SpaceX Falcon Heavy set to launch Tesla Roadster into space

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/05/2018 at 11:08 • Filed to: spacelopnik

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No, this isn’t an Onion headline. SpaceX needed a payload for a test launch of its huge Falcon Heavy rocket, so Elon Musk thought that it would be neat to blast one of his cars into space.

“I love the thought of a car driving apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future,” the billionaire entrepreneur and SpaceX founder said in a Twitter post last month.

The launch, which will mark the first time that an automobile has been sent to space (I guess the Lunar Rover doesn’t count), is scheduled for Tuesday morning.

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For Sweden > ttyymmnn 02/05/2018 at 11:17

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1 Million years in the future

Alien: That’s clearly just a Lotus with a battery

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 02/05/2018 at 11:18

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And I’m sure the engineers were secretly like “WTF, did you really have to pick something without rotational symmetry?” as they relucantly measured and loaded ballast bags to pack around the car.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 02/05/2018 at 11:26

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The Falcon Heavy will be able to lift almost 59,000 pounds to GTO , so it might not matter all that much.

For Sweden > Ash78, voting early and often 02/05/2018 at 11:29

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this hits too close to home

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Ash78, voting early and often 02/05/2018 at 11:29

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Well played.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 02/05/2018 at 11:29

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Why? Because Elon.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > ttyymmnn 02/05/2018 at 11:31

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See they could have used a car with bigger production numbers but I guess the Model S and X were too heavy.

Yes, I really badly want a roadster why do you ask.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 02/05/2018 at 11:34

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Overall weight, no problem. It’s how that weight behaves when you put it on the tip of a rocket and start spinning it quickly...

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/05/2018 at 11:39

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HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 02/05/2018 at 11:40

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I wish I found that movie funny. I feel like im missing out. That scene sure makes a great gif though.

user314 > ttyymmnn 02/05/2018 at 11:45

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Some say the suit is to protect space from him , and that his helmet is in fact, full of stars. All we know is, he’s not the Stig, but he is the Stig’s astronaut cousin!

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 02/05/2018 at 11:46

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I get that, but I wonder if the sheer amount of power would make that less of an issue. Disclaimer: I am not a scientist.

ttyymmnn > user314 02/05/2018 at 11:47

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How could I have forgotten this??