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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SciFi in the 1950s had it right
Need to go back and watch some of those old movies with rockets landing on their tail.
Really cool video
Yep, nailed it
Wouldn’t the tires explode? Or were they fully deflated?
Probably had the valve stems removed -- or, were otherwise vented...
Lol, it’s exactly like Heavy Metal!!
#2 Fruit Loops
I’m really concerned that the Tesla may not been designed to deep space emission standards...If the asteroid belt begins to warm up, we’ll know who to blame...
This proves Elon Musk isn’t New Mexican, otherwise the Tesla would make it the whole 34 million miles to Mars with it’s turn signal on.
Ha. I drive Paseo del Norte darn near daily. I don't think most New Mexicans in the metro area know what a turn signal is these days...
Ah yes, the old “merge by feel” technique.
“It’s been done before
1981 Heavy Metal movie introduction RADAR RIDER by RIGGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KXgFpguE0";
That’s why the car in space looked familiar.
Why not launch our trash into the sun... instead of sending it to mars
Or David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”!
“Ground control to Major Tom...”
Yep - the flat-earth nuts are frothing at the mouth and losing their minds...
But what’s really disturbing - is that apparently we have some of those nutty, anti-logic, non-thinking flat-earth nuts here on FR. So much for a web site with folks of a more thinking culture...
#1 - owner is the CEO of the company... so warranty isn’t an issue in that regard.
#2 - the care is a 2008 model - so was way out of warranty anyway...
Every time I see ‘Inconceivable!’
I think about the guy from Princess Bride.
Not having to rely on Russians to get payloads into space - priceless.
Wrong, fucktard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVQdSGQajj0
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