Can someone tell me why you faggots launched a car into space and what purpose it serves

>priorities
More like benefits from having figured out how to feed people thousands of years ago.

It was a test flight of the rocket, too risky to put a multi-million dollar satellite on it. Normally they use a block of cement to provide a dummy weight, but that's boring.
Musk put his used car on it, which generated more hype while also cross-promoting his car company.

It's a pretty genius marketing move, both Tesla and SpaceX got huge amounts of coverage in the media from it.

musk is from south africa

You're right, we should've sent them up there... probably save a seat for you as well.

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They also put something else on it, possibly a small satellite
youtu.be/GFdVZyGUwI8?t=3m4s

shut the fuck up if you actually cared you'd do something about, like start a communist revolution to abolish the globalist capitalism that facilitates said starvation...or, y'know, going to africa and helping them.

Space X isn't NASA they are a business and this was a publicity stunt.

To weed out the retards like you

People hate things that are boring, especially companies

>need to simulate a payload for testing purposes anyway
>can use a bunch of rocks
>>>>or
>can set up a mildly cool/memey starman that laymen can appreciate as well as advertising for your second company

Calling it now for a line of "RIP pluto" tier booksamillion tshirts featuring starman. As long as the general public is actually interested and aware of space exploration I really dont care.

well the main meme with the sats is that they are minmaxed to infinity and beyond. a big fat ugly inefficient heart-attack prone chunk of steel and salvaged chinese electronics held together by thermogel would at least be marginally useful.
or elon musk just wants to suck his dick

the big meme here is, if billionis of buckaroos could fix africa, it would have been fixed already. Many times over. Meme man musk is just spending his personal NAP-aquired funds on whatever seems popular at the moment.

All commies should be exterminated

outside of your hyberbaly, agree with you on that it would have been a better idea to have golden record 2.0 or something launched. Maybe a cube that on the inside it some kind of ark of our knowledge and history, maybe on the outside cover it with solar panels and have it give out a constant radio beep as to attack attention.
That being said, the car is still better than a hunk of concrete, as the rocket was a test and it was going up regardless, I'm sure that now launches to space are getting cheaper, we'll be seeing more of that for better or worse
washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/01/26/company-shoots-shiny-orb-into-orbit-astronomers-irked-over-space-graffiti/?utm_term=.2d92f11693ee

>can someone tell me why you faggots launched a car into space and what purpose it serves

American-Canadian-South African

"Dunno lel"
t. EleonMusk

I would gladly kill every single person of African descent right now if it gave us FTL

It's literally art no actual car no actual space bubbles everywhere graphical glitches seem ever present then one that was cut from it live feed showed in "space" then suddenly inside the capsule again then suddenly back to space again it's a underwater CGI stage period.

Fuck off commie

Dont worry, once we are able to do efficient asteroid mining, just sit and watch as china solves all the problems of africa by sending all starving black kids to work and die of radiation poisoning in mining stations.

Last time we send something in universe, we got back something...

Maybe they send us transport.

But it still does not solve problem of kilogram defined in newtons, because we need to have mass specified in force, which we need to move it, instead of having force specified in 'weight on earth' of something.

Africans should stop kicking out the white farmers who grow the food that feeds them if they don't like starving.

If you kill all africans, therre are no starving people in africe..

For $30k you get few guns, gather some people you'll be abuncted all and dropped into forrest in africa to kill all africans.

You have week to tag people and prepare budget for plan.

So how much longer until we can launch a recreational vehicle and/or 18-wheeler trapped inside of a giant bounce house and then drop it on Mars?

Is he a us citizen? Then he's AMERICAN

>can someone tell me why you faggots launched a car into space and what purpose it serves

To sell more cars

>why the fuck would Elon launch a car, from his under-performing car brand into space, on a rocket, that will be one of the most widely viewed events in February, and possibly the year, that will have massive media coverage, and pictures spread everywhere, into space, this makes absolutely no sense to me, and is totally not an advertisement for Telsa
>Elon sure is a retarded brainlet, fuck that guy

this

for solving hunger in Africa,
killing all niggers is da way.

>If you kill all Africans, there will be no starving people in Africa

Because...Why not.

Incredibly effective viral marketing for two of his companies at the same time.

>can someone tell me why you faggots launched a car into space and what purpose it serves

To run over Richard Shelby's porn barrel project rocket, the Senate Launch System.

This.
How many billions has Bill sunk into Africa so far? All that it has accomplished is a population explosion and arguably worse living conditions in a number of areas as they cannot support their increasing populations.

A few hundred million isn't going to save Africa.

This
Throwing money to Africa is a Waste.

If you feed the Starving African Kids.
they will grow up, become adults, reproduce
& give birth to more Starving African Kids.

Get your facts straight. The political achievements alone show that the living conditions in Africa get better.

Feel free to launch as many starving African children into space as you like.

>There are children starving in Africa right this minute and we are sending cars to space. Nice priorities we have.

Is the goal to eliminate human starvation?

If so, how do we obtain it? Throwing money at the problem has only created corrupt governments and created an even larger population of potentially starving africans without a consummate increase in ability for the nations to feed and care for themselves, so that approach isn't working.

I like seeing people focus their energies on efforts that actually succeed and pay off, like Elon Musk's rocket company.

Yes, because political changes result in the people having better living conditions.

>Yes, because political changes result in the people having better living conditions.

Political structure and quality of life is correlated, but one does not cause the other.

>That chart
>It literally shows the same autocratic regimes adopting "free elections" so they can mask the same system behind a series of rigged fake elections, to look more democratic in the world stage, which helps their nation's received more foreign aid
Quality of life has decrease, with the population boom, rates of disease has only increased, and diseases like smallpox and polio which ravaged those nation's have been replaced by aids, various parasites, and random outbreaks of Ebola

Pay for an African to not starve and you will have 9 more Africans starving to death 20 years later

Heh

we need more space junk for our belt

>feed random people
>send car into space
Wow, what a difficult choice to make!

Agreed, it's literally pollution. Matter pollution AND intellectual pollution because space is not supposed to be a trash that serves as an advertising medium for a private company

What's next ? Caca cola with a song of Elton Jones ? " Nike Just space it !!!!! "maybe ?

Generally they work in lockstep.

>you faggots
no U

To trigger brainlet falt earthers beyong fucking infinite

SpaceX offered nasa free ride for whatever they wanted and they rejected it. So might as well put more interesting stuff inside the rocket than a bag of bricks.

Actually funny

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>Throwing money at the problem has only created corrupt governments and created an even larger population of potentially starving africans without a consummate increase in ability for the nations to feed and care for themselves,
If Elon gave all that money to the Africans, those corrupt governments would've taken it and used it to buy more guns to kill each other instead of feeding their children. If the solution was money, then we'd have succeeded by now (look at how much money charities send them).
Africa is buttfucked by corruption.

Fuck you. No one has the right to tell what's allowed or not in space. Stop trying to control everything.
If he used his money to do it, then let the guy do whatever he wants.

Show of force, faggot.

What kind of faggot parents names their kid Fred nowadays

what a waste of a lotus

too many fags in this thread that suck elon musk's balls, such as yourself.

It's a PR stunt. The rocket had lift capacity to spare, adding that mass was essentially a free "car into space." You will see that thing in car commercials shortly.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to clutter up space too much. Oh wait...

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UFO exist

Ayy lmao on Earth don't exist

>sun is potentially hazardous
Heheh

kek

haha i too saw that occupy democrats post! #imwithher

Destroying evidence. No one checked what Elon put in the trunk.

I know, right? It's perfect. Africa can save itself

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In 1950, Europe's population was double the population of Africa and the Middle East combined.

o fug

>can someone tell me why you faggots launched a car into space and what purpose it serves
To get people interested in space.

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It's their problem they provided everything to start a civilization and they pushed it away and that's the result happened in their community today.

It's called drawing the public's attention and excitement towards space travel. I know, it's a hard concept to understand when you haven't left your university office in 20 years.

is this your first time seeing an ad?

>There are children starving in Africa
just a bunch of niggers, nothing to worry about

is this real?

>defending democracy
I don't get why you think democracy is by default better
Just because the majoirty of a population get to decide something that definitely doesn't mean they will make the right choice
If anything average Joe's vote in their own interest and big companies just bribe politicians for gov't contracts and subsidies

B8

nice b8 m8

so much trigger

Cape Canaveral FL, 06-Feb-2018 (Yellow line is sunlight direction)

Launch: 15:45 (EST)

First data point on tesla trail is 22:00 EST 06-Feb-2018. That is 30 min after stage 3 concluded, and after roughly 5 hours of being in earths orbit.

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I thought the asteroid belt was way more sparse than that. Is it accounting for literal dust?

He should have fed those hungry children in africa all that steel and rocket fuel instead of using it for his ponzi scheme of planet privatization