Elon Musk

Lost opportunity not to have a small bit of robotics in the car passenger so he could wave and move his head randomly. Looked like a dead guy.

I was wondering that if instead of burning heavy lift on a car, the test could have been used for something useful - like sending a camera and a drill to ‘Oumuamua. it's possible, but the orbital mechanics stink.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/11/10/project-lyra-sending-a-spacecraft-to-1ioumuamua-formerly-a2017-u1-the-interstellar-asteroid/

guys hate to be the bearer of bad new but elon musk fucked the rocket and died rip

seems aspirational when you write it like that

he died doing what he loved fucking a rocket and dying

that flat earth dude wherever, isn't that the thing

afaik that guy wants to die in a halfassed rocket launch and has appealed to flat earth people in order to fund his suicide rocker. good grift really

lol check this shit out, what cant elon musk do

The curvature of the Earth got people talking as photos and videos were shared of the SpaceX #FalconHeavy launch. https://t.co/Cod7JFblSI

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) February 6, 2018

thank u elon for finally proving real ppl and not government shills can show the earth curvy

real earths have curves

Elon and Tesla are doing its best to ensure my work days are never dull. But this is pretty awesome, I’ve had starman gently spinning all day long on my second screen, it’s very relaxing.

#imwithFET

Wow, lots of activity since last night, as though a) this is the first time anyone pointed a funny lens at the earth, or b) the imagery in any way contradicts modern FET. If it were that simple, who wouldn't already be convinced?

— Flat Earth Today (@FlatEarthToday) February 7, 2018

What do they regard as a "funny" lens, I wonder? Non-rectilinear? The long focal length lenses folks shoot with from the ISS are rectilinear. I really don't want to go down this rabbit hole (which isn't a hole, it's a disk), but if I shoot a flat horizon at sea level with a 400mm lens and then I shoot with the same lens from 500km up and the horizon is curved, what then? Someone with more patience than me is having this discussion with them right now on Twitter, right?

http://www.in5d.com/images/5d-agharta.jpg

i assume all is now clear

Gotcha.

like many, many things, that makes me want to reread Against The Day

I get the "putting your car into space" move as tacky, but having spent some time working in a space-centered STEM educational outreach program for kids, I read it a little less cynically.

if they asked you "why" what would you say? my son asked me that; i had no answer

I mean they had to deposit some sort of payload out there as part of the test, right? Why not make it something attention grabbing and fun? It’s a striking image and I see it as an easy springboard into deeper topics.

(FWIW, even though I worked in the program mentioned above, I am not an educator, this just absolutely came across as something they’d love)

yeah i don't see how this is any worse than launching another satellite that will be used by world govts to spy on everyone

i thought it was crass and self-promotional, the opposite of what space exploration should be about

back in the.. 90s i guess? disney had an idea to launch three massive interconnected rings into space, to orbit the moon. they would be packed tightly into a spacecraft and inflate once in orbit, and the reflected light from the moon would illuminate them and create a visible mickey mouse logo. eventually the rings would deflate and crash into the moon. i recall mockery and eyerolling at the time and they finally nixed the idea. (this is of course impossible to google for, but trust me)

anyway, this feels like that, but thankfully smaller scale

I dunno, most of space is kinda empty and dull. Gotta fill it with something wacky hey.

What's the plan for this car then? Is it just going to eventually crash into the sun?

"i thought it was crass and self-promotional"

I mean... it can be more than one thing. Unfortunate side effect of having space exploration headed by a private company.

The amount of debris in space may not be a pressing issue yet, but it soon will be. http://stuffin.space/

Shooting disco balls into space because you're a dumbass billionaire doesn't sit well with me at all (but I'll concede it's different from Musks effort here)

disco balls would be better imo

"Musk occasionally performs a ritual called anointing. When the he encounters a new scent, he will lick and bite the source, then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue. The purpose of this habit is unknown,"

Elon Musk Hedgehog -photoshop experts please produce this!

Sounds like something really weird I used to do with stacks of Doritos in middle school

Where is that quote from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog

Isn't the car going to end up in orbit around Mars? I was thinking if all went right, that's where it would end up.

Got to figure if ends up in a stable orbit and he pulls off some of his schemes, he'd eventually pick it up to complete the stunt.

That disco ball in orbit I guess has ticked off the antenna folk as since its highly reflective if it comes onto the line of site its light reflection is bright.

apparently it's 'blasting' star man at top volume which seems like obnoxious and almost like pollution

https://imgur.com/gallery/DWTOb

He migth as well send his dick to mars what a braggart

fuck this guy

xpost luckily there's no sound in space

which reminds me, i really want to know what sound sounds like on the edges of the atmosphere, just before there isn't sound.

(apparently it sounds like this: https://www.livescience.com/50721-near-space-sound-recorded.html)
(although that's kind of cheating because the recording "instruments eavesdropped on atmospheric infrasound, or sound waves at frequencies below 20 hertz. Infrasound is below human hearing range, but speeding up the recordings makes them audible.")
(i want to hear the last audible gasps of sound still within the human hearing range. i guess i could just simulate this on my laptop, though)

flat earthers gonna hate!

elon musk go to mars bitch

now if George Clooney was in the spacesuit instead of a mannequin, well all right

He's gagged up in the boot

i want elon musk to move to mars and try to stay positive while it dawns on him how bad it sucks, also i want him to get stuck there

Holy shit, did the flat earthers unionize? pic.twitter.com/hTrQ7bwLqf

— Nora Blake (@NeitherNora) February 7, 2018

mars: also flat, bitches

day 300: finally weve reached our destination, mars! (and its dick shaped?)

A local politician is found blasted into space in a car atop a heavy lift rocket. Suspicion falls on a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, angry that an unreliable power supply might threaten his plans for world domination of the electric vehicle market.

— Midsomer Murders Bot (@midsomerplots) February 7, 2018

real earths have curves

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I like my planets fat and not flat

I love big buttes and I do not lie

I'm in love with my curvy planet

oops

https://i.imgur.com/JX3iSXT.png