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It’s pretty incredible to imagine that after most of the monuments man has built for man have vanished, Elon’s Tesla might still be orbiting the Sun. Feels imp
by xixixao 9y ago
It’s pretty incredible to imagine that after most of the monuments man has built for man have vanished, Elon’s Tesla might still be orbiting the Sun.
Feels implausible.
- lttlrck 9y agoVoyager 1 & 2 are the trailblazers here and the chances of them colliding with anything are markedly lower I would assume.
- avian 9y agoPioneer 10 and 11 probes left the solar system as well. I think it’s also likely that all the stuff left on the moon might be longer lived than a car shooting randomly around the solar system.
- cryptoz 9y agoI sure hope that's not the way things go. Eventually humanity will be extinct, but long before that I'd image we'd build far more out in space than we have on Earth.
- taneq 9y agoWithin a couple of hundred years (maybe even much less) someone's going to go and collect it for bragging rights and/or as a trophy. See if they don't.
- fyfy18 9y agoIf SpaceX ever gets into asteroid mining, it’ll be good practice to return it to earth.
- lovemenot 9y ago>> See if they don't. Hope to live long enough to see you proved wrong.
- noonespecial 9y agoIt will be designated a solar system historical site and be strictly off limits. You can't exactly sneak up on something in space...
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoSpace tourism. Imagine SpaceX selling tickets to rendezvous with the car, put you in a spacesuit, and sit next to Starman. What a photo opportunity!
- taneq 9y agoI'd imagine it's still considered to be property of SpaceX and/or Elon Musk, so he should have the right to reclaim it, even if no-one else does.
- pronoiac 9y agoAw, that reminds me of a story about the future Mars rover: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/jon-rogers-a-martian-goes-hunting-for-the-past/ https://www.wired.com/2016/12/jon-rogers-a-martian-goes-hunt...
- gambiting 9y agoAnd if someone flies their own ship and catches it, what is Earth going to do about it, exactly?
- diggernet 9y agoMy theory is that it'll be in a museum within a century.