Gotcha.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:19 (six years ago) link
like many, many things, that makes me want to reread Against The Day
― imago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
if they asked you "why" what would you say? my son asked me that; i had no answer
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:23 (six years ago) link
(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)
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
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?
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
"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.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
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)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
disco balls would be better imo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
"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!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
Sounds like something really weird I used to do with stacks of Doritos in middle school
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
Where is that quote from?
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
apparently it's 'blasting' star man at top volume which seems like obnoxious and almost like pollution
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
https://imgur.com/gallery/DWTOb
He migth as well send his dick to mars what a braggart
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
fuck this guy
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
(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)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
flat earthers gonna hate!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
elon musk go to mars bitch
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
now if George Clooney was in the spacesuit instead of a mannequin, well all right
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
He's gagged up in the boot
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
Holy shit, did the flat earthers unionize? pic.twitter.com/hTrQ7bwLqf— Nora Blake (@NeitherNora) February 7, 2018
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
mars: also flat, bitches
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
day 300: finally weve reached our destination, mars! (and its dick shaped?)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
real earths have curves
― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― gbx, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
I like my planets fat and not flat
― Winter. Dickens. Yes. (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:57 (six years ago) link
I love big buttes and I do not lie
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
I'm in love with my curvy planet
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
oops
https://i.imgur.com/JX3iSXT.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
http://www.audibletreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A_1_Unpredictable_The_Repo_Man.gif
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Convinced this will happen some day.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
what a loser, tried to send his car to mars ends up in ASTEROID BELT - dick!
― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
great guy
https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/Elon-Musk-promises-frozen-yogurt-roller-coaster-10966087.php
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
actual "frozen yogurt roller coaster" would be legit breakthrough
― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 9 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/12/elon_musk_invents_bus_stop/
― just sayin, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
“elite projection” is my favorite term of the day and I’m gonna use that piece in a talk I’m about to give. Thanking u
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 15 March 2018 05:48 (six years ago) link
humantransit.org is a gift
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-hires-several-pastry-chefs-away-from-entenm-1823807651
― had (crüt), Thursday, 15 March 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Can we use this thread to track the impending implosion of Tesla?
He bonds they sold last August are now trading at 88c on the dollar, their debt is rated barely above junk, people are leaving left right and centre.
New car, new production techniques, new factories, it’s starting to get very ugly.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 31 March 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
But he put fake man in car in space. Going in wrong direction, sure.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:11 (six years ago) link
If the point was making huge profits, then yes, it's failing, but the whole "disrupting the industry" strategy + opening minds to the possibilities of electric cars = success.
― StanM, Saturday, 31 March 2018 05:46 (six years ago) link
the famous business strategy
― lag∞n, Saturday, 31 March 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
Who Killed The Self-Driving Car?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 31 March 2018 07:00 (six years ago) link