HOEEFRAGGINGCOW! I see it, NOW!
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Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Sorry, I had toâŠ
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Grabbed image from the feed. This is just how it looked on YouTube with the space junk in the background.
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I just remembered!
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It may be strange because it really only is a PR gag, but it is so inspiring.
I like the thought that kids now watch it and say: I want to be a spaceman! And in 30 years they will stand on Mars and say âI made itâ.
We just have to make sure we donât ruin it for them, so they really can live their dreams.
âŠdammit I am being melodramatic again. Quick, bring the Bourbon! It is give Oâclock somewhere I guessâŠ
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Also this paper about predicting where the Tesla might end up:
âOn February 6th, 2018 SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster on a Mars crossing orbit. We perform N-body simulations to determine the fate of the object over the next several million years, under the relevant perturbations acting on the orbit. The orbital evolution is initially dominated by close encounters with the Earth. The first close encounter with the Earth will occur in 2091. The repeated encounters lead to a random walk that eventually causes close encounters with other terrestrial planets and the Sun. Long-term integrations become highly sensitive to the initial conditions after several such close encounters. By running a large ensemble of simulations with slightly perturbed initial conditions, we estimate the probability of a collision with Earth and Venus over the next one million years to be 6% and 2.5%, respectively. We estimate the dynamical lifetime of the Tesla to be a few tens of millions of years.â
2091 for the first close encounter huh? I better go work out. 
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I love this from your first link: âThe car exceeded its 36,000 mile warranty 278.2 times while driving around the Sun, (10,014,615 miles, 16,116,965 km, 0.11 AU), moving at a speed of 56,031 miles/hour (90,173 km/hour, 25.05 km/s).â
Concerning the second link, itâs encouraging that some very smart individuals think enough of the project to spend time plotting the Roadsterâs trajectory over millions of years 
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In case some of you chaps will be around in 2047, SpaceX may be throwing a big party.
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The most disturbing thing about that video is that Agent Smith was narrating itâŠ
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You mean it wasnât the ruler or Rivendell, Elrond?
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