Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity

Twitter ^ | 12/01/17 | Elon Musk

[Moonman62]

Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent. 6:22 PM - 1 Dec 2017

[Moonman62]

Musk says the payload for the Falcon Heavy demo this January will be his Tesla car lunched into Mars orbit.

Let the Musk hate on FR resume.

[eldoradude]

Good to see our tax dollars go for something worthwhile. ;)

I would love to be in competition with him.

[bigbob]

Hey if I could have as many Teslas as I wanted, I’d damn sure send one to Mars!

[Charles Martel]

It makes sense to have a Tesla on Mars. Probably be a real bitch finding unleaded premium up there.

[JennysCool]

Exactly. Love how the guy makes his smug, chuckling, look-at-how-rakishly-cool-I-am tweets backed by our money.

[allendale]

Tesla can’t get its production lines in state of the art fully staffed factories to produce cars. The company is burning $8,000/minute and is essentially non productive. Its founder and CEO Musk has not corrected the problems . Instead he cavorts with Rahm Emmanuel about boring tunnels in Chicago and sending a car to orbit Mars. All very strange. Milton Friedman was right. Any economic entity that require special government direct or indirect subsidies is doomed individually to failure just as socialism collectively is doomed to failure.

[RegulatorCountry]

He’s entitled to do what he wants I suppose, but it might be more beneficial to use the payload capacity for something other than a tribute to his own vanity.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Musk says the payload for the Falcon Heavy demo this January will be his Tesla car lunched into Mars orbit.

Let the Musk hate on FR resume.

I like Musk - he's ambitious and he dreams big. He's one of the few technology entrepreneurs around who seems to have something more interesting in mind than just another social media site or app.

I wish he could fulfill his ambitions without my tax dollars, but considering how much of my taxes are squandered on social welfare nonsense and sheer waste and how little Musk's subsidies amount to by comparison, I can live with it.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The primary sentence of that post makes less sense than the spinning satellites atop the early Vanguard rockets...... 8<) And I’ve been watching them go up since 1961, age 5.

[4Liberty]

[HonkyTonkMan]

Cost to launch payload into space: $10,000 / lb

Weight of Tesla Roadster: ~2,732 lbs

Approximate cost to send Tesla Roadster into space: $27,000,000

I’m sure someone will say he can do it cheaper than NASA ten years ago. To that I say he should; isn’t that why he is doing spacex.

His time would be better spent studying Ford manufacturing techniques or Toyota’s TPS for how to get a factory running at full-rate production. He might be a thinker, but he’s not a production operations guy.

[Southack]

Slick!

[Southack]

https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo

[Nifster]

Musk is insane

[wardaddy]

He hustles...just look at his chick record....color me impressed....fine fine looking girls....hell yeah

He looks metero but he horndogs with the best of em....

[Robe]

uh guys? I think he was joking about the car........

[right way right]

I heard that hanging out with Musk is a real hoot.

I also think he should pay back the subsidies someday.

If he did that, he could end up President.

[discostu]

It’s a little on the nose but alright.

[gogeo]

They look a little used...

[ctdonath2]

“I also think he should pay back the subsidies someday.”

He does.
Personally paid $2.5B in taxes last year.
Between that and the profits others made, more is paid in taxes than Musk’s ventures get in subsidies.