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  1. nurseford25 Feb 7, 2018

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  2. keepschanging Feb 7, 2018

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    If I were Musk:

    1. Buy all Speedmaster Alaska LE’s on market during planning phase (maybe 3 years)

    2. Strap the worst condition, no box or papers one to the spaceman’s wrist, on the outside of the suit

    3. Sell all but one of the Alaska LE’s for double (more?)
     
  3. Starman71 Feb 7, 2018

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    He pretty much did that.. but instead of selling watches he is selling cars. Can you imagine what the price of tesla roadsters will be now?!
     
  4. SpeedyPhill Founder Of Aussie Cricket Blog Mark Waugh Universe Feb 8, 2018

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  5. Mathlar Feb 8, 2018

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    FAOERIS...

    First And Only Electric Roadster In Space?
     
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  6. SpeedyPhill Founder Of Aussie Cricket Blog Mark Waugh Universe Feb 8, 2018

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  7. bonerp Feb 8, 2018

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    Love this - glued to the story but won't it become a short story once it hits the asteroid belt?
     
  8. SpeedyPhill Founder Of Aussie Cricket Blog Mark Waugh Universe Feb 8, 2018

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    A passage through the asteroids belt is no problem... all asteroids in the belt between the orbit of Mars and Jupiter (including Minor planet Vesta) taken together couldn't form the Moon... so it's mainly empty space and that's why spacecraft (Pioneer 10 & 11, Voyager I & II, Cassini, New horizons, Juno, etc...) had no problem passing through the asteroids belt ! :D
     
  9. rcs914 Feb 8, 2018

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    The average distance between two asteroids in the asteroid belt is about 600,000 miles (almost a million Km)
     
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  10. R3D9 Feb 8, 2018

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    Figured everyone here would enjoy this different perspective of the side boosters landing that I came across on YouTube:

     
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  11. SteveZ28 Feb 8, 2018

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    That's amazing footage. Blows me away every time I watch it.
     
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  12. jetkins Feb 8, 2018

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    Elon Musk's current playlist:

    Starman
    Life on Mars
    Two Out of Three Ain't Bad.

    ;)
     
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  13. gdupree Feb 8, 2018

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    Wow wow wow. seeing their approach like this is almost more impressive than the other shots. Thanks for sharing.
     
  14. TLIGuy Feb 8, 2018

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    This is a really great view of the return of the boosters as well and a great perspective of how far space flight has come. If you follow the service road in the video the concrete structure you see in the center of the video is launch pad 34 the sight of the Apollo 1 fire.
     
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  15. Cryptoxic Feb 8, 2018

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    The last picture that we'll ever see of Starman and the Roadster before the batteries went out.

    [​IMG]
     
  16. bonerp Feb 9, 2018

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    that is a picture of the century (so far) ^
     
  17. TLIGuy Feb 9, 2018

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    I loved Musk’s response to skeptics questions about the final picture of Starman.

    “And you can tell it’s real because it looks so fake, honestly.”
     
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  18. time flies Feb 9, 2018

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    Perhaps, just perhaps, there will be a whole "it was staged", "it was faked", "it never happened" movement focused on this image/event just as there is with the lunar landing?

    It's just my convoluted way of thinking...and too much free time on my hands.

    20180209_090323.jpg

    Have fun
    -kfw
     
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  19. Cryptoxic Feb 9, 2018

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    Another one for the space nerds on here ;)

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    Roadster and Starman as imaged by a space telescope at 520,000 KM
     
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  20. kkt Feb 12, 2018

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    That's an ... interesting ... line of reasoning.