I hear people ask "why a roadster, why not do some useful scientific experiment with that payload?". To me, it's immediately clear that the pictures of the car with the astronaut dummy and the earth in the background are more impactful than any experiment you could have tried
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Certainly cheaper satellites are a good thing right? It means you can be condescending of an amazing feat of engineering from pretty much anywhere on the planet.
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Made crystal clear to me that Elon Musk is a galactic-level tool.
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You’re all misinformed. It’s a mass test; usually lead weights or concrete blocks are used - it can’t be an experiment or satellite. So exchanging a useless lead weight for a PR win to build enthusiasm for space exploration is a unmitigated positive.
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you must be really fun at parties
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Impact on popular imagination is exactly right. See Musk's thinking behind Mars Oasis. The seeds (sorry) of this current gesture are there:https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jp5g8k/spacex-is-because-elon-musk-wanted-to-grow-plants-on-mars …
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The vanity of a test launch? The vanity of sending things (like satellites) into space? Not sure I follow.
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oh, the irony...
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As the only known species to send objects out of their home gravity well I think a touch of vanity is well earned!
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Newsflash! A man who spent the past few years writing 47.3 thousands tweets -- instead of working on something productive -- complains about the vanity of a man who is helping advance space travel and electric energy.
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And what would you suggest us humans do with our existence?
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