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Post by rubl on Feb 7, 2018 10:40:18 GMT 7
Well, Elon Musk did it again. A Falcon Heavy launched, his red Tesla roadster with a Man(nequin) at the wheel on the long way to Mars.
and of course, in the middle of the dashboard a sign DON'T PANIC
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Post by me on Feb 7, 2018 12:28:42 GMT 7
Well, Elon Musk did it again. A Falcon Heavy launched, his red Tesla roadster with a Man(nequin) at the wheel on the long way to Mars. and of course, in the middle of the dashboard a sign DON'T PANICBud did they pack a towel |
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Post by AyG on Feb 7, 2018 15:55:10 GMT 7
I really enjoyed The Register headline for this story: "My God, it's full of cars".
(For those who don't recognise the allusion, it's to 2001: A Space Odyssey - My God, it's full of stars.)
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Post by rubl on Feb 7, 2018 18:04:08 GMT 7
I really enjoyed The Register headline for this story: "My God, it's full of cars". (For those who don't recognise the allusion, it's to 2001: A Space Odyssey - My God, it's full of stars.) Someone should give him a ticket for speeding  |
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Post by rubl on Feb 7, 2018 22:03:09 GMT 7
President Trump has been heard from. Mind you I wonder if someone dared to tell him Elon Musk is a South African Canadian who only recently moved to the States. "President Donald Trump has praised Elon Musk, writing: "Congratulations @elonmusk and @spacex on the successful #FalconHeavy launch. This achievement, along with @nasa’s commercial and international partners, continues to show American ingenuity at its best!"" Please also hide the wiki page from Trump "Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity.[25] His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by establishing a human colony on Mars." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk |
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Post by 3 on Feb 7, 2018 22:18:01 GMT 7
What you doing today dad?
I'm gonna mount the car to a rocket and send it Mars
Ahhhh alright, can I have some money for a quarter of midget gems?
Yeah there's some coppers on the mantlepiece
Thanks dad
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Post by Soutpeel on Feb 12, 2018 9:32:42 GMT 7
President Trump has been heard from. Mind you I wonder if someone dared to tell him Elon Musk is a South African Canadian who only recently moved to the States. "President Donald Trump has praised Elon Musk, writing: "Congratulations @elonmusk and @spacex on the successful #FalconHeavy launch. This achievement, along with @nasa’s commercial and international partners, continues to show American ingenuity at its best!"" Please also hide the wiki page from Trump "Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity.[25] His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by establishing a human colony on Mars." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_MuskIf you call moving to the US in 1995 , And taking his US citizenship in 2002 recent ? |
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Post by rubl on Feb 12, 2018 11:40:10 GMT 7
President Trump has been heard from. Mind you I wonder if someone dared to tell him Elon Musk is a South African Canadian who only recently moved to the States. "President Donald Trump has praised Elon Musk, writing: "Congratulations @elonmusk and @spacex on the successful #FalconHeavy launch. This achievement, along with @nasa’s commercial and international partners, continues to show American ingenuity at its best!"" Please also hide the wiki page from Trump "Musk has stated that the goals of SolarCity, Tesla, and SpaceX revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity.[25] His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the "risk of human extinction" by establishing a human colony on Mars." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_MuskIf you call moving to the US in 1995 , And taking his US citizenship in 2002 recent ? It's a matter of him being FIRST generation American. Seems to some that's the important distinction  |
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Post by Soutpeel on Feb 12, 2018 11:54:52 GMT 7
If you call moving to the US in 1995 , And taking his US citizenship in 2002 recent ? It's a matter of him being FIRST generation American. Seems to some that's the important distinction One could argue with his mother being Canadian born and bred, he is not first a generation North American |
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Post by rubl on Feb 12, 2018 11:57:41 GMT 7
It's a matter of him being FIRST generation American. Seems to some that's the important distinction One could argue with his mother being Canadian born and bred, he is not first a generation North American That's totally beside the point and Canadians dislike it to be called North American if I remember correctly. |
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Post by rubl on Feb 16, 2018 22:27:44 GMT 7
Latest update: "The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets On February 6th, 2018 SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster on a Mars crossing orbit. We perform N-body simulations to determine the fate of the object over the next several million years, under the relevant perturbations acting on the orbit. The orbital evolution is initially dominated by close encounters with the Earth. The first close encounter with the Earth will occur in 2091. The repeated encounters lead to a random walk that eventually causes close encounters with other terrestrial planets and the Sun. Long-term integrations become highly sensitive to the initial conditions after several such close encounters. By running a large ensemble of simulations with slightly perturbed initial conditions, we estimate the probability of a collision with Earth and Venus over the next one million years to be 6% and 2.5%, respectively. We estimate the dynamical lifetime of the Tesla to be a few tens of millions of years." arxiv.org/abs/1802.04718 |
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Post by pathumseb on Feb 17, 2018 12:50:17 GMT 7
Just what space needs, more junk! As I understand it he wants to put a poly tunnel on Mars. Bit depressing one of the first things we put on it will be plastic
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Post by rubl on Feb 17, 2018 14:10:58 GMT 7
Just what space needs, more junk! As I understand it he wants to put a poly tunnel on Mars. Bit depressing one of the first things we put on it will be plastic Yeah, pity the roadster's GPS is a wee bit off. It at least has some bio-degradable carbon parts which also deteriorate nicely with harsh unfiltered UV Sunlight. Allegedly that is. |
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Post by rubl on Dec 16, 2018 19:54:47 GMT 7
It's that time of the year when we look back in wonder "But where is this vehicle? The current location is 208,637,551 miles (335,769,695 km, 2.244 AU) from Earth, moving away from Earth at a speed of 23,393 mi/h (37,647 km/h, 10.46 km/s). ... Assuming the battery still works, Starman has listened to Space Oddity 84,873 times since launch in one ear, and to Is there Life On Mars? 114,363 times in the other ear. ..." www.whereisroadster.com |
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