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You 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 ago
  If 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 ago
    It 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 ago
      Imagine a human like alien civilisation discovering the car. They would be like we found the chariot of God.
  • bob_theslob646 9y ago
    Great question.
  • manicdee 9y ago
    Incentive for BFS to do something spectacular on its maiden voyage.