leftpoole wrote:It was an amazing takeoff and returned booster rockets.
But the best and greatest thing ever to go into space, is the continuous loop tape playing Starman from David Bowie which is simply wonderful.
John
I'm a trendy consumer. Just look at my stupid phone.
kwackers wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:Have you seen the battery life of a Tesla. Millennia, for sure, maybe even longer.
No batteries in it, they were taken out in case it blew up on take off scattering 1000kg of lithium into the atmosphere.
The car is mostly inert otherwise it wouldn't have been allowed up.
But it must have a power source and I wonder how long it will last?
It's slowly rotating so I'm guessing there's no comms dish which means it must be using a fairly high power transmitter through a fairly crap antenna so I suspect whatever is running it they're not expecting it to last that long.
Cyril Haearn wrote:When the aliens find it they will think we earthlings are mad, maybe that is the idea, they will be afraid to try to contact us
Pastychomper wrote:Cyril Haearn wrote:When the aliens find it they will think we earthlings are mad, maybe that is the idea, they will be afraid to try to contact us
So they're trying to reinforce Watterson's Theorem? ("the surest sign of intelligent life in space is that none of it has tried to contact us.")
