radio and TV station around here after the launch was talking about it.
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Old 02-07-2018, 01:47 PM
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Those pictures remind me of the Corvette in space scene in the 1970s animated movie "Heavy Metal" .....
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HEAVY Metal........Exactly !!!!!

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HEAVY Metal........Exactly !!!!!
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Old 03-13-2018, 07:12 PM
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HEAVY Metal........Exactly !!!!!
I doubt it, as far as I know all Corvette bodies are made of fibreglass.
Something like a '76 Olds 98 would be more appropriate.
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Old 02-06-2018, 10:35 PM
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I never thought I’d see a car in space! LOL. This was a test to prove out the heavy lift rocket systems, the first launch. He said instead of putting a load of concrete in the cargo area which was boring, he wanted to have a little fun with it, so he actually installed his personal Tesla (not to mention his company manufactures Tesla’s) and now his ego will be fed in perpetuity. This thing is going to orbit the Sun and Mars for thousands of years.

The heavy lift rocket system will ultimately send humans to Mars and beyond. It’s a private company. He’s doing this because he can.
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I never thought I’d see a car in space! LOL.
Wait a minute.....I saw a 59 Corvette in space in the movie Heavy Metal...at the beginning of the movie....
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Wait a minute.....I saw a 59 Corvette in space in the movie Heavy Metal...at the beginning of the movie....

So now since the thread truly has come full circle , maybe we can get back to talking about ponies ? ....... NAAA , just kidding

you just watch , anytime soon there will be a government grant to study the effects of thread drift on the participant's views of the title topic .
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He's sending it to Mars so he'll have something to drive when he gets there.
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Old 02-07-2018, 06:28 PM
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He's sending it to Mars so he'll have something to drive when he gets there.
Mars rover 2.0 complete with software glitches and needless government funding.

They needed to bring some bacon up there to become an honorary muppet (Pigs in SPACE, space, space).
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He's sending it to Mars so he'll have something to drive when he gets there.
They fired the third stage last night. They had doubts they were going to have the fuel or power to place it into a Mars orbit so they ran the tank to empty. It's going to fly around mars, come back past earth and then be flung out of our solar system as it uses the planet as a gravitiational slingshot.

It's going to be interesting. In two other directions you have Voyager 1 and 2 with its golden records and the hard work of some of finest science the engineers of a generation could assemble......then you go the other way and you have a sports car with a space suit in the drivers seat.
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It's going to fly around mars, come back past earth and then be flung out of our solar system as it uses the planet as a gravitiational slingshot.
I wonder how well it will handle such a trip. The Enterprise took a severe beating doing the same sort of thing, but that was around the sun so who knows.
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