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They will launch Musk's Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun, where it will continue orbiting for hundreds of millions of years.

• phkahler 9y ago
  >> They will launch Musk's Tesla Roadster into orbit around the sun, where it will continue orbiting for hundreds of millions of years. Good god that's funny. I didn't realize the roadster was going anywhere, so it seemed stupid. But just imagine once people forget about this in 50 years. Perhaps we even have people on mars. But every few years someone post to the equivalent of HN a link to a wikipedia article about this car orbiting the sun... Or what if modern society suffers a setback (an actual nuclear war or something) and knowledge of this is forgotten and centuries hence, people redevelop technology and get images of it. Best joke ever.
  • Banthum 9y ago
    Wouldn't be the first time we rediscovered something we shot out there and sorta forgot about. If I recall correctly, a few years ago an astronomer detected something drifting pretty far away with weird visual characteristics. It turned out to be a big piece of metal discarded from one of the Apollo missions, painted white, still tumbling through space.
  • indubitable 9y ago
    Or we succeed with the path we're starting to tread. And in less than a century there's a museum built around the car where people of all sorts, some perhaps even born on different planets, are free to visit and observe what would be utterly symbolic of the advent of private industry and deep space.