Tesla playing David Bowie
David Bowie playing Tesla
Posted on 02/07/2018 10:04:13 AM PST by rktman
Elon Musk is the world’s greatest showman. His Tesla Roadster and a dummy astronaut blasts off on a super-giant rocket called Falcon Heavy, headed for Mars orbit with David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” blaring on the car radio. The astronaut is dubbed “Starman”, after another Bowie song. The words “Don’t Panic!” are on the dashboard.
Musk said that it took his team over three years to develop the space suit, because it not only had to be functional, it had to “look good”. To Musk, the spectacle is as important as the accomplishment. He understands that to be truly successful, you not only need to produce successful results, you need to excite people’s imaginations.
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Tesla playing David Bowie
David Bowie playing Tesla
“For a two year flught to Mars it isn’t such a bad idea is it?”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734656/
Twilight Zone “The Lonely”. Convict on a penal asteroid, gets a female robot companion. Very good idea in lonely space on an asteroid. On a journey through space to Mars, an even better idea.
Definitely worth a watch. Makes you think, if you have an open mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtYWkTEDgjM
Welcome to the start of the Second American Century!
Kicking ass since 1776!
On that middle section loss, that might have been a calculated risk to push an ultimate capability boundary. The center appeared to exceed the typical velocity profile for staging purposes.
The orbit actually achieved seems to extend to near Ceres in the asteroid belt, which is substantially beyond Mars orbit. Maybe this was advertising aimed for the Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries, and so forth type of operation?
Good thing there is no oxygen out there... at least it won’t catch fire.
Small probability of 2) but more likely a solar system orbit for eons out to beyond what can be predicted.
Or much water which is where those Li batteries get into trouble if breached (if the car is actually complete, which I doubt).
It would be a carjacking that would change my mind...
China a giant stuffed Panda.
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That will have to wait until Xi passes away ...
too bad you missed the live lunar landings et al. not to mention the sight of a Saturn V ascending.
Reports have this waste of money is suppose to orbit the sun.
And it is not going to orbit the Sun any more than the Earth does. It was intended to orbit Mars, but they overshot the burn point, and it is now headed toward the Astroid Belt.
4. Its headed toward the Astroid belt
‘Is it going to: 1) ‘soft land’ on the surface of Mars; 2) impact directly into the surface of Mars creating a crater with a bunch of junk at the bottom; 3) go into orbit and eventually burn up entering the atmosphere; or 4) go past Mars and keep on going “to infinity and beyond?”’
Actually none of the above. It was intended to stay in a Hohmann transfer orbit between Earth’s orbit and Mars’ orbit indefinitely, but apparently it got more delta-V than intended and will make it as far as the asteroid belt. The claim is that it could remain in orbit for as long as a billion years, I’m rather skeptical of that...
Don't forget the Japanese.
As I have a carpentry hobby, my son-in-law asked me to make a couple rockets out of wood that looked almost identical to your picture, about a foot high. He painted them, and inserted pictures of his daughters (my grandchildren) in the porthole cutouts. My daughter and her husband like vintage toys and cartoons, no doubt the drawing he gave me was based on some Japanese toy rocket.
That is an actual unretouched screenshot taken from a GoPro attached to a stick below a high altitude balloon launched by a girl for her 7th grade science project.
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