So his Roadster melt then? I hear it can get pretty hot in high earth orbit. I bet the plastic dropped off it like a ripe plum?
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You know the plates they stuck on the Voyager spacecraft. (I would post an image except it shows male and female full frontal nudity and this is a bit of an all-ages forum; Terms and Conditions etc.)?
Musk should have had that engraved of the front windshield..........
Of course. It's a golden record with human history
Much more serious than the roadster of Mr. Musk
Of course. It's a golden record with human history
Much more serious than the roadster of Mr. Musk
I can imagine the aliens being very perplexed;
Saying in Vogon (and telepathically) to each other, "wot no fuzzy dice!??"
(Plainly a primitive species! Fire up the dehumanisation beam!)
NASA is now listing the electric car in its database of celestial objects.
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The plates you're thinking of were on Pioneer 10 and 11. Voyager 1 and 2 had the Golden Records. Which...is still a missed opportunity, because there's a third Golden Record still in a museum on Earth they could have put on the car before they launched it.
Very interesting. But for how long ? The life of the roadster seems weak in duration
So many of those. There's NO Fir Tree air freshener. NO bumper sticker (as far as I can tell) saying, "How's my driving? Dial 555 Newton" and I bet there's NO water in the windscreen wash either.
Very interesting. But for how long ? The life of the roadster seems weak in duration
Agreed. It probably won't survive the asteroid belt. Might though ..
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A couple of issues with the third 'golden record'. First it is not really understood what it is; by this i-pod generation and second: It would not fit into the C.D. player.
You are entirely correct and I stand corrected. o7!
I have over 400 vinyl still in the garage but I don't have a working turntable to play them at the moment and it's been that way for two decades. Is this the tech of which you speak?
hehe. I think Musk is more Tony Stark than Drax. I left this clip in another thread but it makes me tingle in my special place:
[video=youtube_share;Z_kfM-BmVzQ]https://youtu.be/Z_kfM-BmVzQ[/video]
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As much as I'm all for the private sector getting into space haulage, isn't anyone at all bothered that he has basically just shot more junk up into space? If there was a purpose other than vanity I might understand, but he has just gone to great expense to litter our neighbourhood.
I don't get all the applause he's getting. Had he sent up something that served a purpose I might understand, but I don't see it as being any different than dumping a burned out car in a field.
Am I being a cynical a-hole?
I don't get all the applause he's getting. Had he sent up something that served a purpose I might understand, but I don't see it as being any different than dumping a burned out car in a field.
Am I being a cynical a-hole?
I suspect you meant satelite.
I think the records are different ones in the Voyager 1 and 2.
Meh, AFAWK there are no aliens inside the solar system.
This situation is the fault of Tj
As opposed to a similar mass test payload of metal and concrete? what would be the ethical difference then, either way it had to be a test mass.