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2017-12-02 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Musk to launch his favorite car into Mars orbit!

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Posted by 3dc 2017-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I love this guy.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-02 00:28|| 2017-12-02 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 A post a couple of weeks ago that everybody ignored Post

Not saying the next gen Roadster special upgrade package *will* definitely enable it to fly short hops, but maybe …

Certainly possible. Just a question of safety. Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.

Posted by 3dc 2017-12-02 00:31|| 2017-12-02 00:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice. more time capsule space junk, this time over another planet.

Posted by newc 2017-12-02 00:48|| 2017-12-02 00:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Rocket tech applied to a car opens up revolutionary possibilities.
Wile E. Coyote was driving Acme models decades ago.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-12-02 05:55|| 2017-12-02 05:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Alternatively, he could take $200 million, make a pile and light it on fire. I'm sure the stockholders are thrilled. They'd be even more thrilled if Tesla could produce more than 10 Model 3 cars a day.

Posted by Blossom Smiter of the Ostrogoths6922 2017-12-02 07:59|| 2017-12-02 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 He could have built and launched an actual probe to a comet, like the so-called "interstellar asteroid" that flew past the inner system in the past year.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-12-02 10:08|| 2017-12-02 10:08|| Front Page Top

#7 His last demo payload was a wheel of cheese.
A car is much cooler.
End of story.

Posted by 3dc 2017-12-02 11:51|| 2017-12-02 11:51|| Front Page Top

Posted by 3dc 2017-12-02 15:19|| 2017-12-02 15:19|| Front Page Top

#9 2008 Roadster as being 3,946 mm long and 1,873 mm wide, and the diagonal of such a rectangle is 4,368 mm, so it should fit a standard F9 fairing which offers 4.6 m ID.

Posted by 3dc 2017-12-02 15:20|| 2017-12-02 15:20|| Front Page Top

#10

Posted by 3dc 2017-12-02 16:37|| 2017-12-02 16:37|| Front Page Top

#11 He didn't understand the engineering and logistical complexity of volume building vehicles.

I doubt he will solve them before going broke.

Posted by phil_b 2017-12-02 17:38|| 2017-12-02 17:38|| Front Page Top

#12 Wishing it would placed in a slow air-braking orbit, with inflatable balloon things.

Posted by Shipman 2017-12-02 17:49|| 2017-12-02 17:49|| Front Page Top

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