Posted on 02/07/2018 5:23:50 AM PST by C19fan
The most powerful rocket to leave Earth since the Apollo missions launched from Florida yesterday. The Falcon Heavy jumbo rocket, developed by flamboyant SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk, had a sole 'passenger' onboard - a mannequin named 'Starman' - who rode to space inside a Tesla roadster. Incredible real-time footage has emerged from inside the car showing stunning views of our planet sailing past its windscreen, as David Bowie's Life on Mars plays in the background.
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You are right. More of expressing my choice.
They don’t care, because it’s a 2008, so it’s out of warranty.
I think of the guy Nick Cage fired a rocket into near the end of The Rock.
I think of the guy Nick Cage fired a rocket into near the end of The Rock.
Given that it really looks like he deliberately mimicked the “Re-entry/Radar Rider” segment from Heavy Metal with the presence of the Starman mannequin and the convertible car, and included the message “Don’t Panic” on the car’s information display, it would have been perfectly in keeping to have the soundtrack be “Blue Danube”.
There is a “hot wheels” model with a small starman mounted to the dashboard.
I like everything about this - the development of a powerful new booster, the possibilities for the future that this opens up for US space efforts, and also the personal touches - Musk’s Tesla, the dummy with the space helmet on and David Bowie playing on loop.
I was wondering about that - it appears to me the thing has been in direct sunlight for quite a bit of time.
Google says that the temperature in Earth orbit swings from -250F to +250F. Out of orbit and farther out from the sun it drops to 3 degrees Kelvin, or -270 degrees Celsius. Crazy.
Doesn't matter.
There are still nut jobs out there that think Hillary won the election or that obama was born in Hawaii.
You can't convince some people of anything.
More fake footage of space, yawn.
Absolutely, must have been Musk’s motivation....
“The rocket firm has accidentally sent the car further into the solar system than was originally planned...”
Just wait until the Ringalordians from deep space Sector 87-RP-X12 get ahold of this thing and swap out the motor with a quantum zeta-micron-collision engine. There’ll be no keeping up with it in the quarter light-year. I just hope they don’t put lifts on it like they did with the Mars Observer (and you thought the Mars Observer was lost). Ruins the symmetry of the lines.
It’s GOING to void the warranty.
This looks so fake.
I thought Tires, even if they were flat, would blow out in space.
NASA had quite a challenge with this. And the radio must be fakery too - no LCD could withstand that vacuum. This is very strange indeed.
It’s cool, but I just wish it wasn’t my tax dollars paying for it.
the double landing looked too much like a simulation, to me.. but I was encouraged by the entire spectacle. Musk was wise with the visuals and I would imagine investors are flocking. Sure took the minds of many off the stock market attack. Brought to my mind all the liftoffs I watched in school when I was a wee puppy.
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