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rosebudthesled
Can we star telling American President that is the fastest American Presidents can go?!
ryvius1
Chris hadfield is the best
ramram70
*spaceter. Where we're going, we don't need roads.
noncommital
Better be some fuzzy dice hanging from the rear view mirror....
teardropivyyearofthetiger
Canadian Chris Hadfield ladies & Gentlemen
ginevra
I love Chris Hadfield so much.
berneigh
I’m just finishing up his book right now. Amazing dude.
Owlberightback
While watching the starman stream, I noticed a TON of things flying by behind the Tesla. Is this debris? Other satellites? Dust?
djsdkdjsk
could be all of those.
Texshi
How did it get so far already? I thought it took like 3 days to get to the Moon..? and like a month to Mars?
darthmaullie
it is still very much near earth. the 'third burn' was successful, meaning the intended orbit to the A.B. has been reached
clawthewolf
Basically, it hasn't gotten that far yet, but it's orbit is on that track
rouverius
He's really made the grade. What I want to know is whose shirts he wears.
stormegedendarklordofall
But it's time to guide the capsule if you dare
Icametobrowse
Can you heeeeear Me?
adadsupreme
Are you the papers?!
torillatavataan
...for heeeeeeereeee am I sitting in a sports car; faaaaaaar above the world..
AllTheGoodOnesWereAlreadyTaken
Planet earth is blue
sarabear
and there’s nothing I can do...
aaaaaandimdone
Bow chi chica bow cha *CLAP CLAP*
iamthisguy247
Probably his own shirts. I mean he can afford to buy his own clothes.
CanadianOneDollarCoin
At first I thought you meant his own label of clothes. +1
Munnin41
Rignak
IThinkYouGotAFineBrainJack
"Yeah, well, but what's the fastest car on Earth?" -every other (salty) car manufacturer
djsdkdjsk
when it just launched off, it was still on Earth, but going very fast.
davidthemonkey
well when the new roadster is in production it will be that....
SharkyMcSnarkface
To be fair that’s a pretty valid question all things considered.
djsdkdjsk
when it just launched off, it was still on Earth, but going very fast.
sheepybloke
Do we know how long the car livestream is going to go? How will they compensate for the long delay?
davidthemonkey
aparently it only has 12 hours of battery...
djsdkdjsk
kinda stupid cause we could've had a chance to get cool af pictures of asteroids, the moon, mars assuming we'd pass closed enough.
davidthemonkey
ye ands its not like there is a massssive battery in the car or anything.....>.>
djsdkdjsk
what would the massive battery have to do with anything if you mean car battery? pretty sure the camera itself has a battery for only 12 1/2
djsdkdjsk
12 hours (2/2)
squeakyleeks
It was a bit smug throwing his Tesla into the mix, but if I were Elon Musk and did the impossible according to NASA, I'd be smug as hell.
doctorbocker
We need to set some rules for space advertising though. As soon as possible.
HazyWasabi
It was a great PR move. The launch would've been just as momentous and exciting with a hunk of concrete but Tesla gives it widespread appeal
Seanspeed
Wasn't smug, just good marketing.
Ravenuser
In his position I'd probably be in that spacesuit.
IMayOrMayNotHaveTroubleFindingAndOrChoosingAUsername
It's hardly smug. The alternative would be to put a randomly shaped piece of junk iron in its place. The top couldn't be empty.
Wombatant
To be fair, I'd have gladly chipped in some money if the alternative was to send a massive iron cock and balls to space.
Sm9yCg
Well, you know what they say about sports cars....
djsdkdjsk
with the starman dummy's mouth holding onto one of them
FernandoRumdebum
It wasn't smug in the slightest. The man is a passionate geek who did it thinking it'd be a hoot, and also to say "I have so much faith 1/
FernandoRumdebum
2/ in what I'm doing I'm gonna put my own car in!". It was also a bit of fun. You do a disservice to the man by calling him smug
doctorbocker
Actually, he expected it to fail. Even with the core crash, the operation was a wild success.
DirkNurple
What part was meant to be impossible?
IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur
Landing the two Falcons simultaneously was probably part of it.
ajpimpsalll
Yeah. I'm wondering this as well.
taco1910
They gave it a 50/50 of blowing up and sending the Tesla to ash
7degreesfromkevinbacon
Never tell me the odds!
TRUCKERm
So literally not impossible, not even improbable.
rayhatesu
by NASA safety standards, that was on the side of improbable. they don't launch these days with less than 75% safety certainty.
warp10
That's really going to screw with future space archaeologists
rbudrick
Space archaeology is a real thing. https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/02/is-space-the-next-frontier-for-archaeology/
LtKifKroker
Idk, pretty sure in 200 years, someone will go out to find the car and keep it as a collectible/classic
DukePhelan
I was really hoping it was headed for deep space just to really fuck with some aliens in 400 millions years or so. " You found a what?!"
SalmonTheWise
"What an odd creature" doing autopsy on a dummy.
cuddlydingo
But it'll make perfect sense for the new space religion.
Madethisusernameforonereason
In 400 years there'll be some big PR mission to rescue Space Man from his heliocentric orbit. It'll be the most perfectly preserved car.
MrDustey
It'd probably be pretty terrible by then actually. Without the earth's protective layers it's being blasted by solar radiation. 1/2
djsdkdjsk
space junk too, even if theres no visible damage at first glance, theres probably gonna be a shit ton of tiny sharp dents or pokes
MrDustey
Same as the flag on the moon, which is now bleached white because of that reason. Also it'll be pelted with space debree 2/2
Madethisusernameforonereason
Ah, good point and well made. /bow
djsdkdjsk
sorry to be one of them but, debris*
MrDustey
I actually meant to write febreze. They launch their old cans into space and now they're going to destroy that poor car
djsdkdjsk
how does febreze fucking get a rocket?
Crombs
We won't need archaeologists in the future, we're in an age where everything is written down or saved on a computer somewhere.
dunaway5
So did a lot of cultures, but their language is completely lost or their writings destroyed.
Madethisusernameforonereason
Until magnetic storage all fails and digital storage degrades too far ;-)
DirtRockets
SalmonTheWise
I'm guessing you never had a hard drive fail.
StaalTheNotQuiteSoUndefeatedAnymoreButNevermind
We lose something like 60% of data due to file formats changingand the hardware its stored on not being compatible with more modern machines
djsdkdjsk
its kinda ridiculous of the not compatible. like THEN FUCKING MAKE SOME COMPATIBLE HARDWARE FOR IT IN THE FUTURE
StaalTheNotQuiteSoUndefeatedAnymoreButNevermind
A year
warp10
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5d/90/51/5d9051546009a2c890d9d03ef233daad.jpg /3
Xenolith166
Well to be fair most of those planets would be consumed by novas
IAmNotTheDevil
We still use solid money, wear clothes, drive cars etc etc. As long as there are physical objects, archaeologists will exist.
Crombs
The jobs of archaologists today is to interpret, based on items and objects, how things were prior to record-keeping becoming the norm
SuperiorPosterior
We'd need them if language changes in some great yet abstract way, and we lose the connections (ie homo sapiens vs neanderthal languages).
tevyethemad
That's not true at all. Records only show the official story, archeological interpretation can show the actual story or stories.
warp10
Besides, we'll hopefully need xeno-archaeologists to examine extinct alien species we come across one day. /2
warp10
I meant after the cataclysmic fall of civilisation and the rise of the next. Or aliens.
saalor
So... After Thursday?
warp10
Wtf is happening on Thursday!? What do you know that we don't!?
KillingTlme
Probably closer to Friday, when North Korea bombs the Olympic Games.
Randomman96
Nah, next Tuesday. Just like every other.
warp10
*squints* Good God they're everywhere...
Hetuni
Ayyy, I see what you did there.