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pinkypiesbutt
Douche-X
Kazpur81S
What’s that thing with Seinfeld???
BQZip
WTF?!? MARS is getting a Tesla before me?!?!
Velexis
I kinda want to be so fantastically wealthy that I can literally make a custom, 1 of a kind car.. And then launch it to space.
BilldeTurlock
Hope the tires are deflated so they won't 'splode!
SilvioTheGreat
If only...if only...
bachterman
why not send taters 'n shit?
NotIrony
"if it doesn't blow up on ascent" Risk management 101 from a CEO who's actually good at the EO part.
wyatt8740
also he's aware that batteries sometimes combust with rapidly changing altitude
Noahbalboa82
Fuck yeah, real world Tony Stark is the best!
agressivemischief
Ol' Musky at it again.
DrNick
But will it have a solar panel to mitigate battery drain?
NasaXD2018
Dude he copied my dream idea he is going to send a tesla roadster to mars, my dream idea is a flying laborghini that can go anywherein space
sassybeckalicious
i'm hearing the magic school bus theme for some reason
bigfattroll
"So you're saying all we gotta do is make it to mars orbit to finally get a tesla pops?"
qeii
Doesn't Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy have the words "Don't Panic " emblazoned on the cover or some shit? Why the sign?
NemoThorx
The fictional one does. The novel written by Douglas Adams tends to have "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on the cover instead.
americanhenchman
My leather bound copy has Don't Panic on it.
high2
Can confirm. but they also have the words "Don't Panic" on the backside usually
NemoThorx
Based on my own HHG collection (more than a dozen different editions, I'm that kind of completist), I'd say usually not.
ThefluteCaptainPicardplayedfirstinhisimaginationtheninreallife
It must be nice to be rich. Especially when you can do this on the investors' dime.
SirButcher
Normally they would use a chunk of metal. He sacrifices a car and creates a huge PR stunt. It generates more revenue.
pyrrhlis
The investors benefit too
adaylateandaeuroshort
Since it's fine to use that kind of money for what is essentially a dick measuring contest, why not carve a dick in the moon instead?
BearlyLurking
What do you mean by kind of money? It's a test flight (higher chance of RUD) and it's Musk's Tesla Roadster.
adaylateandaeuroshort
If it succeeds all it will be is an eternal reminder of a billionaires vanity and self promotion, in orbit.If it was all about test,no need1
adaylateandaeuroshort
to personalize/glorify/make an eternal hint to a company owner.That is what I mean.It's not about science,but who has the greatest dong2/2
adaylateandaeuroshort
If ANY of you STILL dont get it, think about how cool would you be about leaving a huge Microsoft/Trump?whatever logo in orbit, for "test"
BearlyLurking
If Microsoft's goal was to improve mankind's chance of survivability by bringing us to mars, I'd be happy to support their logo in space.
tiderfish
What a waste. I wonder if it detaches.
flyingdutchfrenchman
Why ? They have to test the falcon heavy and can't do it with a commercial payload or anything with value.
marsgoose
I think this is great, I hate the musky circlejerk and don't think he is a tech-Jesus but I hope this works out.
marsgoose
Just for promotion if anything else, I don't even own any TSLA
BiscuitJesus
Absolutely for promotion, yes he's about getting to Mars but he's also about making it profitable. Which isn't a bad thing really.
macthelost
He’s not at all a tech genius, most of the stuff he uses is just off the shelf. He is however a getting shit done genius.
sspringfelder
You sass that hoopy Elon Musk? Now there's a frood who really knows where his towel is at.
razmann
he's gonna land it on mars so he has something to drive when he gets there
bignose55
Moving vans won't cut it where he's going
mondayaddams
When he gets home*
Sebastian987654
Calm down Eobard
DickPicEnthusiast
He should probably deflate the tires, lest they blow up in space.
CondorConnor
When's the launch date?
12rt2345g342563
Sometime in January.
IHaveASiriusCyberneticsCorporationGenuinePeoplePersonality
I don't believe you, him, or anyone.
NlessWonder
I don’t believe you.
CaptainSl00000000w
I've got a friend on the inside. It's real. It's happening.
dwilson0725
I belive you fall under "anyone". He doesn't believe you. lol
GodEmperorGummy
He made a tunneling company as a joke. He will do this, even if it's the last thing he will ever do on this Earth. (Which might not be long)
richardson1701
Well, it started as a joke, then he decided he wanted an underground lair, and made the process very boring and serious.
reprise108
Who hurt you?
RichManSCTV0
He did it
FartsSmellBad
Even me?
IHaveASiriusCyberneticsCorporationGenuinePeoplePersonality
Depends on your post, but I can't smell.
krapmyself
Especially you.
Iamthemonkeymansowhatevercats
Holy shit. These usernames
ObsceneTentacularInsertions
username checks out
TheActualDonKnotts
I don't believe that you don't believe.
TheVampireDante
So he's planning an updated Heavy Metal style launch? https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0
TempestWest
I was thinking the exact same thing!
MegaDeuce
*Gets killed 20 seconds later.
trekkie
It’s ok the us government was quick to say he can’t do it
davebeastly
Because they own space?
teardropivyyearofthetiger
Fake news
NemoThorx
Cite?
trekkie
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/9/16742136/spacex-elon-musk-tesla-roadster-falcon-heavy-mars-international-space-law. COSPAR is the issue
Katahdin4207
So real question.... If it's an electric car, does that mean he could literally drive it on Mars?
NemoThorx
I would assume so. Not that the terrain would likely suit, and it's a long way from a charging station...
bignose55
Just land it near Curiosity and swap the batteries, it'll be fine
CyberAkuma
My guess is the lack of an atmosphere might cause overheating issues, since heat will be much harder to vent with no air to vent it into.
SaveThePanzer
Mars has an atmosphere though. If anyone's driving it, it will have hit the planetary surface.
SirButcher
It has, but veeeeery little. Basically it is almost vacuum.
RobErtE87
How will it be in deep space when it's in mars orbit? Is Mars orbit deep space? For me deep space sounds like outside our solar system
ISayFuckAllTheTime
It's almost like this is fake.
RedIronCrown
Deep space is generally considered to be outside any planet or moon's sphere of influence.
Retromorphic
Good question. @NASA?
humaneffigy
Deep space is just like, far. It should refer to what you are thinking and what we know as deep space should just be called "far".
bignose55
Most dictionaries I've checked pretty much list it as synonymous with "outer space". So "not planetary/orbital", essentially.
Janusha
Im guessing its as far out from any planet that you wont fall back down on it. Out of the gravitational reach.
saiboogu
It will not enter orbit around Mars. It will travel as far out as Mars' orbit around the sun. Reasons are too complex for Imgur posts.
boingloings
For me deep space sounds like op's mom's vagina
lCommentInMostlyGIFFormat
blackmagic12345
Deep space is anywhere beyond the moon atm
Janusha
Its just outside the earths gravity. Deep space is so far out that you wont fall back down on earth.
SithElephant
The orbit is probably round the sun, to the same outer distance as Mars. Mars is in the wrong place for an ideal launch.
SithElephant
Ideal opportunities are every two years or so.
eatened
There's also the problem of planetary protection, I doubt they'd risk contamination in case insertion into orbit failed & car fell to Mars.
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Groetgaffel
It won't be in orbit around Mars. It'll be in a similar orbit as Mars around the sun.
icommentwithasurprisedfacealot
Mars I believe is the closest, or second closest after venus, planet to us. So in our solar system but still millions of miles out
12rt2345g342563
Deep space usually just means away from the immediate planet-moon area. Not interstellar space.
spookyactionatadistance
Inside our solar system is interplanetary space. Close to earth you have low to high orbit and past a certain point we call it deep space
spookyactionatadistance
2) but it is still very close to earth in regards to the size of our galaxy.
moonkin
it's is a relative term with respect to whichever planet you're currently on. this mission will mark the first time we needed to discuss it.
CoBr2
Not really, we've done loads of deep space probes to other planets/comets/celestial dwarfs. It just doesn't come up much cuz no one cares
nothebees
*no one Ceres.
germerica
deep space is for sure a relative term tho. It's deep relative to earth, it will need to be constantly revised in the future.
CoBr2
Lol, we're still revising "leaving the solar system" because Voyager keeps hitting new distance records and we're trying to keep it relevant
WhatzitTooya
Voyager 1 is currently about to leave our solar system but NOW that someone shoots a car to mars we need to discuss it?
Rip42
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/9/9a/voyager_1.png
WhatzitTooya
Thats why I said >about< to leave, since it's hard to tell where the border is, but it will eventually be crossed.
pyrrhlis
Actually it’s been determined it has left, on June 25th of... a year.
Janusha
Im guessing deep space is so far out from any planet that you wont fall back down onto it.
aselfdefeatingattitude
It's Yancy's dance style.
NemoThorx
I think that's known as Interstellar space.
drakhavik
Interstellar means beyond the Solar (our) system. It would be interplanetary space, or deep space as it is beyond the Earth/Lunar system.
Optimixto
Oh, so it's not really deep space, more like "Im14andthisisdeep" space. Gotcha!
RobErtE87
about as deep as Jayden Smith
ScottBugVillain
Interstellar space is literally the space between stars, like outside the Oort Cloud.
xxFLYBOYxx
No, that is a movie, alright alright alriiight?
RobErtE87
will just be awkward, once we populate mars, to call satellites in mars orbit in deep space, but moon satellites are not in deep space.
ThatsMySecretCapImAlwaysHorny
It will be awkward once we populate mars, when the orbit decays and the car smashes into the surface on the colony.
NemoThorx
I suspect our definition of 'deep space' will change. Maybe to something like "beyond human inhabited planets or common routes between them"
Zandrake
I think it's a relativistic term. Living on Mars, satellites around Earth would be in deep space relative to your location.
Etranel
Just change the definition of Deep Space to be 'space beyond the natural satellite(s) of a human inhabited planet furthest from Earth.'
RobErtE87
ok, dictionary time: space well outside the earth's atmosphere and especially that part lying beyond the earth-moon system.I'll go with that
NemoThorx
works for me. (I didn't find any definitive answer in my own brief search, though NASA's "Deep Space Network" is a thing to consider too)
BishlamekGurpgork
I always thought it space that wasn't interstellar, but away from a dominant gravity source other than the sun, and in relative vacuum. (to
BishlamekGurpgork
exclude space close to the sun and dense solar winds.) But that's just my feeling about what it should be.