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Is't that machine worth six figures? Has the world gone mad that we can't find a more productive way to have "fun"
by nepotism2018 9y ago
Is't that machine worth six figures? Has the world gone mad that we can't find a more productive way to have "fun"
- mattmanser 9y agoIt doesn't cost them 6 figures.
- mulletbum 9y agoPotentially did when he built it. Wasn't this the very first fully assembled one ever built?
- phpnode 9y agoThe cost of the second hand Tesla is nothing compared to the PR value of doing this.
- bob_theslob646 9y agoYou are missing the point. The point he is making is that he is actually taken some risk or putting something that is dear to him, in jeopardy.
- willvarfar 9y agoIf the mission is successful, do they recover the car? Or will it be released into orbit? And if that, will it eventually burn up?
- phpnode 9y agoIt will orbit the sun for hundreds of millions of years
- K0balt 9y ago... Until it is recovered by space pirates and sold as a historic artifact....
- blocked_again 9y agoImagine a human like alien civilisation discovering the car. They would be like we found the chariot of God.
- bob_theslob646 9y agoGreat question.
- manicdee 9y agoIncentive for BFS to do something spectacular on its maiden voyage.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoThat's cheap though, a sattelite that size costs millions if not tens of millions. Although I guess you could argue this one does too, given that it's not from the production line, probably hand-built.
- taneq 9y agoIt's a first gen roadster, I believe, so it's a decade old. If it's worth six figures, it's for its historical value (and if it's ever retrieved from Mars it'll be worth FAR more in that regard after this stunt).
- mikeash 9y agoHas the world gone mad that we’re worrying about the six-figure cost of a dummy payload on the test launch of a nine-figure rocket?