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"My god this is amazing. I can only imagine the glorious stress free dueces that would be achieved with this bad boy. Hell the morning shat and tug would get me ready for any day on that throne. Truly for a king of kings.",
"That view is the shit! ",
"I'd shit there. ",
"One certainly couldn't be in a dumpy mood there ...",
"Think of all the spiders that might live in there!"
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Crappy view
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/r/pics/comments/7vt2p7/printed_on_the_circuit_board_of_a_car_in_deep/
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"How do aliens know English?",
"[Source](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961006748214718466)",
"How would aliens know which planet is Earth?",
"How do aliens know how to drive a car?",
"I guess it’s not made on earth by cats. That’s good I suppose?",
"Asterisks printed by robots and computers to communicate who’s really running this rock. ",
"I wonder when this will start being offensive",
"/r/totallynotrobots",
"SO THIS is how we open the can of worms",
"Okay who spilled the ranch on the circuit board?",
"Haven't you ever watched Star Trek?",
"Thought asterisks were for *italics*",
"`Yes, for the humans.`",
"That's epoxy to hold components in extreme vibration",
"Same person who put ASSY on the board",
"\"Made on Earth by humans\"\n\nfor now.",
"Not deep space. It is still not n our solar system. ",
"Not just the humans, but the huwomen and huchildren too!",
"interesting if true",
"Voyager gives distance to our system from a few pulsars. they could figure it out.",
"> _the_ circuitboard\n\nBecause, of course, this car only has one pcb in it.",
"The car doesnt escape the Solar System so not",
"I don't identify as human. I'm a custard donut hole.",
"Whatever Elon musk knows what he's getting into, he's smart enough to lead us to victory.",
"Assuming they can READ or speak English 🙄"
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Printed on the circuit board of a car in deep space
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/r/pics/comments/7vt45c/got_some_sweet_new_pants_but_not_any_shame/
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"Where'd you get these???",
"...the '80s called. ",
"I got them as a gift. There's a jacket that goes with them. From what I've been told this caused some complications at the time of purchase that garnered the enthusiasm of people waiting in line. Needless to say the pants were purchased and now I have to scour the internet for the jacket. Help me Reddit. ",
"Ill save you the pain of searching the internet just to complete the set and buy them for $70 if you want. :)",
"Suhweet ! ",
"I saw the suit set a few months back at Kohl’s, almost got it too haha "
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Got some sweet new pants but not any shame.
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/r/pics/comments/7vt54l/fighting_perthes_disease_6_weeks_in_this_petrie/
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"You go dude! 🤜🤛",
"You got this man! ",
"Poor kid. What is Perths? ",
"You’re a champion, never stop fighting 💪",
"Damn that’s heavy! I hope somebody buy this kid some rad video games to keep from getting bored! ",
"I’d never hear of it either, here’s what [Google](https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/perthes-disease) gave me. \n\n> Perthes disease is a rare childhood condition that affects the hip. It occurs when the blood supply to the rounded head of the femur (thighbone) is temporarily disrupted. Without an adequate blood supply, the bone cells die, a process called avascular necrosis.",
"That sounds horrible. I hope he heals up fast and as pain free as possible. Thanks for the info. ",
"Yep. His femoral head is flattening and falling apart due to a loss of blood flow. It can be extremely painful. ",
"Looks like a fighter to me. Stay strong.",
"You're gonna do great! I had this when I was a kid; 20 years later and I run 17 miles a week.\n",
"There should be a fund for that kind of thing. If there isn't someone should make one.",
"You can do this, I see the strength in you. I've experienced extended hospital stays before (3+ months) and it's definitely strange at first. \n\n\nBefore you know it though, it'll become your oyster. You will know all the friendly nurses and the orderlies.. It becomes like sleep-away camp. Albeit a very strange camp, but a camp none the less complete with counselors...\n\nBest wishes.",
"I can’t even imagine how painful that must be. I hope he heals fast and with as little pain as possible! ",
"Wow way to go brave boy ",
"I had the same thing when I was a kid but I was lucky and only had to spend a summer on crutches after surgery.",
"Dude! The smile on your face says that you are an incredibly strong individual! And I tip my hat to to... if I wore one... for being so strong! I don’t know you but I’m super excited for your recovery! ",
"My day, and last nine months probably haven’t been that bad after all ",
"Childsplaycharity.org",
"I have Perthes disease. I spent about 6 months in plaster and 2 years in crutches. It's a struggle but he'll come out fine. ",
"S'matter? Ain't you eva seen a little boy with braces on'is legs afore?",
"Good luck! It'll be tough, but worth it in the end. My daughter was in the cast for 12 weeks, then wheelchair, walking frame, then the day she stood by herself again felt amazing! You'll all get through it, and it will, eventually, be just a memory. Xx take care!",
"How is your flexibility? I can barely sit in the butterfly position! Lol",
"Oh, you're not wrong. I'm pretty bad at holding a cross-legged position also; others seem to find it much more comfortable. Stretching regularly seems to help a little, but it's not a great position for me either."
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Fighting Perthes Disease! 6 weeks in this petrie cast and then 9 months in braces.
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[
"May you explain this pictures popularity and origin please?",
"Why is the top of the earth flat in this photo? (No I am not a flat earth believer)",
"It’s from a SpaceX launch today. It’s a Tesla on its way to Mars."
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"Very true. ",
"I'd buy that Hot Wheels car for $1.",
"I so wish they put an animatronic arm in the thing to give a wave or a thumbs up before the last shot ended. It would freak people out for years.",
"They don’t spend money on ads, but if we are calling this an ad... then they spend billions on advertising...",
"They got duo return boosters too",
"What a incompetent nube. Launching this cost $90m. \n\nCompare that to the current standard Delta 4 heavy which costs $300m and can take about half the payload. \n\nEdit: my brother wrote that comment, can’t I reply like any big brother?",
"Well you haven’t figured in all the man hours that it took to get to this point, which ofcourse figure into the price of this “commercial”. ",
"millions*",
"\"*Presenting the Tesla Roadster. The fastest car in the universe.\"*",
"Out of curiousity, is part of the difference in SpaceX saving the two cores?",
"That is not true. They do have a marketing and advertising budget. It is small, but more than $0. Check their annual report. ",
"Crazy! You are right. Fastest 4 wheels to ever travel. \n\nThey could pay you for that! If they had an advertising budget...",
"Yes. Serious lack of foresight here. Flipping the bird while cruising the orbital highway at +2000 mph would have been legend.",
"I think I need to visit the out of the loop sub. What did I miss today?",
"You are correct, but a single iPhone doesn’t cost $300m either ",
"I still can't afford one. But I enjoyed the show immensely.",
"The people the have film it probably cost a lot..",
"Absolutely. I don’t know the cost off the top of my head, but your talking millions of dollars \n\nAlso, the two side boosters were already recycled. ",
"Out of this world advertising!",
"I was wondering if whoever made the tires on it would try to capitalize off of this. ",
"I think the picture alone tells the best story. If you want some context, play David Bowie \"Life on Mars\" while you look at the picture.",
"Compared to every other car manufacturer? ",
">Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising\n\nI find this claim questionable to say the least. ",
"Musk said they spent only half a billion developing the Falcon Heavy.",
"Falcon Heavy rocket launched a Tesla roadster into orbit. It's was a test launch for a new rocket. There are multiple threads on the front page. If you can find the video, watch it. It's so damn cool. ",
"https://www.inc.com/walter-chen/how-teslas-referral-program-generates-more-than-40x-roi.html",
"Yesss hahah",
"Do you not understand the difference between small and zero?",
"There's not a lot of difference between holding in air at standard air pressure and holding it in in a vacuum. It will be more interesting to see just how long it takes UV radiation to deteriorate everything. That car will not be red when it arrives at Mars.",
"“Only”",
"Just made [this.](https://i.imgur.com/j5oyHho.jpg)\n\nHeh.",
"Most of it, yes. Since a very large percentage of most launches is the construction of the disposable rocket, I suspect SpaceX is still charging for some of the savings to pay for R&D on their upcoming rockets. Most notably, the BFR or ITS or whatever the acronym is this week.\n\nSpaceX is actually planning on saving all three cores, it's just that today the central core did not have a good day. On future flights, all of the cores will be based on v5 Falcon 9 cores instead of earlier models, so they should have more power (and the center core should have enough fuel to land).",
"It's not going to Mars...",
"You sure it’s not a tide ad? The suit looks really clean ",
"SpaceX, which is also owned by Tesla founder Elon Musk, successfully launched their new rocket, the Falcon Heavy.\n\nSince this was a demonstration flight, nobody would put an operational payload (satellite) on board. So Musk, being Musk, put his older model cherry red Tesla Roadster in as the payload (demo flights have one just to prove they can lift something). Then they put one of the spacesuits developed by SpaceX for their manned spacecraft on a mannequin and fastened it to the driver's seat.\n\nThe plan was to put it in an orbit around the sun that peaked around Mars' orbit and was at its lowest near Earth's orbit. We just found out that the burn to put it into this orbit will actually go out as far as the asteroid belt (about twice as far as the average distance between Mars and Earth).",
"Compared to the billions being alleged.\n\nAlso, consider that were there no other expenses in launching the Falcon Heavy, it would only take six launches to cover that cost (at $90 million/launch).",
"I would argue it does a better job of advertising SpaceX than Tesla",
"Tesla, proving the masses that the world is round. ",
"It was a test flight that needed a test payload. They usually use concrete but opted to use the car instead. I would call it free advertising still as the test flight and payload test was necessary.\n\nedit: The car was also donated by a Tesla owner.",
"When SpaceX does well, Tesla stock goes up and vise versa. \n\nWall Street goes crazy of things like this ",
"Isn't it Elon Musk's personal Tesla?",
"It's kinda cheesy. I like it. I tweeted it to Mr. Musk. ",
"Yes.",
"Do you work for Apple? You should.",
"So this is real. A dude in a space suit in the seat of a tesla in space?",
"Or act like a person waking up from being drugged. ",
"No.",
"My niece is zero years old and she is quite small. ",
"Yeah, it's up there and will be for a long time.",
"I know $90m is quite the price tag.",
"“Yeah picked myself up the model that went to space”",
"it's a dummy...\n\nI mean, who else would sign up for that mission?",
"https://www.inc.com/walter-chen/how-teslas-referral-program-generates-more-than-40x-roi.html",
"https://www.inc.com/walter-chen/how-teslas-referral-program-generates-more-than-40x-roi.html",
"I believe there is a “tiny, tiny chance” of it making it to Mars.\n\nedit: not sure why this is getting down voted. From Musk himself:\n\nBut if all goes well, the rocket stage will eject the Roadster on a path toward Mars. At that point, Musk said he’s not worried about the Roadster’s health. The car has a “tiny, tiny chance” of crashing into Mars, Musk says. “It will be fine. I hope.”\n\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16975850/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-elon-musk-tesla-questions",
"I know a flat earthier. He would say “Elon is in on the conspiracy”",
".....tide ad",
"It's how the Elon clone is covering up the removal of the original.",
"Really clean suit... ",
"What does this do to commercial space travel once the rest of the industry catches up? Is 2030 realistic?",
"Is that a real person? In space? In a telsa?",
"Nope. This is a Tide ad. Look at the clean suit.",
"> Fastest 4 wheels to ever travel\n\nLunar rovers would have gone faster as payload escaping Earth's gravity. But it's a \"rover\", not a \"car\", so /u/din7's statement is still valid.\n\n\\* - when I posted this, I didn't know the itinerary of Falcon Heavy. I just assumed it was an orbital stunt. Obviously if it leaves Earth's orbit, it will hit and exceed escape velocity. As of last night, it hadn't yet.",
"~ 25,200 miles per hour. ",
"So was the camera and broadcasting stuff for this free? Can't imagine it serves much more purpose than advertising. ",
"Nobody even has an orbital rocket that can be reused right now. It's not so much when the existing industry catches up as when the new players make it onto the field. In that case, you're looking at Blue Origin.\n\nMars 2030? I think SpaceX has a real shot. I don't know what Blue Origin is thinking about and I don't know what the schedule for the SLS is looking like these days.",
"A dummy",
"Well, there are some costs. Setting up the space-proof cameras was a cost, as was the technology for establishing a video connection over those distances. But yeah, the launch itself doesn't really count.",
"Best murder ever. ",
"Wait... guys... Where is the new intern?",
"Oh man, that was a hell of a celibreation last night I fell... Wait... where am I?!?! Oh no... I should not have passed out in that new space suit...",
"No just the suit, pressurized and has sensors to check it's performance",
"So they advertise through incentives. That would mean those incentives cost them money, thus they spent money on advertising...",
"Jesus, how terrifying would that be? A few seconds before the cameras cut, the suit just starts moving like a person in a panic...",
"I wasn't even thinking Mars, just \"pay a ridiculous amount of money to go into orbit for a few hours\" kind of thing.",
"How about...\n\nRoads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.",
"I'd hope so considering she's in utero. :P",
"No. Yes. Yes. ",
"I will accept $0 advertising. But every piece of media is a part of marketing. Their website, the displays in their stores, their presentations, their name on anything that isn't theirs. That's all marketing, whether they pay employees for those jobs or a marketing firm. It is marketing, but not necessarily advertising.",
"Maybe the Mars rovers went faster (though probably a pretty similar speed). Doubtful the lunar rovers did.",
"This is the perfect murder... hiding in plain sight. Oh yes, that Elon Musk is clever. ",
"Someone’s always gotta be pedantic christ... how about, “Tesla doesn’t pay for 30 second commercials on TV or ads in newspapers, unlike most other car companies. They market themselves differently.”",
"I've got one on pre-order but I'm concerned Elon won't be able to make his production goals again. ",
"But look at how white that spacesuit is, this is probably a Tide ad if I had to place a wager.",
"[Damn it not again...](https://imgur.com/trzGzrr)",
"/r/WritingPrompts \n\nElon Musk's clone paralyzes Elon Musk and sends him into space driving a Tesla and live streamed.",
"Tide commercial? Nope just Chuck Tesla",
"A referral program would be considered a form of advertising.\n",
"They also pay the salary of the marketing director and his or hers team who makes sure Reddit sees all their pictures and videos of a car floating in space. \n\nEdit: [Such as this lady. Unless they're paying her with IOU's or fake money](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinfinkelstein)",
"6 wheels",
"That is not Tesla’s annual report. This is.\n\n\nhttp://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n\n> The Company incurred advertising costs of $26.3 million, $28.6 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\n\nThat is not a large number, but it is not $0. ",
"Thats awesome, this one was a little late. He delivered though. What are you putting up there?",
"See my other comment. Their ad budget is not $0. ",
"Exactly. Define \"advertising\".",
"Reserve your Tesla today. \n\nWe hear they're out of this world.",
"Was",
"Not a lot",
"I wonder how long before the sun starts to fade the interior and small space particles sand blast the paint off. Still cool AF.",
"My beige '98 civic ",
"All the problems in the world and this is what the rich spend their time and money on.\n\nGood lord we suck\n\nWay to prove my point Reddit.",
"This is just what we need. More space junk.",
"But it's two different companies... Tesla & SpaceX, so technically SpaceX gave Tesla the most expensive ad in history for free.",
"Could’ve sworn I read this too, so now I’m not sure if I can believe anything in that reply.",
"Yeah, it's clearly not badass enough on its own, has to be done by a marketing team. Who would think a car in space hurtling towards another planet is cool?",
"The dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program.",
"But that is something completely different. That's not spamming that they spend $0 on marketing. The guy that made this thread might as well be paid by Tesla because that's kinda the new way of doing marketing. ",
"Get off my Roadster...",
"[Heres a video of the launch and the payload being released](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c)",
"Yes officer, I do know how fast I was going.",
"Fastest car ever",
"Not only that, but they actually reproduced the opening sequence from \"Heavy Metal\".",
"Or simply less than one year old for all those cultures where you aren't born one year old. ",
"I didnt know shooting a car into space was free",
"Advertising has a precise definition. Referral programs are not advertising.",
"Is this the first car in space if we’re not counting the Lunar rover?",
"It's probably going faster than any of the mars landers did. It's heading out to the asteroid belt which requires higher velocities to get to than Mars does.",
"earth not flat tho👌🏼 ",
"Ok then the Tesla clearly wins the 4 wheeled vehicle speed challenge. The Tesla going to Mars certainly had a faster top speed than anything going to the Moon.",
"You should go look up the f35...",
"Escape velocity is, by definition, faster than orbital velocity.\n\nBut for reference, [the car launched at 16.5k mph](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/680019/SpaceX-launch-Falcon-Heavy-Tesla-Roadster-space-16500-Elon-Musk-rocket-video), Apollo 10 (no rover, but still comparable) holds the record for manned vehicle speed at [24,791 mph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_10).\n\nThe Tesla may eventually go faster since it's not staying in orbit.",
"The woman engineer said in the video that it was his personal car.\n",
"\"No but I know exactly where I am.\"",
"They are the same feed. One landing pad is black, the other is white. The two videos show the same landing pad.",
"I see your point, but SpaceX is not a publicly traded company",
"I always think those flat earth's are really just running a thought experiment and practicing debate skills, tongue in cheek belief. But then again I thought the same thing of vehement trump supporters...",
"Musk wouldn't approve that. Fastest car in the *known* universe.",
"Fastest 4 wheels... and steering wheel to travel ",
"If you can't steer around a single car with a one-billion year orbit, you're too drunk to be piloting a space ship.\n",
"Also, there may or may not be a dead cat in my trunk.",
"Gosh and how did they convince SpaceX to do it??",
"Can anyone turn this into a phone background for me please?",
"\"they\" being tax dollars\n",
"\"This is just like what the old gypsy woman said!\" Elon shouts as he fires up the roadster and adjusts its trajectory back towards Earth. ",
"Schrödinger may or may not be proud ",
"Elon Musk ran someone over in that tesla, so to cover up the crime, he blasted the car into space with the dead victim inside the suit\n\n/conspiracy",
"Tesla doesn't need any advertising, they can't even produce enough cars to meet demand as is",
"And it's deductible. Who's the genius now?",
"Is Elon a cylon?",
"What's the * ? Definitely billions ",
"They live streamed footage from the moon decades ago, I'm sure orbital live streaming is a piece of cake",
"Wall street goes crazy. Fucking bots.",
"$0 except for the Rocket Science. ",
"100% fact",
"The idea that they don't spend money on advertising is also false. They spend a lot on advertising. But they don't spend it in traditional advertising spaces. They have paid users on website like this to push positive articles and opinions to the top.",
"That’s a tide ad ",
"By Elon himself",
"I mean the rocket launch was valued at approximately $90,000,000. So it’s really one of the most expensive advertisements ever in that regard. Probably similar to what Tide spent on the Super Bowl. ",
"apparently ~500million according to elon\n",
"I think they are charging $90,000,000 for a falcon heavy launch. So not billions. ",
"Fun fact: The cat thought experiment was created to illustrate how absurd the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics seemed to him. It is now used to explain how things actually work.",
"This will be a conspiracy theory in a few years",
"> a wave or a thumbs up \n\nI love the way you think but please allow me to make a slight improvement. Instead of a clear, recognizable gesture ... how about just a slight twitch. Followed by a second twitch and jerk a second later.\n\nNetflix would have seven horror movies about it within the year.",
"I mean they had to pay a photographer to go to space and take the photo",
"lets be real, Tesla constantly spams reddit with their products",
"I have the issue of Heavy Metal magazine that inspired the movie clip. Sept 1979 issue. \"soft landing\" is the title of the segment. ",
"No, this is Patrick. ",
"From /u/BaronVonCrunch \n\n> That is not Tesla’s annual report. This is.\n> \n> \n> http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n> \n> > The Company incurred advertising costs of $26.3 million, $28.6 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\n> \n> That is not a large number, but it is not $0. ",
"Is your sarcasm implying that humans will be drawn to \"cool\" stuff without ever being notified about it? \n\nThe marketing team's job would be to make sure the world knows about the event. You form your \"cool\" opinion on your own. The team is paid to spread the word. ",
"He said that the development costs were \"north of $500 million\", but then you also have to factor in R&D costs for the Falcon 9 which is what the Heavy is based off of. I'd put it at over a billion total.",
"We need more people like you on this site.",
"🎶around the world around the world[...](https://youtu.be/dwDns8x3Jb4) ",
"When I was a young man I saw Heavy Metal in the theaters. Today I get to relive that through a similar shot. \n\nI have lived in interesting times!",
"Would explain why Reddit is constantly sucking his dick all the time, it's sickening.",
"Very soon, once it passes the orbit of the moon, they'll be able to say *\"The Tesla Roadster has gone where no man has gone before!\"*",
"The rocket was going to launch either way. Most space agencies will launch steel or concrete on the maiden launch. If it blows up, the “spacecraft” isn’t lost. \n\nTesla didn’t pay SpaceX 90m to launch it ",
"You know Tesla and SpaceX are both private companies right? Or am I missing a non-existent context",
"Slow movement followed by the embodiment of raw panic followed by a sudden cut to the camera feed and the hosts acting like they are badly trying to pretend something just didn't happen. I like it. Would fuel conspiracy theories for years.",
"~~39,897 mph~~\n\nTotally not right",
"Nonsense, that's just happy Redditors sharing happiness. ",
"*Commercial car",
"The new version of their video uploaded fixes this. Some graphics worker must have switches the feeds by mistake on the live feeds. ",
"Ft. The Stig",
"The earth is flat!!! On top that is.",
"It's good to know the cat died / endured for an important cause.\n",
"And that's the development costs for the Falcon Heavy. I suppose if that was the only Falcon Heavy that ever launched you could attribute that to Tesla advertising, but of course that's ridiculous.\n\nThe cost beyond what SpaceX spent anyway on R&D for its own sake is probably very close to zero.",
"“Fake. The world is flat”.\n\n-flat earth asshole",
"Every Tesla driver I’ve ever encountered is a jerk",
"I'm so freaking jealous! That's amazing!",
"There's already one out there.\n\n[“I’ll tell you what I’m going to do Mr Bond. I’m going to stick you in a spacesuit with a radio, and strap you into one of my cars. Then, while mankind watches, I’ll launch you into space. The last thing you’ll hear before leaving this earth forever, will be their applause.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7vt58k/wp_ill_tell_you_what_im_going_to_do_mr_bond_im/)",
"The Yugo Butweipar has been zinging around Uranus wiping out Klingons for years.\n\nTake THAT, Tesla...",
"Is it true they spend $0 on advertising?",
"Was this real ",
"No no no that's not right at all. It's \"Tesla\" the fastest car in the simulation.",
"I know thy didn’t pay anything it was a show of good will by the owner of spacex to the ceo of Tesla. \n\nCan we all agree Tesla is the most over valued company ever. I always fear that bubble is going to collapse and we are going to lose their badass cars. So far so good tho!",
"Especially with how much Elon spam I see on Reddit...",
"We think he may have.",
"Yep. You can see the other rocket ignite its landing burn in both of the bottom screens.",
"Wait this isn't some stupid photoshop? Is this *actually* a SpaceX astronaut in a car? In orbit?",
"I mean, they copied it from Heavy Metal. But yeah.",
"Well, they actually do spend money on advertising, they just don't spend money on PAID advertising such as a Superbowl spot or google ads. Supercharging stations + Logos are their form of advertising and in that case, its very expensive. ",
".....But he is the Stig's Astronaut cousin....",
"This is a common misconception. Most people think that the cat thought experiment is used to explain how quantum super-positioning works- however this is only a myth. In reality it is only ever used in reference by people eager to convince others that they are smart, often times with no actual connection to the quantum concepts it aims to exemplify. \n\nSource: See above",
"I apologise if I'm off base since this isn't my field, but escape velocity is the speed to escape the Earth's gravity without any additional propulsion. If you had continuous propulsion you could leave Earth's gravity as slow as you want until escape velocity is practically zero.\n\nPlus we're talking about Earth's escape velocity and orbital velocity around the sun. Orbital velocity around the sun will generally be much higher depending on distance from the object you're orbiting of course.\n\nRegardless, the Tesla is supposed to be going 25,000+ mph right now. ",
"All we know is; He's called The Stig!",
"Where exactly is this car? ",
"I wouldn’t doubt that this is true, but do you have any evidence of that? ",
"\"How many Miles you got on your tesla?\" *looks at odometer* \"I got 84 million miles\"",
"Someone who wants to leave this world (in every sense of the word) in a really, really *bitchin'* way.",
"Elon finally found a way to dispose the body.",
"Yep. You can see the other rocket ignite its landing burn in both of the bottom screens.",
"Watch the landing...\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8l121LGlWU",
"I bet the flatearthers are gonna pissed.",
"I disagree with you and just downvoted you, and I am not a paid shill of Elon Musk or Tesla. Maybe its possible people just like him and the cool stuff he's doing?",
"Especially with the words \"Don't Panic!\" being on the dash of the car.",
"Greatest marketing moment in human history. Might as well start building his statue now.\n\nElon Musk = Real life Zefram Cochran",
"Just a tide ad...",
"I will say that I waited on a table of two moms and four young girls about to go out to see Wicked, and the moms were explaining who Elon Musk was to those kids.\n\nThat blew my mind.",
"Aw, crap, you're right. Well, what we know of the simulation is what we know of the universe...",
"I dunno, but I think his names was Bond, James Bond.",
"I'd say their biggest advertising costs are their retail locations in malls. Those places get tons of people walking in to sit in an electric car.",
"If this is an \"ad\" that orbits for over a billion years as projected, then it could be said that this ad campaign will cost less than $1 per year, with a limit approaching zero. The first cost-effective interplanetary ad campaign.",
"Keep thinking small.\n\nWorld needs ditch diggers too",
"From the pictures, it looks like they sent up at least three photographers. God have mercy on them.",
"Lol no it doesn’t. Tesla’s are as shit today as they were yesterday. ",
"Just look at how flat that round object is LOL",
"~~I do not get how this picture is real if the car is inside the capsule? Anyone??~~\nIm an idiot. It was ejected. Thanks u/spaceracer12",
"Probably for all of those Tesla mall locations and similar things ",
"Gone where no car has gone before.",
"Does he not own a Tesla? ",
"Getting ready to mine the asteroid belt too, I suppose.",
"...That isn’t free.",
"Love that album.",
"Ok, I have to ask. Is this a real photo? ",
"I have been watching that video for probably too long, and now I swear that thumbnail image is rotating. \n\nEdit: Didn't realize so many weren't aware of the [Starman Live in Orbit Video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"I bought it for the cyberpunk style art on the cover and was happy to see the opening scene from the movie illustrated on paper. Then I realized it was the original concept before the movie came out. ",
"SpaceX gets some tax incentives, government contracts to launch satellites, and received some loans (which were paid back well ahead of schedule). \n\nAs is well known, these facts mean that everything SpaceX has ever done or will ever do is entirely thanks to the government. /s",
"Marketing =/= Advertising",
"1 billion years on one charge",
"Marketing =/= advertising. \n\n",
"/r/investing \n\nLook at reports and shit",
"No, it's going further than Mars. All the way to the asteroid belt.",
"They don't pay for a advertising agency, firm, or have a advertising department, BUT they pay youtubers to drive Tesla's in their videos. Lamborghini does this also.",
"This reminds me of that scene from Heavy Metal.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0",
"Thats a huge assumption that its the only car flying through the universe",
"physics joke... that's heavy.",
"in space",
"If I had 3 months to live and a painful death to look forward to... shit yeah",
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.",
"I just want to point out that spending money on a PR agency is technically marketing. Still respect the mother fuckin martian, he’ll get back home soon.",
"META",
"It's worth noting that for accuracy this may or may not be true. \n\nOur solar system, and galaxy are both moving. Earth's orbital velocity (~30km/s) will either add to this, or subtract from this, depending on where it is. \n\nSadly I can't find enough info to plot Earths current orbit against the solar system and galaxy movements though to confirm or deny the fastest car in the universe claim! ",
"So fast you cant even tell they are spinning",
"\"As of May 2012, SpaceX had operated on total funding of approximately $1 billion in its first ten years of operation\"",
"Wait. Is Stanley Kubrick still alive? Or is this statement not satire? ",
"This is only true if Tesla paid SpaceX to allow them to use a car in their launch. I wouldn't be surprise at all if Musk used this as an opportunity to restructure finances between his companies, but until we see evidence of that I think we have to assume the only costs were to SpaceX and Elon Musk.",
"I wonder if that's also the first copy of HHGTTG that's ever been in space.",
"Plz stop",
"Da! Can confirm am not Soviet shillsky. Am regular American dude that’s likes American pie and Tesla.",
"I see you’re unfamiliar with the word “exactly” ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNGZo5gn_tc",
"$0 on advertising? Maybe. \n\n\n$0 on marketing? No. \n\n\nBadass photograph? Hell yeah!!!",
"fAkE NEws!!! ",
"thats a really long horse",
"Yea, I mean I don;t even love the guy, there are possible labor violations going on in his car factories that really annoy me, but spear heading the private space industry forward is awesome and needs to happen, I'm very happy he got involved in SpaceX and that they are doing well.",
"Of I recall correctly its going to orbit around mars and earth continuously ",
"Late capitalism is fucked. A person bought a car a large majority of people would never be able to afford, then donated it back to the company they bought it from in order for the company to advertise for themselves. \n\nEDIT: Alright guys I get it clearly I didn’t know it was Elon’s car. The original post I was responding to didn’t say that. I stand by the first sentence of my statement, though I concede it doesn’t apply to this specific situation. ",
"I dunno, does it have rich Corinthian leather?",
"Reminds you? It IS the scene from Heavy Metal. Musk probably saw it when he was about 11 years old. Forms a big impression.",
"Thai dad",
"They spent a car and a prop.\n\nStill worth it though.",
"No it would be considered marketing. Though the claim $0 on advertising is misleading.",
".....\n\npfffft I can go way faster",
"People are idiots.",
"Still is, he just parked it on top of a rocket is all.",
"Well let's see what investors think of tomorrow's earnings report. Nobody cares about elons song and dance trick if they have another dissapointing earnings.",
"Yea and when they get it back to Earth it will have increased value by 1000%..... So will the milage",
"2 out of 3 not bad.",
"*Heliocentric orbit, not low or high earth orbit. It's going to be / is no longer within the earth's pull enough to be considered in an earth orbit. \n\nThe goal was to launch far enough to prove that with the correct window a payload weighing about that of the tesla and its pedestal would be able to be delivered to mars.",
"[Yes, here is the video of it](https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"What if there is but they didn't tell us?",
"Reminds me of a movie from my childhood \n\n[Elon Musk recreating the opening scene in ‘Heavy Metal’](https://i.imgur.com/jgfdWwF.jpg) ",
"Why did he do this?",
"Anyone know if it's possible for air to be in the tires, or would there have been massive pressure changes?\n\nAny pics of what the car is attached to?\n\nWhy does it spin slowly?\n\nIf it had a mic and David Bowie playing from the stereo could we hear it?",
"Roll in the costs of doing all the SpaceX shit to get that car in to space, it's billions.",
"Lmaoooo",
"alright its been too long of me being quite \n\nthe fuck does meta mean",
"Since when does the word \"funding\" imply public. \n\nElon Musk has like 5 gajillion other sources of income",
"I like your first comment better.",
"I think it serves the purpose that Grandpa Elon can tell his grandkids that he launched his car into space and now he has pics. ",
"Wow people really hate this link you posted. Guess I won't click it. ",
"Thanks for sharing ",
"I sure hope the write it all off lol",
"ITT, suspect claim of $0 and people not getting that marketing != advertising.",
"Depends on how you think aliens would have done things and if they even exist.\n\nIt's not that big of an assumption, though, and it's marketing speak anyway.",
"Musk said in the interview it costed around 500 million, but likely more",
"https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html%3foutputType=amp",
"Don't you get a sense of hypocrisy here? As soon as anyone praises a random company like Coke or Taco Bell you get a lot of people claiming \"hail corporate\" and downvoting them. It works this way for almost every single company except Tesla/Space X. ",
"I think they have legendary status already in the bag what with the whole convertible launched into space bit.",
"Also, soon to be the car with the most miles on it, lol",
"I want to believe musk watched heavy metal, and thought lets recreate this opening scene. So awsome love that movie.",
"HEAVY METAL ",
"I never said or insinuated they're the same word. They aren't. Different syllables and different sounds. That said, I made my comment with the understanding that you wouldn't get snagged on verbiage like marketing and advertising. \n\n[Here you go man](https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+marketing&oq=definition+of+marketing&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l4j0.1959j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)",
"You could've just said you liked r/iamverysmart or \"I like rick and morty because r/iamverysmart\"...and it would've conveyed the same message.",
"To that last one. No space is a vacuum.",
"Supposedly next year there will be a few tourists flying aboard a Falcon Heavy in a free-return trajectory around the Moon.",
"Hey, everybody, this guy believes in *years*! Just another brainwashed “time only travels in one direction” sheeple, reinforcing the bars of our cage. \n\nYears. Ppphhh.",
"This is an ad to try and promote that the Earth is round. I'm not buying it. ",
"The Elon fanboys do it for free.\n\nedit: source: I give free Elon hype myself sometimes",
"Now its going closer to 40,000 miles per hour relative to the earth, or 107,000 miles per hour relative to the sun.",
"Nah, we do that for them",
"I knew SpaceX is an adtech company ",
"Yea, man. The ad was out of this world.",
"I.....is this sarcasm? What is sarcasm? Are we sarcasm?",
"Right, he donated his personal Tesla",
"that is exactly what was ~500 million, per Elon\n\n",
"The clone has taken over",
"I'm pretty sure I've seen a Tesla branded RV outside the cardinals stadium idk if that counts. Does it say at all what kind of ads they spend on?",
"This is going to be hard enough to comprehend when found by aliens",
"You think the Rover didn't have a steering wheel?",
"Okay but what about this, once the rover is on mars, its now traveling at ~54,000 mph \n\n... Ill see myself out",
"Don Draper much?",
"They sent the Stig into space. Something even Clarkson couldn't manage. Though there was an attempt at putting a Robin into orbit...",
"I did wonder how many millions were spent on super bowl ads this year in comparison",
"They say it costs about 90M per space x launch ",
"a little less than 1/180 of the distance between hereish and where Mars will be in [6 months.](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960905835118505984?s=17)",
"It would have been amazing if they did that, and Elon denied it.\n\nSo many conspiracy theories would be made.",
"Well of course they don't need to spend money on advertising. Redditors like OP do it for them and will vehemently defend them on here for them as well\n\nFun fact: Tesla actually spent $26 million on advertising in 2016 alone\n\nhttp://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n\n> The Company incurred advertising costs of $26.3 million, $28.6 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\n\nThat was for 100,000 cars sold. Meanwhile, Toyota spent $1.76 billion last year... for over 10 million cars sold.\n\nTurns out, Toyota actually spends less money on advertising, per car, than Tesla does.",
"Thank you for translating that into the system of units used by nearly every other country in the world as well as anyone in academia within countries that would otherwise use the other measure of speed.",
"It's a tide add",
"There's that one from Back To The Future for starters.",
"? Elon has offered to supply Puerto Rico with solar to help rebuild the island after that hurricane. Are you brain dead or something? Plus there are countless massively rich people who give a lot of their money to charity. Plus what the hell does SpaceX have to do with yours or the worlds problems? Smoke a joint or something. ",
"Elon Musk showed Elon Musk good will?",
"Or hiding a body and pretending it’s a mannequin you’re launching into space. ",
"same",
"should have turned the radio on",
"**Why is everyone on reddit always giving Elon Musk a rim job?**",
"Nope. Chuck Tesla.",
"It's not coming back, it's going to orbit the sun for an indefinite amount of time ",
"I think those people are stupid too. People can just like brands. ",
"Toyota spent 1.76 billion in advertising in 2017. Although they do have more than 3 vehicles",
"...inverted",
"Except it was Musk's personal car, and it was used in place of concrete to test a load for the rocket.",
"So you had a bad day",
"He is implying that OP thought this was cool and posted it and is not in anyway compensated by SpaceX.",
"No, it was Elon Musk's car. It's his company.\n\nEven if it wasn't, is it that unrealistic to want to send your personal car to space? That sounds awesome! Don't think of it as a donation, some guy just wanted to send his car to space. That's basically what happened. He had the means.",
"Just wait until you hear about the mileage it can get on a single charge!",
"I duunnnooo That dodge Ram commercial with that highly ironic MLK speech dubbed in was up there.",
"Get in losers , we're going to mars.",
"Or maybe its because he's actually doing some pretty interesting things within the industry?",
"Does he still have to pay for registration and insurance?",
"Where is the car positioned on the Falcon... don’t say on top, show me, how is it fastened, how are there so many angles of the car and not a single one with any other hardware included",
"And you're allready getting downvoted.",
"SpaceX spent billions for Tesla",
"Its not true, and he will find no evidence. But its on reddit, with a few upvotes. So now some people will beleive its true. So in a way, it is now true.",
"Humanity has ascended",
"SpaceX does have a NASA contract but so do a ton of private companies.",
"it was",
"It's extremely unlikely that there are aliens that have 4 wheeled enclosed machines that hold passengers and use combustion engines to drive on paved roads. ",
"I install Tesla charging stations and I understand Tesla pays thousands of dollars at the hotels I work at for us to install them and all the hotels need to do is supply rooms for us to stay. Great job.",
"\"look like a star driving your Tesla Roadster\"",
"Yokohama getting a bit as well. When the car is rotated in the right position.",
"What a fucking load of horseshit. God I'm fucking tired of tesla dick-sucking that's going on here. \n\n> Marketing, promotional and advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of selling, general and administrative expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. We incurred marketing, promotional and advertising costs of $48.0 million, $58.3 million and $48.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. [source](http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605) \n\n***Fuck the fuck off, you fuck.***",
"As cooked as Tesla's books are, you're smoking crack if you think they spend \"zero\" on advertising and PR. This is a company which has never produced a profit in it's entire existence and probably never will. This is a company that exists and survives based on public perceptions and enthusiasm, which is then used to secure more and more loans, while issuing more and more of their bonds; which btw are considered \"junk\" by most of the market at this point, not by actually a product or service to make a profit. It's no wonder you dipshits elected Trump. Not very bright. ",
"You do know that Musk owns Tesla and SpaceX, right?",
"So they just outsource their advertising to SpaceX",
"Moreso because Tesla's production is shit, than any demand. Companies like Toyota and Ford crank out more cars in a week than Tesla does of every model in a year",
"if we tell you, we can't tell you how fast it is going. But if we tell you how fast it is going, we can't tell you exactly where it is.",
"This is a common misconception. Schrodinger actually just liked dreaming up cat deathtraps, and when he once absentmindedly mused about one of his designs out loud in front of others he quickly came up with the thought experiment excuse to cover up his weird hobby.",
"I don't even want to figure out how much fuel you would need even to get a zero mass object out of Earth's gravitational influence and a constant 1m/s. Remember, you need enough fuel to lift the other fuel yet to be used. That would add up pretty fucking fast.",
"Elon Musk was quoted as saying developing Falcon Heavy cost over $500 million. Each launch of the rocket is around $90 million",
"Because he's one of the few people in the world trying to better peoples lives and does it by disrupting already established markets. \n\nFirst car company to skip dealerships and promote electric vehicles. Not to mention that other car companies now have to play catch up to the new Model 3 and also the S. Changed the game with quick charge stations and shit. We have a model S and I gotta say, for the price, there is nothing like it. \n\nSpace X is the first private company in the space field. Space X will be hugely beneficial in the future with their technologies they develop\n\nThe Boring Company - aimed at improving public transit and reinventing how we transport people. Who else is even thinking about this or trying to do this? Not many. \n\nYou what I hate? People like you who just take the opposite stance on something just because it's popular on this site. Educate yourself because you go on about how something sucks dick\n\nIs he perfect? No. Are his Companies perfect? No. But he is doing something that literally no one else in the world is doing and for that, I applaud him. I don't obsess over this guy, but I definitely admire his drive and what he's doing with his life. He's doing a lot more than other people with the same kind of money. ",
"Sweet sweet Veldspar. ",
"It's a Tide ad.",
"I think OP means normal advertising, they do spend a little on advertising as per other comments but it's not much",
"I can't believe people buy this crap... that looks fake as F'k.",
"It's a mannequin. ",
"The image is real and undoctored if that's what you're asking. The spacesuit has a dummy in it though, no person.",
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"Currently working on a financial statement reformulation for Tesla, been staring at this thing for nearly 8 hours today, thought I could escape it on reddit :/",
"History being made 😁",
"Just search google for their annual report and ctrl f marketing. It cites millions in advertising per year. These articles about tesla spending $0 are never ending, and the irony is not as strong as teslas fanboys.",
"What? Musk is the CEO of the whole company.\n\nAnd anyway, if I owned a Tesla why shouldn't I have the choice to donate it back to the company? Clearly I had the money to buy it in the first place, so it's not like I'm being taken advantage of or something. Stuff like this is why I avoid r/LateStageCapitalism like the plague–they don't just hate capitalism, they hate people making their own choices too.",
"Do you know why they spend almost nothing on Advertising? Because Elon Musk writes checks out of his own pocket to get stuff done. Show me another CEO that does the same.",
"Depends on what you define as advertising. I'm sure they have a PR team and a presence on social media, and their investors are very vocal about how amazing Tesla is, but you don't see any TV commercials or billboards. It is a questionable claim but nowadays \"advertising\" doesn't have defined boundaries.",
"That gives me a black mirror vibe",
"Well, that’s a little better at least. Late stage capitalism is still fucked, just not in this particular specific way. ",
"This was his first edition roadster. He has a Model S as well which is a much more realistic daily car. ",
"Not really a prompt, you just told the entire story.",
"It's going to a much lower energy orbit than a mars orbit. Although depending on what your reference frame may be it could be going faster than a mars rover at certain points in its flight path.",
"With no (to low) air resistance, it would look perfect ",
"You're a filthy liar OP. Telsa spent $26.3 million on advertising last year. Read their financials. ",
"To the first one. The pressure at sea level is around 15psi. A typical tire inflation pressure is 30psi. So the tires would be at a normal operating pressure in space if they deflated them to 15psi at the launch site.",
"Personally, I think it more likely that somebody would try to sneak themselves in to replace the dummy.",
"Is that true? I missed that tidbit ",
"Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?",
"Tonight, I point at a rocket; James also points at a rocket; And Richard points at the earth...",
"How about...\n\n“What’s a car?”",
"Elon Musk owns SpaceX and is CEO of Tesla. Since Falcon Heavy was a test flight, they needed a payload simulator that wasn't a paying customer. ",
"And all Elon Musk wants is to do some cool shit. ",
"Yeah the whole thing is just another big sham to perpetuate the lie that the Earth is round and revolves around the sun. Blasphemers!",
"Looks like they spend kind of a lot on ads.",
"Tesla's annual advertising budget is $22 million. While not a lot, it's not $0.",
"I didn't do it for that high and mighty reason, just annoyed me he used two different measurements. ",
"It's 'shopped. You can tell by the pixels",
"Even if he doesn't, who has the capabilities to impound that car?",
"And i'm implying that OP didn't just wake up one day and pull this image out of his anus. He got it from someone at Tesla who has access to these sorts of things. Likely from a social media site or a site set up and run by Tesla's marketing department. They're definitely spending money on advertising. Maybe not television ads but there are other types of advertising. I never said or implied OP works for Tesla. ",
"Shit just got real",
"They spend it on social media shills and PR releases. It's the new type of advertising. ",
"they don't pay for their TV commercials?",
"The most bullshit post of all time ",
"Except for the fact that the person is Elon Musk himself, so your point is kind of sort of totally moot.",
"Wouldn't you? He's the closest thing to Tony Stark we have in real life ",
"am I being stupid here? I dont see a /s tag. \n\nthere's seriously a Tesla currently in orbit around the earth??",
"At least SpaceX is the most private you can possibly get with a major space organization",
"These very dexter-esque of you. ",
"NO. ITS NOT ANOTHER TIDE AD.",
"But not close to Mars.",
"How much of that is tradeshows, staff, brochures and catalogs, providing product for car mag/show reviews, vendor relations, mailings to customers, etc. vs mass media advertising though? \n\nI think the title is fair to say zero if there aren't print, tv, and radio ads. ",
"Oh god the flashbacks.",
"Yes, I think it didn't. ",
"You've obviously had never seen me burnout in my Geo Metro.",
"Answer: The earth is actually flat and Elon Musk is part of the round earth propaganda engine.\n\ntl;dr: Adobe is amazing!",
"Then she'd be a fraction of a year old, not zero.",
"Yes. ",
"Drop in the bucket. They are a private space firm that just launched a payload into orbit. They were going to have some kind of telemetry package, adding video is an incremental cost.",
"SpaceX has had a great string of fortunate fuckups recently. First the accidentally land a rocket, and now they’ve gone way further than they thought they could",
"Show me a three boobed woman and I'll show you another CEO",
"Anyway.. isn't it heading like way the fuck out there? It isn't staying in earth orbit... it is heading IIRC out towards the asteroid belt.",
"They don't know either. ",
"Space junk ",
"Right, you can't be a successful space company without doing contracted jobs, that's just competition",
"Too bad they haven't made this car in 6 years",
"I got so excited for half a second. This new woman is way better than \"the American\" from last season, but I still miss the Stig.",
"You realize the owner of SpaceX is the CEO of Tesla.",
"Or at least a random pot of petunias just floating by...",
"Still though that's great and hilarious at the same time.",
"Yeah but my only point is the boosters are firing through the entire takeoff. Escape velocity isn't really relevant.",
"I'm sure he will get another roadster soon. ",
"Brilliantly typical of this generation - not content to pollute the world with litter and rubbish, we are throwing it into space now...",
"Nah mate it's a tide ad",
"It was a real video stream earlier today. Yes, they launched a car into space today. ",
"I think they have just got a cult like following. ",
"Ah, being fourteen.",
"But how about once Elon gets his worldwide satalite internet network up?",
"T H E Y D O I T F O R F R E E",
"SERIOUSLY",
"> They could pay you for that! If they had an advertising budget...\n\nWhy would they need to when posters like you do it for free for them? And as an added bonus, you defend them for free too!",
"Well, it's a dummy, but yeah, it's up there.",
"Not to mention, isn't this kinda...\n\nYa know...\n\nAdvertising?\n\nI mean, it's cute, and frivolous, and it shows off Tesla. There's no function to sending his car, a Tesla car no less, into space.",
"sooo do you know?",
"Reminds me of the opening scene in the animated Heavy Metal movie where the astronaut heads to earth in a Corvette dropped out of a Shuttle.",
"hijacking this comment to ask you a question. \n\nHow is this not space pollution justified by a publicity stunt? Am I missing something here? ",
"Yes there is.\n\nSpaceX was testing a new rocket (the Falcon Heavy) and needed a payload to test it. Eoon Musk decided to use his Tesla Roadster.\n\nIt's on its way to the asteroid belt now.",
"I got mad permits, man!",
"So they overshot by about 2x? I don’t understand ",
"It's incredible",
"This",
"People like progress.",
"Nope, it's a Tide ad",
"If you don’t include the cost of launching a car to mars then yes.",
"God help us if that were true. The guy helped develop PayPal. That's about it, from a technical standpoint.",
"Not a real person, a dummy wearing a spacex suit. And it'll be orbiting the sun now. For the rest of your life, this will be floating around in space. ",
"Shit. You believe in the *sun*? I think I’m at the wrong meeting. It was supposed to be the down at the docks, dammit!",
"Ah, worshipping rich people who will never give a shit about you or any of the problems you will ever face in your life no matter how often you suck their dicks on reddit. ",
"∀ x: P(x) | x > 0",
"I thought he meant 16.5k (k as in thousand) miles per hour. ",
"Presenting... an obvious scam vaporware product which is currently physically impossible to produce, does not exist, and very likely never will. ",
"I know! How dare he complete a milestone towards making humans an inter-planetary species? What an asshole!",
"It's a Tide ad",
">Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising. \n\nThen why is here so much shilling? ",
"Heeeaaaavveee metal. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dur nur nunun.",
"Or green screen the suit for future potential commercials. ",
"You shoulda met the dummy he was a great guy.",
"Invitation for an alien invasion ",
"I don't think space has registration and insurance.",
"Welcome to the world of exaggeration/hyperbole to make a point. \n\nIt's a method of speech in order to convey a point. Hello. ",
"Elon Musk for world leader of the universe",
"Stupit geraffes",
"We gotta hit 88 miles per hour! ",
"Source?? They literally have no advertising budget, including one for astroturfing. You know there are financial statements about these things, right? If what you say is true they are lying to investors in financial statements; a serious crime.",
"Pretty expensive way to advertise a car they no longer sell. \n/s",
"Yes.",
"And it's not like it had to move to fuel any theories. People can just say they were heavily drugged and the live feed cut out before they could wake up. Or even that Elon developed some sort of cryo-suit and just told everyone it was some \"dummy\"..which in his view could technically be true because everyone is dumber to Elon. Maybe it really *is* headed for mars after all.....",
"There was a 5 hour livestream of \"Starman\" floating through space in his Midnight Cherry red tesla roadster: https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M",
"It was ejected out of the payload capsule so that it could land and leave the car up there.",
"Either that or people are really hyped on Elon Musk's brother and mother and dog and what laundry detergent he uses. ",
"They didn't spend billions on advertising. We all spent billions on advertising for them through government subsidies.\n\n\nThat is an important thing to recognize. It's not good; it's not bad. It just is what it is. \n\n\nThat's what reddit used to be about - calling things like they are. ",
"> You should go look up the f35...\n\nOver 3000 of them to be built to serve in over 15 countries and will be the backbone of Western airpower (and thus military power) for the next 50 years... how much do you think that should cost?\n\n",
"Why spend money on marketing when reddit does it for you?",
"Why yes is it was, space x launched the falcon heavy rocket with a mass simulator on top, the tesla and star man in it was the mass simulator. ",
"A dummy not a human, but yes it is real.",
"Download. Set as wallpaper.",
"Stupid giraffe...",
"Head spins around like in the exorcist.",
"Fuck yeah I do. Why wouldn’t I? \n\nWorlds a pretty scary and shitty place. It’s good to celebrate the fun and amazing stuff. \n\nThis “fanboy call out” attitude among some Redditors feels like a type of /r/iamverysmart\n\nCry some more.\n\nedit:** YES MY GOLD FROM ELON ARRIVED.** \n\nI’ll like to donate it to all the triggered individuals from /r/the_donald and /r/latestagecapitalism. You guys look great together ",
"The Elons look like *us* now.",
"He's taking one down.",
"yeah i noticed they fucked up the live feed too. had me confused for a bit.\n\ni also enjoyed the bit where the presenters dont know how to react to the news in their earpieces that the main booster crashed. they are all prepared to be ecstatic, and did this job well, but weren't briefed on how to present bad news.",
"The view as soon as it opened up - spaceman - the ocean - a spaceman. Made me cry ",
"That's OK, because it doesn't actually exist. Very likely never will. ",
"Done, wish you could see it too. ",
"Do you know what Tesla has done for Puerto Rico, you fucking troglodyte?",
"To be fair, if it came back to Earth it would still do that.",
"It's actually just a ploy to get aliens to reveal themselves when they come to sue for false advertising. ",
"And a towel in my glovebox.",
"This is one sweet Tide ad!",
"Probably, I read it too quick, got annoyed, posted. Regretted, got annoyed with another guy. Now I'm responding to you, and going to bed. ",
"Where's this donating thing coming from? On the stream they said it was his own personal roadster.",
"Reverse donuts. ",
"somewhere in hollywood fast and furious 100 is getting written.",
"Yea the ratio is poor.",
"Billions in RnD.",
"Yeah, the presenters specifically said, \"although the footage looks the same from both boosters, it's not\" or something... but it clearly was. The dust specs and stuff on the lens even matched. Someone is getting fired for using copy+paste on their video interface and forgetting to change the last square's source.",
"Yes. That was the joke. Sometimes you have to be slightly bipolar to justify actions that would otherwise be an egregious breach of fiduciary responsibility.",
"And i have the greatest wallpaper of all time thanks to that. ",
"Extinction of ICE?",
"Do these snosberries taste like snosberries.",
"Thank you. Why will it not just burn up or otherwise be destroyed very quickly?",
"Maybe the more modern interpretation is you playing the lottery. Buying a ticket means your both a winner and not a winner at the same time until the lottery draw collapses reality to a single point where the numbers are true to only one person.",
"Yes! Also a copy of the book and a handy towel in the glovebox.",
"Basically just need a bunch of black space on the top and bottom of the photo",
"I mean.... It would be the only way for Felix Baumgartner to break his record at this point.",
"Ah, false dichotomy.",
"> Yes, but they didn't need to choose a Tesla roadster. They did it to advertise for Musk\n\nExactly. Musk is essentially both Tesla's and SpaceX's main form of advertising. ",
"The load was in the top portion of the cone. Starman was bolted to some [framework](http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/auto/2018/02/05/starman-set-to-take-ride-to-mars-in-tesla-roadster/_jcr_content/par/featured_image/media-0.img.jpg/931/524/1517836049958.jpg?ve=1&tl=1&text=big-top-image) underneath it. Camera is on the pointy bits and are rather close so the framework doesn't show. Wouldn't look as nice either with framework there, too. Frame is also primarily black.",
"First car in space? Or did someone else do this already?",
"will it be first edition?",
"It is not true that Tesla spends zero on advertising. Their budget is quite substantial. You are thinking of a very small part of advertising, the Key Visual in your newspaper and the thirty second commercial during the superbowl. You are forgetting the website, the signage, the logo design, the brochures (this is where agencies make big money. brochures are such a money pit), the events, and so much more. \n\nSee Tesla 10-k: \n\n*Marketing, Promotional and Advertising Costs\nMarketing, promotional and advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of selling, general and\nadministrative expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. We incurred marketing, promotional and advertising costs of\n$48.0 million, $58.3 million and $48.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.*\n\nSource: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/5971535967x0xS1564590-17-3118/1318605/filing.pdf\n\nAdditional source: am a creative director, have benefitted from Tesla advertising spending, have multiple friends who currently help Tesla with marketing, advertising and design.",
"It had a T-shaped stick-like device, not a steering wheel. \n\n[You can watch it in action here.](https://youtu.be/5cKpzp358F4)\n\nAnd [here are some basic schematics for the LRV.](https://i.imgur.com/0BdPnYm.jpg)",
"found the boeing employee ",
"Everything orbits the sun, even if it is on earth. ",
"Fuck Elon Musk and his huge ego. This will just make the space debris problem worse in the future.",
"Not a prop, it's an actual space suit SpaceX had for qualification with NASA.",
"Much a kin to newton's fetish for falling fruit. These methods never get their due credit.",
"How about the [Stewie head turn](https://media1.giphy.com/media/kyRqPaF8vimcw/giphy.gif)?",
"Oh no, where will he get another one from?",
"Ty",
"I didn't know I couldn't do that.",
"I laughed at the stupidity of the question, only to find out that it's true. It had more of a joystick.",
"Cool, thanks! ",
"Hahaha this made me giggle on the bus ",
"so test launching a rocket that might aid us in leaving this hellscape of a planet were creating isnt worth it?",
"It's not staying in orbit where the space junk problem is",
"This vehicle is on escape trajectory and the Apollo missions weren't on \"true\" escape trajectories as they never stopped orbiting Earth, they just started orbiting the moon which is also an Earth orbit.\n\nThat car is going to stop orbiting Earth and starting orbiting the sun which means it has to completely escape and will have to go faster.",
"No, they clearly show the same rocket in the video you linked.",
"You're spending money to encourage customers to advertise for you via word of mouth.",
"lel",
"That is not a fact. SpaceX is privately owned, presumably with much of its shares out of Musk's ownership, and Tesla is a publicly traded company of which most is owned by people not named Elon Musk.",
"Honestly, I'm not so sure about that",
"I think what you're describing as a \"sense of hypocrisy\" is just the ability to differentiate and not think categorically. I subscribe to Hail Corporate and I think reddit IS astroturfed. Hail corporate definitely overreaches, but close to half of what they identify as paid shilling is in fact that. \n \n \nBut: Space X is fucking putting ROCKETS into mother fucking OUTER SPACE, and LANDING ROCKETS on ocean platforms. I'm definitely just a casual/passive enthusiast but what they're doing seems amazing and revolutionary. \n \n \nTaco Bell and Coke make crunchy foods and beverages, respectively. It is not really fair to compare them to the spaceship company. This kind of reductionist thinking is very frustrating.",
"Tesla is a public company. Any of you American dip shits who passed primary school with your education, go look at their actual books. It's the most cooked shit you'll see since the days of Enron. ",
"thats below escape velocity, can't be right",
"It's your one way ticket to midnight\nCall it heavy metal\nHigher than high, feelin' just right\nCall it heavy metal\nDesperation on a red line\nCall it heavy metal noise",
"> Toyota spent 1.76 billion in advertising in 2017. Although they do have more than 3 vehicles\n\nThey also sold over 10 million vehicles in 2017, compared to 100,000 Tesla's - a factor of over 100\n\nSo Toyota in fact spent less per vehicle sold than Tesla did",
"Man, that would have been a better halftime show for the Superbowl (the launch and all)",
"GTFO. I love that so much.\nThis is more fun than space programs have ever been ",
"Nope, but I've never seen anyone able to explain and I've seen it used in so many wildly different context that I'm pretty sure that most the people using it are using it wrong. \n\nEither that or I'm stupid. But those two are not mutually exclusive. ",
"Internal combustion engine",
"Shut up, stupid.",
"Could we stop using trumpisms please.",
"The lunar rovers didn't eacape orbit. They only went fast enough to intercept the moon.\n\nThe Roadster's real competition is the Martian rovers - though per Elon, the Roadster's orbit now takes it into the asteroid belt, which almost certainly makes it taste than Curiosity and Opportunity.",
"marketing, advertising, communications, PR.\n\ncall it what you want to call it. but they spend a lot on it.",
"I am just shocked that r/hailcorporate isn't having a field day with this one",
"Tide ad",
"I thought the velocity they posted was kilometers per hour",
"Nice try, but this is obviously a Tide ad",
"The roadster isn't staying in earth orbit it's going into heliocentric orbit and the Apollo vehicles were still in earth SOI since they were just going to the moon. ",
"You got a source on the donated part? Thought it was his.",
"So are there just concrete blocks flying around in orbit at 20000mph?",
"Someone needs to dub this song into the Tesla video. EDIT dub not sub",
"He’s just sending it home first so when he finally departs for his home planet, he’ll have transportation when he arrives. ",
"Yes. Also on the dashboard was a Hot Wheels Tesla which also had a tiny spaceman driving. ",
"Lunar rover never escaped Earth's gravity, but the Tesla will. The Moon is in orbit around Earth so the Lunar Rover is as well.",
"nope, op actually means 0$\n\n ironically he says so beneath your post",
"They had to launch something for a test payload. They decided to launch a car. It's not in orbit around the earth and isn't part of the space junk problem you read about. It's suppose to be orbiting the sun. Lots of room for a car up there.",
"Heliocentric orbit is quite spacious. Also, they would have sent something like steel blocks up. So not much extra pollution compared to a regular launch",
"Is this a legit undoctored photo?",
"wait for the flat-earthers to debunk this photo eh ",
"Its not staying in earth orbit, and its a necessary test. They could have put anything in there to simulate the weight the rocket would carry. They just picked a car.",
"Hopefully not a dumb question, but can anyone tell me how they took that pic?",
"Your comment is some gay frogs level idiocy, well done.",
"Well, this was actually the plan for the roadster all along iirc",
"Ya i didn't like a video brah.",
"Lmao, I love Musk for letting people have fun with this ",
"Space X’s budget. ",
"Or make the head turn and cut the camera instantly to a error message ",
"It's a Tide commercial ",
"This is going to be the cleanest dead horse ever.",
"nah",
"Yeah Stark industries was a weapons developer before Iron Man. Paypal ain't shit compared to WMDs ",
"Just like... put it under the rocket...much simpler",
">I'm sure orbital live streaming is a piece of cake\n\nAbsolutely not. I had a chance to meet the people who do this. It is not a piece of cake by any means and yes it takes a lot of money.",
"A joystick isn't a steering wheel tho",
"I’m gonna be the silly one to say zero emissions from an electric engine. Zero space pollution...... also, they are retrieving it in an undisclosed amount of time. ",
"OP is a fucking Tesla/SpaceX shill or one of their useful idiots.\n\nFun fact: Toyota, at $1.76 billion in advertising, sold 10 million cars last year. Tesla, at $26 million in advertising, sold 100,000 cars last year.\n\nIn fact, Tesla spent more on advertising per vehicle than Toyota did. ",
"Unexpected Archer!!!! Yes!!!!",
"Do you have a link for the new version?",
"The radiation is already most likely stripping off a lot of paint and colour. It looks fine in that picture because it wasn't up there for long.",
"Yes. And this is the real live stream.\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aBr2kKAHN6M\n\nYes, a fucking live stream. You are watching footage only a few seconds old of a car with a fake driver, in space, orbiting the earth.\n\nGiggity.",
"Space is big. It's going far away. Nobody really cares about space pollution anyway. ",
"Yeah I've since realized, you'd think after playing so much ksp I'd have noticed. ",
"They need to point out that this is the only Tesla (or any other car) with an honest to god Ludacris Speed. ",
"They needed to test the rocket before using it with any serious payloads",
"Doesn't Tesla basically write Elecktreck.com?",
"You’re literally the reason I hate reddit sometimes and always hate hipsters. And you’re also not as smart as you think you are. (Middle Finger Emoji)",
"> The rocket was going to launch either way. Most space agencies will launch steel or concrete on the maiden launch. If it blows up, the “spacecraft” isn’t lost. \n\nOr they'll put in cheap satellites. It's how radio amateurs got their satellites up.",
"Send me your car and I'll get it organised.",
"That'd be levels of fucked up only a closeted supervillain like Elon would be capable of.",
"Show me in your sedar findings where it's cooked? \n\nThere's a big difference between over hyped and poor transparency.",
"Watch this first. This is the simulation and will show you exactly what you're asking. \nhttps://youtu.be/Tk338VXcb24\n\nThen watch this. This happened today. https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE",
"**Seriously yeah. The guy is mostly a PR hit job. All he did from a technical standpoint is help build paypal.**",
"SpaceX is testing a new rocket and needs a payload to test it, but no satellite company would every fly on the first flight of a new design.\n\nThey usually use concrete or steel blocks, but Elon decided to use his personal Roadster.",
"Is Starman not a man? I mean, it's right there in his namesake!",
"There are definitely people who share Elon news for ~free~ Karma",
"Not by much.",
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"My local council, they'll find any excuse to ticket you.",
"Do they exist, statistically and logically, it's pretty certain. \n\nWould they make a \"car\", who knows. \n\nWould they make something to make them move faster, most likely. ",
"No, he meant [ICE](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice).",
"But why does it make you so angry?",
"> Just search google for their annual report and ctrl f marketing. It cites millions in advertising per year. These articles about tesla spending $0 are never ending, and the irony is not as strong as teslas fanboys.\n\nFun fact: they spent more on advertising per car than Toyota did.",
"Huh?",
"Ah, choo!",
"Normally I would disagree but not on this one",
"So Technically this photo cost over $90 Million to create. Totally worth ever penny.",
"musk estimated 500mm or a bit more today at the press conference. it might be 600mm but it's unlikely to be billions.",
"Lmao op is an idiot ",
"Well not commercials, but they do autoshows, ride and drives, and other events that fall under marketing ",
"Please don’t give Hillary Clinton any ideas!",
"Does Tesla own Reddit too and made me open it exactly on this page? ",
"Where's Jeremy Clarkson when you need him?",
"Internal combustion engines. ",
"The plan was to get close to the mars orbit. Now they are going further. ",
"The guy with the space rocket company?",
"Regardless, it's a cost. If we're evaluating the claim at face value, it's just not true. Sure, it might be a relatively insignificant cost, but it's not free. ",
"Elon said in the press conference that there are no sensors and it’s actually just a mannequin inside so...",
"In really surprised this was just posted.",
"Just what we need, the aliens to think we're just sending out more trash into the universe. Look farchop, those humans litter so much it's starting to leak off their planet. You're right, luarjaw, let's blow them up before they trash our home too. \n",
"Guys, I found one.",
"Wow this is so rude. Everyone who wants a bit of socialism in their society is just immature, I guess. ",
"They have cameras attached to the rocket and in the car.",
"If he wants it to be ",
"To address your first paragraph. The question is really \"How much energy does it take to throw an object such that it won't fall back to earth.\" When you try to answer this question mathematically it turns out that the answer is a velocity \"the object has to be going at least this velocity\". If you have some sort of continuous propulsion that propels the object at less than the escape velocity it will keep getting farther and farther from earth, but as soon as you turn off the propulsion the object will begin to fall back down no matter how far away it is. If the object is traveling faster than escape velocity when you turn off the propulsion it will never return to earth.",
"Because other load tests are cement blocks, this isn’t staying in LEO, and is actually running a sensor package for a soak in the van Allen belts. \n\nIt’s also a fantastic realistic non static load for a test launch, including positioning and trajectory calculation and compensation for payload vibrations. ",
"What a dolt.",
"It was a test flight. The test flight needed a test payload. They normally use concrete or steel. Musk just swapped out the concrete for a car. Either way, something was being put into space today.",
"I really hope Musk put a teapot in the trunk without telling anyone.",
"How much did they spend for this post?",
"But the Roadster's on the way to the asteroid belt past Mars. Isn't it faster?",
"We're not talking about bloated NASA contracts. SpaceX's whole thing is to reduce the cost of getting to space. They spent over half a billion total on development of the Falcon Heavy, but that wasn't solely for putting this Tesla into space. Now they have the world's largest operating rocket designed and ready for customers.\n\nA Falcon Heavy launch costs ~90 million. However this one was a test launch and didn't cost anyone what a paying customer would pay.",
"Being the first car in space is really fucking cool! I get that part of why they don't advertise is being constantly plagued by production issues, but I still would LOVE to see an official ad about this. ",
"I think it had some switches or a joystick to keep weight down but what actually happened was the guy driving the lunar landers balls were so heavy her could just swing them whatever direction he wanted it to turn. And it did. ",
"How much is Tide paying people to make these comments? I want in!",
"Because his goal of sustainable energy and making humans interplanetary is key to our survival as a species. \n\nRegardless of what God you subscribe to, there is no better way to praise him than to preserve his creation.",
"Actually, if this counts as advertising, then that means their space programs are heavily subsidized as an excuse for advertising cost. Especially when you compare to other company's advertising costs.",
"I mean... you both are right. That's the truly terrifying thing about astroturfing. It is everywhere, and nowhere all at once. ",
"> Worlds a pretty scary and shitty place. It’s good to celebrate the fun and amazing stuff.\n\n\nwhat did this do for the world?\n",
"It's projected to have a large elliptical orbit around the sun for something like [700 million years or more.](https://www.inverse.com/article/40963-tesla-roadster-space-x-falcon-heavy)",
"> small batch, craft vehicles\n\nNo, it's quite literally because their factory isn't scaling up to meet production goals. They even said so on their last shareholder call, unless you think Musk is lying, in which case he'd be guilty of fraud",
"You don't know what Marketing is then",
"What if its really just an ad for the spacesuit? What if, somebody was actually in the suit?",
"yeh",
"There might be poop in my shoes tomorrow.",
"Did they just make a record for the world's fastest car?",
"What does the payload do? I don’t get it ",
"Around the sun, roughly in Mars’ orbit. For billions of years, lol. No /s it’s completely real.",
"Meta as fuck. I like it.",
"Camera on the car. Believe there is a love stream from it now still",
"What was the point of putting the car in space?",
"Frenzy around the water cooling unit.",
"I'd still have range anxiety. Where is the nearest charging station?",
"Available at all good bookstores",
"It's not staying in Earth orbit....",
"The things you mentioned are where they spend all their money. Getting even a couple thousand dollars out of them for event sponsorship is apparently like pulling teeth. They do only certain events and they try and spend no money on the placement, everything else is in person events they control. \n\nThese imbeciles in here saying they buy reddit post are ridiculous. \n\nSource: my girlfriend does event sponsorship sales ",
" Proof: EARTH IS FLAT! ",
"Okay sure, I'll give you that. I've seen similar comments however even when people bring up a company like Google in a positive light. Like it or not, Google has revolutionized how we treat data and search engines as a whole, and that's only the tip of the iceberg of their influence in most people's lives. They unarguably have more of an effect on the average American than SpaceX or Tesla, yet still positive comments about them get you accused of being a Reddit shill. I can understand being skeptical of positive PR spin on major companies on Reddit, I just don't see why you would have some kind of Gold Boy exception to it.",
"Well the majority shareholder is the largest holder of stock. I think it’s safe to say that he is the majority shareholder of both companies...and therefore owns them. ",
"Corp wide mandatory mining op. Red pen for absent but online. ",
"Technically it's in orbit around the sun, but yes there is",
"And fuck the center core with it's aluminum grid fins! The real score is getting the titanium ones back. 😀",
"Thanks for the info. What are the chances it will actually be in one piece in \"a billion\" years? I obviously know nothing about this stuff but it seems like it would be just ripped to shreds while flying through space.",
"Ha",
"It has so much potential ",
"Is it so wrong to strive for stuff like this and have fun along the way? Or should our attention constantly be drawn to everything that's wrong in the world? ",
"Yes. They're even streaming live video from the car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"Nailed it!! Thank you!! I think the live feed cut for the faring ",
"Probably, yes.",
"I think a lot of people don’t realize this info is all public ",
"You see how clean that space suit is? This is a tide ad",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE \n\nYou might have to open in incognito, since its an edit of a livestream on google, if you have any of the video saved in your cache it will show the old one.",
"Internal Combustion Engine.",
"Yup. Was launched today.",
"Thank you! I would have been too lazy to track this down but am so glad you made it easy. That was f'ing amazing. ",
"He owns a single Tesla or two. I cant remember exactly.",
">They spend millions on advertising - /u/whicketywack \n\nWhich for a company of their size, especially a car company, is basically nothing.",
"Are you kidding me? Am I misunderstanding you or are you implying there isn't a serious transparency issue with the company? How many of the quarterly calls have you sat in on? How much due diligence have you done here? They operate way out of normative bounds for any public company of that magnitude. It's pretty well known too. ",
"They would've rigged the payload with sensors anyway. The spacesuit, for example, is a test article of the real Tesla spacesuit.",
"Cuz why not? Which is amazing and adorable.\n",
"Ok Elon, its time to Michael down your Vincents",
"Just go on over to r/2meirl4meirl and ask.",
"Or it’s actually Elon inside the suit and he’s going to Mars",
"It's not staying in LEO, it's going to be launched into a final orbit around the sun, in the general vicinity of Mars. There's so much room out there that if we didn't know where we put it, we'd never find a small object like this in centuries of looking.\n\nAlso normally a \"test mass\" would have been used for this launch, so there is no real difference. The car is just more fun than a chunk of lead or iron.",
"And on the dashboard Tesla, there was another, smaller Tesla. ",
"That...*really* doesn’t sound free ",
"Its not in earth orbit where most space junk is. Shouldnt be an issue out in a heliocentric orbit.",
"Mars' orbit is about 1.5 AU from the sun. The Roadster's apogee now takes it about 2.5 AU from the sun.\n\nAs you burn into higher orbits, it costs you less and less fuel to increase your orbit by a given distance. The burn that raised apogee from Earth to Mars almost certainly cost a lot more fuel than increasing it from Mars to the asteroid belt.",
"E C O N O M I E S O F S C A L E ",
"It crosses the orbital plane of Mars, and may eventually hit it. The probability is very low.",
"Read my comment again. I didn’t say it did anything. I said it’s good to celebrate the fun and amazing stuff.\n\n",
"I think he does cool stuff and people are excited. I also think the same people are deluded and are willing to ignore all the negative stuff.",
"Roads? Where we're going we don't need, roads. ",
"Heavy metal",
"It was 500 million according to Musk",
"Didnt we put men on the moon 50 years ago? wtf is the big deal",
"You’re smoking crack. It’s an example to say that a particle needs to be observed to dictate its position. And when not being looked at, it might be in multiple places. We don’t know because the simple fact of measuring it is an observation, even if a being is not looking at it. Make some r/iamverysmart people suggesting that particles may be conscious of their position ",
"This guy billionaires. ",
"Show me on the map.. DON'T POINT WITH YOUR FINGER PL!",
"link me!",
":)",
"Wait, so did they fuck up?",
"Just proof that advertising doesnt work.",
"Well, their (or Musk's) marketing and communication strategies are certainly ingenious.\n\n Though a lot of it wouldn't fall in the category of advertising. But then again, that's a 20th century thing anyway. ",
"Absolute Unit :'D",
"If you're talking about the \"capsule\" or fairing halves, they are very big and very light, being mostly made of carbon fibre. They don't burn cos they slow down very quickly, like giant leaves.\n\nIf you're talking about the car, it's already in space and heading into deep space, so there's no atmosphere to burn it up.",
"Tested the biggest rocket to date so that it can be used for future missions extending humanity past earth. ",
"there was a live stream but sure let’s go with that ",
"Might be a stupid question but where is the land on that earth? Shouldnt it be visible from space? Is it covered by the clouds? ",
"Tides definitely getting what they paid for.",
"Fun fact: he was born on 4/20/69 and in my opinion, that’s his greatest accomplishment to date",
"Yes, but look at all the neckbeards who get this to the front page of reddit. ",
"Keeping up foreign relations. ",
"> What a incompetent nube.\n\nSays the guy who believes an inc.com article saying they spent $0 on advertising when their own report - as a public company - says they spent $26 million in 2016 alone.\n\nSo either Tesla is lying and defrauding investors, or you're the \"incompetent nube\" for believing the hype",
"somebody please do this in post.",
"In before you know it was Elon inside that space suit and launched himself to Mars on his Tesla. It's was all part of the grand illusion . ",
"This is legit. He, in fact, didn't care about quantum mechanics.\n\nHe just realized that his life passion wasn't about *killing* itself. Getting a cat inside a trap was a difficult task and later taking care of the dead cat was a hassle.\n\nHe realized that the moment of uttermost intense experience of the present moment was when (trap doors closed) he didn't know if the cat was dead or alive.\n\nHe described it on his most known works as an *\"almost divine experience\"*",
"This is a re uploaded one where the cameras on both side boosters are showing and where the fairing and music come on simultaneously instead of the mishap on the live one where they showed the blue screen. ",
"The ability to send larger payloads to space at a relatively cheap price has the potential to do a lot for the world. The car is just for funsies.",
"Tesla has a waiting list for their vehicles. \n\nI could go buy a Toyota tomorrow.",
"We need more vespene gas!!!",
"I think a lot of people don't realize how dumb they are",
"Actually yes. And now after the 3 burn of the final stage it is in an orbit around the sun that will take is as far as the asteroid belt. No shit.",
"I wonder what they spent all that on. I don't often see them at car shows and they don't do the traditional advertising media, e.g. TV commercials. Would Tesla stores count as advertisement?",
"Great advertising for humans here on Earth but also for the aliens on Mars.",
"The ad campaign ends after the launch",
"Being spiteful of people you perceive as having more than you and casting them as perpetrators of some financial injustice is not a virtue.\n\nJust because a circle of resentful people meme about \"late stage capitalism\" doesn't make it any more than fantasy.\n\nHey, maybe Marx was right and *any day now* capitalism will collapse and you'll get the glee of roasting some marshmallows on the ashes of productive society before you get too hungry and face reality.\n\nOr probably not.",
"Hopefully this is the first step into becoming Futurama",
"ad budget is not marketing budget",
"Spacex paid to prove that they were capable of fulfilling specific contract requirements for the air Force. ",
"I wish Trump was transported up there so he can wave as much as he likes! ",
"New video: https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE\n\nLanding is 30 mins in. ",
"'Accidentaly?'",
"Just as I figured. Turn it on the skeptic to answer the questions. ",
"I dunno, that movie was pretty inappropriate for an 11 year old.",
"I was almost hoping to see the arm wave, then the face mask rise up to a grinning Elon. Car thrusts away into space.\n\n“*I finally did it. I finally got away from that madness.*” -Elon Musk",
"Start video at 21.10\n\nStart life on Mars same time\n\nTurn up my headphones\n\nRapturously watch both videos at full sound as life on Mars explodes at the same second as launch and as the outro drops at the same time as booster separation. Unnnnfffff\n\nNot pictured: me fucking around with different David bowie songs and timings to get it right. ",
"God bless them for including Hitchhikers shit in this. I don't care what your politics are, those books will absolutely shift your view on things for the better.",
"It *could still be true* despite finding no evidence. IMO, the best way to engage in guerilla marketing is as covertly as possible, because if nobody knows or can even prove that X is working for Musk, then nobody can get mad at Musk when X makes a front page of /r/imgoingtohellfor this level of joke as sometimes happens for official social media representatives (especially on twitter). The downside would be that you're giving up oversight for that degree of separation, but there's going to be pros and cons to anything.",
"More Views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"Shutup nerd",
"0 dollars my ass. They may not spend any on your typical ads but you can bet they have \"influencers\" . ",
"And yet they're still not solvent. I love what they're doing but when does Elon's printing press run out of green ink?",
"To be fair, the sun *will* explode one day.",
"It's a long running internet joke. I forgot you needed sarcasm tags",
"Crazy since the Moon only takes them about four days but the next possible landing site, Mars, takes 9 months with the best possible launch window.",
"Tesla, I'm 23, just moved to Miami from PR. Can I get one of those space cars? ",
"And he keeps that white space suit white with tide pods!\n\n\nGoddammit!!!",
"That’s a bad thing for Tesla. You don’t want people to have to wait. ",
"They deployed the fairings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE&t=25m40s",
"If you watch the launch video, you’ll notice that it could be a screen grab from that. If you’ve watched previous ones, you’ll know that there are payload cameras streaming video on every flight, including ones that simply have satellites. \n\nI’m not saying they didn’t work on the angles/make sure it looked extra cool, but you’re making some mighty big leaps with absolutely nothing backing them up. ",
"I didn’t know you can just leave shit in outer space. I guess there’s really no rules though ",
"It's all just so magnificently, beautifully absurd.",
"You got to look at how much they spend on ads per car sale. Since they don’t sell many cars it could be more than say Toyota. I’m too lazy to do the math though. ",
"Tell my wife I said hello",
"this is the other side of flat earth.. nothing much there",
"Well it is sorta complicated but basically if you don't orbit you aren't going to escape the orbit. If we use a hypothetical planet with no other gravitational influences, you could be 1 billion miles away and if you are not moving relative to the planet you would start to fall towards it again. With Earth, you'd only \"escape\" by entering a different gravitational influence.\n\nSo if you are in a ship with infinite fuel and you are in orbit around Earth, you will either stop orbiting or attain escape velocity of 11.186km/s to leave the orbit. \n\nI'm not an expert in the field and I can't think of a better way to explain it. You can't just leave the gravity field around Earth, you must enter a different gravity field. The most efficient way to do that is to enter orbit and then achieve escape velocity.",
"Wonder if Farmers would cover the loss if the launch didn't go well.\nThey've seen a thing or two.",
"there was a live stream but ye the image is definitely fake ",
"They had to put a test weight up there. It was this or a block of concrete. ",
"I'm downvoting this mainly because of the derogatory use of retard.",
"You just keep sucking those rich people dicks dude. I’m sure it’ll work out great for ya. ",
"I masturbated to thsi",
"Until SpaceX goes back for it one day",
"Thank you for the explanation. I am talking about the car. I guess I am too dumb to understand how that thing is going to stay in one piece for \"a billion\" years.",
"Whatever the R&D cost, it's amortized across all the flights",
"Man, they really should have used [this song](https://youtu.be/rYy_XJpI6uk?t=115). ",
"Ah, my bad!",
"And they should see a doctor ",
"This is an amazing feat and picture. But is this one real or a mock up? (NOT a flat earther a real question) lol",
"This may be a dumb question but... Will we be able to see this car floating in space when it's around mars It would be cool to get a shot of this thing just sorta aimlessly floating about, millions of miles away. I mean with a satellite or telescope",
"But they are the same, you can clearly see they both land on the same pad. Error on spacex streaming setup",
"I want to understand what you're asking first. You do not agree that Tesla has transparency issues for a public company, as far as an investor would be concerned? ",
"It can't do the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.",
"Huh, Guess this proves there is no Icewall around the edge of the earth.",
"Why hire an advertiser when you have some of the best minds working for you full-time already? ",
"the Spacesuit is so white,\n\nMust be a Tide ad ..",
"Why don't you get your shit together and do something about it then? oh yeah, because you're a whiny bitch waiting for someone to do it for them.",
" Orbital mechanics aren't that hard to calculate now, right? ",
"I want to see how it is fairing the micro meteor battle. I assume they pulled out the battery. ",
"Today Elon Musk said that launching the Falcon Heavy has cost upwards of $500,000,000 over the period of several years. So if you wanted to consider this an advertisement, then it is indeed an expensive advertisement.",
"fair enough but with the people on this website you can never be too sure ",
"THANK YOU",
"I mean, the world needs at least one eccentric billionaire.",
"Oh you're for real",
"Yeah same. Unless it’s going faster now ",
"Fun Fact #2: Alice in Wonderland was written to point out the absurdity of imaginary numbers.",
"Fair. Fixed. ",
"Considering it's moving at a few 10Thousand km per hour, it probably already has.",
"I'm with you 100%. People throw around Hail Corporate way too much. But it's a really difficult problem because, generally, skepticism is a good thing. Money makes the world go round and that's as true on reddit as anywhere else. We DO need to be vigiliant about paid marketing disguising itself as real dialogue and enthusiasm.\n \n \nThat being said, I think a lot of people, myself included, get frustrated by the clearly transparent Hail Corporate material, and start seeing it everywhere even when that fails to take human nature into account. As much as \"money makes the world go round\" is a truism, so is the fact that we are tribal people and we love to be enthusiastic, be partisan, argue, support, etc. The inevitability of Taco Bell astroturfing reddit is no more inevitable than some dude really genuinely loving Taco Bell and wanting to tell us about it. \n \n \n",
"Each rocket was $90 million. Elon said the total cost was over $500 million.",
"\"I... didn't know I couldn't do that\"",
"What's going to happen to the car?",
"I don't make fun of your hobbies.",
"Wstch any news channel or main stream media outlet. This obviously isn't a well kept secret.",
"I mean... Elon Musk is still a Tesla owner considering he owns Tesla???",
"THIS!\nIf i didn't know better I could totally see this as an episode of Top Gear.",
"Wrong feed my dude, this one doesnt actually show the fairing deploy. [This](https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=25m40s) is the video you want.",
"I saw a popular youtuber (forget name - *black tech guy) talk about how tesla gave him a car to test drive for an x amount of years and would probably be getting the new roadster after the current agreement expires in a year or 2, so they might be.",
"There are some Tesla billboards in my city. ",
"Tesla didn't spend billions of dollars (or even a single dollar) on this.",
"I mean think about it, we've never seen James Bond and Spaceman in the same room...",
"2/3 water",
"I kept expecting the thing to move or give a thumbs up.",
"You guys seriously think he didn't have this conversation?",
">current time period\n\n>lel\n\nDon't you think you'd me more comfortable back on 4chin, friendo?",
"I'm sorry officer, I -- didn't know I couldn't do that. ",
"Heavy Metal - 1981\nhttps://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0",
"Tbf there's an order of magnitude more Toyota cars than there are Tesla cars. But yeah, you are correct.",
"Not to date. Its the most powerful operational rocket at the moment, but not of all time.",
"Space is really really big and empty. There’s nothing for it to hit and no air to break down organics or rust metals.\n\nI think it’ll be there a long long time.",
"No shit?",
"Yeah, totally didn't happen. All those people at Canveral saw the light of Venus reflected off of swamp gas. All those SpaceX employees were all paid actors. The ground stations that are tracking the vehicle right now are paid by Jeff Bezos. Space isn't real. We live on a flat earth created 6,000 years ago by a beardy white Jehovah sitting on a throne of clouds.\n\nIf you can't tell by now, I'm mocking you.",
"I wonder if anything on that car could still explode and send it off track.. Tires? Airbag..gas? Batteries?",
">I think the title is fair to say zero if there aren't print, tv, and radio ads.\n\nThat makes no sense at all. You could spend tens of millions without using any of those mediums. Hell, you could even launch a car model to Mars!\n\nMarketing budget is marketing budget. How you spend it is irrelevant.",
"That free advertising cost quite a bit to set up.",
"In 1 billion years, if it somehow survives that long.",
"They don't have TV commercials.",
"Considering the whole flamethrower debacle, he's probably the one who had the most fun with it",
"Exactly.\n\n The car was donated by it's owner.\n\nWho just happens to own the rocket company. And the car company.\n\n",
"well they got David Bowie's body for free.. he wasn't using it any more. Good luck out there Ziggy",
"THANK YOU! This makes a lot more sense after seeing that.",
"It’s 33 million miles to Mars, we’ve got a full charge, half a a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing space helmets.",
"It's almost like Steve Jobs is back. Musk, you mad genius. ",
"\"Cry some more.\" \n\nSeems mature.",
"Of course they were. Butthey did not get confirmation, they were left hanging is all",
"That's what I am saying. I was basically like, \"No steering wheel? are you stupid?\" Then I looked it up to find that there is in fact, no steering wheel. ",
"Fixed as well. No longer downvoted.",
"This keeps you up at night?\n",
"and then the helmet explodes in one of those typical scifi \"oops theres a crack in my space window/helmet/windshield/porthole\" follies, and a small rubber duck comes floating out?\n\nI'd watch it.",
"According to Elon earlier today it was actually closer to half a billion. Nasa has spent more on SlS and nothing has even been built yet. ",
">Tesla has a waiting list for their vehicles.\n\nDo you buy shit because other lemmings are in line? \n\nAlso, how the fuck are you twisting that into a good thing. Tesla made 100,000 cars last year - Toyota SOLD over 10 million alone.\n\nTesla having a waiting list that is the size of what Toyota sells in a month is an example of Tesla's horrible production capacity. It means Tesla isn't producing cars and actually making a profit. It also means Tesla is losing market share to competitors who will only make it harder for Tesla to survive, especially as others start ramping up their own EV projects\n\nLeave it to reddit for people to defend business incompetence I guess",
"They land on the same pad ffs.",
"Expecting lots of \"Nope its a Tide Ad\" in the comments, was not disappointed.",
"Double sleeving is illegal and punishable by real death. ",
"It's the same people that use bernie bro slang, they just get triggered by anything that doesnt kneel to trump",
"In 200 years someone will recover it and bring it to mars as monument",
"“SUcH a WaSTE oF MOneY. WhaT aBOut, LIkE, STavING PEoplE?”\n\n*Sips $7 latte while completely misunderstanding the difference between public & private ventures or the net positive good of technological progress*",
"It depends on whether you include development costs. According to Musk they've spent well over half a billion just on FH, and if you include F9 costs which were necessary for the vehicle you're definitely in the billions range. ",
"boooiiiiiii",
"Sorry officer I didn’t know I couldn’t do that\n",
"The \"Tesla Roadster\" does not exist. It's not even physically possible with current technology. Musk claims they can allegedly bring the said alleged product to market by 2020. I do not believe this product will ever exist. ",
"Imagine if they had gotten with Boston Dynamics (that robot company owned by Google that's going to kill us all) and inside the suit they had a simple, by their standards, robot with the ability to move around and wave to the cameras and shit. ",
"What about this commercial? fake or free?\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4JyB-X31Ok",
"[Lookin' for some action](https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0)",
"You realize that images are two dimensional right?",
"Although I'm sure he has another. ",
"I too play kerbal space program in this way.",
"Tesla just happened to know a guy...",
"Yup, it is\n\nhttps://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE (launch starts at 21 minutes)\n\n[Post launch live stream archive](https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"Advertising typically refers to sponsored content. Its a blurry line, but referrals are part of broader marketing efforts (all interactions with costumers) that OP is correctly (at least in my opinion) leaving out of the scope of advertising. I doubt Tesla really has a $0 advertising budget, but the point is their marketing efforts are very simple because of all the hype behind them.",
"For the spin: barbecue roll. Make sure one side isnt overheating",
"/r/enoughmuskspam\n\nPlease someone stop it ",
"Wow! That's an appropriate budget.\nEdit: No sarcasm here folks. Not a fan of ads.",
"*turns out to be a $90B+ Tide ad*",
"https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE (launch starts at 21 minutes)\n\n[Post launch live stream archive](https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"I wonder how many Tesla's would be out there if they had Toyota's facilities",
"Does that car have seeds or water in it, or is a car being sent to an uninhabitable planet to not be driven?",
"It's all in the art of rocket surgery.\n\nSource: I play Kerbal.",
"He said half a billion and then later laughed and said probably more.",
"Have you ever watched any of their other launches? They do this for EVERY launch and it’s for monitoring and analysis of flight issues. \n\nThe fact they can stream it to the net and people watch is merely a bonus. \n\nYou think the cameras pointed at the engine bells and other key points is not for their after action reports on what went well and what failed?\n\nYouTube takes care of their live stream so they have a singular cost in a single uplink from their ground station to YouTube that can be measured in very small costs that are covered by daily operating costs. They have internet connections to deliver data to other sites. Excess bandwidth merely delivers to YouTube. ",
"Hahaha it looks like a bad photoshop!",
"Sensors sure, but probably not the high def cameras. And someone had to set up the video feed and test it, etc. etc. Quite a small expense considering the cost of the launch but probably in the tens of thousands of dollars when we finish talking about equipment, software/hardware procurement/development, work hours, etc.",
"We are living in the future. We put a fucking car into space. Aliens are going to be confused in a few million years when they look over our system. (isnt it a Stellaris event where you find a teapot in space and the scientists are utterly confused?)",
"Not really. They essentially punched the stage 2 engine and let it use all of the fuel. So now it's orbit is larger and will go past Mars and closer to the asteroid belt. Before they were proving that it could make it to Mars. Now they proved it can go beyond Mars. Here is the orbit\n\n\nhttps://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438/photo/1",
"It was the first time I'd seen the returning boosters land. It was so perfect it looked like some kind of launch footage played in reverse. It was incredible to watch live.",
"We did Apollo on a massive budget that allowed disposable rockets\n\nThis is what we can afford now ",
"Reminds me of Star Trek Voyager, when they find a [1936 pickup truck floating in space](http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/voy_the37s012.jpg).",
"Don't worry, it won't be Earth's problem soon, it is going into Solar orbit and will basically never be a problem ever again.",
"Well you got a few months to get that calculation going.",
"Meta is sort of like self-referencing (though the definition is different if you're in academia). When it's used on Reddit, it means it's calling out a reference to something else on Reddit. In this case, there's a writing prompt right now where Spaceman is James Bond.",
"I'm going with my conspiracy that Elon Musk just pulled off the most publicly applauded murder of all time. Someone is in that suit and semi-consciously woke to \"don't panic\" as Earth gradually moves farther and farther away. We won't know who for a million years.\n\nEdit: pizzazz",
"found Rick",
"Should have been shot into space to the Heavy Metal soundtrack.",
"It's all just so magnificently, beautifully absurd. \n\nEarly 90s-era MTV hair-band weedly-weedly-woo geeetars-in-space music video SHOT WITH 100% PRACTICAL. \n\nThis is just the *best* of the **best** of the ***best***.",
"Well, actually, the Tesla is getting launched on what would be a trans-Mars injection if Mars was in the right place, so it'll go significantly faster. However, we've also put rovers on Mars, so the point still stands unless you're restricting it to vehicles with only four wheels (every Mars rover launched so far or planned for the future has had six).",
"> Tbf there's an order of magnitude more Toyota cars than there are Tesla cars. But yeah, you are correct.\n\nI said per car... ",
"I did a screen cap too. And it got deleted. Guess I needed a better tag...\n\n. ",
"I asked you to point out where they've cooked their books, which are contained in their filings. It's clairity from you that I am asking for, as you are making the allegation that their books are cooked. You're wasting my time. ",
"and then?",
"Because then we too get to stand on the shoulders of giants. ",
"Conspiracies involve multiple people conspiring to commit a crime so i cant see how this is a conspiracy.\n\nHowever, what i CAN see, is that this was simply either a lame attempt at a joke/or a quick rag on conspiracy theorists, either way it wasnt funny. ",
"It was for a long time but that was fixed with auto tune ",
"Quoting myself responding to the other guy here:\n\n> Meta is sort of like self-referencing (though the definition is different if you're in academia). When it's used on Reddit, it means it's calling out a reference to something else on Reddit. In this case, there's a writing prompt right now where Spaceman is James Bond.\n\n",
"The rocket needed a test weight. What did you want on the top of it?\n",
"Ary!",
"It's going as far as Mars on its orbit",
"No, I'm just wondering why reddit is slobbering all over Elon's cock today for doing something so irresponsible and self-aggrandizing.",
"You missed one hell of a karma opportunity here. Why the hell would you post this in the comments. Go for broke as a main post",
"His fanboys, are the most ignorant people there are. Not as bad as the shkreli folks I'll admit. But god damn, pretty fucking bad. ",
"Saw one ours over around new years, the front boot was a lot small than I thought, I don't know how that other redditor was able to put a ball pit in there but hey, some space is better than no space.",
"Mileage ",
"What about showrooms? Aren't they technically advertising?\n\nThere is this giant showroom in Stuttgart, Germany that is literally a big fancy lit up room that you can see through a glass door, and a couple of Teslas inside. Doesn't seem to serve much purpose other than to advertise the brand.\n\nI'm sure they like to say they spend $0 to sound cool... but yeah they spend money on advertising.",
"Yea, and I'm not saying it is bad or anything, just that some of our tax dollars went to NASA which they gave to SpaceX, so some of our tax dollars were used to put a car into Solar orbit.",
"And so was the magazine. But it all depends on whether your parents know what a Loc-Nar is.",
"Stop telling people they don’t know something and share what you know or you don’t need to say anything. Is that how you actually talk to people face to face? \n\nEdit: not mad at you, just sick of seeing how terrible people tend to be at talking to other people. I hope you have people in your life and that they like being around you that’s all. Can’t imagine they do if you’re so eager to tell people they don’t know what they’re talking about though. Best of luck playa",
"The media practically aired his ad for free with the launch and all 90m was used for advancing his company's technology.",
"I see what you did there",
"Speaking of which, Elon had some fun at the press conference with \"what would aliens think if they find this car in a few million years?\"",
"Upvoting y'all for marurity",
"Found the fanboy!",
"Preach. ",
"Yeah, was just about to remove my comment after looking around a little :P ",
"Nope, after the third burn it's going ~40,000mph, much faster than any of the lunar rovers. It's going fast enough to carry it past the moon, past *Mars*, and out into the asteroid belt.",
"Advertising is just one part of marketing, and the claim in op was regarding advertising.\n\nEdit: Don't make typos on Reddit.",
"And that's what space programs are meant to be. Entertainment.",
"You recall incorrectly - it in an heliocentric orbit now - that is - around the Sun. It is an elliptical orbit that will cross the orbits of Mars and the Earth.",
"There's a Tesla information/sales booth thing that regularly sets up in a mall in the CBD of my city in Australia. I'd count that as advertising. ",
"I don't think he was seriously asking.",
"Given our knowledge of physics and the seemingly infinite universe it wouldn't be a stretch to think that an alien civilization would discover the wheel, realise that flat is better for a wheel, and find a way to power a wheeled contraption. Given that the tesla is electric we wouldn't even have to assume they have combustion engines. We are just translating the world we see into math so it would be safe to say an intelligent species would also do the same. The part with the lowest odds would be if they had someone eccentric enough like Elon who would launch their car into space. But then i guess you have to assume that they aren't like the Jetsons and they don't transport cars interplanetarily. There's a lot of assumptions there but I'd say there's actually really decent odds considering we know its pretty easy to do in the scope of our short existence and the fact that there are so many billions of galaxies that could potentially be infinite. If the universe is infinite you could conclude that this exact same scenario happened somewhere else an infinite number of times. \n\nHello from the bottom of the rabbit hole.",
"> It’s good to celebrate the fun and amazing stuff.\n\nYou mean capitalists using that capital to exploit workers?",
"Troof ",
"I thought it was to describe the authors experience with optical migraine hallucinations to his daughter. My neurologist (for migraines) claims so.",
"While I think that what they did is great, this reeks of some /r/praiseelon shit tbh. This is a gross circlejerk post.",
"Tesla shills all hang out at /r/tesla waiting for a disparaging remark and then they'll come flooding out of there in defense of their employer. Here watch this:\n\n**Tesla STILL hasn't turned a profit. OMG they suck as a car company!**\n\nLet's sit back and watch the shills come\n\n\nEDIT: Yup, shills bringing the downvotes. No comments though because they don't wanna expose themselves.",
"/teslamotors and /r/technology and you all know what the other one is, are the most ignorant mainstream subs. It's astounding how gullible large swaths of folks are ",
"Lookkey here! Mr finance here with his annual report and fact checking! ",
"Bro, is that shit is going to come back and explode the Earth?\n\nEdit: Christ, Reddit do I really need a sarcasm tag on post like this?",
"Look at that clean suit. It's got to be a tide ad.",
"\"Taking a ride, for heavy metal...\"",
"My hobbies is stamp collection jbtw.",
"Keep crying, I’m almost there.",
"Because it's easy to get mad at people who are more successful. \n",
"They spent ~$50 million on marketing/advertising a year (from 2014 to 2016). Bottom of page 65 in their [2016 annual report](http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/5971574869x0xS1564590-17-3118/1318605/filing.pdf).",
"To those whom do not believe try this. https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=29m54s",
"Well, wouldn't this whole Space X thing of launching a Tesla roadster into space be just that, advertising? I'd like to see how much Space X has spent so far, up until the point where they put a car in space, so I can gage how much they've actually spent. ",
"I don’t know what financial statement reformulation means but based on their financial statements would you invest in TESLA? Spending millions on ads ain’t much, but don’t they burn hundreds of millions if not billions in a year? Where do you see Tesla in 5 years? ",
"Even if it only gets one falcon heavy customer ",
"But that roadster is had to be launched as payload escaping Earth's gravity?",
"has the maturity to know the audience. if there's anything we should have learned from 2017 it's that context matters.",
"I can't tell if your '4chin' was intended or autocorrected. Either way, your comment is valid.",
"Yes, that is actually a photo of a car in space. It's not a real person though",
"What would it mean in the context of a video game? For example in the FIFA forums a lot of people refer to certain overpowered tactics and players as meta. ",
"Upvoting you cause I love Triscuits",
"I cant wait to see that thing on an automobile restoration show in 50yrs",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNG_Kn-m73M",
"If you don't know about orbital mechanics, don't try to teach orbital mechanics. What you said is simply wrong. ",
"U mean the car itself is floating freely in space like that and not in a capsule??!!!!",
"Fuck you. Your ignorance is sickening ",
"Possible sure, but you would need one hell of a telescope... Also you might need to be outside Earth's atmosphere or at least really really high up away from atmospheric distortions.",
"The extra fucked up part is that the big manufacturers could've been selling consumer model electric cars two decades ago.",
"Elon Musk has \"Fuck you\" money",
"I bet it will confuse the shit out of the aliens when they find it floating near their galaxy in a couple billion years.",
"Ohm Resisted",
"There’s a star man waiting in the sky",
"Yeah, or maybe the man has done legitimately good things with his fortune that have worked to better humanity. Maybe he's one of rare members of the .01% that actually *isn't* a drain on society, and that's worthy of praise. Maybe a man the works to get us into space on their own dime deserve some manner of recognition from the public. Maybe a man so heavily invested in scientific advancement that he put so much of his personal wealth into it is the sort of thing that should be celebrated in an increasingly dark, tribal and uneducated world such as the one we've found ourselves in lately.\n\nOr, ya know, maybe it's just shills. This is Reddit, so we must always go with the most cynical answer.",
"And you can't explain that",
"It looks like a random photoshop",
"I didn't really get the hype until I watched this honestly. But that's super impressive. That crowd really relays how important this was",
"Worth it.",
">Well let's see what investors think of tomorrow's earnings report\n\nTSLA don't sell cars, they sell dreams. Earning reports can't reflect that value.",
"I already tried that one on twitter. Got nothing. Have an upV for your troubles. ",
"Was looking for this.",
"I seriously wish his registration slip was still in the glovebox.",
"The R&D is worth billions though.\n\nEdit: Ok, I get it; it was half a billion. Thats still far more than 90 million.",
"Ah, got it. It kinda looked like you were saying it was true that it had a steering wheel which was the joystick. ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)_/¯ ",
"Link to the commercial pls",
"Down voted for misspelling, you fucking retard\n\n.\n\n.\n\nEdit: glad someone found this as funny as I did. Sorry /u/AleiusAlias",
"It's a [prefix](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/meta-) that means any of self-referential, breaking the fourth wall, reflection, zoomed out context / aggregate, etc.\n\nIn reddit's case, it's usually metahumor that depends on information outside the current topic/thread (but still part of reddit). In this case, a [writing prompt thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7vt58k/wp_ill_tell_you_what_im_going_to_do_mr_bond_im).",
"It is a love stream",
"~15600 mph",
"It's kinda impounded for now, until the next time it passes by Earth",
"Of course he is, we need him for the Mars production. /s",
"Nah, they're so lame that The Boring Company is almost as cool as them.",
"How would they fit animatronics in the suit along with the dead body? ",
"Well it's not hard to go beyond the one thing stopping you if you miss the one thing stopping you",
"Reminds me of the movie Heavy Metal. All it's missing is Radar Rider by Riggs",
"If only the dummy was Elon and he took his helmet off and pulled out a flamethrower.",
"Upvoting you cause you love Triscuits",
"Actually for n-body problems where n>2, you have use numerical approximations. The errors on these grow over time. IIRC we can only calculate orbits for a few thousands of years.",
"I am going to watch Heavy Metal in honor of today's events.",
"Technically they're not wrong... 25,200 Is still more than 2000",
"Don't worry, tesla 3 prices will come down once production ramps up. In 2023",
"Get out of highsec! Join horde",
"Is that technically the fastest car in existence?",
"This was amazing to watch. Now Elon can say that he has his car in outer space heading to mars lol Aliens will be enjoying it :p",
"Speaking of personal vehicles, the band *Honey Honey*'s first touring vehicle was a Suburban. They found Elon's old registration in the glovebox!\n\nAfter driving a burb, I can understand why he went electric....",
"Yep. Watch the videos on YouTube. Watch this. https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE",
"I was going to celebrate mass starvation instead but I thought capitalist driven technological progress was better.",
"Oh ... but I loved it! ",
"Meanwhile, people in this thread (OP included) were shitting on Toyota for spending $1.76 billion on advertising... in a year they SOLD over ten MILLION cars.\n\nThat comes out to less money spent on marketing/advertising, per car, than Tesla which spent $48 million in a year they sold 100,000 cars.\n\n",
"You should probably let someone know about this \"egregious breach\" seeing as you're apparently the only person in the world who's figured it out. ",
"u/DreamTrain wasn't mature, then why should u/Eight_Rounds_Rapid be?",
"Nice one",
"Marketing is not advertising.",
"To add - no it wasn't an accident.",
"Are you kidding. Half a billion for the worlds most powerful rocket is a steal. SlS is slotted for over 20 billion and its not even reusable. A new 747-8 can cost over 350 mill for comparison. ",
"Inb4 Tesla roadster rocket circles the sun and smashes into the earth",
"It's all good. I didn't understand the whole thing until I saw a flight plan. ",
"Sounds like a Black Mirror season 5 episode",
"You realize they are talking about pitch\n\nWithout auto tune earth is very flat",
"Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun!",
"Hi Reddit pics, you suck at your jobs.",
">tesla fans ",
"It was actually Musk's friend who told him it would be funny to do so, and Musk agreed so they did it.",
"It's the real deal ",
"> Marketing is not advertising.\n\nI never said otherwise. I was comparing the same things",
"Technically anything is an ad if you spin it that way.",
"Whats with the salty crybabies itt? Can't people just enjoy a historic landmark for humanity without a bunch of cry holes whaling about their hurt feelings. Amazing how awesome this is, and how petty some people can be.",
"**KEEP CRYING, I’M SO CLOSE**",
"What does weight have to do with this?!",
"Must be photoshop because the Earth is actually flat..... Yes, I'm joking.",
"tesla is also escaping earth gravity",
"Well they spent a lot of money to do this.... They knew the publicity they would get. ",
"Don't need to.. David Bowie is going home. Just ask him for a wave. ",
"> Tesla is a publicly traded company of which most is owned by people not named Elon Musk\n\nThis statement is provable. Last time I heard, which was a couple of years ago, Elon Musk owned ~20% of Tesla. It's very likely he doesn't own even half of SpaceX, but that's *much* harder to prove.\n\n> Well the majority shareholder is the largest holder of stock.\n\nAnd by the way, that is not the definition of a majority. That's the definition of a plurality.",
"If I remember correctly it's orbiting the sun in an elliptical orbit that will bring it within spitting distance of both Earth and Mars periodically. Supposed to stay up there for about 1 billion years barring some catastrophe.",
"I have funny ideas. How do I apply to be Elon’s friend? ",
"Well, making an ad on Reddit is free.",
"Heisenberg defense. ",
"But it wasnt really advertising, its just something Elon wanted to do. The car was just used in place of a random hunk of metal for a load test. Sure the car part may have been advertising, but they didnt spend any extra money intentionally advertising it. ",
"Extra R&D too, I bet. When they're able to reliably reuse them, that 90millie will drop!",
"With that clean futuristic space suit? No, it's a Tide Ad..",
"*Actually* the above joke about not knowing how fast they're going but knowing exactly where they are is a spot on physics joke. ",
"Because for some reason, when talking about Tesla, SpaceX or Elon Musk, Reddit users completely lose any kind of critical thought. It's maddening to see how everyone goes crazy for stuff they probably wouldn't care about if it wasn't made \"by\" Musk. ",
">Nonsense, that's just ignorant happy Redditors sharing ignorant happiness. ",
"The lost nascarnauts",
"So what impresses you? ",
"It cost ~90 million for *this launch*, and you don't think the program cost more than a billion? Bullshit. Maybe the FH specific portion was less than a billion, but it's obviously built off of the existing Falcon rockets, and there's no fucking way the whole endeavor has been under a billion.",
"if you invest in GOOGL it has about a 7% stake in spacex but that really isnt much at all",
"And it won't be red when it doesn't arrive there.",
"No OP is right. Schroedinger used it as an example of what he saw as an absurdity in the standard interpretation of quantum physics. It implied that the cat must be superpositioned until observed. Since this is silly, so must be the standard Copenhagen interpretation. ",
"Deliberate or not, these photos benefit the image of both his space and automotive endeavors. The green electric cars are forever linked with high powered rockets and space travel is now humanised and \"normalised\" so that our minds are opened to the new possibilities. ",
"No. If it collides with earth it will mostly burn up in the atmosphere. And if anything I think it would come about 100 km from earth ",
"Let’s be honest, here... Elon’s only doing this so he can reenact the opening of the movie Heavy Metal.",
"🇺🇸😎🇺🇸",
"I want to be so rich I forget millions.",
"YES WE DO FELLOW HUMAN. WE PEOPLE REALLY DO THINGS OF OUR OWN FREE WILL. DEFINITELY NOT AUTONOMOUSLY PRE-PROGRAMMED. HA HA HA. ",
"I wonder if a roadster driving the same path as the one in space would reach a certain axis point of the earth before it's space counterpart because its close to earth and doesn't have to travel as far, like how the start point of 1 and the 8 start at a different angle,if that makes any sense to anyone.",
"[This is it's current orbit](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438)",
"Whew. Thanks.",
"It's not just about filings. It's about the quarterly reports. I suggest you actually listen to the quarterly conference calls and what a clown show they are. Whenever an analyst asks any serious question, the sort of answers they get, in between Elon's insane megalomaniac diatribes, are silly and highly unusual to say the least. Never seen anything like this with any public company. EVER. And you must remember, the only analysts allowed here are invited in.\n\nI highly suggest you listen to conference call from 3rd quarter 2017 I think it was. Elon was on cold medicine and it was even more \"entertaining\" than normal. He swore during that call, they didn't need any more money. 1 week later they issue 1.5 BILLION in bonds. This is just the kind of shit that happens on the norm.\n",
"Oh, so the car is going to continually pass over Mars' orbit, not just once? I understand now. Thanks.",
"Ask and ye shall receive\nhttps://m.imgur.com/gallery/Kjk0KlU",
"It's an older meme sir, but it checks out",
"The old Tesla roadster is in fact the first car Tesla produced. \n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(2008)\n\nThe new Tesla roadster is a car whose technical capabilities are unproven and with tesla's poor record of actually delivering in the promised timeframe, I agree, might not reach market for a very long time.",
"you’re all giving them good advertising material",
"The fact is that your rocket needs to reach escape velocity quickly using high thrust, high efficiency engines to avoid this exponential buildup of weight. I suggest playing some KSP (just get the free demo), while it's not 100% accurate, it does give a *way* better understanding of orbital physics.",
"Aaaand we somehow involved Trump in this. ",
"Can't argue with cool results tho",
"Pretty sure they landed the rockets on land platforms, not ocean ones. Only the center module was supposed to land on an ocean platform, though that part unfortunately failed.",
"Nooo, Yelchin!",
"dreams? how so? just curious btw not trying to start anything",
"I used to, that's how I got my name.",
"Well now you know",
"This is a dumb comment.",
"Source?",
"People who think this ooooooobvious fake is real are extreme idiots.",
"[dickbutt](/spoiler)",
"I think the invention of the car will be pretty common among alien civilizations, or at least a 4 wheeled vehicle. Look across human civilizations, most independently discovering the wheel. It is a really robust and simple way to escape friction. Adding power to a wheeled vehicle seems like the logical next step.",
"Thank you. Some sanity and grip of reality in here. ",
"If I brew the the best craft beer in the world but my Brewery couldn't keep up with demand that's only a problem because I can't make more money than I'm already making but my beer would still be the best.",
"Jeeezus the blind hero adolization",
"Oh. My. God. Out of fucking nowhere!",
"It will definitely be going faster at the point of the orbit closer to the sun.",
"At least it wont rust.",
"*known universe",
"Qua escape velocity its the same as the Mars rovers... I wonder with what they've replaced the tires with to make them vacuum compatible ^^",
"Wait for it......ary",
"Lol the car in question is the first generation Tesla Roadster that came out 10 years ago. \n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(2008)",
"Let’s say they both (companies) run $1m ads\nIf Toyota makes a million cars that year it’d be $1 per car\nIf Tesla makes 1000 cars it’d be $1000 per car spent in advertising\n\nMagnitude is definitely something",
"That's how it started. They were just too good at it I guess.\n\nOn both fronts. ",
"no u",
"If you're tired, take a nap",
"Escape velocity is always the same for a given mass. Once you're going faster than that the gravity isn't strong enough to pull you back into an elliptical orbit and you \"escape\" the planet/moon/solar system. You essentially go into orbit around the next biggest object so the sun in the case of Earth. \n\nIt (mostly) doesn't matter if you change you velocity quickly or slowly. Just your orbital velocity around the planet.",
"It's heading to the asteroid belt...",
"And it isn't a cost for Tesla",
"> That's unbelievable. Like I literally don't believe you.\n\nSeriously? You don't understand a basic concept of math and human life? Or you don't believe Tesla spent more money per car?\n\nhttp://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n\n>Marketing, promotional and advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of selling, general and administrative expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. We incurred marketing, promotional and advertising costs of $48.0 million, $58.3 million and $48.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\n\n100,000 cars sold in 2016 - comes out to about $480 per car\n\nMeanwhile, Toyota spent [$700 million USD in marketing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094517/000119312515232464/d877884d20f.htm) for over 10 MILLION cars sold... or $70 per car",
"I always forget the Pacific is so big compared to the Atlantic",
"-.-",
"H O T P O C K E T S",
"[Geraffe](https://amp.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8aqjh/awww_this_is_just_too_sad_pic/c08pp5z) ",
"[It's going to the asteroid belt.](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438) That's why they have test launches. They need need to know the rocket performance.",
"The circle jerk of ignorance completes itself ",
"I haven't heard any detail about this. But has Musk just added a ton of rubbish to the junk and debris orbiting the earth? That would annoy me, if so.",
"I can see no Tesla logo though",
"They have sales outlets in shopping malls. How is that not advertising?",
"$0 per year on advertising on TV maybe. Astroturfing budget is pretty high.",
"It's going faster now that's on an interplanetary trajectory",
"I so wish they put an animatronic arm in the thing to give a wave or a thumbs up before the last shot ended. It would freak people out for years.",
"Do you even know what are you talking about, look to whom are you replying, stop being a smart ass, walnut ",
"Technically the model big brass pot steam horseless steam cart that Archimedes invented and is still intact (minus the brass boiler which was scrapped centuries ago) has done more miles, hurtling through space on East for quite a bit longer than any Tesla Roadster.",
"Exactly. Just for **one** launch using their existing technology. There's not a chance that getting to this point didn't cost them billions.",
"Eve Online reference for those wondering.",
"Possible spin-offs: \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okK3YcPQdwQ\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVrmRMJUORQ\n",
"They don't need to spend anything on advertising because the Elon Sheep spam here on reddit for free.",
"Stupid question probably but what is the camera tethered to",
"Nope. Tide add",
"Probably Michelin. Which doesn't need to advertise much either.",
"I was with ya until \"cry some more\"",
"Tesla will be fine, don't worry so much about them you nincompoop.",
"Stupid humans, livestreaming their armageddon...\n\nThat roadster would be nothing but ashes, Mother Earth ain't got time for that nonsense.",
"yes, look at the news.. it's all over. This is a legit photo with video.",
"I dont know why but this is so cool.",
"Fastest commercially available car. ",
"Elon being our best hope of cleaning up said debris, he's even spoke about it.\n\nHe doesn't seem like he has much of an ego problem, certainly not if you grade on a curve",
"cheaper to ship her to mars than to divorce her at this point",
"Non-op, since it's California",
"That is untrue. They had a promo stand at the Mall in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in the weekend.",
"How many children might have eaten a proper meal tonight, with the millions of dollars he burned up. ",
"If the fuel efficiency of the fast and slow engines were the same you would use only slightly more fuel using the slow engine and that's got nothing to do with pushing fuel around. ",
"Well...it would be the most epic way to go...I'd prefer that over being bedridden in my eighties, not being able to move on my own or recognising my loved ones.",
"That is undoubtably what they were going for.",
"How long will this be sending pictures back?",
"In the press conference today he said half a billion to develop.",
"I would pay good money for a good print of this photo!",
"In this case sheeple needs to be singular, so herdson.",
"\"I'm just waiting for a mate...\"",
"Exactly. ",
"There are cars on the moon ",
"the first line of this title is so much more powerful than anything else that has happened today.",
"What",
"Tesla is the canary of the bull market. ",
"He might just be curious as to what impact this could have on the world. Good or bad. ",
"A real dummy.",
"Top gear should apologize",
"Actually, its orbit will still cross the Earth's, so it is theoretically possible that it could come back to Earth someday in the distant future. Of course, it won't be coming back in any even remotely recognizable form, and there probably won't be any humans around to see it, and it's also possible that it could be hurled off into oblivion by gravitational interactions with Earth or Mars, but it's still theoretically possible!",
"This is the dumbest and best comment of 2018. Made me laugh. Thanks. ",
"You don't know what reading comprehension is.",
"capitalism has killed over 1 billion",
"why would they spend any money advertising when reddit does it all for free?",
"He's just got that ass that's ass licking good. ",
"We live in a world where this is not photoshopped. ",
"Tesla - Boldly going where no Reliant Robin has successfully gone before!",
"It's not live anymore. They did the last burn and turned the cameras off. ",
"No, it's you who's jerking the skin of musks dick off ",
"It needs zero",
"So they have money spent to advertise.\n\nGot it.\n\nI'd say shitposting things like this thread counts as an ad.\n\nThe constant posting of tesla counts.\n\nReally, someone believes $0 is spent, then how the fuck do you know about them? Oh social media! But that's not an ad.\n\nWe're in the future. Yes, it is an ad. There are pr departments manipulating you. That's an ad.\n\nSigh, whatever I agree with you. Need to teach kids what a fucking ad is. This thread would be one. Maybe, just maybe this OP is a dumbass sucked in. But I'll say shill and be conspiracy theory fucking bullshit OP.",
"There it's the current top level. In FIFA it's probably the top athletes & strategies, in an MMO it'd be the top builds and equipment sets until the next thing comes out. \n\nBasically, it refers to whole strategies bringing together every aspect of the current game (meta, within academics, is closer to this, like a meta-study is basically a study of studies, pulling together stuff from all of them including data and analyses which is why they're typically more reliable).",
"http://imgur.com/gallery/0w5UAMX",
"Yeah, keep in mind Musk went and made himself an enemy of Trump, so his little shit throwing baboons are going to swarm over any Musk thread to rip him apart.",
"It's a word prefix. When used on reddit like this it's usually implied to be meta*humor*.\n\nhttp://www.dictionary.com/browse/meta-",
"I too remember those flower nipples.",
"But actually, it's a Tide Ad. ",
"I think his point was that a given company's marketing budget isn't going to be directly proportional with the number of cars manufactured. It would be expected that as any company ramps up production, the ratio would go down. \n\nThat's the claim anyway, I think he's probably right but I haven't validated the claim.",
"And yet there I was, too awestruck to fap. Probably.",
"He did it first, ma!! ",
"not exactly. its used to describe how particles appear to behave. its a subtle difference.",
"Either that, or they made a $90 million commercial. ",
"Two days from now the sedative keeping that \"dummy\" still is going to wear off. His stomach will ache with hunger and his parched tongue will feel like sand paper in his mouth. As the Earth rotates in to view the real panic will set in.\n\nThis is why you do not double-cross Elon Musk.\n\nStay tuned folks. ",
"I posit that this is one of the coolest photos of all time. The photo of earthrise from the moon is incredible but this photo shows how trivial space travel is becoming. It’s getting so easy that instead of trying to send up some backup satellite (if it blows up, no big deal, but if it succeeds then yay more science). Instead it wasn’t a scandal for Elon to send his own personal Tesla Roadster. This photo is a signal of the beginning of humanities earnest and long term ventures into the solar system and beyond.",
"Reminds me of the opening credits for \"Heavy Metal\". ( Yep, I'm old....)",
" From the Fetish Four's new album \"Falling Fruit\" , here's Hot Applebomb Drop! (explicit)",
"Advertising is literally a component of marketing.",
"I was hoping to hear Bowie's \"Starman\" when this came on the launch screen.",
"I rotated mine.",
"Wicked smaht",
"Fuck Rick. The only Rick I ever knew blew bloody snot gobs from his shnoz and thought that was attractive. He still attracts bacterial infections to this day.",
"/r/enoughmuskspam, join us.",
"But why would you search for \"marketing\"?\n",
"No.",
"Tested a method for sending shit to space for cheaper?",
"!remindme 3 years",
"Stupid question: I'm assuming it was inside the ship, correct? And if not how did it not burn up?",
"Came to see if anyone else was thinking this. I love how the parachute opens AFTER the car hits the ground. lol ",
"Don't panic!",
"It took hundreds of people to launch the payload. That’s a fuckin large scale conspiracy =)",
"Name one patent with Elons name on it.\n\nGuy got his start off of PayPal. Literally a bank. \n\nMade intelligent investment decisions with that money. That's it.\n\nHe is not really a technologist. He is a business guy.\n\nWhich is fine, but I don't really think he is all that. Business isn't the same as engineering or developing.\n\nLook at it like this... Imagine that the storm is the customer. Unpredictable. Charged. Mobile.\n\nThe landscape below is the technological potential for a product.\n\nEngineers work en masse building the mountains.\n\nLightning is the launch of a successful product.\n\nSo many of these \"geniuses\" are just men who stood on top of the mountain and held a metal rod to the sky.\n\nWhen the lightning strikes, people hail them as geniuses for predicting the weather - but here's the catch. There are 20 guys on every mountain across the globe. They are not geniuses, they are lucky. The geniuses built the mountain, not to get rich, but to advance our species. Their legacy is etched in a notebook, not on the cover of Time Magazine. They are talked about in university halls, and over brown bad lunches, not in shareholder conferences.\n\nSo that's my only qualm with Elon Musk. He is more of a Thomas Edison than a Nikola Tesla to me.\n\nIt is cool that he works in space travel, and I think his engineers will advance our species, but the conductor doesn't make the music. The musicians do.",
"Elon Musk said \"You know it's real because it looks so fake. We have better CGI than that.\"",
"Apparently they decided to exhaust the second stage completely to maximize the orbit, and now it looks like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0h3YW4AIc-9w?format=jpg",
"Not live, but it was. ",
"Great, now I'm lost.",
"I just love fucking thinking about the aliens who might find this. 800 million years from now there will be no trace left of humans in the solar system. Not even on earth. Except! for Elon's Tesla orbiting the sun. ALiens will be all \"where the fuck did this come from??\" They'll scour the solar system and won't be able to figure anything out. In 800 million years earth will look like mars does today. I mean.... imagine the possibilities for mars if you go back 800 million years??",
"[As I said here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vt7ru/tesla_spends_0_per_year_on_advertising_today/dtv5l9e/)",
"You literally just insulted him after saying you hate how people talk to one another on this site. ",
"Well, seeing as my QM1 professor used it as an example to explain particle superpositioning in class, I'd say you're wrong.",
"[Radar Rider](https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0)\n",
"Fastest production car",
"[The ticket is in the mail.](https://twitter.com/WA_Police/status/961057061042704384) ",
"Thanks.\n\nI'm not sucking new Apple's dick.\n\n",
"Yeah, and I bet even though Elon probably could just walk to the factory and go \"I'm taking this one!\" to replace it, he probably goes by the books and buys it just like everyone else. \n\n\n**Sheldon**: I suppose I could run downtown and pick something up at Shel-Mart.\n\n**Raj**: Yeah, whatever. Just go buy a sweater.\n\n**Sheldon**: You know, the nice thing about Shel-Mart is I own it, so I get a 15% discount.\n\n**Raj**: You own the damn thing. Just take a freaking sweater!\n\n**Sheldon**: Look, I didn't turn a profit last quarter by taking product off the shelves willy-nilly.",
"Not expensive at all. They had to have some weighted payload so it's a freebie \n\nYou realize this is all about fielding a heavy lift launch vehicle, right?",
"Laika too!",
"B/c Elon isn't making this happen alone. \n\nAlso, With Teslas current market strategy, they are not sustainable. Literally the only thing keeping them afloat is speculation and fanboys. As far as a company is ran, its total shit. ",
"Yes. Damned autocorrect. ",
"You know that something was going to go up anyway, that him sending his car if anything saves money, and that the rockets are going to be re-used, right?",
"It's Elon Musk. He can sneeze into a napkin and it will be an article that hits the front page via /r/futurology",
" MICHELIN Pilot Sport Cup 2\nhttps://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/technical-specs",
"Orbital velocity varies depending on the specifics of your orbit. The Apollo missions never hit escape velocity, as escape velocity is when you put yourself on a trajectory to no longer be orbiting the earth (or whatever celestial body you’re currently orbiting).",
"It's love",
"All other cars are on a planet.\n\nPlanet is flying through the universe.\n\nTherefore, all cars are flying through the universe.",
"god damn my friend jake would focus on that for like 7 years. he only got over 9/11 about 3 years ago. He still loves contrails! Fucking idiot.",
"Musk gets more hand jobs a day on Reddit than miles that rocket travels ",
"yeah, I'm gonna need a video of this to prove the Earth is a sphere.",
"Is that up to me for some reason?",
"All I'm waiting for is the car to slowly turn white from the sun",
"How does their dick taste?",
"Sir you were doing 73 in a 65. \n\nGREAT!! Now I'm lost",
"Is the photo also not good?",
"What do they spend to AstroTurf reddit all the time?",
"It's larger than Toyota per car. ",
"Yup here is the projected orbit calculation https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0h3YW4AIc-9w.jpg",
"More precisely, how we model their behavior in equations.",
"Elon will clean up more space litter than he creates I'll wager",
"Because it encompasses advertising including non traditional advertising?",
"when this baby hits 25,200 miles per hour...youre going to see some serious shit.\n\n",
"(and is that a worthy goal?)\n",
"Oh for fucks sake..........",
"Satellites are pretty tits. Obviously there's cooler stuff but that is an easy answer. ",
"The year is young. Give it time.",
"Not much really. Ion engines are very fuel efficient and accelerate with only the force of a sheet of paper. Used on the Dawn mission to visit Vesta and Ceres and currently in orbit around Ceres. It carries 475kg of propellant for 10km/s of total velocity change.\n\nIon engines are only effective outside earth' s atmosphere of course. ",
"If we wanted to get their attention we should just send out a big banner with LED's that spell out \"Come at me, bro\"",
"They stream from the payload of almost all of their launches so it's not like they had to specially design around that. It might be 1 or 2 more cameras than they would have put on anyway. ",
"I'm sure no matter who's throwing a supercar into space with a revolutionary new rocket reddit would respond the same. I mean you have to give credit to the man whether you like him or not, he's helped change the course of human history and inspired many to further that change for the better. ",
"Nope. Just a dude with [common sense.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vt7ru/tesla_spends_0_per_year_on_advertising_today/dtv5l9e/)",
"Great. More space junk. ",
"Can somebody explain to me why Elon musk wasted all of that money to send a car into space? It can cost anywhere from $10k-$40k per pound to send into orbit, just seems like a enormous waste of money to me for little to no gain of knowledge. We've sent ships into orbit before, how does this help anything.",
"***UUN^G^^H***",
"> Do they exist, statistically and logically, it's pretty certain.\n> \n> \n\nit really still isnt statically or logically certain tho is it?",
"Shit, we over shot by 24,912 mph!",
"It wasn’t donated, that was Elon’s car",
"Space is not filled with sand dense enough to \"sand blast\" the car. Think of it more like 1 grain of sand hitting the hood every few hours.",
"Are the speeds relative to earth vs sun different because of distance away from the respective bodies? ",
"Ah I see the reason for the skepticism now",
"fuck, its insane how they weren't fucking around. They fucking hit those bumps like a champ!",
"What's up with the z in advertizing? ",
"The millions of dollars weren't burn up. They are sitting in the pockets of engineers, builders, scientists, raw materials suppliers, office staff, etc. When you buy anything the money doesn't disappear, it is just transferred. \n\nAlthough you do have a point that he could have paid to exterminate those kids parents and given the kids jobs stitching leather seats so they could afford to eat on their own.",
"Heisenberg\n:))",
"Well it would be the sun's gravity that would pull it back before reaching Mars. ",
"And the stupid questions just keep ooooon coming....",
"Because that’s a sales channel for them since they don’t have traditional dealers. Different line item",
"In this world, people act like cunts for acting like a cunt to a cunt.",
"Perfect chance for a crossover ad for Tesla's energy products.\n\nFADE IN\n\nINT. [WALT MOSSBERG INTERVIEW STAGE](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4663955123_3c742da496_b.jpg)\n\nWe start with WIDE on WALT MOSSBERG and ELON MUSK.\n\nWALT\n\nSo on the flip side of the Falcon Heavy launch, what is your most underrated product?\n\nCLOSE on ELON.\n\nELON\n\nYou could say we've gotten pretty good at making batteries.\n\nEXT. MARS - DAY\n\nWIDE on Mars. Tesla Roadster piloted by Spaceman floats by CLOSE to camera. David Bowie's \"Life On Mars?\" starts playing.\n\nEXT. MARS - DAY\n\nWIDER on Mars. Tesla Roadster is small and slowly flying across screen.\n\nELON (V.O.)\n\n...it just keeps going, and going, and going, and going...\n\nFADE IN CAROUSEL OF TEXT OVER SHOT\n\n1st: TESLA MODEL S/Y/3/X\n\n2nd: TESLA SOLAR ROOF\n\n3rd: TESLA POWERWALL\n\nFADE OUT",
"Not quite, because the entire time you are running that slow engine, gravity is undoing some of your working, meaning you are making up for more lost velocity from gravity constantly. If we could rail-gun things out of the atmosphere, that would probably be the most efficient way of doing things if it weren't for the fact that it would vaporize them instantaneously. Unless everything I know about orbital mechanics is completely wrong. \n\n**Edit for some seriously basic Newtonian physics:** \n\nv = at\n\nIn this case, your velocity needs to be orbital velocity. Acceleration will be the thrust of the engine minus gravity (a = a^thrust + a^gravity ). A lower a^thrust will result in a lower total a, meaning it needs more time, and time is directly proportional to fuel needed. Greater time means more fuel. It's way more complicated then this and it doesn't illustrate the compounded issue of the \"drag\" of gravity. I am not a physicist. I am an elementary school teacher who should have gone to bed four hours ago. If I went to Wikipedia, I could answer this much better but I simply don't care.\n\n**Second edit because as I mentioned, I should have been in bed four ago.** The entire acceleration thing was *wrong as fuck.* That should read \"air resistance and gravity\" not just \"gravity.\"",
"You would have been the first fish dead.",
"You think elon musk fans on Reddit voted mostly for Trump? Nah",
"Cmon man, they shot a sports car into space with a dummy called ~~Space Man~~ Starman with David Bowie playing and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in the glove box. It's a win, we don't need to contemplate on improvements.",
"You bet we do!",
"Perfect, now we just need a time machine so we can go back to bigger rockets and then this will be a meaningless accomplishment...oh and I guess those bigger rockets also need to be reusable now...and half the price to launch.",
"And it makes zero sense form an investor pov. Tesla is a struggle bus of a company. Only speculation and fanboys (from stunts like these) keep it afloat. But dear god, it might actually work like it did for Apple. ",
"Um...no. It's not floating freely. It's mounted to the end of the 2nd stage booster, dude.",
"I have literally never posted about Musk before, but what's not to like? He's doing cool stuff, I don't see the harm in people being pumped about that. ",
"Amazingly this Tesla has the same odds of being near a charging station as one on earth.",
"or 12 km/s ",
"He sings a sad song just to turn it around. ",
"Not in orbit around earth, way bigger. It is leaving earth orbit to orbit around the sun. If it ever comes near earth again, it’ll be a long time. ",
"No. It's attached to the front of the 2nd stage booster. They cut to the rocket nozzle during the live feed. It's just decoration on the front.",
"Jeez. The things Roger Sterling would do for that account.",
"Well he was aiming for mars but he missed.",
"Just remember to keep your hobby stamps away from your mailing stamps. Otherwise you might make a very expensive mistake while sending out this year's Christmas cards.",
"Nah it's all robinhood traders. Bots are not risky enough to invest in pure speculation companies. ",
"Uhh. I would imagine that SpaceX probably did it for over a billion dollars cheaper than NASA could have...",
"No, even better, they got SpaceX to spend billions on advertising.",
"Better to have an animatronic rat crawl across the dash. Or a bug on the camera lense.",
"yes, and the compensators haven't been invented yet.",
"Greatest achievement of the 21st century so far. \n\nThat and trumps 18 consecutive hole in one golf shots. ",
"There is actually a significant difference since there is nothing pressing in on the tire from the outside. I’m not entirely sure about tires but pressurized things of this nature tend to pop in vacuums.",
"The video of the two rockets simultaneously landing will be shown in history and science classes for years to come. \n\nThis was just a test/showcase to examine some methods and show what can be done. SpaceX is the beginning of a new era of space flight.\n\nNot to mention the post you're replying to is talking about Tesla/Musk in general, so the answer continues to things like the development of cleaner energy, the evolution of the car, providing power to Puerto Rico when the government failed it, and the countless other tech and benefits we inevitably always get when we research all things related to space flight. ",
"He said half a billion for FH at the low end in his press conference, FYI. Actually seems quite cheap.",
"I'm replying to someone who doesn't think a 10 year old production car doesn't exist. Being a smartass is what I do, drainage ditch.",
"For rockets?",
"No. I meant the general public, the masses if you will, of this country. That's who I am indicting with my critical comment and pejorative. ",
"Communism works in theory guys!!!1!1!",
"ITS A STAAAR MAAAAAAN FLOATING IN THE SKY!!!",
"Please tell me you're joking.",
"Yeah and if you take the point in space where the tesla currently is to be the center of the universe, as an arbitrary reference point, then technically its the slowest car in the universe.",
"fake",
"Also where no commercial spaceflight has gone before (to be safe, wait until it is 2+ million km away to avoid interpretation issues with the DSCVR launch).",
"Screw off. You're like the rabid \"let me speak to the manager \"\nHair cut soccer moms \n\nTo stupid to know when they're wrong so they're always fervent ",
"Man, what I wouldn't give to get behind the t-shaped stick-like device of one of those beauties for a minute.",
"well and the falcon rockets were built of existing engineering knowledge and rocket industry before them too. and all of that was based of hundreds of years of metallurgy and chemistry\n\nso really it is trillions of dollars",
"Is the generation after Millennials going to be more insufferable than the smugness like this post suggests? ",
"I'm not the one who ate the wall",
"*rolls eyes*",
"Isn't every showroom they have their advertising budget?",
"Does anyone have a link of what flat earthers are saying?",
"Also there was a little hot wheel roadster with a tiny starman glued to the desk of the car",
"Makes people remember it better. Obviously you don't advertize",
"It will have a max speed of 7miles/second. ",
"There we go. Most speculative company ever. ",
"Tesla fanboys are ridiculously annoying, I like Teslas as much as the next guy, but they consistently come on to threads and start arguments that show how laughably little they know about cars. They're not car guys, they're tesla guys or girls whatever, meaning they jumped on the hype but don't know how cars or the car industry works, and make comments that reflect that. ",
">Tesla will be fine, don't worry so much about them you nincompoop.\n\nThe quality of their supporters is exactly why I worry for their future",
"so,+2000",
"Uh, most of the shit-slingers tend to be from the *other* end of the political spectrum, be it as Musk *is* a hyper-wealthy entrepreneur who hires STEM workers instead of English majors.",
"it also works in practice",
"Things became a lot deeper once the space time continuum was ruptured in 20XX with the invention of time travel ",
"I thought screen shots weren’t allowed in this sub. But the mods are full of shit.",
"I was looking for a comment like this haha",
"Because the Earth is in motion too. The rocket is going around the sun in the same direction as the Earth, just faster.",
"^happy ^cakeday",
"You must have loads of experience launching rockets into space. ",
"No... No... no. They should have just put a motor in the helmet so it can turn it's head... Then have it look at the camera, and shut the camera feed down. Bonus points if spaceX never says anything about it and deletes all tweets asking.\n\nIt would be the greatest creepy conspiracy of all time. ",
"See how clean that suit is?\n\nTide ad.",
"Great. First the libs \"normalize\" space travel, and what next? Same sex ships having sex with each other?",
"Ok. Then why was he trying to send a car to mars, you missed my point.",
"Maybe, but they definitely have a marketing budget because I see their cars in shopping malls all the time.",
"Yes",
"It’s out there, completely free. Just gotta go get it. ",
"Yep",
"/r/enoughmuskspam",
"Umm launching a spaceship with a car inside of it isn’t free, they spent some money, actually I’d guess they just spent the most money EVER on advertising ",
"What is this, *The Prestige*? That movie where David Bowie played Nikola Tesla?",
" Bf",
"\\*SpaceX space suit. Tesla doesn’t produce space suits.",
"Cool story dude.\n\nWhat OP means is that it’s not TV commercials and shit. (Advertising). What you’re talking about is like those flags and driving events and stuff. (Marketing)",
"It's a Tide ad",
"Holy shit, that's amazing! That's a lot more distance!",
"Ad budget is part of marketing budget",
"In this horrifying post-apocalyptic spoileriffic world where the final episode exists, we're *all* part-cylon.",
"you keep saying that like you think it's clever",
"its out of this world",
"Yeah Tesla's run Ubuntu. So this was Gimp'd.",
"What??!! I thought u need thrusters to correct your trajectory constantly to be able to guide your way across space. What if the tires burst from uv degradation and sends it off course assuming inflated? Won't everything be worn away from all the uv radiation before it even goes anywhere near mars or the astroid belts?",
"Bullshit spending 0 dollars on advertisement, all this Reddit spam alone has to be partly paid for.\n\n",
"People motivated by more than money work at SpaceX. They are all smart and knowledgeable enough to find any other job they want. The ones who join but are not living and breathing the same goal as Elon wash out. \n\nEdit: compare this to the hardships of the Oregon Trail.this frontier is 100x harder. ",
"He meant to say \"THE\" tesla owner, as in the owner of Tesla, the company",
"ALL HAIL STARMAN, FIRST OF HIS NAME. LORD AND SAVIOR. PROTECTOR OF THE MILKY WAY. ",
"They closed the top while it was flying.",
"Jeremy Clarkson must be out of smart comebacks on this one",
"I’m a Tesla owner. Their biggest advertising is getting people to refer others. Each owner gets a unique URL to try and gain referrals for prizes. ",
"You got an actual source on that buddy?",
"Don't panic!",
"Yeah, people who show interest in space and technology are typically the most ignorant people around, right?",
"How is it irresponsible? It's not even staying in earth orbit. Some mass had to ride that rocket. Why not use a car instead of a block of concrete. They are also testing the engine restart capability in the radiation belt for their US military certification. Something had to be on top the rocket, standard test procedure. ",
"When the same guy crawls several mountains to hold up those metal rods and gets hit by lightning quite frequently, he starts sticking out.",
"Tesla is amaze balls",
"The moon looks like the shittiest beach ever.",
"Redditors don't do that. They invest $1000 into only Tesla on their robinhood account and pull out at the first sign of a correction. Then they come to Reddit and post, \"AMA: How I lost my life savings to Elon Musk and still believe in him.\" ",
"I wasn't saying the accomplishment was meaningless, I was just pointing out that it was misleading to call it the \"biggest rocket to date\" lol. While the success of today's launch is without a doubt a praiseworthy milestone in space exploration, I think we should make sure to praise it for the correct reasons.",
"This rocket launch was promised to happen. In 2012 ",
"re-read my post. i was just asking what it does for the world.\n\nedit: also, please, do not post like you have never talked to a real person in your entire life. it shows.",
"Up voting for the use of \"retard\" and sticking by your choice.",
"Best I can do is 15 cents",
"Ok, so how long ya think? ",
"I'm pretty sure people go crazy for the stuff Musk does... because it's launching things into space. I mean launching things into space has always been a fairly popular move. Apart from nukes, we don't like those.\n\nI also don't think its surprising that a flamethrower that looks like something from the future was popular. Or that an alternative fuel car is actually decent and gets positive attention.\n\nSeems to me you just don't like that a guy has made three things people can get excited about.",
"I just started watching GT and I'm so happy to hear that they eventually get rid of him. Suuuuper annoying character.",
"Tesla earnings released tomorrow after market close ",
"OP meant they spend $0 on television/radio/web/billboard/magazine/etc. advertisements. It doesn't mean they spend $0 on PR and sales and physical showrooms and other things that involve brand promotion and generating sales, but it isn't a traditional advertisement. If they paid for a big sign to put on their factory, would you call that an advertisement? Would the price of the Tesla emblem that gets put on the hood of each car count as an advertisement? You have to cut it off somewhere.",
"Some say... \n\nHe's part Martian... and that if he went into orbit, he'd be the fastest man... in the world!",
"Would have loved if they’d switch on the GPS... RECALCULATING!!",
"All hands, overheat and prepare to blap the miner.",
"Breitbarts heading tomorrow: \"Undocumented\" Aliens Steal Rims Off First Car In Space. Schumer offers amnesty.\"",
"He can afford a longer stick.",
"The earth travels around the sun at 67,000 mph so technically the Tesla they just launched is the slowest moving automobile ever.",
"Should of play takin a ride. This is the intro to heavy metal.",
"Right, and I edited my comment because I spoke to soon. I’m processing some anger right now. The point I meant to make is that if you’re gonna tell someone they’re wrong and say nothing else you should just not. Idk, maybe that person could reflect on his/her self. And did I really make an insult?",
"Completely undoctored. SpaceX sent up the first Falcon Heavy today, which had Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster as the payload",
"Speed never killed anybody. It's the sudden lack of oxygen in space that kills.",
"The earth travels around the sun at 67,000 mph so technically the Tesla they just launched is the slowest moving automobile ever.",
"It is reasonably cheap because it reuses a lot of Falcon 9 hardware. Development costs of F9 up to today was more than a billion.",
"And tricking ignorant redditors into thinking they don't have a $20 million budget for advertising. ",
"No need to worry about grenades now",
"Well I guess technically they spent like a few hundred million for this shot but hey who's counting. ",
"That we know of!",
"Thanks Obama! For defunding NASA....",
"And yet still hardly anyone can afford one.",
"What's the matter? Don't like fun?",
"I haven't seen that referenced in a while . . . happy cakeday.",
"the fuck? back under your rock filthy peasant!",
"Your correct number of syllables pleases me.",
"https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE",
"One of the early episodes of suits was a giant ad for Tesla. They didn't get that for free. ",
"Libs, uh, find a way",
"Can It do the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs though?",
"Clean energy and space flight. Who's even against those things? Humanity's default state **should** be to fanboy all over this stuff. \n\nBut nope, gotta be those who shit all over others because Musk said some bad things about Trump. ",
"They have a budget, I see tons of demo Tesla’s in malls in Europe ",
"Well, Tesla themselves paid nothing for this. It was an independent company launching a privately owned Tesla into space, and streaming it for free. The only way they “paid” is by having a CEO spending only 45% or something of his work hours on the company, but that was the case since it has been founded anyways. So still free advertising",
"/r/enoughmuskspam ",
"They said for tests NASA usually use cement blocks so Elon being Elon he used his car its in case the test flight blows up it doesn't have expensive satellites worth billions ",
"Fastest production vehicle.",
"It's still not literally $0",
"What about the boring company?",
"This is the most expensive \"Fuck You\" money to get out of paying state mandated tire disposal fees I've ever seen.",
"More so the money, but I agree.",
"Lol, $0 on marketing.... Sure. Spend a day on reddit and think that one over.\n\nThe reddit hivemind takes issue with a lot of targeted marketing on this site, but not all. A blatant Coke or Chevy ad? That's when the hailcorporate forks are raised. Tesla or Nintendo, though? Now, let's not be so hasty...",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Patents\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education\n\nHe has a B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Economics.\n\nAlso,\n\n>In 1995, at age 24, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in applied physics and materials science at Stanford University, but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations in the areas of the internet, renewable energy and outer space.\n\nHe is smart, he understands what is going on with his products, and he is a fundamental part of the design process; Not just a 'business guy'. Do some research next time before you discredit someone",
"Yes the cost of putting a 250k car in space is $0 idiot",
"I guess yeah but it would take a lot of effort to slow down before Mars at the speed it's going",
"Would you like to purchase the HD video package with your rocket today? ",
"It’s cool that they did this but now we’re going to have to see “TIL Elon Musk shot a car in space” reposted ever year for the rest of my life",
"Thought I wouldn't like it, but I do. Starman is facing down on mine, how about yours?",
"I’ve been trying to describe this all day. You just stated it perfectly.",
"How much does that cost, you think?",
"and here I am thinking that they're for laying down the foundation for humanities future. ",
"There's no way this isn't the most clever and devious spy satellite ever launched into space.",
"Musk really is one of the greats of our generation. Just imagine alien life finding a car blasting bowie orbiting the sun.\n\nCouldn't think of a better way to make first contact.",
"Space-ial profiling. ",
"You are kind of correct but I can see why you are getting downvoted. He was saying how given long enough (and enough orbits), it is possible that it might eventually crash into Mars. But that could take hundreds of years,",
"Pretty sure it never has and never will, comrade.",
"It won’t be visible as car for more than maybe a day. Afterwards it is just a point source for radar and telescopes.",
"Hu? I never said I liked them. Too much cult of personality around Musk if you ask me. \n\nBut it's an achievement nonetheless. ",
"Who do you think \"advertised\" the upcoming launch? Who do you think facilitated the live stream and planned the budget for the servers and the feed? You think Tesla just launched an unannounced rocket and people \"noticed\"? No. Their marketing team spread the word then allowed the fans to continue spreading the word. That is what a good marketing team does. They get their user base to market for them. \n\nAre you arguing that Tesla's marketing team had nothing to do with us having access to the launch video? Are you arguing that Tesla has no marketing team?!",
"Yes, it still is absurd, sir. But we only continue down this absurd rabbit hole. You must belong to the group of people that have it all solved",
"Call me crazy, but I don’t get it. Like, the whole Tesla thing. I drive a corolla and I don’t give two shits about Elon and his wacky space antics. ",
"Presumably they're going to do more with the rocket than chuck cars into space",
"There's no astronaut. It's just a suit with a dummy inside. But yes, the dummy and the suit and the car are in space.",
"They spend money on \"advertising\" in the form of making videos about cars and such. But they spend no money on ad spots, they just upload that video to YouTube.\n\nBut I wouldn't call making a video and buying ad spots the same thing.",
"It’s an unholy alliance between /r/latestagecapitalism & /r/the_donald",
"great. another lazy ass who didn't bother to read about the actual orbit.",
"He's not getting mad at people for being successful, what is it in his post indicates that? And don't say his \"Anger and Vitriol\" because that's just describing his state of mind when he posted it.\n\nSaying that he is getting mad at people for being successful, it sounds like someone is trying to Perpetuate the whole \"Class Warfare\" argument. That doesn't belong here honestly. ",
"peace among worlds.",
"Yes. It was launched today. ",
"I read it in an article so it must be right. Seriously though, I think there's a bunch of theories, although the article was pretty thorough and the guy that wrote AIW was a mathematician.",
"See my edit. ",
"And that's how you get Belters and eventually a war between mars and earth.\n\nAlso something something coriolis effect",
"lmao",
"Reminds me of [the intro to Heavy Metal.](https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0)",
"I'm with ya. I find it amazing how's it apparently uncool to be inspired and excited by someone trying to do so much good. I can only attribute it to some combined form of jealousy and ignorance.",
"We won’t see this, it doesn’t stay active that long.",
"Longest range of any electric or non-electric vehicle.",
"Is having stores in malls not considered advertising?",
"> that's only a problem because I can't make more money than I'm already making\n\nThat's a huge problem when you're in business and have public investors. What's to stop Ford from coming in and taking every engineer, every technology, and making their own electric vehicle business? They have the factories and resources to do it. Just having a great product doesn't mean you win in the car business. Plenty of great car companies aren't here anymore.",
"Think about the value of the data. Make it free to all 5 billion people without internet access and mine the data and there's a trillion dollar company lurking. ",
"I'm downvoting this mainly because you didn't stand by your derogatory use of retard.",
"Here come dat Tesla ",
"You do realize their main source of income is not sending cars to orbit, right? It's not like all these billions where spent for this one test (which they needed to do btw). If anything all we're talking about is the cost of the car (free from musk) and setting up the cameras/stream so people could see the \"commercial\".\n\nWhat millions watched today was not a car in space though, it was the new generation of heavy rockets and 2 side boosters landing in unison almost perfectly on target. That's what's worth billions",
"crazy",
"Touché ",
"It was made by an 11 year old? ",
"$500 million in development is actually nothing for how much it will save in the long run.",
"You're wrong.",
"Thanks for that. I just went on an hour long binge read on the cat thought experiment and it was fantastic.",
"Fuck I look terrible in this. ",
"Either way its pretty obvious we aren't alone in the entire universe. Its a big place.",
"Most expensive car ad ever. ",
"Why not both? ",
"bewbs",
"Oh, yeah. I guess that was the real question. No, Mars was never the actual intended destination. They just planned on putting it in something similar to a Mars transfer orbit and decided to keep going.",
"In the press conference at launch, Elon said the falcon heavy project has cost around 500 million to date.",
"Elon Musk for president!!! I would vote for him with my eyes closed; why can't we vote this kind of people into office? I'll write his name on my ballot next time around. ",
"And how many dollars went to advertising specifically?",
"[This little rock right here is worth about 166 million ISK. For some people that might not be a big deal but for me it's huge. :)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdfFnTt2UT0#t=1m45s)",
"Because he can ",
"I'll have you know that I learned that insult on Xbox live and it hurt *my* feelings just fine, thank you",
"Yeah because otherwise it's totally not news worthy ",
"Came here to say the same; it’s clearly an homage.\n\nNeeds Sammy Hagar soundtrack! :D",
"Does Tesla own this material?- and if not, is this about to become the world's largest design competition? Damn, Tesla gets free advertising and recruiting.",
"When the road head is out of this world. ",
"Does that mean that they have the fastest car ever made? ",
"\"Aspen 20, I show you at twenty-one thousand eight hundred knots, across the ground.\"",
"Woah! Two for the hands. One for the mouth",
"Fastest known car in the known universe. ",
"It's half dachshund. ",
"But it wasnt paid by tesla, it was paid by spacex.",
"debacle? wasnt it sold out",
"This is after they deployed the payload. Once out of the atmosphere they blast the shell of the capsule off. It’s not needed anymore. ",
"Fuck you for gladly being Tide's little bitch.",
"Yeah but who is going to buy a car with 10 million miles on it? ",
"Isn't there a mars recon satellite we could use to get pics once its around there?",
"Might be true. But he is also climbing the highest mountains.",
"SpaceX procures government contracts. They don't need traditional advertising.",
"Why spend money when you guys do it for free?",
"There’s no way they spend $0 a year on advertising, right?",
"But muh flat earth !!",
"Which would be a “tiny, tiny chance”....of it going to Mars.",
"And the title says \"advertising\". They can have a marketing budget without any of it going towards advertising, a specific component of marketing.",
"About what? If you’re trying to be funny it takes a little more thought than that",
"Road-legal car",
"Reusable rockets, and the largest payload capacity since the Saturn Vs were decommissioned in 1972. ",
"Tesla fan boys are quite possibly the worst fanboys ",
"It's bullshit, obviously. I work in a law firm and we get weekly mail from Tesla trying to convince us we should buy a Tesla for our employees. That's advertising in my book. Someone needs to write and manage and design those mails and my educated guess is that they don't do that for free. So what they get paid, Tesla spends for advertising, and that's only what I can tell of my very personal experience in a middle European country. I mean their products are probably decent but I'm seriously appalled by the cult-like fanboism that keeps reproducing these false claims. ",
"Projected distance anyway, I wish we could get a live update on it's actual position, that would be pretty cool.",
"So what you are saying is Tesla has just spent billions on advertising for a single advertisement. ",
"Zero on advertisement but how much do they spend paying you shills? ",
"\"Moisturise me!!\"",
"A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle isn't always a square. They're saying that you can have a marketing budget without having an advertising budget.",
"Or he's aware that advertising in only one form of marketing, so it's possible to have a marketing budget without spending any money on advertisements. ",
"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMTOrux0LM\n\nHere’s the first colorful video that pops up in YouTube. \n\nSo we’re clear here. The super position he’s talking about is the state of radioactivity, not the cat.",
"Well then I guess I don't know any better!",
"So obviously globe-head propaganda...",
"Step away from Reddit and deal with your anger in a healthier way my dude. This is not constructive.",
"They should have a calculator on their site that tells you when and where to try and observe it from the ground.",
"Yes. The only ground vehicles launched to space so far were the Apollo Moon rovers and a few unmanned rovers on Moon and Mars.",
"Lol in what world is marketing no advertising?",
"You're insufferable. The fervent religious like cult followers that ignore reality think they don't belong next to the dumpster fire? Lol! How rich. The ignorance is equal. ",
"Ad budget is a subset of the total marketing budget.",
"What do flat earthers think of this? ",
"I'm not sure its pointing in the right direction, and in any case the car is only going to mars solar orbit, not mars itself. Its possible at some point in the distant future their orbits may intersect, but at that point I doubt anyone will remember its there.",
"it is a problem if you are currently losing money and telling partners you will make money once you scale up production.",
"Shhh don't ruin the circlejerk",
"They don't have the money to spend on advertising lol ",
"You know what your face ",
"What's with the towel? I take it it's a reference from Hitchikers Guide. I haven't read it. I tried the movie, and didn't make it far in.\n",
"Tesla isn't building the best cars tho. The quality is quite shitty compared to other big manufacturers. ",
"he didn't waste any. It was a test of the rocket, the car was just an after thought...... the payload on initial test flights is usually cement or some other weight. The car was just good marketing. ",
"Fair enough, I guess I've ran into enough spacex hate today that I assumed you were being dismissive.",
"The fastest car ... \\*pause\\* ... in the universe.",
"I believe there was some talk of another CEO you promised.",
"\"Honey, I think we took the wrong exit\"",
"Very brave speaking against the Reddit hivemind. Tesla is an untouchable company here, you just can't come at us with facts. Nope. Unebelievable. Like, I literally don't believe you.\n\n",
"There is no possible way that they have a $0 pr and marketing budget. Not possible. ",
">Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising. Today Tesla has the greatest car commercial of all time\n\nThey don't need to spend a dime because reddit is full of Elon cockriders like you.",
"wow",
"The goal is making space travel easier/cheaper. But that can not be done without test-fires and actual launches without living test subjects.\n\nOften used ballast are just weights, like a concrete block, or sometimes even just literally \"stuff they got from the junkjard crushed in to a package\".\n\nAs per the press conference, where Musk said \"Sending up a block of concrete is boring\", he decided he could afford it, to send up a Tesla. Because he can. That's part of what makes SpaceX and Tesla so exciting. \"Because we can\". And the actual price difference is just a drop in the ocean compared to what the test actually costs.\n\nIt's about innovation, but while doing so, having a bit of fun on the side doesn't hurt.",
"So far",
"Ah yes, the subs that believe their own thoughts so sparsely, they reduce them to memes. ",
"Maybe one day I'll be rich and elite enough to buy an expensive novelty car.",
"What do you need drawers for?",
"Tesla and Elon spend a shit-ton on advertising. Reddit is an example of this. \n\nWhere'd you get your facts? ",
"Musk fanboys don't know what much of anything means ",
"I wouldn't say universe, solar system for sure. Maybe even Galaxy, but I refuse to believe we're the only intelligent life in the universe. Hopefully there exists another life form that has discovered the wheel.",
"Yeah, how terrible of this guy singlehandedly (not literally) keeping America's space program pointed in the right direction. The goal of this is to benefit all of humanity through the exploration of other planetary resources. ",
"shit doesnt burn up going up.....not enough speed or friction, only when things come down......",
"How are people this offended by me saying you should do more than tell people they’re wrong? Does it bother you that I would like people to treat people better? I’ve been processing it a million ways and I merely hoped to help someone see themselves in the way they communicate. Best of luck to you",
"What does that even mean?",
"Nah, the CEO of SpaceX just did them a favor.",
"Seriously dude. It's just a website, you might need professional help for your anger issues",
"We need to vote for people trained in governing, they are called politicians, not businesses men or celebrities.",
"Yes!",
"Noted my good Samaritan.",
"Why would you have an expectation of free in business? Also, this stunt has solidified Elon Musk as the modern day Nikola Telsa, and king of the universe. $100,000 for a well-tested space ready camera is cheap compared to what that notoriety can bring.",
"Lol",
"Meanwhile, RUSSIAN HACKERS SABOTAGE SPACEX MARS MISSION\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt5PfNuBNWE",
"It's an increase of 15 psi. They could've deflated them by 15 psi at launch for them to be at the same differential in space.\n\nThat rubber will get brittle real fast, though. I'm guessing they actually filled them with something that solidified in place (think expanding foam) to help them keep their shape, and took off the valves to ensure no pressure differential. Just a guess.",
"You know what, that's fair enough. In my mind those things are all entangled but in reality, they're separate enterprises. I am wrong.",
"It was a tongue in cheek that people invest because of musks, the financials and setbacks be damned.\n\nIt is a cult stock and a very well known short killers. SpaceX rocket success and boring company sold out flamethrowers? Better long tsla.",
"Just trying to imagine those distinguished physicists trying to reconcile everything they thought they knew about the natural world with these strange phenomenons they could observe but couldn't quite explain is amazing.\n\n[This video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc) is pretty silly with it's animations, but it does a good job at explaining how weird Electron superposition can be when you think of them as little balls of matter.\n\nOnce you start thinking of them as this weird mass-probability-cloud, things become a little more understandable, but you run a risk of dislocating your brain.",
"I'm going to downvote him again because he shouldn't give in so easily to others opinions. Change it back to retard and I'll upvote. But then downvote for flip flopping.",
"But not all marketing is advertising. Advertising is making advertisements. From Google's definition of advertisement: \"a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.\" Launching a car to Mars is not spending money on advertising, unless you spend money on announcing the fact you sent a car to Mars. ",
"Radar rider by riggs Google it",
"Few thousand years ought to do it.",
"Should've been the new Tesla Roadster that they shot up.",
"That's exactly what popped into my head too, such a great movie.",
"They don't buy advertisements. That's not the same thing as no marketing.",
"Your downvotes are ridiculous.",
"This should have the ost from Heavy Metal playing",
"Whoa, there. You're not friends with him yet. That's Mr Musk to you.",
"Because Elon's an asshole and I don't like seeing Reddit or any other sites being blatantly manipulated by corporations. ",
"Ha, that leg room. Thanks for the succinct answer! That makes sense about the payload and how whatever fits it's requirement is green lit. ",
"It has left Earth orbit already on its way to the asteroid belt to orbit the sun.",
"So do you not think Elon Musk is an innovative genius? Haven’t heard many arguments in that direction, and would be curious to hear one.",
"Those patents are from his company. Have you ever filed a patent before? Basically what happens is you get your name on it, your bosses name, and your bosses bosses name on it. If it were Elons invention, then he wouldn't put other peoples names on it now, would he?\n\n>B.S. in Physics and a B.S. in Economics.\n\nNot really impressed. In todays world this is barely competitive with a PHD which they hand out like candy.\n\n>left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations\n\nFirst of all, you don't go from BS to PHD. He started a Masters program. He either couldn't hack it, or he changed his dream. In either case, he stopped being technical, and \"pursued his entrepreneurial aspirations\".\n\n>He is smart, he understands what is going on with his products\n\nThis I agree with.\n\n>he is a fundamental part of the design process; Not just a 'business guy'\n\nHow so? Cause he designed a vehicle door 5 years ago? Give me a break. \n\n>Do some research next time before you discredit someone\n\nCute. Keep that up kiddo.",
"the lighting at 3:19:11 is phenomenal ",
"I''m struggling to think of another situation where this line will be as appropriate & funny, that isn't some kind of sitcom.",
"[Starman's current view.](https://imgur.com/a/eP1UD)",
"kind of like how they sell Boring Flamethrowers for 500$",
"Tesla does advertising by product presentation in events, Sponsoring, viral marketing, social marketing... So the claim is wrong.",
"Stop holding everything you’re saying like it’s important or new. We’ve heard this all before. You couldn’t even begin to comprehend what he’s accomplished through SpaceX and will do the same with The Boring Company.\n\nYou’re not as smart or as insightful as you think you are. Go over to r/EnoughMuskSpam and jerk each other off. ",
"Each pound of aluminum consumed in this project could have fed a child for a week!",
"Tesla doesn't need to spend money on ads, they were funded by the tax payers. Thanks obama!",
"“...This is a Tide ad.”",
"Tesla didn't pay a dime. Musk's car, test launch that needed a payload.",
"Thanks for introducing the term \"Heliocentric\" to me! Do they choose steel blocks as the standard for weight? ",
"The whole suit deflates with ducks.",
"I would be like:\n„What the fuck?”",
"It's literally out of this world",
"could you explain what they’re being ignorant about? ",
"Some people in the media/social media flipped out because \"danger.\"\n\nIts a fancied up $50 brush burner you can get at home depot.",
"how many can you feed selling your computer and internet service?",
"it's gonna be so fucking cool when we can see mars on the livestream in a year",
"No. Officially they spend tens of millions on advertising. ",
"Invite him to Burning Man. ",
"Show me the nastiest crack head and I'll show you guys who will fuck her.",
"https://imgur.com/x9FJigv",
"With the help of engineer sherpas who climb that mountain 10 times a week with 1/3rd of the gear.",
"No. ",
"This will be the most epic pic for quite a while",
"Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the car have one/a few GPUs or something GPU-like, making it theoretically capable of cryptocurrency mining in space(if it somehow has an Internet connection)?",
"President of what country?",
"I’m not mad at the website, I’m sad at how bad we as people are at communicating. It’s not about me or you or anyone else who has felt the need to respond lol just people. I’m actually doing quite well, and maybe it’s sadness I’m processing. Nothing happened, just caring about people in a different way than I’m used to. I really don’t see anything wrong in anything I said and if you do I would like to know so I can grow from is. Please respond if you have anything you think might be for me",
"I hate being that \"well actually\" guy but you word it much nicer",
"That was a sunk cost anyway. They were going to launch something in orbit around mars. might as well be an ad.",
"Tesla might as well own it since Musk is the CEO of both companies and SpaceX is private so Musk does what he wants with it and its IP.",
"> The fastest car in the universe.\"\n\ndat mpg though",
"Yeah but SpaceX is still valuated every year. Source, I'm a SpaceX engineer",
"And? You can observe asteroids.\n\nI can buy a telescope worth as much as a car, you're not my dad.",
"No /s when I ask this: How do I learn more about what you know? ",
"I would make it dab...",
"Would love to know what I’m looking at ",
"I can imagine that phone call. Lots of echo. ",
"I wonder... Potential advert for fast and the furious in space?",
"Yep, down. Looked wonky up.",
"*incidental",
"Tesla spends a fuck load on Advertising... Just no TV ads in the usual sense. All depends how you define advertising.",
"I was thinking Goodyear cause they’ve got the blimp",
"It'd say being one of the estimated 10^24 planets in our observable universe that's been around for 13.772 Billion years, it's most definitely logical and statistically viable that we aren't the only instance of chemistry under the physical laws turning into a complex system we call \"life\". ",
"It was for Tesla, which is the point. The car was Musk's own.",
"uh, no. the orbit is heliocentric......",
"How did you come about this information? I too would like to know this stuff!",
"Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours.",
"That shit is cheap on Alibaba if you're willing to wait 6 weeks.",
"And launch it into Mars' orbit just for the heck of it.",
"Do you have trust issues with women?",
"That’s out of this world.",
"I just wanted the head to slowly turn towards the camera. ",
"Eh, what type of CEO did I have to come up with. I saw boobs and forgot",
"The car was donated by *the* Tesla owner.",
"A booster which will never egnite again. And no capsule. Which I think is what the op was concerned about.",
"Depends on the marketing budget too. The factor is not only production or sales numbers, we have two factors working here. A company could ramp up production and also ramp up the marketing budget, or reduce the marketing budget. Both factors can go either way changing the ratio in either way. It's not constant trend for every automotive manufacturer. ",
"Quick, stop. You'll ruin the r/teslacirclejerk.",
"Well there it is. ",
"Why wouldn't you? Because of the constant, lies and over-promising. Elon Musk has done some cool stuff, but if you become such a fanboy that you ignore realty, you become intolerable to be around.\n\nTesla summon was supposed to be working last year. But in reality, Tesla is 23rd in the race for driverless cars.\n\nThe hyperloop cannot work. \n\nTesla isn't profitable, and won't be for some time, if ever.\n\nMusk turns a rocket test into a car ad, and people upvote the claim it's not an ad.\n\nSpend half an hour on r/enoughmuskspam. Learn the truth about your digital messiah. :)",
"Car desk.",
"Tesla didn't pay a dime, Musk's own car and the launch needed a mass simulator.",
"Is this technically the fastest car in history?",
"Dude that’s cool! You ever work with any UCSB students?",
"With those waiting lists, I doubt it.",
"I'm shocked they didn't find a way to get the Tesla logo in the picture.",
"Slap some MLK quotes in there and it's even better!",
"Your intentions are good, your execution is a 4/10",
"This was a test of the rocket system. In these tests they usually install dead weight to simulate cargo. Instead of a big chunk of metal, they put a car in it. There was a big possibility the whole think would blow up. You don't build a multi million dollar satellite and put it on a test flight.",
"Yeah but Tesla is cool so it cancels out.",
"Technically it’s both until you open the trunk lid and collapse the wave function. It’s at that point where it becomes one or the other. ",
"and flame throwers",
"How do you think the fanboys are getting paid?",
"If company A spends $10M on advertising and produce 1M cars, they spend $10/car. If company B spends $50,000 on advertising and produces 1,000 cars, they spend $50/car. I think his point is, yes, Tesla spends more per car, but Toyota makes waaaaaay more cars, so it makes sense that their advertising per car is lower. At some point Toyota's advertisements are so plentiful that everybody and their mother is sick of seeing Toyota commercials and making more of them probably won't help Toyota much. But Toyota makes so many cars that they can reach that point and still have a lower advertising cost per car than a company that doesn't produce many cars.",
"Ok keep thinking that",
"Elon Musk has come up with the best place ever to hide a body. ",
"Elon Musks company just launched the most powerful rocket in use currently and the payload was a Tesla car with one of their spacesuits as the driver.",
"Anyone have a higher res version?",
"tesla and spacex are VERY separate companies.",
"I buy the premise of \"he's dead and been replaced\"... but why the fuck would the Beetles themselves put clues to it in their songs and album covers? Makes no sense at all.",
"They did a burn a few hours ago to set its course. Now it's just momentum. It'll go straight and then get sucked in the suns gravity creating an orbit. (I think, I'm not a scientist)",
"Today was one of the biggest circlejerks reddit has seen in quite some time",
"Been in the industry for a while actually lol",
"To orbit the sun about the same distance as Mars*\n\n*trajectory was over shot,",
"Where's the fun in it exactly? It's just a payload chosen carefully to impress gullible muskrats",
"Hey, if you get pics of it I definitely want to see them too, more power to you!",
"What if an alien got a sandblaster. Den wat?",
"Just get the fuck outta here!",
"So you're saying that the company/guy who is working on developing the technology to recover and reuse almost every stage of space travel is making more debris. You're 100% incorrect. You might not like Musk or Spacex, but to not understand the significance of what they achieved today makes you ignorant at best.",
"Disqualified from holding the world record due to the \"world\" criterion.",
"Of course!",
"So this is real? ",
"The infotainment screen could’ve doubled as a IRC/twitter feed ",
"Relevant Seinfeld bit:\nhttps://youtu.be/watDtX5j1RM?t=54s",
"How do think Tesla paid for it? Did they buy the launch or?",
"And probably most dramatic of all, the 2 first-stage rockets stuck a perfect landing, *in unison*.\n\nFreakin’ amazing to watch - straight outta our sci-fi childhoods...",
"*Tesla* spent nothing on rocket R&D or the launch.",
"[my new phone wallpaper](https://imgur.com/a/5wAlh)",
"Eddie Bravo is going to be adamant that this is photoshop because of how accidentally fake it looks.",
"I don’t think I was prepared for that. Something in my brain was like, “wait...no...that’s not real” and just dismissed it until everyone pointed out that’s an actual vehicle. ",
"I work at a nationwide agency in digital advertising and have had Reddit come my company's office to present different ways for brands to buy on their platform. \n\nCalling anyone an imbecile for saying Tesla \"buys reddit posts\" is absurd. There are plenty of ways to spend on reddit.",
"Yoy mean 1,00,00,00,trillion$$$\n\nFictitious number but I'm sure it's close",
"I kinda hated that it wasn't sync with the camera. When the car was deployed, we werent seeing it at the same time as them, they were broadcasting the trajectory on live. ",
"State troopers don't have balls...",
"They took Gene Roddenberry's ashes up in the shuttle. They should have stuffed some dead space nut's corpse into that suit.\n\nHell, I'm almost at the end of my road... I would have took one for the team and checked out early just to go on that ride",
"Wtf?\n\nGo talk to a friend or a barman or something",
"I kept expecting to hear Radar Rider during each shot of that car...",
"Oh!\nI just had to google Elon Musk and the definition of a payload, but, now that I know,\nthat is soooo cool!",
"Holy shit.\n\nWhere is Elon Musk right now? \n\nCould he be... In the space suit? \n\nThat would be the craziest shit ever. Just wakes up on Live stream and skydives onto Mars and tags \"Elon Wuz Here, get rekt faggotz\" on Mars' surface before his head explodes. ",
"Musk said in the post flight conference that the total development cost was $500 million",
"I'm not disagreeing with you, but how do they categorize the cost of things like posters and calendars that they hand out at their car showrooms? That is advertising in my eyes anyways \n\nEdit: I read more and their financial statements do show marketing/advertising expenses. ",
"That sounds reasonable. On second thought it doesn’t make sense for them to allow something with even the smallest *potential* of exploding in their volatile rocket. I’m sure it’s a foam like substance as you said, much much safer. Hell, the tires might not even be rubber for that matter.",
"I-I don't think that cost $0.00.",
"They have plenty of their higher end models to sell. Every person i know who put down a deposit on a model 3 has been sent emails and received calls begging them to test drive an s/x in hopes that they wont want to wait. Its not really bait and switch but id say this is leaning towards advertising if they do it to everyone.",
"Mature. Thanks for the hot take.",
"Technically, one could consider it \"junk floating in space\", which one might call that junk, \"pollution\". But what if that car was sitting in a driveway? It's still \"taking up space\" *somewhere*. And consider this... *everywhere is space*. It just so happens that *the space on Earth* is... well... on Earth.\n\nThen the fact that there needed to be a payload. And I'd argue that the publicity stunt was WELL worth the minor amount of junk in space. It's not only iconic, it's *art*. A car is leaving Earth. This photo is going to be a single image to drive our collective imagination to focus on getting people to Mars. \n\nAnd lastly, space is mind boggling huge. This car in space is like a drop in the ocean.",
"r/holofractal\n",
"It’s fucking dope. Not groundbreaking, or earth shattering, or “all hail Elon the Musk God” worthy.\n\nIt’s just fucking dope. ",
"All correct, but just to further clarify -- because this was a test flight, they probably wanted to expend all of the fuel and see how far they could send the roadster for performance metrics. The best way to tell how much fuel you have left is to burn it all.",
"There's a backronym for it in a gaming context of \"Most Effective Tactic Available\".\n\nBasically it refers to the setup in the game that is the most effective at dealing with almost anything that the game can throw at it. ",
"wait? really? in either case. tesla launched the most powerful rocket in the world today. the falcon heavy. this was a test launch of the rocket, and it needed a payload to go with it. the payload on this rocket was his own tesla roadster, along with a mannequin or something (dubbed starman). This is the vehicle in space with the starman sitting in the drivers seat. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3h4FBLWqY\n\nif you want to watch some of the floating from earlier",
"It's sad that people believe this is real. It's all theatrics just like the moon landings.",
"It's so much more than cool! The speed of advancement for their space exploration is crazy and means so much for our future in space!",
"It was inside the fairing.",
"Damn. If someone actually did this, they would become an unforgettable legend, drifting (heh) through the gulf of interplanetary space for untold eons - in a stolen car.",
"They could have named Spaceman 'Ford Prefect' but for one small thing...",
"it's actually quite questionable how much, though. The full-thrust falcon 9 really cannibalized a lot of the Falcon Heavy work by being able to lift quite a bit more than originally designed for.",
"SpaceX paid for this launch. Musk used his own Tesla. Tesla still is at $0 in advertising fees.",
"Incredible ",
"This also is a common misconception. The cat has been in the box for 80 years now. It's dead.",
"You never know when you'll need a towel!",
"Well, technically this entire thing was a marketing ploy, so they spent whatever money needed to send the car into space on marketing... which is probably a lot ",
"Now that's a sun roof",
"If you look [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M&t=1m0s) you'll see a triangle through the windshield, that is a metal frame built off of [the mount](https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/944329692898664448) it's sitting on.\n\nAnd you can see [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M&t=5m20s) on the right side of the screen you can see the side car camera mount\n\n[Here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE&t=12m26s) you can see the whole thing",
"Not sure if troll or commie, so I'll engage. When did communism work in practice? I can't think of any state that didn't become a totalitarian dictatorship in it's quest for communism. ",
"Why did the Jamaican Air Force have a need of sending a car into space? \n\nI shouldn't doubt them though. Have you seen that documentary starring Kofi Kingston called Cool Runnings? Jamaicans set high goals for themselves.",
"you are the cat, you are the shoes, you are the poop, at the basic level you are the whole structural universe! so yeah idk there might be?",
"He indicated it was at least that, and probably well over that figure. ",
"This is Don Draper worthy",
"Yeah, motor vehicle theft is a crime.",
"Honestly, at first glance, I thought it was a still from a tv show or something. ",
"It's more like three or four orders of magnitude",
"Um....no. It is planned to ignite again. That's the next phase.",
"Tesla paid nothing for any of it, so it's already at $0.",
"OP probably based his claim on the week of TV he watched. ",
"wait wat\n\ni thought it was gonna just hang around in earth orbit\n\nthat is super fucking impressive",
"Actually*\n\nSince the Tesla is in motion relative to the whole of the universe itself, its location can only be the \"center\" of the universe for a single instant. Speed is a property derived from distance divided by time; depending on the frame of time and the selected arbitrary center of the universe, cars on Earth could be moving slower than the spacefaring Tesla.\n\nOf course, Earth cars are closer to a center of gravity and thus *even with zero velocity* would be moving faster -through time- than the spacefaring Tesla traveling at zero velocity.\n\n(I'm not a mathematician or physicist so my first assumption - that the designated centerpoint of an infinite space can't be in motion and remain the center at all times - may be wrong. That said, if the universe isn't infinite anyway it's a given. If you designate the Tesla itself as the center of the universe rather than \"the space where the Tesla currently is\" then I agree with you).",
"> There will still be enough of those cars driving around that no one will give a shit.\n\nAn unriced example would be fairly uncommon.",
"Everything about it involved money, people had to be paid for all that to happen, I understand exactly what you think, but there’s a lot more of his own money put into this than you think",
"I don't know the veracity of this is but another redditor linked this to the opening scene of the Heavy Metal movie. If true I am doubly impressed and blown away at the geekiness and nerd level of that reference. Also, that the Heavy Metal movie could stand the extra attention.",
"Maybe he is really suspicious of engineers 🤔",
"I dont know much about...rocket science, but is this the first time they landed a rocket? I guess I dont understand the hype.",
"May AND may not be a dead cat",
"Presumably they mean via traditional channels like television, magazine, etc.",
"I mean... It's quite the achievement.\n\nBig rockets have been done.\n\nBut big rockets that are really 3 rockets and you land them in separate pieces...\n\nThat's something special. ",
"If someone has to explain what makes this kind of thing fun then you're more interested in wanting to be sour rather than opening yours eyes. Your problem.",
"that meme is old enough to get married in saudi arabia",
"But if there isn't, it isn't mine. ",
"You know the opening reentry sequence to the first *Heavy Metal* movie? I loved when he turns on the windshield wipers.",
"I just know he put something in the glove box ",
"😂 ",
"[Ojai Valley Taxedermy](https://youtu.be/LJP1DphOWPs)",
"ELI5 please: If that car is traveling that fast how are pieces not flying off, for instance, the side mirrors.\n\nedit: hmmm or is the car on the ship... I could have duped myself but too lazy to look it up.",
"Flat earthers will argue that it's fake. But that right there is the best picture of the earth ever. ",
"I seen new cars do 200 mph and lose parts like a front bumper or mirrors. How is this thing still intact going that fast?",
"Care to elaborate?",
"Can someone gif this so the clouds are moving?",
"I wonder if they had to do anything special to the car before launching it? Tire Pressure? Fluid top up? Not like there's a gas tank to empty. I'll bet they know /precisely/ the condition it's in, in case there's ever a recovery of it.\n\nPerhaps the next big Space-X stunt is to go get it back on its next close pass.",
"Nope, it's a Tide ad!",
"This is just awesome. ",
"Should put the stig in the tesla",
"His next tweet would be from his martian secret base.",
"I mean.. I work at a massive shopping centre and they have a whole store for a tesla showroom. If that's not advertising then I don't know what is.",
"“Where were going, We don’t need roads”",
"Kind only been half paying attention today. Is this a real photo?",
"I like your attitude.",
"Because the mechanism dying at a weird position leaving it ruined forever is great foresight?",
"All my friends are sleeping right now, sorry my comment bothered you take care",
"I'd love a high resolution version of the pic.",
"Littering aaaaaaaaaand?",
"Exactly. They spend on \"Marketing\" instead",
"Technically SpaceX launched the rocket. And like shot the most epic commercial EVER. ",
"Yes, [here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M) 5 hours of it in orbit.",
"\"overshot\" sounds like it was a mistake, though. There's no clear indication that they had any intent, at the time, other than to do exactly what they did. \n\nThere was never any goal of actually going to the planet Mars with this, so going further out isn't significantly different other than a number on a piece of paper.",
"Super crazy that this has a bunch of upvotes while the actual true statement has downvotes. Here's the most recent statement in the 10-k: \n\n> **Marketing, Promotional and Advertising Costs**\n\n> Marketing, promotional and advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of selling, general and administrative expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. We incurred marketing, promotional and advertising costs of $48.0 million, $58.3 million and $48.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\n\nAnd before people pretend that it must be marketing or promotions, the 10-k explicitly splits out advertising:\n\n> **Advertising Costs**\n\n> Advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of sales and marketing expense in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company incurred advertising costs of $26.3 million, $28.6 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.",
"Elitist maybe but not jerky enough to be BMW drivers. I would be elitist too if I have a sports car that drives itself while all the douche bags just drives inefficient gas powered slower obsolete \"sports\" cars. I would be rich be environmentally responsible and a safer driver. I wish I could have a model S.",
"Yeah this guy gets it",
"Not in my lifetime, but I hope one day a cyber terrorist destroy all form of internet/wifi for years just to shove it people.",
"One of the things that makes SpaceX's webcasts so much more exciting to watch, then say ULA or NASA, is the crowd. They just get so excited and have such an amazing attitude and it makes the videos that much more enjoyable to watch. Also their their production quality is so much better then other companies. The Falcon Heavy launch video is honestly amazing compared to [ULA's Delta IV Heavy](https://youtu.be/wCy401hkXuk). SpaceX just doesn't get enough credit for how much they are helping popularizer space flight.",
"[Here's the live feed that was streamed earlier. It looks so surreal!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M&feature=youtu.be)",
"No, they were the same picture. You can watch them both land at exactly the same spot.\n\nThey were wrong when they said they were different in the webcast.",
"... it’s a tide ad. ",
"[Get one yourself here, you've got 5 hours of material to choose from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"He is a Tesla Owner... Owns some cars, owns some stock... ",
"“Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars.”\n\nhttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E0\n\nThey did the final burn a few hours ago. ",
"It's a good point. They don’t purchase traditional ads but they allocate a ton of internal resources to marketing, PR and publicity stunts. Not that there’s anything wrong with this, they are clearly geniuses. \n\nAn interesting case of a company that truly hasn’t done anything in marketing, ad spend or PR but still been wildly successful is Huy Fong Foods. \n\n\n",
"Wait for it...ARY",
"Is this world, where advertising is a specific form of marketing. Advertising refers to producing advertisements, which are announcements about your product. Marketing is a more general term which can refer to things like entering a car made by your company into a race (or, in this case, putting your car on top of a multi-million dollar spacecraft and sending it into the solar system). You spend money on that, sure, but they aren't advertisements. Their marketing is certainly not $0 (and I'm not even sure if their advertising is actually $0), so the title is a little misleading. But if they don't produce advertisements, they aren't technically advertising. ",
"\"I must go my planet needs me.\" - The Stig.. probably ",
"Why so complicated? Fastest street-legal car.",
"would've been more risky as the doll would need a loose robotic arm, could fall off due to all the G's and would just be a risky loose animatronic arm",
"You fuck off. Are you that stupid? I literally typed \"(not literally)\".",
"You mean like last year's 10-k which says this?\n\n> **Marketing, Promotional and Advertising Costs**\n\n> Marketing, promotional and advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of selling, general and administrative expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. We incurred marketing, promotional and advertising costs of $48.0 million, $58.3 million and $48.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\n\nThe 10-k also explicitly splits out advertising:\n\n> **Advertising Costs**\n\n> Advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of sales and marketing expense in the consolidated statements of operations. The Company incurred advertising costs of $26.3 million, $28.6 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.",
"Depends if he wants to sandblast a space tesla.",
"space is a vacuum....no air, no wind resistance........did you not take any science classes?",
"No air in space, no resistance to rip anything off. Car inside top part of rocket during ascent.",
"There you go ya flat earth mother fuckers",
"Sure. I doubt anyone would claim that he climbs it alone. Finding the right sherpas and investing huge sums in their payment is part of being successful.\n\nWhen you reach the top of that many high mountains, it stops being the coincidence that you portrayed it to be. The money alone does not explain it.\n",
"Fun Fact Space X Built The Falcon Heavy in Less Time Than The Star Citizen Devs Took to Make a BASIC FUCKING SHIP MODEL OF THE BANU MERCHANTMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ",
"Vacuum of space",
"This is an intelligent and reasonable point. Thanks! It makes sense, pressurized tires could make it in space since the circumstances are vastly different than on earth. That said, my friend u/TheSultan1 has me thinking that there’s no reason for them to have authentic parts (tires, any mechanical fluids, or anything subject to rapid depressurization). For all we know, they could just have fake demonstrative tires on the car.",
"Fastest street legal car",
"Yes. See it again here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6enVi5hZauU\n\nand it's still streaming live from space (I think, not much is happening)\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2p55BmwmJM",
"Police in Norway read the description \"flame thrower\" and declared that it was a weapon of war and that anyone ordering it would be persecuted. I didn't realize how stupid our cops were until that",
"I can't believe people actually believe this bullshit.. it's ridiculous. It's theatrics just like the moon landings.",
"But close enough to anyone that doesn't work in either and typically they do go hand in hand for a big company. Tesla relying just on marketing is ballsy by the standards of mass manufacturers that weren't Steve jobs apple.",
"I'd say they don't need as much advertisement. They're already a fairly household name. Unlike Tesla. ",
"What? You're applying a big what if there. Even if it didn't deploy, it'd still be a laugh and nothing would be lost from this.",
"They already *had* innovated though. I distinctly remember when I was in elementary school (in the 90s), a school friend's dad worked for some major company and borrowed the company's prototype electric car to bring home for a weekend. He took all us kids for short drives in it to show off how cool it was, and I remember it mostly because having it be *dead silent* at a stop was so tremendously weird.",
"Yeah, I'm 15 years younger than Elon, but I was able to get my parents to rent Heavy Metal for me when I was about that age because they thought it was just a harmless cartoon, like He-Man or something\n\nIronically, one time my friend brought over a totally harmless Felix the Cat movie, and my dad wouldn't let us watch it because (I deduced a few years later) he had mixed it up with Fritz the Cat, which was rated X.",
"He should officially say that this car belongs to whoever gets it and brings it back intact first. ",
"TL:DR?\n\nWhere did this photo come from?\n\nI know they launched a car into space, but isn't it inside a crate? ",
"Yeah a live stream where the cameras on the rocket were obscured most the time...\n\nThere is a big secret about space being kept from us...",
"I'm guessing they would have drilled holes in the tires and gutted the car of anything pressurized. You don't want things exploding when you're trying to test a rocket.",
"I disagree. The whole launch was a big tesla commercial and has no direct benefits to the advancement of space travel. Launching a robot would have have been the wiser option.",
"Pretty sure I've seen that episode of Doctor Who actually.",
"Just remember, everytime people look at the moon, just remember, “IT’S AMERICA’S MOON, FUCKERS!” 😂",
"That's not what I meant, but it works too.",
"The Falcon Heavy was going to fly either way. Of course, there is money in it, but SpaceX wanted super heavy lift capability so they made it, it's not like it is a one-off thing.",
"I'm sure Elon will sleep with you now that you've white knighted so hard for him. ",
"Earth is failing and they had no way of sneaking out a human with a trunk full of fertilized embryos without us knowing. It was their way to send us out with a bang. ",
"true.. true. my fault on that one. hehe.",
"A commercial IS advertising....",
"Fastest production vehicle",
"actually it was space-x....but I know what you meant.....",
"You could check the 10-k which states the marketing and advertising costs separately. The article is completely wrong.",
"no, solar orbit. Much more impressive.",
"Thats great..!!!",
"Stuff looks different in space because there's no atmosphere to distort the images.",
"It’s a tide ad",
"The sun's gravity *is* a whole lot of effort. Like, it keeps all these planets in check just fine. Making it that far is bloody impressive, especially considering most of the rocket's safe and sound on earth, ready to launch another payload. ",
"Yea, I have seen Teslas in shopping malls and such.",
"https://imgur.com/gallery/H8J8U",
"yeah, can't blame ya. even watching it on the video it's very surreal. ",
"I think the question is if there is any intelligent life, what we would define as intelligent and better yet as intelligent or more intelligent than us and given how old the universe is we would think it would happen, many, many times yet we've observed nothing. No space junk, no Dyson spheres, nothing. Sure, we still have a lot to observe and use more advanced technology but maybe we happen to live in a very boring and \"dead\" part of the milky way \n galaxy where other intelligent life simply doesn't currently exist or never \"made it as far\" as us in the sense of sending shit out to space. See \"Fermi paradox\" and \"the great filter\" for more depressing logical conclusions (for me it is anyways). Basically where the fuck is everyone? ",
"[Les we forget](https://imgur.com/a/eEytl)",
"No, they spend millions on advertising.",
"> The car was also donated by a Tesla owner\n\nThe car was donated by the Tesla owner",
"But how did they get the photo?\n\nIf it's a real photo, with the earth in the background, is it looking through a window or did they deploy the car out of the rocket into space? Does the car just become another earth satellite then? ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"Right. Cause it was not a real astronaut. And nobody thought it was up until now. Especially not me.",
"It's in space. There is no atmosphere, so no wind or resistance.",
"> Stop holding everything \n\n?\n\nThanks for the sub link lol its gold. The Musk circle jerking is unbearable. \n\n**Have fun circle jerking Musk's dick. You lot are so used to advertising you lap it all up.**",
"I saw it when I was 11. I'm glad SOMEONE sees it as inappropriate. :) ",
"$0? Expenses on developing rocket are 0?",
"If everybody's rice... nobody is.",
"Too bad they didn't send Clarkson instead. The racist, violent, douchebag.",
"the cat?where's the cat?",
"Considering the chance that the whole thing blows up at any time, probably not.",
"No and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M).",
"Oh, right, mind slip.",
"Or a dozen others.",
"Might be the coolest thing I've ever seen. \n\nThe unfiltered sun, views of the earth, all from the hood/side/interior of the car. ",
"I've only been at the company for 2 months, so I'm not really sure!",
"Yes, because showing off a Model S at the local auto show is the same as buying commercial airtime, let alone Super Bowl commercials.",
"not a live one but you can get a daily check in. ",
"No, he's a meth",
"Yeah kinda. Basically they planned to ‘soft land’ a falcon 9 in the ocean. Soft landing being exactly the land or ship landings except they just put it in the water. Normally the rocket tips and explodes and as such SpaceX had no interest in retrieving it. For whatever reason it didn’t do the whole kaboom thing, so they plan(have maybe, I haven’t seen the latest on this) to tow it back.",
"But not per dollar of car sold, which is a much more relevant metric.\n\nSelling more cars (at any price) isn't the goal of a car company, making money is.",
"How is he an asshole?",
"Nope. PR, product placement is also Advertising. ",
"In space, no one can hear you speed.",
"So the car is literally out there all by itself now? Or is it still strapped to the top of something? \n\nI really want to see a pic of this thing from outside the car, but I guess that's a tad tricky to do!",
"This photo actually should go to the doctor, because it's pretty fucking sick",
"Funnily enough, it’s a similar deal with Steve Jobs but people on Reddit *hate* the guy. I have no idea why Reddit has such a raging boner for one while they hate the other, though maybe it’s because Musk acts like a reclusive nerd on stage.",
"So clean",
"Imagine the head randomly turning towards the camera",
"This is also not true any more. Tesla only has a waiting list for the Model 3 which is mostly because it's completely new and ramping slowly.",
"Look pretty flat to me",
"Not to mention all the Teslas in press fleets. They pay for people to manage that. They also have stuff where the Electrek people get \"enhanced\" referral rewards (aka massive conflicts of interest).",
"Cool",
"“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”\n\n-From the first Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel.",
"Their entire company is an advertisement. ",
"A 14 psi difference, but yeah any tire inflated properly could easily handle an extra 14 psi. ",
"Yeah, that's what I meant... Give me a break. *Even with all of the knowledge previous to the existence of their company*, it absolutely still cost SpaceX over a billion to get to this \"car commercial\".",
"It was the test launch of a brand new rocket, nobody is going to put anything extremely valuable on something that may blow up on the launch pad. It was either this or stacks of concrete slabs.",
"Aren't the rovers on treads?",
"I'm not claiming that the title is correct, and I don't believe it to be. My point is that you can spend money on marketing without producing advertisements. ",
"Well this picture clearly shows the earth is a flat circle so it's at least solving one conspiracy theory.",
"Now that you say that, I can see where the “Elon is a super villain” people get that idea...",
"Less that a couple of days. How cool is that, that there's a window of just a couple of days when Elon Musk's car was visible to us? \n\nYou and I both saw that happen. In real time. We're all blessed to be a part of such an amazing thing!",
"i completely agree and don’t understand why reddit is all on board when the richest of the rich pollute the orbit. It’s like having a broken down car on cinderblocks outside your trailer home. And if some other intelligent life were out there and came to make contact i’d be embarrassed by that and all the other shit orbiting our planet. ",
"SpaceX is a private company. They may have received some grants for R&D, but by and large, no tax dollars were spent on this launch.",
"That's exactly what my dad said when I told him was Elon Musk sure knows how to make an event an advertisement. ",
">Got his start off of Paypal\n\nWhile it's easy to take it for granted as a \"Duh, people need a way to spend money online,\" Paypal was *revolutionary* in its approach to payment management, for customers and enterprises.\n\nAnd then, he took all the money he made from creating a technology company from scratch and building it into an international powerhouse, and he dumped that into *raw industry.* If he was just a money manipulator, his wealth would have been generated by investing in, y'know, *the financial sector*. Sure, his net worth is largely tied up in stock... of companies *he built,* not companies he just shuffled money around for investment returns.\n\n>He's not really a technologist, he is a business guy\n\nThe universal complaint of engineers in business is that managers who don't understand technology ruin technology companies - how can you manage what you don't understand? And yet, a guy comes along who founds, runs hands-on, and massively grows not one, but *three* technology companies (PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX), and does so *successfully*... and you're saying he's *not* a technologist? Just a guy who got lucky with money?\n\n>Engineers work en masse to build the mountains\n\nBut someone has to realize a mountain can be built in the first place. Musk might not build the mountain himself, but he has the technical intelligence, and the imagination, to recognize what mountains can, and *should* be built, and how to go about *actually building them*. It doesn't take a genius to imagine \"Hey, we should develop cheap, reusable space flight!\" That's half of /r/futurology. It takes a genius to figure out how to *actually do that,* and you can't do that with just financial manipulation.\n\n>The conductor doesn't make the music, the musicians do\n\nIronic, because your metaphor perfectly demonstrates **exactly why you're wrong** (and demonstrates you know as much about music as engineering). The conductor is, almost without exception, the **most musically experienced person in the orchestra.** You can google any conductor and I *guarantee* you will note that they were capable of playing multiple instruments across the spectrum. Perhaps not as well as a specialist at that one instrument, but sufficiently well so as to know two things:\n\n1. How the instrument operates, how its sound \"feels,\" and how it integrates into the musical whole\n2. How the instrument **should not** be played\n\nThe conductor might not be able to play cello on the level of say, Yo Yo Ma, but they know enough to know when someone else *isn't* playing on that level, and more importantly *how* - the mechanical failures, the things that need improvement, what actually needs to be fixed in more specifics than \"Play better.\"\n\nA symphony is **absolutely nothing** without a conductor, because it's impossible for a group of 100 to coordinate a complex, interwoven musical piece. You need a coordinator - who is both separate from the players and knowledgeable enough to act as the symphony's first critic. \n\nThis translates *directly* to engineering. Sure, Elon Musk isn't at the drafting board, calculating the load distribution on the Falcon Heavy's fairings. He's not in the lab doing experiments on high-capacity battery designs for Teslas. There are engineers who are more specialized for that specific work. But he has enough intelligence to know *what* the fairing engineer needs to be doing. To know what's possible for the battery engineer. To not only know *what* needs doing, but *how* it needs to be done.\n\nWriting him off as just the guy bankrolling \"actual engineers\" is, to be blunt, just evidence of your own ignorance to how engineering, and business in general, actually works. And it's insulting not only to Musk, who is one of the most pathologically work addicted people on the planet who is the *exact opposite* of a bourgeois leech, but to everyone who works in *any* industry where managerial oversight is required.\n\nLet's list off some others, just for good measure.\n\n* Editors may not be *as good* of writers as the main authors, but that doesn't mean they don't know good literature - you can *tell* when a book hasn't been run by editors or proof-readers.\n* The Executive Chef of a restaurant does very little hands-on cooking, relative to the line chefs, yet they are *bar none* the most gastronomically experienced person in the kitchen. A person who isn't a cook *could not* manage a fine kitchen.\n* In the military, officers (most often) aren't expected to fulfill the same combat roles as enlisted. A platoon leader isn't necessarily the roughest, buffest soldier; a squadron commander isn't the best pilot; a ship captain isn't the best sailor. But they all have an advanced enough understanding of their jobs to efficiently administer the experts.\n\n",
"I wonder why no one has commented on the navigator screen \"don't panic\".\n\nThat's a reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, which is incredibly appropriate for a car/mannequin traveling for millions of years in space",
"One small drive for dummy, one giant leap for mankind.",
"Next up, Tesla Semi in space, the fastest truck driving the Milky Way ",
"They certainly don't spend money on traditional media buys. But to claim they don't do anything for marketing and publicity is just pure bullshit.",
"All we know is: We call him the STIG!",
"Did you edit it in at all? Since edits don't appear on new comments.",
"Was this a stock car or did they put anything special for the space Tesla? I mean it seems like it would be a waste to just send a regular ol car up there ...maybe add some kinda cool electronics on it to send selfies every 30days or something",
"> These imbeciles in here saying they buy reddit post are ridiculous.\n\nThey don't need to. The Electrek people have something like 40k+ in Tesla referral rewards. Why buy posts on Reddit when you can bribe the guy who writes the article that will be posted anyway?",
"you know what.. I wonder if some rich Saudi prince would pay to put one of their expensive cars on Earth orbit..",
"> But not per dollar of car sold, which is a much more relevant metric.\n> \n> Selling more cars (at any price) isn't the goal of a car company, making money is.\n\nToyota made a profit of $5.6 billion in the April-June quarter of 2017 *alone* - thats over a thousand dollars in *profit* per car sold that quarter.\n\nThis most recent quarter, [Tesla LOST $619 million](https://www.recode.net/2017/11/1/16593134/tesla-model-3-elon-musk-production-q3-earnings-2017) - that's thousands (around $2500, in fact) LOST per car sold.\n\nSo again, by every metric, Tesla is doing far worse. They're not even making more money per car - they're outright LOSING money per car. \n\nWhich only reinforces how much it completely boggles my mind the lengths to which redditors go to defend Tesla",
"I did not. It was in my original post. You must have just missed it. In which case, I rescind my insults.",
"Riiiight. Like how the salesman calling you on the phone is different to the salesman at the car dealership.\n\nNot like both those things are sales.",
"Brilliant\n",
"By whom? None of my quantum professors or any university lecturers I've watched online ever used it to explain anything.\n\nIt isn't explanatory in any interesting sense. Schrodinger thought of it as an example of where what the equations of quantum mechanics say is difficult to understand, and it's still a good example of that.",
"There is something hilarious about that video.\n\nJust an astronaut in his big clunky spacesuit going for a rip^1 on the moon just like \"yes, i am doing science.\"\n\n\n1: i am very canadian, sorry.",
"I knew this comment would be here...",
"Wait if this went past mars orbit in less than a day, why would a manned journey to mars take months? ",
"The showoffs aren't advertising?",
"It was Musk’s personal Roadster, and he said in the press conference that they did nothing special to it. ",
"Especially of Musk hid for a week. ",
"“In other news a car from space destroys couples home”",
"Beautiful... Just beautiful. I think I shall stream this on the work TV next time I am on shift.",
"Earth looks flat ",
"It's Musk's car and sadly the batteries of the 2nd stage only last 12 hours.",
"$0... Really. You really think that? ",
"Lol, because Elon and his tech bros are trying to reinvent car manufacturing. The result? Mid-90s GM quality control and bullshit like the Model 3 dash. Oh, and 400k people who put money down still waiting while he sells \"flamethrowers\" and hats.",
"came here looking for this to be the top post.",
"This year they spent quite a bit",
"Marketing is the same as advertising. You're trying to draw a line where there isn't one.",
"who’s talking about hurt feelings? most people i’ve seen complaining don’t like that we’re junking up space. ",
"Did they develop the rocket for advertising?",
"I wouldn't call sending an car to Mars' orbit $0.",
"[Tesla 2018 vs Heavy Metal 1981](https://i.imgur.com/sI04ihe.jpg)",
"We live in a fairly young part of the universe. Also, I'm under the full belief that there is much to the universe (perhaps multiverse) that we don't know of or can't comprehend. There could even be ethereal beings right around us. In the grand scheme of things, humans are like 200,000 years old, with modern humans being ~80,000 years old, and any meaningful space probing level of technology like 50 years old. We're like ants. Let's face it, what we think of as \"collecting data\" or perception of the universe is like a baby. ",
"How exactly is your business to tell someone how to spend their money (a general question)\n\nI don't care for this Elon clown but as a matter of principle, if someone stops and asks you why don't you feed the poor with your wage don't you tell them to fuck off?",
"Russia and China also had lunar rovers. ",
"Cunt-ry code restricted ",
"My use of the word 'debacle' was in jest, but like _Rand_ said, the media did flip out about it.",
"Wow. There's an extreme. Are you self projecting?",
"Nevertheless tesla pay million per year in marketing and ads, thats 0$ is bullshit\n\nPD: accepting your wrongness on the internet? You are a good man",
"That's what Earth looked like today, February 6, 2018. No matter all our problems at work or school today, or all the geopolitical bs of the last year: From a single, physical point of view, just as ordinary as any other in the three dimensions, this is what it all looked like. Crazy.",
"It truly is magnificent, I wish somebody makes a screensaver out of the footage.",
"*Tide ad..*\n\nSorry, but hád to do it.;)\nNow Tesla has a car that is literally out of this world. Nice piece of crossover between Space X and Tesla, but firstly the launch itself was a landmark event for commercial space flight.",
"False advertising. O7r cars won't be able to do that!",
"Or maybe it's the most perfect murder ever?",
"Elon Musk Musked his pants ",
"Meta is like when a stand-up comedian tells a bunch of jokes to you and then starts referencing them with each other later on.\n\nJust picture you read five news stories and in the comments of the new stories you somehow find a way to use a play on words or reference the other stories in your comment.",
"I watched it live and then followed the star man feed after. It was still surreal watching earth pass by in the background behind the Tesla. Amazing stuff today.",
"> Butt hey\n\nhe he he.",
"Mine did. He used it as a way to give students encountering this concept for the first time some intuition.",
"http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/10/electrek-loonyland-referrals-scandal-goes-international-fred-lambert-doubles/",
"Human family and tribal units operate on a communist model of resource distribution. Ergo, everyone to die before the Industrial Revolution (if we give capitalism a generous start) died because of Communism.\n\nCapitalism: 1 billion \nCommunision: 2.5 billion\n\nOh my, that's unfortunate.\n\n[Sauce](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/fire-in-the-mind/2013/08/11/how-many-people-ever-lived/)\n",
"Apparently they r crowd sourcing for marketing 😂 ",
"Wasnt the movie rated PG?",
"Yea no one would think it’s cgi ",
"“Valuated.” [Thinking face emoji]\n\nYes, for tax reasons because obviously your stock option grants (these are called 409A *valuations*, after the IRS code that governs them) in a company able to, say, launch heavy payloads into space are sort of valuable.\n\nSource: I work for the co. who does your 409A valuations, needed for when issuing grants and options.",
"For Tesla it was, Musk's own car and a SpaceX test launch that needed a mass simulator.",
"it is like Musk said - it looks so fake that it's got to be real :-)",
"It's not exactly [brain](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I) surgery, is it.",
"Yeah what a nerd! Get him!",
"Burning straight up and out at escape velocity is the least fuel efficient way of escaping a planet's gravity. Getting out of the atmosphere, going into orbit and then burning prograde to increase your orbital velocity to above escape velocity is more fuel efficient by a massive amount. \n\nYou're always going to need big engines to get into orbit but once you're there given the same fuel efficiency and engine mass then a slow engine will slightly more fuel than a fast engine due to the Oberth effect assuming you do the exit burn at the fastest part of the orbit. ",
"presumably it means conventional advertising.",
"Mah bad. ",
"Ignorance is bliss\n\nI’m surprised you don’t know that",
"Thanks Gurmegil.\n\nAfter reading that. It does ring a bell, I've probably seen it on reddit before. ",
"but that means i'd have to go to burning man ",
"I bet he forgot to gas it up before it left. Do you know how far the nearest charging station is?",
"Our planet is beautiful. And so is Elon Musk. 😍",
"You're cherrypicking. Advertising doesn't affect profit, it affects revenue.",
"[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M) is 5 hours of footage you can analyze to determine that further.",
"they have a store in Somerset mall in Michigan. they aren't allowed to sell in Michigan. I would consider their rent paid to the mall as advert",
"It's a Tide ad.",
"Don't have to worry for that, the instruments with which they measure your speed have a speed limit they can measure. If it says you're above that limit you can just claim that something went wrong with their instrument.",
"They also make much more than Toyota per car.",
"so the cost of the rockets for research and development should be 0 cause it falls under advertising budget? try accounting 101.....",
"Good I wasn't the only one who saw it. Everyone else is going on about David Bowie.",
"Not native english speaker, wasnt even sure if it was desk to bwgin with",
"Guys, you can be happy that Space X accomplished something today. But Jesus Christ, use a piece of cloth to wipe Elon's cum from your lips.",
"How did you even manage to spell celebration that way?",
"In the universe 7 probably yes",
"What intuition does it give you?",
"That commercial probably cost more than all of the ad budgets in the world.",
"Wait, thought they where all aluminum.",
"I actually had some sort of a visual glitch combined with me looking away for a second that made me see his right arm giving us a thumbs up ",
"That implies that the quality of Tesla is worth it. But it isn't. The Model 3 has terrible quality control. That factory is a garbage fire. They're hiring for positions NOW that should have been filled 6 months before starting production. They're trying to run car manufacturing like some silicon valley tech bro startup, and it's not working.",
"The wording on that tweet is a bit strange. Elon actually meant that the ship exceeded the *trajectory* required to reach a Mars orbit and will instead end up in the asteroid belt.",
"That's because the Falcon Heavy that carried the Roadster launched today(6th). It was kind of a big deal in space circles and the payload is unusual.",
"Good thing Elon Musk isn't a super villain ",
"Oh fuck I hope so man",
"Contrails sounds like a party drink for conspiracy theorists. ",
"What is speed? Aren't we all sitting on a rock orbiting a fireball that is hurtling through the cosmos?\n\nIt's definitely the fastest car above the atmosphere, though.",
"Like your mothers taint ",
"Iamsure the test launch costs went through the roof!",
"> they're outright LOSING money per car.\n\nThat's because they're doing massive capital investments which don't have anything to do with their existing car sales.\n\nThey make a net gain on every car they sell and could have chosen to be profitable long ago, but instead they chose to grow.",
"Are you actually five? There is no air in space to cause issue.",
"i hope someone blows it up",
"Just wait until he hears about the water. ",
"This is your captain speaking.\n\nAs we make our initial approach to Mars, passengers on the left side of the spacecraft will see Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster, launched back in 2018, floating in orbit around the Red Planet. Enjoy the view and welcome to Mars. ",
"Small space particles",
"Putting efforts into reminding people that X exists and it has quality Y.\n\nExample: this post.",
"Rovers aren't road legal. Technically it's the fastest production car in history. Bugatti has a lot of catching up to do.",
"If you’ve seen the film Heavy Metal, then Elon’s is the second convertible in space driven by an astronaut. Here’s the first: https://i.imgur.com/lDKce4B.jpg \n\nEdit: I know Elon’s is real, and therefore way cooler, but I liked the “Heeeey, I’ve seen this before.” Also, Falcon Heavy? Heavy Metal?",
"How do you figure that?",
"Teslas all the way down.",
"Ah ok, thanks. I was starting to wonder there for a moment. ",
"I, too, chose that exact frame to screencap. Except I didn't think of karmawhoring it.",
"that is SO dark. like one of his ex's, or a girl that always turned him down, or a bully that teased him in his younger years. *shudders*",
"If you invest in googl you probably buy 0.00000001%, so you'd own like 0.0000000007% of SpaceX. Probably not what will make you rich.",
"This is a website where people get information. If people are being misinformed on a website made for compiling information and having an open discussion about it, then i'm thankful for the people that clear it up. This is not a website for people to act within social norms, there are no identities or consequences. If you see this as a place for genuine social interaction, you should probably spend less time on the internet.",
"But, but, the earth is flat.. ",
"Wow, I can tell you're about as much fun at parties as [Buzz Killington](https://i.imgur.com/ThYrM6d.jpg).",
"Source?",
"No air to cause friction or vibrations. ",
"I think this was discussed in another thread. Atmospheric pressure is only about 15PSI, so they just had to air the tires down to 5-10 pounds on the ground. In vacuum they would then have 20-25psi inside of them. Easily within the range the tires can handle. Elon said in the press conference they didn't really do anything to \"space harden\" the roadster, they just put a car on top.",
"I wonder what detergent he uses..",
"What's even crazier is you can fit all of the planets in between the distance of the earth and its Moon. ",
"That I'm probably going to need to retake this course.",
"I wonder if he payed with PayPal...",
"Typical of your generation\n\nWhiney bitter fucksticks ",
"A successful first launch and landing of 2/3 cores from their new vehicle (most powerful in the world currently), while producing images like this is beyond dope.",
"> You're cherrypicking. Advertising doesn't affect profit, it affects revenue.\n\nAdvertising certainly affects both - seeing as how excess advertising for a car that doesn't sell can reduce profits\n\nAnd I'm not sure what I'm cherrypicking here - I'm not trying to make up metrics about Tesla's success at making money when in fact their only success in terms of money is how successful they are at losing it",
"They have advertisement you genius ",
"Go fuck yourself c:\n\nLike really what part of this is stupid? I obviously missed the news.",
"I don't get that part. Did they not know the maximal thrust and just say \"go for it, full burn, let's see what happens\"?",
"One could argue that sending the car in to space is a deliberate advertisement.",
"When the car comes back around and pass the sun in its first orbit is going to pick up a lot more speed. I really hope they calculate its speed and declare it the fast speed ever achieved by any car",
"He's finally on his way home :')",
"\"Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising\"\n\nThey won't need to if people are prepared to swallow total bullshit like that sentence. ",
"No it's a poorly worded tweet. The last burn created a trajectory that exceeded Mars orbit, now it's going for the asteroid belt.\n\nSince there is no friction in space and the rocket can't explode anymore, they are using past tense to talk about the trajectory. But the journey is just beginning.\n\n",
"Ad budgt is a part of marketing budget, but a marketing budget does not nessicarityly mean they spent money on above the line markting (tv/media/ads/etc). Trade Shows, product for reviews, social media, that's all below the line advertising, it's Trade Marketing. \n \nSource: was a trade marketing manager for a large energy drink company.",
"It’s a tide ad. ",
"Same same",
"So having never seen Heavy Metal, I'm guessing that was the inspiration for that Major Boobage South Park episode?",
"I think it’ll crash to the ground before then? I’m not sure what they’re doing with it but unless they shoot it out of orbit, it’ll be dragged down to the surface before then. ",
"I sort of like the idea that they only built that rocket in order to send that car into space. Not for proof of concept of falcon heavy, not for advertising, but just for the he'll of it. Just to have a car in space, with dummy in a spacesuit in it, saying don't panic in the instrument panel.",
"The nanites in the glove compartment will built the ship Elon needs to go home.",
"Holy shit I can't believe \"it's the same fucking company\". Like it trips me out when I figure out Doritos and Mountain Dew are owned by the same company. But this car company just launched a rocket into space. Nasa makes a car now, and it's a doozy.",
"Get Elons tiny cock out of your tiny mouth ",
"deleted ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^0.9010 [^^^What ^^^is ^^^this?](https://pastebin.com/FcrFs94k/45720)",
"They can't put something like that in earth orbit because it could absolutely destroy a satellite or the iss",
"That isn't using it to\n\n> explain how things actually work\n\nIt doesn't explain how anything works. You could say it explains how we don't know how some things work.",
"Pro tip: underscores act like asterisks.",
"Marketing does not necessitate producing advertisements, and I'm not sure why you're so solidly against there being a distinction. Advertising is a subset of marketing. Right now, type \"marketing vs advertising\" into Google. ",
"Well, I am a magnificent parker, but it's not rocket science... /s",
"What a waste of a car it would been better if he gave it to me :(",
"Cloverfield 4 then.",
"I wonder if they are capable of receiving a really high definition video on a massive delay.",
"Did the center one fail?",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&feature=youtu.be",
"\"So long, and thanks for all the fish!\"",
"yeah tbh I have no idea. I just heard on the radio today \"it could still be out there in a billion years\" but whoever said that was just throwing out numbers out their ass.",
"$0 maybe on television ad but it certainly more than compensate on internet and print media. ",
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"Everyone knows real happiness is owning a Tesla^TM",
"It's going to come right back around and smack right into Earth. ",
"Sweet dude! How does today help my future vestments? Am I gonna be rich?",
"The Falcon Heavy is listed as capable of placing 22,200KG into orbit. Using concrete equal to that weight would have made a lot more sense than a light weight model car!",
"Considering they usually have concrete blocks as ballast for first flight this was a quite fun idea.",
"My money's on that running longer than the Tesla.",
"Pretty damn hot actually",
">The money alone does not explain it.\n\nNot money alone. Having invested that money in teams upon teams of people surface only the best ideas to you. Having technology at your disposal to help find which mountains to invest in climbing. Corridors of statisticians finding the most likely place for lightning to strike. Hallways of lawyers shielding you from the elements of lawsuits that tank your average startup. A reservoir of cash to build basecamp whenever you need it. Satellites to watch and predict weather patterns. \n\nYou literally need money to make money. Elon made some incredible business decisions - and he avoided terrible pitfalls. Credit where credit is due - but he isn't in a lab inventing the next big thing. He is at dinner with other investors who have their own teams of people combing over what the next big thing will be.",
"Or when we find them in a high Earth orbit, looking for a drag race...",
"We call it a dashboard.",
"\"Oh, *no...* Damn, I overshot ~~my~~ the orbit, guys. The payload will just be off in the asteroid field or something, so don't bother looking for the car, or paying any attention to the surface of Mars for the next few months.\"",
"What? Dude this thing is in deep space right now. Heading for the asteroid belt. The only thing it’ll ever collide with ever again is an asteroid, maybe.",
"There would be some huge investigation and ultimately they could never get to the evidence. They would sure try though.",
"Geeeeeeze that's cool",
"Equilibrium trunk scene is all I can muster.",
"The timer on the robotics in that don’t kick in for at least 100 years...",
"I think it's because Musk has a good heart, which I can appreciate.",
"Objects can remain in orbit indefinitely (at least from a human timescale). ",
"I thought it was created to show how you can't take quantum mechanics to the macro level. ",
"Yeah, 22,200 to LEO. The car is going into deep space heliocentric orbit that goes all the way to the asteroid belt.",
"I found [this](https://imgur.com/a/bSGh2) which answered most of my questions, the car was within a breakaway capsule on top of the rocket and mounted on a scaffolding with a fixed camera. \n\nBut Are there any videos of the payload shroud being released when the car separates from the rest of the rocket? \n\nI looked in the live stream but it seems to start after the car is already on its own. \n\n",
"As you can see from the top of this photo, the earth is clearly flat",
"yes but they also spent $0",
"This is such a circlejerk.",
"we're sorry, the warranty of that Tesla is expired, its gone way way too many miles",
"I guess it’s the fastest any car has gone, or is likely to go again. Barring space rovers of course.",
"More likely the car will become sun bleached from the unfiltered (no atmosphere) UV light. I can’t tell you how fast but I can say that the flags left on the moon by the Apollo missions are already pure white.",
"Here is an example, if Tesla paid a PR firm millions of dollars to spam forums and pay/give preferential treatment to journalists would that be an advertisement? There is a distinction and because you can't understand it doesn't mean there isn't.\n\nAlso, Tesla itself makes the fucking distinction in page 8 of their SEC required annual report. It is literally the first paragraph on that page. Advertisement is a subset of marketing. It took me all of 5 minutes to find this. ",
"Oh, never knew that, thanks for the info!",
"RIP? Cat.",
"It’s still attached to the rocket in the photo",
"Yes, it's also one of the first roadsters I believe...",
"IKR I mean how much frickkin more legendary can you get. Sorry I'm still exasperated by it all",
"It's been all over the news. Unless you just don't care about what SpaceX is up to...",
"This comment goes well with the, \"Nope, Chuck Tesla,\" comment above.",
"Id recommend the \"how Not to land an orbital booster video\" they made first, 3 monutes long. Then watch the copy of the launch stream (35 min) they uploaded.",
"What he said. Radiation, on the other hand, could make the paint fade over the course of a few months.",
"I think that extra movement would require more calculations, because in space \"vacuum\" small robotic arm would slightly affect the whole spaceship/car. ",
"Unless they get the price point down to the average consumer market ($10K to $15K) and get them to go more than 200 miles on a single charge, they're not gonna convince most people to buy their product.",
"I like your name /u/jreddd1",
"Came here to post this. Have your up doot!",
"Ahhh \\-\\- gotcha. Didn't know it happened yet.",
"Maybe they meant $0 for spacex?",
"It's in the actual launch stream, [here](https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=25m45s)",
"Because he's a smarty-pants rich dick. /s",
"Ah, the perfect counter ",
"We put heavier larger objects in orbit all the time. Get out of here with that nonsense.",
"Dude. It's the same thing. Advertising is marketing to you.",
"If Hitler claims he killed no people, it would be technically true. Don't play this accounting game with me. I bet SpaceX would be paying for everything because it would save Musk tax money.",
"Where this car is going... it won't need headlights to see.",
"That would be bad luck Brian tho because he would have thrown the payload weight off and the whole launch would have failed and kilt him.",
"lol @ \"Serious lack of foresight\". Redditors really ARE experts at everything.",
"Did they release the car from the payload, or just remove the payload shells?",
"Because Apple landed rockets?",
"Don't get me wrong, I would never expect free in a business or anywhere else. I'm not saying anything about Elon Musk, Tesla, or SpaceX. I'm just addressing the claim regarding $0 spent on advertising. It's fine to say \"very little spent\" or whatever, but to say $0 is a flat out lie.",
"But it's not zero, but I agree, it's basically nothing",
"Damn straight, it truly is amazing.",
"Honestly though, can we agree this is already stooping to the step of legend?",
"Because Reddit won’t admit that Musk is just a man. He’s not a god. He gets loads of money from the government to produce a small amount of cars (after deadline) for rich people. He’s not iron man and he’s not jesus. He’s a businessman who doesn’t give a shit about anyone but his ego. ",
"Their books are so cooked, good luck in the sea of contradicting sources. The claim that they allegedly spend \"zero\" on marketing is itself apart of their marketing. It's a crack smoking tautology of bullshit. \n\nCut through all the bullshit headlines and crack smoking tautology and look at this.. The actual data. They're officially spending something like ~50M per year. \n\n[10-K filing for 2016](http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=131860)\n\n",
"Yes, these were the unmanned rovers on the Moon I mentioned.\n\nAs far as I know the US never had unmanned rovers on the Moon.",
"You need a hug?",
"Yes. It’s also an original Roadster. Something that hasn’t been produced for years. ",
"How did get Daft Punk to star in his commercial for free?",
"The launch and everything is on the space x YouTube channel. I recommend you watch it, it will blow your mind.",
"I don't know why, but your comment caused me to burst out laughing.",
"nooo tiiidddde",
"Seriously, I honestly, genuinely hope that he does. \n\nThe Age of Waste has fucked up this planet, so why limit ourselves to a mere globe when there's a whole galaxy to mess around in.",
"To be fair, there's not a Prius shooting through space right now. ",
"You did fine, ignore the troll. I bet he can't speak a word of your language.",
"Thank you!",
"if i recall correctly the winner of the contest got a car, i wouldnt call that spending nothing but reguardless... all hail elon musk",
"Tesla didn't have to pay for any of that though, all of it is payed for by Space X and the Tesla itself is Elon Musks personal car so it's straight from Elon's pocket and Space X",
"I still can’t afford a Falcon Heavy either :(",
"Its not flat...\n\nI call bullshit ",
"Yes, they spend ~$50 million + $0 a year.",
"that still seems like a small amount for what they've achieved",
"'98 civic 6/10\n'98 civic with rice 10/10",
"Actually roughly 90 million ",
"That's probably the most impressive thing to me other than the frickkin spectacularness of it all. They made space fun again and captured more people's imagination than since like the eighties",
"https://i.imgur.com/gooMuLD.gif",
"Im willing to bet they pay a lot more than nothing on online marketing too...",
"It doesn't matter what Tesla says. Part of the advertising budget is to produce that \"report\" which just further pushes their dishonest claim that they have no marketing budget.\n\nSeriously. You just read a piece of advertising convincing you that it wasn't advertising.",
"Thats awesome thanks!",
"How fast was it actually traveling in outer-earth space?",
"Wait, so did Elon actually launch a car into space?",
"It was inside the very top of the rocket during launch. Now in space aerodynamics doesn't matter no more. Hell, look at iss, that station isn't exactly sleek and aerodynamic. ",
"Really, a man fulfills a vision like this and you can't shake off \"the sky is falling\" for a moment to enjoy it?",
"this is spot on",
"Thanks a lot!",
"The Falcon Heavy has been planned and delayed for YEARS, this wasn't some sudden one-off thing, it's a new super-heavy vehicle that's going to do work, most powerful in use today infact. Usually on these first time test flights slabs of concrete are used, Musk wanted to add some flair.",
"I don't think they are the same company. They share the same CEO and he owns a percentage of both.",
"In the future someone is going to try to retrieve it. And if that's even a possibility, it means Elon Musk became widely successful and so the car will be worth a lot of money. ",
"It's not a typo, it's a celebration where you get inebriated.",
"I dont like the tesla hype. Its just a vehicel of big investments to disrupt mobile industry for a later installment of cheaper mass follow up brands to the market behind the scourched earth teslas disruption will produce. Its just advertising on a whole new level. tesla is ALL about advertising. Advertising for a shift towards a new automobile industry that is going to be rolled out soon by men who spend and want to earn a lot of power and money.\n\nBut this is the best meme ever produced in mankind. Elon Musk is the winner of the cold war. Big lols\n\n",
"Enjoy your ban ",
"Sorry guys, the entire SpaceX company is just a Tide ad. ",
"When did they discontinue the stream? When it got too far? So no more video ever? But will still communicate with it in mars orbit right? ",
"They revolutionised media.",
"> To be fair, there's not a Prius shooting through space right now.\n\nYeah, which only confirms the fact that OP is a moron for thinking Tesla (aka Musk) spends $0 on advertising, especially when their SEC filings - all public record, no less - makes it quite clear they do (and thanks to Musk, the owner of SpaceX, they get free advertising not on the books too!). Unless OP thinks that SEC filing is fake news, in which case they're committing fraud",
"...which is why you are correct.",
"Things with thrusters to correct trajectory so as not to collide with other orbiting objects and to maintain orbit. Soo, you get out of here with that nonsense",
"Generations of alien archaeologists trying to understand the meaning of the towel...",
"Fastest street legal production car?",
"Probably not very effectively.",
"Stranger from a strange land?",
"...and on the dashboard of that Tesla...",
"In the 70s Nasa sent an electric car to the Moon, they landed it with two people on a descending rocket, the two men got it out and drove around.\nThen the anothet onboard rocket fired them back off the surface.\nAll this before the microchip.\nJust sayin.",
"I wonder if the difference in weight between the human and the dummy would be enough to destroy the rocket, or if that would be within allowed tolerances? How much can be off-weight/off-balance before the launch fails? I guess you'd have to ask their engineers... \n \nTo be fair, the launch succeeding would also kill him. \n \nNothing ventured, nothing gained?",
"Step 1: Be rich.\n\nStep 2: Don't be poor.",
"A whole car is a sunk cost?",
"Well, they don't and can't. That is the entire point. They literally have a century of automotive best practices to draw from and they don't. When companies from vastly different cultures all start aligning it might mean you should probably figure out why they use similar processes. \n\nEdit: Comparable statement to yours, if only my local hardware store had the same vendor connections as Home Depot! I would love it! It is nonsensical.",
"To fuck with insane people",
"Or as we know him : \"Stig Jurijev Gagarin\" - a tame cosmonaut.\n",
"i thought the falcon heavy was designed to send people to mars? ",
"Musk is a Tesla owner",
"If we compare it to the SLS development cost or the cost of the Space Shuttle program: Yes, certainly.\n\nFor the price of a single SLS launch SpaceX could develop Falcon Heavy, launch it, throw away everything, start from scratch and develop it again, launch it, throw away everything, start from scratch and develop it again, launch it, and would still have some money left. Alternatively, SpaceX could launch 20+ Falcon Heavy for the price of a single SLS launch.",
"I remember little to nothing about this movie, I should rewatch it, does it hold up or do I skip it instead? ",
"People sleepin on your comment ",
"So the fancy rocket and electricar company is like the new media revolutionary, oh, I get it.",
"No, you’re right. It’s a hoax and the earth really is flat. My crazy uncle was right all along.",
"To the moon",
"Yes, you can watch 5 hours of its glory [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M).",
"- Kyrie Irving ",
"It’s a tide ad",
"What",
"Come on, it is only about making a point. But that point isn't really high in value.\nTesla is an Entrepreneur in the automobile industry and has to \"bash\" their way through the toughest marketing world of all times (in matter of cars).\nSo it isn't only understandable to advertise the Tesla car more then to advertise your produced Toyota. It is obvious that a new less known brand uses advantage of the explosion of performance and (forgive me now) marketing's the shit out of that little futuristic piece of 4wheeler.\n\nI would like to have some proof to underline following statement but I am placing it here anyway:\nToyota is in every little corner of the earth, no matter the climate. Easy said, there more people talking about the car that has allready proven itself over time. In answer to that Tesla can fearless rise their ads/car and does that to confirm their good knowledge about marketing. Because they have a product (obviously not only one) which is remarkable and has been confirmed to be high end in their fields. \n\nIt is smart to accelerate the marketing wheel when you have such an euphorically high grade image in the industry and throughout the society.\n\nYeet",
"Unless he finds a cool motel with a pool and margaritas along the way.",
"It's known as the [Lunar Grand Prix](https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_881.html) for a reason\n\n(Also, RIP John Young)",
"I mean they're kinda like billboards so it is advertising.",
"Just have to put it on a path that doesn't intersect other objects in orbit. ",
"Um .... uh.... Google + Facebook + all television, radio, newspaper, magazines. Ads are big business",
"The shell is called a fairing, and yup it's sorta siting on an angled platform.",
"inb4 it becomes the next Schezwan sauce....",
"Does a cool graphic of this exist?",
"Not encapsulated ",
"I recorded some of the live video and set it as my [desktop wallpaper](https://gfycat.com/GiddyCraftyBobwhite). The gif is sped up, resized and shortened (because recording in 4k makes for very big files) and because the normal video is a lot slower. It also shows the Earth coming into view, passing in front of the car and exiting the view, but that had to be cut for file size reasons.",
"So what's the point of the car?\n\nDoes it have instruments to gather data? Does it carry a message? Can it report back anything substantial?\n\nI still think it's cool as hell, but is car just now spacejunk, or does it have any utility at all??",
"It's obviously perfectly flat, the sun is just shining more in the middle, and the clouds bunched a little more around the edges. What's your bloody problem?",
"Why is advertising bad? Why is that a bad thing?\nHe’s doing dope shit. Why we can’t we all be excited about dope shit? ",
"Heinlein was one of those who believed space would be opened up by successful capitalists, not governments. It appears that time has now arrived, albeit about 40 years later than anticipated.",
"you sure love to talk about elons cock a lot, also in many of your other posts....lol....i think someone protests too much.....",
"They spend money on marketing (test drive events, etc), but not on ads. Ads are a specific subset of marketing - TV ads, billboards, internet ads, radio ads, etc., and Tesla places none of those.\n\nAnyway this wasn't money spent by Tesla, it was spent by SpaceX, so it's a moot point.",
"I downvoted all of you",
"It couldn’t slow itself enough for a safe landing so they dropped it in the ocean.",
">Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising\n\nProbably because they have shills like OP who are out there and willing to advertise for them completely free of charge 😂",
"Yeah, it threw me for a loop, too, when I was trying to figure out what was wrong with my formatting in an overly-elaborate emoticon, one time... >_>",
"I don't know, man, they seem to be pretty high up to me.",
"Piece of difficult cake",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebird-Proteus_CN7",
"No problem, everyone should see that amazing footage!",
"Not sure how \"cool\" it is: https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CLqdeKf.jpg and it conveniently ignores Saturn's rings",
"Updated version of that clip which contains more views including the Starman: https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE",
"The Tesla is the payload, and yes it is strapped to to tge front of the rocket. ",
"I wouldn't want to be that suit's height. your eyes are looking right into the crossbeam of the windshield.",
"You mean greatest commercial of all times in all domains ",
"This one is escaping Earth's gravity, it's bound for Mars orbit (edit: apparently bound for asteroid belt actually?)",
"No problem, I recommend watching the whole launch, the landings are especially exquisite.",
"I feel Jurijev Stigarin would've worked better there ",
"I wonder if that is real. Do you guys ever think about the possibility of that image or other clips being artificially manufactured? Or maybe it's just me who feels awkward with those clips from Space X.",
"with the best mileage",
"Km/h wasn't it?",
"Week technically it was a first test of a new rocket, so they were never too g to put anything valuable inside it (relatively speaking ). So they did a bit of free marketing for tesla. Considering the interest from around the world it seems to have paid off. Hopefully it reignite people's interest in space (and tesla cars, buy them while they're hot , people! ).",
"They definitely have it wrong. They spend lots on branding and such, just not on paid ads. ",
"Again, you're wrong.",
"http://www.spacex.com/webcast hit play on the top video.",
"The earth orbit was a test for the military, IIRC. Once that was done they started the burn to a heliocentric orbit.",
"Imagine if sand could get thrown up into the air super easily.\n\nNow imagine that said air-born sand could shred your lungs into ribbons if you ever breathed it.\n\nShitty is an understatement. But at least it has a nice view.",
"Nope. It's a tide ad.",
"I saw a Tesla a couple weeks ago and the door panel was so misaligned you could spot it from across the street.",
"Both the car and the earth are orbiting the sun. The car is orbiting at an eccentric orbit meaning it’s traveling faster around the sun then the earth is. \n\nTdlr: fastest car in history",
"He can put a car in space but can't pay his stem majors well",
"It’s a Tide ad",
"Marketing is a different thing than advertising.",
"earth is almost always at a point in space\"where no man has gone before\"",
"Tesla doesn't spend 0 dollars on advertising. They have store fronts that don't sell cars but act as advertisements to foot traffic.",
"A few umbrellas, some ladies in bikinis... ",
"It’s a tide ad ",
"That's what they want you to think",
"Have you ever seen a Tesla ad? Nobody has, because they don't advertise.\n\nMarketing is a different thing than advertising. Advertising is TV ads, radio ads, billboards, etc. Marketing is things like test drive events, etc.",
"Since when is ~$50 million small? \nhttp://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/5971574869x0xS1564590-17-3118/1318605/filing.pdf \npage 65\n",
"Yep, and he's even holding them against their will!",
"There's a Falcon 9 for sale. Only $9.9 million.",
"Is there really no living relative of a dinosaur?",
"Wait what. help.",
"That made absolutely no sense to anyone.",
"I feel like Reddit should allow ticking a box that turns off all codes like that if you want. Like it could switch between allowing like current and having to manually enter stuff like italics and bolding and stuff.",
"how long is the path in the image? one year?",
"On marketing, not advertising. There's a difference.",
"It’s the middle of the night dog I had a full day of social interaction. I spend about forty five minutes on the internet a day and usually in the evening or morning, one or the other. I’m happy with where I am, sorry if you didn’t like reading my comments tonight. Thanks for replying anyway. It didn’t cost me a thing to type that first comment, and he never responded because he knew I was right. I made a comment, not a statement, how it’s received by who it’s directed at is not for you or me to worry about. I hope you can see that. I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me, but I assure you my life is full with room to grow. I’ll be sleeping momentarily. Best of luck!",
"I keep waiting for an actual video sync’ed up to [Fear Factory’s collab with Gary Numan](https://youtu.be/8lERqGULWxs) on a great remix/cover of a Numan classic.",
"Omg the middle finger would have been legendary. ",
"The Tesla is going faster than the Lunar rover as it is also escaping Earth's gravity, it's going much, much farther than the moon. It's heading for the belt.\n\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars",
"Elon will be. Also what kind of engineering? How’s working for the Martian?",
"Are you trying to suggest that NASA has never done test launches?",
"Technically he spent $90 million on that car commercial though. ",
"Maybe you don't understand the scale of the universe. For comparison, you are here:",
"It might go to Mars. Very tiny chance, but still a chance...",
"The real hero is in the comments. Wow, just wow. I’m going to make that my animated desktop background. ",
"They spend literally $0 on that component.",
"[Feast your eyes on its beauty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"So they pay no advertising fees and junk up the sky with more actual space trash. ",
"It's from the live feed\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO3h4FBLWqY",
"> and thought that was attractive. He still attracts bacterial infections to this day.\n\nSo technically he was right then, no?",
"Also depends on the definition of a car.",
"It's attached to the rocket.",
"Companies don’t have to waste money on advertising to make a great product.",
"I heard the launch was just a cover up to release more chemtrails.",
"Not a direct edit, but found this on /r/TopGear:\n\nhttp://youtubedoubler.com/mPYS",
"And what if the alien is gender neutral?",
"The best possible launch window is the most efficient way to launch. It is possible to travel in less than 9 months, but it is gradually less efficient.",
"But that was ages ago, how is that meta, or is my definition of meta off?",
"They would probably die at some point",
"It really depends on whether or not Starman uses one parking spot or two at journey's end.",
"What if the asteroids never touch but the car hits one and causes a chain reaction and 1,000",
"SCIENCE",
"how did the car not get burned in the exit atmosphere",
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah\n\nEdit: I guess you really got me good that time, huh?",
"Does that mean all the Bigfoot pictures are real as well?",
"It doesn't take much more to get out that far.\n\nSource: I've played Kerbal Space Program.",
"No utility, but the norm is to use concrete slabs for a mass simulator on test launches such as this so there will be trash either way. But you'll be glad to know that it's headed into deep space orbit of the sun going all the way to the asteroid belt in its orbit.",
"Omg this is an amazing response",
"Yeah, I'm operating on three hours of sleep atm. can barely put a sentence together.",
"um...this is advertisment",
"My conspiracy theory is that all this flat earth crap is just a meme. They believe in it ironically because it rattles so many people so easy. ",
"ridiculous\n",
"Your talking about the fairing which detaches after the second stage starts up. This photo is legit, the car was strapped to the top of rocket encapsulated by fairing which has already detached in this photo.",
"That's not how it works.",
"Shower daily and work 100 hours a week. ",
"At an insane speed, enough to puncture the thing.",
"Wow. What a great source you provided. Their voices even sound like fucking criminals. Oh wait. That was just my voice reading your words out loud. Huh. ",
"I hope they used The Stig",
"> Yes but the payload is INSIDE of some other part of the rocket. \n\nDuring launch, yeah. You want the outer shell to be smooth to cut down on air resistance. Out of the atmosphere, you want it to be light and air resistance doesn't matter anymore, so you ditch the fairings (the shell).\n\nYes, the car is just strapped to the outside on top of the rocket.",
"S K R R R R R T",
"God dammit OP",
"Did you reply to the wrong comment?",
"The thing about great products and companies is, you don't need advertisements to sell. People who are into the craft/hobby/lifestyle already know the brands/producers and will gravitate towards them based on the quality/friend's suggestions/the immense amount of reviews/data available to them. Beer/wine is a great example (and what I draw my own observations/conclusions from). Most of the shittier brands spend hundreds of millions on advertising every year. But if you look at the highest rated beers/wines on a plethora of informative platforms you'll find that highly renowned products don't need to waste millions on ads. People who are interested know it's good.\n",
"I'm sorry...I .... Didn't know I couldn't do that... ",
"It's the meme that the Tide marketing guys blatantly copied. And morons all over are falling for it.",
"Yes, it's real. And it's going to the belt.\n\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16983744/spacex-tesla-falcon-heavy-roadster-orbit-asteroid-belt-elon-musk-mars",
"A.k.a. the odometer shows 0 cause it flipped 84 times",
"Nah that really doesn't happen much. There's very little bleed over from SpaceX activities into Tesla stock.",
"It's impressive, it's great. I get it. No need to lie about Musk spending no money on marketing. Everything he does is part of the marketing. He is a brand himself. Just like Donald Trump. There is no shame admitting Musk spent time, money, and effort to market himself.",
"Paid for by Taxpayers.",
"Oh look, globe earth.",
"That’s $0.12 per human",
"I think this is cool. I can completely understand that they launch a Tesla; why not? They could have used a simple weight for testing. Better advertising is nearly impossible I think. \nAs a European; THIS kind of stuff is what makes America great again!",
"‘At 25,000 mph, it’s the fastest car in the universe. And you can own it for less than a Prius.’",
"Ah yes, the ole \"Launch a Tesla Into Orbit\", trick. ",
"Is this a real picture? Im somewhat out of the loop too and possibly naive but shouldn't there be burns, etc. from exiting atmosphere?",
"ok... ctrl f advertising then.",
"https://youtu.be/cQKzesTq0Wo",
"The average new car does not cost 10 to 15k.",
"Unmatched!",
"Yes it is literally strapped on top of the rocket like a helmet.\n\nhttp://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/Tesla-Roadster-SpaceX-Falcon-Heavy-payload.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around|660:438\n\nSee that black cone, that's the \"helmet\" with the car strapped on top. That black cone is attached on top of the second stage rocket. There is no other payload inside or otherwise. ",
"Yeah but of course not for real. But what if we could make it real?",
"Holy shit. Guess I know what I’m doing for the next four and a half hours.",
"The whole idea probably started out with Elon saying he wanted to ride on the rocket in his car and then parachute back down or something and his team had to talk him into the test dummy instead",
"The rovers have 6 wheels though. Even Sojourner . ",
"ask and you shall receive.... Not by me. but I am sure it'll appear some day",
"All I could think was \"look at that panel gap\"",
"lol \"fuel\" lol",
"nah elon is disposing of a dead body",
"Enjoy! There are some amazing shots in there.",
"No, it's a tide subtract",
"With that attitude you will never become a Bond villain. Simpler, pfff.",
"Kibbutzim in Israel. But that's only on the small scale, and even those are turning less socialist.",
"What if SpaceX intentionally crashed the core rocket? What if it's a prototype that they still aren't sure about being 100% ready so they sunk it? \n\nThe payload was delivered, and they had two fucking rockets land so simultaneously that you'd question whether you're watching the same video in two screens... How does the center rocket hit the ocean 100m off target at 300mph? \n\nWhen they can perform the incredible landing they did with the other two, how are they *that* off with the third? ",
"Where can I watch said commercial? This is a picture ",
"I 100% believe it's the only vehicle that even slightly resembles a car in the entire universe.\n\nFight me.",
"It can be your reference point. You just treat everything else as if its moving in relation to the car. You don't have to mess with gravitation and what probably orbits what if you only care about how fast you are moving. Speed doesn't have a direction but its also impossible to prove you are moving when you have nothing to relate your movement to. You have to pick a point that you moved from regardless of if the direction doesn't matter. You can choose the car as the point you are measuring from and since it doesn't move in relation to itself it could be sitting still. When speed is used in physics we know that the object has gone from one point to another over time. Even if you don't care what direction it moved in it still had a direction at all points of motion.",
"> conventional advertising.\n\nArguably the least effective form of advertising in this day and age. The only reason they don't have shitty TV ads and billboards is because the ad agency they pay their millions to have at least a crude understanding of advertising that works. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to hear that the \"$0\" on advertising bullshit was some million dollar PR spin.\n",
"[As Mel Brooks says](https://i.imgur.com/nMAsyU2.gif)",
"But what if on the dashboard of the Hot Wheels Tesla there was another, even smaller toy car?",
"You have displayed very poor survival capabilities. \n\nYou not getting the joke actually makes the joke more accurate",
"You got a point there...",
"Here's the best photo I could get:\n\nhttps://imgur.com/gallery/WlG99",
"Wait, so you don't think the guy who can't distinguish between marketing and advertising, and whose comment consisted of \"fuck the fuck off, you fuck,\" was exhibiting critical thought? And everyone else wasn't?",
"I completely agree that advertising is marketing. However, not all marketing is advertising. Saying that all oranges are fruits does not imply that all fruits are oranges. ",
"When you let your wife navigate",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"How much did this advertisement cost?",
"Ctrl-F Wallpaper\n\nShit",
"LOL I couldn't think of a more appropriate name! I guess they knew what to expect or something. I would have been tip toeing around shitting myself.",
"Starman.",
"Link for anyone interested, totally worth 10 minutes of your time!\n\nhttps://youtu.be/pJdrlWR-yFM",
"Automatically read this as Zoidberg",
"Sadly, ‘good’ doesn’t run businesses. I know everyone calls Jobs an asshat because he always appeared that way, but that’s what you need to run a company. He did what he could to get the best out of his employees, and it shows. If Musk’s target was the general public rather than the rich elite, businesses and government, he wouldn’t be able to run his companies without being a dick to some people. ",
"Turns right at the bottom of a hill, sharp turns on narrow streets, a corner where the road banks outwards by any amount, interplanetary space, the second floor of a multi storey car park, on an inclined road that isn't perfectly straight, through a mini-roundabout where the center is anything more than a painted circle, down a road that runs through a particularly windy field, part way into a shallow ditch to make way for an ambulance, or any other outrageous contraptions no motorized vehicle could resonably have been expected to encounter.",
"Mars. Biggest tax dodge ever. Let's see the IRS come after him when he's on Mars!",
"Its going to Ceres beltalowda",
"The center core failed to restart 2 of its 3 engines during the landing burn, though they weren't going to reuse it anyways since it is an older version.",
"There definitely was some cost associated with it. The engineers would have had to modify the Tesla to make it space worthy as well as design the 2nd stage mount. That probably wasn't very cheap or easy. Far easier than a satellite but it probably still took a team of engineers a few weeks.",
"Were is Pluto?",
"It gets the point across...",
"Basically everything wrong with season one is fixed in season two",
"This. If you put the apoapsis high enough up, particulate atmosphere won't drag it down. Not fast enough for it to matter in the next 1000 years anyways.",
"That's because idiot douches on Reddit are content in providing free advertising to Elon Musk and his company",
"You wake up hungover. Somehow you're sitting in a car, wearing a helmet, can't remember anything. David Bowie is playing...",
"I was actually thinking the same honestly. It's still amazing that it's that easy to get that much further in real life.",
"Missed opportunity, would have been a great 360 degree video",
"You wake up hungover. Somehow you're sitting in a car, wearing a helmet, can't remember anything. David Bowie is playing...",
"Great Scott!",
"I visited Tesla Motors sub and every comment until yours and nobody has mentioned it (the video I mean)",
"That includes things like launch parties. They don't do traditional advertising.",
"Insulting others regularly: \n\nhttps://i.redd.it/l0vefhtyyxhz.png\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/7kbgd2/elon_musk_calls_transit_expert_an_idiot_and_says/\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ftbRWqkj0 -- Laughs at competitor. In the same year, Tesla dropped it's worth while BYD increased theirs. \n\n\nSpreading fake information: \n\nhttps://i.redd.it/t0kzb8c5dj401.png\n\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2017/11/02/why-would-any-supplier-want-to-work-with-tesla/#605e69ba3cbc\n\nRefuses to investigate Worker Complaints and fires those who are upset about work conditions: \n\nhttp://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-union-fremont-board-demands-2017-7\n\nhttps://i.redd.it/14kb6fv2f6tz.png\n\nhttp://money.cnn.com/2017/10/26/technology/tesla-uaw-firings/index.html\n\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2017/7/5/15922816/tesla-sexism-harassment-predator-zone-vandermeyden\n\nhttps://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/25/workers-involved-in-union-activities-say-tesla-is-illegally-intimidating-them.html\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/tesla-female-engineer-lawsuit-harassment-discrimination\n\nAttacking the Press for investigating his companies and the respective profits and losses: \n\nhttps://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-just-yelled-shame-at-a-bunch-of-journalists-1820059349\n\nAnd of course rarely meeting promises: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/73eh4m/tracking_elon_musks_visions_promises_and/\n\nHe also regularly takes credit for other's work: \n\nhttps://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/30/tesla-using-samsung-sdi-battery-cells-129-mwh-south-australia-facility/\n\nBad/Stolen Designs: \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard -- The original designer for Hyperloop. He tried out a prototype in Britain for 3 years, but it wasn't worth the effort. Elon claims that it's his design and idea, when it is not. \n\nhttps://www.whatcar.com/news/reliability-survey/ -- Tesla 3 is not a very good car. \n \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCIo8e12sBM -- Tesla 3 is also incredibly unsafe and a mechanic's nightmare.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKQPHC4JyAU -- Tesla S having severe issues.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/apSfO -- Stealing Evike's Gun Design, expect the flamethrower not to be released because of this. \n\nMisc: \nhttps://i.redd.it/uk0tgarjwszz.jpg\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/6hhrcr/so_about_musk_claiming_to_work_100_hours_per_week/\n\nhttp://variety.com/2016/dirt/real-estalker/elon-musk-bel-air-mansion-1201888308/ -- For someone who's so environmentally green, he sure likes to buy a ton of homes and houses for himself.\n\nhttps://phys.org/news/2018-01-tesla-fresh-norway-lawsuit-false.html -- Getting sued for False Advertising, something that Musk and his companies do often. \n\n---\n\nHe's an asshole and I hate him. You should hate him too. He's a lot like Donald Trump, lots of promises and lots of words, but very little action. He relies on appealing to one's emotion and excitement.\n\nTesla also spends hundreds of millions on advertising: http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n\nYou ever wonder why there's not many Tesla/Elon Musk ads on TV, Radio or on billboards? It's because the majority of these hundreds of millions go towards Online Advertising. Yes, I'm talking about astroturfing: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7fyes3/there_seem_to_be_professional_shills_for_elon/ (Ever find it strange how Elon and his companies are in the top 50 of /r/all literally all the time?)\n\nThis is also why Elon Musk and his companies refuse to travel outside of America. Other nations have laws that protect consumers so they know what they're seeing, but America doesn't because it's Corporation before Community. ",
"In gaming it's usually short for meta*gaming* much like how it's usually short for meta*humor* in reddit threads.\n\nIt's the \"one step back/up\" meaning: it's not the game itself, but rather the ecosystem/community of players strategizing around each other; the tactics and strategies that have become common among the players of the game.\n\nE.g. a skilled player might choose an on-paper weaker setup/tactic because they know it will work against the tactics that they see a large number of players using - that's a form of metagaming.",
"Just want to hear Space Oddity in the vacuum of space in 20 years",
"[Find the shot you like most from 5 hours of footage!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"The biggest deal is that this is the most powerful rocket we now have, to top that it's reusable. That's the big thing. That we now have reusable and incredibly powerful rockets to proceed with space missions. \n\nThe capability of this rocket and future designs is that we can eventually streamline space expansion for ourselves. Do we want to start a colony on Mars, this is going to make it faster. Imagine if we are launching materials up every two months to get to Mars and have people start building a society. \n\nPutting a man on the moon was awesome, but the potential coming out of SpaceX is greater. It's a far more exciting goal. ",
"Here's my undoctored photo:\n\nhttps://imgur.com/gallery/WlG99\n\nI love the way the camera lined up with earth on this shot",
"Dude, if you think thats trolling you sure aren't around internet that much",
"Wow chill mark",
"I am willing to do one of those two ",
"It’s a cartoon, therefore is for kids, right? Because of this flawed logic I was younger than 11 when I saw it. I was traumatized for a good while",
"Sorry, I guess I didn't see it. ",
"Half a billion is why I heard, at least specifically for the FH. Of course the FH sits in architecture developed for the F1 and F9 so I suppose you could round that all together.",
"That was his principal argument, yeah.\n\n\"Sure, you guys think this is what the math means in this small closed system of 5 particles. What happens when you take it into a complex system of a multi-particle cat?\"",
"Total BS. They def spend money in advertising, just not traditional paid ads. Once the market is saturated with electric cars, they will...I assure you. ",
"Advertising vs Marketing isn't as much of a distinction as fruit and oranges.\n\nMarketing is advertising to you. Advertising is marketing to you. Same same.",
"[Oh, it's for real alright](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"Starman is going to get ganked by Goons.",
"Looks like a notebook cover from the 90s/earlier 00s",
"Yeah but how is he going to get to work now?",
"What are the flat earthers saying?",
"From the press conference, R&D for falcon heavy was half a billion. ",
"How can you be sure that it's the only car in the universe at this speed?",
"I was have liked a teapot on board.\n\nThat be all chaps.",
"Wow that's it? Crazy it costs less to develop a spaceship than it takes to develop a new drug.",
"This is where you get into space elevator territory, drawing power from the tether or solar panels or whatever and crawling up nice and easy.",
"People still think the Earth is flat?",
"Keep in mind both side boosters are reused cores.",
"Eh, I'd probably try to do it and then fuck up and lose all my money. The fact that Elon has accomplished so much is mind boggling considering he started with 100 million dollars after X.com business.",
"I dunno about you...but that Tesla is the perfect place to hide a body. ",
"I can foresee this feat of Elon Musk being like the DragonBall universe where the Saiyan Bardock sent out his only son Goku onto the Cosmos. Placed in a space-pod right before the imminent destruction of planet Vegeta and extinction of the Saiyan race....\n\nI’m thinking Elon knows what impending doom our planet might soon face with all the cultural, social, political atrocities that are currently shaping our climate (Sigh).\n\n",
"Wow. I just watched it all, it was amazing. \n\nI wish there were more shots of the ferring separation ",
"This user does accounting",
"Fastest 4 wheels *with inflatable tires*.",
"With a reply like that I can tell it’s past your bedtime. How is me proving this guy wrong with facts me sucking Elon’s dick? Grow up. ",
"Yes they do now quit your fucking shilling",
"Thankyou! I really wanted to see the fairings open, but they switched to the telemetry in the live stream right when that happened. ",
"Would you agree that it can be used to explain how a wave function equation represents a physical system, in the form of a single electron being in a superposition of several energy states?",
"I've seen space aliens blow up the White House. Where are the special effects guys at? You'll probably get some sweet Reddit gold from someone else.",
"It’s 2016 get a grip on things ",
"Cult's gonna cult. Go read their SEC filings and their quarterly reports. Probably won't help if you're financially illiterate like most people. Grab an adult or someone who generally made it past 5th grade and ask them to read it to you. \n\nIf you think it's normal behavior for a CEO/CFO of a public company to claim no additional capital is needed on a conference call then literally 1 week later announce 1.5 BILLION with B in new bonds issued, junk bonds mind you.. Then you're probably also the kind of person who believes that Tesla has \"zero\" marketing budget, when it's literally written in their own 10-K statement what their marketing budget actually is. At least officially, considering how cooked the books are. The whole \"zero\" claim is actually apart of their marketing itself, like some kind of crack smoking tautology of bullshit. The official number is ~50M. Source? Tesla themselves, via 10-K, if you even know what that is. ",
"Why are we sending mannequins and motor-vehicles into space? Tacky.",
"Why would you include R&D? These rockets are going to be used commercially, this was just the commercial.",
"Actually, the Falcon Heavy was completely funded by SpaceX, no government agency paid for the development. Though SpaceX doesn't receive any money outright anyway, they are contracted to provide a service and have saved the taxpayers money by offering the lowest launch prices of any launch provider by a wide margin.",
"I was curious about that myself.",
"Just because they don’t have TV ads doesn’t mean they don’t advertise at all. ",
"This will probably become a historic monument",
"He'd still have to renounce his American citizenship to be exempt.",
"Fastest production car in the galaxy.\n\nThey always use that shit. ",
"The asteroid belt is very spread out. If you collapsed the whole asteroid belt into one chunk, it would be 4% the mass of the moon. So even if the car flew through the asteroid belt many times, it is unlikely to hit anything.",
"Thanks!",
"There's also a lot of drugs in here.",
"If we are talking kerbal.. It takes a lot more to just get off the ground my craft just explodes no matter what I do",
"I always wanted to start a big ass company just to put out one commercial.\n\n\"Hey dumb fucks, we don't advertise much, this is the one time ew're goingt ot ell you, while everyone else is hiring big name celebrities and paying for fancy effects work, we're putting all that money into a better product. Feel free to pay for advertising if you care to pleb\"",
"It might stay red, sometimes it's the combination of UV and oxygen that causes fading, rather than the UV alone. ",
"For the same reason that you aren't. ",
"I didn't think it did.",
"Gotta love the irony of burning fossil fuels to launch an Electric Car into space.",
"I mean, it's not like you couldn't check that it isn't flat before this. ",
"Wait, so you're saying reddit shouldn't pretend that Musk is everything, but then you're saying that \"he\" got a lot of money from the government to produce cars (he didn't, Tesla did, also they actually didn't since it was a loan, was smaller than all other companies' loans under the same program, and was paid back years ahead of schedule). And then you go on to say that it was after deadline (it wasn't, there was literally a [million-dollar bet](https://www.treehugger.com/cars/elon-musk-wins-model-s-bet-journalist-donates-1-million-charity-anyway.html) about this), and the cars were for rich people (Model 3 is out now and starts for less than an average new car in the US).\n\nIt kind of sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.\n\nNote by the way that this post is about the company, not about the ego, and you seem more interested in talking about the ego. If you don't want to, then why do?",
"FH already has a back log of flights. There is plenty of use for it. I’m sure NASA loves the idea of having a flight proven rocket that can send probes to deep space without needing gravity assists. ",
"It just looks like the cover of my algebra book from the late 90s.",
"And the earth IS flat!",
"I wonder if that's just employment funds. IE paying the PR/marketing in house people. Maybe payments for reviews, if thats how that works.\n\nWhat OP meant is, Tesla doesn't spend $ on ads, because they do not make any.",
"Hehe, it is great, isn't it? Sadly there was no way to get more shots of the fairing seperation because the only cameras on the 2nd stage(besides the ones on the roadster) are pointed at the engine.",
"I do love the irony that he’ll most likely be the last one standing of the beetles...",
"so what the fuck is going on at NASA? did tesla poach every good engineer?",
"Isn't this the opening to \"Heavy Metal\"?",
"Marketing, not advertising. There's a difference.\n\nCan you show evidence of a paid Tesla ad anywhere? Or are you a \"filthy liar\" yourself?",
"Shut up, Jerry!",
"Surely they'd put it in a museum on Mars if anywhere!",
"i think it's the periapsis that needs to be high enough. you can have an apoapsis at 20k miles and still not have a stable orbit 'cause of lithobreaking",
"I think what he is trying to say is something along the lines of....could a Tesla roadster on the ground travel faster between two points. For example...if the Tesla in space was passing over Seattle to Chicago would a Tesla on the ground be faster getting from Seattle to Chicago. ",
"A severe lack of common sense it would seem. This launch didn't cost 90 million. That's what SpaceX would charge a customer for this launch. Think McFly, Think! ",
"When people think South Africa is a massive elephant jungle and then realize he was born there.",
"When people think South Africa is a massive elephant jungle and then realize he was born there.",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7vt58k/wp_ill_tell_you_what_im_going_to_do_mr_bond_im",
"Wait... if it's real then they're not insane...",
"\"The Company incurred advertising costs of $26.3 million, $28.6 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\"\n\n[Source](http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605)\n\nAdvertising still incredibly low in comparison with the revenue of earned 2.7 billion per quarter. ",
"Hey buddy. Got something to tell you. :(",
"Meanwhile I’m barely able to do 60 hours a week. ",
"So when a company spends money on market research, you think they are advertising to you? What about when a company pays a firm to advise them on product pricing and distribution? Those are marketing costs, but I don't think that anyone would call that advertising.",
"Dude, here's my car, but where am I?",
"Tesla has \"dealerships\" in malls and lets people test drive their cars. I imagine that counts as advertising.",
"Pretty unrelated to the main topic but I've never understood the purpose of a conductor. I mean these are professional musicians playing something that's written in front of them. You play violin? Start playing this at this time. You play trumpet, here's what you play and when. Why would they need someone to wave a wand in front of you to know when to start playing? Genuinely interested, not trying to troll or anything.\n\n This is assuming conductor is they guy in front of the orchestra with the stick. English is not my first language. ",
"Oh, so it's just littering a different part of space?",
"Hmm... that Earth looks photoshopped.\n\n/s",
"Correct, that is marketing, not advertising.\n\nHave those been paid for placement in any other videos on youtube, or anywhere else? Have you ever been watching a youtube video and a paid Tesla ad comes on (paid for by Tesla, not from some other source)?",
"Well, you *can* do\n\n _code formatting_...\n\nBut the admins did recently just [announce a planned update to the desktop UI](https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/7ul5k9/hey_were_here_to_talk_about_that_desktop_redesign/?st=jdcrwvo0&sh=6523faa7) that allows for WYSIWYG-style formatting (although the standard kind will still apply.) Anything else would be a *mess,* in terms of parsing older comments and getting people used to ticking the box, I imagine.",
"NASA is beholden to the pork though. ",
"I bet Elon put something in it so it's head turned slightly every once in a while to scare anyone watching the livestream.",
"And \"Made on Earth by humans\" written on the circuit board.",
"... Do you ever buy them the tesla?\n\nIs getting a tesla an actual possible job perk??????\n\nI need to know more!",
"Oh look r/The_Douchebags is leaking. LOL",
"Gotta get da red curry on Ceres, sasa? No one make it like da Beltas.",
"They spend a ton on marketing. What dreamworld are you living in? Just because they don't have tv commercials doesn't mean they don't have advertising....",
"So they spend more and sell less? ",
"A ban...? For what? You started with the insults.",
"**IT'S YOUR ONE WAY TICKET TO MIDNIGHT!**\n*Call it* -**HEAVY METAL!**\nHigher than high, feelin' just right.\n*Call it* -**HEAVY METAL!**\nDesperation on a red line.\n*Call it* -**HEAVY METAL! NOIIISSSSSEEE!!!**",
"It's just a meme, yet water doesn't stick to the outside of a spinning ball. If you researched the topic you would realise there is a lot of evidence that points to a flat and motionless plane. I was saying this launch is fake, the earth is most definitely flat.",
"Can you please show me evidence of a paid Tesla ad? I'll wait.",
"I presume an average male is at last twice as heavy as the dummy, which could probably throw the whole thing off trajectory. They'd notice the extra weight very quickly though, since I'm unsure if they could even launch properly with the extra weight.",
"https://xkcd.com/878/",
"My coworker thinks that the Dems poisoned Flints water to besmirch (their words) Trumps presidency. I know your pain.",
"No that’s the bfr. ",
"Yeah. Peri is lower than api.",
"Or rotoscope the background and turn it green for a frame or two every few hours so people think it's the green screen messing up.",
"No that was Elon...",
"What I'm wondering is how they possibly could have gotten an internet connection all that distance out in order to stream it.",
"Ha yeah, this is about the band who wrote I Am The Walrus, just to fuck with people who look too deeply into songs",
"Hoping to see the Core landing pics. Apparently it smashed into the drone ship at ~300mph.",
"Exactly! Turn your phone sideways, can you see the Earth sticking out the back? No! Checkmate atheists!",
"I see alot of people hating on the guy. He has flaws and is not perfect, but is literally paving the way to humans becoming interplanetary in my life time. Ever since I was a kid I always dreamed old becoming an astronaut, or going to different planets, what is wrong about it? When you're pushing the boundaries there are going to be mistakes.",
"Nah, it's a different company. The CEO of Space X decided to launch his personal car into space...... which just happens to be a Tesla.",
"Market Research is a sales expense. You need to know who you're trying to sell to.\nProduct pricing and distribution is again Sales. Can't sell if it's not in the shop for the right price.\n\nMarketing is convincing you to buy it via advertisments.\n\nSeriously? You do know there's a difference between Sales and Marketing right?",
"it looks so fake but it's fucking real!",
"Huge impressions all around",
"Love it, thanks.",
"Too round! 😂\n\nAlso, what is this? An earth for ants?",
"wtf is this disgusting clickbait they spend millions on advertising and marketing, clearly stated in their financials",
"Some say he's a big fan of Bowie.",
"They definitely spend money on advertising... Showing cars in shopping centres with staff costs something! ",
"Based off my kerbal knowledge it would depend on if they have enough fuel/thrust to achieve a delta v high enough for escape velocity. But I know they want to waste as little fuel as possible so that line might be pretty thin. Just depends on what spacex’s fuel risk tolerance is I guess",
"I've seen it several times - it certainly is still fun, the soundtrack is great, and under shit like weed it's amazing.",
"Kerbal space program has prepared me to understand conversations like these",
"Space: the final frontier.",
"Crushed to death by G forces? ",
"Says who. We often talk in terms of rounding. My son is 6, but really he's almost 7. I don't have to call him 6 and 7/12ths. You even can do logical rounding or truncation and easily see 0. I get that you almost never hear anyone say 'my kid is zero years old' but that is largely due to pride and the wide developmental differentiation between initial months. Even then we don't say they are fractional years old at the start, we talk in terms of months. Up to 18 months and beyond people are using months. So I still argue it is perfectly fine and valid to say a 3mo old is 0 years and 3months old, and even 0 years old.\n\nI'm certain I've referred to my kids as 0 years old when they were under a year and someone asked because I know they were looking for months and I wanted to mess with them. \n\nI know I won't change your mind, but I still believe it fully. ",
"Nope, its not on the world, doesn't count. ",
"Ah it's quite a bigger problem then that...\n\n\"Micrometeoroids are very small pieces of rock or metal broken off from larger chunks of rock and debris often dating back to the birth of the Solar System. Micrometeoroids are extremely common in space. Tiny particles are a major contributor to space weathering processes. When they hit the surface of the Moon, or any airless body (Mercury, the asteroids, etc.), the resulting melting and vaporization causes darkening and other optical changes in the regolith\" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrometeoroid\n\nThese things travel at 10+km/s(!) Gotta be damaging",
"https://www.floydianslip.com/images/albums/full/4.jpg Not quite (on purpose), but close.",
" “probably”",
"DONT PANIC ",
"> d) A normal tire has a comfortable safety-margin until it pops\n\nThat's gotta be at least double the normal inflation pressure, just to deal with potholes and high temperatures.",
"Nice",
"Anyone think Elon put a corpse in that car ",
"The Roadster is literally out of this world..",
"Yes it is definitely flat. That's why EVERY picture of the earths is the same. I have never seen a picture that show the thickest of the earth... you know like a picture of a plate from the table point of view. That's too much to ask. Why are they not showing it? It is probably because everyone who work in space have nothing better to do, but to show the planet as a sphere... to rub it in the face of flat liners... and most of these people who believe the earth is flat are Americans. Wow... that's say a lot.",
"True but Tesla had a history of getting government funds to get started just so Musk could sell battery powered luxury cars. The launch itself is a good thing I just get tired of people who think who think he's so great when most of his exploits wouldn't be possible without taxpayer funding.",
"Wait so they sent it into deep space? I didn’t know that. ",
"All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.",
"Hmmm I would say $0 a year on advertising is nonsense. They have a \"showroom\" in my local shopping centre. ",
"I wish they but a camera inside of the dummy's head and stream it for some time...",
"That's a bit hard to swallow.",
"Is it bad that we're just putting random things up in orbit?",
"What I'm confused about is how you caught me",
"Don't",
"If only their cars didn’t catch fire and kill the driver so much....sigh",
"As someone who’s aiming for a career in marketing, the level of blindness here astounds me. We’re surrounded by ads, and social media is by far the most effective tool because of its wide reach, lower cost and greater effectiveness. Almost anyone here could be a corporate shill and we’d believe whatever they say if their post has enough upvotes/likes/retweeets/whatever. Plus, mindshare is a thing. If a company has enough people aware of their brand name and public figures (like YouTubers) keep telling everyone just how awesome their brand new Tesla is, guess what; you just got advertised to and you didn’t even realize it. ",
"Huh yeah I have no idea realistically. John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich onto Gemini 3, and that worked out OK. The SpaceX engineers said they had to throttle down the engines today because they were too strong for the payload.Maybe the intern could have snuck on board I guess.",
"So are those tires solid rubber? ",
"steve jobs is dead. nerd jesus is now elon musk. /topic.",
"Well, Tesla paid the only loan it got back early and with interest so the taxpayers made money on that too. The subsidies on electric cars are what they say on the tin, but Tesla isn't the only one who benefits from those.",
"you cant be that dumb. this wasnt musk polluting the orbit jesus fucking christ he tested the launch vehicle for all future Mars (& beyond) missions. Are you seriously such a snowflake? polluting the orbit? get the fuck outta here with that shit....What environment are we polluting in fucking SPACE? there is no life in the vacuum ",
"..wait for it...-dary.",
"It's a tiny bit less impressive when you remember that gravity is 1/6 as strong there. But just a tiny bit!",
"I'm sure they spend $0 on advertising lol",
"It was in a capsule when it was leaving the atmosphere.\n\nJust watch the falcon heavy launch. It’s worth it.",
"That’s part of the video of the car inside the fairing before fairing separation. ",
"there's a tesla store at the mall near me. \ntherefore - they definitely spend money on advertising. ",
"Is the a officer, problem?",
"Oops, yup, I stand corrected. Must be the lack of sleep lol",
"No, it's not. The fairing got blown off once it was high enough.",
"RIP in peace Heinlein",
"[They do have a camera right next to its head.](https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M?t=19m24s)",
"They also paid for a space in my local supermarket with a few assistants to talk in person about the Tesla. Not buying tv time is not the same as not advertising.",
"how’d he get over it? did he just give up? Or was there a particular “AHA!” moment where he just ran out of “yeah but what if”’s and realized he had wasted ~14 years of his life? \n\nthat would have been an awesome moment to witness.",
"If space is anything like Michigan(space is also cold and dangerous) then it will find a way to rust. ",
"More than 6",
"A weird, imaginative, inventive, talented man.",
"[Let me fix that audio for ya](http://youtubedoubler.com/mQak)",
"Advertising is marketing, but marketing is not advertising. They don’t pay for advertising, as in they haven’t paid for placement of their marketing material. \n\nYou won’t see a Tesla TV/print/radio/YouTube/Internet ad",
"They should stuck David Harbour's face on it for kicks. \"thought this was just a rocket launch? Nope, car commercial\"",
"Yeah. When I noticed that the vehicle was spinning (was the rocket spinning, or was the vehicle on a spinning mount?), I kept a close watch until the Earth came into view. And oh my *god* that was breathtaking.",
"Yeah, here's a [gif](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/TO4hfO3)",
"this is the perfect way to dispose of the body... thought Elon",
"Maybe...",
"\"Other days, it's Ziggy Stardust....\" ",
"Sure, but that one grain of sand is moving at 5,000 mph. It'll do a hell of a lot more damage than a typical grain.",
"Ikr??",
"The boi Elon making use of social media marketing",
"But the Tesla is also escaping Earth's gravity, in fact it takes more velocity to get into a Martian orbit than it does to get into a Lunar orbit.",
"Yeah it does ",
"Happy cake day!",
"Or how the real Elon is returning to his home planet. ",
"OP asked for cool, though.",
"Isn't this just extreme littering?",
"That poor car, can't even rust in space.",
"I was wondering where the land masses are, cos from this picture it looks like Earth is just one globe of water and clouds.",
"Thank you!!",
"Space Pirate.",
"I feel this will go down as history as one of the most iconic images of our time!",
"If this isn't meme of the century, I don't know what is. I'm not even sure what meme this could become. Just that it must become one. ",
"Gotta be a link to that by now, anyone have that sauce?!",
"Thick. Blue. Ice.",
"Technically speaking so are we and everything that exists. ",
"What an utter waste of resources",
"Wait a minute\n\n2016 was last year!",
"There's no badging or branding of any kind. To the average person, this is a picture of an astronaut in a random convertible in front of the earth. The point of car commercials is to showcase the car...something that's hard to do when very few people know what the car is. ",
"yuck",
"Elon Musk said r&d for Falcon heavy was approx. $500m+, maybe more.",
"Well yeah.\nSpacex spent over 500million $ to put that car out there though.",
"So when they gonna launch Trump to space tho? Hes irrelevant here",
"So are you saying that Tesla spending more is better or worse?",
"/r/WritingPrompts\n\nEdit: There’s already [one](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/7vt58k/wp_ill_tell_you_what_im_going_to_do_mr_bond_im/?st=JDCSDJB4&sh=2a7a41a2) ",
"It was a test of the capabilities of the rocket. Usually they just use a large hunk of concrete or steel. But as Elon puts it \"Thats boring.\" So they decided to have a little fun with it and stuck a car on top instead. ",
"either that or the most expensive of all time. that launch alone costs $90 millions, plus the cost of everything else (the car, the suit and all the other stuff can't be recovered) and i'm sure they're very expensive as well.",
"Rust is oxidised metal\nYou can't oxidise stuff without oxygen ",
"But plenty of high end manufacturers don’t ‘advertise’ in the way you’re speaking of. When was the last time you saw a Bentley tv commercial, or a Bugatti full page ad?\n\nThese luxury/premium sector manufacturers use more appropriate ways to market their cars to customers... for example parking a fleet outside a premium golf club, or loaning cars to hotels for airport runs for high end customers. To claim this kind of activity is not ‘Advertising’ is a little naive. \n\nSource: work for a luxury car manufacturer ",
"Crash dummies are made to resemble humans mass-wise as closely as possible; that is to simulate interaction with the car during simulated crash. Not sure if this is a crash dummy or just a mannequin though.",
"Make sense. The IRS wouldn't be able to touch him personally, but they could certainly seize his Earth assets. And he'd have to come back eventually. We're the planet with all the resources. Any Mars colony would have to behave, or find themselves not getting any resources from Earth.",
"Well crap.....looks like I'm gonna have to push an update to my Where's My Ride app on the Play Store. I didn't code functionality for cars in space. 🤣",
"Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1473/",
"Reddit has such love for Elon Musk that I'm not at all surprised to see it's not the top comment. ",
"And yet, for some reason people are arguing that Tesla spent nothing, when they clearly did",
"is the image cropped or Earth is flat from top? /s",
"Everyone knows what a tesla is ",
"* Requirements set by the government change multiple times during the development\n* Every politician wants to make sure their state does contribute something, so you get the manufacturing scattered all over the country, and basically no way to reduce the cost anywhere even if things become unnecessary.\n* Some things are outsourced as \"cost plus\" contracts: The contractors get their costs reimbursed plus x% of that as profit. They have an incentive to make it more expensive.\n* SpaceX is faster with decisions. As privately owned company they (or Musk alone with his majority vote) can decide to do X, and only if that doesn't work go to Y. NASA first has to set up a committee to organize meetings to discuss how to investigate X and Y, with a decision possibly months away.\n* Probably some other things.",
"Voyager 1: tell em bro",
"That suit looks pretty clean... are we still in a Tide™ ad?",
"......Tide ad",
"I think an argument could be made that sending one of your cars into Space and then beaming ultra-cool images of that car back to earth could be defined as advertising, and with some associated costs. ",
"Speed enforced by orbital tesla",
"After Armageddon, a new civilization will grow up on earth, and 10000 years from now, this cars orbit will again intersect earth, and this new civilization will find the only artifact that survived the Armageddon; A Tesla. It will tell them there was a crazy cool civilization here before.",
"The launch was happening either way, it just needed a mass simulator which usually is concrete slabs, but Musk wanted to send his own car up there. The suit is a qualification suit for NASA that they don't need anymore.",
"It’s a Tide ad.",
"...probably best not to fuck with a super(non)villain with his own planet as a secret base, though...",
"Why",
"It will fly around the solar system for a billion years. ",
"This makes no sense. The earth is flat. This must be fake.",
"Valid question ",
"I mean you see Tesla/Elon Musk everywhere on reddit",
"This thread is doing my head in. People are even ignoring the sunk costs and intrinsic marketing value of spaceX being affiliated with Tesla. ",
"I thought the \"don't panic!\" display was great",
"If an alien finds this they are going to be so perplexed!",
"FUCK YEAH where has this comment been my whole life? It's like a library of all the ammo i need for my next argument regarding whether Elon is a false idol or not.",
"You still believe in docks?",
"You don’t think that the cost incurred to produce this content counts as advertising? Paid media is not the only way to advertise \n\nSource: I am paid to think about these things for my career. ",
"Because every form of transport is not a car, but a car is a form of transport",
"Personal car?\n\nWould have been great to see all the shit in his floorboard and cupholders float out during the feed. Paperclips, Dr. pepper bottle caps, Pennies and nickles, 6 Wendy's receipts, a differential equations book I forgot was under the backseat floorboard for the last 3 years...",
"Good to hear that EU friend. As an American, it felt good to have something so unabashedly great and of the future to push against this neanderthal anti climate change, anti-renewables, clean coal Propaganda we have had to endure. But let’s not forget - make South Africa great again. Elon hailing from there and all. ",
"Wow...",
"Is no one concerned about blatant littering in space? Trashing our own planet is one thing, but legitimately just dumping shit into space?",
"This is the most incredible leap in recent history. It did remind me Star Trek though :D http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Ford_truck\nThe one in Voyager where they come across an old truck, floating in space.",
"Oh man, that would have been amazing - wouldn't even really need much in the way of animatronics, just have the left hand already in a thumbs up and turn it towards the camera.",
"Right now, over our heads, over the heads of every redditor and commenter here, and everyone in the world, is a car. In this photo there we all are in the background from a very recent photo. And there is a car.",
"I highly doubt those tires are inflated at all. Tires hold their shape on their own pretty well and even if they were inflated I’m sure they would have lowered the PSI to like 10 to accommodate the change in pressure so they don’t explode in outer space but I highly doubt they are pressurized at all. Even if they are the trajectory wouldn’t be compromised that much seeing as there really is no exact destination. It’s just prove they could reach a certain distance with a car sized payload while testing their new rocket. \n\nIf they were actually flying precious cargo to mars they would definitely have multiple burns to correct their course and slow down. ",
"Anyone that wouldn’t has their head up their ass.",
"Unless it runs into something on the way, it's going where it's projected. It's not like there's any air resistance in space.",
"It’s an old Roadster. Not the new model",
"\"Fastest consumer-grade commercially available vehicle!\"",
"Thank you for ending that piece of fake news",
"Given the speed of the rocket when I last saw the stream, it is travelling over 200x the speed of a roadster on the ground, which means it willtravel 400,000 miles in the time you drive the 2000 from Seattle to Chicago (assuming nonstop).\n\nIt will eventually reach such a distance from the Earth that yes, a car driving on the road could travel the distance between those points faster than if you extended the points from the axis of the earth. On the other hand, the spacecar wouldn't be following Earth's orbit at this point, so the question is entirely pointless.",
"Its not going to any planet, it will just float around the solar system forever.",
"WHOA DUDE... RATIOS!!!! /s\n\nOut of all the amazing responses I have received that taught me something, you taught me nothing. ",
"It's not a \"better or worse\" thing. It's pointing out that /u/technique_only's comment is misleading. Toyota spends less money *per car* than Tesla because Toyota makes thousands of times more cars than Tesla. So it's not a meaningful statistic, but it *sounds* damning for Tesla.",
"Lunar Rovers wouldn't have gone nearly as fast as his Tesla. The Moon isn't anywhere close to escape velocity, though curiosity and the other Mars rovers would be very close. ",
"for one day r/hailcorporate should redirect to r/tesla... and then the next day do r/spacex ",
"Anything that gets the name of their company out into the world, including their YouTube videos and launches/events is an ad, and Tesla pays for all of it. You can be a pedant and argue that they’re not ads according to the definition, but the intent is still there and it’s not free. In fact, the lack of TV adverts makes the company’s marketing look more ‘organic’. Plus, it gets posts like OP’s to the top of social media and wins more mindshare for Tesla. Another thing it does is cultivate Tesla’s image of an underdog innovator, which resonates with nerds like us.",
"Hi, dad!",
"It's a screenshot from the livestream: https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M",
"Spacex did, not Tesla. They didn't even have to shell out the cost of the car as this was Elon's personal car ",
"You being a spaceX engineer has literally nothing to do with the valuation or the fact that it is not publicly traded. Also you saying the word ‘valuated’ proves you know nothing about it",
"Sometimes those graphics understate just how ridiculously 'big' and 'empty' space is. I like [this](http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html) true scale representation, with 1 pixel being the size of the moon.",
"SO he sent a car to mars with a humanoid figure \"driving\" it.\n\nMy mind will be blown when he finally makes it to mars and he takes off his helmet and reveals that he is elon. Finally made it home.",
"That's on you.",
"That's *two* people who've touted that misleading statistic in this thread. I'm starting to see a disturbing trend here.",
"Elon said the batteries will only last 12 hours. It doesn't sound like there are any solar panels or anything so im guessing thats it. ",
"Can someone link me this commercial? ",
"It was either the car and cool pictures or a giant block of concrete. Wich its more cool for the masses? Thats right.",
"Space X does the same video work for all of their launches, it’s literally baked into their business model. The same video package is on any random satellite launch as on this one. When you fly Space X you get the free hyped up PR stuff. ",
"Advertising is a discipline that comes underneath the marketing umbrella. It is part of any marketing budget.",
"Just be sure to credit me.",
"You know what space has alot of? It has Lots of space. I hope you are just joking and not really an idiot",
"love this description",
"Loled when i read that",
"Haha I was gonna say, not just *a* Tesla ownerc *the* Tesla owner himself",
"But you do realize the claim is false, right? You can see their annual report and see they spent millions on marketing / ads. Irrelevant of this space boogaloo.",
"For those downvoting, this user is referring to the unreleased version of the Tesla Roadster. Not the Falcon launch.",
"He was much hairier during his larval stage",
"But they'll quickly make this back since the rocket seems to have delivered on the promise to be the most powerful yet.",
"[Enjoy 5 hours of a car spinning in space from multiple camera angles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"it's likely we'll get a live update somewhere in the future, the car will be probably tracked together with asteroids and big pieces of debris",
"https://i.imgur.com/8JPbL1O.jpg ur welcome tesla",
"The United States should provide secret service to protect Elon musk ",
"Over time the sun will evaporate the plastic. UV radiation breaks the plastic molecules. There will be no \"sand blasting\" though ",
"I really wish they'd put a teapot in the trunk...",
"OP takes 0 seconds looking into claim prior to posting ",
"You'd have an argument if they announce tomorrow that they've achieved the company goal and end the company. That everything SpaceX has done up to this point was entirely for this \"car commercial\". Until that time you can't place the costs of the entire company on this one event.\n\nWhat about all the other missions of SpaceX? The satellite deliveries and ISS resupply missions? The total cost is spread out over many things. Putting a car (and sometimes cheese) into space is not the only thing the company does. Yes, they've spent a few billion developing rockets. However the rocket development is not only used for this one \"car commercial\".",
"> it's a whole lotta people\n\nCorrection duly noted. Also, I'm glad that so many of us see what's going on and appreciate the magnitude of the little drama playing out beyond our atmosphere. I'm really just reminding you to never surrender hope or dreams or higher aspirations. We broke it, we can fix it.",
"Sometime in the future, a sci-fi movie will be made that needs to use this car [for something](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V_6VP-3M14s/Vf16UrlHXrI/AAAAAAAABL0/RB97nZVrxu0/s2048/15%2BAstronauts%2Band%2BSojourner%2Brover%2Bfrom%2BRed%2BPlanet%2Bmovie.jpg). ",
"This graphic just mind-fucked me. Space is such an incredibly, unfathomably large place. We are so small, yet so self-aware of our scale in this universe the 99% of the time we choose to block ourselves from thinking about this completely because it’s almost crippling to our living and fitting into this society.\n\nI think about space probably more often than most people yet I’m still overcome with emotions of immense shock, curiosity, excitement, fear and a range of others literally every time I try to make sense of it. \n\nWhat the fuck are we? Why are we so small? What else is out there? Will we ever know?\n\nAhhhhhhh blue screen.....",
"Actually unfortunately they did play the same video. Someone nicked up the source code so it played the exact same booster landing at the same time. ",
"The faster car... in the world!! Wait..... is it even in our world anymore 😂",
"Woah, that’s incredible! I really look up to you. I hope I can one day work for a space company. I’m super curious, so if you don’t mind me asking, what was your college / job experience prior to working there? What do you do? What part of your job is your favorite? You don’t have to answer something if it compromise your privacy, of course.",
"Vroom vroom, motherfuckers",
"Holy shit.",
"Came here for this, not disappointed",
"Maybe if you buy the shittiest new Honda.",
"It's a bit meaningless though. Objective position doesn't exist, space can only be measured in relation to stuff.",
"Well, technically *a company* spent billions on an ad for Tesla - that company wasn't Tesla though.",
"> While it's easy to take it for granted as a \"Duh, people need a way to spend money online,\" Paypal was revolutionary in its approach to payment management, for customers and enterprises.\n> \n> And then, he took all the money he made from creating a technology company from scratch and building it into an international powerhouse, and he dumped that into raw industry. If he was just a money manipulator, his wealth would have been generated by investing in, y'know, the financial sector. Sure, his net worth is largely tied up in stock... of companies he built, not companies he just shuffled money around for investment returns.\n\nFirst of all, brush your teeth. Just joking - I actually agree with you here. PayPal was (and still is) very special. Integrating with EBAY? * muah! * brilliant - no sarcasm.\n\n>The universal complaint of engineers in business is that managers who don't understand technology ruin technology companies - how can you manage what you don't understand? And yet, a guy comes along who founds, runs hands-on, and massively grows not one, but three technology companies (PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX), and does so successfully... and you're saying he's not a technologist? Just a guy who got lucky with money?\n\nyou make fair points.I would say that the brilliance of Elon is his ability to sift through the BS and listen to people. From what I have read he is a very attentive listener. I don't think he got lucky with money, I think he made good decisions at the right time, but the forces of the market are not interpretable even by the most estute individuals alone. He saw opportunities and capitalized on them. He is not lazy, but he doesn't do practical work in a laboratory like Nikola Tesla did. \n\n>someone has to realize a mountain can be built in the first place\n\nYou can improve an existing general technology without having an application. Hell here is a whole field called Field Applications Engineering where people take inventions and go around trying to see who can use it. Sometimes inventions come from the top down, but Harold Stephen Black had no idea he would be putting people on the moon.\n\n> mechanical failures, the things that need improvement, what actually needs to be fixed\n\nDo you really think this is what Elon Musk is doing these days? Walking around in a lab coat addressing mechanical failures?\n\n>he has enough intelligence to know what the fairing engineer needs to be doing. To know what's possible for the battery engineer. To not only know what needs doing, but how it needs to be done.\n\nYou are describing what a director or a head of engineering does. A CEO's primary responsibilities include making major corporate decisions, managing the overall operations and resources of a company, and acting as the main point of communication between the board of directors and corporate operations. The conductor is just a timekeeper. In the classical era, all orchestras played without the conductor, being led by the 1st violin or the soloist. Beethoven in his later years would lose count on account of his deaftness. His orchestra would have to play on through and when Beethoven realized he was behind or ahead by a measure, he was embaressed.\n\n>Writing him off as just the guy bankrolling \"actual engineers\" is, to be blunt, just evidence of your own ignorance to how engineering, and business in general, actually works.\n\nBusiness and engineering are different. One of them is financial, and the other is technical. One of them deals with market forces, and the other with fundamental forces. My point isn't that Elon is just the guy bankrolling \"actual engineers\". My point is that these two skills are fundamentally different, and it is the ignorance of the crowd which conflates the two and gives credit in one domain where expertise in another is shown. The prowess of Elon Musk is in making good business decisions, not in designing the next thing. I only spoke about my personal appreciation, and my personal appreciation is not for the business leadership.\n\n>it's insulting not only to Musk, who is one of the most pathologically work addicted people on the planet who is the exact opposite of a bourgeois leech, but to everyone who works in any industry where managerial oversight is required.\n\nHere, you dropped your monicle ____0 - Seriously though, what are you on about? Yes he is work addicted, he is not a bourgeois leech, I never said that. In fact, I think he has a good heart which is even more important in my book. Still, he isn't a technical genius inventing things, he is a business leader who is investing in things. You see the difference, right?\n\nEditors have imporant jobs, no doubt. The Executive Chef is a great cook (not always, but usually). But the editor isn't writing the articles. The difference between an executive chef and Elon Musk is that if you got rid of the other cooks, he could still cook the meal, so this doesn't really scale. It's not like Elon Must built so many spacecraft that he now gets to sit back and tell them what to do. \n\n>In the military, officers (most often) aren't expected to fulfill the same combat roles as enlisted. A platoon leader isn't necessarily the roughest, buffest soldier; a squadron commander isn't the best pilot; a ship captain isn't the best sailor. But they all have an advanced enough understanding of their jobs to efficiently administer the experts.\n\nThat is what I have been saying. He isn't an aerospace genius. He literally had 0 space experience entering into that industry. He isn't an inventor, he is an investor. You misinterpret me if you think I am calling his dispensable or a leech. I just don't really look up to his particular skillset. I grew up in silicon valley in the 80's and 90's. I was surrounded by these guys every day. It's old hat to me. I find it more interesting when someone actually invents something that fundamentally upturns how business is even conducted. I enjoy the composition more than the composer. ",
"I'm sure it was cleaned before they sent it up.",
"Sadly Elon said the batteries will only last 12 hours, doesn't sound like there are any solar panels. ",
"I mean, even if you account for the lack of atmospheric pressure on the outside of the tires, normal air pressure for the Tesla is still perfectly within the spec of whatever tires are on the car. There wouldn't be any reason to mess with the air pressure.",
"[and BILlions and BILlions and BILions and BILions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_aLESDql1U)",
"On a single charge! ",
"Where's a link to the streaming? Why is this a link to a still shot? Rage. ",
"But what about the æther? ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"SpaceX developed the Falcon Heavy for only *$500 million*. Compared that to the cost of the Apollo program, which was **$144.3 billion** in 2017 dollars.",
"No resale value based on that but also A LOT of resale value based on that.",
"What is commotion about this picture? ELI5",
"but the car is enclosed inside this.... rocket? right?",
"So I'm totally clueless to what's happening with spacex. Did Musk really put a sports car in space? Go easy on me redditors. ",
"This is the full sized car? Not the hot wheels sized one they mentioned in the livestream? ",
"bruh the earth is 71% covered by water. so pretty much yeah",
"Sweet that you're putting 1080p ones on. I just tweeted out hoping a higher quality version was available but I guess 720p is it. I wish they were 4k or there were some higher quality stills available, cause today, like lots of other launches, there were a few moments like this one that I want to be my wallpaper. They did put out a hq pic of the double booster landing so I do have that.\n\nEdit: Why am I being down voted? Am I being selfish by saying it would be cool if the video quality was higher for better wallpapers?",
"Must be real then https://i.imgur.com/CXi2Gg5.png",
"Here you go, this version shows fairing separation and has both side booster cams on the way down. The live stream showed the same one twice. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE",
"Probably saying meta because the joke was made in another thread.",
"If the Earth is round, then how come my shoes are flat? Huh?",
"r/stoppoopingyourpants",
"Can't see a single bit of land..? Hmm",
"If he'd been replaced then the replacement would have wrote more and performed more than the original by a very wide margin by now anyway.",
"Why would they make a fake video when they could easily do it for real?",
"Musk sent a mannequin into space because he couldn't afford It? Because he knows that competent engineers have better things to do with their time than fasten his vehicle onto the front of a spacecraft? Because he realizes that this comical display is evidence of the fact he is hogging valuable scientific resources for the sake of the advertisment of his persona, and chooses to act narcissistically anyway?",
"So it could potentially keep passing by earth again in the future?",
"Fuck Musk. ",
"\"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.\" ",
"Yes it was",
"He's sending his tesla roadster to mars orbit while it's playing space oddity",
"Elon is in the perfect position if he ever wanted to get rid of a body...just send it into space in the back of a fucking roadster ",
"Yep, [here is the launch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE) and [here is the car in space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M).",
"We've been sending shit into space since 1957. A useful sattelite would have been much cooler than a car sized piece of debris. ",
"and this was not in the launch window, all they want is to hit mars orbit, to prove they can hit it",
"Yes, it absolutely does not count as advertising. Paid media is the only way to advertise, that's the definition of advertising. These are not in the mass media, they are not paid for placement in the mass media, they are not paid advertisements. They're marketing and fall under a marketing budget, but they are not ads.\n\nHope your career goes well with this new information.",
"No because he wanted to, and he could.\n\nYou haven't because you don't want to, and can't. ",
"Bruh imma just link the comment. It's a checkmate. Game over. No discussion needed.",
"> It depends on whether you include development costs\n\nWhich would be silly to do, because it wasn't developed for the sake of the \"advertisement\".",
"Because their vehicles are more expensive and it's a new technology",
"theres a starman, waiting in the sky",
"Does that mean that when, not if, but WHEN it turns out Elon was lying about that too, you'll get off the hype train?\n\nBecause sadly it's not going to happen. It's just going to be another case of him promising and not delivering.\n\nMaybe that's the core of the anti-Musk; people who believed him, but then care when he doesn't deliver.",
"What the fuck do you mean “maybe”?\n\nDo you have schizophrenia or something?",
"Why is David Harbour wearing a shirt? I feel robbed!",
"If they charged $180M per launch. ",
"It doesn't take much to get you to shill here tho",
"SpaceX launched their new rocket today, the Falcon Heavy, that was carrying the Roadster.\n\n[Enjoy 5 hours of it in space](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"The thrusters were still firing during the feed, so it was still accelerating. That force acts like gravity and would have kept everything pinned to the floorboards. ",
"Just go invent paypal then.",
"Not when Elon told someone on Twitter that if they get the car first they can keep it. ",
"Maybe.",
"How about that time they shot a car into space? ",
"While this is possible, it is NOT advised. ",
"I dunno man, it's quite likely to be close to a billion years given the orbital path that it's taking.",
"What's up with Reddit and its user demographic's obsession with Elon Musk, treating him as if he were some God or great amazing leader? I'm sick of seeing 20 posts about him in the top every single week. ",
"no, tide ad",
"It's part of marketing budgets which include advertising, it's not part of marketing budgets which don't include advertising. This one doesn't include advertising, but it does include marketing.\n\nYou said it yourself, it's under the umbrella. If marketing were under the ad umbrella, people would be right in saying Tesla spends money on advertising. But it's the other way around, and they don't spend money on advertising.",
"That was a 90 million dollar advertisement.",
"Tesla spends plenty on marketing, they just label it as content and avoid the cost of distribution. Space and tech is cool, you don’t need to pay to advertise that, but you do pay to produce it.\n\nBuild it and they will come. \n\nBut yes they probably spend significant less than competing auto manufacturers on marketing and do a much better job.",
"However SpaceX stands on the shoulders of the Apollo program. Those guys had to figure everything out, because it was all basically unknown and uncharted territory.",
"Well.... 'good' doesn't run a mega-corporation. I know plenty of good-natured CEOs who run their companies using positive philosophies. ",
"That'll be hilarious if they ever go retrieve this car to put in a museum. I hope I live to see space flight progress that far.",
"I scrolled down the thread (should have known better). What the actual fuck. This is awesome.",
"I dunno, but one of the previous clip looked kinda weird. I should go and see the launch with my bare eyes someday",
"Uhh, is this also considered a Tide ad? ",
"Haha, I love how they have \"DON'T PANIC\" on the dashboard screen.",
"Not even false advertising.",
"Yep. His very own Tesla Roadster. Today was the maiden voyage of his biggest spaceship ever, the Falcon Heavy, and he used his car as the test payload. It's currently leaving Earth's sphere of influence and on its way to the asteroid belt. \n\nLaunch: https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=21m23s\n\n4 hour long video of Elon's car tubling in space: https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M",
"They have no jurisdiction in space",
"Elon Musk is the IRL version of Max Zorin. \n\n",
"Fuck Tesla, and especially fuck Elon Musk, whose only achievement is being rich. ",
"No, your definition in the beginning of your post is what marketing is, not what advertising is. The word means what it means. If you want to make up a new definition for it, go right ahead, but you are not laboring under the accepted definition either in the industry or in society as a whole.\n\nYou even said later in the post that \"the lack of TV adverts makes the company's marketing look more organic.\" Yeah, because they don't have adverts, but they do have marketing. I don't see the difficulty here, you seem to understand it, just accept your understanding as correct and move on...",
"Flat earth confirmed.",
"*it's out of this world*",
"HOLY SHIT ",
"Came here for this..\n\nBowie was a good choice, but was waiting for Radar Rider to kick on.\n\n",
"Sats can't be sent on test flights, no company would have took that risk anyway, Falcon Heavy had 50% chance of success being a new type of rocket, and 1 of the 3 boosters was lost in the final landing anyway so it still needs some fine tuning.\n\nAnd the car was put in an orbit around the sun to get close to Mars its not orbiting our planet. Again, it was the car or a giant chunk of concrete for payload simulation.",
"What about it?",
"And much more confusing when it's rediscovered by future humans 102,558 years in the future.",
"\"Challenge Accepted\" \n -- Alfa Romeo. ",
"I found this gimmick to be extremely stupid and a huge waste of resources. Why would they put a car into space like this instead of using the fuel to put something like a satellite, probe, or anything else other than a fucking car? \n\nUgh, I have to admit though it is a cool picture and an impressive feat of engineering. Oh well. ",
"people are killing each other, starving, and the world is fucked.. but you spend your time on reddit... makes sense huh?\n\n",
"You good?",
"Did he send out a car in space or is this cgi? ",
"Its orbiting the sun, Not the earth. There's millions of asteroids out there \"polluting\" the solar system as well, I don't think one more is going to hurt. It's never coming back near earth again.",
"Also not even false advertising. ",
"This is advertising. This is a lot of money spent on advertising. ",
"I assume that's not a real person sitting there. If i recall correctly their fancy spacesuit is not for use in open space",
"It'll be an interesting Law & Order episode",
"Elon Musk sent his Tesla Roadster into space. The image above is not a photoshop. It is a real photo. Today was the maiden voyage of his biggest spaceship ever, the Falcon Heavy, and he used his car as the test payload. It's currently leaving Earth's sphere of influence and on its way to the asteroid belt. \n\n",
"It's filled with radiation though, and Space Stig didn't bring a portable magnetic field to protect himself from it.",
"Why exactly do they spend $0 on advertising? ",
"Considering the whole show room thing inside malls, yeah they spend plenty on advertising. ",
"Wow. Just wow.",
"Fair enough. I meant the kind of business that takes in billions maybe even trillions, who knows) annually. The level of competition means you’re ready to do anything for that edge.",
"issa joke. why you hav to be mad?",
"Like this? https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0",
"You could argue that they spent roughly the cost of a space shuttle launch + the cost of one Tesla on advertising in 2018 alone.",
"But the people being sent back in time to be shot and disposed of ... that was just wrong, ya know?",
"i just came here to ctrl-f tide ad. yep.",
"Me too, I think this is a hugely significant moment in our evolution, including the basic silliness of it. We can do amazing things and still smile while doing them. It's good.",
"Falcon Heavy Metal",
"Best taxidermied starbois this side of Alpha Centauri",
"Elon Musk: the first man to launch his nemesis into space under the guise of advertising.",
"I assumed you meant they actually never had a car inside and it was a fake video.\n\nNow you’re telling me you don’t even believe they launched the rocket?\n\nGet help.",
"https://www.tesla.com/support/referral-program?redirect=no",
"fun fact: there is a towel in the glove box",
"In what way is this a great commercial?",
"Define the extents of a Gas Giant",
"That is something I was thinking about how the quality of film has changed in the Star Wars Universe after the Solo trailer dropped. It was kind of easier to believe when everything was Lo-fi, now all my brain does is look for faults. \n\nThe lower quality probably does make it real, it can't be that easy to get a flawless picture of a dummy stuffed into a car in space ",
"And really, why NOT Zoidberg?",
"There are a bunch of events in stellaris like that. It's what makes that game so fun. Even when the imaginary dice roll doesn't go your way, you get a good joke at least.",
"Hating Musk is actually a surprisingly unifying topic for the far-left and far-right idiots.",
"No it is a dummy with the new spacesuit that will also be used in future missions.\nStill unreal this picture looks photoshopped but having followed the whole launch myself I'm just in love with how they did this.",
"Hey guys!!! I found the flat-earther!",
"Which Tesla didn't have to pay for. Falcon Heavy was a capex of SpaceX for their own future profitability. ",
"This is earned media, not advertising.\n\nSource: have managed $100m advertising budget.",
"well he is self-made and investing in some great things. SpaceX is not a thing some guy would do to savely get even richer.",
"What the actual fuck? Is my understanding of our solar system a complete lie?? How is that possible?",
"Falcon Heavy was going to launch anyways, the car was a mass simulator and was Musk's own car.",
"Well they have Reddit that wont shut up about Tesla.",
"lol yep agreed!!",
"Because he is a visionary. Because we all want to see mankind explore the outer regions of space. Because without people like him, we would be still cavemen throwing poo at each other.",
"[He did indeed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"Isn't this technically littering?",
"Fix the lighter",
"The hot wheels car is on the dashboard of the real car",
"Imagine it doing the “Oi Mate, is this yours?” symbol",
"It was either the car or another dummy payload like a slab of concrete and it's not like it will stay in orbit around earth. ",
"Full-blown AIDS ill ",
"It's 4 of the their front page posts tho already",
"Nobody is going to put anything valuable on a rockets first test flight, the normal thing is to put slabs of concrete in there as a mass simulator, but that would be boring, wouldn't you say?",
"We do, infact, have a problem with stuff in space orbiting the earth. Legit I don't know anything about this so I don't know where it's orbiting, but I'm not cool with it if it's staying in Earth's orbit. \n\n\"There's no life in space!\" - yeah, but there's us. We can't just keep chucking stuff up there, especially as next to none of it comes back.",
"\"its owner\"",
"Is it actually going to mars or is it orbiting the earth for millennia? I've heard both, so was wondering...",
"Only car currently in space since the others are all on the moon.",
"I kind of want to know (not really) how flattards explain this when no Nasa is involved",
"Its such a tight fit though, will only work if planets are on their narrowest axis, and the moon as at apogee (furthest poont from Earth.) At perigee, or planets off axis it wont work. Only a few 100km in it, amazing coincidence!",
"So what is wrong with being rich, he started with nothing and build a complete empire and does something good with his money. Think a lot of others could take an example.\nMaybe instead of bitching on a person you could just I dunno stop looking on reddit and start earning money yourself?",
"I have seen Tesla ads. And I do not think they got them for free?",
"that's your interpretation. I find his (public) personality an inspiration compared to money driven investors.\n\nhe is doing some great things, you gotta admit that.",
"You mean the g-forces would have killed him?",
"Oh, that isn't all, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M), check out the rest.",
"Beatles. FTFY. Like a musical “Beat”. Not beetle like the bug. ",
"NASA has guidelines on space debris, But those are just NASA's. Not like they can stop China from leaving stuff up there. But either way this is leaving the earth and never returning. It will orbit the sun forever and be far enough away to not need to worry about it for any future mission. ",
"Maybe it will come back to earth as an asteroid and extinguish life on earth.",
"But is the car in front still a Toyota?",
"Yes but they spent over 26 million on advertising. ",
"Absolutely amazing.",
"You haven’t heard? It’s a new type of party for people that hate gluten intolerance.",
"It's stupid though. Thus does not increase Model 3 production.",
"> but we probably don't have the cajones to attempt.\n\nOh, I'd attempt it alright.. but I would likely fail.\n\nCan't say I admire everything he says, but at least he is pushing this miserable species in the right direction.",
"You forgot the Venus rovers Russia sent up though.",
"It’s certainly a very smart place for Elon Musk to keep a horcrux",
"No, that's on marketing, not advertising. Also it's not 26 million, it's 50ish, as stated in the comment just above and the report linked within.\n\nedit: sigh, no, the guy below is wrong. \"The Company\" in the quote he copied and pasted refers to SolarCity, not Tesla. It's literally on the top of that page of the document he got the quote from.",
"Thats... a very smart thing to do",
"True, so it's not a completely fair comparison. \n\nHowever, a *lot* of the knowledge gained through the Apollo program has actually been lost, mostly due to poor storage of printed data and brain drain from the scientists dying. Not to mention that SpaceX may not have even had access to all the records that do still exist.",
"Tesla actually spends a bunch in ad money, as do most companies. The headline is a flat out lie.",
"And on those duck’s bills are even smaller ducks.",
"Fake news",
"No money spent from Tesla.. SpaceX is just another company that is owned by Musk... he was going to launch the Falcon Heavy and needed a mass simulator. So why not one of his personal cars.",
"Space: Wow, such empty!",
"Producing A block of concrete has a much lower carbon footprint than a tesla. So much for being a green company.",
"What intern? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)",
"A slow head turn and a thumbs up",
"It's a big space billboard.",
"It was inside the fairings. ",
"Seriously, car commercials are terrible. Not once has a car commercial compelled me to get a brand new car. Cars are just out of the price range of things that need to be advertised. Yes, it is a useful item. No, it is too expensive to buy on a whim after watching a commercial.",
"I dont want to go back... Eve beat me like an abusive partner... But she calls to me... The call of the void, the way that no other game can recreate that investment and real tension....\n\nSEND HELP.",
"> Comparable statement to yours, if only my local hardware store had the same vendor connections as Home Depot! I would love it! It is nonsensical.\n\n\nNot really the same thing. Tesla made electric cars sexy and mainstream and the big car makers still can't catch up.",
"The old “spaced out” back in 2018",
"Not this one.",
"If this photo is real. Then the earth is not flat. Lol",
"TL;DR: Makes sense if you're referring to traditional 'ad spend' terminology specifically for Tesla automotive business. TBF, I'm guessing Solarcity may have had its own multi-million ad spend '14-'16.\n\nI'm assuming you're referring to Tesla's automotive dept. which, while having significant marketing/promotional spending, also has no \"advertising\" spending (namely traditional advertising alluded to in Tesla's 10K IIRC) and corroborated by Kantar stats (http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/tesla-paid-advertising/310008/) in form of \"measured media\" (e.g., TV, print, radio.) It might even also apply to Internet paid ads (as in Tesla not paying for any of those either but I believe that is not measured by Kantor.)\n\nThe $26.3M, $28.6M, $3.4M('16, '15, '14) \"advertising\" #s are ostensibly primarily due to Solarcity and is noted as \"consolidated\" under \"Solarcity\" section in the the Tesla's 10-K retroactively when the two companies merged (http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605). Tesla (combined entity) had $48.0 million, $58.3 million and $48.9M ('16,'15,'14) for Marketing, Promotion, and Advertising (the last of which is reportedly minute or nonexistent at least for automotive purposes.)\n\nThe resulting delightful and inspirational nature of the PR (Roadster/Falcon-Heavy event) is, in a way, an attestment to Elon's media/marketing savvy.",
"Maybe we should set up a Gofundme for him.",
"I wish I was rich enough to use a car as a hood ornament on my space rocket.",
"I'd love to live in your world where if you simply keep saying the same exact incorrect thing over and over it eventually becomes true.",
"Not a very good billboard if nobody's ever going to drive by it...also I don't think they're paying rent to anyone to put it there, and the cost of putting it there was paid by SpaceX anyway, so.....again, no advertising.",
"> Marketing, promotional and **advertising** costs are expensed as incurred. (...)\n\nAnyway, I never said they had critical thought (although I don't see why being angry would invalidate anything), just that the Musk fanboys lacked it. ",
"There was a live feed. Check out SpaceX youtube channel. This is legit real ",
"Wow. Totally missed it. \n\nI guess I was caught up in the awesomeness of the moment! ",
"Elon said tonight(in his classic awkward way) that they had US$500 million invested in Falcon Heavy.",
"We don’t know that, we have to observe it first, and if we check you’ll have seen it, there will only be one state of said cat. \n\nThe confusion comes from not knowing what radioactive particles do when not observed. According to some smart guy they do whatever the hell they want. Sometimes it’s a wave, sometimes it’s a particle. But when this guy looks at it, it’s one thing or the other. And he’s like ayeeee, are you a pizza or a pie. \n\nSo to suggest that if the cat (observer) is locked in this box (universe) rigged(test) with a device that measures (observes) radioactive activity(decay), connected to a trap that releases poison when a measurement is made the cat will die. \nThe first smart guy said this is crazy because it looks like the radioactive material will and will not release particles because of their multiple positions like your mom.\n\nSo another smart guy said that to 50 percent of the observers the cat will be alive and to the other 50 percent it will be dead. And each observation only has one outcome. Then dr who bust in the lab and now everyone believes in multiple dimensions. And in each dimension the test failed, but dr who, and Rick know that the fucking cat is both dead and alive. And Joseph Smith.",
"I’m not talking about added value. I’m talking about the cost Tesla pays to produce content, no matter where it runs. \n\nI work in media advertising and if we’re going to measure dick size, I’ve run several global billion dollar plus campaigns. \n\nMy point is that these costs are carried in a marketing budget for the sole purpose to be used as a form of advertising. The lines between paid, owned and earned were blurred long ago. Its fundamentally all the same. Let’s try to avoid pedantic arguments, please. ",
"Yeah, the cars in space serve no purpose other than advertising. That’s a few hundred million in advertising floating around as space trash. ",
"Wouldn't the suit be packed with sensors? It is a perfect opportunity to test it in space! It seems kine an opportunity missed if not. ",
"I think the judgy part was when you said you hope people around them like them and that you can't imagine they do. I think there is lack of courtesy in talking to people on the internet sometimes or a lot of the time, but I think that comment wasn't exactly bad so much as it was a trigger for your frustrations. I think you read it in a more negative way because of those frustrations.",
"Yeah maybe Earth's LOW orbit is getting a bit crowded but we have an atmosphere that protects us from most debris falling from space, most of it will disintegrate with the heat. As for the Roadster, its on an orbit with the Sun so we wont be seeing it any time soon.",
"That is a commercial for a rocket, not for a car.",
"That man?\n\nAlbert Einstein.",
"The particles won't sand blast the paint off. They will, however, turn the body panels into swiss cheese over time.\n\nThe sun will ruin the paint. The paint will fade VERY rapidly without any protection from UV light, similar to how old cars lose their luster if they are left out in the sun all day. Except this is like the day on steroids and it will very rarely be \"night\" for the car, so it'll fade real quick.\n\nI would be interested in seeing a time-lapse of photos as the fading and such happens though.",
"Is this legal?",
"This is the original Roadster (mid 2000s) that kicked off their automotive career. Can be had for about $50k from a used dealer. From what I believe I heard, this is Elon's personal Roadster, not just any Roadster.",
"16,500 mph actually when the last booster was shut down towards the end of the stream, I did the math conversion while watching the launch. It was hard for me to fathom that incredible speed. ",
"Greatest car commercial ever, also:\nFastest recorded automobile ever",
"Stop downvoting I was being sarcastic!",
"And the words \"Made by Humans on earth\" inscribed on a circuit board.",
"They don’t spend any money on “traditional” marketing. So you won’t see any advertising material in print, online or television. \n\nA friend of mine works for a car website and jokes that Tesla articles gain the most traction, yet Tesla won’t pay them a cent to advertise on their website. ",
"Why spend anything on advertising when you've got most of reddit eating out of the palm of your hand?",
"On day what?!? Next Tuesday???",
"You're wrong.\n\n\"That is not Tesla’s annual report. This is.\n\n\nhttp://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n\n> The Company incurred advertising costs of $26.3 million, $28.6 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively.\n\nThat is not a large number, but it is not $0.\" ",
"Less than that even",
"Nope, thats a white shirt, it's a Tide...",
"We both know that SpaceX does this stuff to generate hype, they know that is good to have the masses on their side. And Elon Musk is very good at pleasing sci-fi fans, good marketing.",
"Let that sink in",
"Yes, that is the general umbrella under which both marketing and advertising go. However, Tesla's spending under that umbrella is on marketing, not on advertising. If you'd like to show some evidence of a paid Tesla ad existing in any mass media, I'd like to see it.\n\nAlso, as for critical thought, the inability to distinguish between those two things, even after it's been pointed out that they are different things, would count as lack of critical thought I'd say.",
"It doesn't need to spend money. People on Reddit do it for them.",
"Because the other option was to send a block of concrete since this was a test flight. ",
"Yeah but elon musk did it so if you think it's good at all then you're part of the circle jerk.",
"You mean “lost” because the moon landing were fake, right?\n\n\n\n\n\n/s",
"Only if they’re electric. ",
"He works 100+hours a week. Tesla and SpaceX are among the leaders in new technology markets... I dont see whats to hate about him, you can be jealous of his wealth. But Its not like he started with \"a small loan of a million dollars\"...",
"Inconsequential yet still a countable, tangible cost?",
"You know that there are millions of asteroids in the orbit where the Falcon Heavy second stage is currently? \nAnd that burning the second stage three times serves as a certification for the US Air Force? \n\nPutting there a car or not makes absolutely no difference.",
"\"I hope one day a terrorist destroys one of the most influential technological advances ever. I don't care that it would do irreparable harm to the world, set us back decades of technological and economical progress and lead to one of the biggest depressions the world has ever seen. As long as I get to feel smug. Gerroff my lawn!!!1\"\n\nAnd yet we're the assholes. \n\nAnd this is ignoring the fact that that's not how the internet works. ",
"So you are saying that before the industrial revolution there were only families and tribes? Like we lived in a state of communism for centuries? [Read some Marx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism), for Christ's sake.",
"I'm not worried about stuff falling down on us (because that's the problem, it's not coming back, even when a satilite is no longer working). I'm worried about us not being able to launch things or get more advanced satilites up there.\n\nBut eh, if it's not orbiting the earth that's fine, but I still dunno how I feel about the start of advertising in space. Throwing meaningless junk up there just isn't that inspiring, imo.",
"no not at all :(",
"There was a book with the towel. Supposingly if they could figure out English...",
"You know that advertising isn't just for impulse buys, right? The question isn't whether you would go out and buy a car, but WHEN you buy a car, which one will you choose.",
"Not necessarily, math is hard. It may not have the deltaV to get quite where they want. Regardless of that though, it’s an achievement.\n\nEDIT: Final burn was already finished. I was ignorant. The final engine with the roadster overshot slightly, which is fantastic for the Falcon Heavy.",
"they are low budget..",
"I would've hoped we had learned from worshiping Steve Jobs, but I guess not. People just need to desperately deify a guy that fucks us in the ass with overpriced toys for extravagant amounts of money.\n\n/r/HailCorporate \n\nAlso how the fuck is a car in space a good car commercial, I don't drive cars in space YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS.",
"If you were talking about the majority then wouldn't you be talking about Hillary voters....",
"Got a feeling he dreamed this up after watching the first Heavy Metal movie.",
"David Harbour takes off the helmet, and says \"But... It's a tide ad\".",
"During the launch I couldn’t see the car anywhere. Where is it strapped to? \n\nWas it under a canopy that came off during one of the separation stages? ",
"They spend an extortionate amount on ‘viral’ marketing with twitter/facebook and reddit bots",
"It is breaking the speed limit. ",
"How long would a car trip be to Moon if the planets formed a highway like that?",
"We could potentially hear it, The mic and the car would all be mounted to the same rocket so some sound would be conducted through the structure. ",
"that's what she said",
"> kilt",
"Yeah, I know. I’m just sick of Reddit’s Tesla circlejerk because it annoys the hell out of me. People here act like advertising is bad and that marketing is somehow ‘not the same’ even though ads are literally a form of marketing. It seems like nobody here considered the idea that Tesla is probably avoiding ads not because they don’t need ‘em but because they might not align with the company’s branding and marketing strategy. I thought you were being a pedant just for the sake of the circlejerk. Anyway, if we agree on this then I don’t see why we should argue any further.\n\nHave a good day.",
"Launch vid:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE\n\n\nTesla/Starman orbit vid:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M\n",
"Ah, dunning-kruger in action. You're so confident in your wrongness that you're even trying to tell me I'm wrong when I'm not even the one saying the thing you wrongly think is wrong...\n\nYou just quoted SolarCity information, not Tesla information. Take another look at the page where you got that portion you quoted, which says \"SolarCity\" on the top of it. \"The Company\" in your quote is SolarCity, not Tesla. It's included in the same document because there was a merger that year.",
"Hey! Finally! Nice to meet another professional working at an OEM on reddit. I would love to hear some stories.\n\nRolls-Royce made traditional tv spots (slick video footage of cars driving through hills to drum ’n bass music) but didn’t purchase air time, just ran them in dealers and posted on YouTube which was surprisingly effective. I guess I would call that an advert, even if low key. \n\nIn the Bespoke shop we would design and build custom cars for events like pebble beach. A bit beyond the typical marketing material. With the olympics coming up it reminded me that one time we built a one-off electric phantom for the Queen to ride around the 2012 olympics. Had cordless charging with a mat and everything. I would call that marketing.\n\nHowever RR only lent out cars once the entire time I was there. No loaners for hotels or artists or musicians. The peninsula purchased all 26 of their cars. “Hey can I get one for the oscars?” “No”. The Iron man movie purchased two used ones and paid the factory to rework one to look identical to the first. I would not call that an advert, while the Acura and Audi placement in the films were advertisements.",
"And he said you were correct... ",
"I already thought so, it looked so in sync. But they said it were different feeds.",
"Yep /r/OutOfTheLoop?",
"Fairing interior seconds before it was deployed in perfect timing to Life on Mars.",
"Nope, just look up how many asteroids are in a similar orbit where it is now in interplanetary deep space. Space is huge and still mostly empty, even with millions of such stuff all around. \nProblem is with litterinh low Earth orbit, in a few hundred km altitude, there debris can cause problem.",
"[I believe the Barry Wilmore quote here does the job nicely](http://www.clickhole.com/post/incredible-we-asked-these-astronauts-what-its-be-s-2186)",
"Littering and...",
"Take an arbitrary point of reference to measure relative position, and my statement most likely still holds.",
"Russia only sent landers, not rovers.",
"And how to make the best meth.",
"You think he'll live longer than Ringo?",
"Because while marketing is not advertising, advertising is most certainly marketing.",
"Which is why governments should be doing this. No need for marketing. The US is falling behind so I get the need but I wish the current administration would spend money on science shit instead of a goddamn wall. Also his \"flamethrower\" is just an overpriced brush burner with a tiny fuel tank and cool aesthetics.\nEdit: Dont get me wrong, i would want one to burn slash piles from inside my truck but that probably isnt very safe ",
"meow",
"Edgy. ",
"I don't really want to buy a Tesla any more now though, than before the launch. I do want a Tesla, though, after testing my friend's car. ",
"Apparently the glove box contains a towel and a copy of the \"hitchhikers guide to the galaxy\". No shit. (The centre screen on the dash says \"don't panic\") ",
"ELI5 why are we sending a car into space?",
"Yeah doesn’t this car have GPS?! I thought it was meant to be *FuTuRiStIc*",
"Inside the payload compartment at the very top of the rocket",
"Because people still buy Teslas.",
"It's text on a screen. Pretty sure the guy is temporary mildly annoyed.\n\nTo be fair though Reddits circlejerking does get frustrating when all you want to do is view a variety of posts and comments without getting bombarded with the communities favorite topics to hate or jerk off to while barking at anyone who doesn't follow suit.",
"Oh hey, there’s lots of rocks in the ocean. Dumping a car in there makes no difference. Hey look at all those rocks in that field. I’ll just toss a pop can in there; makes no difference. ",
"Tesla spent nothing. Tesla != Spacex",
"😂. Yeah. He is pretty brilliant. Haters gonna do what they do.",
"Will the car be visible if we do sky photography with long lens? ",
"I don't know. I don't think so. But if not, then wearing a prop space suit into actual space probably would do him in.",
"fuck, imagine this",
"Doctor Who?",
"and no, i don't give a flying fuck!",
"Maybe but this is pretty fucking cool. ",
"Read what Elon did for Puerto Rico, you dumb fuck. ",
"Fuck off",
"Sounds like the basis for the next Fast and Furious movie.",
"\nIt's legit. https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M\n\nThere's a lights mounted around the car, it was lit before the fairings opened and exposed the car to space. ",
"It's really out there. \n\nBut the point is the rocket test launch, the car is only there for jokes and easter eggs.",
"Yep. [Here's the final orbit.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0h3YW4AIc-9w.jpg:large)\n\nThey just fired the engines and kept going until it ran out of fuel. Exceeded their expected orbit.",
"One hell of a way to dispose of a body... :p",
">DON'T PANIC.",
"Clean spacesuit, it's a tide ad.",
"why not? (on test flight there is usually somekind of mass simulator to simulate conditions of a fully loaded rocket. In this case musk used his uncanny ability to turn everything into pr)",
"Hey cool, that's how I think all the time, too!",
"They’re pretty young company in comparison to Toyota or other manufacturers and they just can’t keep up with production. Give them a few years and they’ll probably dominate the market. \n\nThere’s extremely high demand for ev cars but so far only Tesla is doing them right.",
"*Roads? Where we're going, we won't need roads.*",
"SpaceX was the first to powered land a rocket back on the ground after launch, making them reusable and therefore vastly cheaper (and therefore space *much* lore accessible.) This flight was of a rocket with three \"cores\" (basically individual rockets strapped together) two of which landed next to eachother simultaneously (which was fucking cool) and one of which sadly didn't stick the landing on a floating pad out at sea. This was the first flight of this new rocket, the falcon heavy, which has the currently unique ability to send a very large amount of weight to orbit or indeed mars, opening the door to all kinds of possible new missions at a much lower cost.",
"I thought I saw a picture of Heisenberg on the dashboard, but I’m not sure.",
"> You just treat everything else as if its moving in relation to the car.\n\nOh. Like in that one Futurama episode. Got it.",
"It's his personal car, it costs nothing to everybody else. \nSpaceX is testing their new rocket and the car simply fit there. It would be a waste of resources if they put a hundred million dollar satellite there and accidentally destroy it.",
"Driving or flinging it from a rocket?",
"Hollywood makes better movies. Tesla with all those government contacts you can’t get some tips from people who worked with Kubrick? ",
"its not really an ad, its a test flight for the Falcon Heavy. They would have sent the fairing completely empty but Elon decided to put his roadster there because he can lol. The car pollutes more here on Earth than it will in deep space i can tell you that.",
"Even crazier is you can fit all the stars in between the earth and the sun. ",
"[This post about Jeep's superbowl ad](https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/7vbxqk/jeeps_super_bowl_spot_makes_every_other/?ref=share&ref_source=link) became outdated so fast... XD",
"Amortize that baby!",
"This is the safest place to park your car. ",
"Relax, guy. I think it's better that people deify Elon Musk than some other dumb celebrity or sports athlete, at least. \n\nCelebrities and athletes mean *nothing* for the future of humanity. Space agencies and companys, and perhaps especially the private ones, does at least contribute in a pretty major way.",
"He probably thought that spacesuit was real.\n\nNope. ",
"Jahree wiff dah dass ",
"The launch was cheesy at best. ",
"Except not really",
"Many people don’t know that they’re separate companies. They assume just because they have the same CEO and major shareholder (was going to say founder, but with Tesla that’s debatable). ",
"This is headed to the asteroid belt. ",
"Tesla spends some 10x millions on indirect advertisements, even if the post is sarcastic, I just wanted to stress it out.",
"No it isn't, it's horribly used to mean that perception collapses the quantumn wave when really it's anything that could be perceived. You don't have to see the experiment to collapse the wave, you just have to be able to. Of course we can't actually know what is happening in an unpercievable state, what quantumn physics does is make knowledge irrelevant to science (at least by the usual definition).",
"They didn't spend it, SpaceX did. Different company, same guy :)\n\nIt literally cost Tesla $0",
"\"Now to our eye in the \"Sky\" with Bob: Bob, how's the traffic out there?\"\n\n\"Glad you asked! It's very light at the moment. Only one Tesla car cruising along. Weather is sunny and cold but we don't anticipate any traffic jams any time soon. Back to you Tina.\"\n\n\"Thank you Bob! Now let's head over to...\"",
"One of my all time favs for sure",
"Hmm, it's really not that great.",
"It's actually, the Stig!",
"That plus the Bowie just made my whole day. Gonna go read hitchhikers guide while listening to some Ziggy",
"For a little perspective, this thing cost about the same as 20 superbowl commercials. At least this will lead to advances in human knowledge and science. ",
"Lol imagine Elon in charge of a pharmaceutical company.",
"Source?",
"Now you're just being pedantic",
"Well, they don't need them at the moment though. The company is having production problems, not sales problems. There's half a million people waiting for a car that they've only made a few thousand of so far (I've got one, it's the best car ever made - better than the S and Roadster, coming from an owner of each of those cars too). Advertising would be a waste of money right now. And by having a great product, they get free marketing from happy customers like myself. And then to people looking in from the outside, they think there's a \"circlejerk\" going on, but it's just the effect of happy customers for a company which is doing cool things in the world. I don't see why to be annoyed by that, seems something to be happy about. I'd much rather see that than Dodge taking an MLK speech - which was specifically about how car ads are bad for society - and using it to sell trucks.\n\nI do agree with some commenters that the Musk-love could be turned down a bit, but I do that not out of a hating-Musk position, but because I'm somewhat of a socialist and don't like it when people personalize companies where tens of thousands of people are working towards a goal and pretend they only consist of the efforts of one individual (heck, he's employee #5 anyway - if we had to pretend the company is the force of one individual, I'd put it in the hands of JB Straubel).\n\nYou too.",
"I hope the mynocks leave it alone.",
"Yeah, terrible thing that. Putting a tiny piece of metal in an infinitely big vacuum that doesn't support life. ",
"Which works out to about $260 per car - that aint half bad.",
"Black Mirror S5E01",
"But.. There's solar radiation. That's what causes the damage. No ozone layer up there. ",
"What scientists call the glans of the rocket.",
"I bet you're fun at parties",
"/s?",
"You mean \"further\". Because the moment it was launched it was \"nowhere\"",
"Interesting question actually: How are crimes handled in outer space? Which countries law are relevant there? The country where the rocket started or the country that owns the rocket? How about when you are on the moon? The country whose citizenship you hold? I guess they have it solved on the ISS?",
"Yeah, but you still use online maps, search engines, PayPal or other payment services, watch TV, benefit from satellite weather forecast and you are glad Australia has fewer blackouts, right?",
"Thanks. What you just did was communication. What I tried maybe was a failed attempt. The comment I replied to was not even an attempt. I didn’t mean to control or insult that person, just make them think about themselves. It bothered numerous people and I’m trying to understand why so thanks for contributing. Take care!",
"Wow, he’s literally fucking with you gullible, morons. Cgi is always distinguishable from reality. It looks so fake because it’s so fake. ",
"You can't seriously be this fucking stupid",
"Damn, he owned y’all so bad that you had to resort to this? Sheesh. ",
"With the best possible launch window it takes \"only\" 5 months, not 9. [Source](https://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars/)",
"ew",
"Boogie woogie woogie?",
"No, it was free for Tesla. \n\nAlso, it didn't cost $90m for SpaceX either.",
"Damn. More burn than Elon’s rockets. ",
"So now the race is on for the space agencies of this world: Who can get that car back to earth?",
"The best.\n\nForgive me if I’m a bit excited to talk to another person with actual experience in automotive, most of reddit is just shitheads.",
"In two days we'll get an annoyed tweet about something important that he forgot in the glovebox...",
"*Floors the accelerator and speeds off*\n\n*Undercover space cops turn on siren and lights*\n\n\"Ah fuck, I can't believe you've done this.\"",
":))",
"*To infinity and beyond* - Elon Musk",
"Mmmmm.....nope it’s a TIDE ad",
"Wait a minute\n\n2016 was the year before last!",
"Ya know what? This is the company that will make it into the history books. Elon Musk will be taught as a historically important figure 500 years from now and I only hope I get to have such a legacy. ",
"Awesome. I wonder how many easter eggs are included. There's this and \"Don't Panic\" on the dashboard. What's in the trunk?",
"Do you have proof for that?",
"Little late to the party here. But damn, this photo is so simple, yet unfathomable. This shit gonna be in books (if they still exist) like 30 years from now!",
"I'm no fanboi but marketing =/ advertising.",
"Be your own door and key and every possibility will reveal itself! Don’t regret, reflect. Don’t worry, plan. Don’t fear, choose. Hope you get what you want and find what you’re looking for. Take care!",
"i had the same thought xD, Humans are so silly, like \"What? A Tesla brought into Space by the strongest rocketmachine ever build on the first try? , Mehhh the Arm of the Astronaut does not have a Animatronics System to wave into the camera\" - People are weired ",
"Saturn's rings aren't part of the planet. I'm assuming they were left on to do that it's easy to identify",
"Dear cult of Rocket Jesus. Tesla DOES spend money on advertising it goes into Public Relations.\n\nhttp://platformmagazine.org/2017/03/10/tesla-advertising-its-all-about-pr/\nhttps://electrek.co/2016/09/30/tesla-gets-a-new-head-of-communications-poaches-apple-pr-veteran/\n\nOf course using PR tactics you can hide even more of this as private expenditures by the musk brand, or change the job descriptions so the people doing the advertising are merely marketing outreach executives or some such tripe.\n\n\n",
"What is the reason for having a concrete block or the car/mannequin?",
"Possibly. The surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second, around 1,000 miles per hour. The earth is orbiting around the sun at 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. And our solar system revolves around the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour. The Milky Way possibly orbits another part of the universe at some colossal speed. Add in the orbiting Tesla. I’m not sure how all these velocity vectors add up.",
"[Check out the now stopped stream too](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M)",
"The Wall. Dude shaved off his nipples and six year old me didn’t know what to do with that. ",
"Is this another Tide ad?",
"The odometer wouldn't work if this wheels aren't actually spinning ",
"But you’ve never seen a Tesla ad on TV. That’s the point. ",
"“Hi tech support here.”\n\nPresses off and on again.\n\n“Should be good for a while.” ",
"Only at apogee and close to it.For more than half of each lunar month they don't fit.",
"A cool idea, but more difficult than you'd think, unfortunately. Rocket launches are notorious for shaking their payloads around a lot; normal satellites have to undergo rigorous vibration testing to ensure they won't be shaken apart during the launch. I was a little surprised to see Starman kept his perfect pose - I expect he's probably been epoxied into the car at every contact point to ensure he wasn't ejected during launch. Animatronics to move his head or wave would be more delicate and therefore more likely to break - wouldn't want to turn on the cameras just to see his arm's come off and is floating away!",
"Lada is, as always, streets ahead. I am sure you will be able to start a Lada in space (oxygen or not, a Lada will always start), but it will rust away as soon as you sit in it.",
"And it's the old model.",
"They got all the licenses they needed, yeah.",
"Real Tesla car. \nReal Tesla space suit. \nReal mannequin inside of it. \nEverything is real. \n \nAlso, as an added bonus, it has a toy Hotwheels Tesla car mounted to the dashboard, also with a Star Man driving it. ",
"Great, more space junk. You Americans are really good at littering everywhere and contaminating space.",
"Yeah, really. Advertising is a subset of marketing. They spend money on marketing but not advertising.",
"Does that make it the most expensive commercial of all time?",
"When you already have redditors to advertise for you, why need to pay for advertising?",
"Looks super flat.",
"238,900 miles at 70 miles an hour = 3412.85 hours. 142.2 days. ",
"There is no way 200lbs wouldn't be well within the margin of error. Think about the difference in winds or any other factors could have that would easily dwarf the difference in weight.",
"You want the truth or something beautiful? ",
"Alt ctrl del.\n\nNow should I buy an OLED or LCD 50inch tv, hmmm",
"It was a test flight, they needed some kind of weight to simulate having a satelite/spacecraft on board.",
"Isn’t this from the movie Heavy Metal?",
"They could have fit it in too :( Pluto is only 2360km or 1477mi across. \n\nFun fact:the moon is actually bigger than pluto 3474.8km or 2159mi.",
"I feel out of the loop, where did they copy it? Here on reddit or somewhere else?",
"I'm not sure you know what \"advertising\" means",
"r/accidentalscotsman ?",
"115 odd days driving at 100mph for 20 hours a day.",
"All of them? Even the supermassive ones? ",
"You have guaranteed that you're going to be a failure in life. \n\nYanks have got their faults, but if there was one thing in particular that I admired growing up as a Brit, it was their \"Can do\" attitude - especially in the Apollo space program. As a kid I was inspired by the first man on the moon - and new generations will equally now be inspired to become engineers and rocket scientists. \n\nBack in the day, it was said that a Brit paying a Rolls Royce would take a key down the side of it - saying \"Lucky Rich Bastard!\" \nWhereas a Yank would ask the owner how he got so successful, and try it. \n\nTry the latter.",
"Meatpopsicle! Is the car-rocket thing now in orbit around Earth awaiting another burn, or is it already zooming off towards Mars??",
"But we're not certain.",
"But the real question is, what do the flat earther's think of this image?\n",
"Tesla spends a lot more than $0 a year on advertising.",
"0$ in advertising but surprisingly all the subs are flooded with post about this company and each one are thousands of fake internet points worth. Yeah, sure dude. ",
"I believe the usual mass simulator is concrete or cement, and Musk used a Tesla instead",
"*tries to get mum orbit* guess I’m going to jool now ",
"I so wish they put an animatronic arm in the thing to give a wave or a thumbs up before the last shot ended. It would freak people out for years.\n\n",
"My favourite part is how the satnav says \"Don't Panic\" in such large friendly letters.\n\n\nInfinity Welcomes Careful Drivers amirite? \n\nMight be the best tribute to Douglas Adams of all time.",
"Doesn't figure into cost since the flight wasn't booked for the car. It was going to fly anyways.",
"All I *know* that he's done is help invent/develop Paypal.\n\nAre you supposing he knows a lot about electric cars and rocket science based on his companies' achievements?",
"I wonder if Mars is flat too",
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.",
"At least, not for very long anyway.",
"OMG, Earth looks so flat! ",
"Really? I can get away with strapping 40 solid rocket boosters together and strutting the shit outta it. The key is add more struts. Lack of struts is always the problem. ",
"Atleast its not around earth",
"Well, sort of. We had to stop calling Pluto a planet for it to work. ;)",
"Yeah but Tesla technology is open source, can't beat that.",
"For the type of orbit this thing is doing if we could blow up the moon and somehow send all the debris in the same type of orbit we still wouldn't have to worry about space junk because of just how vast space is. It's junk orbit earth that's the issue and this launch didn't put anything into earth orbit.",
"very stable",
"Well.. when you consider our solar system is moving through space at 1300000 mph it's already where no man has gone before, but then so is some guy standing on the observation deck of the empire state building.",
"I don’t know about that whole 0$ on advertising thing. There’s a tesla car in my local mall for advertising",
"That's like saying you never spend money on cheese because you only buy pizza",
"For the type of orbit this thing is doing if we could blow up the moon and somehow send all the debris in the same type of orbit we still wouldn't have to worry about space junk because of just how vast space is. It's junk orbit earth that's the issue and this launch didn't put anything into earth orbit.",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"For the type of orbit this thing is doing if we could blow up the moon and somehow send all the debris in the same type of orbit we still wouldn't have to worry about space junk because of just how vast space is. It's junk orbit earth that's the issue and this launch didn't put anything into earth orbit.",
"Wasn't the car travelling at ~25.000 KMH ?",
"Elon said today they spent around $500m developing the heavy",
"If you buy your pizzas without cheese, then yes, it's like saying you never spend money on cheese.\n\nIf you'd like to show me some evidence of cheese, please do so. Where have you ever seen a paid Tesla ad?",
"They had to leave the top down... it was a little *Musky* in there.",
"Doesnt make me want to buy one tho",
"and the idea is to be able to have reusable rockets cutting down the cost significantly to send things to mars correct?",
"Historical documents",
"The avengers 3 and 4 movies have a budget of $1b. ",
"Tesla spends $50m a year on advertising. It's a bit different from 0...",
"It was possible to watch it live for 4 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"Not really. I'm trying to learn Blender on the side, here is what one guy managed to do with free software.\n\nhttps://i.redd.it/yuy7kz78q5rz.jpg\n\nGo on r/blender and sort by top. You will be surprised what you can do.",
"I'm surprised the internet hasn't put Nic Cages face on Spaceman yet",
"Y’all really spent all that time arguing over the semantics of advertising/marketing?! Lol, guys. ",
"Burden of proof lies with the one making the claim. Prove it.\n\nMusk has multiple eyewitness accounts and video/photographic evidence of the car being loaded into the fairing, the fairing being loaded onto the rocket, the rocket launching, the fairing opening to reveal the car, and yet you still choose to believe it is fake.",
"Bill and Melinda Gates has done far more for humanity with their foundation than Elon ever will. Musk is doing great things in terms of space, but don't act like he's \"changing the course of human history\".",
"The Vogon poetry might kill them before they get too far in, but I guess that's after the towel, so you're right.",
"Wall Street went crazy for Steve Ballmer's ape like press conferences and at some point they realized that cold hard numbers not stunt makes a company succeed .",
"He's commenting on the \"vice versa\"",
">the meaning\n\nLike there is only one?",
"Fast and the Furious 10: We need this car to beat beat the baddy",
"VY Canis Majoris (the largest star discovered last I checked) is the size of Saturn's orbit.\n\n\nI was lying. ",
"/r/enoughmuskspam",
"\"Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a powerful being named Zaphod who may yet still threaten our universe.\"",
"If Earth was gone it would probably actually be historical documents",
"Given that we have zero evidence of the existence of aliens anywhere beyond the Earth, I feel like when people say \"in the universe\", there's always an unspoken \"known\" in there, such that comments like yours are redundant.",
"*cough* record sales! *cough*",
"There is some EM and matter pressure from Sun. ",
"They wouldn't necessarily know right off...",
">\"Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.\" \n\n-Douglas Adams in *The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy*",
"I've never heard of this steam cart, do you have anything I could read about it? You've peaked my curiosity haha",
"Dash/dashboard**",
"If you think Tesla spends 0$ a year on advertising you're a fucking idiot.",
"Best way to hide a body. In plain sight. ",
"If you want to see the deep squishy black heart of conspiracy theories check out whale.to. There isn't a conspiracy theory they don't like there, even including my favorite, the shapeshifting reptile aliens.",
"Space, uh, finds a way",
"Thanks!!!",
"Engineering is engineering, no matter where you are. The same basic principles are going to apply all over the universe.\n\nHumans have spent ungodly numbers of hours optimizing tools and machinery in an attempt to make them as cheaply and efficiently and reliably as possible.\n\nIf the aliens are driving different things, its because they didn't do this. \n\nIf we ever encounter an alien race, I think the thing people will be most surprised about are how similar we are. How many things, especially highly utilitarian things like tools and industrial equipment, will often have nearly identical analogs on each planet, because thats just one of the best ways to make whatever it is. ",
"Why does it look so fake?\n",
"It's actually travelling slower than the Earth. The more energy an orbit has, the slower the orbital speed.",
"Here you go: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-spends-just-6-per-car-advertising/",
"Most companies I've seen set realistic dates, and don't deliver. The fact the this guy sets the most unrealistic dates ever basically makes me automatically double the time in my head. He overpromises, but I'm pretty sure it's more for him and his workers than for the public. If it makes the teams get content out faster then they can set the most unrealistic dates they want.\n\nKeep in mind I haven't brought anything from him. I might pretty soon though, when him and his team get better that is.",
"What's even crazier is that Coke Zero Sugar contains all the taste of regular Coke, but none of the calories.",
"Yeah, except that one grain is travelling at thousands of miles per hour. It might not be much, but it does damage eventually.",
"\"Fastest car commercially available\"",
"'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up cars",
"Edge",
"yeah but it was a fuck up. i think they've fixed it since, but one landing pad was actually black and one white, whereas initially they were both white\n",
"Yeah I think they spend more than $0 per year on advertising.",
"I understand that and I agree. However, sometimes we engage the enemy, some occasions warrant cracking the champagne and dancing until dawn. This dream is way bigger than any Donald Trump.",
"They needed to lower the seat, his eye line is on the seal, not good. ",
"Amazing achievement, however I think it would have been a better idea to use Donald Trump as ballast rather than a useful car. Even if it blew up on launch we’d still be cheering. ",
"Stupid question, and I'm sure they thought of this, What did they fill the tires with? Would the air pressure in a regular tire expand to change the shape?",
"Does anyone have an image showing where in the rocket the car is sitting? Interested to see where they put it/how they secured it etc.",
"If I remember correctly I think this may be the same car one of his ex-wives unsuccessfully sued for during their divorce.",
"The Apollo program was several massive projects bundled together under one heading, not testing and development of a single variant of a rocket in the endeavor. You're comparing apples and cyborg death armies.",
"Proof one that they are advertising: This post",
"Sick",
"Why is it an act to say space travel is part of human history? ",
"Which results in even more confused aliens when they read the book. It's interesting to imagine the legacy of mankind living on with aliens recreating Hitchhikers Guide because of a lack of understanding fiction like in Galaxy Quest.\n\nOr they might do like humans and when they find something confusing call it an artifact of our mythology or think that it and the towel are ceremonial.",
"I'll bet Bill Gates can't even code the Windows kernel from scratch.",
"No. SpaceX spent “billions” (although it looks to be millions) on “advertising” for Tesla. They are two different companies. Same guy runs them both though.",
"Elon said in the press conference that they didn't do anything to \"space harden\" the car, he said its normal seats, basically a normal car. I'm sure they probably did some stuff to make sure it wouldn't damage the rocket though. Also, the space shuttle had air filled rubber tires, everyone keeps forgetting that.",
"Underrated comment",
"We sure it's not going to Mars?",
"XD",
"Elon Musk mentioned in the press conference that there is a hot wheels version of the roadster complete with a mini astronaut sitting on the dashboard of the car. You can see it in the footage. ",
"Moral of the story - no matter how amazing, no matter how incredible a thing you pull off, there will always be people who think things could have been better.\n\nCouldn't we just appreciate it for what it was and not worry about what could have been?",
"Kinda badass imagining him landing on Mars like the car in the beginning of Heavy Metal.",
"As the wise Justin Timberlake once said \"advertising isn't cool\".\n\nInteresting fact, Tesla used to be called \"The Tesla\".",
"What if someone sneaked in as spaceman suit and sat in the roadster......",
"Douglas was privy to knowledge of the universe that we are only beginning to unravel. \n\nI, for one, will never board a Vogon vessel without a decent towel. As per his manual.",
"Sandblasting a Tesla ain’t like dustin’ crops, kid. ",
"The scientific data and engineering achievement gained from this is worth the \"littering\".\n\nMusk could have fired literal garbage into space and we'd have still gained an immeasurable amount of information on space flight/rocketry. ",
"Well, is the whole car-in-space thing not ceremonial? :P",
"They do https://youtu.be/FiARsQSlzDc?t=8s",
"Well technically, they paid for this launch.",
"Typically for these test launches, they send a ballast of concrete or something, so this was an opportunity to do something cool. Cross promotion :) ",
"Billions on advertising yes, but he's double dipping by advertising two of his companies at once while completing a test launch they would've had to do anyways to prove it could do what they were saying it could do.\n\nThe hard part of the billions would've had to have been spent anyways. It was just the advertising part that cost extra.",
"They're all the same. They have 4 wheels and get me places. I'd research that on the internet. A TV advertisement wouldn't do anything. Do they even advertise Mustangs?\n\nTo be fair Nissan had cool commercials in the 90s. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LPWpzNWO88\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNhfDachC04\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ELV9d12hHg\n\nI also likethe juxtoposition of these commercials\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEAA94FjHc\n\nand this one \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpfJNaRPGo\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmZZNbUsyt8",
"Yes, you do need to correct your course when your target is a golf ball 5 miles away, but when youre just going with no direction, even if all 4 tires exploded in one confined direction what wouldn't make any significant difference in its orbit",
"This is freaking awesome way to become legend in space history and also advertise Tesla. ",
"To think that a lot of that stuff was written by him in a BBC toilet stall, feverishly trying to get copy finished before the next station break ended... sheer inspired genius.",
"This was brilliant ",
"how are the tyres still inflated?",
"I see what you did there.",
"$50,000,000 has lots of zeroes in it.",
"Wow, they weren't kidding, HDTV is really here.",
"Well you can see the earth is flat, so this is real.",
"Oh boy do I have a treat for your broken brain. Enjoy [this](http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html)",
"That's an article on a fan site, not a paid Tesla ad. An article linked within that article, from the same site, states \"Tesla doesn't advertise.\" And the numbers in your article are from Trip Chowdry, who is, frankly, a complete idiot who pulls nonsense from nowhere all the time. He's sort of famous for it, and not just related to Tesla.",
"http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html",
"Except it's almost everything that a middle-school kid is totally into. \"Inappropriate for age X\" is usually someone looking back and failing to remember what it was like to actually be that age.\n\n*Heavy Metal*, both the film and the comic, is more appropriate for an 11 year-old than it is for the average 30 year-old.",
"http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n\n2016, not 2017, but there you go",
"Reddit comment of the century",
"Its from the livestream. ",
"Elon said it was a legit space suit. ",
"They probably didn't inflate the tyres, just left them at atmospheric pressure, then they'll expand nicely in the vacuum to look good.",
"Idk if I can believe you tho. I'm gonna need some proof first ",
"I have all his works. Of course the original HHGG and the hard cover compilation (read to my kids for bedtime for years) the Liff books even!\n\nMt favorite is Last Chance to See\n\nGreat read if you can find it.",
"I wish The Sims looked like this.",
"We're on a mission from God ",
"I expected them to put [a school bus](http://www.spacex.com/falcon9) in orbit, but this is good too.",
"I think if you killed someone on the moon it would be the country you are from?",
"There was a multi hour livestream of the car floating through space. Go on Instagram and search the tag \"SpaceX\" it's full of people who took screenshots just like this and from all sorts of angles. \n\nedit: [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aBr2kKAHN6M&app=desktop)",
"however, it is wrong to say tesla spends nothing on marketing. and /u/technique_only simply said per car, not whether it was justified or not. the guy above me was misinterpreting 'orders of magnitude', and just saw it as 'is bigger'. \n\neconomies of scale is exceptionally important, especially in fledgling companies, but the market cap of tesla means that their spending is never negligible, and their output *should* be questioned. they have a similar market value to toyota, so it follows that their budget might be similar, like their output.\n\nso it doesn't sound *damning* for tesla, it is just a fact. no one is trying to sabotage either company, they are simply pointing out facts.",
"Fair enough, positive word of mouth is probably the most effective form of direct marketing. Also, congrats! It’s a pretty sweet ride, though I’d get a Lamborghini myself if I had that kind of money. As for the annoyance, I think it stems from the ‘can do no wrong’ attitude some people have towards Tesla, even though their cars have had serious and potentially fatal production flaws just like any other. Hell, I’ve seen Apple fanboys who’re more rational! Plus, some people I know still consider Tesla an underdog, even though it’s a gigantic company and not some locally run Mom ‘n Pop business. For me personally, I think a part of it is also because the same people who love Tesla call Apple users like me ‘shills’ and the hypocrisy annoys me. It’s kinda stupid and childish, and I don’t deny that.\n\nI’m not a socialist myself (not even a little) but it *does* irk me when nobody gives the brilliant minds working on these awesome projects enough credit. I can appreciate the man’s vision and how it made everything possible, but Musk is the only memorable name in the company and it seems like he’s given a bulk of the credit. Apple is a bit better, since they credit major project leads and the various SVPs are almost as famous as Jobs himself. But then again, maybe it’s because Apple is gigantic. Tesla is a gnat in comparison, and maybe when it gets bigger we’ll start seeing more names appear alongside Musk’s. That’d be cool, since some of these people (especially designers) have some very interesting things to say and stories to share.",
"Took drifting out of this world...",
"Not just space. Atoms are the same way, in fact way more so.\n\nIf the nucleus of an atom was about the size of a tennis ball, the electrons would be around 3km away.\n\nSo all that solid matter making up your body and, well, everything... Is actually mostly nothing.",
"What a fucking dumb comparison lol",
"Holy... shit...",
"When will SkyGuide add this to the trackable space junk?",
"I'm pretty sure John Travolta and Olivia Newton John did it first.",
"Did you even read the article I provided you?...",
"They finally got rid of The Stig.",
"Are they actually sending the Tesla to Mars?",
"That's actually one I haven't read. The annotated Hitchhikers radio play is an amazing document. The Liff books not so much. I've been putting off watching Dirk Gently because I'm worried it won't live up to the books.",
"I really love everything about this, except all the damn shouting. Why do people like the sounds of their own voices so much?",
"Of course it's an important and meaningful statistic. And of course it is seen negative by customers (or should be at least). It sucks if a products price is made up by a larger part of marketing cost because it means more of your money is not spent on the product itself and processes and services that add value. \nThe problem I see more in comparing those two companies as it makes not much sense.",
"You're braindead.",
">white flag\n\nVietnam all over again eh Yanks?",
"Elon should have waited to do this after he had died, get shot into space in his Tesla. \n\nAlso, side note I get how David Bowie's Life on Mars was an apt choice by Space Oddity would have been spectacular.",
"Reminds me of futurama. Cars casualy flying trough space ",
"Do we need to filled the tires with air? It can be all rubber - no tube!",
"So what do you call renting a show room at the airport? Is this not advertising?",
"It’d last longer than the Tesla. My Prius is the most reliable car I’ve owned. ",
"Hours later I’m still in awe that this happened in my lifetime. I really cannot wait to see if this will bring in another space age. ",
"« They always put in a little more. »",
"Why was there never a Thelma and Louise movie even though the first one was such a success? Oh, right...",
"Yeah it's so weird how they see Elon Musk as their God who will save the world. ",
"I can't wait for \"The Martian\" sequel where a stranded Matt Damon space flings himself into that thing from a dying ship, fires it up and guns it home, burning through the atmosphere like a Goddamn comet. ",
"It is, as if you don't know, that what you said is exactly what he said. \n\nUV light IS radiation, and 100% the radiation he is talking about.",
"Bvvnmm",
"Call it what you want. This is an ad.",
"You’re god damn right I do. ",
"you think you've been mindfucked? Download and fly around in space engine. It's free. And it's terrifying ",
"\"One second I was in Texas, the next?\"",
"Yes, but you didn't.",
"Bullshit. A month ago i saw a tesla billboard in Austria. Billboards cost money ",
"Liff always was just a bathroom book.\n\nI watched the older Dirk show and the first EP of this one and I found both lacking. And I want to like them so much! \n\n\n\nLike that other book we don't speak of... ",
"Give it another hundred years or so and it'll be a floating monument which people will visit. It'll be very well preserved by whoever is around then.",
"Based on what definition of advertise, advertising, or advertisement? Because Merriam-Webster disagrees with you. You'll note the definitions say \"especially by\" and not \"only by\" an advertisement is any public notice. So just because you see it in some form of media other than a newspaper or a TV commercial doesn't mean it's not a form of advertising. \n\nhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertisements\n\nhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertising",
"Can you explain what ignorant happiness I'm feeling right now?",
"/u/pitchfork_emporium where art thou in this time of need? ",
"Ya, I would be surprised if the dummy didn't have various sensors and such to keep track of how the suit reacted to actual space.",
"[Citation needed]",
"\"Leave 'em guessing. Play your cards right, reap the profits while winning the hearts.\"\n\n-Elon Musk School of Business",
">Tesla spends just $6 per car in advertising\n\nIt's literally in the headline. lol",
"Nope, Tide ad.",
"While that is correct, I presume the flight computer was programmed for a certain payload weight. I don't know if it would realize on its own that something's wrong",
"Well I spend... $0 per year on advertising too! Tesla isn’t special >;/",
"***Well for now there is no one who can challenge the brains of the real Tony Stark or as we know him as Elon Musk.***",
"Mate, sometimes content overrides quality, that's one of those pictures...\n\nThat said, have you got a link for that double booster landing still you mentioned? ",
"Awwww your downvote button is broken. You poor tortured soul. ",
"There I go what? This shows marketing spending. Show me an ad.",
"After 2 billion miles I was like...stars....oh no..thats dust on my phone. ",
"Relative to the sun it will be both the fastest and slowest ever.",
"No sensors in the suit was confirmed at press conference tho.",
"So you didn't read the article, just the headline. \"lol\" You also seem not to have read the comment. Here you go again:\n\nThat's an article on a fan site, not a paid Tesla ad. An article linked within that article, from the same site, states \"Tesla doesn't advertise.\" And the numbers in your article are from Trip Chowdry, who is, frankly, a complete idiot who pulls nonsense from nowhere all the time. He's sort of famous for it, and not just related to Tesla.",
"In a tide ad",
"/r/cringe",
"This man knows music from '61 'vettes",
"It's not listed, which makes no sense to me.",
"Oh jeez I feel dumb. I totally didn't read that it was a first test for something like this. It makes a lot more sense to use a car to test it so you can see if you can move something that weighs that much. ",
"Another fun fact! Elon Musk spends $0 on toilet paper because certain Redditors keep his man hole clean for him!",
"> They can't put something like that in earth orbit because it could absolutely destroy a satellite or the iss\n\n> We put heavier larger objects in orbit all the time. Get out of here with that nonsense.\n\nBoth of you guys are really fucking sure about what you're saying and here I am, not even sure who to upvote :(\n",
"clean whites? must be a tide ad...",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vt7ru/tesla_spends_0_per_year_on_advertising_today/dtvatye",
"Radar Rider by Riggs",
"Based on the definition of advertise, as opposed to the definition of marketing.\n\nIf you want to make up a new definition for it, go right ahead, but you are not laboring under the accepted definition either in the industry or in society as a whole.",
"Ith' not OK to pollute Earth, yet it ith' OK to sendth pollution into spath. Riddle me thith. ",
"I thought that as well, but he said later on in the press conference that they didn't have any sensors or anything on it. They just used it because it looks cool. The whole thing was all about doing things that were \"cool\" and would get as much press coverage as possible. The clients and the fanboys don't care what was launched. This was all about making it appealing to the general masses. ",
"Was the livestream supposed to end? I want to see more..",
"http://more2.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f&redir=www",
"I just don't understand why they didn't use a new Tesla rather than a 10 year old one based off of a car that they didn't even make. Sad.",
"OLED is overpriced thanks to LG's copyright or patent or whatever on OLED technology. I would personally get the new vizio m-series tv (if you don't mind using chromecast or have an external device to stream content) and with the $1000 you save, get a set of surround sound speakers. The picture quality on the new vizio m-series is incredible and almost on par with OLED for a fraction of the price.",
"https://www.engadget.com/2015/05/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-laws-of-space/\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.inverse.com/amp/article/11249-space-crime\n\nTLDR: same as international waters. \n",
"[Actual photo of u/einperson](https://imgur.com/gallery/vN5jG9r)",
"It's in interplanetary heliocentric orbit, doesn't pollute anything, don't worry.",
"I wouldn't say it's good, but it's a very interesting watch, especially if you are a fan of animation and science fiction. You can tell immediately how influential it is.",
"/r/EnoughMuskSpam ",
"People who spent many years researching rocket physics and engineering in a brand new field of space technology cheering at their major success. How dare they.",
"Do you have a photo?",
"Such a suitable description of the human race, and what they chose to do with such knowledge and evolution, put a car in space!\n",
"I would make decisions based on GPS, accelerometer and altimeter data.",
"It's going to take over a year to get all the way out there. A live update would be insane. ",
"Is that who was cheering? It sounded like a crowd of random people to me.",
"It was Elon’s personal car. If you don’t think it has all kinds of bells and whistles other “normal” Tesla’s don’t have, I think you’d be sadly mistaken. ",
"Which is necessary and useful. I think it's about damn time our species is hyped about space travel again. ",
"I did read that tesla spends $6 per car on advertising\n\n6 > 0\n\nYou might need this: http://www.math-exercises-for-kids.com",
"I bet you he's envious, because *they* didn't manage to launch a Reliant Robin. ",
"I’m jut sad there’s no 4K image of this for my new wallpaper / poster print",
"Cameraman here... Can you elaborate on the reasons why someone initially booked 720p cameras onto the job? Bitrate limitations? Something like this will have been planned for a long time. Call me skeptical but this comment section looks like it's been raided by excuses!",
"If this is what you talk about, they own it, it was at Tesla Design Center, Hawthorne. \nhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Tesla+Design+Center/",
"Fake! The earth isn't round! Technically it's an oblate spheroid. ",
"You're a dumb comparison",
"I doubt they'd use concrete, Pretty sure they'd use steel. Not as cheap as concrete, but much easier to attach to the rocket, and much more tolerant of the vibration.",
"Fastest car relative to earth ever. Speeds are always relative when talking about space. Two objects can be going 100km/h relative to each other but only 1km/h relative to another object on a similar orbit.",
"The future. What about the children?",
"I wish he’d start a healthcare company.",
"What if a sandblaster got an alien? Den wat?",
"Most ironic comment of 2018.",
"It doesn't have any solar panels and the batteries only last about 12 hours. In the end its a car strapped to a rocket stage, not a full fledged spaceprobe. \n\nSo no, we won't have communication with it out to Mars. In fact, they should lose telemetry with the vehicle right about as I write this post.",
"you're in space right now",
"r/cryptocurrency should change their motto from Lambos and Moon to Tesla to Mars",
"We're talking large contract prices here. That's A whole year's of marketing is cheaper than a single launch.They did 18 last year.",
"Space scrap salvagers gonna take it by then. Should be worth its weight in robot hookers and space blow.",
"Don Draper is not amused. ",
"I see teslas in malls all the time.\n\nThat's goddamn advertising. ",
"It’s real but it’s so absurd you have to be insane to believe it!",
"Haven't seen it yet haha. Watched the whole thing o. SpaceX already... everyone who didn't... ducks em... good job on reporting on water under the bridge!!!.... it was damn epic... but what else are billionaires doing these days?... flame throwers?!",
"Literally the only consumer car in space. ",
"And the alien plague",
"I'm not using societies accepted definition?? My source is the dictionary. I'm still trying to figure out what your source is. You're basically just speaking out of your ass while telling everyone you're right. \n\nhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advertise",
"If you're not buying options you're probably not going to get rich. ",
"Too bad that Elon Musk doesn't realize that there is no sound in space and blaring \"Space Oddity\" is total BS. Sound requires air molecules to vibrate. The rocket also spewed tons of CO2 to pump up his egotistical hot air marketing crapola.\n\nAlso, it cost at least $60 million to MARKET this launch and the Tesla.",
"https://electrek.co/2018/02/05/elon-musk-simulation-tesla-roadster-mars-spacex-falcon-heavy/ \n\nhttp://www.spaceflightinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/falcon-heavy-1st-vertical-test-nathan-koga-14287-589x655.png \n\nhttp://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/Tesla-Roadster-SpaceX-Falcon-Heavy-payload.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=around|660:438",
"No it isnt ,why everyone is jerking off when they hear tesla",
"Based off my Kerbal knowledge, Jeb always finds a way to sneak into the unmaned rockets if there's a free seat. I think it could have happened here as well.",
"I love space x. Im very excited for what they are doing. Space exploration is the hardest thing human beings do and when i see this it makes me think that humans can do ANYTHING. Space research doesn't get enough funding.",
"$0 on advertising?! So all the showcases, stores, press conferences, giveaways, movie insets, ad competitions are free? ",
"Guys... what if Elon Musk is a super villain?",
"Does anyone know what David bowie song is playing on loop in the car? I’ve seen conflicting reports.",
"I dunno about that. According to NASA, it costs $10,000 to launch 1 pound into space, and the Tesla roadster S weighs 2877 pounds. So if the car (minus test dummy) wasn't stripped to bare bones prior to launch which I'm sure it was, this picture cost at least $28,770,000. Now saying it was lightened to the most extreme possible weight without interfering with aesthetic purposes, we could see approximately a 500 pound car (minus test dummy) still costing 5,000,000 to launch just into orbit. Now also assuming that since it is his own company launching the craft and not NASA, let's give him an evaluation of maybe 2.5 million (being generous with the cost of fuel) and you have a 2.5 million dollar advertisement. All to crash a car on Mars. ",
"But it's still 10 years old and not even being made anymore...",
"I was asleep when this happened. This is going to haunt me and my grandkids will think I had a boring life. *sigh",
"Thank you for this. This is incredible. \n\nOne of my favorite lines of thought from somewhere between Uranus and Neptune - In regards to emptiness being 99.9999999% of the universe, with the tiny percentage of actual matter spread out across these vast distances:\n\n“Seems that we are both pathetically insignificant, and miraculously important at the same time.”\n\n",
"Yes from the live stream you can still watch (car battery will last 12 hours).\nI did this one it even shows earths day/night shadow.\nhttps://i.imgur.com/koRNPdA.png\n",
"I am, quite honestly, rooting for Elon, even though I don't want the cars he currently offers and think there is a lot of hype and misinformation out there about his companies. But he is bringing a whiff of fresh air to the industry, which is good. \n\nAutomotive marketing is suffering from endless same-ness at the moment. It's very tough to get ideas that don't show the car on some gritty-looking pavement with men in suits and women with perfect smiles approved. A lot of people are trying very hard and breaking through every now and then (see WK's 'imported from detroit' with eminem) but it's ripe for some serious ball-kicking.",
"Absolutely. I'm excited for space race 2.0 the corporate chapter. ",
"What children?",
"So...the truth of the matter is...that the Earthling(s) have launched something into space that doesn't belong there. Aka - pollution. ",
"Is that real? 7 miles a second seems unrealistic lol",
"I'll remember that that next time I see someone flipping a cigarette butt out of the window of their car.\n\nIf you can land back on earth you can burn up your payload, not shoot junk into space with zero utility.\n\n",
"I mean, isn't Saturn's rings kind of like really tiny moons? They're satellites; if we counted satellites as part of a planet, then we'd never be able to fit any planets between the Earħ and Moon because the pair would just be Earħ.",
"Now that they've launched a Roadster inside a rocket they need to build a real life [GTA V Rocket Voltic.](https://media.rockstargames.com/rockstargames-newsite/uploads/1c537293c39394b98a365f9f6a7820435cf9cb08.jpg)",
"I wanna see the livestream but with the creepy interstellar music (any space creepy music) with all the meteors around it",
"Oh flat earth people, where are you now? ",
"You know for sure that behind that visor, Musk has printed the face of Jeb on the mannequin.",
"Found the Buddhist",
"Sounds like a Calvin and Hobbes quote ",
"Kilt him.",
"Shit man I never knew it was so easy to be a rocket scientist. ",
"That's impressive, but not as impressive as crashing into Curiosity.",
"To all the people calling millennials in this thread obnoxious shills, weren't there millions of kids' bedrooms in the 60's/70's with Saturn V posters or toys?\n\nRockets were cool 50 years ago. Rockets are cool now.\n\nAs for Teslas, I invite anyone to tell me why a self-driving electric car isn't cool.",
"They should just put the launch on there to balance the books.",
"That \"$0 on advertisement\" is bullshit. I quote from their [annual report of 2016](http://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReports/PDF/NASDAQ_TSLA_2016.pdf):\n\n> We incurred marketing, promotional and advertising costs of \n$48.0 million, $58.3 million and $48.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014, respectively. ",
"I...I thought that was a joke image. Hadn't realised there was an outer shell that would break away to reveal the car on the nose of the rocket!",
"Yes, but all of its calculations would be based on the fact that \"Okay, I've got XYZ kg on board, how do I get them to space\".\n\nA difference in weight is completely different to a gust of wind, as it's constant and there's no way for anyone to figure out what's wrong.",
"Do you have a link?",
"Is there a projection on how long the David Bowie song will continue to loop? A year or 3 million?",
"Today’s troll award goes to you. ",
"This picture is the ability to see with sound reflection, because it's so gnar bro. \n",
"Never seen a Tesla ad anywhere. Title specifically says advertising and is probably referring to traditional ads. Marketing does not equal ads.",
"You know this is soooo unnecessary",
"It's probably been stripped of its engine and batteries (at the very least), so not much good even if you did manage to bring it back down to Earth.",
"The whole rocket was spinning. They do it for stability since it averages any thrust error towards the center of the axis it is spinning on.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ZKAQtB5Pwq4",
"I still like Jeep’s commercial on the superbowl.",
"No. This is the younger cousin. Chuck Tes**t**a is the old one.",
"> It’s a pretty sweet ride, though I’d get a Lamborghini myself if I had that kind of money.\n\nI mean, it's cheaper than a Lambo and also better than a Lambo, so you should get one of these instead ;-) At least once the 35k version starts to ship.\n\n>the ‘can do no wrong’ attitude\n\nI'm a fan of all EVs and often get accused of being a Bolt/i3 fan in Tesla forums, and a Tesla fan in Bolt/i3/etc forums. Personally, my message is \"same team.\" So I know what you mean by the can do no wrong attitude, but I also separate it from the \"Tesla is doing awesome shit\" attitude, which is correct and totally rational, cause they are doing awesome shit and are definitely making the best cars in the world at the moment, no doubt.\n\n>Plus, some people I know still consider Tesla an underdog, even though it’s a gigantic company and not some locally run Mom ‘n Pop business\n\nThey absolutely are an underdog though. Tesla has a large market cap, but in terms of sales they are tiny compared to a huge industry which wants nothing more than them not to exist and everything to go back to how it was before them so they don't have to deal with all this disruption nonsense. There are lots of people spending lots of money to try to stop that from happening, as well https://electrek.co/2017/06/27/koch-brothers-electric-cars-fossil-fuels/ . They're lobbying state governments to try to stop Teslas from being sold, lobbying national governments to ease emissions standards, lobbying the public with misinformation about all sorts of things, etc.\n\n>The same people who love Tesla call Apple users like me ‘shills’\n\nNot sure where you got the idea that Tesla is aligned against Apple, there's plenty of overlap between people who like both. Perhaps you're just thinking about the general reddit anti-Apple bias. I would say not to consider much of what reddit says seriously, as the people on here are, on the whole, not so socially well-adjusted.\n\nBy the way, Apple user since ~1987 here, Tesla/EV fan since 2006. So, pretty OG in both cases.\n\n>Apple is a bit better, since they credit major project leads and the various SVPs are almost as famous as Jobs himself\n\nI mean, Franz speaks quite often, JB speaks fairly often, the other founders (who I can name without looking up: Ian Wright, Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard) do their own advocacy and have their own companies and such even though they're not with Tesla anymore. There's other leads who are known by Tesla fans. George Blankenship isn't around anymore but everyone knew him at the time, Doug Field is a pretty well-known name I'd say, people definitely know Jerome Guillen and Deepak Ahuja...\n\nI mean there's not a lot of people within Apple who non-Apple fans could name I'd say, same with Tesla. Heck I'd bet tons of people don't know Ive or even Tim Cook, and only know Jobs and maybe Woz. And like you say, Apple is the largest company in the world and has been around a lot longer than Tesla.",
"This was not a Tesla rocket! Different company! So what are you talking about?",
"He’s not the first to do this “Heavy Metal” did it in the early eighties.... [Heavy Metal](https://youtu.be/t_KXgFpguE0) ",
"Unequivocally it is David Bowie's Space Oddity.",
"Still just waiting for the flat earth people to explain this one ",
"I hear Daft Punk when I see this.",
"Yeah I’m definitely buying a falcon heavy poster to be framed in my room",
"> Because Reddit won’t admit that Musk is just a man\n\nAnd you're making the false Marxist assumption that all men are equal. They are only equal at birth. Musk's accomplishments set him apart from the rest.",
"Yeah, how many times did he go between saying the roadster in space was a joke and that it would happen",
"That’ll teach the stig",
"If you think calculating whether or not a person's weight is within the margin of error of a rocket launch, you probably don't need to worry about being a rocket scientist.",
"The discrepancy would be next to nothing. But reading these responses is absolutely hilarious.\n\nSee you humans on Mars and beyond.",
"Yes, correct, you are not using society's accepted definition, because your source, *a* dictionary, which gives a very basic overview of what a word means and does not delve into the specifics, *still* states that advertising is paid. That's what the \"especially\" part means - that \"especially\" distinguishes it from marketing in general. Which is what Tesla spends money on, and not advertising.\n\nAnd if you're going to continue to be intentionally obtuse and pretend that you can't tell the difference, then I'm not sure the point of continuing to talk to you.",
"All of the children. What kind of particulates are left in the air after a launch? Are there carcinogens trapped in the vapor that is trapped in the atmosphere until it rains again? What about CO2? ",
"Did they confirm that there are no sensors or did they just not confirm anything?",
"You're not seeing them because they're not there. Fact is they aren't ads or commercials. The costs are not advertising costs. Not buying ad time is a big deal, because that's the requirement for being an ad - whether ad time is bought. If it's not, it's not an ad, it's marketing. The title does want to make that distinction, because that's what the word means.",
"It's called _calibration_.",
"\"Hey why does that helmet has steam inside the glass?...oh crap cut the stream!\"",
"That seems pretty reasonable in terms of advertising costs. I think we're entering a new age of advertising where it's not about paying ad companies and TV stations to run your ads, it's about occupying the social media and cultural space. It's actually quite disgusting when you think about it, we're basically doing their advertising for them, and not getting paid the millions they would've paid advertisers to do it.",
"We'll worry about that after he gets his internet satellites launched and gets us on Mars. ",
"...drifting through the gulf of interplanetary space for untold elons*\n\nFTFY",
"Then he lost his hair and then he bought new hair.",
"How nice of Saturn to tilt just for the occasion.",
"I watched the whole thing with a chill out music in background. Never been more chilled.",
"Thank god someone broke the Top Gear record, I thought their Reliant Robyn rocket would hold the record forever.",
"Is relatively low resolution caused by space electronics requirements or does it have to do more with the bandwidth available?",
"Soooo creepy, but worked for me",
"Ol musky does it again ",
"it doesn't matter. the computer can and does adjust for such issues, as they appear during the course of normal flight. ",
"Found \"rouge wind\" amusing, googled it, got this (expected something a little more red!)...\nhttp://imgur.com/nYDjeUt.jpg\n\nEdit: nsfw",
"Potato ",
"Public space research doesn't get enough funding. I find it very worrying that private companies like Space X will leech off public funds to fund their space exploration projects, but amass all the profits themselves. Space exploration should be owned by everyone.",
"I think it's still attached to the second stage. It definitely was during this video. ",
"Tell that to the super bowl ",
"Is the car in a kind of protective shell / bubble or is it exposed to the void of space? No glass or anything can be seen around it, but I'm wondering if it may be hit by random debris in orbit?",
"it's just redditors buying into the rampant hero worshipping of elon musk",
"Didn't the space shuttle have wheels and a steering wheel?",
"Elon is disposing the dead body of Elon.",
"Fastest car in the Universe!",
"Yeah they spend a shitload on marketing in general though.",
"I don’t think it’s sinking in that it was his personal car. This is beyond just sending a Tesla to Mars. It’s sending HIS Tesla to Mars. Using HIS rocket tech with reusable stage 1’s some people thought impossible. \n\nHe’s making a statement. His car is iconic. \n\n> and not even being made anymore...\n\nI think that’s the point. This isn’t just “any other” Tesla... if anything, it’s THE Tesla. ",
"This makes me stupidly happy and excited!",
"Then the end of the video hits you with \"no it's a tide commercial\". ",
"Nope, Chuck Testa. ",
"We're concerned about climate change but not about launching a car(and all of the pollutants that were used/expelled in the process) out of our junked-up orbit. Somehow that's ok? My first comment was slightly joking...but you asked. I\"m not trying to be rude or abrasive. Just a point of view. I appreciate the commentary though.",
"The only effect it could possibly have is: 1. Shifting balance/disrupting controls due to weight difference, or 2. Too heavy to take off due to the weight difference",
"It's called fairing. It protects the payload during launch and provides good aerodynamic shape to the rocket. When it's out of the atmosphere they throw it away because it's still heavy and every gram counts. \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtI1V624vWM \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8HrxfSZMc",
"lol",
"I haven't watched TV in years, however I still remember when several german \"science\" shows had to relable themselves as they were caught showing what amounted to half hour long ads for specific products. Sometimes they just let some companies engineer / marketing guy talk without even minimal fact checking and ran product comparisons with the scientific rigor of a drugged monkey. Wouldn't be surprised if Tesla had been running ads on several of them, maskerading as science of AI development / self driving cars. ",
"Presumably that's called lying.",
"He argued about the source in your article. How could he have done that, if he hadn't read it?",
"No. I‘m talking about all the showrooms which they rent e.g. here in Switzerland at the airport of Zurich or in „The mall of Switzerland“ near Lucerne.",
"who's gonna be the one that saves me?",
"Is it the first Tesla ever made or something? I know it's his car, but he probably has like 5 Teslas. Or more. If it's the first one ever I'd understand it but if not I think it'd be a better choice to send a newer one.",
"this is not yet known. they would probably want to test payload separation, if there is any way to do so.",
"It could! The problem is your PC. A good PC can render that image anywhere from 5-12 hours, maybe even more.\n\nIf you are okay with playing The Sims at 2 frames per day, it's defenetly possible.\n\nEdit: to add to this, the file sizes would be huge (considering you use high res images) and you would need a lot of RAM or VRAM (if you can find a GPU with enough VRAM to render a big word with this much detail).",
"They also obviously pay bloggers to cover Tesla stories in a positive light. ",
"https://youtu.be/bCc16uozHVE?t=25m45s here's the actual video",
"Greatness is a point of view, Anakin.",
"Oh, and SpaceX wants to land and reuse it! \n\nhttps://www.teslarati.com/spacex-fairing-grabber-claw-recovery-boat/ \n\nhttp://www.spaceflight101.net/spectacular-spacex-video-offers-insights-into-falcon-9-payload-fairing-reuse.html",
"That is incorrect , I believe that have spent some money in advertising I saw the car on video clips before for example",
"A dead hooker.",
"Satisfied...on Falcon Heavy Metal",
"\"So that's why all the frogs have been blowing each other!\"",
"Road hog!",
"So which advertising agency made the greatest car commercial for $0? ",
"The entire original comment was meant sarcastically. I just failed to make it seem so. ",
"also, a checkmate for the flat earthers",
"What a waste on raw earth material!",
"It's made of aluminium and carbon-fibre and fibreglass. It wouldn't rust anyway!",
"A joystick isn’t a steering wheel tho ",
"The second guy",
"Now I just want Elon to get an interview with them and ask how they like his car now.",
"I don't like sand.",
"That's retail, that's showing their own stuff by their own employees. Paid advertisements would be in car magazines, TV ads, internet ads, when they pay other companies to show their stuff somewhere else than their own places.",
"You hear about Pluto? That's messed up. ",
"i can't show you an ad, but i will repeat what i see you've gotten upset about elsewhere: that tesla spent ~$6 per vehicle on advertising",
"Not exactly that they are trying to sell the rockets to you though ",
"And also, a car floating through space may as well be something that ended up there from the use of an Infinite Improbability Drive.\n\n(Alright that one's a stretch)",
"Yeah, Pluto barely makes it out of the \"abnormally large asteroid\" class and into the \"barely massive enough to be spherical\" category.",
"Do you not realize that a ton of the many people who work on these projects today were inspired at some point by the first Space Race or Star Trek or Star Wars or Asimov or something? A space program needs to be a long term thing, the children amazed by this entertainment (and by the awe of their entertained parents) will fuel the space programs in 20 years.\n\n\nThe last one was almost always in the context of the Cold War. Seeing men on television walk on the moon created a ton of engineers and physicists and high-end tradespeople and pilots and dreamers. Space Race 2.0's backdrop could be Mars. Instead of... the looming threat of global nuclear war.\n\n\nIt's actually really exciting for the future that it's not a militaristic wing of a nuclear government leading up this space race. It's pretty sweet that it's entertaining and allowed to be. The car and the spaceman and Bowie, instead of a concrete block and the deafening silence of space, like why should our advancements as a species be bleak and serious?\n\n\nThe way the staff of SpaceX cheered it on, I felt a camaraderie with the idea that they'd worked their fucking asses off for it and now they were going to enjoy it. When the side rockets touched down perfectly they must have lost it. That kind of enthusiasm in the future is being nurtured by the entertainment value of this through the dreamers and spacepeople of 2038.",
"> Asimov\n\nIsaac Asimov *aka* The Good Doctor",
"Once there is a model out I'm getting it",
"And don't forget how they treat their workers",
"I too have played the KSP, and I can verify that christes statement is indeed factual.",
"> In regards to emptiness being 99.9999999% of the universe\n\nThat kinda makes space exploration shows unwatchable.\n\nShow: \"We hit an anomaly\"\n\nMe: \"Again? This is the 2^nd time this season, the fuck kind of space are you exploring?\"",
"Risky click of the day :(",
"Does he have the Loc-nar in a briefcase?",
"And if for whatever reason the dummy was heavier than him anyways, he could possibly ballast himself to the correct weight.",
"The only thing more kerbal than this would be to do a mission to catch the roadster and bring it back in mint condition.",
"Kinda puts things into perspective while people here on Earth fight over piles of dirt with imaginary lines. ",
"It'd just burn up in the atmosphere ",
"“Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising. Today Tesla has the greatest car commercial of all time”\nIs their lack of investment/reliance on flimflam due to a realisation? That what they are actually doing in reality, is somewhat difficult to big-up even further through a use of some fantasy hype or other. \n",
"Do you have any idea what car manufacturers spend on advertising?",
"Anyone happen to have a good quality shot of Spaceman and that super sweet dash view?",
"Jeezus, first time I saw that I was tripping balls in a basement movie theater of my college dorm. Can't imagine what a kid thought",
"Wait will the car remain attached to the booster or is it flying freely?",
"That is why you put the animatronics inside the body.",
"The Stig has upped his game.",
"That _HHGTTG_ reference. This guy really knows how to push my buttons",
"The Naked Man works!",
"The ones who choose to work there? So all of those employees on the live feeds. Are they all miserable and hate their lives? Just curious. ",
"No. It acted as a dummy payload, a 'mass simulator', to test the capabilities of the Falcon Heavy.",
"Indeed. Tesla is pushing a new product, while Toyota can rely on brand recognition due to decades of quality vehicles. Practically everyone on the planet(yeah, yeah, I'm sure there's some tribesmen in New Guinea or some shit who don't) knows about Toyota, after all, and can probably name several of their model lines. Even if people know what Tesla is, they don't have that history. They need to sell something new, Toyota just needs to say \"hey, you know that 1990 corolla you're still driving? Why not upgrade?\"",
">i can't show you an ad\n\nYes, because they don't exist.\n\n>what i see you've gotten upset about elsewhere\n\nUpset about? It's wrong, that's not upsetting to me, because I'm not saying the thing that's wrong. It should be upsetting to you that you think a thing that's wrong though, and you should probably attempt to correct that.\n\nNice to see that you're so \"upset\" by being called out for being wrong that you're stalking my profile to find other wrong things to say, though. It's good to have fans on the internet!",
"What is video clips?",
"> It's not a real person though\n\nHopefully",
"Fastest road legal car.",
"technically they did have to purchase a license to stream the song on youtube",
"I'm honestly not seeing what the big deal is. We've already put high tech machinery in space, let alone living people...",
"Best prank ever - Ok guys where’s my car ",
"Lol benefit all of humanity are you fucking retarded? You think the average human will see their lives improve by any of this shit?",
"This IS advertising, dumbass.",
"I haven't googled it and would love someone to correct me if i'm wrong but I'm sure it wouldn't have a joystick as the commands would have too much of a delay and simply sending it commands such as \"Move x forward, move y right\" would make more sense.",
"I could make that on Microsoft paint in 5 minutes ",
"You can always try to land on a Comet ",
"I scrolled so far just to see my anus and make a half-baked joke. What am I doing with my life...",
"Damn that is some showmanship right there",
"Not only will it be the first car on mars. It'll be the first car to get instantly get stuck in some sand on mars. ",
"If we can figure out cloning, they could drift through space for untold Elons.",
"If anything, Chuck Testa copied the Energizer ads. And they probably copied it from somewhere as well.",
"Hey just a quick one, what is that black spot on Jupiter?\n\nIs that a storm, a shadow cast by a nearby satellite, etc.? \n",
"Here you go: https://youtu.be/XB2g7-HgE_g",
"Belters get Teslas now?",
"There's about 1 bar of difference. Car tyres are normally filled to around 2.5 bar, so this would be roughly like overfilling them to 3.5 Not a huge deal, especially if they were a bit flat before take off.",
"Well marketing is still different to advertising. ",
"MAGRATHEA!",
"They have no marketing department and spend nothing on advertising?",
"You can't do much about it, it's rocket launches. You can do environmentally friendly energy, transportation, even heating and manufacturing, but not space launches. \n\nThough it's an interesting question, you could look up how much fossil fuels and other nasty stuff we burn every year and compare it to the amount of stuff used in rockets. I would bet it would be less than 0.00001% of total pollution. So don't worry, do care about everything else. \n\nAlso if you are not convinced look up what amazing stuff satellites and space science does for people: \n\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/mitsubishiheavyindustries/2017/04/27/how-these-satellites-are-detecting-natural-disasters-and-saving-lives/#77b8cb855540 \nhttps://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/about \nhttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments_category ",
"I think it should take the car longer than an earth year to go the distance of the green line, and longer still to complete the orbit. I guess now we can have a unit of time called The Tesla Roadster Year.\n\nNow that I think about it, I'm not sure. :P it will be going faster than the Earth on the way back from apoapsis right? ",
"Historic landmark are you kidding? Apollo was, this isn't.",
"Sounds like it'd still run better than TS3 🤔",
"Instantly I'm reminded of the intro to the movie \"heavy metal\"!!! Tesla, you need to do this! ",
"You're doing good.",
"Yeah, 0 per year \n \n95% of Tesla is PR and marketing. 5% is badly built cars",
"It doesn't affect anything or anyone.",
"Songs video shoots, I think I saw it on Will Smith son videos and some where else I cant remember. I believe this might be paid promotion or it just might be the artist choice.",
"Lucky then it wasn't just for the Tesla Car then. The whole point was to test the rocket, instead of sending up a concrete weight like they normally do in a rocket test he thought why not a car?\n\n\nAs for the song playing, until the battery runs out. So what if you cant hear it lol and I'm sure he is aware of that. \n\n$60 million to market?....links please?",
"THIS ACTUALLY IS BAD",
"They should've named that dummy Major Tom. ",
"Is it Friday night already?",
"Normal person: \\*makes joke*\n\nRedditors: \"ACKCHUALLY\"",
"It's burning Oxygen and kerosene. Yes it is a pollutant but in the grand scale of things is minor as minor can be. One trip of one oil tanker across the ocean is likely equal to 1000 of these launches if not more, and these launches put us closer to finding other resources we can utilize instead of fossil fuels from Earth. ",
"But it IS in a real, functional space suit.",
"The title looks like a title I'd see in /r/showerthought",
"The generation after millennials? You mean the generation born between mid nineties to mid 2000s? Generation Z. Just Google it. ",
"Yeah but they're free~~way~~space miles",
"Car desk is kind of badass in its own way though. And way clearer than dashboard!",
"Considering the 1 billion dollars invested in the SpaceX project, it should be the greatest commercial ever, I guess...",
"The ocean and a field on Earth is part of the ecosystem in the biosphere we need to protect. Interplanetary orbit in deep space doesn't affect anything at all.",
"Well, sure, you get a better rate when you buy in bulk, everyone knows that",
"Yeah GM did as well, and I'm not a fan of them either but at least GM was a much larger part of the economy and produce a product far more universal. \n\nAlso the way Tesla treats their employees such as their recent vitality curve firing fest it's not exactly a company I want to see the government supporting.",
"Ah, the old Reddit [rocketaroo](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7vqoy9/whats_the_worst_sound_youve_ever_heard/dtv2kvg/?context=2).",
"The other guy is wrong but or argument is still bad.",
"...probably",
"Which is ~4.6 miles per second, to put it in an even more astonishing perspective. Can the human eye even follow something that fast? Pardon my lack of education/ability to google shit. ^Someone ^just ^talk ^to ^me ^please ",
"Just fuck around with a big spreadsheet in Excel on a monitor 3 meters away, that would emulate my experience with Eve pretty well.",
"Actually he has just taken a car at least once \n\nhttps://www.atlantic.net/cloud-hosting/how-elon-musk-ceo-of-telsa-motors-stole-my-car/",
"\"ummmmmm space?\"\n\n\"Nice try. But really\"",
"https://youtu.be/8lERqGULWxs\n \n \nReminds me of that.",
"I know, what a loser, right? Can't even keep up with massive behemoth international conglomerates",
"How to get away with murder, the Elon way.",
"The next closest landing site is actually venus. People conveniently ignore venus because the surface pressure would crush you",
"Ironically I ignored that part. I did exploration and war. By only flying cruisers and frigates I could get by making small money by not spending much.",
"Okay, and where did Tesla pay to air this?\n\nAlso: Look at that, I have two fans now! I'm \"upsetting\" a lot of ignorant folks today I guess. Either that or you forgot which account you're logged into. Whoopsy!",
"And it has done that on new Autopilot without the driver!",
"Oh my god. The first time I found this I kind of just kept scrolling without thinking we'd when I realised what I was doing I was genuinely given a reality check to how small I really was. ",
"Am I the only one that think this would suck as a commercial? ",
"This isn't a good ad. This is a pretty shitty advertisement actually.",
"Yeah but as payload standards go it was pretty light. It didnt really show the capabilities of the FH as it could haul like 30x what the car weighs. ",
"Stanley Kubrick didn't fuck around ;)",
"I had to check your username before I finished reading your comment cos I was too scared that it's was gonna be a shittymorph ",
"*cue All along the watchtower*",
"Is this a legit undoctored photo?\n",
"5 years ago - people would never believe a pic like that could be possible. Automatically computer trickery would be assumed.",
"I am just wondering why they didn't put solar panels on that thing. In a few hours the batteries will be drained.",
"https://i.imgur.com/HVyJqHL.png",
"He was already dead since at least 4 hours before the launch. He would not keep that position if its body was not rigid already.",
"Wait they seriously don't advertise? Never have?",
"Anyone remember the opening scene to the animated movie Heavy Metal? Take a look, Musk must be a fan...",
"Gets even scarier if you just let it scroll at light speed (button bottom right).",
"Maybe he meant TV commercials? ",
"Am I the only one wh looks at Starman and thinks \"STIG\"? It would be a fun jab at TopGear after they falsely bashed tesla roadster?",
"I really hope Tesla stays benevolent as they pretty much will have a monopoly on the electric car industry",
"What blew me away was the thought that even atoms are mostly empty spaces, as I've also been wondering what lies between the electrons and the neutrons. \n\nAnd also, that in that case, we're also mostly just made up of empty spaces, but on a wide enough scale it doesn't matter because somehow, it still forms something despite aaaaaall of that space. Like, the universe could be 99.9999999999958% empty but if you take the 0.0000000000042% of things that exist and look at it from far away enough, it would still form something! It could be a cell, a neutron, a brain, a human, another planet.\n\n\nWhat if the whole universe is actually just overlapping existence in varying scales??\n\n\nWhat if there's another Earth in one of the atoms that makes me up?",
"Nope, it's a Tide ad",
"lol",
"Damn.",
"Whose body, is the ultimate question.",
"Every thinking man knows this is fake because the earth is flat...",
"Watch it stoned and drinking beer. It's an awesome movie.",
"But can it get to Mars on one battery charge? ",
"> SOI \n\nFound the ksp player.",
"This is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time.",
"Oh no it’s not that at all. Elon said it was for fun. ",
"Can't get people to vote for that.",
"Issues are to be raised with this.\n\n1. the car was not white\n\n2. there was no towel around Starman's neck.",
"I’m gonna high jack your top comment here and just say wtf? Not only did dude just take my picture from my post and zoom in a little he even got more karma than me after everyone bitched me out on this sub for being the 1,000th to post it... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vrc77/elon_musks_tesla_literally_above_the_earth_right/?st=JDCXCXVZ&sh=4765a85a",
"If SpaceX hastens the colonization of Mars by even just 10 years, I'd say that's an incredible change in the course of human history.",
"I don't get it, what does do Teslas use? Or else why were you mentioning that water is wet?",
"So egotistical assuming we're at the bottom. Ha. But yes that is an interesting thought. Sounds like teenage stoner talk. I miss that. ",
"I was going to make a flat earth joke but, this is way to awesome.",
"$90M",
"That flat earth tho..",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vrc77/elon_musks_tesla_literally_above_the_earth_right/?st=JDCXCXVZ&sh=4765a85a\n\nSo yea...wtf man",
"One way ticket to midnight!!! https://youtu.be/DtBcwDY9D_M\n\nIt’s the greatest tribute to heavy metal the movie. ",
"So you're telling me when the tesla staff come to my town to show the car off they spend £0 on it? Or do you mean they don't spend dollars?",
"I really wished they had rigged it up with animatronics and hadn't told anyone. Could you imagine what would have happened if they moved its head to face the camera and give us a thumbs up?",
"Elon Musks special power is marketing (and money). ",
"Every millenial is masterbating to the picture of elon the guy that used their money to make expensive cares for rich people so tesla doesnt need advertising.",
"With emptiness being that prevalent wouldn't hitting *anything* be an anomaly?",
"Technically the U.S. Air Force paid for this flight. Tesla payed for some of the development up to it now, but they've gotten massive government contracts also.",
"Hey, who turned out the lights?",
"considering there are people that still believing that the moon landing didn't happen, there is **no way** these folk will think that this is real.",
"\"Hey, Elon, what would you do if *you* had a billion dollars?\"\n\n\n\"I'll tell you what I'd do, man -Land two rocket boosters at the same time, man.\"\n",
"Scuse me sirs you are breaking my immersion",
"Truth. been teaching my son lately about the game with the \"rockets and green guys\"",
"To be fair some people see him has an idol not for him as a human but for what he’s been able to accomplish.\n",
"No, it was rated X when it first came out. It later was changed to R.",
"Clearly you haven't been watching the live stream from the car for the last 12 hours.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"Where?",
"It's a damned pity that Musk didn't get in touch with Nasa to have one of the Simians in the seat. Outfitted with a receiver/emitter in the trunk it would've been quite the long term study opportunity on how long the tech survives in space exposed.\n\nWe (the general people) have these 'wives tales' level of understanding of such things based on 'ancient space relics' because of SciFi movies, but in reality, without active protection, anything, and everything eventually decays or is destroyed.\n\nSpace is a b***h and then some. Micrometeorites, radiation, particles speeding along, etc.\n\nA sidenote worthy of being mentioned, NASA's photographic equipment, even their most shielded cameras have their CCDs peppered with destroyed dots.\n\nA good reference video, is the one of the experiment with the inflatable module being explored for the first time in the ISS. When the video shows the dark inside of the newly minted module, you can see all the dead pixels.\n\nI suspect the 'don't panic' might vanish at some point, maybe quite soon.",
"I don't think this is the greatest car commercial ever, but Musk is clearly a brilliant man. I really do think he's one of the Thomas Edison's of our time and I'm really glad people have him and other science-minded people to look up to now.\n\nI'm so freakin' sick of giving kids no one to aspire to be other than celebrities and sports stars. The world has way more than enough YouTube stars already. \n\nI think the simultaneous landing of the two rockets was way more impressive than a car in space. Reusable rockets save a ton of money. ",
"Except that suit is a real SpaceX spacesuit. It's one of their prototypes. You would survive sitting there.",
"Thanks for telling jedephant that he/she is doing good.",
"Also, last week I saw a Tesla in the middle of the mall with a guy showing everyone around it. I'm pretty sure they paid cash to have that Tesla and guy there...",
"Yeah, those are the actual engineers and team behind the falcon 9/heavy.",
"Cojones?",
"Reddit does it all for them",
"Maybe NSFW tag that?",
"Not once in space, but I was wondering about how it held up to 10Gs of launch. Also, interested to see what happens to those lion batteries...",
"Amazing, thankyou and I can't believe I actually made it all the way to Pluto!",
"Well, they don't call it \"space\" for nothing",
"Oh I'm sorry sir, next time we'll sure think about your wallpaper though!",
"> Nice to see that you're so \"upset\" by being called out for being wrong that you're stalking my profile to find other wrong things to say, though. It's good to have fans on the internet!\n\nthis is going to blow your mind, but i saw other comments made by you elsewhere in the same comments section. this one, the one we're in right now\n\nya boy spent ~$6 per vehicle on measured-media spending in 2015 (that's from jon mcneill, Literally President, Global Sales and Service). measured-media spending is advertising spending. there was more of it than $0 per year. if you want to hang your hat on there not being any ads, that's fine, but they spent more than $0 on advertising. agree/disagree\n\nalso it hurt my feelings when you said that what i said was wrong so you gotta apologise, and no shifting the goalposts on this one\n\ned: lol did you downvote me already, that was like 30 seconds",
"Wow 2 whole people?",
"I assume they weigh the rocket before firing it. ",
"Who cares??? It puts the solar system to scale!!! Also, that's just average distance. At max distance, surely all planets fit in.\n\nSheesh, you are missing the point. That's really a mind-blowing graphic. If the only exciting part to you was that all planets would fit to your liking between Earth and the Moon, you got a problem, bud.\n\nI'm amazed by that, and the scale of things.\n\nKind of romantic to dream about using the gas planets to fuel some sort of mega ship. Glad we have them to protect us from existential threats.",
"Yes and it should happen like once every 10 seasons.",
"They're paying some people way too much to not be able to come up with one commercial ",
"There's now a live stream of some billionare's tesla sports car that he shot towards Mars with nothing but Bowie on the Stereo and a towel and a copy of 'Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy'. I'm not kidding. That's what's in the car.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M",
"I keep thinking that like a million years from now on some far away planet ... some aliens will find this, and end up building an entire religion around “Starman” as its central deity.",
"If this detaches and ends up crossing paths with an alien race, you have to wonder at their thoughts\n\n- How did this vehichle ever make it into space and who are these technologically advanced race made of some hard material that seemingly can breath in the vacuum?",
"What a time to be alive :)",
"That's not Stig. That's one of their real spacesuit prototypes.",
"really? just saw the image and it wasn't what I was expecting for rouge wind but not particularly nsfw. I had a quick glance at the source and nothing too much there either but I didn't delve too deep. What am I missing?",
"I don't really care that much about this argument, so I'll give you the point that they never spent a dollar on **advertising**.\n\nBut, anyway, my point still wasn't that the commenter in question was particularly fond of critical thought (I don't know them and I frankly don't really care) but that, in general on Reddit and IRL, Musk fanboys lack that quality regarding his accomplishments. ",
"What if this causes a new space race, with car manufacturers getting obsessed launching their models into space.",
"I would argue that is the most expensive advert of them all",
"There is a chance it would cause it to be unbalanced (I think the roadster is at an angle to make it's CG line up pretty well?) And maaaayyybe the weight of the dude would make the RCS not be able to balance it and it would spin/tumble out of control and pop his eyes from the blood pooling in his head. \n\nBut I think him being in the rocket up until payload deployment would be a non-issue. ",
"Wow chill out. Someone's a bit serious...",
"They should get married and he should take her surname. ",
"They should send an old Rover 75 up there",
"You're just gonna have to keep being upset until you come around to reality here. Go ahead and sleep it off, you'll be better in the morning. Best of luck, goodnight.",
"Fake sphere earth. That’s not what earth looks like. ",
"You still haven't provided any single piece of evidence why, in your opinion, the books are cooked. I don't know anything about Tesla economics wise, but that means I don't know anything either way, if it is in good economic order or not. But you've claimed some things, that they are in a bad economic order and that their books are cooked. Since you claimed these two things you should provide evidence for them. Not say \"go search for yourself\" or sth equivalent, the actual evidence that made you form those opinions. ",
"I'm sure those Blackbird boys are just fine with that.",
"It's not about is being lower quality that makes it seem fake, it's a sort of \"crispness\" you get when light isn't traveling through the atmosphere like we're used to. ",
"Just to get in on the \"space is mindfuckingly huge\" train - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCmJmTYS7Zw This. ",
"I don't know if it'd be considered NSFW in some workplaces but it's a brightly-colored sonic character with an upskirt, I feel like it's just safer to tag it as such. It's no rule34, but still, you never know how colleagues/bosses/parents/etc. would react.",
"Still, it's not really mainly an ad I'd say. It's more of \"you know what would be hilarious?\" on Elon's case",
"full ack: https://imgur.com/gallery/NMJ14Ro",
"Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are in competition. Jeff came up with the Amazon drone delivery. Elon stepped it up with delivery of cars from orbit, straight to your driveway.",
"Tesla doesn’t need some weak pointless ads on TV and the internet because the people who can afford them already know they want them",
"Ah, having great memories from a horror book on exactly this. It seems he read the book as well.",
"Mega-prank!",
"Still a better movie than Cloverfield Paradox.",
"Good comment, Elon musk is obviously an alien, wouldn't be too far fetched for him to previously have been Bigfoot",
"Okay, but in this particular thread, you seem to be the one who brought up Musk. The first guy misunderstood the meaning of advertising, and your comment talked about Musk, and the photo and title of the photo make no mention of him. And you did seem to justify his anger, and his anger was directed solely at his own misunderstanding of what advertising means.\n\nThing is, I'm bothered by Musk fanboyism, but not because I think he's doing bad things, more because I want to see the rest of the people involved in EVs and Tesla and SpaceX get credit too, since it's not like he's the only guy in there. So going from a discussion about Tesla to a discussion about Musk specifically seems to counter that point against fanboyism...\n\nSo yeah, I'm with the other guy: \"why does this make (anyone) so angry?\"",
"For some reason this feels like a new way of telling someone to fuck off.\n\n\"Go sandblast a space Tesla\"",
"Some say he doesn't need to breathe oxygen and can make the Kessel run in 1 parsec. All we know is he’s called the Stig.",
"Technicaly that would mean that the intern was a space Pirate under maritime law.",
"*Mark Watney, space pirate.*",
"Pretty sure that Mr Schrodingerz let the cat out before it suffocated, he was hardly a monster.",
"Can you provide evidence for this claim?",
"> when there's a whole galaxy to mess around in.\n\nIf you really think littering around in the galaxy, or even just our solar system could become a problem in any sort of comprehensible time frame you're sorely uneducated on how fucking massive the galaxy is.",
"Spacex is sweet but Tesla cars are a joke. Figure out how to shield the emf before putting peoples health at risk. Oh well they’re sooo trendy.",
"Nah, it's just Elon funneling money to get his stuff out to his Mars base. Clever man",
"Have you really never run into the Nintendo fanboys over on the switch reddit or the xbox ones or heaven forbid hopped over into the Donald? Tesla fanboys seem quite tame compared to them.",
"Yes. Rovers only escaped earth in a sense that they entered into moon sphere of influence (SOI) which is still inside earth's SOI. To escape earth's SOI for solar orbit, you need more speed then for moon intercept.",
"That's because you cheated and went faster than the speed of light.",
"> I just love fucking thinking about the aliens who might find this. 800 million years from now there will be no trace left of humans in the solar system.\n\nThat seems more implausible than the aliens.",
"The evidence is out there if it Intrests you. I'm sharing my belief, I'm not trying to convince anyone of it. ",
"Can you support your claim that this is fake with evidence?",
"Not including the cost of the rocket....",
"I'd watch an episode of CSI: The 22nd Century about the body found in the recovered Tesla roadster.",
"Amazing but this isn’t true I always see Tesla advertising their car outside my work in London. Alright they don’t use media much but they do advertise for sure. ",
"It's the fastest gravity assisted un-powered vehicle ever. Someone needs to get Elon Musk a Guinness book of records and the contact details for an independent adjudicator.",
"It's a useful part of communication to use common meanings of words to reduce the overhead of said communication.\n\nMost people wouldn't take that to mean that they don't put a sign on the front of their stores that says their name.",
"Thats not the point here. The point is cost. Launching a SaturnV was orders of magnitude higher than a Falcon Heavy.\n\n*A single Saturn V launch cost up to $375 million in 1969 — or, in today’s money, a few billion dollars.* \n\nhttps://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186600-apollo-11-moon-landing-45-years-looking-back-at-mankinds-giant-leap\n\nIn comparison you have 90 Million for a Falcon Heavy\n\nhttp://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities",
"Careful, they're ruffled!",
"What? ",
"_Massive_, not heavy ",
"It's disturbing how little you know about this subject and yet feel compelled to bash on SpaceX",
"They aren't in the car",
"Space pirate",
"Dead and wearing a skirt... ",
"Yes all paid by SpaceX, not Tesla.",
"If you admit Pluto (which I think you should), you'd have to admit a dozen other known small planets and probably thousands more yet to be discovered. Sadly that'd make the factoid no longer true.",
"So.. Tesla fanatics downvoted you for saying the Tesla worked well?",
"hahah Struth mate, how'd you know I live in Australia?\n\nedit: nvm, probs just a coincidence.",
"plot twist, space X is one big multi billion dollar ad for Tesla",
"Utter? Don't know anybody by that name.",
"In what sense?",
"So this is what the ‘Blackstar’ video was about, damn, Bowie really was all knowing ",
"that doesn't make any sense because killing someone like that isn't efficient compared to all the other types of murder we have on earth. the truth is that's Elon in that suit and he finally managed to hitch a ride back home from this godforsaken planet of apes. and he's going home in style",
"Indeed. 'Safe' is the operative word.",
"Saturn's rings aren't part of the planet. They're a loose haze of debris orbiting it.",
"Holy shit this is how the aliens will invade earth",
">as it's constant and there's no way for anyone to figure out what's wrong.\n\nDo you think they don't track the vehicle's velocity and position? They know how fast the vehicle should be accelerating, and can compare the targets with the actual values.",
"U mad bro",
"They should have strapped Donnie-Small-Hands to the seat.",
"fair enough",
"\"calm down\" - guy that's definitely not mad, or wrong. lol\n\nhit me up when you find something dude. if you wanna quietly concede, just post more \"u mad?\" stuff, or \"find me an ad\", whatever. if you don't reply i'll get the picture anyway, dw",
"Well, sometimes you just can’t turn a man away from his childhood sweetheart XD Plus, cars have always been about more than performance for me. Lambos may not be the fastest, but they’re my favorites and (in my opinion) the best.\n\nHaving a rational outlook may not be easy sometimes, but being able to accept the imperfections of something you love is a good thing. I mean, everyone has biases but people shouldn’t let that get in the way of facts.\n\nI mean, the lack of interest or renown isn’t really the problem here; it’s manufacturing, and that’s more of an internal issue rather than external. As for the pro-fuel lobbyists, the reason they’re worried about Tesla is because it can actually cause a shift in the market. Sure, it’s not massive like GM but we shouldn’t treat Tesla like it’s one guy sticking it to ‘the man’ or creating a market out of thin air; it’s a corporation backed by billions of dollars and the market for it already exists. Credit to Tesla for making electric cars cool, but their cars aren’t as groundbreaking as, say, the personal computer.\n\nAgreed, Tesla and Apple aren’t competitors (for now) and one could say there’s some similarities between these companies. However, I’ve seen a lot of fanboying for Tesla and just as much hate for Apple and its customers. I never really got it, but Tesla is almost universally loved in the tech crowd and a lot of the same people absolutely *despise* Apple. I love the site, but there’s a lot of irrational people here. Also, nice to see another Apple user outside r/Apple and (funnily enough) r/Android! \n\nYou may hear these names in the tech or EV crowd, but it’s not that frequent elsewhere. I’ve heard of other Apple SVPs (the more famous ones at least) even outside of Apple or tech enthusiast circles, and part of it is because of size but it‘s always seemed to me like Apple has made more of an effort to put these names out in the public. An example of this would be Apple’s product launch videos, from which the Apple CEO usually excludes himself and the SVPs who worked on the products get their moment in the spotlight. ",
"It is really surprising how they managed so long without advertising. But then how exactly did they sell?",
"Such as?",
"It’s far more likely to mess up their mars trajectory than the initial launch. ",
"While if you're buying options, you're still probably not going to get rich. ",
"This gives me the feeling of dread. Nothingness scares me.",
"Uh, why does the projected path end?",
"So you can't back up your assertation, then?",
"Depends on if you are planning on watching cardoons while shitting on your couch",
"How is a car in space really relevant? Also consider that Tesla has never had positive earnings and holds tons off debt...same with SpaceX...",
"Makes it seem like its going car-forwards. Surely its just like, spinning and shit though?",
"http://www.spacex.com/webcast",
"They should have taken a useful payload, not an overpriced US car. Shitheads.",
"HEAVY METAL",
"Maybe broadcast/Internet advertising. Their Tesla stores in malls and car show appearances are certainly not free. ",
"Congratulations, you just proved you have no fucking idea what you are talking about.",
"I'm sure Tesla's got some reddit shills.",
"Every atom in your body is >99,9% empty space. Sooooo, do *you* scare you?",
"I have better things to do then try convince someone of something they are closed off to. If it Intrests you, look into it yourself. If it doesn't then don't.",
"At least starman is not a flat earthed anymore.",
"That's really kind of a factor of how fast you're going.\n\nI mean Star Trek was kind of like \"screw it, thousand times light speed\" all the time.\n\nAlso, it's a show, so you only see the interesting bits, not the bland nothingness inbetween.",
"Fake...... it’s not flat",
"What a wild day. Real life Tony Stark launched a symbol of his terrestrial success on a symbol of his extra-terrestrial success to the beat of Bowie played through a stereo system with the words of Douglas Adams on it next to a trunk containing the entirety of Asimov's Foundation trilogy on a nano-encoded quartz disk expected to last 13.8 billion years.",
"This is awesome, cheers :)",
"My weed pipe just high^5'd you for that.",
"One word:\nImagination ",
"Ground control to Major Tom",
">They’re pretty young company in comparison to Toyota or other manufacturers and they just can’t keep up with production. Give them a few years and they’ll probably dominate the market. \n\n>There’s extremely high demand for ev cars but so far only Tesla is doing them right.\n\n\nThe fanboyism in this comment is high. They need to make significantly cheaper cars if they want to dominate the market. And no the Model 3 isn't cheap enough to do so especially when you can buy a Ford or Toyota for less than $20,000.\n\nAnd no they aren't the only ones doing it right. The Chevy Bolt outsold the Model 3 significantly in 2017. Rimac Concept-1 is an electric super car and the first of its kind, [and Consumer Reports marked the Tesla Model X as worst in its class](https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/consumer-reports-survey-marks-tesla-model-x-as-least-reliable/)",
"Do movie shots of a tesla not count as advertising?",
"Would have wouldn't it?",
"But you don't have anything better to do than make unsupported claims of things being fake?\n\nI'm not closed off to the idea, I simply haven't been provided satisfactory evidence.",
"Wait, does that make the Tesla Roadster the fastest production car in history?",
"I would put money on it detecting a man's weight difference for obvious reasons.",
"They didn't actually launch a car into space right? Or else what's going on at [41:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&t=41m54s)?",
"Except it'd be Matt Damon, and he couldn't get out in time, so he jumped in the space suit. He only has 8 hours of air, but we have to bring our boy home. This summer in... Space Cowboy. Ride on Starman, ride on. ",
"I mean, the car itself. I would expect trim pieces on a mass produced car to hold up to 10g.",
"1. As others have stated, they do actually have a small budget for advertising.\n\n2. Even if they didn't, it would be very disingenuous to imply that this was \"free\". Sure, money didn't come directly out of the advertising budget, but the only reason they could do this is because Musk owns both Tesla and SpaceX. It was free because he made SpaceX pay for it all. Do you not think there were costs incurred with lifting that car? They could had put something else on there for a science experiment or something that would actually generate value, not just a dead-weight.",
"Who needs to spend millions for advertising, when reddit is doing it for free",
"i love how this is a kinda fuck you to the flat earthers... ",
"Do you expect any single person to be able re-write any of the major market/popular kernels from scratch?\n\nThat aside he seemed to be more of a technical salesman than anything. ",
"Right, when you have an entire website worshipping a billionaire union-busting fuckhead that doesn’t meet deadlines and hasn’t done anything revolutionary then you don’t need advertising.",
"> Says who.\n\nIt's literally the topic of conversation of this comment thread: The difference between small and zero. 0.00001 is not 0, and things like that. So for the purpose of this conversation, specifically, 0 is a fetus. The moment the fetus is born it stops being zero.\n\nIn other words, we're discussing this mathematically. We're not rounding off numbers.\n\n",
"If I was a billionaire I'd buy a ship and install a Lamborghini gun that I use to sink multi-million dollar yachts. Because why the fuck not. ",
"Are you saying it *wouldn't* detect the weight of an extra man on board? I just highly doubt that.",
"The uv rays will absolutely fade the paint though. ",
"Note how no Elonite is responding to this comment.",
"Range anxiety, my ass!",
"it should have bumper sticker \"Fuck the police\"",
"That’s not the same as going to mars at all though ",
"See, that's real advertising. Make a product/company so good people can't shut up about it. Instead we spend all our revenue dollars on shitty ads instead of good products/companies/happy workers.",
"\"Don't Panic\" I guess we get the hitchhiker's view.",
"I believe the ISS is in a much lower orbit. Would need good zoom and expect a non earth background. ",
"Based off my Kerbal knowledge, the Falcon Heavy should have exploded in spectacular fashion.",
"Lol. yeah. Your description matches the post perfectly though so I thought I gave you an update. :P",
"Thank you for the link that was interesting",
"I'm not sure I understand what you mean.\n\nMilitary drones are controlled with xbox controllers, which have joy sticks. The margin for error on those is a lot slimmer than a rover on the moon.\n\nThey wouldn't be beaming the joystick signal back to earth and back to the rover, it would be connected thus no delay.\n\nNew cars, actual cars on the road (lexus) have completely decoupled steering wheels, its just a controller.",
"I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla and SpaceX are behind some of the posts and spam the upvote buttons. Like anytime Musk does anything there are 15 posts about it on the front page. Of course if there is negative press about him or his companies one post barely trickles into view of the front page. We could cure cancer tomorrow and it wouldn't have the same fanfare on Reddit. ",
"/r/NotKenM",
"OP is doing god's work.",
"Small implies a comparison, and you can compare any values you'd like! Our brains evolved to think about physical space and movement in a specific volume and speed that's optimized for survival (eating, fucking...). Equilibrium, sense of space and freedom of motion is so deeply integrated into us. So when you grow or shrink these optimal volumes by orders of magnitude and try to get a sense of that space, intuition is off, not lost but off, and it feels weird.",
"Do you see how clean that space suit is?\nIt’s a Tide Ad.",
"did.. did he really? Thats awesome. Someone in the future's gonna get a free (albeit not in good condition) Roadster - and not just any roadster, Elon Musk's!\n\nIts like the ultimate treasure hunt.",
"Ayyyy belta loada",
"This is the result of them using up all their delta-v (fuel) though, or at least that's what the tweet sounds like",
"That's awesome! It took me about half an hour to get to Pluto (holding down the right arrow). It felt very zen-like after a while.",
"I the car going to Mars? Or just orbiting earth / moon / mars? Also is it not possible to have a livestream? Any reason they removed the cone thing the car was in at the start? If they in the future actually want to bring cargo it seems useful to have some sort of container? Does the car has a solar panel so it would be full when humans / aliens get to it? ",
"The earth glow reflected on the shiny car paint was a sight too! Like a lava lamp or something. :D",
"The moment that I found out this was true was the moment I knew Elon is a kid with too much knowledge and money. Can't wait to see what he is up to next!",
"Whether the rocket could *function* is not the question. It's whether an extra human on board would be detected. I just think for obvious reasons they would be alert to that particular weight difference.",
"Also, there are some eagles under the floorboards. ",
" I didn't know 2 people counted as a disturbing trend. ",
"we are kinda accurate in predicting space trajectory. there isn't much to account for that we can't already do. \n\nhell we even have stuff beyond the solar system by now",
"This is upsetting to me. There are several reports explaining that we won't be able to go to space or send satellites rockets or whatever because there is already so much debris in orbit. So I don't understand why Elon Musk a real space lover would make that choice. ",
"The next fast and furious movie is really going to have to step their game up.",
"*would have been",
" All of that is advertising...",
"https://www.cheerupemokid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/2015-01-12_traction.png\n\nSnow tires!!",
"What extra boggles the mind is that there are stars that have the diameter to fit in the orbit of Saturn. It also puts in perspective of hot Jupiters and how \"close\" they are to their host stars.",
"Turns out you don't have to advertise when people on the internet will do it for you for free. This site has a bigger boner for Musk than they do for the real Tesla. ",
"Yea that's kinda what I was getting at. Guess i needed the /s.",
"I was just about to links the [10K](http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1564590-17-3118&CIK=1318605).....",
"[Refinery29: \"Today's SpaceX Launch Wasn't Groundbreaking In One Major Way\" - Yes, today was a major step for humankind and SpaceX, but instead of spending effort to sell flamethrowers to fanboys, **maybe make sure there are some women in the room next time**.](https://archive.fo/TTojT)",
"This man, Musk, knows how to spend his money in a fun way.",
"What makes it great, let alone the greatest? What about it would make people more willing to buy a Tesla?",
"Even at ridiculous speeds, it's near infinitely more plausible to find a 1000 ly stretch of nothingness than one containing an anomaly.\n\nAnd yes, it's a show so it has to be fun. I'm just saying understanding the scale of things and emptiness of space makes them much less science and way more fiction.",
"The whole state of Michigan stinks like hotdog water ",
"There are people who put a lot of value into all of the projects he is working on simultaneously. Does he have motives outside of making the world a better place? Most likely. As you’ve stated his previous claim to fame was a company built on money. \n\nIf Musk ended up not doing any of this are you suggesting someone else would have? If so, wouldn’t they just end up being the PR hit job?\n\nOr from another perspective: do you believe a person can only have a single motive? Do you think it is impossible for Musk to be interested in both the money and helping the world?",
"Lots of brands don't run traditional ads.",
"That is exactly correct. Their calculation for how much fuel it would take may be off. There are a lot of moving parts to deal with in rocket science (obviously). The calculations that have to be done are pretty complex. Basically, there is a chance they may not get to where they want based on fuel remaining, mass of the craft, and gravity of other bodies in our solar system. ",
"This was exactly what I was thinking of.",
"Shit imagine all of the concrete ads that could’ve been made out of this",
"Well it's not mindboggling. Once you escape orbit it'll keep on going. We've been doing this since the 60s.",
"They absolutely spend money on advertising. There are lots of ways to advertise besides TV and billboards...",
"> I'm very happy he ~~got involved in~~ *founded* SpaceX\n\nFTFY",
"can you stop exporting units like Queen's Imperial Fucking Knucklewidths into space please.",
"Will the basic structure of the car be intact? Will we ever see it again to confirm? Does it have some sort of onboard tracking?",
"It is not the case that tesla has spent $0 on advertising. Sure, their budget for traditional mediums is $0, but they spend a hell of a lot on all of these projects intended to bolster the name of the company more than anything else. ",
"it's fake \nElon is a round earth shill\nEarth is flat wake up ",
"Poor engineers doesn't die, they just disappear.",
"Based off my Kerbal knowledge the Millennium Falcon has special modifications that boosted the freighter’s speed, shielding and firepower. ",
"I find the most absurd thing about it that this man started his own car company to make that car, then started his own a rocket company and launch his car into space. who does that?!",
"to be fair. that wasn't free and it was an advertisement ",
"WELL NOW YOU KNOW",
"They are downvoting it though. ",
"Falling...Heavy Metal....Noise",
"That would be legitimate salvage! ",
"We all know its fake. The earth is flat!",
"Finally get a job at SpaceX, driving the space Tesla.",
"Anyone can accomplish a lot when you're born rich. If he was born poor or even middle-class, then I'd have respect for him. ",
"That’s because Reddit does it for free. Fucking idiots. ",
"Orbital engineers are very very good at this math. Thats how they throw probes at Pluto and miss by a hair",
"it's probably the only object in space that serves no real purpose other than the personal self gratification of one man.",
"Battery tech was still really bad two decades ago. We could make electric cars, but not *good* electric cars.",
"You have strong issues. I’m not a fan of the Musk himself but definitely admire what he has accomplished. Not into this cult of personality thing going on on reddit tho. \n\nBut you.. you’re like a musk dick sucker but ten times worse. What the hell is wrong with you. Absolutely everything you linked is no big deal, we all said worth things on a daily basis. The guy is a human being not Ghandi (even though I agree some people here make him out to be the next Savior).\n\nThe fact that you can hate someone so much, for so little, is just sad and pitiful. I honestly want to give you a hug and tell you it’s going to be ok. \n\n>He's an asshole and I hate him. You should hate him too.\n\nI am mind blown. Get help.",
"I’ve got a question. \n\nOn that video, at the 2 hour 30min mark, you can see white objects moving up from the bottom of the screen. \n\nWhat are they? Satellites? They all seem to be moving in the same direction relative to the car. ",
"Oh its going to wave. Hes saving that for when it blows past mars. ",
"Sorry for the ignorance but did they really launched the car on the falcon heavy?",
"/r/murderedbywords",
"By the definition of orbit, both of you are correct i. e. you need both",
"Concrete would have been a lot cheaper, so still, most of the car's worth was spent on advertising. Not to mention the hours spent on getting the dude in there and everything.",
"They should have put two dolls there, and had them wear the Daft Punk helmets.",
"or a head turn",
"I don't really get what there is to prove. There is no drag in space. Once you start going you keep going until another force acts on you. This isn't a new or exciting revelation, we've been doing it for decades. It'll drift on for the rest of existence unless an another force causes it to crash into a planet. Just like the Voyager probes.",
"> What extra boggles the mind is that there are stars that have the diameter to fit in the orbit of Saturn.\n\nPfffffff. Stars are old news... [Black holes are all the hype now](https://youtu.be/TZ56fsTQ1QQ?t=175)\n",
"Note to future humans: please don't try that in your own solar system :D",
"is shilling not considered advertising? they may not spend money on paid commercials but i cant believe that they spend nothing on advertisement.",
"Pretty much.",
"It looks like a bad photoshop.",
"Is it really that inexpensive?",
"Their marketing is that they go to events all the time where they offer whole day test drives. I've been to those events. I won one but I knew I couldn't buy it so I never did it. I have high pressure sales. \n\nBut it pays for the cars, events etc.. \n\nAlso seo to show up in search. But no commercials or print ads. ",
"Nothing, it's just weight to test the rocket.",
"Not an Apple product owner but if you think Elon musk has changed the world or people’s lives as much as Steve Jobs and Apple you’re far off. I’m not saying that Elon can’t do the same or even more, but selling a few cars and launching rockets (absolutely insane and revolutionary accomplishment I don’t deny that) isn’t radically changing peope’s lives as of right now. Sure a rocket is cooler than a phone or computer mouse. But that doesn’t make it more important.",
"Did you just make that up?\n\nBecause it's perfect, but still very believable.",
"In terms of accepting imperfections, you should read some Tesla forums or look at reviews by owners. Tesla owners are the first to harp on Tesla about imperfections, and this has been valuable for the company because constructive criticism helps them grow (and it helps that the cars can be updated over the air). I wrote a long email with the (surprisingly few) issues I was having with my car days after I got it, and Tesla's working on fixes for several of them based on input from early owners. I'm sure you've noticed the same sort of behavior from Apple fans.\n\nThe \"billions of dollars of backing\" for Tesla came from effectively nowhere though, and the market exists because they made it exist. Electric cars only exist on the market because of Tesla - Carlos Ghosn and Bob Lutz both credited Tesla for the invention of the Leaf and Volt respectively, Mercedes and Toyota used Tesla early on to build drivetrains for their EVs because they couldn't be assed to clean up their game themselves (as required by California), and it's unlikely that much else in terms of EVs would exist were it not for the influence Tesla has had. It's not like they had all that backing before they started, they started from pretty much nothing, JB Straubel hearing about Al Cocconi's T-zero and thinking it was a cool proof of concept and telling his friends about it and things snowballing from there (and this is where Musk does get credit - he heard about all this, decided everyone else was thinking too small, and was responsible for most of the early rounds of funding, either running them or just putting his own money into it himself, and was responsible for getting Jurvetson's VC firm onboard which provided the early money which was *not* billions, but hundreds of millions). Most of the rest, the \"billions,\" were raised by an IPO and subsequent secondary offerings, and by revenue from selling cars, not a huge investment from established industry, not a merger or buyout or anything, but from shareholders and institutions buying in. Note by the way that 5 of the 10 top companies in the world by revenue are fossil industry concerns, and 2 of the 10 are auto companies, so that's what Tesla is going up against at the moment, in an industry which hasn't had a successful IPO in the US since Ford in the 50s (note also that only two existing publicly traded American auto companies haven't ever gone bankrupt - Ford and Tesla - so it's a tough industry). It's very much an underdog story and they certainly are still underdogs.\n\nAs for whether Tesla is universally loved, there's plenty of negative comments on reddit, in just this thread, or in any Bolt forum, or i3 forum, etc. They're well-loved (and rightly so), but it's not universal. I think you're just getting your impressions mostly from reddit, which skews anti-Apple. And honestly, I don't think you should let your opinion of a company/product be colored by whether or not reddit likes a completely different company or product...reddit disliking Apple is not a reason for you to dislike Tesla.\n\nThere was a 15 minute video before the Model 3 intro where Tesla talked to several lower-level employees. The guy who does the factory tours hosted it, there was a person from the gigafactory team, and two people who were not heads of the design studio...",
"it's going to sling shot around the sun and head out to interstellar space.",
"Comcast will probably throttle that video connection and tell you that THEIR video services won’t count towards the bandwidth cap. ",
"I an currently in a first year engineering course in Canada. One of my current physics classes is specifically for engineers and my professor recently told us some information which may be useful here. Generally aerospace engineers use x1.1 tolerance levels on their designs, as opposed to a civil engineer, who will generally design their projects to handle x2 or x3 the maximum load they expect it to need to handle.",
"Tesla spends loads on advertising. I've seen their popup stores multiple times on business fairs ",
"Reality? You're denying a mass-produced car released in 2008 ever existed.",
"Wow,really polluting that vacuum that doesn't support life. r/lewronggeneration",
"yes",
"I saw someone in one of the /r/space threads last night with a \"What if\" idea about the spacesuit not containing a dummy, but instead the embalmed remains of David Bowie in what would be the ultimate funeral.",
"I know somebody thanked you already but thank you again. I'm sick of all the Musk fanboys who think he is the second coming of Jesus or something when he's just another corporate asshole.",
"I mean, it’s not like he has competition in the market, his products are unique.",
"No it's not, twat. ",
"He's denying a roadster ever existed",
"They spent a lot more than $0 on this one.",
"I mean, they've already done the burn and used up all that fuel. This is the result after that, not before. The only calculations going on are of orbits with current velocities, no fuel (and therefore no delta-v - the change in velocity) in the equation anymore. Of course they could have the maths wrong for working out where they're now going, but then they'd never have any chance of doing what they currently do do as a business.",
"Oh absolutely, I don’t disagree at all. Perhaps I was coming off as pessimistic. I do actually think that it will reach its destination. I was just positing that there is a chance there could be a reason for it not making it there. All in all I think the success of the Falcon Heavy was absolutely wondrous. It gives me a lot of hope for what we could do in the future. Hell, that rocket system or a variant thereof may put us on Mars one day. And that is awesome in the truest sense of the word.",
"Everytime I think of space I get sad and annoyed that I'll never know whats out there. ",
"Now whenever someone angers Musk he should always lead with \"hey, I have this space suit you should try on\"",
"Subsidized by your tax dollar. That's why.",
"Those tires may not have air in it. Because if there is a leak once the rocket is out of the atmosphere they will act like a mini rocket imparting a small amount of thrust at a random direction, throwing off the trajectory.",
"Reminds me of the movie heavy metal",
"It is not staying in Earth's orbit. Also, those reports are fake. There is debris, but far to little to be a real problem.",
"Has anybody seen Bezos today?",
"https://imgur.com/a/WT9v8\nTook that and removed the planets in between. Shows the emptiness and just how vast it is. It's also pretty mind boggling.\n",
"From Elons Twitter a while ago. \n\nhttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/936782477502246912\n\n(Follow the conversation)\n\nI mean there's no way to prove he bothered to go through with that exactly, but they clear as day put \"don't panic\" on the console. ",
"You can cut the Tesla hate with a knife over on r/cars.",
"Not just Tesla, but also SpaceX now has the greatest commercial of all time too. ",
"This is the greatest thing I ever watched. And so happy I got to watch it live! ",
"IT'S A ONE WAY TICKET TO MIDNIGHT - CALL IT - HEAVY METAL!",
"What if Elon Musk committed murder and he put the body inside that spacesuit?",
"The point in its orbit closest to the Sun is the orbital path of Earth, at which point it will be going nearly as fast as it was when the third burn of the second stage occurred to inject it into Mars Transfer Orbit.",
"As soon as I saw this photo I could hear the music, I thought this would be much higher ",
"I would be less pissed off by him if he wasn't trying to use his prestige from Tesla on other stuff he has no fucking clue about. His Hyperloop and ideas on public transit are idiotic at best.",
"Have they done the orbital exit burn yet? I apologize if I was ignorant. If they have already, then things are looking great! I was under the impression they had to wait for an exit window. But that may have just been me mishearing or misunderstanding something (I must admit, I am not entirely informed on the mechanics of the plan for this test).\n\nEDIT: just looked into it. It is going better than expected from what I’ve read, actually overshot a bit! Absolutely fantastic. I hope SpaceX keeps innovating they way they have been, humanity may be on a wonderful path into the future.",
"Okay that makes sense thanks. But as for the reports it will be a problem. Satellites were already destroyed by debris: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html",
"It's true.",
"Engineers don't die, they multiply.",
"Couldn't anyone do this with Photoshop and the result would be exactly the same?",
"I feel so ashamed. I'm close to calling Elon our supreme Overlord. I will offer him my children a-la Childhood's End manner and have them become the supreme beings of the universe to expand and carry out his will if necessary. ",
"So little? Manipulating Social Media, acting like an asshole, denying multiple workers their rights, refusing to act on sexual harassment towards workers, stealing designs, flat-out lying, not meeting any of his promises, taking credit for other's works, insulting those criticising him, releasing an unsafe car, spreading falsified information to slander opponents, lying to costumers. All of that is little? \n\nDo you seriously think none of that is a big deal? Ask yourself, what has he accomplished? What HE himself has done? \n\nAnd don't say that he's created companies. Everyone hates it when the boss claims that the worker's efforts are their own. \n\n",
"Starman is probably an old bully of Elon’s ",
"Like.. nothing? Tesla never made a profit.",
"I just came ",
"was anyone else's first thought of the movie Heavy Metal? ",
"“Uh... well, umm... uh- you’re WRONG! I can’t explain how, but- I HATE YOU!”\n\nBtw join us over at /r/EnoughMuskSpam, I’m sure they’d love this list over there.",
"Consumer Reports is flawed at best. They don’t even account for over the air updates and they are comparing to ICE vehicles, which is apples to oranges. The reliability survey covers components that the X doesn’t even have (because it doesn’t need due to being all electric). NHSTA gave the model X it’s highest safety rating EVER. This vehicle is exceptionally reliable from a consumer standpoint and if they had asked the actual owners, they would know that. \n\nHave you owned one? Driven one? Been a passenger in one? ",
"The Starman live feed is actually the first time I see the Earth live from such a high altitude, that you can see it as a complete disc. I've seen lots of live feeds from the Shuttle and ISS but they are from a lower altitude, while you can see the curved horizon from those, you still see only a small part of the Earth.",
"Sure, but you also have to realize most of the series was them TRYING to run into things. They weren't just flinging themselves in random directions. They were intentionally exploring, so would likely be moving towards things at all times. The nearest star is about 1.5 days away. There are several dozen star systems within a week's travel at those speeds.\n\nI mean, obviously it's fictional. I'm not discounting that. I'm just saying you're also exaggerating how unrealistic that component of it is.",
"They should have done [Ceelo Green leaving the party](https://i.imgur.com/4qHUOxf.gifv).",
"The Mars InSight mission launches in May, and arrives at Mars in November, a little more than six months later.",
"Word of mouth advertising, the best kind. But they spent a mint getting the car up there so it's not a true $0 marketing ",
"Opening scene of Heavy Metal.",
"I've already posted it there. I'm thinking of posting it to Hailcorporate too, but I've yet to get a message from their mod team saying it's okay. \n\nYou can feel free to post it elsewhere though, just be sure to credit me somewhere in there. \n\n",
"So that roadster ... it’s getting re related right?",
"Insane people fuck with themselves.",
"There's probably a female that rejected him there. \n\"See Nhaancii, on Earth I'm a successful entrepreneur. Look at the fucking car my company makes! Look at the fucking rocket they designed for me! Look at the stylish spacesuit! Even got my hair back. How does it make you feel now that you are with that loser Tch'aad who never even brought you on another planet for your honeymoon?\"",
"This might count more as non advertisement marketing. ",
"This reminds me, I really, really, really want to post this live video to a flat earther sub to see the repsonses.",
"How cool would it be to see it at the Smithsonian or at Kennedy Space Center in a few decades, paint all cracked and ablated by solar radiation, Starman still with his elbow out the window.",
"It's also the band with a lead singer that would sing about peace and love and then go home and beat his child.",
"IDK I think its a complete waste of resources. Its not like our planet isn't suffering from global warming or anything. ",
"I've never understood the inference that you have to be smart to like Rick & Morty. I have watched it on many occasions and have yet to have had to put much thought into it.",
"If they ever managed to bring it back in the future I imagine they could sell it for a pretty penny, or even put it in a museum if they made one, or already have one.",
"The real Elon Musk, duh.",
"*\"It's out of this world!\"*",
"> \"We have better CGI than that.\"\n\nWhat does that even mean? Better than what?",
"Flat Earthers are on suicide watch cause of this probably. ",
"Will we have videos and images of the car for the entire trip to the asteroid belt? \n\nWhat will happen to the car? It will crash against the asteroid belt or will just orbit undefinitely in the space?",
"I bet there is something in that suit. ",
"It's also a [real mineral](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feldspar).",
"I guess . . the way I see it, he just became the first person to litter in outer space. Just because it's more difficult than, say, dropping a Tesla to the bottom of the ocean, it's not really any different. What would people say if we launched a bunch of scrap metal out into space? - because that's what this car is now. IMO - this is stupid. ",
"IS THERE LIFE ON MAAAAAAA",
"I secretly hoped the Spaceman would lift up his visor to reveal Elon Musk",
"Don't mind me, I just came for the flat-earthers posting that it's all a fraud....",
"Someone explain to me how this cost $0?\n\n",
"He had one job",
"Nah. Tide commercial.",
"> it conveniently ignores Saturn's rings\n\nWell that's hardly fair to say. They're at least pictured, just tilted out of the way. They don't count for the diameter of the planet, so it makes sense.\n\nThe rings of Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune didn't even get shown! Talk about ignored!",
"I don't think sending a payload to space counts as advertising.",
"Is this a Tide ad?",
"I DID know I couldn't do that!",
"You are exactly right in a sense. Galaxies are over 99% empty space, but since they are so far away, the stars and gas clouds blend together and give them shapes.",
"This photo feels like a crappy 3D animation from an MTV music video...",
"Fucking tired of getting fooled by that.",
"That's wicked. They now just need to build the cars to the production levels they stated initially so people don't have to wait 3 years to get hold of their cars.",
"0$ on advertising. Obviously it costs money to launch things into space.",
"They might not spend a dime on *advertising*, but sending a convertible to space costs more than the marketing budgets of many Fortune 500 companies... And I'm pretty sure that counts as *marketing*.\n\nNice feat from the team at SpaceX, but regardless, OP's title is a tad fanboyish.",
"Spent a little more than $0 on that one ",
"3 awesome tip- o’ - the-hat references at play. \n\nBowie. Space Oddity soundtrack (Too bad in space no one can heard you karaoke). - “DON’T PANIC” on the dash. - Red roadster w/- Spaceman. HEAVY METAL animated movie 1980-ish\n\nI haven’t checked- hoping that the number plate is EITHER “NCC 1701”\nOR\n“OUTTATIME”",
"That launch though was truly incredible.",
"I don’t know why you’re being down voted It would make sense for them to use a lighter dummy.",
"Yeah but which department of the company paid for the car? What about the fuel to get the rocket into space? Everything costs money. They literally have no reason to send up a Tesla other than a photo op. \n\nMy question stands. ",
"Car should have had fuzzy dice on rear view mirror. Or Solo and Chewy bobble heads on the dash. ",
"I don't think you can say they spend $0 ok advertising anymore.",
"This had better be in sci-fi movies for years to come... Any ship in our solar system approaching earth should encounter it if they're between earth and mars.... And there's no guarantee it'll hit mars, right? ",
"They most definitely spend money on advertisement. While it may not be TV ads they do good massive events to show off the cars.",
"Pretty shitty they put more trash into orbit imo. ",
"I've gotta say when it disconnected and started playing the music I had tears welling up. Such an awesome moment in time.",
"Fair enough. Yeah, I’ve noticed that r/Apple seems to be more critical of Apple than r/Android. I’ve been pretty irked by some of the stupid decisions they’ve made too, like their initial silence on the throttling issue.\n\nTrue, but I meant that the car as a product already existed and people were interested in a vehicle that didn’t run on petrol for a while. I mentioned the personal computer specifically because it was a completely new category of product that didn’t really have a market outside of hobbyists back in the day. As for Tesla’s size, I meant to say that while it wasn’t really a big company back then, it certainly is now (though perhaps not as big as Ford). I didn’t know Tesla practically *invented* the electric car though, that’s pretty interesting!\n\nI know, thet’s why I was talking about Reddit (and some tech enthusiasts) rather than the real world. Also, I don’t *hate* Tesla or anything; in fact, I respect the company’s mission. it’s just that Reddit’s raging hate boner for Apple and its users seems a bit hypocritical when the site has such a hard-on for Tesla. \n\nHmm, interesting. Then I guess it has less to do with Tesla not giving its employees exposure and the real issue is the company’s size.",
"I don't know about this one in particular, but the live stream feed from when it was in low earth orbit was pretty badass, and similiar to this one.",
"Lmao",
"I’m pretty sure the rocket scientists accounted for that.",
"What’s even crazier is one of my favorite lines\n\n“Planet Schmanet, Janet”\nRocky Horror right there. ",
"i hate when my kilts fail. ",
"Greatest thing we did all year!",
"It's a Tide ad though.",
"I'm surprised they didn't equip the device with 3D cameras. That would be badass. Especially when watching all that space debris.",
"This is the dumbest statement. \n\nJust admit you're wrong and move on.",
"Test dummies are pretty darn heavy. They have to simulate human weight to have validity in the crash tests. I doubt there'd be much difference between human and dummy in the spacesuit at all.",
"It's a business expense now.",
"Or remove the helmet and reveal that it's Elon Musk.",
"Why? Don't get it ",
"He advertises, just not in the traditional sense.",
"I think it would be Stay’cee, not Nhaancii. \n\n^^^^Fucking ^^^^normies ^^^^reeee",
"> These articles about tesla\n\nThis isn't an article.",
"Fuck. FUCK. ",
"When Elon realizes he left his house keys in the glove compartment...",
"Hold my “Heavy”, I’m going in!",
"it's overshot Mars unfortunately. It will now be orbiting in our solar system for 1 billion years.",
"the money shot at 51.27",
"I mean, didn't really \"invent\" the electric car as a technology, but they were the first to sell a modern one which you could actually buy and keep. All previous EV efforts in the modern age (aka post like 1920) were lease-only efforts which were only made under duress due to California's Air Resources Board requirements and were taken back and crushed by manufacturers after they successfully lobbied to reverse those requirements. See \"Who Killed the Electric Car?\" documentary for more on that (it's a good one). Other EVs were DIY efforts like you mentioned with the computer hobbyist thing.\n\nIt is, in a way, somewhat similar to how Apple \"invented\" the personal computer, by making the first one which people could actually buy and the public could actually approach etc etc.",
"Don't insult hot dog water like that.",
"You seem to have responded to the wrong person. Yes, there is a difference between marketing and advertising. I mean, come on, really, this is not difficult to grasp.",
"They also give the spacecraft a spin to keep one side from always facing the Sun and getting too hot while the opposite side gets too cold. Its kind of like a rotisserie effect to keep the whole thing relatively evenly heated.",
"Then he buys himself a new house.",
"Michigan: \"Challenge accepted.\"",
"Apparently this is American public money given to Space X. Not a USoA citizen but I'd like to paypal him some money to carry on with this Research.",
"> ild the cars to the production levels they stated initially so people don't have to wait 3 years to get hold of their cars.\n\nTest flights for new rockets do usually just use \"scrap\" metal. They're not going to put an invaluable payload on an unproven rocket. Elon thought his personal car would be more fun than a block of steel weights.",
"Saw it all before in a movie called Heavy Metal. Car launching into space and landing on earth. It was a corvette.",
"Bust out the flame thrower.",
"Why spend money on advertising when reddit sucks Elon's dick for free?",
"Think about the marsian guy who's doing his daily stuff and then suddenly there's a red tesla flying by... normal day on mars",
"Heavy METAL!",
"Doesn’t that look like a snip from a cartoon? 🤔😂",
"Heavy metal intro...",
"I guess it’s not necessarily in space to drive without a seatbelt.",
"Like the [Simpsons crash test dummies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9p0jLMssSk). =)\n",
"Its completely exposed. During launch it was inside of the rocket fairing, but that deployed away after reaching orbit.",
"Oh. It's your cake day and I'm sleepy so it looked like the microphone.\n\nAnyway happy cake day. \n\nBut yes Tesla does spend money on advertising. ",
"It’s your nasty mocking tone that makes your statement so dodgy. Combined by your lack of any fact or link. And insulting anyone who questions.\n\nWhy would I ask you anything about what you said when all it’s going to do is to get me accused of being a cult member? ",
"You can’t just throw in any old cameras, they have to be radiation hardened",
"I wonder if his insurance covers “launching into space”. ",
"seriously though, why put a car in orbit? ain’t enough junk in space yet?",
"Earth laws don't work in space. ",
"I added the sun in to the image, just to help that with sense of perspective you've got going on there: \nhttps://i.imgur.com/1ohKHPQg.jpg",
"It would be worth more if it was flooded",
"They don't. Marketing and advertising are two different things.\n\nGoodnight.",
"This looks like cheesy bad Photoshop, but is actually legitimate... Is there a sub for this kind of stuff?",
"See for [yourself.](http://gfycat.com/BitterPlushFieldspaniel) ",
"65 billion neutrinos passing through every square centimetre of us and earth every second, mostly without hitting anything, just flowing through those empty spaces in atoms.\n\n\"It has been estimated that about 100 billion people have ever lived on planet earth, if you added up all humans from the dawn of our species. That means that the sum total mass of all neutrinos that have passed through every single person who ever lived, over everyone’s total lifetime, is… about 0.15 grams.\" http://timeblimp.com/?page_id=1033\n\nedit: mostly.",
"Got a few in town, they are huge compared to our european cars.",
"\"What the fuck Jerry? You didn't account for \"sun pressure\"?\" ",
"Quick! Let's shoe-horn it into the Cloverfield Universe!",
"imagine the alien that finds that car someday... slowly lifting the helmet to see if its alive..",
"I wonder what's the mpg starman is getting. ",
"Musk has invested $100 million into Space X the rest is from NASA, private equity investors and other commercial contracts. The car was his that he bought years ago and used to drive around in.",
"The launch would happen with or without the Roadster anyways. Either you do it the \"standard way\" and use concrete & steel to simulate cargo... or you think outside the box and put your own fucking car on the rocket. \n\nThey didnt do the launch because they wanted to put a car in space, it was just a bonus.... and very good PR.",
"Testa!!",
"Now tesla can say 'take that flat earth society!'",
"Screamed the dust speck...",
"Which is the exact reason this is happening so the rich can abandon Earth to live on Mars.",
"I didn't know Musk was born in South Africa, thanks for the info! He is pushing technology forward in an environmental friendly and inventive manner. \nI was watching the launch with my son, hoping that all would went well and we really enjoyed ourselves watching this thing blast off. A minor glitch with the third booster, but overall a big success!\nI also loved the humor of the \"Don't Panic!\" display in the car.",
"Except there are shitloads of other orbiting objects like decommissioned or broken satellites or the upper stages from Apollo that don't have thrusters that satellites already have to avoid, so avoiding one more object is completely trivial. Also, space is ridiculously big, and there isn't very much in the high parking orbit the Tesla reached because nothing that stays in the Van Allen belts keeps working for very long, plus its already left Earth's gravity well.",
"I aint speaking for him, but in general its annoying to watch the union smashing fuckhead get jerked raw by reddit. \n\nPlus outright lies are tiresome. And that is what this post is. An outright lie.",
"Mun, not mum. Unless you're talking about OP's mum.",
"Is this now the fastest moving car ever?",
"South Park told me that now is our time to join the Galactic Community. Baby Fark Magee-Zax will be here soon. Stay safe, Finland.",
"I read all of that in Bennet Foddy's voice, and now I need a hug...",
"... shut up. One day of cars per day produce more shit then 100 rocket launches. Leave your keys home today and take the bike instead of trying to gather gold stars, or try facebook.",
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.\n\nShit, someone beat me to it...",
"To quote Elon after the launch \"It looks bad because its real, if we did CGI it would look way better\"",
"I'm saying is not an advertisement campaign, therefore no money was spent on advertisement.\n\nThe point of this post is to show how Tesla has spent no money on advertisement, not the price of getting the car to space. Sure Tesla made the car, but it wasnt them who sent it up. Elon Musk personally opted to attach his custom made car to the payload, independent of his company. Therefore, again, zero money spent on this by Tesla.\n\n*My* point still stands.",
"Any heavy wagon will probably have four wheels for stability reasons and if aliens start out by motorizing wagons the early stages will probably have heavy engines, things like steam engines, and such things would first be mounted on heavy wagons.\n\nIf they become popular it'd be natural for smooth flat roads to follow.",
"This guy Kerbals.",
"***hugs***",
"It's not in an earth orbit. They put it in a solar orbit around mars. So it colliding with anything (except for random asteroids) won't be a problem. And as far as I know, it's orbit is in sync with mars, so it will visit the red planet every ~550 days. ",
"Looks flat to me.\n\nPack it up boys, we're done here. ",
"Exactly, that's what people don't seem to get. You don't need to put effort into advertising and trying to *convince* others that your product is great if it just truly is. It will speak for itself if you actually believe in what you've created, and the masses will follow along without any extra persuasion needed. ",
"It was still was a little bit too less",
"I came here hoping to laugh at posts from the flat earthers. I really want to see what they come up with to explain this.",
"This is why I love this company. Maybe some people don't remember this, but Google didn't spend anything on advertising either when they first started. Now they are an advertising company.",
"I was pondering the same thing, but then I realized that he is probably talking about the Mars rovers, not the Apollo-era LRVs, which makes far more sense.",
"Not only would the weight difference be entirely irrelevant in terms of tolerances for a machine weighing almost 10 million lbs, but remember the rockets need to use a great deal of fuel to land, so there would be plenty extra to get into space, it might just sabotage the landing.\n\nSo even if it did use enough extra fuel to be an issue, you'd be the dickhead floating around in space, orbiting earth in a stolen car, who sabotaged a 90 million dollar rocket in the process.",
"I think for you to be worried about littering the solar system, you have to be vastly underestimating the scale of things.",
"It's not insignificant. Sure, the ticket will have no idea taking off, but depending on the fuel tolerances, it might not be able to reach orbital velocity or, if detected early enough, it might force SpaceX to use up all the core booster fuel and discard it instead of landing it",
"Could that money be spent on literature and website stuff?\n\nTechnically marketing but they aren't making commercials or putting actual advertisements in media?\n\nIm just asking, the $0 is obviously an untrue statistic. ",
"Sneaky 42! Somebody get the mice on the phone!",
" With a bumper sticker that says \" I ♥ Uranus\" ",
"Wouldn’t approve of the font either. ",
"No, it's not a weigh. They would detect that the speed/acceleration is below expected levels and they would surely adjust to compensate for that.",
"Which would only push it further (but by a negligible amount).",
"Oh man, now I almost want to pop back in again. Played quite a lot for two years when I found EVE, but eventually quit due to lack of time. Excellent game",
"Holy hell, going through this on mobile really put it into perspective, that's mindblowing.",
"I think my Uber driver is lost... ",
"Not sure if the car will separate at some point later, but right after the launch the shell burst open revealing the car mounted on the module while playing Bowie's 'Life on Mars'. Delightfuly absurd. Heh. ",
"I didn't know my old high school had weapons of warm",
"He just provided a specific piece of evidence in the comment you're responding to. To \"cook the books\" means to artificially inflate profits on your financial statements. How it's done can vary, but issuing billions in junk bonds a week after saying no more capital is needed is unusual, to say the least.",
"How Long will we be able to see the live feed? Will we see Mars?",
"The crazy thing is they are sending the car to go orbit the sun. The estimates based on the trajectory are that the car will keep it's orbit for about 1 billion years.",
"No, the batteries were only expected to last about 12 hours after launch.\n\nThe asteroid belt is a lot less dense than people think. It's unlikely the car will actually hit anything. It'll just keep orbiting the sun for, according to Musk, millions or billions of years. Unless it runs into something, but the odds of it even hitting a planet are extremely remote.",
"the mileage will be past warranty though...",
"This man kerbals",
"Well that title is bullshit. Proof: http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=1318605\n\nIsn't it weird how there always seems to be posts about Tesla or Elon in /r/all all the time? Their advertising presence online is massive.",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty",
"you can go get it for free* ^^^^^^*not ^^^^^^including ^^^^^^cost ^^^^^^of ^^^^^^your ^^^^^^space ^^^^^^program",
"In the Livestream I saw large looking particles catching the light of the sun, what about them?",
"He’s a chitinous interloper from the 16th dimension. The boring company is an excuse for him to find a suitable underground cavern to change into his final form.",
"Yeah that’s what I meant, sorry. According to me, ‘reinventing’ something in a way that makes it vastly superior to past efforts *and* commercially viable can be considered the invention of that tech’s modern variant. Also, I think I’ve read an article about the EVs that existed in the 20th Century and how the automobile industry essentially crushed the technology to create a market for engine-based personal cars.",
"I also partake in masturbation",
"I fully believe that that launch happened and the payload was in orbit and I watched the livestream but...\n\nIt does look fake doesn't it? ",
"Rust is actually a concern in space due to small amounts of reactive atomic oxygen.",
"Nope. The payload was far below what Falcon Heavy is capable of. ",
"It’s really a Tide commercial",
"https://local.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998",
"How is their earnings ratio though?",
"Astronomically better than that Dodge Super Bowl commercial ",
"Did they? I thought they throttled down for Max Q and for stage cutoffs. I guess I missed that part",
"Because people spread completely BS as gospel and other idiots reel it in as truth!.\n\nThis planet is filling up with people who have large amounts of incorrect knowledge! Its terrifying. 30 years from now we will be run by people who have no clear understanding on anything.",
"It has a miniature of the car on the dash, it has a book of the hitchhikers guide to yo galaxy in the glove box and a Towle. ",
"It’s possible but should probably be avoided because it could really mess with our gravity and I just cleaned this place up!",
"On launch, most payloads are covered in a fairing (not a capsule) which splits and is left behind once it leaves the atmosphere.\n\nThat having been said, launch doesn't produce that much heat from friction as far as I'm aware. If it did, we'd see plasma coming off the top of the rocket.\n\nThe reason why things burn up on ~~takeoff~~ reentry is that they are slowing down from near orbital speeds which are *really fucking fast* using nothing but atmospheric drag. On takeoff, they're just trying to get up to those speeds and it's not until they're out of the atmosphere that they really do.",
"Proof?",
"Don't take Uber. They are evil.",
"Are we gonna get high now?",
"I hope it survives for ages out there in space. \n\nImagine, 200 years from now. Everyone has forgotten this stunt (presumably)\n\nBeing a astronaut, suddenly coming across this ancient piece of human technology in space. \n\n'The fuck... is that a car floating besides us?! '\n\n",
"Oh you people.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ygqh8xZwekI?t=1m52s\n\n\\s, I hope that was obvious.",
"Didn't know that half of earth was only water ",
"[Kilt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt)",
"Actually...now that the roadster is headed off to the asteroid belt, it's a lot faster than the lunar rovers ever went ",
"I’m sure the flat earthers will have a counter for that",
"I look at things in the opposite way. Space is not empty at all, in fact it is completely full of stuff. The only place where space has trouble being, is inside atoms. \n\nI think space is mostly made up of whatever makes up quarks or whatever the smallest thing possible is. The vibration of an atom is caused by space trying to encroach on an atoms space. An atom is the opposite of space, it is made up of the same sort of stuff but organised in such a way as to repel this stuff that makes up space. \n\nGravity is caused by this repulsion, as a bunch of atoms take up a chunk of space, the build-up of pressure on space in the vicinity causes a well that makes atoms favour moving towards the others.\n\n\nLight, radio, and magnetism, are a wave and field in space, there are no particles like photons and electrons.\n\nElectrons are the sparks that space makes when it approaches too closely to a vibrating atom. This is how energy is transferred between things.\n\nThere is no such thing as quantum physics and the uncertainty principal if you use this theory, it is just the space causing the spurious experimental readings.\n",
"Nope, it's s Tide ad",
"and the guy owning Tesla too!\n\n*wait a second...*",
"The profit from producing and selling one vehicle is not the same thing as making a profit as a company. They do something called investing, you see. ",
"Ooh where do I go to collect my cash for being pro-Tesla then? I could really use the money and you apparently know where to find it?",
"Yeah but is that a fish eye lense? ",
"The don't panic on the dash",
"Elon MUSK is in 2080 ",
"What about Mars rovers?",
"Not every product is able to go into outer space. Some things will always be commodities like deterrent. But if your brand is fun vand engaging like Tide then they get my money.",
"Nope. Tide Ad.\n\nAlso what do the flat earthers think of this lie?",
"I think this rocket will be going faster as it's orbiting the sun.",
"I didn't know Tesla and SpaceX are the same company now.",
"Man seeing stuff like this is like someone untangles the “perspective” unit from your brain and just zaps the shit out of it",
"The have 3 or so cameras attached to the car. One on the hood, one on the driver's side, and one on the trunk. The batteries were expected to last about twelve hours after launch. They were actually live streaming from orbit for a bit.\n\nThe car is still attached to the second stage as far as I know. I don't think they had a reasonable way of separating the two since the car doesn't have any way of propelling itself in space. This probably also makes it easier to track since it's not going to be transmitting anything at this point.\n\nLast night between 9 and 10 EST, the second stage fired again and put it into a heliocentric (solar) orbit that extends out to the asteroid belt. It is now a satellite of the sun.",
"The fins didn't fail, two of the three engines didn't fire to slow it down. I'm upset we missed it hitting the ester system 300mph. Would have been a sight. ",
"Is there a glass wall in the rocket just for this purpose? Or did they drop the car off in space?",
"You can also say that every car didn't have a steering wheel, they do, but they didn't..",
"It was a test lunch of a new rocket. Normally there wouldn't be a payload because the risk of failure was so high. The car was one of Elon musk's Teslas he donated.",
"The drone ship was damaged by the rocket crashing into the ocean near it. Elon said he would share the videos once they recover them from the ship. ",
"He also used the phrase \"I'm tripping balls right now\" when asked what was going through his head during the launch at a press conference yesterday",
"\"sorry boss, I just really wanted to go to space\" ",
"The question no one is asking: Has Richard Branson been seen in public recently?",
"I'm sure a group of the world's top rocket scientists could find a few places on the car to shave off enough weight to compensate. Maybe they did already, but they could remove some of the metal components and replace them with lower-.weight composite pieces made with 3D printing. They already have the solid models for everything on the car.",
"Probably this one\n\nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/25254688767/\n3000*2000",
"This seems to be only about international law, not so much about criminal law or civil law. But I guess the other poster was right and it will be treated like it would be in international water.\n",
"Musk supervillain connection: confirmed",
"Didn’t there 90 million dollar commercial just launch yesterday?",
"You don't factor in the costs for the Falcon 9 because the Falcon 9 was already developed when they started work on the Falcon Heavy and wouldn't have been part of any Tesla ad development because of that.",
"Elon's going to be pissed when he realizes he left his phone charger in the glove box.",
"What were all those particles going by? Space dust? I didn't think there would be so much of it. ",
"Based off my Kerbal knowledge, any rocket with parallel boosters should fall out of line, tip over and shoot vertically downwards towards the Kennedy Space Centre. ",
"Nope. Tide.",
"Honestly not really. Pretty much anything that gets thrown out of earth faster than the escape velocity will end up in a solar orbit.",
"Yeah its all SpaceX employees at their Hawthorne HQ. Its where mission control is as well.",
"But that sand is traveling at thousands of kilometers per hour, no?",
"In a post launch interview, Musk said they spent at least $500 million on Falcon Heavy. Not advertising, but not free!",
"The car they just launched into space says otherwise.",
"Not really. The advertisement was free. They had to launch this anyway.\n\nIt's like if you throw a bumper sticker on a truck and it happens to get launched off a ramp and people see it.\n\nYou didn't buy the truck and you didn't pay for the rights to put the sticker on, but you are getting the advertisement.",
"How did you arrive at this line of thinking?",
"Hey that Gold Elon gave you is worth more than his employees get paid per hour!",
"A Tesla owner... It's elons car.",
"It's sarcasm, because blaming communism for all deaths that happened in pseudo-communist social units is as stupid as blaming capitalism for every death that occurred during its existence as a system.\n\nBut I guess any level of subtlety is lost on Marxists.",
"Not always true. It depends on the positioning of the mars and earth at that moment. ",
"TIL Tesla and SpaceX are the same company.\n\n>All to crash a car on Mars. \n\nOh and you have no clue what they're actually doing with the car. How about you just believe it's still on Earth then, maybe you'll be less salty about it.",
"Based off my kerbal knowledge, adjusting the payload by as little as the difference between a human and an animatronic man shouldn't cause a noticable difference in delta v, but if the human moves, it will shift the centre of mass out of line causing a catastrophic explodey ~~success~~ failure.",
"The car is the payload. i think they plan on detaching it from the 2nd stage but i don't know if they actually did.",
"It could be argued that the Falcon Heavy mission is actually the most expensive car advertisement of all time...",
"I’m just commenting because this is an epic thread adn Elon Musk just put his name in bold letters on all history books.",
"Yep I guess we should stop developing technology altogether because that's a waste of resources.",
" Arguably, they spent millions, possibly billions, to get the car there, much more than a green screen and a spot in the super bowl would have cost. ",
"[Holy sh*t](https://youtu.be/pCWH5OW9lDo)",
"Deepfakes. ",
"This is the best resolution for this picture?",
"there's also a hotwheels sized Tesla with minitature starman on the dash as well.",
"What really? I did not know that, TIL",
"It wasn't a car advert - it was a \"highly economical space rocket that can carry 65 tons\" advertisement.",
"I'm not an expert (my knowledge is limited to Kerbal Space program..), but couldn't they use some photovoltaic panels to charge the batteries? \n\nIt's just unfortunate we could never see that car again",
"Challenge accepted!",
"Damn. Could someone write a nice Poirot/Marple murder story with that as a plot? ",
"I wonder how many geeks like me recognized the Heavy Metal reference with the spaceman driving a convertible through outer space...\n",
"> if you can find a GPU\n\nCould’ve just stopped right there.",
"Falcon Heavy launch is priced at like $92 million.",
"I have exactly the same view as my desktop wallpaper now... but it had Australia smack bang in the middle of the frame. Maybe it's a satirical photoshop vengeance for /r/mapswithoutNZ. ",
"Ayeee,fly me to the moon!!",
"It’d be better if they did and waited to use it for a few days/weeks/months. That’s how you freak the world.",
"I like tesla, and understand the need to progress over fossil fuels but dodge has really killed it with advertising the past few years. Cool advertising and I admit to fully being biased. ",
"the car was at the very top, inside the payload fairings. the fairings protect the payload as it goes through the atmosphere, and are ditched once out of the atmosphere to save weight. there is a video of the car during fairing separation at the very end of the launch video.",
"The weight could be a ton off and the rocket would make orbit. The mars crossing orbit would fail if not corrected for b",
"Over a billion dollars were spent on this commercial. So while Tesla didn't spend any money, SpaceX certainly spent a pretty penny. ",
"\"Convertible\"",
"I’m imaging the Space X engineers woke up yesterday and were like “ahhh shit I gotta do those calculations.”",
"Wow what a picture",
"He's too busy suing the UK national health service for no reason.",
"Is that why the air vents are closed?",
"that was always the plan. It was never going to orbit mars.",
"It would have been cool to hook that camera up to some kind of crazy power source so we could watch the car on live streaming whenever we wanted, watch the Earth and moon fade off into the distance as the days passed. ",
"Well at least can tell (from the limited picture available) the car survived the vibration of lift off!\n",
"All faked (including the live video stream) apparently.",
"This is advertising though. They literally spent millions of dollars for this. \n\nYour title should be \"Tesla spends more money than any company ever for their latest ad\".",
"So, the fastest soap box derby car ever?",
"And a Casual look to the camera.\n\nheck imagine if the helmet even lifted up and there was a picture of Musk",
"Who would have thought a British built car would be first to Mars. ",
"They’d get conspiracy theorists on their asses almost immediately.\n\nDUHH TESLUH KILLED [celebrity or politician] AND SENT THEM 2 SPAEC",
"My understanding is they're putting it in a solar orbit which will intersect with that of Mars. But that's still significant of course.",
"Thanks for the link. That’s probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. I’d love to see the flat earth people try to debunk this video. On a side note, I would have expected the tires to be more affected by the difference in pressure. ",
"I vote for Elon as the first president of the planet ",
"The flight computer is capable of making corrections mid-flight (out of necessity, because otherwise powered landings would all end in a rocket tipping over due to unpredictable wind conditions), and the difficult-to-balance part is the powered landing more than the launch, so chances are that wouldn't be an issue.",
"Lmao One person said they thought the G forces would kill someone. If that was the case, wouldnt putting a spacecraft on it instead of a tesla kill everybody on board as well?(I know its not actually a risk)",
"Tesla made 84 cars last quarter I don’t know if I’d pay for advertising either if I can barely make one car a day",
"How's Donald Trump's?",
"Unless spaceflight makes some major strides really fast, this was probably the best way to dispose of a body ever.",
"Earth below us, drifting falling, floating weightless, calling calling home.",
"2 of the 3 engines ran out of ignition fuel on the final landing burn. it ht the ocean at 300 mph about 100 yards from the barge. the shrapnel took out 2 of the barge's 4 engines.",
"Can we send all flat earthers on spacex rockets to prove them wrong?\n\n^^I ^^guess ^^we ^^can ^^put ^^them ^^inside ^^the ^^rocket",
"You're getting downvoted because you're using the wrong terms. They're not cooking books, they're not manipulating GAAP standards to come to a more profitable number. Enron created fake companies to borrow money and considered it profit. Tesla is just not making a profit. Two entirely different things. \n\nYes, the stock is hyped and he often doesn't meet his goals. But that's the story of most publically traded companies.",
"I believe the CEO of GM said Tesla will fail in a few years. He claimed that they were running short on cash so the had to drum up new capital by promoting their autonomous semi.",
"It does certainly not! It's a horrible oversimplification of quantum superposition, and it's definitely not \"how things actually works\".\n\nYou may want to look into the single particle double-slit experiment and the quantum eraser.",
"Oceeeean maannn",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KXgFpguE0",
"Around Mars, not around Earth. ",
"But it's a car manufacturer that most people can't afford, even the purposefully-neutered Three.",
"He was still right in saying +2000 mph. Lol",
"Did the center stage make it back OK?",
"My theory is that it looks fake because our minds have been conditioned through years of CGI. So something incredible we assume would be CGI even though it's real looks fake to us because minds are weird.",
"A faulty 1-inch o-ring caused the Challenger mission to straight up explode. Little things do matter in space vehicle launches. That being said, if the plan was to send a car with an occupied driver's seat, swapping for a guy would be almost negligible - but support for a human to *survive the launch* would change the payload. (I'm not talking about air and food to live in the car, I'm talking about the G-suit/seat to survive the physics involved)",
"Some say that he knighted the Queen, and once drove a tesla...\n\n\nAll we know is he's called The Stig!",
"If you *really* want to be mindfucked and have access to any sort of VR, tour the solar system with [Titans of Space](http://titansofspacevr.com/). Being immersed in space in VR is one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. You'll be there in front of this massive planet so big that it's the only thing you can see, then you look behind yourself, and there's *nothing*. I actually had a friend of mine take the tour with my GearVR once; she is in graduate school for Astrophysics and she was absolutely blown away.\n\nSo yeah, definitely try that if you can steal a GearVR/Cardboard/Vive/Rift. Space Engine is probably cooler if you're on a monitor though.",
"Looks like the Tesla's autopilot feature can finally be used for some flying!",
"no, the boosters have the newer titanium grid fins. they are bigger and redesigned for better control and better able to withstand the heat of reentry. They were needed on the boosters specifically because the nosecone at the top changes aerodynamics, requiring better control authority. They are also significantly more expensive and take longer to make, being a single piece of forged titanium. Good to get those back.",
"Two bodies if you count the one in the trunk.",
"But not really designed for long-term EVA. ",
"So, are we going to replace \"fuck you\" money with \"launch my sports car into the fucking sun\" money, or are we going to stick with the former because it rolls off the tongue nicer?",
"Except that the Dodge is something most people can afford.",
"http://spaceengine.org/download/spaceengine\n\nor check out trailer first https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve0Bpmx8Fk0",
"ehh, I am ambivalent to Musk as a person, but I do have to admire the fact that when he wanted to change something he went and built companies to do it rather than the usual approach of lobbying existing companies for change. That merits respect, but not love.\n\nThat said I would buy one of his cars, if he succeeds in getting the costs down,. With Model 3 production in the state it's in I won't be doing that soon.",
"...but the launch wasn't specifically for the car. Normally for these tests they use a concrete weight. The car was a clever spin to help drum up interest, also a good reason to send up the space suit they have designed.",
"O, so I does still intersect with earth's orbit....smalllll chance in the next couple million(billion) years of it crashing here?",
"No shit lol",
"I mean, it’s a rocket designed to throw stuff into orbit. Pretty reasonably priced if not cheap in that context. ",
"We can only hope",
"I guess aliens would give af about Tesla’s now ?",
"The Tesla is in a heliocentric (sun-centered) \"trans-Mars injection\" orbit, which means it will zip by the orbital plane that Mars is in, and will keep doing \"loops\" around the sun for a couple billion years with a very low likelihood of ever getting close to Mars. In simpler terms, the Tesla will zip past a point in space where Mars passes through, but the Tesla and Mars will probably never meet (nor will the Tesla get close enough to enter Mars orbit).",
"drugs",
"No. Clipped the recovery craft at 300mph after two engines failed to refire.",
"I think this counts as spending money on advertisement",
"Yeh, but that's the entire cost of development, something that's accounted for in the $90 million per launch pricetag they've put on falcon heavy launches. \n\nAll in all not bad considering since some ads run up to $30 million.",
"I mean they obviously spend a lot of money tossing off Reddit, for one",
"How did they get the car outside of the rocket?\n\nIs the car still in orbit?",
"Relative to what point of reference though? \n\nBecause if in a galaxy far-far away a civilised planet orbits it's star at a higher velocity than earth...\n\n(also don't forget the curiosity rover)",
"You can't look at reddit and tell me that there's no marketing department at Tesla.",
"Wait, that's not a photoshop?",
"Rest in peace pun, I think. ",
"What's surprising is Tesla struggles to deliver 10,000 cars a year, while GM moves millions a year.\n\nTesla took money for pre-booking and has delayed more than the promised time, and people are quiet.\n\nIf GM had delivered their cars one day late, they would be facing thousands of lawsuits, not to mention congressional investigations and class-actions all over.\n\nTesla sells directly to reduce and eliminate dealers and reduce employment. People are quiet.\nGM provides more employment and people scream.\n\nFuck people. ",
"Pretty sure that's David Bowie in there. He's going home.",
"No. Destroyed. Two of the 3 engines failed to ignite and it hit the ocean at 300mph 300ft away from the Drone Ship also causing damage to the drone ship.",
"So does telsa beat tide? ",
"Come to think of it this is an excellent and innovative way to dispose of a body..ya know..if Musk needed to. ",
"They spend money on ads too, so the headline is a complete lie.\n\nUnless people seriously believe their \"make an ad for is\"-campaign was free.",
"Ding ding ding!",
"I half expected Elon to be in that suit. ",
"> Yeah, or maybe the man has done legitimately good things with his fortune that have worked to better humanity. Maybe he's one of rare members of the .01% that actually isn't a drain on society, and that's worthy of praise.\n\nHe gets like 30 articles in the top 200 per day, and bill gates who is actually saving the planet, not just doing fun cool shit, gets 1 a week if he's lucky. ",
"Private contracts too. But yeah, they don't need to advertise. They're offering a pretty unique service. ",
"Wait. \n \nWhen I saw that pic yesterday I just assumed it was photoshopped. \n \nThat's real??!!\n",
"Sending a Tesla up as opposed to a piece of wall? The two products kind of dovetail each other. NASA produced a rover for the moon so there is a bit of rivalry here.",
"I've got one for you guys:\nhttps://vimeo.com/117815404",
"I read that in Clarkson's voice",
"lol he is small fry now. No competition.",
"Weeeeeellllllllll.........\nIf you're going to count the space roadster as a \"commercial,\" I feel like Tesla spent more than $0 to get it up there.......\nJust sayin.........",
"Musk has done things worthy of respect, but make no mistake, SpaceX is a wholly commercial venture at it's heart. [No one is sure how much](https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/11/11/will-spacex-earn-a-profit-in-2017.aspx) but it is a very reasonable assumption that SpaceX made a small profit last year. \n\nContinued development of new rockets like the Heavy does cost still more money, but there are already contracts being negotiated to launch payloads with it, which makes money.\n\nSo is it an altruistic effort to get us to space on his dime? Nope. He is going to make several dimes from this to finance his next ambition. You can take that to the bank, but not his bank, that money vault is full with Elon's money.\n\nThis is not bad by the way, but it is a still a money making venture.",
"Advertising is a form of marketing. It’s possible to have marketing expenses and no advertising.",
"Yay, more space junk, placed there to satisfy someones ego. Well done Musk, But next time please do me a favour and shoot yourself up with your junk.\n\nEdit, looking at all the downvotes it seems i may have triggerd some people accidently. Sorry, but i do not think Musk is part of the solution, i think he is a big part of the new cover-up of our main problems.",
"Doesn’t look flat....",
"It's a test launch, their first one too. Test launches usually take dummy payloads made of concrete and steel, Musk said that was too boring so he stuck his old roadster in there. No-one will risk a multi-million Dollar satellite in a completely untested rocket.",
"I hope they turned the Tesla autopilot on. ",
"No the car was Elon’s. He put his own car there. ",
"grand theft rocket",
"I want some of whatever you're on.",
"Oh shit the world isn’t flat ",
"Yes. Yes it is. ",
"There's a copy of the book in the glove box",
"Really? HA! That is awesome. I saw the \"Don't Panic\". Didn't realize that stuff was also in the glove box.",
"The magic of Elon Musk ",
"Think of all the work you could get done with a [car desk.](https://youtu.be/pQgIYI01H-w)",
"i think its already is",
"It's not. We have a roadster in space.",
"Maybe that is why the core failed to reignite thrusters to land. ",
"Snail ain't gonna get me up here!",
"if bill gates' funds cures any major disease a few years earlier, that will have a much huger effect than a few multi-millionaires having a new location for their holiday homes ",
"So is tesla the first company to advertise in space?",
"Can someone explain how the tyres cope with the low pressure in space?",
"No they did in fact launch a car into space. Hard to believe but it really happened.",
"These people.",
"Did anyone check to see if Bezos was in the trunk?",
"It's James Bond\n\nMusk was finally able to kill him",
"If the person isn't real what was the point of this?",
"\"*fly me to the moon, so I can flip you off from Mars*\"\n\n(Shut up I know, **shut up**)",
"I believe after the booster fired it detached",
"/u/ElonMusk http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/contact/application-enquiry Next launch please contact these guys and get them down to the launch pad. Let's get your name engraved in to the history books in multiple ways. \n \nPlus this will allow other space agencies to compete against it.",
"Today Tesla spent $100million on advertising.",
"Reminds me of Heavy Metal or an Old MTV commercial .Back in the days when MTV actually was music television .",
"(spook warning) https://i.imgur.com/QwcRlEK.jpg\n\nbut rendering just interiors like that is easy. you can do it yourself, just download ue4 and you can make rooms like that, place stuff in it etc. just like in sims. [look at all those unreal room scenes](https://www.google.pl/search?client=firefox-b&dcr=0&biw=1920&bih=957&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=YvF6WqvbCMW2swHOgIbQDQ&q=unreal+interior+scenes&oq=unreal+interior+scenes&gs_l=psy-ab.3...17503.18686.0.18788.9.8.0.0.0.0.289.847.0j2j2.4.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..7.0.0....0.XdtFN-B_Suk#imgrc=_)\n\n[see this, it runs at 60 fps on consoles](https://www.google.pl/search?q=resident+evil+vii&client=firefox-b-ab&dcr=0&biw=1920&bih=957&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=isz:ex,iszw:1920,iszh:1080#imgrc=_)\n\n[battlefront is not even inside rooms, but open spaces. with 40 players on the server and vehicles and all that explosions and stuff. also 60 fps on consoles](https://imgur.com/gallery/GinWK)\n\nopen world game with day/night cycle and weather symulation, beautiful animations in cutscenes, also 60 fps on consoles: \nhttps://international.download.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/images/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-ambient-occlusion-001-extra-high.png\nhttps://international.download.nvidia.com/geforce-com/international/images/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain/metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-shadow-quality-001-extra-high.png\n\nso it can be done and run great. look i dont even pick out the newest games, and i'm only showing here the ones that run at 60 fps on consoles lol (ok, P.T. is 30 fps but it looks like it could have been 60 fps). didnt even showed you uncharted 4 or the order 1866 or driveclub. of course those beautiful games are quite rare, because average gamer is happy with [shitty games like pubg](https://www.reddit.com/r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS/comments/7l5qox/a_one_minute_summary_of_pubg_on_xbox/), but thats another topic.",
"> relative to the earth.\n\nThank you. My friend the space moth thought it was in the slow lane.",
"you can tell from a 2D image?",
"TIL that having your own space program so you can develop a rocket then use that rocket to launch a car into space costs $0",
"Thought it was meant to do a fly by? Slingshot",
"Ok so this might be a dumb question- is the car actually out in space or is it in a rocket with a window behind it?",
"Have you ever seen them both in the same room at the same time?",
"Yes lol ",
"- Giving zero fuck's in a Mars bound Tesla, clearly.",
"Wouldn’t be too hard to get solid tyres",
"Where are the flat earther's now though?",
"Falcon heavy is in the same line as Delta IV Heavy and Atlas V Heavy ( never flown )",
"> (Model 3 is out now and starts for less than an average new car in the US).\n\nNope, model 3 starts at 35k, average is 33k. Also most people can't afford to wait 3 years for their new car to be delivered",
"Elon Musketeer, the last of the Musketeers",
"The car is actually in space.",
"64 metric tons. The roadster is about 2. It's totally a marketing stunt. But I think space exploration should have some silly ridiculousness sometimes. Get the public engaged again.",
"Enjoy it.",
"Your comment was not subtle, it was just stupid.\n\nPS: I am not a Marxist.",
"I completely disapprove of the whole thing. Littering in space. And before you say space is big and had plenty of room, I'm sure we said the same of the oceans long ago. ",
"its actually in space",
"The difference between Chevrolet and Tesla is that Chevrolet is over 100 year old company with massive amounts of money and manufacturing power. The only reason Bolt outsold Teslas is that they can produce them quicker. I'm not saying that the Bolt is a bad car, because it's really really good, but let's be honest here. Chevrolet made this car because they're afraid of Tesla. You can't deny that Tesla started EV cars.\n\nAnd by the way Tesla supercharges 200 miles in 30 minutes. Bolt does it in 2 hours.\n\nThe fact that you even mentioned Rimac is just outrageous. \n\n| | Tesla P100D | Rimac Concept-1 |\n|:-----------|---------------:|--------------------:|\n| 0-60 | 2.3s | 2.8s |\n| Range | 315mi | 210mi |\n| Top speed | 155mi/h | 221mi/h |\n| Sold units | Over 9000 | 8 |\n| Price | 140,000 USD | 1.2 million USD |\n\nEvery issue with Tesla currently is that they don't have enough money. They sell their cars on preorders because they simply don't have resources to actually produce those cars. When they finally reach the stage of financial stability they'll dominate the market.",
"That's exceptional research. Thank. ",
"102k upvotes yet only 14k karma \nr/hmmm",
"And in the glovebox a towel and copy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.",
"I've seen a few too, more comparable in size to BMW 5 Series cars. But I know they're struggling to match the orders for their Model 3's, which is a problem for them.",
"you didnt read anything about this launch did you?",
"Tell that to all the established car company ongoing safety litigation and vw group emissions fraud.",
"So is this thing coming back down or is it just more space junk?",
"I hate how hard people in this thread are talking out of their asses. It’s making me cringe.\n\nThere is probably not a single person at SpaceX could individually give you a concrete number for how much putting a Tesla roadster instead of a normal dummy payload cost them, but by golly a bunch of armchair space program developers are going to tell you it was cheap.\n\nThe title is ridiculous as well, what do you think designing a storefront that has a Model S and X exposed and prominently displayed in a shopping mall is? And a wall dedicated to showing you what different colors of trim look like? It’s advertising. Just from their storefront.",
"Also vacuum compatible. No air pockets, no outgassing materials, adhesives, or lubricants, and capable of withstanding a LOT of vibration. ",
"Yes but how did they take this photo?",
"Tesla is the future and runs on electricity while GM just another car company that runs on fossil fuel, increasing the CO2 causing global warming. also selling only to car dealers which fuck over the consumers is not a good thing, fuck the middle man. If given the choice more people would buy direct from the manufacturer if it meant you paid less. ",
"\"Dude, I'm tripping so hard right now\"\n\n\"Yeah, I can tell.\"\n\n\"Wait, what the fuck is that?\"\n\n\"What?\"\n\n\"That... car... but it has wheels? Anyways, it's right outsude the fucking windo- HOLY FUCK THERE'S A GUY IN THERE\"\n\n\"Dude you you weren't kidding, you *are* tripping balls.\"\n\n\"NO I SWEAR ON MY MUM'S BACK THERE'S SOMETHING THER- Ah shit, it's gone now.\"\n\n\"Shhh... Shhh... don't worry it's a hallucination.\"\n\n\"No it was definitely fucking real\"\n\n\"It was just a hallucination...\"\n\n\"Shut the fuck up.\"",
"It’s gone that far that quickly?",
"deBrogile Pilot Wave FTW.",
"I didn't realize the capsule had a viewing window, why didn't we see it in pictures?",
"Well yeah, saturn's rings aren't part of the planet itself...",
"Instead of rest in peace, rust in space.\n\nAlso possible reference to the Megadeth album Rust in Peace.",
"That may be, but I don't see how that's relevant to what I said. All I'm saying is that SpaceX to some degree already have, but more importantly will, change the course of human history. I was only refuting what was said above.",
"The claim is wrong. \n\nThey spend millions on social media and other forms of digital advertising. \n\n\nThey spend $0 per year on traditional tv advertising. ",
"He should make a claim.\n\n\"The vehicle was lost in space. Yes I have both keys.\"\n",
"> What if the whole universe is actually just overlapping existence in varying scales??\n\nI know it's just idle conjecture but I often think about this as well. It's fascinating, when you look at a picture of the solar system, and look at a picture of an atom, they look surprisingly similar - a sun/nucleus at the centre with orbiting bodies.\n\nReality is a fractal?",
"If only GOOGL had some other ways of making money...",
"I actually right clicked on that image and tried to rotate it",
"They had 3 or 4 cameras set up to stream video of the car. Its still attatched to the 2nd stage booster at this point and didnt do its final burn to escape earth orbit and head past Mars to the asteroid belt until 6 hours after launch.",
"Then buckle up, its high noon somewhere in the world",
"It’s really a tide ad. ",
"Just like the end of Grease.",
"Unlikely, since gravitational interactions will tend to try and circularize its orbit over time (thus lifting it high enough to miss earth). But there is definitely a small chance that it'll hit. But it wouldn't do any damage, it'd just burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the ground.",
"Nope. To get this picture they had to open and jettison the payload fairing. That's the shell at the top of the rocket. So, the car isn't enclosed by anything.",
"Another Fun fact: they spend more ad money per beverage can than coca cola..",
"Of course they have a marketing budget. They are a publicly traded company. I posted this because Tesla doesn’t advertise like every other car manufacturer. They don’t spend money on commercials, newspaper ads, junk mail, etc. \n\n",
"He has marketing teams, product managers, huge budgets, just look at all the press they do. When companies say they don't advertise Whst they mean is that they don't pay for traditional TV radio and print advertising but they still market and promote just in other ways. ",
"I’m thinking a moon, but I’m not an astronomer. ",
"Considering a Delta IV heavybwith halfbthe performance is $450 million for a launch, yeah the Falcon Heavy is actually quite a bargain!",
">Especially with the words \"Don't Panic!\" being on the dash of the car.\n\nWhat you couldnt see was the fine print just below that: \n\n\"Hope sleeping with my wife was worth it, Frank. Enjoy the ride\"",
"Heavy Metal The Movie has a live action adaption coming..",
"I’m a huge reader. It’s like my favorite hobby. And although I have millions of things I want to read, every time you bastards in reddit mention hitchhikers guide, I immediately forget about whatever I’m reading and read through the entire series ",
"I'm just saying, a trident missile runs like $65M",
"Sure. And I think some people reacted strongly to your comment because they didn't perceive the original commenter's response and tone to be necessarily negative. Maybe in the same way the original commenter could have offered explanation, you might have tried asking that person to explain. Their comment came across to you as negative, but maybe that was not their intention and they didn't realize the concerns you brought up. Similarly, your response may have come across as a judgment on a confused stranger, without that necessarily being your intention. My two cents.",
"No doubt Toyota spends more, but they also are in the business of selling orders of magnitude more. If you look at marketing dollars spent per car sale, Tesla spends more money. More so bugged by the title of the post, but w/e.",
"This was in a CGI booth right?",
"They also make $0 per year, so it's a good thing their advertising budget is as nonexistent as their budget.",
"You mean it was donated by Tesla’s owner? ",
"Yea. What is the deal with that? ",
"You could argue that they spent millions on the most expensive commercial of all time tho.",
"Nice",
"What happened to the center core?",
"Not really, this was a test launch with payload. They could have launched bags full of dog poop or anything, the mission was not to get a car into space. ",
"It's orbiting the sun for a billion years",
"EDIT: C'mon, folks, why downvote this guy? It's a legitimate question; the conductor's job isn't exactly obvious if you're not familiar with orchestras.\n\n---\n\nYes, the conductor is the guy with the stick :P\n\nWhile it's possible for a single musician, or even a small group, to play their parts and coordinate with others, it becomes significantly more complicated the more musicians you add and the more precision you need. This comes from three things:\n\n1. No musician is capable of *perfectly* performing a piece; playing style and talent cause small variations. Multiply this by 100 musicians, and dissonance happens.\n2. Few pieces are meant to be played 100% according to sheet. Some variations are made to fine-tune the score, according to the conductor's style.\n3. Musicians can't hear the entire orchestra while sitting in the middle of it; between the sound of their own instrument and the bad positioning, it's impossible to hear the whole sound perfectly\n\nThe conductor is positioned such that they can hear the whole sound of the orchestra, and they have the musical talent (and good ear!) to identify all parts and how they're being played. It's their job to assess how the orchestra sounds, and adjust them accordingly. This happens both during the performance, and beforehand, during rehearsals and practice. They're also the ones picking the musicians in the first place - choosing who will play, who gets lead parts, and so on, in accordance with their musical vision.\n\nA good way to imagine it is that while musicians play instruments, conductors play the orchestra. And the difference between an orchestra with a good conductor and an unled orchestra is similar to the difference between a synthesizer playing an instrument, and a skilled musician playing an instrument.",
"Did the core make it back?",
"> The car was also donated by~~ a ~~the Tesla owner.\n\n",
"Considering they slammed the core into the ship at 800 kmph because it ran out of fuel, I'm assuming tolerances are pretty damn narrow. ",
"Nope real imagine I know it is hard to imagine but the footage was awesome.",
"Blender (and many other programs) uses a different technique. It does ray tracing, it basically simulates photons (more like it simulates rays, a bunch of photons put together). Games can't do that. It's simply too demanding. I don't know what they exactly use, but it has to do with brightening parts of texture and other things like that.\n\nNot only that, Blender has potential for unlimited details. Some scenes have so many poligons, it's laggy just to look at them with no light effects.\n\nI know games look convincing, but once you start to look at the details they aren't as impressive. Most of the time, things that are more than 5 meters away see a significant drop in detail. The overall picture still doesn't have perfect colors as it's not heavily post processed. Many games don't have bump maps and even less have actual poligons (displacement maps). In all games I played, gravel is never fully, detailed 3D for example.\n\nThe thing is, games are made to look realistic, not to be. Blender is made to simulate reality as much as possible. It's made to look real even under the eyes of a professional. Such realistic accuaricy is obviously not needed for games, where we only study the scene for a few seconds.\n\nThere is a reason those simulations takes hours and it's not just unoptimized algorithms. It's just that, in games, we never notice the problems. Take a screenshot from a game and you can easily notice that colors are a bit off and some mistakes here and there.\n\nI guess what I'm trying to say is that it can be done but only by tricking you, but that's okay, because all we care about is that it looks convincing.",
"You mean chemtrails, to control the weather with chemicals or something. Contrails is a different conspiracy where they fake it using perfectly normal jet engine exhaust vapour and *con* people into believing it's chemtrails. ",
"I hate this stupid publicity stunt, there's a shit ton of important data satellites and instruments that are waiting or don't have funding to get into orbit and instead Elon launches a thousand pounds plus of junk to float aimlessly through space doing no science or anyone a lick of good. Fuck Elon. ",
"RIS in space;)",
"Look up the Fermi Paradox if you haven't already. ",
"Technically, you'd have to drive over the surface of the planets, so throw in a factor of pi/2",
"Why wouldn't you ignore Saturn's rings? The rings are debris in orbit around the planet, like billions of tiny moons. ",
"CEO of GM is not so smart because Tesla will be around longer than her will. ",
"They don’t have air in them. ",
"over there",
"How to confuse the fuck outta aliens",
"You sound like you bring lots of positivity to the world ",
"Both companies do that though.",
"They just blew their advertising budget launching this car into space",
"Damn the media, I'll decide if things are cool or not ",
"Yeah, it's advertising, but it's practically free advertising.\n\nHad to use a test payload anyhow, might as well have been Musk's Tesla",
"The rings are not part of the planet.",
"I'm just excited for future space movies to include a Tesla Roadster Easter egg.",
"Why not use something actually useful? I don't agree with using space as a platform for advertising. ",
"Even crazier still, I just saved 10% by switching to Geico",
"What's a Tide ad?",
"\"It's not patriotic enough.\"\n\n~*Donald J. Trump*\n\n ",
"Given that it was a test flight, I think I'm fine with this payload having a great chance to not survive, compared to what you wanted to see go up",
"Let's not pretend Apple is responsible for actual innovation in any area other than marketing",
". Well of course they don't need to visit the out of the loop sub.",
"This almost broke my brain. Then I saw the little button at the bottom that turns on light speed. \n\nNow I'm leaking cerebellum through m'ears.",
"*Tesla Roadster: The Final Frontier*\n\nGo big och go home",
"“Tesla. We’re the ones with a car in space.”",
"In the event that the rocket blew up (highly likely) the satellite would be considered a lost spacecraft this making the falcon heavy 0/1. On most maiden launches of a new rocket, whoever is launching will sometimes put concrete or steel. \n\nIn other words, this is an insurance for SpaceX. If it’s lost, who cares, if it goes, it’s great media. ",
"Keep lying to yourself just because of your feelings towards a company or a product.",
"It's a test launch so they added a fun thing onto it. I'm not negating your statement, I'm only noting that the purpose of the launch was not to put a car in orbit.",
"> Everything really is spinning. Being drunk just makes it worse\n\nOscar Isaac - Ex Machina",
"Between this, Tesla being a much cleaner car, and things like cheater devices VW and other car manufacturers are using, Tesla is the only car I would ever by.",
"Indeed. I didn't see any struts at all.",
"It's a Tesla. ",
"FLYYYY... FLY AWAYYYYY🚀",
"We're talking less than 200 lbs of difference though. Surely that's pretty insignificant when you're launching rockets and cars into space? ",
"Plus its the perfect murder (body in suit).",
"Don't click the other link I posted.",
"Points for cool, Mr. Musk, but a car in space is just more clutter up there and we have too much as it is.",
"pretty sure I read somewhere mars is 6months with best window",
"“I’m trippin’ balls here.” - Elon Musk",
"I'm not that other guy. How does one become lot illiterate in that stuff? Im always like \"companies, how do you look up that stuff about them?' ",
"r/enoughmuskspam",
"With the worst fuel economy in history!",
"For real, the only reason any of this was possible was because of the massive amount of foresight they had.",
"Of course this is total bullshit. They don't shoot a Tesla to space because they want to shoot a car into space. Could have gone for any car then. Also, if your company exists 10 years and in year 10 you spend $1.000.000 on something likes this (call it promotion, whatever)… you've spent an average of $100.000 a year. ",
"I mean, what if Elon musk is a highlander who doesn't want to experience the quickening? ",
"Pff with that helmet..Tide ad.",
"Just check out all of r/futurology to catch up",
"Just like the opening to the movie heavy metal.",
"Awesome. the diameter of Pluto is 1430 miles. Not kidding.",
"/r/space along with studying space flight heavily coupled with a degree in engineering. ",
"Tesla, It is out of this world!",
"Still can't get production right.",
"It’s still attached they will be doing a burn to send the car to Mars. That’s what I read on Elon’s twitter.",
"I'm gonna be lucky if I can click my heels together three times to get home. ",
"I still think it was the fastest car in the world... when it was in the world. That trip up wasn't slow.",
"Is this car attached to the rocket? Or was the car only the payload put on that rocket? Any plans to get it back?",
"[https://youtu.be/zR3Igc3Rhfg](I find this helps with the mind bending scale)",
"No, that’s why I specifically used the term ‘innovative genius’. He is insanely good at recognizing where there are unmet needs, and finding new ways to meet those needs. Be that in moving money, reliance on fossil fuels, or space travel, the fact that he isn’t an expert on any of those things doesn’t really matter does it?",
"Yep, still looks flat.",
"If their appearance in Dan Brown's latest book wasn't paid product placement, then Brown certainly made it look that way.",
"What if Elon just disposed of a body? ",
"still buying a VW ",
"I saw that on the live feed, it's real. The stereo is also playing space oddity on a loop. \n\nMan, if aliens find this thing long after our species has died out what are they going to think? ",
"\"greatest car commercial of all time.\"\n\nJesus, keep your pants on.",
"It's also the greatest example of corporate contempt for the universe.\n\nThis is an utterly contemptible act of fly tipping to support corporate greed. This piece of garbage will spend an eternity floating through the solar system and possibly beyond. \n\nWho knows where it will crash or what it will hit in the next several million years.\n\nBut even worse than that it sends an appalling message to kids on Earth - that it's really cool to dump stuff somewhere that isn't my backyard.\n\nSpace travel is an exciting business. With this act of selfishness Elon Musk has managed to greatly cheapen it.\n",
"Faster than them too because they did transfer orbits that intercepted Mars.",
"It was a goodyear some say.",
"I agree that Tesla are unfairly given way more latitude than than GM. Consider this though - GM have been around for over a century, GM manufactured low efficiency engines and has had to be forced to improve them against their will, GM manufactured cars that put ease and cost of manufacture ahead of safety until forced to improve against their will, GM have been in a position to create the electric car and chose to only enough PR to keep the wolves away whilst continuing to rely on the old business model, GM are not willingly and enthusiastically converting to electric they are do so against their will. I'm not suggesting any malice at GM, it's just a big company that tries to make money the way it knows how, but it burned its goodwill long ago and Tesla are burning theirs now. If Tesla survive for 30 years, they'll be in the same position.",
"I estimate it will be stripped for parts by hoodlums from Phobos in about 3 months...",
"Wait, you mean the moon surrenders? We did it!",
"Get your car to Mars.",
"Ha. Who would win, magic shoes or 20 billion suns?",
"Nope. It's a Tide ad.",
"It sure worked on me! I'm just going to go right down to my local Tesla dealership and buy a new Roadster...\n\n...oh wait. Nah.",
"Facebook.",
"Cause it cost 0$ to put it into space right?",
"I find the lack of visible land disturbing.\n\nSrsly tho. I wonder if it's just difficult to tell the difference between land and water from up there or if most of tghe land masses are on one side. I know the Pacific Ocean is pretty large, but if it really covers nearly h alf the planet like it appears to here then... dayum!",
"Could we argue that the money they spent on this was advertising money?",
"I'm pretty sure it's in international waters right now, so specifically it would be piracy. \n\nDamn.",
"This is their first test of a new rocket. It has to have a payload to get stability right, but no one wants to fly their multi-million dollar satellite on an untested rocket. Normally they use weights I guess, but this time they went with Elon's car with their new spacesuit design inside.",
"It only takes four days if you want to be able to stop at the Moon. This case is sold certainly going faster than Apollo because they aren't aiming for the moon ",
"I guess it really depends how you count it... For example making a YouTube ad is not free. Neither is their website. But they don't do really external, conventional advertising (billboards, TV, radio, flyers)",
"And they spend $0 on a camera... this quality XD",
"Yeah, it’s getting back that’s tricky. ",
"What a gravitation hell that would turn into",
"Technically true, as it’s basically a donation from SpaceX / Musk and not on Tesla’s books. ",
"No, the video streams had an error and both streams were the same. Watch the end and youll see both land on the same pad ( instead of one on black one on white)",
"Is this the opening sequence in Heavy Metal? I can hear Radar Rider playing in my head. ",
"If we are calling this advertisement, it's advertisement for SpaceX, so Tesla still wouldnt spend any. ",
"Is Venus orange in this picture? I always imagined it as either brown-grey or light blueish.\n\nIs it actually orange? ",
"i can tell you from personal experience that NY State Troopers do not find that nearly as funny as i did",
"It's a good thing too. If they knew this was our top technology they'd surely re-invade.",
"the statement could be easily flipped around to say how typical of the past generation to dump the spent stages into the ocean and consider it someone else's problem (their kids, who they don't even like anyways.)",
"Why should they spend any money on advertising. MSM does it for them for free",
"Your post is stupid on so many levels",
"I would love to hear future archaeologist trying to explain why this strange society sent a vehicle which could not possibly work in that environment into space.",
"So? Toyota spends less than 5% on R&D and Tesla spends 17.7%. It's a ridiculous comparison to make. \n\nToyota has been around for 80+ years and Tesla started mass production just 5 years ago. Also they produce 100% EVs and the infrastructure to do that didn't exist at all before they started, granted Toyotas Prius cars were groundbreaking when they came but it still heavily relies on combustion engines and very established technology. ",
"I just mean to say this post stems from an abundance of news and \"news\" calling out \"Teslas brilliant marketing strategy!\". Just do a quick search, bet you can find over a dozen from the last week alone.",
"Probably not gonna see mars, at least not close up. First of all, the batteries were gonna last for 12 hours, for the roadster, probably the same for cameras. On top of that, this isn't actually going to Mars, its just going into solar orbit near Mars, from what I understand. So it will be about as far from the sun as Mars is, but at a different point on the \"circle\".",
"Advertising is in the annual report.",
"Once around the Sun, cruising, climbing.\nJupiter cyclops winks at me, yeah, he knows who's driving.\nHit neutral in the tail of a comet.\nLet the vortex pull my weight.\nPush the seat back a little lower.\nWatch light bend in the blower.\nPlanets align.\nA king is born.\n",
"Technically, once it reaches it's highest point in orbit (around the asteroid belt) it will be the slowest car ever, relative to the sun.",
"Yeah I guess that's true",
"This kills the intern.",
"Yep their YouTube channel alone has a lot of Tesla owners in neatly edited videos around the world sharing their experiences with their Teslas...",
"Its probably that mixed with lighting. Actors and tv personalities have to wear a lot of makeup because the bright lights wash out a lot of detail. The sun is much brighter ghan stage lights.",
"I still think they should have launched during halftime at the superbowl and given away the rights to CBS and ABC to stream it for free. It would have been the best SB ad ever. ",
"Fair point",
"I feel like this promotional stunt counts as advertising though and wasn't cheap to pull off.\n\nReally awesome marketing - but lets not say Tesla spends $0 on advertising a year, this definitely involved some serious dough.",
"Yeah rings are more like a moon, spread thinly.",
"Thats a pretty expensive free commercial.",
"But isn’t this a Tide commercial?",
"The real question is whether it’s all just a big front for a tide ad.",
"Yesterday, they did a test launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy and Elon sent his own roadster up in it and it was live streamed, and at the end of the stream, we got to see some footage of just the car chillin with “Starman” inside. The navigation says “Don’t panic!”",
"you could drive through the gas ones I guess.",
"Don't be fooled, the angle of the lens makes it *look* round.\n\n^^/s",
"It's definitely Jimmy Hoffa",
"Advertising is in the annual report.",
"Fuck, this comment chain way too huge to read on the shitter.",
"That’s the only way I can make sense of how vast everything is, I’m certain my science is completely off but I looked at our solar system as it was an atom, and the atoms we know of are solar systems as well.",
"Red rover move over the roadster's coming over",
"It's a joke and it happened",
"\"Tesla. Go farther.\"",
"Tesla is so far behind production. Was definitely a good idea sending one of the cars to space. ",
"That's the one",
"Yeah I just figured it was a mock up of what it would look like, because most photos you see of satellites are concept art. So this means he actually had an external camera rigged to point back at the car while earth was in the background. Nice!",
"Momma sed deys muh magic shoes. Momma sed dey take me ANYwhere... Momma used to beat me with a rubba hose....",
"Not sure this is a fair statement. They have showrooms in some of the most expensive malls in the country. This is awesome though. ",
"++++++1. Twist: Tesla spends more on a single advertising spot than all other companies in history combined.",
"The FH rocket can carry more than 140,000 lbs to low Earth orbit. One Tesla roadster barely puts a dent in the payload limit. Except for size, I’m pretty sure he could have put one of every Tesla model in every color available and still be within limits.\ntl;dr, No, a dummy vs human would have a near zero effect on rocket performance. ",
"I thought this was a Top Gear ad at first.",
"Even if it hit Earth, it's just a tiny car.",
"thats the problem with reddit... there's an interesting pic but i have no clue what it is as i'm not on the interweb 24/7 and the captions are just geeks trying to outdo each other being witty",
"Musk is playing real life KSP",
"They should add that into the next Star Wars movie.",
"I'm sorry to be a party pooper, but that video has some incorrect assumption. The Space Shuttle doesn't have doors underneath its belly.\n\nAll the rest is good.\n\nHave a great day.",
"Is it a Tesla ad? Look how clean that space suit is. It’s a Tide ad!",
"0 to Escape Velocity in 10 years.",
"Or Elon is just sitting up there saying cya suckers I'm going to Mars!",
"This is fake! Earth isn’t round ....",
"Thank god they don't advertise. I fucking hate car commercials with a passion, mainly because no one really pays attention to them and they're just annoying.",
"A few days ago my daughter (7 years old) asked if we knew what Earth's closest neighbor is. My wife and I didn't answer, to let my daughter show off her knowledge. When she said \"the moon\" my wife said \"Wow, you are teaching me things!\" After I asked a couple more questions, it became clear that my wife had no idea that the moon is closer to the Earth than, say, Mars or Venus. \n\nI was pretty dumbfounded by that, but I'm not telling this story to point out how stupid my wife is - she's actually pretty intelligent and has two college degrees - it just shows how the vast majority of people don't really think about space or the Earth's place in the universe. Anecdotal evidence, sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if her understanding is typical for an average American.",
"exciting and yet sad at the same time.. almost like the end of an era.. ",
"Anyone have any wallpaper quality pics of this guy?",
"I want to see someone actually make this with CGI that looks more realistic.",
"Yeah, considering they had a car on display at my local mall for awhile they are obviously spending something.",
"Tesla is a pipe dream. The space X stuff is promising though ",
"perhaps this solar system and possibly even this local galaxy but Universe may not be true :-) ",
"You're right it's a globe",
"Yes the camera on the rockets was wrong, it was only from one rocket but shown twice. But there were other cameras (including amateur videos from spectators) that clearly shows that both rockets landed almost simultaneously.",
"I’m sorry I forgot million dollar showrooms are free.\n\nMy last job was at a company where we designed and rolled out high-end retail experiences like Tesla showrooms. Even when the cars are “free” because the companies make them, they were multi million dollar deployments between design work and development for hardware you see in them.\n\nAnd then with the roadster which was definitely super easy to mount inside a rocket and definitely practically free because Reddit says so.\n\nW/e I don’t know why it matters, I wish Elon wasn’t such a hype master so I could short Tesla and “put my money where my mouth is”. One day when we think of Tesla like we think of Lotus or Alpina and wonder why we ever imagined they’d be Ford I’ll kick myself for not having the smarts to time the end of the Elon-distortion field.",
"Pretty low since the core ran out of fuel and missed the barge ",
"All they need now is a random Martin Luther speech in the background instead of bowie",
"Nope, a Tide Ad.",
"He spends a lot of money advertising here on Reddit. He paid them.",
"This is VERY incorrect. Tesla spends thousands if not millions on advertising with various events, lots of stuff online and other exposure through media.\n\nJust because they don't make \"ads\" doesn't mean they don't spend money on advertising. Apparently they spend about $6 per car.\n\nhttps://www.teslarati.com/tesla-spends-just-6-per-car-advertising/",
"He said it looks so odd because in space, colors are unhindered by air and ambient light, so everything looks the color that it is exactly meant to be. Pretty neat. ",
"Even more surreal to see Earth *reflected on the car door*, for me.\n\nThe [view from behind the car](https://imgur.com/a/sNER4) of Earth out in front and the *Don't Panic* clearly visible was also pretty amazing. (Edited to add the image - cropped from a screencap of the youtube stream.)",
"Barely. I'm stoked about the rockets and all. But last I heard, the car's out past Mars. I mean, I understand it's a pretty red satellite but, this plus the shiny thing the other company put into orbit recently... I don't like it. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"Yeah it sure is free to launch a car into space.\nThat's probably the most expensive commercial ever made.",
"[Wind your neck in, fuckwit.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#Threats)",
"This whole stunt *is* advertising. \n\nSeriously reddit, get Elon’s balls out your mouth.",
"Hmm, needs more struts.",
"Fastest \"car\" maybe. But not the fastest marklar overall.",
"[Relevant Simpsons couch gag](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJw1MaZ6gQ)",
"Nope, chuck. Tesla.",
"true, but your blender room interior render looks just like one of [these rooms from ue4](https://www.google.pl/search?client=firefox-b&dcr=0&biw=1920&bih=957&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=YvF6WqvbCMW2swHOgIbQDQ&q=unreal+interior+scenes&oq=unreal+interior+scenes&gs_l=psy-ab.3...17503.18686.0.18788.9.8.0.0.0.0.289.847.0j2j2.4.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..7.0.0....0.XdtFN-B_Suk#imgrc=_). shaders (pbr), baked lighting, ambient occlussion, global illumination and whatnot, those tricks used in games are getting their graphics close to ray tracing quality. bump maps, displacement maps and tesselation are used in games for lots of years now, [crysis had it 11 years ago](https://www.google.pl/search?hl=pl&authuser=0&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=957&ei=6f56Wo6GFsWnsgGkqrJA&q=crysis+parallax+occlusion+mapping&oq=crysis+parallax+occlusion+mapping&gs_l=img.3...588.588.0.1041.3.3.0.0.0.0.141.141.0j1.1.0....0...1ac.2.64.img..2.0.0.0...0.ir1nbMiDOk8#imgrc=_) though its still not used as often as it should be and it doesnt look photorealtic.",
"That is ridiculously cool. Wow, TIL",
"So true, lol.",
"That's cool, I thought it was going into a transfer orbit to Mars without any planned interception. I'll have to correct myself with all the people I've been telling that to.\n\n~~Quick edit: looks like it may have been in a transfer orbit until the third burn was performed. I just wasn't aware of the third burn.~~\n\nI had seen [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7vimtm/rspacex_falcon_heavy_test_flight_media_thread/dtsplin) comment, and was thinking of the users guessed orbit.",
"You know, people used to think that about Earth's oceans, and Earth's atmosphere. Now our existence is threatened by climate change and the oceans are clogged with plastic.\n\n[Educate yourself, dumbass.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#Threats)",
"Cost: bout 90 million.\n",
"God, I was patting my trackpad for so long my pussy got jealous!",
"SSPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE",
"Suffocating in a fleece suit in Disney Land.",
"Not trying to ruin the spectacle, but in my town Tesla spends money on advertising. It has set up a semi-permanent fully staffed promotional booth to sell Powerwall systems. It can't be the only one. ",
"This is clearly a circle .... earth must be flat but still circular ",
"Well done for standing up to the tsunami of circle jerk that many Reddit users have for this man. Something has gone very wrong in the world when we hold up CEOs as some kind of quasi-saints. ",
"That arm is probably bolted down to keep it from dislodging during lunch.",
"I chucked. ",
"Brilliant, also [this is mind blowing](https://youtu.be/1Eh5BpSnBBw) ",
"I'm just waiting for the 50hr+ 4K video to finish editing and watch from the deployment till Earth's just a blue dot.",
"You could just use the right arrow key...\n\nAnd your other hand for the pussy.",
"None of which Tesla technically paid. I think people forget that just because Musk runs both it doesn't mean Tesla and SpaceX are the same company.",
"Does anyone know how it will land on mars?",
"Dodge Swinger 1973, top down, chassis free,Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong, or maybe just me.Don't worry, it's coming.\nDon't worry, it's coming.Jesus on the dashboard.",
"PR, they do tons of auto shows and demonstrations, online presence. They have a whole marketing arm. They might not pay for radio spots, but it's all advertising.",
"I was looking for footage of the real things landing, instead of the simulation.\nIt wasn't a simulation. \nThat is amazing. ",
"This picture was taken by aiming the Hubble telescope at the darkest part of the sky. The darkest.\n\nhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field#/media/File%3ANASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg\n\nThose are fucking galaxies.",
"Tesla didn't pay a dime for the launch - SpaceX did. Just because Musk is at the head of both doesn't mean they're the same company.",
"Elon referred to it as a Mannequin during the press conference. ",
"In 40 years we might have Dominos sending their limited edition anchovie pizza into space so they can say they have the fastest delivery in the galaxy.\n\nOf course, it will be a billion year orbit because why not have a landfil that lasts a billion years?",
"With parachutes in the trunk so when the car and Mars meet each other in orbit, it can land on the surface without too much damage, and Elon will have his Mars wheels when he eventually arrives. ",
"*They don’t spend money on commercials, newspaper ads, junk mail, etc.*\n\nI would volunteer that you are mistaken. Just because it is earned media doesn't mean they didn't do a publicity stunt in order to get mentioned on the air. And I have enough junk mail brochures, event invites and whatnotelse in my drawers from them. There is a huge Tesla billboard right outside my local airport. \n\nThey are smarter than Ford, et all at media buying and marketing but they are very well doing it. ",
"My brain keeps trying to tell me its a photoshop, shut up brain.",
"The burn times are corrected live based on conditions so the launch wouldn’t have changed much. However, they might have had slightly less fuel for landing which could cause one of the boosters to just barely not make it to where it was going.",
"At least the lunar rovers actually drove somewhere, you know, spinning their wheels and drifting. This Tesla is a glorified trailer.",
"This is exactly my mental struggle daily. ",
"Oh that’s different ",
"So, am I overthinking this, or is it Falcon Heavy, as in F***ing Heavy?",
"Look, its round",
"Lol",
"All the times I've seen this I had never noticed the button that scrolls the strewn at the speed of light. ",
"I have seen them with a booth a trade show last year. So they definitely spend on marketing. ",
"someone needs to photoshop a photo of a bound and gagged Jezz Bezos inside the SpaceX suit, riding in a Tesla to outer space...",
"Eat less fiber. Problem solved!",
"Let me wake up completely before mindfucking me, please. ",
"\"35 million miles, and still full tread\"",
"I’ll shill for way less than that. Contact me Elon ",
"Thanks for reaffirming my decision to upgrade my TV, as I currently have a 55\" 4K E-series. I've been eyeing those newer XLED M-series for a good month now.. but I want that Sony OLED A1 SO FUCKING BAD!!! Ughhhhhhhh....... decisions decisions.",
"I loved the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference on the dash. ",
"Not a graphic, but [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_Planet_Walk) is pretty neat.",
"To give you some background: yesterday SpaceX launched the maiden flight of their new \"Falcon Heavy\" rocket. Normally for an initial test flight like this a company would just stick some dead weights in the payload bay to simulate the mass of a real satellite. In this case, however, Musk decided to have fun with it and he used his personal Tesla roadster as the payload mass instead.\n\nThis picture was taken after the launch while the car was still in Earth's orbit (they have since sent it out on an ultra-elliptical solar orbit).",
"It's not exactly brain surgery though is it?",
"What does it matter how efficient the method is? There's something special about having the whole world watch and applaud, unknowing of the horrible truth.",
"[Is this you?](https://youtu.be/65PRsuTIuZY?t=175)",
"Maybe Tesla is testing an awesome new UV-ablative paint that will come off in little pieces and form a glistening tail like a comet.",
"Well, watch the fucking news then. It was all over \"regular\" media yesterday. The rocket that launched his roadster was called Falcon Heavy, and was the most powerful rocket ever launched. There was also a simultaneous return landing of the side boosters.\n\nAs for the car pic, Elon Musk sent his personal Roadster up with a trajectory to Mars. The person in the spacesuit is named Starman.\nLink to the whole launch: http://www.spacex.com/webcast",
"But why did they want to put a car in space? Because it's a PR stunt. PR stunts are advertising. ",
"Someone in the future will make a movie where this car, then a vintage model, comes to the rescue of the hero",
"stars? just a thought",
"You can use \\\\ to escape a markdown character's special functionality",
"That's totally NOT the extent of their marketing. I really wish that people who have no idea what it means, would stop talking about it. ",
"The next one up for SpaceX is an even bigger Rocket named BFR: Big Falcon Rocket. ",
"Not to mars exactly. The burn was planned to take it as far out to mars's orbit, just not when mars would be in that position.\n\nThey did the burn yesterday, and got way more out of it. Its actually going to be going into the asteroid belt.",
"You are aware that Tesla and Space X are different entities entirely, correct?",
"\"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.\" -Douglas Adams",
"Tesla gets a ton of free press on this website. ",
"And who payed for the extra fuel due to the weight of the car? What about the dummy? \n\nITS MARKETING PEOPLE. OPEN YOUR EYES. ",
"I thought he just started cutting himself while he was shaving...? But then I don't remember the last time I watched it sober.",
"> Tesla spends 0$ per year on advertising.\n\nHAHAhahhahahaha.\n\nDo you honestly believe they didn't see this happening? For what purpose would tesla send **a car** to space? Giggles? They spend a shit load on advertising. ",
"Pure white, eh? sounds like a Tide ad. ",
"Yeah it's like a whole new level of mind-blowing.",
"Tire pressure warning.",
"Disk-earthers ",
"That has nothing to do with my statement. They are behind production = low amount of cars. Sending car to space = 1 less car on earth = Tesla having even slower production. ",
"I'm pretty fucking sure they've just spent \"PRICE_OF_TESLA\" + \"PRICE_OF_MANNEQUIN\" on advertising you dumbo.",
"Eh. This is actually really fucking cool",
"I'm saying that while it may not be a traditional ad campaign, this is still advertising. Viral, PR stunt etc. It's advertising.\n\nDid Felix Baumgartner jump out of a weather baloon just because? Or was it advertising for Red Bull? ",
"Probably not important that it was Musk’s personal Roadster. ",
"\"Tesla. It's out of this world!\"",
"Considering we don't know *how* life is created, everything someone says about the probability of it appearing elsewhere needs to be taken with a grain of salt, it's all hypothetical.\n\nSolutions for Fermi's paradox are just that, purely hypothetical.",
"get some mental help",
"That's pretty much what I do except I just buy Plex from time to time. If you're only flying frigates and cruisers around then it's more efficient to work at a real job and buy isk, than to waste time earning it in game.\n\nAn hour of real work buys me a few months worth of ships to blow up and for me this is good entertainment for the money!",
"Is te car bigger on the inside?",
"Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarity.",
"Well, maybe Saturn shouldn't try to 'hoop in a mosh pit.",
"Now I'm imagining the animatronics getting the same 'go no go' as the actual rocket.\n\n\"We have signal from the arm and thumb, we are go for Fonzie\"",
"They usually use a dummy weight, so the fuel is used regardless. Instead of a dummy weight, they used a car. The entire point was to test falcon heavy carrying a payload.",
"This is a private company that is now capable of taking twice the payload to space that Russia can and at a third of the cost. Capitalism is what drives the world forward. ",
"Space trash! ",
"Its a car/brand commercial, paid for with your taxes. Don't bulshit a bullshitter. And dont bullshit yourself.",
"Get your Model 3 order in! But, be prepared to wait. I placed a reservation about an hour before the reveal, and mine isn't scheduled for production until September of this year. To be fair though, I am waiting for the dual-motor version.",
"Based off my Kerbal knowledge everyone is dead... I crash into the mun a lot ",
"This mad me chuckle. You forgot \"sad\" at the end.",
"Imagine the scene in the engineering department that day: \"Oh, and figure out how to launch my sportscar from the thing.\"",
"*The Tesla Roadster, 1,000,000 miles from a single charge*",
"I still think musk is sitting somewhere constantly giggling while making jokes about his car. ",
"I don't know, man. If men had set foot on a moon a decade later, I doubt very much would have changed in the course of human history.",
"Ok, but why is the car outside a payload carrier? Isn’t the purpose to prove it can deliver something to mars?",
"You wouldn’t consider renting an entire store in the mall advertising right? I mean that’s where I go shop for cars.",
"Take that, flatties ",
"Only one of the three engines fired on the return. It did hit the drone ship, but at 300mph.",
"Other Reddit financial advice: Bitcoin down? BUY! Bitcoin up? BUY SOME MORE!",
"Welp, my world is shattered",
"Y tho? That movie was perfect as an animated movie.",
"Because live stream: http://www.spacex.com/webcast",
"Even WITH the lowered gravity of the moon!",
"I wonder if his insurance covers him for an accident that far out.",
"Hopefully also the last or else we're going to face traffic jams.",
"Hey man, you ok?",
"Actually, the above joke was talking about the cat being dead or alive- which has nothing to do with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle... move over, the comment you are referring to is stating that because they know how fast they are going, they also know where they are- which is the complete opposite of how it works- but hey, it sounded like something science-y that you heard before. This is because Reddit is a giant circle jerk where people just reference things they have heard despite knowing nothing about it. (This apples for all areas of discussion, science or otherwise.)\n\nSource: how you referred to a completely incorrect statement of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle as a 'spot on physics joke'.",
"I know you're joking but space can actually get very hot. Astronauts on spacewalks tend to experience temperatures ranging from -250F (-157C) in the shade to 250F (121C) in direct sunlight.",
"If you consider that a commercial, than the entire budget of SpaceX was spent on advertising... ",
"Baked lighting is really not used that much in current games because we have dinamic lights. Combining the two kinda screws everything up. ",
"Lol",
"Found Bezos.\n\n(But yeah, amazon is a better company).",
"Actually, judging by the comments I have seen here, they are using it as confirmation that the Earth is a \"disc\".",
"I wonder how much of the expense here came from the $4.9 Billion in subsidies that the corporation has received from the US taxpayer?",
"http://www.spacex.com/webcast",
"http://www.spacex.com/webcast",
"Hasn't Toyota had an all electric Rav 4 for like 4 years now?\n\nIt's silly to say the world's top selling car maker isn't on the cutting edge of technology because the designs don't look as sleek as Teslas\n\nEdit: correction... An electric RAV4 came out in **1997** and had a 95 mile range",
"You could start with reading Wikipedia articles about finance and how the whole system works, familiarizing yourself with the terms and concepts. You can practice reading income statements. etc. \n\nOr buy a book. Just don't buy one of those \"idiots guides\" books. They really are idiots guides, they're horrible. On any subject they're horrid. Don't be an idiot, but a real book. Like find out what text book they use at 101 course at a university with a good finance program. Get that book. Just use common sense. ",
"I hope in the next Guardians of the Galaxy there's an Easter Egg where they're leaving Earth and see Elon's car flying around in space.",
"http://www.spacex.com/webcast",
"Woosh. I'd tell you to duck- but I have a feeling most things just fly over your head.",
"$0 on advertising? I call bullshit. There’s no fucking way. ",
"I have no idea where to find it but some guys made a scale model of the milky way and made a video about it. That was super cool",
"Please tell me you're joking.",
"The fairing was ejected to reduce weight... and for a really nice product shot",
"Because GM needing a bailout was a sound business model...",
"Say no more, nudge nudge wink wink.",
"*\"This car goes to space. What the fuck are you waiting for?\"*",
"Every time I go through this graphic I'm happy I have a Logitech with a freewheel. \n\nEDIT: Another point that this graphic makes clear... Uranus us essentially the half-way point in our system (if you still include Pluto). My guess is most of us don't think of it that way (I don't). We tend to think of Jupiter as being about in the middle, but if you look at the scroll bar when you get to Uranus, it's more or less the center point rather than the 75%-80% point we probably picture it to be.",
"A flat earther told me they used a fisheye lense. I was about to respond that everything would be distorted, not just earth but didn't want to get sucked down that rabbit hole.",
"Fastest street-legal vehicle?",
"You don't need to advertise when thousands of sycophants are constantly promoting you for free, shout down your critics, and forgive all your transgressions.",
"Before the Musk mania hit fever pitch there was a brief period of time where /r/technology was getting so much Tesla spam that the mods tried to limit it. It was uncovered and caused huge drama. It was one of a series of events that led to that subreddit being removed as a default.",
"SpaceX and Tesla are separate companies. So none.",
"Warren Buffet signs off tens of billions to the Bill and Melinda gates foundation... reddit crickers. \n\nElon Musk launches one of his cars to pollute space and make astronomy a bit more complicated for a billion years... reddit loses it.",
"Whenever it feels right.",
"The paint? The high energy rays from the Sun are going to rip the chemical bonds of the carbon-carbon and other organic compounds into shreds. This car won't last millions of years unfortunately.",
"Well, they fit in Saturn sideways. Also if you want to include rings then you may have to add all moon orbits as well.",
"It won't be landing, only going into orbit.",
"I should mention I am poor. Also no need for a car in yet in my life anyhow so won't be making a Tesla order any time soon. One day perhaps.",
"Have some kind of interest and start playing Kerbal Space Program. I certainly don't think I'd actually know anything about orbits and getting there otherwise.\n\nCheck out all the great KSP tutorials on YouTube, even if you don't end up playing. See Scott Manley's videos.",
"Yeah I don't think astronomers are going to be happy about more space junk.",
"*\"There must be someway outta here\"* \n\n*\"said the intern to the T\"*",
"It actually will. There's a fair amount of radical oxygen in space. It's one of the reasons so much stuff for space is gold-plated...",
"Pretty sure this is now the most expensive car commercial ever made. \n\nMaybe the entire Tesla space effort is just for the sake of advertising the car 🤔",
"A better place is strapped to the launchpad just before ignition.",
"Efficiency is irrelevant if he did the murder out of spite. How rad would that be though, if you really hated someone so much that you spent years building an empire, just to catapult them into the great beyond as one final \"fuck you\".",
"What I want to know, is how are they protecting the roadster from the raw aggression of space? I mean, solar radiation, dust particles, meteroites and extreme temperatures just to get anywhere outside of Earth's gravity. Anyone know of any articles about that? ",
"Do you still \"fire up\" an electric car?",
"It’s sneezy, breezy, deluxe.",
"I prefer the earth rise photo that astronauts took from the moon. I mean, thsi Tesla thing is babytalk compared to the apollo landings.",
"Does anybody notice the 'Hitchhiker's guide to galaxy reference on the dashboard, where it says 'don't panic?' ",
"Aliens might have faster cars",
"I don't. He's getting way too worked up about it. I couldn't really tell what he was so angry about.",
"How it is a great car commercial ? They have fucking launched a car in space with a rocket .. absolutely two thing that have nothing in common..",
"Why in the world would the intended definition of advertising be referring to television or magazines when (1) OP said ads instead of commercials, (2) the audience is an online audience and is constantly exposed to online ads comprised of various types of online marketing campaigns, (3) fewer people have cable and magazine subscriptions thus many companies have shifted to such online marketing campaigns instead of buying commercial or print space.\n\nThis submission title is a bold faced lie, plain and simple.",
"My favorite brain-breaker - [Behold the Milky Way](http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/mosaic/lb.html)",
"He has a lot more brains than any of us aswell.. I don't think we could do it even with billions of dollaridoos",
"A car in space is less impressive than a satellite launch unless you're Dave down at the pub.",
"Honestly I keep coming back to this micro/macro idea and it seems so plausible to me. Like we are just a speck in this big soup of matter that is actually just in some giant alien coffee machine.",
"Is there a higher quality version of this that would be good for a phone background?",
"Gotcha. I had no idea it was so revolutionary. Very cool. Thank you for explaining.",
"You don't watch many advertisements do you?",
"What happens to the car tires in space? Is there air in them or are they solid?",
"The ONLY car IN the universe!",
"But can he turn a profit tho",
"Does Ferrari or Lamborghini advertise? That's the market competition for a Tesla Roadster. ",
"Need an extra hand?",
"Is that the stig?",
"Help! Need karma! Upvote please. ",
"Brave.",
"In this case it was to even out solar heating. They call it the BBQ roll. ",
"Well, usually, you see a car driving on a road.. showing new technology, not floating in space.",
"Reminds me of this one from Heavy Metal the Movie\n\nhttps://youtu.be/DWMPe3wF9jQ\n\n\n",
"Clueless people out there asking, \"Why did Elon do this?\" when part of the answer is clearly, because he fucking can, bitch.",
"This is advertising. It’s not “traditional” advertising, but it’s advertising nonetheless.",
"Microsoft Paint'd",
"https://i.imgur.com/xfFac9k.jpg",
"ITT: people who don’t realize that Tesla, SpaceX, and Elon are three separate financial entities. \n\nOne builds electric cars. \n\nOne builds reusable rockets. \n\nOne escaped from his own timeline and has come to ours to gird us for the coming Vogon invasion. \n\n",
"That's some serious forethought by the dems. ",
"What a time to be alive.",
"Don't tho.. it will kill us all.",
"Umm. Ok lol",
"Why do things like this not cripple me at all or give me anything resembling a sense of dread? When I think about this stuff it gives me a strong sense of calm and wonder. I don't block it out at all. \n \nI think I grasp it as well as the average person but it doesn't bother me. It doesn't conflict at all with my sense of meaning or my way of living. It trivializes nothing. It just is. And it's *beautiful*. \n \nMy sense of earthly significance, meaning, etc. is not attached whatsoever to it's size-relative significance. Or it's centrality. It's just another thing. And between us and the next set of atoms that processes information to the degree that we do, there is a gulf of non-meaning, of non-processing that IMO doesn't oppress us at all. I believe that it's fine for us to embrace our locally privileged vantage point, eyes wide open to technical facts such as that we are \"small\". Why exactly is small so damning? That dread is man made too. \n \nYou may think that my position comes in some way from ignorance relative to yourself. Like I don't grasp it as lucidly as you do. But *maybe* not. ",
"You're just making it sound like the reason reddit is interested is because we're having it shoved down our throats. In reality, yes somebody has to decide where to put the cameras, but once they provide the link publicly it will end up here one way or another.\n\nI'm not saying their marketing department does nothing, but \"team who makes sure Reddit sees all their pictures \" is way more accusatory than it needs to be when in our case it could literally be just \"set up camera, then provide link to output\" because that's how reddit largely functions.",
"Quantum mechanics kind of wrecked that possibility 100 years ago. Subatomic particles are far from following ellipses. Also subatomic particles behave more like waves than like particles.\n\nIf earth randomly jumped close to the sun and the next moment far, we would be the first to know it and that's what electrons do.",
"Not only isn't it \"very\" true, it is actually NOT true. According to several comments here they have spent much more on advertising. \n\nEDIT: [link if you want proof](http://ir.tesla.com/secfiling.cfm?filingid=1564590-17-3118&cik=131860)",
"\"The same quality of engineering that put this on mars, is in our cars.\"\n\nWould accept attenborough or morgan freeman for that part.\n\nFade in the Tesla Logo against black. Slowly pan in the earth in and fade in the stars.",
"So when do start concentrating on actually manufacturing cars? Cos they're struggling. ",
"The Elon left on the ground is his doppelganger al la The Prestige.",
"That’s messed up",
"Okay.",
"why do you claim that they spend 0$ per year on ads?\n\nits obvious bs",
"Amazon is THE company. I mean what can you even say, they're taking over the fucking world. There is nothing comparable between these two. Tesla as a company is the biggest joke since Enron. ",
"Looks like a Tide commercial to me",
"You probably want to image search for \"large scale structure of the universe\" and \"brain matter microscope\". \n\nEnjoy your continuing mindfuck.\n\nThen, depending on whether you are content to be like \"whoa, dude\" or dig further for the actual science why these textures look so similar, you need to get into the mathematics of dynamical systems and in particular the concept of \"universality\". ",
"Tesla: We are so high tech, we're out of this world!",
"> bold face lie\n\nIt's correct under a fairly common definition of the term, so I think calling it a \"bold face lie\" isn't warranted in the slightest.",
"Sure thing....\n\nhttp://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html\n\n\nCushy Federal Government contracts are subsidies just the same as deferred loan interest. ",
"OHHHHHHHH",
"Interesting. ",
"No. Elon only wants the top 1% of talents to work for SpaceX. It is considerably easier to get a job at Tesla.",
"New to me. Interesting.",
"Jesus that just blew my fucking mind.",
"I mean it's definitely the fastest 4 wheeled vehicle to ever travel, but there are other vehicles with more than 4 wheels that could have traveled faster. I honestly have no idea how fast the ships that carried the Mars rover went or how fast the Tesla is going, other than very fast. So taken completely literally it's possible that 4 of those wheels are the fastest 4 wheels to ever travel. Shit I was gonna take a nap between classes but now I think I'm gonna have to look it up.",
"Here, you can read for yourself: http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/5973459440x0xS1564590%2D17%2D21343/1318605/filing.pdf",
"They share ressources",
"Jesus Christ. That’s so far. ",
"They did. Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy demo launch animation video.",
"The earth is flat.",
"When Elon Musk introduces the new roadster he joked that it could possibly fly. There’s no doubt in my mind that he was referring to this. He’s been sitting on that joke for months.",
"File planned non-operation. It's like $27 in California",
"First I've heard that excuse. Why would you prefer cinder blocks?",
"You and me both brother! To space and the unknown ✊🏻",
"So the point of this was to test the rocket? It make sense.\n\nAlso all this free marketing probably made the whole test worth it.",
"What the fuck, that’s incredible.\n\n",
"SpaceX spent the money to launch the car not Tesla. The car was Elon's personal car that he donated.",
"They actually spend money on advertising lol",
"Or some alien’s turd..",
"Since you insist on being an annoying pendant, the OP means they don't launch superbowl commercials hijacking MLK, and similar shit. The difference between a mass demonstrator and a roadster with all whistles is less than 5 million, one super bowl add. \n\nIf the notoriety gets them ONE single more scheduled launch the cost is so hilariously worth it. \n\nNot sure why you have a hate hard on for tesla. Comparing them to lotus is odd at best. They have 63k sales since '73 and tesla has 250k+ sales from last reported figures...",
"SpaceX spent the money to launch the car not Tesla. The car was Elon's personal car that he donated.",
"It's a post about Tesla and it's a Tesla car... it's not that strange of a comment when you look at the title lol. ",
"isn't that.... kinda dangerous?",
"Seriously though, has anyone pointed out this is an elaborate [Tide](https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/dev-images.alltheflavors.com/uploads/recipe/imageUrl/83994/Tide_Pod.jpg) commercial yet?\n\n",
"WOW.\n\nThank you.\n\nI just spent about 20 minutes going through the whole thing, I had to see it through. ",
"Careful bro. Elon is god to these people. ",
"That was awesome.",
"You mean dihydrogen monoxide? Dangerous stuff.",
"That is amazing.",
"Baumgartner was sponsored by Redbull, that's completely different. The aim of the jump was to break a world record, not sell Redbull. It was happening with or without their endorsement.\n\nThis payload was going to mars with or without Musk's car, he just thought he'd put it in there just because he could. Tesla didn't do it to advertise their vehicle, Elon did it because he's a billionaire who can do it for fun. Therefore, they didn't spend any money on an ad campaign because **it's not an ad campaign.**",
"https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/dev-images.alltheflavors.com/uploads/recipe/imageUrl/83994/Tide_Pod.jpg",
"They've uploaded [a fixed version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCc16uozHVE) with both streams (and the fairing-deployment footage); as you could see from the ground footage with both in shot, it's still nicely synchronized.\n\nBooster separation ~ 24:30, fairing deployment ~25:30, simultaneous landing ~29:40.",
"But do you see any stains?",
"... \"extensive sun damage\"",
"great, more junk in orbit",
"Yep he sure owned me! Lemme know when Elon Musk makes him rich and powerful so I’ll remember to give a shit. ",
"I should also mention then that this was his personal Roadster, which he has owned for years. So don't fret, it hasn't slowed down production of any current Tesla in any way.",
"It's not going to be in orbit",
"Yet, your triggeredness is invigorating!",
"> I joked that people would think it's fake. \n\nPeople literally thinks Moon landing is fake AND that the Earth is flat.... do you really believed that people wouldnt find this fake at all?",
"You can also choose your reference such that any trajectory is where a man has *always been*, at least while he was alive.",
"wasnt a literal statement, was a joke. it's pretty obvious someone in musk's circle understood what they were doing. it's a pretty cool homage and a marketing campaign people will be discussing for years to come.",
"Ah okay. I initially though that it'll crash into Mars, but then realized that's a terrible idea.",
"Hah fibonacci sequence ftw. Everything is a fractal for sure.",
"It's a [tide pod](https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/dev-images.alltheflavors.com/uploads/recipe/imageUrl/83994/Tide_Pod.jpg), obviously",
"I just provided 3 reasons why that definition isn't common at all, while all you can do is deflect and restate your position. Unless you can do otherwise I'm sorrry but you're really full of shit right now and so is OP.",
"I'm guessing that amount of thrust is negligible compared to the stochastic forces felt by the atmosphere itself, no?",
"It's an elaborate [TidePod](https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/dev-images.alltheflavors.com/uploads/recipe/imageUrl/83994/Tide_Pod.jpg)",
"I imagine it’s because they spend $0 on ads ",
"https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/dev-images.alltheflavors.com/uploads/recipe/imageUrl/83994/Tide_Pod.jpg",
"Same thought! Our thoughts matching dude!",
"Damn it. I used to like the guy until very very recently. ",
"http://whereiselonmusksroadster.com",
"We're in the sort by controversial section. My comments about company, not the people. Even though I would love to shit on the people too. ",
"In the far future kids will be taking field trips around the solar system and will think “this is boring”. ",
"I know the earth is not flat....its triangle.",
"Oh noooooooo",
"Great recommendation, anyone with an interest in space travel needs to play KSP. They should use it as a teaching aid in physics classes as I've learned more about rockets and orbital mechanics from KSP than any other source.\n\nAlso it's fun. I loved model rockets as a kid and can only imagine the countless hours I would have put into KSP if it had been around back then!",
"There's also a lot of drugs in there. ",
"That isn't what atoms actually look like, though. Electrons don't orbit around the nucleus in neat little circles like planets around a star. Instead, they exist as [probability clouds.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Hydrogen_Density_Plots.png/845px-Hydrogen_Density_Plots.png) As far as I understand it, you can't predict where an electron will be like you can predict the motion of a celestial body. It might be anywhere in that cloud, so until you check to see where it actually is, it might as well be *everywhere* in the cloud.",
"[If he were telling the truth he wouldn't have told us](https://youtu.be/mCDA-m-TQdU?t=101)",
">“It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.”",
"If you think that shooting a car into deep space wasn't a marketing scheme...you don't understand marketing. This was calculated, and while it wasn't coming out of an \"advertising\" budget, it did exactly what it was supposed to do. Make world headlines and generate a shit ton of hype.",
"Fifteen miles over the speed of light, that's a violation of the law of Lorentz invariance baby.",
"They're probably not orbiting anymore, and have fallen back to Earth by now. Most test launches don't aim for interplanetary space.",
"you think we're going? they barely want us here.",
"the firmament, the sun being a hologram, Russian spies admitting the whole space race was faked on 4chan yadda yadda ",
"This is more like r/Gatekeeping but sure the attitude is the same.",
"But your argument falls flat. Tesla did not pay anything for this event. It was the private car from Musk. \n",
"Oh it's nothing in terms of magnitude of importance compared to Apollo. \n\nBut this photo is just silly. There is a unbearable giggle that I have to stifle I see this and that's because musk is the true rich child we all wanted in our lives. Launching cars into space and making commercial use flamethrowers. ",
"> paid ads. \n\nThis is what OP's getting at. If we're getting technical, even just putting the Tesla logo on the front of the car is \"advertising\". The point is that they don't pay for TV ads, because they don't need to when they can fire a car into space to advertise instead. ",
"Given him a tartan skirt?",
"Any idea on who the tire manufacturer is?",
">My Prius is the most reliable car I’ve owned. \n\nToo bad it emits dangerous amounts of smug into the atmosphere",
"Lol, I bet r/latestagecapitalism is having a shit fit over this.",
"To be fair, amazon was a pretty shit company until relatively recently.",
"I am not sure what the reality is.. but there has to be a reason there are so few good shots of Earth from space.. and the ones there are look fake as hell.\n\nThere has to be a reason space exploration was faked with the moon mission.. looks to be faked with the ISS... and Mars as well..\n\n",
">Since you insist on being an annoying pendant, the OP means they don't launch superbowl commercials hijacking MLK, and similar shit.\n\nUh oh I pissed him off by thinking advertising means advertising... maybe it’s because for 2 years I worked at a company where billion dollar brands paid us millions of dollars to develop advertising and we never did a TV ad. Funny how ad literally means ad, not TV ad huh?\n\n\n>Not sure why you have a hate hard on for tesla. Comparing them to lotus is odd at best. They have 63k sales since '73 and tesla has 250k+ sales from last reported figures...\n\n*Woosh*\n\nThat means I’m saying that in time instead of the Model 3 making Tesla a household name like Ford Tesla will end up achieving boutique status. On the scale of international car brands Lotus and Tesla would both footnotes in volume\n\n\nOh and if you want to know why I hate Tesla (I wouldn’t use hate, but I do have a bad taste in my mouth about them now) it’s because I was one of the first people behind the Tesla hype train then AP missteps (like calling it AP), overzealous Model 3 banter from Elon, shitty sales tactics (salesperson speaking from a script that involved misleading statement after misleading statement on my Model S test drive), the hilarious model year story (trust us it’s a good thing that we heavily push our current car stock right before adding new features unannounced), and poor QC errorded it all to nothing",
"So they launched the car to where?",
"The OP is the worst, stating the lunar rovers went faster because they escaped Earth's gravity, as if Falcon Heavy didn't escape Earth's gravity. And 700+ people upvoted him.",
"..and you're blocked.",
"I am not a flat earther... I think flat earth is another way of deceiving us. It's a mind game to take us off the trail of the truth.",
"Don’t panic.",
"Shit in what way? I'm talking about capitalism. Shit to work in their factory? Yeh. Shit long term investment? Smoke more crack. ",
"That was awesome and uncomfortable for me at the same time.",
"Nobody in their right mind would buy a Tesla at this point. The cars are absolute garbage and unreliable. An industry expert likened the quality to an early 90's Kia.",
"yeah, just means it's deductible both as an expense for Tesla and \"goodwill\" for SpaceX.",
"The image is correct, they will not fit in the \"average\" distance from the earth to the moon.\n\nThe moon has an elliptical orbit, and it's \"average\" distance is not great enough to fit all the planets. At it's greatest distance, apogee, they fit, but with a small amount of room.\n\nThere are scenarios you can play with that make it more likely for them to fit during the moon's \"average\" distance, but if you take the planets, line them up as they are right now in the solar system relative to each other / the sun, the image is incorrect.",
"What are you on about? \n\nThe comment is just saying Tesla is a shit company that people over worship. There is no \"argument\" about the post. It's a post about Tesla and the guy is saying something negative about Tesla. Just because Tesla had nothing to do with shooting the car up doesn't make the post not about Tesla.\n\n\n",
"They're not. It's not intended to survive intact, it's just gonna hang out for the next billion years or so. They just threw it at the sky really, really hard",
"and the cars are so good because the earth is flat?\n\ndo they only pay in yen or euros? whats the deal i dont get it? is this a meme? or did someone say that and you just reguritate it?",
"Ah, but the point is that you can't prove there *isn't!!*",
"true but extraordinarily rare.",
"Tesla does not spend 0$ advertising. They AstroTurf Reddit all day every day. They literally paid reviewers to change reviews and even strong armed other people with threats of lawsuits.",
"From Wikipedia:\n\nOn the surface of the Earth, the escape velocity is about 11.2 km/s, which is approximately 33 times the speed of sound (Mach 33) and several times the muzzle velocity of a rifle bullet (up to 1.7 km/s). However, at 9,000 km altitude in \"space\", it is slightly less than 7.1 km/s.\n\nSo escape velocity is not always the same for a given mass.\n",
"> and he's going home in style\n\nCue the intro for Heavy Metal!\n\n",
"It's just missing the Loc-nar",
"[\"Think of the rivers of blood, spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of dot.\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl5dlbCh8lY)",
"*The only car that has been in space!*",
"[Link to tweet with orbital diagram](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438)",
"I love my Tesla so much that I parked it in space.",
"Pretty sure ur thinking of the thundercougarfalconbird",
"Efficient? They put a Tesla Roadster into the asteroid belt just because they could, because they were testing the world's most powerful rocket and needed something to put in there. We should be asking who he unceremoniously stuffed in the trunk",
"Escape velocity gets lower the further you get from earth....",
"They have such a big waiting list because they can't keep to their production schedule 😅",
"Actually, about 50% of any recent (years) IKEA catalogue is rendered. And they mix it up on purpose, you can't tell what is a photograph and what is CGI. ",
"Thats got to be worth something.",
"Thanks! I pretty much hope it is, i had classes in a institute for 6 years to learn it!",
"Nice",
"It was full of Easter eggs really, like the \"don't panic\" on the dash screen",
"There’s one time I actually had *too many* struts. It shook itself apart after take off and poor Jeb died.",
"Do you know what the fuck google is? There are literally pages of proof. Jesus Christ ",
"Try 33k genius. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/04/new-car-transaction-price-3-kbb-kelley-blue-book/26690191/",
"I think those are a lot of valid criticisms but you can't discredit this:\n\n>And don't say that he's created companies. \n\nThat is a real accomplishment. That's a huge feat of organization and vision. Even as someone starting with extreme wealth it is by no means a guaranteed outcome.",
"The chromatic aberration (bottom-left) in that first picture *kind* of gives away that whoever wrote that engine doesn't give a fuck about photorealism. ",
"Conspiracy theories don't have to make sense...especially obvious joke conspiracy theories....",
"He protec\n\nHe attac\n\nBut most importantly,\n\nHe u/whicketywack",
"> Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising. Today Tesla has the greatest car commercial of all time\n\nWhat a fucking joke. A paid tesla advertisement saying tesla doesn't spend any money on advertising. \n\n\nTesla/Elon Musk/SpaceX/etc spends a shitload of money on advertising. Reddit is spammed with paid elon musk ads every fucking day. What do you think futurology is? ",
"I was gonna say. I have never seen an ad for them though.",
"My theory is that is actually Matt Damon and now Musk will ask for funds to go save him from Mars. It's a great way to get funding for your project.",
"The same people that would have paid for the concrete weight (to simulate a payload) that would have been sitting there instead of the car?",
"https://www.google.dk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/26/weve-left-junk-everywhere-why-space-pollution-could-be-humanitys-next-big-problem",
"https://www.google.dk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/26/weve-left-junk-everywhere-why-space-pollution-could-be-humanitys-next-big-problem",
"Elon doesn’t have to make him rich, capitalism will give him that opportunity. \n\nEnjoy being bitter on Reddit, brought to you by the capitalism you hate so much. ",
"Regarding op's title: How much does it cost to put a Heavy Rocket with 1.2 ton payload into space? \n\nBecause that's how much Musk spends on Tesla advertising. Plus the price of a used Roadster.",
"You mean an action? The derogatory use of the word retard is an action not an opinion.",
"Marketing doesn't work on truths.",
"Yes, a 50 mil ad budget for tesla. OP is a fanboy that doesn't understand the details likely. Ford spend ~3bil last year in advertising stateside. And that doesn't count showrooms which are dealerships. It's totally apples and oranges because tesla is vertically integrated. \n\nFord has 1-2 more orders of magnitude of sales. It will be interesting to see where that number is in 10 years. It was 3 orders of magnitude 5 years ago. \n\nYou spot things off like you know the result of a company years from now, and you are just as hypothetical and non factual as OP. \n\nIn certain areas tesla density is getting...surprising. I see one most days on my commute. It's certainly less rare than my toy of choice, the rotary engine. ",
"Isn't that the ending of the original Men in Black?",
"Retard what? What are you trying to slow down? You didn't finish your sentence there bud.",
"whaaaaaat?! I now know this is a fact but my brain refuses to comprehend it",
"Except it literally is the Falcon Heavy. The side boosters are just Falcon 9s.",
"In the conference afterwards Elon was pretty happy that the two side boosters survived because of the titanium grid fins on them which are expensive to make. The center core used alluminum grid fins. ",
"Oh yess 😈",
"I don't think it's quite as theory yet. there has to be an experiment or two of propulsion in a vacuum first",
"This reminded me of a meme based on John Wick that said something like \"work until you need no introduction\" ",
"How so?",
"He is talking about sand particles sandblasting the car paint off. I’m talking about the UV light breaking down the color particles in the paint at a molecular level. Pretty sure they are different things. ",
"...I mean what else would you say? Boot up? ",
"Oh so now we’re admitting that Tesla does spend money on advertising. And by the way, I’m not saying things like l I know for sure, the fact that I *don't* short them is supposed to be the implied uncertainty. But I believe it strongly enough that I’m fine with not qualifying the statement out right and just being wrong if it never happens ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)_/¯\n\n\n... Also, wow. Tesla market penetration measured by comparing to how common they are relative to the Apex Seal Destroyer 2000, the bar for TSLA DD is really slipping...",
"That's low Earth orbit, not deep space. There is a big difference.",
"They should have got Solar City to add some solar panels!",
"Actually, if there was a method to charge the battery (solar), that car would theoretically operate.",
"Whew! I thought you were serious. With all of these remakes and sequels, in can't be too sure that they wouldn't remake the movie.",
"Yes that works. My point was that the incremental cost of adding video to an existing telemetry package is minimal compared to putting in an entire telemetry package simply to have video.\n\nIt's like the cost of an upgraded audio package in a new car you are already planning on buying vs. buying a new car simply to have a nice audio system.",
"I don't see why the metals shouldn't last [millions of years](https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10679/how-would-steel-degrade-in-space).",
"We don't know how much it cost SpaceX, maybe $50-70 million, but they would need to launch it whether they put Elon's Tesla in it, a sofa or a block of concrete. It's a maiden flight of a new rocket, he just decided that his car as mass simulator and a few cameras would be fun to add.",
"I doubt it. \n\nWe probably will continue saying \"fire up\" even after all cars become electric. It will be one of those colloquialisms that refers to an obsolete technology, but is so ingrained on our language that we keep saying it.\n\nFull steam ahead? ",
"It's not about proving the physics, that is known. It's about proving what the Falcon Heavy can do. The heavier the payload, the harder it is to lift to a higher orbit. \n\nSo this was a proof that it could lift X weight to an altitude. Then proved it could sit for 6 hours without it's fuel freeezing. Then proof that it could get enough velocity to head to the asteroid belt. ",
"Nissan has them beat, there is a pathfinder on the surface of mars. Where it will someday save Matt Damon.",
"Pretty sure SpaceX is a privately owned company, and Tesla is publicly traded, so they literally could not trade resources. But nice speculation.",
"He replied in the wrong universe.",
":(",
"Cool Runnings might be the most important documentary of this century. ",
"More like a moon averaged out.",
"The aluminum frame will last a long time but the carbon fibre of the body will disintegrate over time. ",
"> the way that no other game can recreate that investment and real tension....\n\nTry playing Bitcoin.",
"For fucks sake",
"Didn't the main core hit the water at 500km/h",
"My friend, it is a meme that grew from a joke born from satire that may or may not have come from a person genuinely convinced that this was the case. Ofc you don't have to be smart to like rick and morty. [You just have to avoid being a plumbus.](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/to-be-fair-you-have-to-have-a-very-high-iq-to-understand-rick-and-morty)",
"What would aliens think of this",
"Huge fan, I just can’t help but wonder how this was approved by the government/if it needed approval ... I know it’s a test flight but sending a literal car into space with a mannequin inside blasting music on a loop seems a little too insane to be compliant with space regulations (then again I know nothing) ",
"Somewhere out in Space....a dummy in a car is listening to David Bowie....its just floating around out there. That is both cool and somewhat strange...its just up there.",
"How can you think this is the greatest!",
"Can anyone confirm for me if this is an actual image, like, from space? ",
"Elon's empire is supported by $4.9 billion in government funding http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html",
"[Small album](https://imgur.com/gallery/ATPAN) of screenshots from the livestream \n",
"Definitely sarcasm (...unless this is sarcasm)",
"Yes it is! It is from this video. https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M",
"I don't *actually* think they did this as an ad for a car. This incredible achievement is coincidentally an awesome car commercial for Tesla because they chose to use the car instead of a concrete block (genius PR for both companies IMO). My point was that SpaceX getting to the point of completing this launch has definitely cost them billions.",
"First get the toddler out of office, *then* try to pretend 2017 never happened. ",
"“Greatest”. This is another Tesla trick to distract from the fact they are a shit company.",
"If you buy the wrong options. ",
"an orbit intercepting the asteroid belt doesn't sound ideal, but it's a question, maybe the chance of hitting an asteroid is extremely low",
"Its a test, you don't put hundred of millions worth of satellites on something elon musk said has 50/50 chance of working or blow up. The car is there only to simulate weight.",
"Never. I’ve got my towel. What could go wrong?",
"Space is so damn awesome and terrifying. All I want is for us to develop long-distance space travel before we blow each other up. ",
"And somewhere a few GM execs are mumbling to themselves why they never thought to do this via their Northrop Grumman division. That lunar rover could have been wearing a Chevy bowtie.",
"This is literally the stuff an investor should be worried about.",
"Oh sweet, this is just a few hours' drive from me. Thanks!",
"Such as?",
"Yeah but if you count ad dollars per battery mAh, then Toyota spends more.\n\nOr if you count ad dollars per maximum distance one of their cars has travelled.\n\nBut if you sort them alphabetically, then Tesla comes first again.\n\nIt's a really close call I'm afraid. ",
"Some say if you're good at what you do, it pays for itself.\n\nTake me for example: I'm good at procrastinating and it pays off in poorer grades and high anxiety.",
"Even fucking PRICING their product is part of their marketing. You think they don't give any thought to that? ",
"I’m saying that the company Tesla, did not launch a fucking rocket at all.",
"I think you forgot what thread you're responding in. We weren't talking about how much the launch cost. The start of this comment thread was:\n\n> They don’t spend money on ads, but if we are calling this an ad... then they spend billions on advertising...\n\nI was saying that the cost of SpaceX getting to the point of putting the car in space has cost them billions. Apparently Elon said the FH project cost them $500 million. This is obviously not including the cost of developing the Falcon first, only sticking them together to turn them into the Falcon Heavy.",
"I meant to say that he owns the controlling interest. That’s what I get for using the Internet late at night. ",
"Such as engineers... SpaceX people might work on solving Tesla's problems and vice versa. Literally one Google Research away.\nhttps://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-09-07/from-software-to-staffers-tesla-and-spacex-share-more-than-musk",
"I was talking about the thread you linked specifically as a defense. If it's not relevant, why did you link it? ",
"there was a live action french heavy metal series a couple of years back and there is a live action hollywood film in development hell, but its never going to see the light of day",
"Average Photoshop skills.",
"We do master cloning. I guess.",
"Meh. Ok, fine. ",
"No, hence why we were joking about it. We knew the footage was so unbelievably good looking that we were already anticipating the flat Earth/Hollywood comments",
"I'm not actually sure, which is great because I don't believe I'd be allowed to speak about it! ",
"Wow that's amazing that they managed to get rid of any air pockets, lubricants and outgassing materials from the Tesla car they just fired up into space. If you can put a space suit on a person then you can house a camera in durable material and rig it onto a gimbal. ",
"The batteries are expected to die out before Mars I can imagine, honestly not sure on the details but I'm sure our social media team will release any interesting footage they can",
"Makes sense when you're a billionaire and you can do something like this.",
"Makes sense when you're a billionaire and you can do something like this.",
"Why spend money on advertising when internet fanboys will do it for you for free?",
"Believe me, we were all in the office watching it over and over and could not believe what we were seeing/what we had done.",
"Did they only have the budget to radiation harden a camera with lower resolution or did they manufacture a radiation proof camera and decide to only give it 720p capability? ",
"I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I think a thank you is in order?",
"Ah that makes more sense.",
"> Maybe the FH specific portion was less than a billion, but it's obviously built off of the existing Falcon rockets, and there's no fucking way the whole endeavor has been under a billion.\n\nThe link says pretty much exactly what I just said in the previous response.",
"Oh that car could get wrecked by space debris",
"Elon musk: getting rid of his enemies the most expensive way possible since 2018.",
"We would have put 4k on if we had time I imagine",
"It's also built off computers, so call it a trillion? You're not making logical sense. ",
"Go to rockets full",
"You must not have any friends. Active in WSB, shitty memes, and got bit by the bit drop. Niiiice. \n\nThrow in a few retarded strawmans like that and your a modern red hero! Gotta dodge the facts as hard as you can!",
"I suggested making the spacesuit a VR experience, not sure that would help though",
"Soon you could be in the same position as star man",
"Isn't global warming their advertising? ",
"yes\n\npages of proof",
"With the most fuel efficient window, not necessarily the “best”",
"That would be a cool video! I understand they might not want to talk about a failure on such a spectacular day but EVERYONE WAS CURIOUS. ",
"If SpaceX spent money building/developing computers specifically for the FH (which I'm sure they did), then that would indeed be part of the cost. They would have to pay for hardware from 3rd party manufacturers, or pay for materials and labor to build their own. They would also pay for all of the R&D to program and test everything. That's not to say that the development of the technology prior to SpaceX using it is included in the cost. \n\nI'll make this very simple for you. It has cost SpaceX billions of dollars to build and test the Falcons to get them to a consistently usable state, and another $500 million to stick 3 of them together and call it the Falcon Heavy.",
"You can fix that problem with more struts ",
"Uh oh...you just said:\n\n> If SpaceX spent money building/developing computers **specifically for the FH**\n\nSo funds for Falcon 9 don't count. ",
"The whole universe compressed into a [neutron star](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=density+neutron+star+in+kg%2Fm%5E3) fits [inside Saturn's orbit](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=\\(mass+universe%2F8*10%5E16kg*3%2F4%2Fpi\\)%5E1%2F3*m+%3C+diameter+Saturn%27s+orbit). Space is big.",
"To be fair they have Elon Musk,that's enough advertising for a company.",
"And then you and I paid $100,000,000 stolen from our last savings for launching it, like we are forced to pay NASA $5,000,000,000 every year for the Space Shuttle Program ... that ended 6 years ago. Total FRAUD.",
"did you...read the second half of my comment?",
"And how many have they produced since 1997? Probably about 4-5000.\n\nAnd when did I say they're not on the cutting edge? I'm just saying they don't have the same ability to mass produce EVs",
"Tesla’s new motto should be “Our cars are out of this world!”",
"ah I see. I had only read a few headlines about it, didn't really know what was happening. I didn't realize the \"payload\" was something that would get ejected into orbit and left out there... I thought they were just using a fancy word for cargo that was going to stay on the ship.",
"They also had that huge press conference for the semi where they gave people rides in the roadster. That would be part of an advertising budget. Probably a million dollar event.",
"I'd like to officially congratulate you on your mastery of the english language and keyboard input tool.",
"Oh man we really hit a nerve didn’t we?\n\nCalled me, a black immigrant to the US a red hero, man I hope your day job isn’t Reddit sleuthing... \n\nAnd stop projecting with the friends thing, I have friends, you think all redditors are lonely neckbeards like you because *you're* prone to outbursts like this and can’t get anyone to be *your* friend ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"Man this is reddit! Type first read later!",
"Dude, I can't wait for literal Space Races",
"Oops. It’s can stay as it’s pretty easy to accidentally get a gravity assist *off dat phat ass* /s sorry op",
"i thought you were backing me up against stupid OP, then i realized you were stupid OP. the two sides join forces, my favorite type of movie",
"[pedantic](http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pedantic)",
"Yea - I don't know how anyone who's dug in to 9/11 can just \"give it up\". \n\n[I mean come on...](https://youtu.be/6ySaAP6Vm44)",
"The car doesn't have to function. The camera and any positioning equipment does. ",
"Are they going to land it on Mars? ",
"I think we both know what you were trying to imply with that cute \"it's called investing\" bit",
"Cool. And you consider this the same as Tesla paying for the launch?",
"k will do",
"This must be a troll account. My point is that Musk is not the god redditors portray him to be. ",
"wouldn't the tire need to hold in an additional 14.7 psi?",
"That's some real Sirens of Titan theory there.",
"I've been downvoted much worse for much more reasonable things. I'm used to it.",
"thanks...\n\nnow lets check out all the ads from tesla!",
"Oh sorry, I misspoke. Musk didn’t meet his goals. Only made [260 model 3’s](http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/02/technology/tesla-model-3-production/index.html). \n\nCan you actually provide some links to your arguments? Preferably those that aren’t from treehugger.com (that’s actually the name of the site). \n\nAlso any post about Tesla will end with Reddit sucking off Musk, it’s just the name of the game my friend. \n",
"I've tried to look at Venus a few times through my telescope. It always looks like an insanely bright, searingly yellow ball of fire. If I put a stong filter on, sometimes I can see Venus in a phase like the moon, which is pretty cool",
"Ha! The planets would disentegrate and mash together and maybe form a superplanet. That or get absorbed into the sun.",
"He loses money on every car, correct??? Our government picks up the rest???? I’m not cool with any of this if that is true",
"Two Texases. ",
"Maybe but the graphic makes it look so shifty. Like they intentionally increased the tilt of the axis to make the graphic. ",
"That's a great goal to have, I hope you continue to peruse it! I went to Boston University for mechanical engineering and then worked as a manufacturing engineer for a small company outside Boston for a little over a year before applying to SpaceX.",
"Yes.",
"Yeah but it looks like they altered the tilt of the axis to fit it in there maybe. Just looks off to me, and shady, and slightly untrustworthy.\n\nEdit: The degree of axis tilt is what makes me distrust the original graphic. Here is an illustration of how far off the axis tilt is: https://i.redd.it/q6j3yrq8fue01.png",
"I'd like to know where you get this idea that \"sand\" is going to hit it at all. More than likely, no debris will hit it for tens of thousands of years.",
"Anyone else seeing the opening sequences of Heavy Metal?",
"Yeah as I posted that I was afraid I used the wrong term. My mention of being an engineer at SpaceX was just to confirm that I'm aware of the company being valued at a stock price because we're offered some form of private stock in the company",
"You have a good point there.",
"A car floating with nothing to propel it forward takes nine months to make it to Mars?",
"Could be. I have no idea and am mostly just talking out of my a--;",
"They are where amazon was at ~15 years ago. They’re just burning through money right now. It really all depends on your faith in musk and if he can pull it off. They have a higher market cap than either gm or ford because people see them being VERY profitable in the future. The way people look at it, 5 years you probably won’t be seeing many gains, but 8-10+ could either see the end of Tesla, or Tesla becoming one of the largest and most profitable companies there is. I know this doesn’t really give a solid answer but there isn’t one. Personally, I would invest, because Musk seems to have a way of making these things work. Right now the only issue is his ability to delivery model 3s on time. They only shipped 2000 cars last year out of 600000+ preorders. He promised to reach 10000 produced per week by this March, which is not going to happen. They’re having assembly line problems. Bottom line is it’s pretty risky, but the payout could be massive. Let me know if you have any other questions I love talking about this stuff.",
"Fair point. The illustration is just that, an illustration.",
"That part is crazy to me. That the moon looks as big as it does in the sky. It really makes it's size more apparent if I can get my brain to recognize that.",
"If it happens often, maybe there is a pattern",
"“Seems that we are both pathetically insignificant, and miraculously important at the same time.” epic quote",
"You are technically correct. The best kind.",
"Presumably whoever makes the components have 720p on hand and needed to go make 1080? No clue though",
"Just making an ad costs money too. This is such a silly argument.",
"Apparently they copied a viral YouTube video from 2009 for a taxidermist....they didn't. Just banking on the absurdist ads to go viral",
"I wrote that because that guy didn't seem to realize the difference between marginal cost and net profit. Tesla isn't making a profit as a corporation, but that doesn't mean they don't make a bigger profit for each car sold than other companies. The reason they aren't making a profit is because they're investing in R&D and production capacity ",
"All it took was a little push",
"It’s a shame I had to come down this far to have even a hint of what this post was about. Thank you 🙏🏽 ",
"[This](https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/7vtjqp/just_two_rockets_landing_simultaneously/) is what I was referring to. ;)",
"Yeah but why did Red Bull sponsor him? In order to get recognition and sell Red Bull. ",
"thank you photoshop friend",
"No, I don't think it will ever get close enough to be captured into Mars orbit.",
"Same lol",
"I was thinking about the Heavy Metal theme song, but you’re right; it’s Radar Rider for the Vette landing sequence.",
"You're clearly a troll, so I'll stop responding here but for others who are looking for some disambiguation here are a few easy to digest resources for you to learn about the uncertainty principle, which is **exactly** about only being able to know one of a complementary pair of physical parameters (e.g. momentum vs position, which was the joke I referenced) with any precision at a time. \n\n* [What is the Uncertainty Principle? | Minute Physics | 1:03 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vc-Uvp3vwg)\n\n* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle - *\"Introduced first in 1927, by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, it states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa.\"*\n\n* [Understanding the Uncertainty Principle | Space Time | 14:48 ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqaWyZsEtY)",
"$0 in conventional advertising ... ",
"Test flights like this are standard. Usually, then payload is just concrete. The flight would have happened one way or another. Elon just decided to use a more interesting dummy load.",
"the car that burns no fuel used more fuel on one rocket launch than every tesla on earth saved in the past 2 years. So overall carbon footprint neutral?",
"This is a pretty nice commercial for zero dollars - \n \nhttps://youtu.be/k4JyB-X31Ok",
"Their advertisements are their achievements",
"Mariner 4 ran into a cloud of space dust after passing by Mars.\n\n\"The cosmic dust detector registered 17 hits in a 15 minute span on 15 September, part of an apparent micrometeoroid shower which temporarily changed the spacecraft attitude and probably slightly damaged the thermal shield. The spacecraft systems were reactivated in October 1967 for attitude control tests in support of the Mariner 5 mission. On 7 December the gas supply in the attitude control system was exhausted, and on December 10 and 11 a total of 83 micrometeoroid hits were recorded which caused perturbation of the attitude and degradation of the signal strength. On 21 December 1967 communications with Mariner 4 were terminated.\"\n\nhttps://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1964-077A\n",
"Why don’t the tires explode?",
"https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/opo0713b/\n\n\nWell Saturn's rings are indeed tilted. Not as much as in the OP but they do have a noticeable tilt. ",
"Aliens will find this in 813 million years.\n\nI think they will just steal our ideas.\n\nMaybe we should have booby trapped the thing.",
"Is it just going to float around the solar system forever? Or at least until somebody grabs it for bragging rights. What a prize!",
"Seriously what the fuck are you on about? ",
"I feel like you can turn that on it's head. There is so much of space that hasn't been observed directly, that the odds of anything you find being different from anything else you've seen could be pretty high. Sure, they spend a lot of time flying though nothingness, but there's literally a whole universe of possibilities waiting to be discovered eventually.",
"He can write this off as a tax credit no less",
"To be fair, all the gas giants have rings to some extent. Saturn's are just the most visible ",
"I'm talking about your opinion ",
"I think it just ran its course. It's been so long now that no one is really talking about it. You know the funniest thing about him is that he posts all this nutty stuff on FB and when people try to counter him he always has answers no matter what. (Best one is chemtrails- we have a friend who is a jet mechanic and has worked in many airports on several models of jets. He tried to explain how the physics of contrails work and how he's never seen any evidence of chemtrail equipment and our friend is all \"they hide it really well\"). But on FB his Mom is a nutty ass right winger with endless Hillary and Bernie and Pelosi or whoever conspiracy theories and jake will try and talk sense in to her but she will say things like \"were you there?\" HAHA. It's weird that jake can't see the connection.",
"And just like every other car commercial, your experience with it will be vastly different than advertized",
"Lmao I know, I'm just returning the smartass courtesy.",
"I'm ready to bet 2 bucks that all of that was considered. ",
"Taxes? The government didn't launch this. SpaceX is a privately held company. The falcon heavy was paid for with internal funds from the company. The only part that the government owns is the launchpad at cape canaveral, but SpaceX pays to lease that. ",
"The chance of hitting an asteroid is *astronomically* low (pun very much intended). The asteroid belt is extremely spread out unlike how it's often depicted in science books and fiction stories. You could fly through blind and not hit anything.",
"You should do the same for Blii Gates and Zuckerberg. People on reddit see them as gods upon us, with charities or I don't know what. There is too much PR I can't trust anything anymore.",
"Even if it hits something the mass of the car is so extremely tiny compared to what it could hit it's irrelevant.",
"Going further is extremely easy... it will be going forever until it hits something. \n\nThe reason for this is that the 2nd stage run out of fuel, it's way harder to get where you want than just go somewhere far away.",
"TIL that one swipe of my scroll wheel is about 1/2 a million kilometers \n",
"Haha oh, well thank you for that",
"I'm making fun of you because you are referencing the uncertainty principle ( which you have incorrectly defined above ) when the conversation was about quantum state super position.\n\n\nTo put it in terms I hope you can understand, it's like someone talking about magnetism and you attempt to correct them by spewing facts (incorrectly) about gravity. ",
"I hope to study aerospace engineering in college. My engineering teacher said that if that doesn’t go well, then mechanical engineering is a good fallback. So I guess that’s my plan for now. I don’t have anything set in stone, so I’ll see how my interests develop. \n\nAnyway, thanks for your input! It was nice chatting with you.",
"Ehh maybe in early 2000s. Not so much now",
"They could have made this in CGI for WAY cheaper\n",
"Me? You're the one saying every launch is the sum cost of every launch before it. Using your bizzare logic, each launch is more expensive that the previous one, because they \"learned something\" or \"developed something new\" based on it. ",
"I don't think 'unfathomable' means what you think it does. that imaged just fathomed quite a bit.",
"Shilling for them for free. Congratulations, you're a sucker.",
"Ahhh gotcha ",
"Will reddit ever stop sucking Elon Musk's dick? ",
"I see said the blind man",
"No worries - actually you probably recalled correctly - the misinformation about where the car was actually going was astounding.",
"Does anyone know how long the car will last out there? Does metal rust/decay in space? ",
"Considering it costs $10,000 extra fuel per pound of weight you send up, I'm gonna say it's not as simple as you think. \n\nBut I mean I'm no astronaut, just a pilot. ",
"The only way this could be better is if they had rigged some animatronics into the dummy. The occasional salute, wave or mirror adjustment....",
"Tesla - when you don't care if your wheels leave the ground. ",
"> pendant",
"Your registration papers say this car is registered to a Mr Musk, but your license says “Heisenberg”... how do you explain that??",
"That was an ad you doofus.",
"well if your periapsis exists, odds are you have an apoapsis. i guess you could be orbiting an egg nearly circularly and thus have the apoapsis be the part that intersects the orbited body, but in general...",
"Pretty much, yeah, probably until the sun dies or someone picks it up!",
"If you tap the little “This is how fast light travels” icon in the bottom right and let it go on its own, it would take 5 hrs and 45 minutes to scroll from left to right if you just let your phone/computer go. This means it takes light 5hrs and 45 minutes to get from the Sun to Pluto, but it only takes light just over 8 minutes to get to Earth. Incredible.",
"Did Elon Musk just claim to have better CGI than reality? \n\nI...I believe him",
"It’s not that it costs $10,000 extra per pound of payload, it’s just that a rocket that has a max payload of 1000 lbs would cost roughly $10,000,000, regardless of if it was carrying a full payload. You can’t just send up 1 less pound to save $10,000, you would still need to pay the $10 million cost of the rocket.",
"I'll just say it, we shouldn't let's companies advertise their brands in space billboards. ",
"Checkmate Jeep",
"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too quick. I will catch it.",
"Remind me what the purpose of this stunt was? How much money could have gone to something actually useful rather than something entertaining like this? ",
"how are the tires still inflated.",
"That is talking about Earth's orbit you fucking idiot. This car isn't orbiting around Earth you fat, old piece of shit chav",
"Are they selling posters and T-shirts yet? \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWMPe3wF9jQ",
"It's out of this world!",
"The Falcon Heavy had it's first test flight, and because of a high chance of failure (the thing goes boom boom) they don't load it with high valuable things (basically anything useful), instead they use fun stuff. And Elon being the awesome guy he is, sent up his personal Tesla Roadster, because why not?",
"Yes, and they spend that on marketing, not advertising.",
"It's not an ad. You're right, it is a silly argument, because it relies on people not knowing what an ad is. If people know what an ad is, they know it's correct that Tesla doesn't do ads.",
"Ohh I see. Thanks for the clear explanation instead of downvoting me. I dont understand that.",
"Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.",
"What will really fuck you up is that if the universe is infinite, then there is infinite space which means infinite matter. ",
"Wait, one person made 260 cars all by himself? Gosh, that's pretty super-human! I mean I haven't even built one car on my own. My dad rebuilt a car and it took him like 5 years. To do 260 in three months all by yourself is incredible! He must be a *god*!\n\nIt's funny that you ask for links when you didn't provide your own. And when you deny simple factual matters that actually happened as if they're \"arguments,\" or think that someone needs to provide links to show that you're the one unnecessarily focusing on the person you complain about people unnecessarily focus on. You're the one who brought up the ego in the first place, and your post is literally all circlejerk. Sorry for making you feel bad.\n\nAlso, that's old information from when the car wasn't even being delivered to the public yet, but let's not let facts get in the way of your personal circlejerk. So no, I'm not going to provide any links, since you're not interested in reality and not worth the time it would take to copy and paste them, because I know you won't look at them anyway.",
"Hey, I'm not sure where you got this notion that he was born rich but have a listen here starting at 9:07: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_et1N-qzk&t=547s \nHe emigrated to Canada on his own, lived on a $1 a day, and paid for his own college tuition. He then dropped out when he was at Stanford to start his first company (Zip2) with his brother, which is where he made his first fortune. \nIf your premise for hating on Elon is because he was born rich and life was easy for him, you are wrong. (Btw, even if you were right I don't agree that just because you're born rich you deserve no respect for whatever accomplishments you achieved)",
"I was in space in that exact spot. Now please present evidence that what I said is fake :)",
"Marketing is in the report. Marketing is an umbrella under which advertising falls. They do not spend on advertising. Show me an ad they've paid to air somewhere. I've asked this many times and nobody has. Why is it so hard if you all think it should be so easy?",
"Deploying the solar panels would have added complexity to a test mission that's fairly straightforward. It doesn't help SpaceX for that car to be transmitting for forever and the antennas required to do so probably would have created other problems/needs (higher power output, other licensing requirements).",
"Model 3 starts at 25k in my state, less if you're a low-income individual. 35k minus rebates. And it's not a 3 year wait.",
"It's much better if you imagine Don Felder's Heavy Metal playing the the back ground.",
"I didn't say the Falcon Heavy wasn't 3 Falcon 9s (the core booster is also Falcon 9 derived, but heavily modified). I said that because all of Falcon 9's development was done separately, for the purposes of the supposition that the Falcon Heavy is just an expensive Tesla ad the Falcon 9 should be treated as a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) part. When building something using COTS parts, you don't include the cost of developing those parts as part of the costs of your thing, only the costs of the COTS parts themselves.",
"in Test flights rockets are usually being loaded by a simulated weight similar to what will be launched in future \"real\" missions. Usually thats something not very valuable since its a test flights, and testflights tend to also go South at times so it would be bad to lose something of high value. \n\nSpaceX decided to have some fun with it and elected Elon's Tesla to be said Simulated weight for the rocket. \n\nGenerally i must say, im a total fan of SpaceX's humor.",
"I just fixed a typo (I said takeoff instead of reentry at one point). I hope that didn't make things too confusing for you.",
"Nope....Tide.",
"did you like that, Dave? Because I *did* know i couldn't do that",
"*AH*\n\n*HA*\n\n*HA*\n\n*HA*",
"Buy tide",
"Solar wind ",
"they might not be. I dont think the car is resting on the tires. and tires can still look inflated when they are not supporting any weight. ",
"Kinda irrelevant to what he was responding to. The person said there is no resistance in space. He countered that there is in fact, some resistance.",
"[Its free real estate] (http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/021/311/its-free-real-estate-2804942.jpg)",
"Just tie some balloons to him and it'll be fine.",
"look how much of an ocean earth is",
"The game everything explores this concept very well.",
"it also had the benefit of sending up their new space suit to test that in exposed space as well. So there is that. \n\nPlus, its good publicity for space exploration, which is badly needed. ",
"I did exploring, it was tense and pulled a few hundred mill per day",
"But marketing ≠ advertising",
"Keep licking that boot, will you? OOOH YEAH Daddy Musk is lovin' it.",
"If it was registered in CA I’d bet my left shoe they’d want their registration payment no excuses.",
"I’m CEO, Bitch! ",
"I’m a wild man officer, I can’t drive 55...K",
"Really? Because when I carry extra passengers it costs more in fuel, and my aeroplanes burning fuel much more efficiently that a rocket literally igniting raw fuel and firing it out through back. ",
"Chad Musk forces Tesla fanbios to spam for him. ~£%~",
"I imagine they take the valve cores out of them. ",
"Have you seen /r/futurology or /r/teslamotors\n\n\nThey out right deny facts",
"Yes!",
"Showing an interest is one thing. Is it not? Showing you support disproven idiocy is entirely different ",
"The harm comes from his gullibles not accepting facts ",
"Enough mass there to spawn a brown dwarf?",
"What's funny is the tesla idiots like eight rounds reject reality as much as the dumpster fires. ",
"It's an erotic Sonic!",
"What a very nasty person you are.\n\nDo you always get this foul-mouthed when you have a weak argument?",
"I was thinking they probably stripped the car as much as possible. Especially the battery power packs.",
"Is that a thing? r/ofcoursethatsathing",
"Actually I don't but I probably should. No, I WILL!",
"Bet ol' Voldy wishes he'd thought of that.\n\n",
"The evidence is out there and very well known. Do your own diligence or ask someone who you trust to explain it to you. Saying that Tesla has some very \"creative\" borderline alchemist accountants would be a little too on the nose to be honest. The way they structure their business it's all about generating a big revenue and they use several tricks to inflate this number while many indicators are highly troubling. Like the fact that Mr. CEO himself is setup to get benefits based on these cooked revenue milestones. ",
"Holy crap, 124K upvotes in under a full day.",
"http://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7spkqa/happy_2018_everybody_lets_take_a_moment_to_recall/",
"http://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7spkqa/happy_2018_everybody_lets_take_a_moment_to_recall/",
"http://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7spkqa/happy_2018_everybody_lets_take_a_moment_to_recall/",
"We can hope! ",
"Musk people don't like facts ",
"That's true and a good point. Hard to say exactly where a planet's \"edge\" is though.",
"Musk people don't like facts \n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/7spkqa/happy_2018_everybody_lets_take_a_moment_to_recall/",
"> What the fuck are we? Why are we so small? What else is out there? Will we ever know?\n\nWe are essentially ambulatory solar batteries, like the other animals that roam this planet. We are an attempt to stave off entropy by being little pockets of energy that strive to harness yet more energy. It's ironic that our actions only create more entropy rather than to preserve against it.",
"We found the true nemesis star!",
"Aw gees. Do people honestly not get sarcasm when not blatantly signalled? Will add another /s",
"Is this to scale?",
"Tesla doesn't spend on advertising because it already cannot keep up to demand...by a long shot.",
"For example, a 2500 lb Skyhawk carries around 300 lbs of fuel, meaning it has a mass ratio of around 13%. The Falcon Heavy carries around 2.8 million pounds of fuel and weighs a total of 3.1 million pounds, meaning it has a mass ratio of around 90%. This means that the majority of the fuel is actually used to accelerate the rest of the fuel instead of the actual payload, which accounts for only about 1% of the total mass of the rocket. You would have to fill up the fuel tanks completely, even if you didn’t want to use the entire payload capacity.",
"There's one of those in Gainesville, FL!",
"Nice! I wonder what all those flat earth morons think about it?",
"Re-read my comment.\n\n",
"In other news, Elon Musk doesn't trust human lives to this rocket. The only ones who are going to taste the Ceres salsa are robots, and human clones raised in space.",
"What if we are just protons in a much larger entity?",
">weak vs no argument. \n\nSenile bum\n\n",
"Yes I added an image and edit to illustrate the tilt shift",
"Evolutionary Nanites + crypto mining => asteroids turn into grey goo devoted to cryptocurrency.",
"Scale up to make a hydrogen nucleus the size of the sun, the electron orbit will be about 320 au - or 10.5 times further out than Neptune.\n\nEdit: fixed the math \n",
"Probably not. During the live stream of the \"star man\" you could see that the earth was getting small enough to fit horizontally in the frame of the camera, which should mean it's farther away than the orbit of the ISS which already is prohibitively small against the night sky. The car would be probably a pixel at best.\n\nFor example, [here's how big the ISS looked when moving between the earth and sun during the solar eclipse](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lepQoU4oek4/maxresdefault.jpg) (credit to Destin Sandlin / Smarter every day / /u/mrpennywhistle)\n\nThe car will be getting only farther and farther away.",
"It will actually reach a top speed of around 82,000Mph/132,000kph in about 2.5 years time.\n\nCurrently the fastest it has gone is about 28,000mph, which still puts it ahead of even the Lunar and Mars rovers.\n\nFastest car in the (known) universe indeed.",
"No. While you typed that, oceans rose, people starved, and species went extinct. \n\nIf we are just focused on the games we're gonna run out of the bread.",
"Ah. True. \n\nBut.... Life begins at conception! A fetus has an age! Umm... Math in alternate dimensions may behave differently than in ours! The millennium was 2001 because there was no year 0! Uh, umm, any more straws I can grasp at in desperation?\n",
"Some commenters debate the \"average\" distance to the moon shown in the graphic, but yeah it is pretty close to scale. Another reference point: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1198/9510/products/DSC02600_1024x1024.JPG",
"Everything I've seen about elon and how he handles Spacex and Tesla indicate he cuts as many corners as he can. he has raw material imported to his shop and designs, cuts, molds, assembles, and tests everything either at the same facility or extremely close to it. This cuts down on the cost of shipping parts or materials across states or continents so that he can offer the most competitive prices while pushing out similar or superior performance.\n\nReclaiming used boosters is part of this cost saving. Why build more boosters if you can spend something like a third of the cost of a booster shell in reclaiming the one you have? Plus it looks awesome and is essentially free advertising.",
"I think you raise some valid points, and I think I know what you’re getting at. \n\nI think your distinction between advertising and marketing rests on tangibility. I.e. if the business is marketing something to me that is a product currently on sale that I can actually, then it’s an advertisement. And vice versa if it is not tangible (a concept car or a loaner to a celebrity) then you would consider that marketing. \n\nI would refer to the latter as brand or lifestyle marketing - appealing to the emotional side of the customer to think ‘oh wow this manufacturer showed this concept car, what a great brand’, or ‘wow David Beckham has that car on his drive, I’d like to be like him!’\n\nUltimately, whether you’re marketing a specific product, or idea, or lifestyle, the desired result is the same - you want to drive interest and generate sales! If the route to that is more subtle than a billboard or a TV slot, I don’t think it makes it any less of an advertisement",
"You have made a claim without evidence, so I will dismiss it without evidence. You also made the claim that this launch is fake without evidence.\n\nCan you back up either of your claims?\n\nEDIT: \"a claim\", not \"an claim\".",
"if elon musk can really start a space race among companies and countries ....things will get really interesting in the next 50 years.\n\nconsider me hyped :D \n\nplus with spaceX being able to cheaply send stuff to the asteroid belt \"now\" ...let the mining begin! Mars colonists, Belters... seems like The Expanse to me ",
"If you weren't cheating it should've taken you ~5.5 hours :)",
"\"and the ones there are look fake as hell.\"\n\nwhat are you talking about? You have nothing to compare the photos of earth to so what reason do you have to insist they look fake? Is it because they don't match your preheld assumption of what they should look like?\n\nThe reason there are few good shots of the ENTIRE earth from space is because there is so little to learn, but there are an awful lot of shots of part of earth from space, they're stitched together to form maps and to collect weather data.\n\nThe idea that the moon mission was faked has been debunked so many times, as for the ISS, there you go again with \"looks\". What do you expect it to look like, and what do you have to compare it to to lead you to that conclusion?",
"Can you demonstrate the validity of anything you just said?",
"You’re giving my boy Elon even more publicity. Thank you very much. \n",
"Just stop... ",
"Happy to be a part of it i guess. \n\nCynicism is such a terrible quality. ",
"If you can spot a ~2 meter diameter object at an average distance of a few AU, you've got some ~~fucking magical~~ mighty impressive hardware on your hands. \n\nBy my math there isn't a telescope in existence that can see the big(~5m diameter) white falcon second stage by the time it gets as far as *the moon*, let alone a little red car out at *the asteroid belt*.\n\nMakes me wonder why we bothered sending Dawn to Vesta and Ceres, cause your telescope can see those surfaces in higher resolution than Dawn can, and it was actually orbiting the the suckers.\n\n\n",
"Reminds me of the opening of Heavy Metal.",
"Yeah but Tesla didn't spend a cent on it.\n\n",
"A lot of space photos look like bad CG because they have similar lighting characteristics. There isn't any environment for light to scatter around in and bounce off of, so you don't end up with soft shadows. Either something is in sunlight, or it isn't. Same thing with cheap CG, rendering something with \"global illumination\" is a good order of magnitude more computer intensive than something without.",
"Yea to be honest I was sure if he founded it or invested super heavily into it right after it started. I wasn’t wrong though, founding it is a way to “get involved in” it.",
"Colonization and visiting are two very different things.\n\nSetting foot in Australia and then leaving and not going back for ages is very different from colonizing America.\n\nNow it remains to be seen whether SpaceX will in fact colonize Mars, but comparing that concept to the moon landings is pretty unfair. ",
"can u imagine doing uber in the space, a guy from saturn cancel you when you are half way there, dammmm!\n",
"What’s the APR? I can put about $300 down.",
"*260 per week, at the end of last quarter. Not total. They made about ten times that number total(~2450)\n\nLook i'm not saying that Tesla aren't having production issues, they clearly are, but you are being misleading there. \n\nThere's a big difference between missing a deadline and not delivering at all. See Falcon Heavy as an example. It's definitely behind schedule, but SpaceX did end up delivering, and at a lower cost and higher performance than initially promised. And it's development was in most part funded by the company's revenue, not loans or government grants. \n\nTesla had similar issues in 2012 with Model S, yet have since got production up to over 50,000 per year. \nI'd also point out that they make a profit of around $25k per Model S sold, the company overall doesn't make a profit because all that money has gone into Gigafactory, Model 3, and Supercharger expansion. ",
"Wow. Thanks, it's stuff like that which is why I'm subscribed to /r/space",
"Ur probably right that it’s insignificant but I remember reading somewhere that it costs like an extra x amount of money for fuel for every 1 pound of payload or something like that",
"https://blog.caranddriver.com/spacex-successfully-launches-tesla-roadster-and-a-dummy-named-starman-into-space-video/",
"Excellent info, thank you!",
"> Musk is not the god\n\nDisappointing to learn, but i have a whole pantheon of other mortals elevated to divine status that i can still worship.\n\nBig Daddy Insprucker, Gwynne too-hotwell, the Fantastic Mr Mueller, Sir Scott the manly, Chris 'madlad' Hadfield, Salvatore T. “Tory” Bruno. And also one who? shall not be named, nor worshiped, but acknowledged nonetheless.",
"Wait, I thought your argument was that it's not an ad because Tesla didn't pay to air it anywhere? Are you now saying this well produced, slick video praising their product isn't an ad to begin with?",
"It's not actually that much harder to get that far out than it is to get to Mars, especially because being very close to a planet while burning makes every burn more effective due to the Oberth effect. The hardest part by far is getting something into Earth orbit in the first place.",
"Maybe? It's hard to say. Car paint is different than the dye on those flags and the decay process from UV for a lot of pigments involves oxygen, so being in a vacuum may slow the process quite a lot or cause it to proceed in a very different way than it would in an atmosphere.",
"Half of reddit became r/space yesterday",
"So, let me get this straight. first you don't take the time to educate yourself on the real orbit of the Tesla and you are proven wrong about your comment about Earth orbit so then you change it up and now you've included all of space and the Earth ecosphere and climate change..... Why don't you just include racism. you know if people never went out and explored they would never have to deal with other types of people therefor, no racism...... Did you graduate from Trump University ? lmao",
"I'm going to guess roughly 450 days just eyeballing it.\n\nEdit: Orbital period is 560.47 days so I'm sticking to my estimate.",
"And the rings around the other gas giants. ",
"You can like the products (if you understand them properly), but the man himself, nah, probably wise not to like that guy. Bit of an asshole. ",
"And so far his companies haven't been producing a steady income. Tesla is struggling severely, but being able to put out any products aside from 100k cars.\n\nThe companies rely on preorders (Tesla and Boring) and all rely on government subsidies. ",
"This is a space program. We always need to look for improvements.",
"Sure, same as the fucking massive Pacific, what could go wrong?",
"Oh true my bad.",
"Absolutely correct. It wasn't right then, it's not right now, but these days we should know better.",
"Are you intentionally playing dumb? ",
"No one on Reddit likes zuckerberg, I've yet to see a popular post about him. \n\nBill Gates is legitimately a nice guy and he's helped first-hand with the early-life of Microsoft. ",
"Held button to move more than 1 click at a time, but read it all",
"Well, doesn't support life as we know it.. Unless you are a tardigrade or several types of bacteria. So kinda does support some types of life then. ",
"Everything you described can easily be done with production in a studio. And I’m not just saying that, there’s plenty of footage from the iss that reveals the use of green screen and wire effects and yet you still choose to believe it’s real.\n\nThey didn’t even show the dragon connect to the iss.\nThey showed it arriving and then showed you a cartoon image of how it docked and yet you were satisfied with that. Lmfao ",
"It's called common sense.. why should we believe it if they don't present compelling evidence?\n\nThe whole idea that they shot a car up there with no people says it all... and we are supposed to celebrate this? Then the crappy way it was filmed?\n\nIt's a joke.. the space station is a joke too...\n\n",
"Except that he's not. His Mother has been a high-class Model for decades. \n\nIt's not known what his father did, but judging from pictures from the 80's, he was comfortably wealthy as well. \n\nElon says a ton of shit, daily. His word isn't exactly reputable. ",
"One hopes ",
"Correct, it is not an ad because it was not paid to air in mass media. That's what an ad is, so this isn't an ad.",
"putting a car in orbit isn't going to kill those bacteria's though.",
"Zero to space in 120 seconds ",
"No. Are you?\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch\n\nIt's badly affecting fish stocks in the most fucking massive ocean in the world. Who'd have thought dropping a plastic bag in the ocean could have such an effect? It's exactly the same principle, but as you correctly point out, on a very different scale. \n\nI'm not a big environmentalist or anything like that, although when I'm on the beach, I always bring litter back. I just think this Tesla stunt is crass and unnecessary. ",
"I dont think seriously means what you think it means or 0 dollars are ifferent kind of dollars for you that it is for everyone else\n\nuse google bro",
"Yeah Bill Gates is one of the better billionaires. Actually did something notable, is a nice guy, has accomplished a lot, and is a philanthropist.",
"Some of them did gravity assists around Venus though so they might have been going pretty fast at that point.",
"Got it. Thanks for the answers, props! ",
"He's no god, but certainly worth more to the human race then most men, including myself. If you can't see the significance of Space X to Human long term survivability, that's your problem. Musk is much more than your purposefully misleading description. I can only assume you play him down out of jealousy and for some crazy reason think society would be better off if he was forced to be as equally poor as you.",
"Totally unrelated, but stupid question! What would happen to an inflated tire in a vacuum? \n\nI suspect this Tesla has its own special rims for this occasion! But what would happen to a normal tire? I’d imagine it would pop!? ",
"Oh, for crying out loud.",
"They don't believe it and think the video and images are faked.\nhttps://twitter.com/THE_FlatEarther/status/961037582455975936",
"I wasn't aware that 50 million dollars could also be written as 0 dollars. Amazing. ",
"R/flatsaturners ",
"Yeah, you are possibly correct, actually. The circularization burn on mars intercept, before entering mars orbit for the mars landers would possibly have sped those ones up (in reference frame of the sun, of course).",
"I was hoping for a Robin Reliant",
"I thought the yadda yadda made it obvious but i guess I’ll use /s tags from now on ",
"The Man in Black from the Gunslinger sums it up the best for me during his final palather with Roland around the campfire... https://youtu.be/teO8xFW1-CI best 10 minutes of the book",
"Also, certainly wasn't cheap. Cost Elon the price of launching the rocket. Sure it's included in dev costs for the Falcon Heavy, but still not free for Elon.",
"Yeah, no, that's absolutely not true.\n\nThe \"bernie bro\" thing was almost entirely generated by fellow democrats. Keep trump discussion where it belongs, relevant to trump.\n\nPeople dismissing Musk are just being contrarian.",
"Even if they are, I wouldn't give a shit since he's the only person out there working towards tech that'll better the whole fucking race instead of chasing a cheap buck, but beyond that all the fucking accusations against him seem incredibly thin and reaching.\n",
"A video without stars that someone claims is from outer space is not evidence either :) Or, you could claim that but then you admit Star Wars was real too :)",
"Astounding levels of ignorance there. ",
"I think a bit of the point is that their re-usable rockets mean that this kind of thing isn't that kind of a ridiculous cost we are used to with sending shit into space.\n\n",
"So, you didn't answer the question at all. ",
"He definitely is. Go watch some of the earlier spacex launches. They are a total joke. You can see the camera trucks with your own eyes. All you need to do is trust yourself a nd don't believe people just because they tell you something is real. Especially elon musk",
"It's a convertible.",
"Hire a financial advisor and do fuck off. ",
"Pfft, he makes electric cars and re-usable rockets, what's your fucking problem?",
"But, not cooking the books. ",
"Hopefully, /s?",
"Well, he was and he wasn't.",
"Look, enough of the bullshit, there's very, very few businessmen that are worthy role models in the world, and a metric shitload of evil assholes in the same group of people, people finding one that's doing good shit and being enthusiastic about him isn't a bad thing.\n\nJesus, I know people on the internet like to overblow things, but you don't have to be a shithead about a legitimately good presence in the world just because he has a bunch of rabid fans. ",
"The truth: He was aiming at Mars so his car would be there when he plans to land in 2030 or whatever his current goal is, and missed by quite a bit. ",
"I have adequate knowledge and coverage in that regard. You're using words incorrectly. Not my fault you can't explain your absurdity.",
"What word did I allegedly use incorrectly? ",
"Why would stars show up on a camera that is set to resolve something illuminated by the sun? If the exposure was set high enough that you could see stars, all other objects in the foreground would be blinding and you wouldn't be able to see what was going on.\n\nIt is absolutely evidence, and no that isn't evidence for star wars being real. Why would it be?",
"Now this is \"COOL\"",
"What if it is actually some kind of advanced texture mapping that is part of a simulation",
"Credit to source? What's the best quality version",
"No, what you consider to be common sense is not evidence of anything you have said so far.\n\nPlenty of compelling evidence has been provided, just because you refuse to accept it or don't understand it, doesn't say anything against it.\n\nWhy would they shoot ANYTHING on an escape trajectory with a live human being on board? It would be a death sentence. And the way it was filmed? What do you expect? It's a rocket launch, not a feature film production. They placed lightweight cameras with transmitters in the least obstructive places possible, these cameras were designed to survive being launched into space, not to deliver a beautiful cinematic experience.",
"*advertisement*\n\n*noun*\n\n*a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.*\n_________\n\nI'm pretty sure putting a promotional video on youtube counts as an ad. ",
"Does he need to be born in the slums starving for hunger for you not to disregard his achievements? \nAgain, I don't understand why any of this should impact your view of his achievements, but if you want to talk about his upbringing you should know that he was physically bullied in school and was abused by his dad. You can read about it in his biography by Ashlee Vance and in the Rolling Stone article: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/elon-musk-inventors-plans-for-outer-space-cars-finding-love-w511747 \nHe had a terrible childhood, and left to Canada/ US at 17 to escape for a better life. I don't think you can make any reasonable claim that he's not a self-made success. \nBut I mean, if your mind is made up that whatever Elon says is untrustworthy then obviously you'll pay no heed to what I just said, but there's really no evidence nor reason for him to flat out lie about this. Sure he's missed deadlines, but it's never by intent to lie to the public. Someone like him that is doing good for humanity I'd rather give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he's just being optimistic.",
"No his favourite band is AC/DC.",
"It does not. Also, putting things on youtube is free. Turning them into ads is not. There are no Tesla ads on youtube or anywhere else.",
"\"cooking the books\". Now, they may be overvalued but those two things are not the same. If you're managing your own money and investing in any of musk's companies, you should understand what you're investing in. ",
"Unlike the rest of us Earthly immortals.",
"❄️",
">It does not.\n\nI'm glad we've cleared that up. You're obviously a bigger authority on this subject than the literal definition of the word advertisement.",
"Get this man a job at Tesla.",
"No, I'm exactly the same authority as the literal definition, which is in line with what I've been saying, and not with your understanding of it. Now take this opportunity and learn something, instead of continuing on in your ignorance in not knowing what words mean. Cheers and good luck with your learning.",
"Nah. I meant exactly what I said and I have no problem saying it because it can be proven with facts. Their accounting policies could conservatively be described as \"creative\" or perhaps even \"alchemy\" wouldn't be much of a stretch. I'd suggest actually knowing what you're talking about here for starters. Musk has financial incentives based on revenue and the CFO cooks the books are thusly to artificially inflate the reported revenue. When you actually dig into the operations, the picture becomes quite clear what's really going on. ",
"It says:\n\n>a notice or announcement in a public medium\n\nNot:\n\n>a paid-for notice or announcement in a public medium",
"Huh, I never would have thought of that! TIL.",
"I wonder how long it will take for UV rays and such to bleach the car white (will also break down a number of more fragile other molecules that make up various components)",
"Yeah but this is is the old mid-2000s roadster",
"Think smaller than a grain of sand, but at a collision speed measured in kilometers per second.",
"Lol wut",
"Very expensive wallpaper for my desktop ",
"> Bill Gates is legitimately a nice guy and he's helped first-hand with the early-life of Microsoft. \n\nI remember few years back reading about [this](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fsametmax.com%2Falzheimer%2F&edit-text=&act=url).",
"I understand it's a test launch, but after loosing a multi billion dollar satalite a couple weeks ago. I think our test launches could be a little more productive.",
"I'm calling it now. Once the car makes it to Mars. That dude is going to turn to the camera and say \"Tesla?...Nope, It's a Tide Ad!\"",
"Yeah totally? All I'm saying I don't see how sending a car into space is advancing technology. ",
"Yeah though I think it will be space station ",
"What a deeply unattractive person you seem to be.",
"When you put it like that. Its pretty fucking dope.",
"Private company is correct. The rest is false",
"Naw bro I'm sexy af gettin lined up at the Barber as we speak",
"Never mind aliens. It'll probably confuse the hell out of some humans if they come across it on some routine space mission a hundred or so years from now.",
"Honestly, I don't know where to begin.\n\nThis is the trouble with dealing with fanbois on the web. You have no perspective.\n\nDid you read my comments about how the ocean and Earth's atmosphere were once considered to be quite capable of soaking up everything we could throw at them? *Because they were so big?* It's not the climate change, it's not the ecosphere, you're focussing on the wrong aspect of what I said (and that's your fault, not mine) it's about the limits of our understanding. Failure to understand those limits has caused and is causing real problems for people alive today.\n\nYou focussed on the fact that the article was about trash in orbit *around Earth*, whereas you should have focussed on the fact that there's **tens of thousands of pieces of trash** in space. Of course space seems big to you now, just as the ocean seemed big to the people who built factories next to rivers so the toxic shit that was produced by their manufacturing processes could get washed out to sea, and why nobody thought to work out what the damage might be to our voluminous atmosphere of having millions of cars, boats and aircraft (not to mention air conditioners and snowmobiles) pumping out carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide 24/7 for a century.\n\nThe last thing we should be doing is starting our relationship with the far solar system - i.e., beyond Earth orbit - by littering it.\n\nAs for your introduction of racism into the conversation - WTF? Are you mentally ill?\n\nThe Tesla isn't in an orbit yet, it's on a trajectory. It may end up in a solar orbit somewhere in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, maybe it will continue through the Belt and beyond. \n\nWhatever, it wasn't necessary to throw it into space and while that may seem really cool and lots of LULZ to teenage boys playing computer games I reserve the right to think of it as being fucking stupid, and indicative of a rather unthinking attitude towards everything that isn't the USA.\n\nAnd while you are entitled to disagree with my point of view, you can't dismiss it.",
"[I can just picture it.](https://list25.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/211.jpg)",
"Fuck dude. That’s fucked... I usually try to tune out how big space is... I can’t handle thinking about it daily. Makes you really appreciate every star out there. Being much further than a map like that would allow. I want to say thank you for the reminder but fuck it’s going to mess me up for a couple days...",
"is that only because our measuring tools aren't small enough. we can't draw anything very accurate so we have to think of it as probability. if we could sit on a proton with a telescope, maybe we could map the electrons and finds patterns in their movements? I know there are experiments that say that they actually are random but I can't help thinking that a lot of that is spawned for that mathematical model that makes a lot of assumptuons due to the scale issue. I'm sure many smarter humans than me could tell me I'm wrong. ",
"Building a new rocket, which is the largest currently in use rocket, and is mostly re-usable, isn't advancing technology?",
"It's the new style. Get with the times Grandpa",
"I somehow thought mercury was closer to the sun. ",
"It is the camera arm...there are 3 cameras onboard. ",
"Nah....This is just fake news to them",
"Nicest reply ever, thank you.",
"Whats even more crazier is if you stacked up every person on top of each other, they would cover a distance equal to the height of all of the people on earth stacked on top of each other",
"SpaceX Engineers: “Sir the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!”\n\nElon: “NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS!”",
"Based on mine it would have started tipping over way too late and burned a bunch of extra fuel getting to orbit.",
"then lets go back to your original annoyance. You are annoyed yet you like to take advantage of what all that came before you produced. Cause the internet and your smart phone and your nice home and your material goods did not appear spontaneously. Huge difference when products are unfortunately discarded by necessity, and when trash is discarded and the environment is polluted because of greed. The space x test launch was necessary and it was either the testa or some other piece of weight. Face it, you made a poorly thought out statement that had no logic to it, got called out and then threw in a bunch of other non related topics into the mix. I certainly am aware of space debris and the mass of plastics thats forming in the oceans , but for you to equate those facts as a counterpoint to this event might work in grade school debate, its intellectually weak and easily dismissable. ",
"r/KenM",
"0 - 100km in 2.1 secs baby ",
"The rocket yes. Launching a car towards Mars no. At best it just floats around in space. At worst it contaminats an alien ecosystem.",
"Could you say Tesla is out of this world?",
"Well, SpaceX space suit :P",
"Well, seeing as it didn't make Mars orbit it will never get there",
"If they didn't use a car they would have just used a metal block. Really didn't make a difference besides the added bonus of it being a PR stunt",
"Except that it won't make Mars",
"Exactly, and even then they're subsidies total to like a couple cents average per taxpayer, and most of that goes to the top 10% anyway. Billions of dollars is [peanuts](https://youtu.be/vDwzmJpI4io?t=12m22s) in tax money",
"Well that’s slightly suspicious, consider the orbits of the planets are shown as being circular...",
"Look basis economics requires consumers and producers. Even if I agreed with you that billionaires don't care about the rest of humanity (I don't), they need us. ",
"> important\n\nHah! \"Important\" we humans as so self-centered",
"Building a rocket and testing it requires launching something, and something non-valuable because it's likely it'll blow up. The fact it's a car doesn't add any expense or detract from the mission. And how is it going to pollute an alien ecosystem by floating in the vacuum of space?",
"I know I'm late to the party, just searched up that scene to drop it here. \n\nGlad I looked first. :)",
"I was around that age when my neighbor let my borrow it. Don't regret a thing.",
"yes everyone, sorry for poor English but what I meant is that Tesla spending 0 on ad doesn't mean they don't spend on marketing\n\nthanks!",
"It was intended to have a heliocentric orbit? So no?\n",
"Probably weren't. Some people lol",
"The test flight was insanely useful? ",
"Listen to what you are saying dude.. they launched an F'in car into space but couldn't bother getting decent footage of it or the Earth in more than half a century? Everything about the world space program is WRONG.. if you can't see that even with someone showing you I worry about the future of humanity even more...",
"Youre paying for a fuck ton of hard science. As you type on a electronic device that uses internet networks and satellites. Two technologies pushed by space exploration. \nGet over your self, in 2014 each American paid an average of $54 per year to NASA. Best damn money spent in our government. \nHundreds and hundreds of life improving inventions. \n\nWater filtering systems, fire retardant clothing for firefighters, computing power, LED lights, ear thermostats. Heart assistance devices, better car tires, road safety tech. Literally 1400+ inventions.\n\nhttps://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html\n\nSome people are oblivious.",
"No, but when you consider the fact that both companies are owned by the same person, you can easily understand how funding one is precenting you from funding the other. Money in SpaceX doesn't go to Tesla, so yeah, Tesla is paying for it.",
"Elon constantly misleads consumers about his manufacturing. Its well documented he overestimates production by thousands. Tesla is one of the least reliable cars in terms of manufacture quality and its not rare for them to have issues off the shop floor. They're also behind in terms of automation and they accelerate fast as fuck but are reliably outpaced by small sports hatchbacks on the tracks. Other companies do this shit so much better it makes Tesla laughable.\nDude, just look into the company a tiny bit from unbias sources. It's not hard. \n\nThey do increase knowledge of electric transport and competition though, I'll give Elon that. That's the best thing Elon is doing, starting the conversation. ",
"Alright, let's Operate under your assumption I have no idea what I'm talking about. Prove it to any degree. If your claims are accurate, why is no one \"blowing the whistle\"? Solar City is full of shit? Only Tesla motors? Or SpaceX? Multiple companies. Or, is musk generally full of shit? Wait, PayPal. That's the one that's full of shit, right?",
"You currently can't legally claim any land or resources in space except for study or exploration. It's meant as conservation but Elon's carisn't a natural part of the solar system. \n \nHowever I believe by the time someone with the means and interest to get it back it will be protected.",
"Do they not follow GAAP? Since they legally have to, I'm going to assume they do and no financial regulatory agencies are after them...",
"The Canadian government almost banned the stuff because it was dangerous. Somebody wrote them a letter about how outrageous it was that we pumped it into everyone’s home when it kills you if it’s inhaled.",
"One of the big hurdles with space suits is cooling.",
"Indeed, and that's something that bothered me about yesterday's press conference. Someone asked if there were any sensors or anything on Starman's suit, and Elon basically said \"No but we know it works, you can wear it in a vacuum chamber.\" What about heat? Radiation? Does it rip? Flexibility? So many more things to consider other than pressure.",
"I am confused. And you replied to yourself. I was talking about Tesla, a publicly traded company.. Solar City was going to bankruptcy, but was then bought by Tesla to the detriment of all Tesla investors except for Musk and his cousins who made off like bandits in the deal. Spacex is privately funded and is totally unrelated. ",
"> laughable\n\nYes, that is an excellent way of describing every word of your paragraph, which, again, isn't even on the topic at hand.\n\n>Dude, just look into the company a tiny bit from unbias sources. It's not hard.\n\nYeah, it's not. You should try it.",
"It was an after thought and I assumed you'd follow the thread. I have been on planes, trains, and automobiles traveling so forgive the assumptions on the other companies and simply explain how Tesla is \"cooking the books\" under gaap",
"it's shiny tho.",
"Those were almost certainly from the booster. There is a lot of frozen ice on the outside that is ejected during launch. Anything that is gently drifting by the camera almost certainly is from the booster itself. The chances of a small piece of debris with the exact same speed and position drifting through the camera is practically zero. Most other objects will be moving far to fast or too far away to see.",
"...No.",
"It might pass through a cloud, yes! But not while in LEO, and the sand blasting effect isn't likely. More like sand punctured. Any dust encountered will penetrate the hull, not just merely scrape off paint.",
"There is plenty of debris in our solar system. Micrometeor impacts are common for satellites. It's far more common than that. Look it up!",
"Q4 data for 2017 literally just came out. I'm still going through it. I have a full analysis for Q3 which could illuminate that for you, but in all honesty it would take me several paragraphs to scratch the surface. ",
"Exactly. They're more like bullets at that point.",
"Yeah, solar radiation will be responsible for most of the damage to the car.",
"Nope! That'll ruin the car for sure.",
"And I bet Elon Musk will still get a road tax reminder letter in the post",
"Damage, yes. Sandblast...no.",
"I love those things!",
"i like in his press conference he pretty much begs all other space agencies to compete with him. like \"yes, please race with me, build rockets that are equal or better than mine!\" which really is such a scientist mindset of \"i dont care who gets their first, as long as we do it, and learn from it\". (not saying he is a scientist)",
"Cars still have trunks and glove compartments. You still turn on your lights and dial the phone.",
"There was a student a while back that did a report for his Science Fair explaining the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide to his fellow classmates. They almost universally agreed it should be banned. He then used that as an example of the dangers of using scientific facts to intentionally mislead the general public. It made such a stir, that it was picked up by a rather large newspaper, I think it was. There was a reddit post about it today.",
"I'd read a summary. I honestly don't understand why you feel this way but I've never heard anything like this. ",
"It's probably just a prototype. They don't need it to be ready today. ",
"https://i.imgur.com/AI3Rs5a.png\n\nDude in /r/latestagecapitalism calls bullshit on that $0 advertising budget. ",
"Are.. are you actually saying this sarcastically? It’s pretty simple checking SEC filings.... ",
"sick of theses companies that are loosing money like crazy being propped up by our tax dollars ",
"I honestly think this is probably now my favorite photo. Ordinarily this would be a run of the mill decent car commercial with whatever tag line but no, this isn’t photoshop, this is *real*. ",
"You can let crowds of civilians watch the rocket launch and landing live in the studio?",
"Pizza is round... and flat... same.. same..\n\nEDIT: Shit...\nPizza is circular... and flat... same... same...",
"It's not going to be in LEO for long. Mariner passed through a cloud outside of Mars' orbit, not in LEO. Alpha particles will erode without blasting. UV will cause paint fade. Micro-meteors typically create 0.5 mm craters which is enough to chip paint but not penetrate metal.\n\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NP-2015-03-015-JSC_Space_Environment-ISS-Mini-Book-2015-508.pdf\n\n\n\n\n",
"Tesla is the parent company, right? Or are they just separate?",
"I didn't know it was a test flight. ",
"but it is more funny they over did it. It is going to hit the asteroid belt. it was suppose to start to come back in range of Mars orbit, but they shot past it, but thats still good, proving we can launch larger objects easily towards the outer solar system",
"> Sure he's missed deadlines, but it's never by intent to lie to the public\n\nThen what intent?\n\n>Someone like him that is doing good for humanity\n\nSuch as? Renewable Energy is good, I like that part. But this asshole wishes to get rid of Public Transit, seeing it as not useful since he's never been on it. Rockets don't help Humanity, not right now. We need to focus on the flaws of this planet before we focus on other planets. \n\nStarving Kids in Africa don't care for rockets, that's not helping them. Diseased people do not care for rockets, that's not helping them. The Disabled do not care for rockets, that's not helping them. \n\nWhat about the treatment towards his employees? And the lies? And the backstabbing of partners who helped him to get where he is now? \n\nAlmost every child gets bullied. A vast majority also get treated poorly from their Father at some point as well. \n\nI think being untrustworthy of a rich person is always smart. They're not in it for humanity or the betterment of all across the world. They're always in it for themselves, since that's what money does to people. Prove me wrong. ",
"Can you tell me? I don't trust that link. ",
"Yup",
"Advertising for a billionaire's luxury car brand, funded by schmucks like you and me.",
"the people who want Elon to erect a space billboard for le epic Rick and Morty are going to fight you",
"That's how much TAXPAYERS spend to subsidize this asshole's advertising and space litter.",
"It's apparent magnitude is still far too small to be a hassle given how far away it's going.\n\nDark polished red probably doesn't have any high albedo than a particularly icy asteroid anyway.",
"Then I guess I should apologize to your family and friends who will now be without your full attention for the next several days.\n\nSorry, guys! :)",
"What's suspicious about that? Planetary orbits are roundish because that's how planet formation in a protoplanetary disc tends to make them (Planets with a high eccentricity tend to get ejected out of the system by Jupiter). \n\nBut orbits don't have to be round. Plenty of noncircular orbits out there. [Most notably comet trajectories.](https://www.awesomestories.com/images/user/bb9048c84ec9fef6bd1f57920ae6db66.jpg)",
"Planetary orbits are ellipses, but they’re shown as circles. That was my issue with the picture lol but it’s still cool!",
"So are this Pluto Venus Mars Mercury Saturn Jupiter and Neptune in the picture? Because I think they are roughly 200k km in diameter combined. Earth moon distance is 380k km, or am I confusing some numbers?",
"I WANT TO BELIEVE",
"I'm gonna stick with the WHOA DUDE",
"Are we ever really woke, though?",
"\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n ",
"THIS IS IT",
"Carbon monoxide with a sprinkles of lies and star dust",
"They are, but planetary orbits are really close to being circular. Eccentricity is the measure of how unlike a circle an ellipse is, with 0 being perfectly circular. Mars has an eccentricity of 0.09. Earth has 0.01. Mercury has the highest eccentricity of the planets at just 0.21. So it isn't weird that they look like circles in that image. Hell, you can even see that Mercury's orbit is elliptical.",
"You exceeded the speed of light ~18 times. That's what I meant by cheating.",
"Okay I guess I really only glanced at the picture enough for them to look circular and then yea. Now I see it!",
"Because you are saying \"video that claims to be from space is evidence of space\". Haha, thinking Star Wars is real. EPIC! :D",
"Lucky!",
"I can’t....",
"Intellectually weak?\n\n\"1. Mankind has fucked up the planet by failing to clean up after itself for 300 years. 2. I'm concerned that mankind is going to export this lamentable attitude into space.\"\n\nChallenge that argument.",
"*\"Our cars are out of this world!\"* ",
"> But has Musk just added a ton of rubbish to the junk and debris orbiting the earth? That would annoy me, if so.\n\noh, thats incorrect? I meant the universe, and global climate change....yeah, thats what i meant.....",
"Can you provide a link to that first assertion? ",
"I refer you to the answer I gave a few moments ago.\n\n>Oh, so it's just littering a different part of space?",
"This was a Tesla commercial? Man. I just went and bought [Heavy Metal on Blu-Ray](https://youtu.be/rYy_XJpI6uk?t=1m44s) after I seen this. Shoot.",
"Alright I'm calling it. Troll. You really had me going for a second there buddy!",
"You haven't shown me anything, all you've said so far is that it just looks fake to you when you have nothing to compare it to.\n\nWhat do you expect this to look like, and what do you consider descent footage? Do you want a chase rocket following the main rocket all the way up to get nice shots of the ascent?",
"He mixed the word Celebrate with Inebriation",
"\n[\"In total, the company said it had produced 2,425 Model 3s in the fourth quarter.\"](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/tesla-q4-2017-model-3-numbers.html)\n",
"effects like chromatic aberration are used to make generated graphics less synthetic. computer graphics without post process effects looks raw and fake. chromatic aberration is an effect that you can observe in real life, so having it in a video game makes the game more photorealistic.",
"I use Stanley tools, Marbles brand knives and axes, Coleman stoves, Embury and Dietz lanterns, and Sheridan and Crosman airguns. Just saying. Also all these companies stopped making good product decades ago ",
"There are some deep comments in this thread, make sure you're fully awake before delving.",
"It's. It going to float forever. It's eventually going to collide with something. It's goal is to crash on Mars. ",
">It's goal is to crash on Mars. \n\nNo, it doesn't have a goal, it's just an inert piece of space junk now. If the goal of the launch was to crash it on Mars, they'd have aimed much more carefully.",
"Yeah ok so that's not true, and pretty much my point.\n\nChromatic aberration is a lens *defect*. It has no place in a first person game, because it doesn't occur in your eyes' lenses. Unless the character is wearing thick cheap glasses, you don't observe it in real life. And even then only in high dynamic range contrast regions like a window edge against dark interior, not just randomly in the corner of your vision in a dark hall. \n\nAlso it's something you try to avoid as a camera man, which is very possible with pro equipment.\n\nPoint is, if you need to add chromatic aberration because otherwise things look fake, it's because your render looks fake and artificial, because it is, from itself. And you're trying to cover it up by adding artificial lens defects. It's like adding a noise layer to give the impression of a monte carlo GI pathtracer.\n\nFinally, chromatic aberration also just doesn't look like that. This is rgb channels offset from each other. It's clearly three distinct layers, no blur, and the way it overlaps is just off. It probably looks even worse when moving. \n\nPhotorealism is about physics. This is about covering up the lack of it. There is no physical plausibility to what you see here, they just slapped on some fx to fuzz it up.\n\nEdit: which is fine for a game, btw. Cool, even. It's just not an example of going for photorealism. And the coder(s) of that engine knew this, went for the \"fake but looks cool\" and that's a perfectly reasonable decision for a game engine.\n\n",
"Sure, chase craft would be good.. many more cameras.. cameras on the rocket getting the chase vehicles.. a shot of earth with LAND on it that looks real.. a shot of earth you can see from beginning all the way to a full earth view that ISN'T obstructed most the time until a point where it's east to fake.. all this is true about the moon missions and the ISS video.. where they don't even show the Earth behind the astronauts on the ISS...",
"games arent made to look like from a human eye, but from a camera. for instance [resident evil vii](https://www.google.pl/search?q=resident+evil+7&client=firefox-b-ab&dcr=0&biw=1920&bih=957&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=isz:ex,iszw:1920,iszh:1080#imgrc=_), which is a similar game to the one from the screenshot we are discussing (P.T.) tries to replicate the look of amateur camera footage, something like blair witch project, by adding effect such as chromatic aberration, noise, dirty lense, DoF, bloom etc. looking like amateur camera footage is closer to reality than if the game was made to look like clean CGI. those effects are also great for atmosphere. \n\n>Point is, if you need to add chromatic aberration because otherwise things look fake, it's because your render looks fake and artificial, because it is, from itself. And you're trying to cover it up by adding artificial lens defects. It's like adding a noise layer to give the impression of a monte carlo GI pathtracer.\n\nexactly, you said so yourself! they cant have true photorealism on a current gen 60 fps game, so those effect hide imperfections of the renderer. \n\nedit: actually even if they had enough hardware power and game budget to make photorealistic game, those effects would be nice to have to improve atmosphere. look at [cuphead](https://www.google.pl/search?q=cuphead&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&biw=1920&bih=957&tbm=isch&source=lnt&tbs=isz:ex,iszw:1920,iszh:1080) - they could easily have sharp 1080p but chose blurred, classic look. digital foundry couldn't even measure the resolution the game runs at because of the heavy post process blurring effects",
"Look how white the overalls are. It's clearly another Tide Ad.",
"Glad you enjoyed it! I remember seeing this one as a kid and it always stuck with me",
"\"They just threw it at the sky really, really hard.\" \n\nI love that. Absolutely love it. ",
"rocket launches aren't free",
"Exactly this and the clearance is not the only flaw those cars have which disqualifies them as being a high quality brand. ",
"Spending ~$50 million on marketing, promotions, advertising could mean all $50 million are spent on marketing and $0 are spent on advertising. For example, Tesla spends money on making product unveils, making press kits for their website and a lot more marketing work that is categorized as such. However, I haven't seen a single ad that Tesla has made.\n\nElon Musk the CEO of the company which has a more insightful view of how the company spends its money has said many times in interviews that they don't spend money on advertising.",
"It is just a French article: http://sametmax.com/alzheimer/\nput in Google translate.",
"A) I also haven’t watched TV in years but I’m in the industry so stop acting like cable cutting makes you unique \n\nB) advertising and engineering never touch each other unless you’re in a very small shop so stop talking out your ass ",
"There's a huge difference between the garbage orbiting Earth and interplanetary space though. A lot of the debris in Earth orbit is terrestrial in origin. It would also be expected to find more debris in any planet's gravity well. Not so much in deep space.",
"Tell me about it. The $13.4 billion GM Chrsyler bailout is when I started riding a bike to work. I'm in the best shape of my life now and with $50+ billion a year in oil and gas subsidies I expect to be cardio-healthy for life.",
"From the same article: \n\n>Despite analysts' repeated questions on the Wednesday earnings call, Tesla executives did not provide hard numbers, including a current weekly production rate of Model 3s.\n\n\nSo this number is self-reported?",
"> A) I also haven’t watched TV in years but I’m in the industry so stop acting like cable cutting makes you unique \n\nThat was more of a hint that my information may not be up to date. As in I haven't seen the shows in question in years, that is just how I remember them.\n\n> B) advertising and engineering never touch each other unless you’re in a very small shop so stop talking out your ass \n\nIf some guy **presented** as engineer proudly pronounces how far ahead they are compared to their competition when a simple check would show that they aren't I would call it advertising. I would also think that in a big company any public showing of technology has been coordinated with marketing.",
"I now have a new goal in life. My ex is going in that god damned catapult",
"Which goes back to what I said. You ever see a Tesla ad on TV? \n\nWhat is the definition of “marketing” these days? Put a car into space. Does that make you think “advertising” right off the bat?\n\nThere’s the TV ad for 15 seconds and there’s putting a car in space. When does it stop being advertising in your opinion, if ever?",
"I mean, that cost a lot more than $0 though.",
"That quote is in reference to questions about 2018 Q1, not 2017 Q4.\n\nHowever i suppose yes, it is self reported. So what? \n\nIt's not like the reference you linked supporting your 260 assertion was any better.",
"But you actually believe video to be evidence, which would mean that it is entirely impossible to CGI or trick-film stuff :D What a conspiracy nut you are.",
"Well, it cost them the value of the car, the money spent making the dummy, and the opportunity cost of not launching a (Admittedly low value) paying load that was willing to accept the risk and the less than standard orbit, perhaps for some scientific measuring equipment, or someone else's advertisement.",
"No, I believe it's entirely possible to CGI and trick film things. However I have no reason to believe that this launch is faked, or the feed from the payload of the rocket was faked.",
"Why would be waste resources on doing any of that? Rockets are usually launched to fulfil a mission, not to take pretty pictures.\nAnd there you go talking about things looking real again, how do you know it looks fake when you have nothing to compare it to? I genuinely want to know what you think earth should look like from space.\n\nThey don't show the earth behind the astronauts on the ISS because there aren't any large windows on the ISS. Why would you put large panes of glass on a space station? That is almost literally asking for disaster.",
"> As in I haven't seen the shows in question in years\n\nWe’re not talking about shows. Or even a show. Just teevee and ads. But you kinda knew that and said as much\n\nI like you, \n\nhttps://youtu.be/b-wa4nNmTi8\n\nOh right, so that’s an example of marketing vs advertising, the word game\n\nThe best hits of the last avenger movie don’t get the ban when the next avenger movie be comin",
"> Just teevee and ads.\n\nAs mentioned, I think some of these \"shows\" ended up officially qualified as long running ads. Pretending to be something else does not make it less of an ad.",
"I agree with that so I think we may be just arguing the same point in different ways ",
"Like, if you’re gonna pick a part to quote, at least pick a quote that is the crux of your argument.\n\nNot a random weak quote you can flop on. \n\nMediocre.",
"Saying you have no reason is a blatant lie. How about 20 billion of government money into SpaceX for a start.",
"Right, I was a bit distracted when I read and wrote my response. :-)",
"Can you explain to me why that is evidence that this is fake? Rockets are expensive and the US government has good reason to invest in native rocketry companies to fulfill contracts. If anything that would be evidence against this being fake, since it doesn't take 20 Billion to simply CGI or studio model a rocket.\n\nEDIT: I did a quick search, the max amount of Gov't subsidisation that I've found is $5 Billion, with further investments from companies like Google and Fidelity in return for shares in the company.",
"Lol wow, no. Let me break it down for you. They shoot a rocket off that goes out of the crowds perspective and lands in the water, and everything else you saw online was post production. It’s very easy.",
"Roll over when the opportunity presents itself. Sad.",
"You heard that they have a new way to play with game without a subscription?\n\nI \"popped back in\" in a few months ago. I'd logged off a year prior with a couple of toons in a wormhole, and they and their ships were safely in a station.\n\nUnfortunately (or maybe fortunately!), my main thing was exploration and the free toons could not warped while cloaked. So I messed around for a couple of nights and then gave it up again.\n",
"My exact philosophy. \n\nI played solo and had two main toons. My explorer toon and a 2nd toon to fly an Orca filled with all the stuff my explorer used. I would ninja camp in wormholes. \n\nI later tried running a POS, and the hassle of doing that solo is what finally did me in.",
"Yeah, I saw that. Went on, realized that tons of my assets hadn't been moved out of the WH. And all my skills were for Gallente ships, but the character was Caldari, so I couldn't fly my fucking vexor.\n\nAnd without the time to get started and find a corp again, I kinda just dropped it",
"The space station does have an area with large windows.. why wouldn't they used that when doing press videos? That's got to be the biggest waste of a view in recorded history.. or how when they do press videos they do them as if they were in a room on earth.. all orientated the same way as if on earth... when they could be showing off how amazing weightlessness is. Or how when they do \"use weightlessness\" they always do it the exact same way as if they are hanging from a wiring rig on Earth..\n\nAnd I know it looks fake because their own photographs are vastly different... and all look fake for different reasons.. this one looked fake because it didn't match their past images.. in previous images lang masses were clearly visible and brightly colored.. this time no land masses... all the same tone of colors..",
"they arent worried that it comes back to the earth as a comet ? ",
"It's not nearly big enough.",
"r/fakealbumcovers",
"But orbit tracking has been following it. You could see it pass as a star at night, at least until it made its burn out to deep space. Also people could clearly see the burn happening, as it looked like a giant bright plume in the sky above California.",
"All rubber tires couldn't be mounted on the rims. I'm guess they left the air valves off so it's neutral pressure inside.",
"Again you are saying \"prove this image or video fake or I believe it\". That is the opposite of how burden of proof works. There are an unlimited number of totally impossible and ridiculous things that one can claim or do CGI/trick-filming of, that are impossible to \"disprove\". The good thing is, something that isn't proven (just CGI and trick-filmed like this launch obviously is) or ANY video or image, is not proof or evidence on it's own and does NEVER have to be \"disproven\" by anyone. It has to be PROVEN. So go ahead, and PROVE this to scientifically be true.\n\nI bet you will say \"oh scientists that never fake anything changed the burden of proof to mean what they say instead\" or \"since everyone at X university believes this it's true.\" \n\nHaha! :D I like you man, I can teach you so much!",
"Keep dreaming. ",
"You're probably aware but there are (lesser accepted) theories of gravity as a pushing or repelling force. Some of what you've mentioned falls in line with those so just thought I'd bring it up.",
"I can't, and nobody has said there isn't - so I'm going to maintain that someone snuck one in there :P",
"You'd suck his dick probably.",
"Vroom vroom, motherfuckers",
"90 million to be exact, I mean if we count how much it costs to launch one falcon heavy. ",
"Lol",
"Makes sense to me. I didn't know they simulated a payload with concrete but it makes complete sense. I was a little salty thinking he did this just for publicity but now I see it's more as a \"why not\" kinda thing. Yea he is pretty cool.",
"Relatively speaking, I'm sure the reusable rocket is much less expensive than the original ones they used. By no means is it cheap though. I wasn't aware of the simulated payload on test flights before so all I saw was a guy sending a car into space and recording it seemingly for publicity. So naturally I was a bit appalled that they were spending all this money for what I thought was nothing when it could've been put to better use.",
"At first I thought this was just a publicity stunt too, and I war rolling my eyes about them putting a piece of trash into orbit. I didn't realize this was basically a test for sending heavy gear to mars.",
"Very good point. As I've written on this threat I wasn't aware of the simulated payload so seems he just jumped at a good chance. I wonder why this hasn't been done sooner. Is there any word on what the rockets first real flight will be used for? As cool as it is, sending a rocket into orbit doesn't seem much like scientific innovation anymore.",
"No, I don't. That's why I asked...",
"That's pretty cool, maybe we'll be on mars soon then. I read somewhere that they just thrust the rocket into deep space though, didn't bother landing it. Is that true or did I just read fake news?",
"How is it a commercial aircraft is tiny at only 35,000 ft and yet you believe you can see something in orbit that is much smaller at night? If there’s anything there it’s a high altitude balloon/craft. ",
"I’m willing to bet a lot of you Elon musk/space travel lovers are also leftist who believe in global warming.\n\nSo let’s get this straight:\nYou’re shooting a rocket into space thats leaving behind huge emmisions to advertise a car that’s supposed to be safer for the environment? ",
"SO MANY FREAKING ANOMALIES FROM 127.00 TO 129.00!!! SHOOTING STARS?\n\nalien guys are gonna have a field day with this live stream...",
"Complaints about GM are valid. They dragged their foot, killed off public transport, and built unsafe cars. But the fact is that they adapted (even if forced to, not all companies adapt: Blockbuster, K-Mart).\nImagine if GM demanded and received $1,000 pre-booking and delayed it. The outcry would bring them down, even if they refunded it with interest.\n\nTesla is more like a tiny guy in a small pond, suspended in a BIG ocean. Prius has a plug-in hybrid. It doesn't take long for them to build a full version. If they entered, Tesla would go under.\n\nTesla needs to improve its internal logistics better.",
"Because the light reflecting off of it can still be seen at night. You can't make out the contours, but you can see the point source of light and track it using math and physics. Also, during the burn, the plume of hot gasses is quite large and bright, and it extends out pretty far as it has no atmosphere to stop it, and it is glowing bright.\n\nPerhaps you should read up on these things. I promise you they are fascinating and help you understand the answers to your questions.",
"This looks fake",
"Electrons are (*very* generally) fields in space that have the ability to be localized into a point under certain conditions.",
"He has a nice crematorium underneath Pad 39A too.",
" It looks fake, yet Elon Musk launched his tesla into space on the 6th",
"We are important to our own existence, which is the only frame of reference we have.",
"You want to talk about science you should read up on? Explain to me how being exposed to the suns radiation in a vacuum isn’t rendering the interior or exterior of the car melted. Elon himself said the car was not prepared at all for space- just a normal car. For as long as it’s been sitting in space in the sun, which can reach temps up to 260 degrees Celsius, the car would certainly have begun to melt. To contradict this would be to contradict what NASA claims is a fact about space ",
"See, that's just another accusation, not an explanation... and you didn't even address the question at *all.* <_<",
"\"Zoinks! Those pesky flat earthers saw through our lies again!\" - SpaceX and NASA computer generated imaging team, probably.\n\nDo you think that you, with your obviously limited knowledge of spaceflight, are able to catch this glaring flaw in the photos while people who have, according to you, spent years preparing for this lie, have overlooked something so obvious? Why didn't they just simulate that in the studio?\n\nMusk even said he's not sure what will happen to it or on what timeline. It's for sure to get fucked up, but nobody knows exactly when. There is no air in space, so heat transfers differently and chemical reactions happen differently.",
"*\"This car goes to space. What the fuck are you waiting for?\"*",
"SpaceX is a privately owned company...\n\n.......\n\n",
"LOL self made. ",
"Oh Reddit. It’s no wonder I always hated you. ",
"None of which was invented by Elon Musk. ",
"“I grew up saturated in capitalist propaganda.”\n\nOK cool. ",
"I never said any of those were invented by him, he is an entrepreneur who created companies that enabled these. \n\nThat being said, your comment is eventually false since he patented multiple things. \n\nhttps://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/89/51/0c/4854f1c22d58f5/US5944769.pdf \nhttps://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/8a/99/4e/bfb75ea333e53c/US6108650.pdf \n",
"Get out of your own arse. Give credit to Musk where credit is due and take the chip off your shoulder. ",
"LOL\n ",
"Just saw the absolute lamest Chevy commercial while watching the Olympics..\n- thought to myself, does Tesla have any commercials (I don't watch cable TV much)? then I thought, does Tesla even advertise?\n- opened up Reddit....\n- boom here's my answer",
"Yes. What an advert both for lower emission cars, and reusable rockets. Both of which humans can agree are \"good\".\n\n",
"I also know where my towel is.",
"Reusable doesn’t mean it’s good for the environment. Did it not just fire up hundreds of gallons of fuel to reach orbit? Yes. It did. And no matter if it’s reusable or not, it’s going to do it again every time it launches. So that does conflict with the climate changers ideals and yet they’ll support this hypocritical advertisement ",
"Actually we just fight over oil and our religious beliefs. ",
"0? Doesn't it cost hundreds of millions to get something into space?",
"Aw what’s wrong? You afraid I provided an actual point of contention? You can check it yourself. The radiant heat would have cooked this thing. It’s okay, i know you’re not really ready for this information- but this shit is all contrived to keep you in a bubble. You think you know what space travel is and yet you haven’t done it either. But there are glaring issues, contradictions, out right empirical observations that people like you scoff at even the attempt to answer simply because you arrogantly assume you know the truth. ",
"I did just say there is no air in space and thus chemical reactions, of which cooking is one of them, happen a lot differently than what you normally would expect. So are you saying you are afraid that I am providing a point of contention?\n\nWorry not, my flat earther friend, for the car will likely be cooked in the ways that you believe. It will just not happen on the timescales you have come to expect from an atmosphere dwelling perspective.",
"Can you not read? I didn’t say conductive heat- I said radiant heat which is different and applicable in a vacuum. Otherwise why would they need to wear cooled space suits on space walks? If they can’t conduct heat in space, there wouldn’t be any reason. \n\nAnd to be clear, I don’t think the car is even there. I’m using the supposed facts about space you so adamantly and readily believe against you",
"They need cooled everything in space, as it's difficult to shed heat, especially when facing the sun. But the car isn't housing people nor really performing any important tasks, so it doesn't matter if the temperature is \"uncomfortable\". We don't know how long the car has sat in direct sunlight (it obviously spends time in the shadow of the second stage) nor the radiative qualities of the car nor other factors like lack of internal heat generation (which is present on many other spacecraft in some form). Your point is dumb because you don't know any of the specifics, and if they actually were faking it then they wouldn't have overlooked this important detail, a detail, I should add, that they called attention to several times before and after the flight, even months before.",
"[Here's the live feed that was streamed earlier. It looks so surreal!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M&feature=youtu.be)",
"Lol we’re not talking “uncomfortable” heat here. We’re talking up to 260 degrees Celsius, and maybe if you took the time to look at what the car is made of and at what temps those materials melt, you’d know that it should have happened within the first few hours of sun exposure. My point is only “dumb” to you because this hurts your narrative and you’d rather go back to swallowing Elon’s cock than think about the possibility that this wasn’t what you thought it was ",
"That literally does not change the fact that you don't know any of the specifics. Like, are you now some sort of expert on heat exchange through car materials in a vacuum? Get real.",
"Research radiant heat in space. Look up how hot it gets in the thermosphere. Just because I haven’t given you the specifics you want, doesn’t make it any less of an issue for this car fantasy. If you just took the time to investigate what I’m saying maybe you’d actually start using your critical thinking skills, if you even have any. Heat is actually transferred in space through radiation and they at least have an excuse for this when it comes to the iss and space suits- but Elon openly admitted the car was not prepared for space. Following that logic, the car should have melted within hours. On earth, cars have melted at much lower temps of only 100+ F.\n\nYou’re in denial. You can’t refute my point. ",
"So what you're saying is that your few hours of googling the subject puts you in a position to accurately explain what would happen to a car in space despite admitting that you don't know any of the specifics of things like shadows, chemical makeup of the materials, how they interact in a vacuum, and the radiative abilities of the craft.\n\nYour entire argument is one from sheer arrogance to believe that you are more knowledgeable on the subject than the people who have spent their lives and several years in school to learn about and understand. You say Elon himself, an extremely detail oriented businessman, said they didn't prepare the car for space, and then somehow he forgot to tell the CGI crew to add that into the video? Your argument isn't dumb simply due to lack of an education, it's dumb because you arrogantly assume you are the smartest person on the subject.",
"Looks fake ",
"Circa 2008 was talking with a friend on the phone. I slurred \"what transmits gravity through the universe\", knowing full well the answer was, we do not know, there are theories.\n\nBut instead of saying that they slurred \"it has got to be a sort of pushing\".\n\nEDIT: In reply to Rum14, yes alcoholic drugs were involved, some would say crucial!\n",
"The companies enabled nothing. His huge hoarde of capital did. Which wouldn't exist without a completely fucked system. He's never earned a thing. He just HAS it.\n\n\"Enabled\". Yeah. ",
"He's rich.\n\nThat's all the credit that's due.",
"I don't know where do you get all this from but every sentence is wrong. I'm not sure if you want to remain ignorant or are ready to learn the actual facts.",
"https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50",
"from an interaction perspective this is a dead metal meteorite, i'm sure there are plenty running around at that speed or more? ",
"It's a great tire down here on earth too!",
"Not if the flat earthers have anything to say about it!\n\nI can’t believe the amount of people who think it was faked. But if you can believe the world is flat then I guess anything is fair game....",
"Thanks for this completely pointless response. ",
"He wouldn't have capital without being successful. For example nobody would invest in zip2 if it wasn't successful. Nobody would buy it for millions if it wasn't successful. Same for X.com/PayPal. \nOr there is Tesla and SpaceX, they started with a few millions, now thousands are investing in the companies which are worth billions. \n\nMusk never had billions, others invested all the money, and the only reason they didn't take that money somewhere else is because these companies were the best options for them.",
"For example Tesla enabled Australia to go without blackouts, PayPal enabled easy money transfer and online purchases or SpaceX enabled cheap satellite launches or cargo delivery to the ISS. ",
"None of these are Musk's achievements. ",
"Yes, he would have. He started on third base, same as every other billionaire in the world.",
"He founded and coded zip2. \n\nYou said he invented nothing, I linked you multiple patents where he is literally the inventor. \n\nBut fine, name just one person who you attribute the successes of Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX. ",
"He coded one mediocre thing and won the lottery. \n\nThen he got his name on his employee’s inventions. \n\nNow he runs a carnival barker show for federal subsidies. \n\nFuck Elon Musk. ",
"He won the lottery with zip2 and then with Paypal? You sure it's just being lucky?",
"Tesla spends a ton on pr events especially for each product unveiling ",
"No a lot of it is privileged birth, but yes mostly luck to begin with and now hero worship.\n\nHe's a modern day Edison. A carnival barker who has barely invented shit but takes credit for the inventions of others. \n\nHe's able to facilitate this by being wealthy. This is how capitalism works. It's a system for the theft of labor. Musk is good at that part. \n\nGood for him.",
"A metallic squink.. A heavy gallonk... Then he cries out \"dear God!\" ",
"Very cool",
"Are you basically admitting you're doing it for free?",
"They spend a ginormous amount on advertising! They are shooting their products into space as an add!\n\nThe thing is they aren't using traditional ways, but many of us are the adds! ",
"Incredible, someone had money and actually attempted to make a change (rather than simply flaunt it) but because they were \"born rich\" it means virtually nothing. Sounds like someone is quite toxic about another persons achievements. ",
"https://redd.it/7wyipb\n\nTesla is currently being exposed in Federal Court.",
"\"it's out of this world\"",
"So electrons are both energy and matter?",
"One of the sickest piece od advertising to ever come from a company with 'no advertising budget' ...ha ha",
"R/all",
"Best type of advertisement is when your fans do it for you \n",
"But they are really good at merchandising.",
"1 biscuit\n\n1 steering wheel\n\n1 buzzer\n\n1 bag of catnip\n\n1 jar of honey\n\nA number of chins\n\nA number of cactus balls\n\nA number of clippings\n\n1 dick\n\nSome information\n\nA number of breadcrumbs\n\n1 coffin\n\nSuffocation/breath\n\n1 silvo\n\n1 pokedex\n\n1 face\n\n1 keyboard\n\n1 DSM-5 (I'll need it after this)\n\nA number of brimstones\n\n1 Sion\n\n1 cable\n\nSome coffee\n\nSome kibble\n\n1 human (they'll just be my companion)\n\n1 power connector\n\n1 trap (hey, all journeys need two friends)\n\nSome ore\n\nA coin purse\n\n1 campaign sign\n\n1 NDA\n\n1 horn\n\n1 finch (finally, an animal companion to complete the gang)\n\n1 Elmer's glue\n\n1 W-2\n\n1 chicken (the finch now has their romantic companion)\n\n1 pair of cleats\n\n1 King (he was getting dethroned due to his people revolting, and they're now establishing a democracy)\n\n1 Merkel-Raute\n\n1 bone\n\n1 umbilical cord\n\n1 branch\n\n1 parka\n\n1 baseball\n\nA number of kilos\n\n1 wiener\n\n1 drink\n\n1 guy's dick\n\nSome water\n\nSome orphan's tears\n\nA number of pills\n\n1 hacksaw\n\n1 Visa\n\n1 glowstick\n\n1 ninja sword\n\n1 pussy (perfect fit for the dick)\n\nA number of Pokéballs\n\n1 fetus (am I pregnant or is this a result of the pussy and dick uniting?)\n\n1 husk\n\nA number of balls\n\n1 carrot\n\n1 can of Pringles\n\n1 Camel named Sentences (we finally have a way to get around, especially since I've been walking all these days)\n\nA number of antlers\n\nA number of rings\n\n1 baby\n\n1 binder\n\n1 beer\n\n1 hammer\n\n1 glove\n\n1 condiments in Comic Sans font\n\n1 bra (I needed a new one tbh)\n\nAnother dick\n\n1 rascal\n\n1 friend (the more the merrier)\n\n1 wonderkid (so many orphans)\n\n1 dead body\n\n1 Lyme disease\n\n1 leash\n\n1 Gallagher\n\n1 butt\n\nA number of floaties\n\n1 honey pot\n\n1 month\n\n1 rock\n\nAnother honey pot\n\n1 lawsuit (it was bound to happen)\n\n1 Florida-man comic book (this'll keep the kids entertained)\n\nAnother pussy (I hope we don't have another child)\n\n1 Brexit\n\nA number of stones\n\n1 masochist (as if we needed another one)\n\n1 tongue\n\n1 orphanage (dammit dick #2 and pussy #2)\n\n1 tit (just one)\n\n1 ransom\n\n1 bird\n\n1 seed\n\n1 bottle of lotion\n\n1 pair of truck nuts (mind you, I only have a camel)\n\nA number of tendies\n\nA number of phalanges (I'm pretty sure I could make Frankenstein by the end of this)\n\nMore carrots\n\n1 boogie bomb\n\nA number of common phrases\n\n1 wheel\n\n1 lead\n\n1 copy of Let It Be\n\n1 AllSpark\n\n1 son\n\nA number of elections\n\n1 Klondike Bar\n\nA number of medical bills\n\n1 tractor (finally. sentences has been having us ride their back for a long time)\n\n1 lukewarm beverage\n\nSome laundry\n\n1 cigarette\n\nSome trash (to be fair, this lifestyle accumulates little to no trash)\n\nA pair of royal sandals\n\n1 car (the tractor was breaking down, so I'll take that as well)\n\n1 brush (I've needed this for so long)\n\nA number of cabbages (I don't like cabbages, but this'll have to do)\n\n1 lighter\n\n1 chocobo\n\nA number of tide-pods (I can finally get that laundry done)\n\nA number of udders\n\nSome whiskers\n\nSome kibble (I still don't have a dog nor a cat...I think....)\n\n1 fiancè\n\n1 cell phone (hi mom! you can't believe the story I have for you)\n\n1 child (shotgun wedding I guess)\n\nSome saliva\n\nA number of whistles\n\n1 lasso (what am I? Indiana Jones?)\n\nAnother leash\n\nSome more balls\n\nSome invisible ink\n\nA number of brains (for trial and error creating Frankenstein)\n\n1 bog roll (THANK GOD)\n\n1 Bread Santa\n\nAnother beer (Great Britain sucks with the censorship, by the way)\n\nSome beef\n\nA number of eyes\n\n1 cock\n\nSome memes\n\n1 ethnicity\n\nSome more pokeballs\n\nSome breast milk (from that one tit)\n\nA number of legs\n\nA number of figs (weighed in Newtons)\n\n1 repost\n\nA number of diamonds\n\n1 drool bucket\n\n1 protruding rib cage\n\n1 rallying blade\n\nAnother cock\n\n1 comment section (I guess I did an AMA)\n\n1 \"No\"\n\nAnother son\n\nAnother leash\n\n1 submarine (I can finally travel the deep blue sea)\n\n1 kitten (finally! the catnip is put to use!)\n\nSome bread\n\nA number of asteroid worms\n\nA number of quackers\n\n1 CIVIC act\n\n1 dish of lasagna (I was starting to feel weak, but now the power of Italy shall replenish me)\n\n1 iPhone (better cell service, yeeeaaaaah)\n\n1 controller\n\n1 boyfriend (uh, i can explain)\n\n1 \"Heavy\"",
"That's a fan made commercial. ",
"They spend 0$ on buying TV ads / billboards / other conventional ad spaces. They do however produce ads and put them on YouTube and Twitter, they just don't pay to have them play as ads. ",
"Thats exactly what i thought when i saw this! The opening of Heavy Metal.",
"Its gonna be grilling one...it is more towards the space one. Orbit can able to encompasses with more thoughts lolz",
"The fastest motor in the universe !",
"Well put, sounds like the road runner :\\)",
"Well fans didn't launch a car to space.",
"Tesla didn't shoot it to space, so hardly 'ginormous' amount.",
"Wait, r/pics could pay us? Where do I sign up?",
"Tesla doesn't vroom.",
"A rocket launch doesn't have a big environmental impact, the propellant volume is similar to what airliners burn in a flight. \nDifference is there are a few dozen rocket launches a year, but there are thousands of planes flying all the time, every day, often multiple flights a day. See www.flightradar24.com. \nPlus there is not really an alternative to rockets while all other transportation methods can be replaced by emission free solutions.",
"Tesla didn't pay for it. Someone mounted his 10year old used car on top of a rocket.",
"Yes, but Tesla doesn't pay for rocket launches.",
"How did we fund it? \nI never bought a Tesla or SpaceX peoduct or service.",
"Do you pay US Government taxes? ",
"No.",
"they're up there with the big spenders in marketing, pretty sure",
"Without data comparing to other companies it's just an opinion.",
"OK, thanks for your opinion then I guess. ",
"This is not an opinion though: \n\n* Tesla not mentioned: http://www.autonews.com/article/20161209/RETAIL03/161209824/volkswagen-group-leads-automotive-spending-on-advertising \n* Tesla not mentioned: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-biggest-advertising-spenders-in-the-us-2015-7?IR=T \n* Tesla not mentioned: http://www.autonews.com/article/20160628/RETAIL03/160629852/automakers-rank-high-on-annual-ad-spending-list \n* Tesla not mentioned: https://www.statista.com/statistics/671530/automotive-advertisers/ \n* Tesla not mentioned: https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0612/7-companies-with-big-advertising-budgets.aspx \n* Tesla is mentioned, but not even in relation to marketing https://marketrealist.com/2015/02/government-regulations-push-auto-research-development",
"man you are a dumbass",
"This will not be seen but just read this article by Cracked, Elon Musk is not someone to look up to. \n\nhttp://www.cracked.com/blog/why-it-was-always-dumb-to-worship-elon-musk-as-savior/",
"I think that although Tesla spent $ 0 a year on advertising, they are well known for their cars and, of course, thanks to \"Ilona Mask\", but how to get advertising to other equally good companies without spending a lot of money on it, and getting a quality product? Very few services are engaged in this, but even they often deceive people or provide their services at the highest possible quality, for example, the project \"DAN\", which offers a cool idea in the field of advertising, even \"Vitalik Buterin\" drew attention, I expressed my opinion"
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Tesla spends $0 per year on advertising. Today Tesla has the greatest car commercial of all time
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"Where's the turtle?",
"Why underneath of course!",
"Of course, how silly of me.",
"But what is the sex of the turtle?",
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This is the unedited real view photo from the Falcon Heavy launch that Elon Musk doesn’t want you see. Don’t let yourselves be fooled sheeple!
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"Source: https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/961036233731379200",
"Yes, yes, yes.",
"Whenever I see a launch photo like this, my first thought is always “I wonder how long you would last if you were standing directly underneath”. ",
"Man, that's going to make a great third part to a space exploration trilogy one day. ",
"Mg gf asked me this today lmao",
"Skip to 4:30. (GOT spoilers)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/gHj45r8vl9Q\n\n",
"Thi",
"Damn, I forgot my marshmallows ",
"To quote a line from “Kingsman”:\nthat’s f**king spectacular!",
"Thanks for the share! I shot this for NASAspaceflight.com and this was taken with my remote camera I had placed on the launch pad. The camera was placed about 1400 feet away from Falcon Heavy's 5 million pounds of thrust and captured the first few seconds of it's historic journey. This was one of four cameras I had placed on launch pad LC-39a at Kennedy Space Center so feel free to check out my other photos below! It was truly a sight to behold and left me and the 4 SpaceX employees I was next to for launch absolutely speechless. If you get a chance in the future, go see a Falcon Heavy Launch!\n\n[Check out more of my photos from the yesterday here!](http://www.bradykennistonphotography.com/Falcon-Heavy/) ",
"All I see is the Monster energy drink logo.",
"Yummy carbons ",
"Pretty sure you'd be ash in maybe a couple of seconds.",
"HEAVY",
"My ass on Taco Bell.",
"Great photos! Thank you for sharing the album. ",
"Made me chuckle",
"if you crop the image a bit it would look like an Adidas poster.",
"What, no frog?",
"The Tesla groupies sure are Muskterbating all over Reddit and Imjur today.",
"The camera was on the launchpad? That's awesome! I hope it wasn't close enough to be damaged!",
"It was about 1400 feet from Falcon Heavy so it got away unscathed! As far as I know, everyone got their cameras back in one piece but at other launches some people haven't been so lucky. Rockets can do real bad things to cameras!"
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My favorite shot so far of the Falcon Heavy launch
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"Stalker?",
"cool",
"?"
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A creepy edit I did
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"How is this accomplished? ",
"The floor is that gay shit",
"Judging by the gravel imprints on her hands she pushed herself up? Impressive. ",
"You jump Down from something and smash you head in the concrete.",
"She was doing super pushups. I was surprised how high she got off the ground. \n",
"Everyone is wrong, she’s actually flying down the street at a elevated level. She has the gravel marks in her hand from politely stopping at each crosswalk. ",
"What f stop did you use? ",
"That's definitely what I thought",
"Very good photo, and the model is quite beautiful and impressive. ",
"Thank you, There are some more of her on my instagram @Mythstery",
"200-F4-1/250\n\n\n",
"She said when she first started doing them she ate it a few times.\n"
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"Levitate" Xt2 23mm f1.4
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"The landing of the 2 rockets was pretty impressive as well. Cool pic. ",
"I agree. This looks like some sci-fi spaceship, can't quite put my finger on which one. In my head I had Space1999 but that's not it - anyone else got any suggestions?",
"Reminiscent of the Tantive IV, maybe?"
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My favorite shot / angle of Falcon Heavy. Those engines look way more like a science fiction spaceship than anything prior in history, so ridiculously cool.
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"Looks like Triplets to me. ",
"Yes they're. :)",
"They're what? Abbreviating they are in a statement that 'Yes they are.' is weird af.",
"What is up with her left foot!?? We’re talking flipper by the looks of it.",
"She bent it while striking the pose.",
"Looks quadruple to me "
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Triple Joy
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"I hope if aliens ever encounter us the first thing they find is Elon musk's car just cruising in space.",
"Hahahaha",
"I think you mean extra-terrestrials. Either way, very cool.",
"Extra terrestrials, I think you mean.",
"Yeah. I'm sorry for omitting the 'extra'",
"r/totallynotrobots",
"It's not a minor thing- the definition changes. It's like adding a 'super' to natural.",
"Correction taken. Thanks",
"They find his car, \"Seriously, you guys aren't further along than this? We gave you the **PYRAMIDS**. ",
"because they will be able to read and understand our language",
"This transmits such a sense of unity. Damn, we humans are so cool when we don't end up fighting ",
"No, there are no known extra-terrestrials, and even supposing there were, they wouldn't be able to read English. The message was definitely intended for humans.",
"I hope not. They'll think we're idiots. Cars don't work in space."
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Elon Musk's message to the terrestrials
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"WE KNOOOOOOOOW",
"Stellar marketing.",
"And fake as fuck ",
"WTF?! How can you even... I just... Huh? Nevermind...",
"What's that purple comet looking thing in the background?",
"It's a tide ad",
"Go back to sleep "
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Tesla Roadster in Space
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"This guy is our hero as much as we don’t admit it",
"Name checks out",
"Only got 12 months in jail for it. I would have thought more. ",
"I think he only got 5 months. Also the kid had mental health issues and autism. So at least he probably got the help he needed.",
"I like to think he was traveling back in time to save the future. ",
"I only saw 12 months and didnt read any more to see if it was less or served less. Hopefully he does get help back in the UK. ",
"It's embarrassing that we have a furriner taking a job from a Merkun. This is what the president is trying to show us.\n\nBuild the wall and only let the funny Brits in. ",
"I domt even know what you are attempting to say.",
"Someone’s never seen fight club. ",
"I wish he would’ve told everyone that and never say otherwise. ",
"Satire of a redneck, among other things. ",
"I am Jack's lack of understanding movie references ",
"Well, being from the south, i should have understood what you were saying. Thanks for the clarification. ",
"He was probably just jealous that our country is not turning in to a third-world shithole, like his. I'll refrain from posting the stats for acid attacks and underage sex trafficking since the UK lost their self respect and testicles.",
"If he got the help he needed then Trump would've been shot that day.\n\n...Oh wait, you meant help as in therapy and such, not back up.",
"Speak for yourself, I don't celebrate would-be assassins or murder attempts. ",
"Am I? I don't celebrate those either. ",
"Careful, you're starting to display \"deplorableness\".\nIt works both ways.",
"What? Don't you think it'd be better to see him impeached than killed? Your talking about killing another human being because you disagree with them... this isn't 1865...it's 2018, you shouldn't be supporting those who encourage violence...and yes I fucking hate the orange man, but once you start talking about killing him you're gonna start loosing support very quickly. ",
"What a shitty argument.\n\nEveryone I don't agree with is OK with rape, sexual assault, racism, bigotry, fascism, and money laundering.\n\nPlease note that you're part of the problem that you think you're trying to solve.",
"That's true, it does. In my head it was a funny comment, but in reality it didn't play like I thought it would. .."
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Twenty year old Michael Sandford being arrested moments after attempting to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in 2016.
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"Everything dangerous looks delicious. ",
"But u/marsh914 posted it 😁\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vtvcg/an_18_year_old_photographer_took_the_best_falcon/?st=JDCMXRVV&sh=9e44d304",
"Looks like the launch was sponsored by Monster Energy drinks. ",
"Hi all! I’m John Kraus, an 18-year-old rocket launch photojournalist residing on Florida’s Space Coast. \n\nThis image was taken with a sound-activated Nikon D7000 DSLR placed outside the launchpad.\n\nIf you’d like to see more of my photos from this launch, check out my [Falcon Heavy gallery](http://johnkrausphotos.com/falcon-heavy) on my [website](http://www.johnkrausphotos.com)!",
"But... but I’ve just yesterday got a new wallpaper... love your photos John!!\nAlso, happy cake day! :)",
"You’re saying the Nikon is sound activated. Does it have a timer set after the sound driver goes off? Or does it take a burst? Seems weird it’s activated only a second or two after ignition",
"y'all got anymore of dem spacex pics? i want a clear and nice shot of the landings but it's usually terrible. "
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Triple-core thrust: Closeup photo I shot of today's SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch
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"Too bad it's fake ",
"Prove it lol",
"Look at it. Lol. ",
"Well if that isn't the best use of the scientific method I have ever seen! ",
"Prove it. ",
"I thought he was going to put the car on Mars, not just into orbit?",
"You can tell because of the pixels. ",
"He's going to bump into the car at the end of Grease. ",
"The cool new wallpaper on every screen/PC/tablet tomorrow.",
"From what I've read, it's just going to orbit mars at a far distance. I'd like to know more details though if anyone has them.",
"One of the best selling points of the Tesla electric sports car it that it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its dash.",
"It's going to orbit the sun, on mars' orbit.",
"License and registration please?",
"I saw David Copperfield fly in the studio in the 80s live on TV. Does that mean he is a fairy? \n\nhttps://youtu.be/70U2yybKhKg\n\n 🤔 \n \nCome on bro. Lol, you're being silly. ",
"Tell me if I'm wrong, I think they were planning to orbit around Mars but they burst too much fuel and it will end up orbiting around the sun (?)",
"They were always aiming for a solar orbit, but one with an [elongated end so that it crosses mars' path](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438). Unfortunately we'll never get that sweet shot with mars looming over the dashboard without someone photoshopping it. ",
"See, if I was Elon, I'd have put a car sized Star Destroyer up there.",
"Careful! You're about to crash into that big blue thing.",
"Billionaire life problems: shot car into space, what to drive now.",
"This will give flat-earthers some headache...",
"Have you seen the live chat on the Live video of the roadster? Holy Christ they are real and coming in numbers all butt hurt.",
"The Tesla groupies sure are Muskterbating all over Reddit and Imjur today."
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This is, without a doubt in my mind, the coolest picture I have ever seen.
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"r/lego mini figs",
"If Elon is smart he will make a die cast replica and sell it. I'd buy the shit out of it.",
"Flat Earth confirmed."
] | 3 |
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In honor of today’s epic launch
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/r/pics/comments/7vu8mf/my_ganora_cosplay/
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[
"Smash ",
"If you're the friend of u/beethy from [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/68xdv6/my_friend_dressed_up_as_gamora_from_guardians_of/) this post, then you are 9 months late to the party.\n\nStill pretty neat though.",
"Nice, from top to bottom",
"Do you mean Gamora? ",
"Marvel “fans”. Smfh",
"*Gomorrah",
"Spelling error aside, was expecting a sword. And a toy lil groot. ",
"Can't wait for Infinity Wars in three months!",
"And OP [posted](https://www.reddit.com/r/malehairadvice/comments/7v3g4d/hiya_reddit_how_should_i_cut_my_hair/) to /r/malehairadvice 3 days ago. Sounds legit.\n",
"Yeah you're not her ",
"Get the torches! ",
"All the upvotes!",
"Impressive ",
"Good cosplay. Was it painful to insert those wrinkly things onto your forehead? They look like they're popping out.",
"No it’s not ",
"r/PitchforkEmporium",
"👏👏👏",
"Looks amazing😻",
"considering he mispelled the name of the character too.... it was kind of clear",
"it's a stolen image. it's not op",
"it's a stolen image, not op",
"Did you mean Gonorrhea?",
"That's some DAMNED good cosplay, in that case.",
"That’s Lua stardust tho...",
"Doesn't even know what character name is = boothgirl jabroni",
"boo this man!",
"Do you mean Gamora Zen Whoberi Ben Titan?",
"Nice work!",
"Gamora or Gonorrhea? ",
"Fuck off, retard",
"Ha! You're dumb. ",
"Sweet Avatar costume!",
"Lmao ",
"😂"
] | 34 |
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My Ganora cosplay
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/r/pics/comments/7vu93v/gary_coleman_with_a_game_cube_disc/
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[
"Just me, or weird hands?",
"I think he's just ashy",
"What you talkin bout knuckles ?",
"Someone should Photoshop that disk as Postal2."
] | 4 |
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Gary Coleman with a game cube disc
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/r/pics/comments/7vu9lh/the_best_view_i_can_find_of_the_replica_tesla_and/
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[
"Easter eggs\n",
"Haven't seen anyone mention it yet. I was looking for it the whole time.",
"There must be parts of that vehicle that can not handle the conditions in space. "
] | 3 |
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The best view I can find of the replica Tesla and Starman mentioned in the live stream. (Zoom in between the vents above the screen.)
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/r/pics/comments/7vua6w/in_1971_we_launched_a_car_into_space_and_drove_it/
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[
"We need to get back up there with more cars and have moon races. ",
"...and we liked it, dangnam it.",
"Yep, an entire country funded a trip to the moon. And decades later it inspired an individual to create a private company to work towards it and to do it more efficiently. ",
"Techno-fascist",
"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html",
"Yes, but this time is wasn't done on a sound stage /s",
"yeah, with a rocket twice as powerful as the \"most powerful rocket in the world\" \n\nedit: you fanboys wouldn't even recognize that the information is truncated everywhere in the media... we built more powerful rockets 50 years ago, even the russians did. the only leap with the falcon rocket is the boosters and first stage landing and refurbishing, which kinda doesn't work yet. ",
"\"...most powerful rocket in operation...\" You missed a key couple words when you misquoted this ",
"[what are you quoting?](https://www.google.fr/search?q=most+powerful+rocket&oq=most+powerful+rocket&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3141j0j7&client=ubuntu&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)\n\ni used the exact expression that you can read in the media...\n\n",
"this comment section confuses me. Are people actually salty about the falcon heavy launch?",
"because that's a blatant communication event, without any scientific purpose.\n\nIt's not the most powerful rocket made by man, it didn't launch any useful payload, it didn't even manage to reach its planned orbit to mars, and they failed to land the main stage.... all they got is a nice meme picture lol.",
"You linked a google search result. A google search result is not “the media”. Media is multi-faceted and is not, in fact, a single entity.",
"Memes make magic. If memes could get Trump elected president maybe memes can make space travel possible. ",
"but wasn't this a test launch for the falcon heavy with already just 50/50 chance of success?",
"Haha you are salty",
"Isn't that the car that broke and they had to fix it with duct tape?",
"Right, it's subsidized *now*. Because they've had success.",
"So you are THAT guy, huh? Can't let everyone have fun with this?",
"Well... there's already three up there.\n\nWe just need some compatible modern batteries and some sweet corporate sponsored stickers we can slap on em' ",
"I think it would take more than that to get those race ready. I want to see some moon dune jumping. SpaceX can take plenty with one trip. This needs to happen. Im sure Tide will put some money on it.",
"Well, you're totally wrong... but this is reddit, so you're welcome to it.",
"Yet all the internet kids suck his dick like he’s god. Stop being so fucking blind. ",
"That's a lunar rover.",
"No we didnt",
"Moonkhana.",
"Operative word being “rover”. The Tesla launched is a street legal car. The rover we littered the moon with is not street legal. ",
"I was quoting SpaceX.... http://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy"
] | 28 |
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In 1971 we launched a car into space and DROVE IT ON THE FUCKING MOON!
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/r/pics/comments/7vudyt/tesla_hasnt_paid_a_cent_yet_the_ad_is_amazing/
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[
"Really? Taking the front page post and reposting it? 😒",
"How much did it cost to get the car there?",
"Really? Not even looking at the pics? 😒"
] | 3 |
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Tesla hasn't paid a cent, yet the ad is amazing
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/r/pics/comments/7vuie5/my_friend_sent_me_this_photo_from_work_today_here/
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[
"Where’s the truck??? \n😂😂😂",
"What’re you talking about? I don’t see any tru–\n\nOh. There they are. Damn. ",
"Holy shit! This is amazing!",
"Pretty much what I thought when he told me to look at them for scale haha. Crazy shit.",
"There's an underground mine that you enter off one side of this that is so old it still has timber trusses in some of the levels. It runs underneath the town of Kalgoorlie, which is located just off the edge of this pit.",
"Very cool! What do they mine and how long has it has it been in operation?",
"Mainly gold I believe, and it's been in operation since late 1800s."
] | 7 |
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My friend sent me this photo from work today. Here is the 3d biggest open-pit mine in the world, located in Kalgoolie, Western Australia. 250 tonne load trucks visible for scale.
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/r/pics/comments/7vuqlo/spacex_falcon_heavy_humans_for_scale/
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[
"This is just astounding. My god. ",
"This is not Falcon Heavy. This is just one of the side boosters that makes Falcon heavy there are 3 of them.",
"Honestly, this was one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. ",
"Oh shit. They're THAT big!",
"[MFW seeing this pic](http://i.imgur.com/qHVfNIg.jpg).",
"You are right! And the core booster is bigger. This is insane!",
"It actually is not. Those are the same 4th Gen Falcon 9 Boosters. It's just that the center core has Stage 2 and the Payload on top of it that makes it higher. But all 3 first stage boosters are the same.\n\nCrasiest of all, if you followed the launcher yesterday, Falcon Heavy outperformed, sadly starman won't see mars but will die painfully in the asteroid belt, but that means the rocket is actually much more powerful than they thought it was.",
"*It's just that the center core has Stage 2 and the Payload on top of it that makes it higher. But all 3 first stage boosters are the same.* \nYes, that was what I meant, sorry I wasn't specific enough. I meant they are taller.",
"Astonishing ",
"Holy crap! That’s it, all I got. ",
"SpaceX Falcon 9* this is a Falcon 9, to be precise, a Falcon 9 flown on the BulgariaSat-1 mission. ",
">sadly starman won't see mars but will die painfully in the asteroid belt\n\nGiven the density of the asteroid belt, starman may very well pass right through unscathed. Space movies/shows have given us a false image of how close the asteroids actually are.",
"You're probably right but he'll have to go through several times, statistically there are good chances of the Tesla crash landing on an asteroid :(",
"I could be wrong, but I could have swore they re-used that rocket for the Falcon Heavy launch.",
"No, they used a different booster core. They used cores from the Thaicom-8 and CRS-9 missions for the FH side boosters. ",
"Ah, thanks for the quick response. ",
"The feet are smaller than i'd imagined. Then again, the concrete they land on is probably 8000psi rated",
"Yeah. But Elon said last night that they aren’t big enough, so his team has created the bfr that’s 9m across and I think 160m tall. ",
"Yeah, maybe in a million years timescale.",
"But where is the banana?",
"Soon to be 67, so lived through the excitements of Sputnik, TelStar, Echo, moon landing, etc.\n\nHave read SF my entire life, usually averaging 2 books (not always SF) a week.\n\nMust have watched these booster tanks landing the other day 57 times, extending their legs, blowing dust, and settling in. Extreme difficulty in processing this event as real, after a lifetime of \"And here is an artist's rendition on how that landing might look.\" I mean....criminey.",
"Refractory castable like the type used for that launch pad will have a crushing strength around 10,000+ psi",
"Starman was never going to mars in the first place ... He was going the martian orbit and I dont mean orbit around mars, I mean that it would be passing through the area where mars orbits around the sun and then coming back. This was only a test.",
"Uh, Never said the opposite I don't know what you're trying to achieve here. And no it wouldn't have made it in Mars's sphere of influence either. It would just have been a very long range fly-by every know and then.\n\n It's in solar orbit. ",
"> sadly starman won't see mars \n\nHopefully you see the misunderstanding here.",
"I look up and I see the moon, does that mean I'm going there to take a piss every morning? I don't think so.\n\nSeeing =/= going to. Really, I don't understand what you're trying to achieve here.",
"uhhh ... there are periods of time when you can \"see\" mars from earth. You were speaking in reference to travel as you immediately afterward followed with \"but will die painfully in the asteroid belt\" when in fact this car won't be much closer to mars by the time it passes through its orbit around the sun than we are currently here on earth.\n\nI realize its hard to admit when you're wrong on the internet, but you misspoke even if you didn't misunderstand the mission.\n\nI didn't bother correcting the fact that you made a sweeping assumption that space X's rocket is much stronger than they believed. I'm sure they understood all the variables that would affect the distance that they could travel and under other circumstances the \"extra\" fuel would have been used for positioning. It might also be the case that the extra fuel existed because the rocket was no where close to its maximum payload. \n\nMy last comment was intended to be respectful and simply pointed out a misunderstanding, there is absolutely no reason to be a complete dick for no reason.",
"The humans not holding a banana so how do we know?",
"It's a 23-storey building that lands itself upright.\n\nIt's basically black magic.",
"It really isn't. Space is really, really, really big. The probability of hitting an asteroid is effectively zero.",
"Got any sources, or are you just talking out of your ass?",
"That's called science ",
"The Tesla groupies sure are Muskterbating all over Reddit and Imjur today.",
"Its not magic, its really good controls engineering."
] | 33 |
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy, humans for scale
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/r/pics/comments/7vusy6/this_molecule_lifts/
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[
"But skips leg day",
"😂😂😇 ",
"More like brocine, amirite? ",
"That pelvis is looking swole though "
] | 4 |
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This molecule lifts
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/r/pics/comments/7vuuga/all_you_really_need/
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[
"Abraham lake?",
"What car is This?",
"Yeah cool but you must be able to afford that.",
"I can tell by how clean those socks are, that they haven't had any fun yet.",
"the dog should do the same position as the hooman do",
"At least change the title, mate \n\nAnyone seeking more info might also check here:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[All you really need](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/70i3bg/all_you_really_need/) | 54298 | 4^mos | pics | 1249\n[All you really need](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5rn77a/all_you_really_need/) ^**B** | 76 | 1^yr | pics | 5\n[PsBattle: Dog and it's owners](http://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/comments/54fwyp/psbattle_dog_and_its_owners/) ^**B** | 803 | 1^yr | photoshopbattles | 65\n[All you really need](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/54fbpq/all_you_really_need/) ^**B** | 4484 | 1^yr | pics | 1305\n\n*[Source: karmadecay](http://karmadecay.com/results/u10051668) (B = bigger)*"
] | 6 |
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All you really need
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/r/pics/comments/7vuwcu/water_makes_the_shape_of_a_basketball_player/
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[
"^*Kobe*",
"Water is the essence of life, over half of our bodies are made of water and without it we cannot exist. This just goes to show that ball really is life. ",
"How high are you? No foolies.",
"/r/mildlyinteresting"
] | 4 |
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Water makes the shape of a basketball player
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/r/pics/comments/7vuxr1/i_just_bought_a_massive_red_head_dick/
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[
"PMO! Nice, how much did you pay for it? ",
"I'm sure even the fucking fluids wouldn't be able to come out.\n\n...The hat is pretty fucking dope though as all of the items on peaceminusone.",
"I buy it with retail price, 140 USD"
] | 3 |
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I just bought a massive red head dick
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/r/pics/comments/7vuy07/it_was_easier_than_i_thought_i_lost_143lbs/
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[
"However you did it, you look healthy! Congratulations girl!",
"Without diet? Eating nothing but big macs and large fries is a diet. No diet would mean you stopped eating. ",
"Thank you!",
"Congrats!",
"For me without diet means that I normally eat, but do not hold on to a strict nutrition program. It's easy to understand that fries and burgers will not help to lose weight, but usually people make a big mistake when they tell themselves that it is necessary to give up this totally. Psychologically, this is difficult to accept. ",
"I was just being an ass over the word usage. But dieting usually means cutting back on foods. Not cutting them out. Most diet plans will even encourage you to eat deserts from time to time. Or a juicy burger. Because if you don't, eventually you're gunna crack and binge eat a bag or two of chips and salsa, in one sitting, while binge watching a TV show that you've already watched.",
"Thanks ",
"That's what I'm talking about. I just want to tell people that a tough diet will not lead to anything good.",
"Great job! You look great and much healthier. And you figured out that moderation is the key to enjoying the good things in life.\n\nStay heatlhy. Stay happy!",
"Just my first post here, checking out how it works. ",
"Thank you for understanding. You exactly understood what I wanted to say. Thanks. ",
"You should be proud of yourself. This is a great accomplishment. You look very good.",
"Thank you. I can not say that I am proud, but there is a feeling of surprising calm and self-confidence. ",
"Don't worry, they weren't trying to put you down, they were talking about the definition of \"diet\" guy.\n\nCongratulations anyhow, well done! \nI bet your knees feel great now ",
"I am very happy for you.",
"Thank you ",
"Looking Great! Congrats!",
"Thanks a lot! ",
"Haha. And you are good teacher :) \n"
] | 19 |
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It was easier than I thought. I lost 143lbs without diet!!
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/r/pics/comments/7vuz4m/forest_photoshoot/
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[
"*\"Say nuts!\"*",
"capturing life……as it happens :-)",
"Really would you like to see \"NUTS\"?"
] | 3 |
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Forest photo-shoot :-)
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/r/pics/comments/7vv1b9/my_roommates_and_i_had_a_photo_shoot_with_my_cat/
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[
"They look really happy. ",
"Look at those two lovely couples! ",
"Heeey I just saw your other post. I want da kitty. ",
"Upvote for the hot chick. ",
"Y'all are giving me so many smiles as I find each of the roommates posts in different subs. Like an Easter egg hunt.",
"The fur runs strong in this family. ",
"Cute girl, Y U no beard?",
"Hey its Demi Lenovo? Levator? Lavortor?",
"Which one, the one with the beard? (just kidding, she looks sweet)",
"When does shooting on new girl finish up?",
"Surprisingly you aren't the first to think so!",
"Happy we could make you smile! We were all sitting at the table deciding what subs to post our favorites from our photo shoot to. 😹",
"Facebook is that way 👉",
"On this episode of white people with disposable income",
"No way! You guys got a \"New Girl\" thing going! I'm jealous. I bet the hilarious situations never stop",
"I can only dream to be half as cool as Jess. But yeah kinda! Best living situation I've had so far, too. (:",
"That's awesome! She's hilarious. I could actually picture you pulling off some bangs too 👌🏼"
] | 17 |
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My roommates and I had a photo shoot with my cat, Sullivan... in our Sully sweaters.
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/r/pics/comments/7vv1w0/with_all_this_talk_of_a_tesla_in_space_remember/
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[
"Except we know the moon landing was fake. Gravity works by standing on the bottom of the planet, which is constantly falling at 9.8 m/s. Which means, the gravity of the moon is the same, because it's clearly falling at the same speed. Otherwise it'd be so far away we can't see it anymore.",
"Elon.... is that you? Calm your titties now :)",
"Not a fan of spelling out jokes."
] | 3 |
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With all this talk of a Tesla in space.... remember.
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/r/pics/comments/7vv2gw/reddit_please_help_me_i_eat_the_top_green_part_of/
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[
"It’s like biting off the head of a fish.",
"Thanks for the input. Happy birthday!",
"she may very well be your sister. i don’t believe you. ",
"Eating this part of the fruit is the reason for your name op, it is known that the green top strawberry part has a pretty huge effect on the look of your but hole ",
"/u/mrnicebuthole, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/mrnicebuthole&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vv2gw/reddit_please_help_me_i_eat_the_top_green_part_of/?context=10\\))",
"/u/mrnicebuthole, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/mrnicebuthole&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vv2gw/reddit_please_help_me_i_eat_the_top_green_part_of/?context=10\\))"
] | 7 |
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Reddit please help me. I eat the top green part of strawberries. My girlfriend thinks that is very weird and no one should ever do it. Is that abnormal or normal?
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/r/pics/comments/7vv4t2/please_be_my_child/
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[
"Drop kick it first to eliminate the risk of it being something dangerous and attacking you ",
"I lol'd",
"Ha a good plan "
] | 3 |
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Please be my child
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/r/pics/comments/7vv6bg/everybody_meet_billy_the_spid/
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[
"Straya?",
"Bloody oath mate ;)",
"Should've named him Boris",
"ALL ABOARD THE NOPE TRAIN"
] | 4 |
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Everybody, meet 'Billy the Spid'!
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/r/pics/comments/7vv73q/what_heavy_hail_damage_looks_like/
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[
"I'm gonna guess Australia?",
"imagine how confusing/terrifying hail storms must have been before people understood what they were. ",
"This is what happens when the face of your building is basically render-covered styrofoam.",
"Meet The Flintstones",
"I'm reminded of the 200 or so people that were killed in the 9th century by a freak hailstorm. It took people sixty years to figure out how they died (the bodies having been discovered long after they died.) \n\nhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1476074/Giant-hail-killed-more-than-200-in-Himalayas.html",
"This kind of damage is actually what happens if you don't open up on time and people can't get their coffee.",
"Oh, man. It ripped the paint off the doors.",
"Wrath of gods indeed. And now we just sit in our impenetrable stone houses and say \"fuck you\"...",
"This was in McAllen, TX 2012. Caused $260 million worth of damage.",
"With a Starbucks? Unlikely.",
"All Hail the gentleman's latte!",
"Yeah agreed. Only 1 glass window broke and the tin roof isn’t so much as dented. The fact that “masonry” could look so fucked up clearly shows it was basically plaster",
"Someone posted this before a few years ago in which I commented, as I will here, that I was actually the MOD at that specific store when the hail storm hit. Some commenter didn't believe me and it made me sad.\n\nViva la starbucks 10th and Jonquil. ",
"Probably how they can afford to put one up on every corner.",
"Would be SO much cooler to not repair all the damage. Leave it fucked up and the place will be famous.",
"The corners are usually plaster too.",
"So the hail had all melted by 1942?",
"I had no idea Starbuckes were that expensive.",
"Seriously? Do they not have Starbucks in Australia?",
"There aren't any cars.",
"A Blockbuster near me did this after it was damaged in a storm. I thought it was a pretty cool decision, but it turns out that it closed in 2005.",
"[Whoa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uqdwSALioA)",
"Those are too small to tell if they are Australian.",
"It's stucco coated styrofoam, not masonry.",
"You can't even see the license plates... and they are different colors in different states.",
"They're not exactly common. There are quite a few other places that make superior and cheaper coffee, so there's only a few locations open nowadays. Hell, McDonalds does it better. They test all of their new concepts here, including the McCafe.",
"McDonalds coffee is basically acceptable now, but I wouldn't call it better than Starbucks. It isn't weapons-grade disgusting anymore, which is a substantial improvement, but let's not go crazy.\n\nOf course there are plenty of places to get better coffee in the United States too. That's not the point of Starbucks, though. The point of Starbucks is consistency. You can get the same basically adequate coffee and pastries anywhere, in any city, on any corner, whether you're in Texas, California, New York, whatever.",
"Actually that was ANOTHER storm 3 weeks later. Folks were a little squeamish when it thundered for a while after that.",
"This damage occured on March 29, 2012 and there are some pretty wild videos of that too."
] | 31 |
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What heavy hail damage looks like.
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/r/pics/comments/7vva1k/this_is_how_zoologists_weigh_tiny_birds/
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[
"Cruel and funny at the same time.",
"Cruel and funny at the same time.",
"Cruel and funny at the same time.",
"How would you weigh them, smart ass?",
"Kind of looks like he’s bobbing for bird apples cuz ya know that’s a thing...",
"Your mockery of u/cyber_blob is cruel and funny at the same time.",
"Light it on fire and down the hatch, Dave.",
"Not mocking him, just going with the trend.",
"Yeah, but I had to call it mockery to continue the trend...",
"Carry along, then."
] | 11 |
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This is how zoologists weigh tiny birds
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/r/pics/comments/7vvb71/it_doesnt_matter_what_you_look_like_when_youre_17/
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[
"Quite the hammer he has.",
"/r/BlunderYears",
"He got that for his birthday, that's what started his love for engineering.",
"It's divine.",
"Oh boy I'm sure it'll kick in any minute now for me. I mean I'm 5 years older than the 17 mark, surely I won't be a fucking loser forever!\n\n^^^right?\n",
"[I found his brothers](https://youtu.be/9G7aT6p_aGk)",
"You would be down right amazed at what you can destroy with just a hammer.",
"Looks like you're about to bust out the Napoleon Dynamite dance.",
"Two hats,\n\nOne hammer,\n\nZero fucks given.",
"The man wears many hats.",
"I didn't have two hat kind of money when I was 17 though...",
"TF2 Engineer cosplay",
"That just burnt my eyes",
"“He was already a millionaire in this picture” am I right reddit?",
"Napoelon Dynamite",
"[Here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_rIVm4U0AMBYdo.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/863222555208851456?lang=en) is the source where Elon Musk provides the following context:\n\n> On my cousin's farm in Canada at 17, wearing a hat on a hat\n\n> 7:41 PM - 12 May 2017\n",
"See ya, space cowboy!",
"Real life napoleon dynamite.",
"He’s still less goofy than I was at that age",
"Those crazy African-Americans. ",
"Looks like this. Waiting for succes to happen. I'm 44.",
"He invented bitcoin at this point ",
"I’m getting Napoleon Dynamite vibes from this post.",
"Dude, how are you on every post with the source or some other extremely pertinent and relevant comment?",
"Because that stuff matters.",
"Be careful who you make fun of in Middle School.",
"Yeah, it doesn't matter if you're adorable and goofy - you can go on to be a super-rich genuis later!",
"At this moment we should of all known that he was going to become a genius, just look at that outfit - 10/10",
"Get into a top tier college and then get accepted into stanford for a phd in physics, then well talk.",
"What the hell, that's one too many hats there, Musk",
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"there's a snake in his boot!",
"A hat on a hat! /r/madlads ",
"good bot\n\n^^kidding, ^^thanks ^^for ^^your ^^work",
"I mean if your goal is to be like Elon Musk your outlook probably isn't too good. People as successful as Elon benefit from timing and luck. While anyone can work as hard as Elon only Elon was in that room with that one guy at the right time. Only Elon accidentally found that reliable material supplier. Etc.",
"Hey I doubt it ",
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"Beautiful!",
"Credit to /u/Tangocan\n\nAmazing shot!",
"That's what I call a shadow.",
"Neat.",
"Am I the only one thinking of the film Independence day? ",
"That's just somebody's viewpoint in a video game.",
"This makes me wonder about what other epic shadows there are out there. ",
"Must be fake--there is no shadow of the photographer on top. /s",
"Now that you mention...",
"Of OP's mom?",
"Pythagoras ",
"Fucking amazing ",
"The one the moon makes is pretty sweet.",
"Fuji throwing major shade.",
"Is it snowing? ",
"The Mountain That Hides",
"The Earth's shadow is pretty cool too. I admire it every night.",
"Surely this is where deals are made allowing one to enjoy fame for just long enough to taste it before the illuminati wants what they're out for. ",
"Great view!",
"Is your mom standing on the mountain? ",
"May be a Star Destroyer overhead",
"Looks like a star destroyer is passing overhead ",
"It’s snowing on Mt. Fuji",
"Thanks for providing credit. [Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2bixdd/i_climbed_mt_fuji_4_times_and_the_final_time_i/) is the thread if others are interested. They climbed Mt. Fuji 4 times to get this shot.\n\nEdit: On July 15, 2014 they submitted [this image](https://i.imgur.com/1COEiVI.jpg) with the following caption:\n\n> I've spent the last two days investigating how my photo wound up on the front page of Bing Japan for a whole day without me knowing about it... ",
"Funnily enough reddit is not just for you. There are plenty of other people who haven't seen this picture.\n\nThe whole point of this website is to share stuff with people.",
"Wait, how did you find a spot that didn't have 100 other people hanging around in front of you?",
"and even better if it's other peoples stuff so it requires no effort right",
"Something tells me you are on the wrong side of the mountain my friend",
"I could feel the difference in temperature",
"Take me to /r/KarmaCourt",
"Biggest sundial on earth.",
"The Shadow of MMMMMMOOOOOORRRRRRDDDDOOOOORRRR! I couldn't resist.😎",
"Earth is flat xDDD",
"This reminds me of K2 at sundown. The shadow stretches into the horizon. Something about it terrifies me.",
"Wtf am I supposed to call it then?",
"Should repost this to /r/EmpireDidNothingWrong ",
"This would be perfect for sleeping in",
"The curry on the top of this mountain will, in my mind forever be the best I’ve ever had. ",
"Wow, looks incredible. Great shot!",
"I sure love mountains\nAnd this pic is very cool\nIt’s snowing on Mt Fuji",
"So that’s where the treasures buried!",
"those other mountians be like \"this fucking guy.\"",
"1. Funnily isn’t a real word. It’s a fake word. \n\n2. Why bitch, he even credited the original user?\n\n3. I’m here every damn day and I ain’t seen this yet.",
"A giant slice of pizza!",
"Daniel Jackson...",
"r/natureisfuckinglit",
"Funnily is a real word though ;)",
"This must be how it looks like at the other end of Saitama's punch.",
"I needed a moment to realize that's a shadow and not the opened waters after a wannabe Moses passed there.",
"He claims that it wasn't clear skies, but I bet he forgot to bring the camera the first three times. \n/s",
"We know where the treasure is now!",
"looks more like the shadow of a pyramid than a mountain",
"Dam would live to go visit that",
"We've got a 5-7-7 syllable situation over here. ",
"Looks like a good camping spot",
"I'm pretty sure [Ramiel](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/evangelion/images/a/a3/The_Sixth_Angel%27s_Halo_%28Rebuild%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20120310185922) is about to attack Tokyo 3....",
"All i can think about is laid-back camp",
"At first I was like: How can it be a picture from Mt. Fuji if it's of Mt Fuji...definitely a great shot ",
"I heard the Pole Position starting notes when I saw that picture.",
"It's snowing on Mt. Fuji.",
"Do the roosters crow a little later in the morning under the shadow of Mount Fuji?",
"It's snowing on Mount Fuji.",
"I want to believe that if you squint REALLY hard, you can see the photographer's shadow on top of the mountain.",
"there's only 2 months of the year they allow normal people to climb it. It's still freezing up there so snow accumulation is possible- that might be frost at the top. Source- climbed it, soooo cold.",
"You have a question,\nThe answer is very clear,\nIt's snowing on Mt.Fuji.",
"Is that really Japan? I see no used panty vending machines!!???!",
"Is you look closely you can see logan",
"Now that's what I call a shadow, Vol. 2",
"I believe we all call that a shadow.",
"Must be fake--there is no shadow of the mountain my friend.",
"Took a similar shot from the top oh Mount Merapi in Indonesia. The mountain is still active, so it has a smokey shadow top! https://i.imgur.com/JiWcsh8.jpg",
"Nice story you told\n\nI don’t think you got the joke\n\nIt’s snowing on Mt. Fuji",
"Illuminati confirmed?",
"The Misty Mountain",
"Honestly 2d is better. Dunno about you guys, but [this scene](https://streamable.com/myk31) from an anime took my breath away.",
"All those miles of flat Earth really give me a good ol’ boner. ",
"There's so much cool shit in the world I've never seen. Some days I love you reddit.",
"Right?.... ur the only one saying that so far. What's down there?",
"the view facing the mountain is even more breathtaking imo\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/tYPYoKm.jpg",
"Share this over in /r/japanpics too!",
"That is super fucking cool. Thx :)",
"Three more years of winter.",
"At Fuji right now, absolutely stunning",
"No, their Mt Fuji only has markings on one side.",
"Sun? SUUUNN!! You missed a spot.",
" We need to get down there and see what's buried there",
"The shadow lines up with that segment of rock that glows yellow at sunrise. There is definitely buried loot afoot! ",
"Its Photoshopped globetards... that curvature is as fake as donald Trump's hair....The earth is flat... I watched four videos in my basement and saw it from the top of my aunt's shed.",
"Super cool picture ",
"Anyone else feel like theres a secret tomb at the end of that shadow?",
"Fuck. Is that suicide forest (Aokigahara) looming below?",
"The opening scene of the new Star Wars movie as a Star Destroyer settles over a city.",
"[It is a real word though](https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/funnily)",
"Mount Kilamanjaro. Also the great pyramids.",
"Hey man, I just wanted to let you know that you have the camera pointed away from the peak. I'm sure it was an honest mistake though.",
"[Here's] (https://i.imgur.com/B1CPX0W.jpg) a shot that I got when I climbed about 2 years ago. Not as photographic as the post, but still pretty.",
"The only place shadier than /r/rupaulsdragrace would be a fucking mountain",
"Ha",
"Now i really cant wait for the next ep of Yuru Camp",
"Ha! Get rekt globe heads! There are straight lines! /s",
"Every one should climb mount fuji once. Only a fool climbs it twice.\nSource: I would not climb mount fuji again",
"Is it worth climbing? Will be in Japan for 2 weeks in early August.",
"Broooo...it looks like the ocean!",
"Can someone explain for the uninitiated ",
"Gorgeous scenery.",
"i'm at work so i don't want to go there. what is this sub about?",
"No, this is Patrick. ",
"Oh for fucks sake ",
"https://youtu.be/9y3baOVXpSE",
"r/definitelynotmeirl",
"It's snowing on Mt. Fuji.",
"NO THIS IS PATRICK!!",
"https://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/al-roker-poop-pants/2013/01/08/id/470495/",
"oh yall wanted a twist eh",
"No tea no shade",
"Rupaul's Drag Race fan sub",
"Is a hurricane a-blowing?",
"I thought the mountain is closed to hikers outside the summer months?",
"Pico mountain, Azores:\n\nhttps://imgur.com/c0zezCZ",
"Last time I was at the top of Mt. Fuji I took a very similar pic. Such a beautiful view from the top there!",
"You know how some people go to church? Some other people just click this. ",
"They have found the secret location of the Ancient Warrior's Grave.",
"Looks like an ad for Ancient Aliens. ",
"Pyramid Fuji confirmed alienati",
"At least it's not snowing on Mt. Fuji.",
"that snow *took the shot* teeheehee",
"It’s about the show Ru Paul’s Drag race which is an America’s Next Top Model-esque reality show with drag queens. A big reason people watch it is because of the “shade” that the queens throw at each other because it results in drama and very entertaining television. \n\nThe sub isn’t actually bad, it’s just that the show does a lot of marketing around the gossipy and confrontational attitude of the queens because that’s a huge reason people watch. ",
"BWOO-BWOO-BWOO!",
"Not to VIP hikers. ",
"It's snowing on Mount Fuji\n\nJust like the blizzard in my heart\n\nOne is beautiful, the other is not",
"Illuminati confirmed ",
"I've seen the sunrise from Mt. Fuji. You're definitely on the wrong side of the mountain.",
"Illuminati confirmed ",
"they're all on the ground. Dead.",
"it's a conspiracy",
"Teide volcano on Tenerife is also quite nice:\nhttps://imgur.com/kz2kDox",
"You need to have two\n\nLine breaks between all your lines\n\nIt's snowing on Mount Fuji",
"I wonder how big a star destroyer is in comparison to Mt Fuji",
"Please stop putting my diary on the internet thanks ",
"It resemblances a hologram receding to reveal the barren earth deprived of light, the illuminated city and less imposing mountains are a deceiving simulation. \n\nThat is one prodigious shadow! ",
"The shadow kind of looks like another mountain ",
"Earth is flat confirmed ",
"Just wow. ",
"Can confirm. I stood in it for the first time last August. I probably never will again.",
"You can! Go to /r/churning to get a cheap/free ticket, go in the late summer when the snow is off of Fuji, and you just walk up it. \n\n\nhttps://blog.gaijinpot.com/worlds-heritage-fuji-san/",
"That is a very large triangle. ",
"Much shadow, wow",
"Yeah? I got visibility of 5m due to dense fog, so, y'know, fuck you.",
"More like r/natureisfuckingdark",
"Japan's Got Shadows",
"That's how Mount Fuji was formed. Saitama punched the earth from below.",
"I climbed that motherfucker and it was completely fogged in at dawn. Couldn't see shit.",
"Happy cake day!",
"[Same](https://i.imgur.com/aoQ7Xha.jpg)",
"He was hiding behind a bush",
"Shikamaru will be invincible here.",
"All that's left is for My Fuji to open up the library.",
"Technically a haiku doesn’t have to be in 5-7-5, just how to be said very passionately. Well according my AP Lit teacher. ",
"How beautiful",
"I can get behind this ",
"I really want a flat earther to chime in with their \"explanation\"",
"How does that work, if the sun is 93 million miles away ?",
"She already started girl, the shade is knee deep already girl day one. ",
"Less than 24 hours to go!",
"People can try\nBut that's about it.",
"This photo was taken nearly 4 years ago and probably not by the OP.",
"I'm jealous of you. I did an overnight climb to see sunrise, but thought it was a good idea to plan it the night a Tropical Storm passed over. The night went from black to gray...couldn't see more than 20-30 feet in front of us, it was so cloudy...\n\nOnce we broke through the cloud layer on the way down, however....WOW.... it was incredible.",
"Shadow for scale",
"Sh!t, I hiked it over night & did NOT think to go to the crater side to catch the shadow. Well played! *slow clap*",
"I was expecting [this](https://goo.gl/AaPUuF) for a second there...",
"That's what I call a Sundial.",
"I did cold weather training there back in '94 while in the Marine Corps. I miss my time in Japan, such a beautiful place. ",
"Logan Paul hung his cleats up down in that valley somewhere. ",
"> 5-7-7 syllable situation\n\nI don't get the reference =(",
"How do you call every other shadows? ",
"Marketing stunt for Shadow of the Colossus? Because it a hella of a shadow. ",
"Just double checked, it's allowed but you have to notify the prefectural police and do so at your own risk. I climbed it myself in July 2016 it's normally climbed July/August.",
"I’m just saying... if I were to be bury an ancient treasure ... and I’m not saying I have... the point of this shadow would be a likely place to look for it. ",
"Your facing the wrong way. Quick! Turn around before you miss the sunrise!",
"Views like this are my favorite part of living in Colorado",
"Wow, this is awesome! Didn’t get the chance to climb it myself because we went in the wrong season and they said it would be stupid.",
"So if you were at the top, would you see an awesome shadow of yourself?",
"Coincidentally, I’m watching Yuru Camp this season.",
"Looks like an Imperial Star Destroyer. Must be some rebel scum hiding in Japan ",
"You admitted it’s a repost? Wat. ",
"It's a reference to episode 38 \"This is a Haiku\" of Sonic Boom on the Youtube channel Game Grumps.",
"Unfortunately as much as people may hate it [52% of posts on the front page are reposts.](http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/03/on-reddit-good-links-rise-to-the-top-but-it-can-sometimes-take-a-few-attempts-to-get-there/)\n\nNot everyone is on reddit all the time so some amazing pics get missed, I just like to share some of the old ones I come across!",
"A thousand years of Japanese poets beg to differ. ",
"For some reason this pic is slightly unsettling, but in a good way. Great post OP ",
"How early did you start the climb to get this shot?",
"Got a pic from the front? ",
"Illuminati confirmed?",
"It's a game grumps reference",
"Now make a giant sundial around the mountain.",
"Unfortunately I didn't take this amazing photo. /u/Tangocan did, but you can find more info about it on one of the top comments where I credit them.",
"Yes. ",
"took me a moment...i was like 'mountain?' \noh mountain!",
"Beautiful. ",
"Major Shadow, sir! *salutes*",
"I like you. ",
"I actually know him (we were teachers in Japan together).\n\nHe'd been trying to get that damn picture *forever*.",
"I’ve climbed twice, (terrible experience for my legs both times), but plan to do it once more before leaving Japan to catch the sunrise! I was about to ask what side you were facing, but shortly after my brain started working again. ",
"or not... at this point. There is another mountain made from shadows. And looks like there is snow on it.",
"My first thought too",
"/u/Shitty_Watercolour commented on my post. I feel honoured. I'm gonna frame this pic and put it on my desk at work.",
"Imagine standing at the very point of the shadow ",
"Needs more logan paul suicide forest video ",
"Thanks!",
"Man, I have a strange urge to go camping all of a sudden.",
"I too love Danny and Arnold. ",
"Nope. Not necessary. A traditional haiku could also be in the less common 3-5-3 morae pattern.",
"I feel like if you go to where the tip of the shadow points to, there will be a hidden city or pot of gold or something there.",
"r/luckilynotmeirl",
"Cheeky :)\n\nActually I brought a camera every time. I didn't intend on climbing it a 4th time, but the third time I climbed I took a photo of this shadow, but it was a bit of a shit photo.\n\nSo I went back next year and took a better one.\n\nFunnily enough this photo kickstarted a career - not in photography, but in Digital Marketing - because it got very popular online and I gained a ton of experience in about a week, allowing me to get a starter position.\n\nNow about 3.5 years later I'm way more educated and experienced, which is a bloody blessing because I had no prospects otherwise.",
"Oh sup.",
"Fuji 2: Shadow of a Tear",
"Why are there so many haikus and discussion about haikus in this thread?",
"Looking at the thumbnail I was about to say, “From or of—“ oh ok, From then.",
"That kicks ass.",
"I bet some well placed solar panels on the eastern face of mount Fuji would generate some decent solar power. Could also add some to the western side for day long production. Doesn't the peak tend to stay above the clouds? That would make it a great location for them.",
"I love it.",
"Fuck yeah do it.",
"Independence Day vibes ",
"Finally found the illuminati's secret lair!!!!\nEdit:spelling cuz I'm dumb",
"My first thought was \"why can't I see Tokyo?\"\n\nMy second thought was \"why am I an idiot?\"",
"Maybe a dumb question, but is this facing east or west?",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwJnOCb5Mrg",
"Wrong.",
"When stationed in yokosuka, I loved going out to sea and you get a great view of Mt Fuji. I’ve also climbed it, and it was amazing. ",
"Cut the chatter Red 2.",
"My favorite two are:\n\n* [Mt. Rainer creating a sky shadow](http://i.imgur.com/jHvEE.jpg)\n\n* [K2 creating a shadow that reaches *into space*](http://i.imgur.com/1mAzNUY.jpg)",
"Please, no mum joke",
"Everyone is watching the sun! Like Shibuya in the wilderness up there, haha.",
"Awesome... we need a timelapse video of this! ",
"Now here's an interesting photo!",
"That's a star destroyers if I've ever seen one.",
"Meme, basically. ",
"https://i.imgur.com/96Xfepx.gif",
"The almost perfect triangle shape of the shadow has less to do with the shape of the mountain and more to do with perspective. The top of the shadow is so far away that perspective makes it look really small. Even a 3km tall, perfectly rectangular building would have an almost triangular shadow in a similar picture.",
"Ohayo from the states, mang.\n\nI see that FF is taking up all your time nowadays :P",
"24 hours till M A X I M U M C O M F Y",
"Dragon queen",
"Based on how cold the ground looks, and the fact that it looks like it's summer, I would say that this is the Sun rising. The Sunrise is always due east, so it follows that it's facing west here. Looking at [the map](https://www.google.no/maps/place/Fuji-san/@35.3577188,138.5328561,11z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6019629a42fdc899:0xa6a1fcc916f3a4df!8m2!3d35.3605555!4d138.7277777!5m1!1e4), the ridge in the background seems to confirm that.",
"It’s snowing on Mount Fuji",
"That's amazing! It's crazy how one amazing photo completely changes the trajectory of your career. ",
"I've exchanged mountain climbing for climbing PvP ranks. This country is flat af lol",
"Way too obscure, in other words.",
"r/empiredidnothingwrong\n",
"I went up Fuji in August many years ago and there was snow in the crater.",
"Me too thanks",
"I'm very lucky :)",
"/r/nocontext",
"Because if the camera was facing the other direction, we'd see your mum on the horizon?",
"thats fucking cool!!",
"Layer? Lair? Wut.\n",
"Wow, that is beautiful. I would like to see Mt. Fuji.",
"Pfft. Make your own mountain lol",
"Ha ha! Wow! Arnold said a poop joke again! Now that's funny michelle!",
"Like the tip of a imperial destroyer, about to colonize your poor helpless planet. *Doom is upon us.*",
"I've seen it referenced enough on Reddit. That's actually the only reason I'm aware of it at all. Pretty much any time anyone mentions either mount Fuji and often when anyone mentions haikus, someone will drop a \"It's snowing on mount Fuji\" which is another reference to the same episode.",
"It's a joke made on a Game Grumps Let's Play episode of Sonic Boom.",
"[fuyu kyanpu intensifies]",
"He is on the opposite side of Fuji. Everyone else is watching the sunrise and he walked to the opposite side. ",
"It's almost a Haiku",
"Forgive me",
"C’mon mountains.",
"Mt. Fuji can snow",
"What about sunset on Tokyo",
"Wowww... This is simply captivating😍",
"gr8 resolution",
"Sounds to me you put in a lot of work for that photo and it paid off. It wasn't only luck!",
"1st \n. Rsssr",
"That's where the holy grail is kept. Just need to dig at the tip.",
"I'm gonna pre. That's like my favorite bit",
"I remember climbing Mt. Fuji. Did you feel exhausted and frozen when you got to the top? Those were the only things I remember feeling at the time.\nEdit: misspelled the (*i-i)",
"Love this! Looks just like the view from the summit of Mt Taranaki where I'm at. Beautiful!",
"it’s snowing on sunrise ",
"Mount Fuji sunrise\nThat's what I call a shadow\nIt is snowing on Mount Fuji",
"Chad fuji don't care ",
"Wait night is when the earths shadow covers the surface of the earth ?! Whoa.",
"is that your kid's shadow?",
"I came here looking for these comments!",
"Can you spot the 3 girls at the bottom camping in their 980Y tent? ",
"I found the treasure woohoo !! . ",
"Lair*",
"Crazy.. Its so perfectly shaped the shadow makes it look like a pyramid!.. Oh my.. Hold up. Oh my god. What if it IS A PYRAMID just soooo old that it has eroded and now looks like a mountain! 😨",
"Question: Does anyone know why no matter the shape of the peak you're on top of, the shadow they cast appears to be perfect pyramids? I do a lot of climbing as these shadows always look the same.",
"“Aliens”",
"Yes, there are other patterns, but there is always a pattern. It’s not just “how passionately you say it.”",
"I’ll never be the mountain Fuji is..",
"And in vastly better resolution, thank you for sharing this, straight to my desktop rotation!",
"Is it Reddit Gold? ",
"There's the Grump thread I was looking for.",
"I came here for this comment.\n\nHaving the international space station cast a shadow is cool",
"I hear it like\n\nBWO^oo^oo - BWO^oo^oo - BWO^oo^oo\n\n",
"Rin best gal",
"illuminati confirmed",
"Gorgeous!",
"then you better buy a shovel & fly over (also look up Santorini)",
"Ok. You got me this time. But there won't be a second.",
"Only 23 hours or so left!",
"Idk if you're trying to do some Comment Etiquette thing here but its just shitty. ",
"Game grumps “It’s snowing on Mount Fuji”",
"much prettier if you turn around",
"This is one of the coolest pictures I have ever seen",
"Do you want the RAW file?",
"I looked. ",
"...isn’t the suicide forest what’s at the bottom of the mountain? ",
"Is it snowing on Mt. Fuji?",
"I almost hesitate to say yes, but I kind of do, yeah... I feel like it's going to be 10k or something LOL",
"You can also have \nTwo spaces at line endings \nIt's snowing on Mount Fuji",
"Awesome pic thanks for sharing!",
"I'll send you a link in PM",
"Literally every time haikus or Mt Fuji come up on Reddit, someone makes the reference",
"This is beautiful\nThank you for sharing this pic\nIt’s snowing on Mount Fuji ",
"I fell for it.",
"Mt Fuji is over 2x as tall as an Imperial class Star Destroyer is long.",
"Are you saying BWO^^oo ^^oo or BWO^^oo ^^urns?",
"Wouldnt this go some way to disprove the flatearthers?",
"Definitely, Fuji was the best experience of my year in Japan.",
"**\"Enhance!!\"**",
"Looks like a Star Destroyer.",
"Anyone else want to slide down the path that looks like it's right at the photographer's feet?",
"Illuminati confirmed. Stay woke, folk ",
"You can almost see a turd with a toy story hat down there. ",
"I did that night climb once. Started in shorts and a T-shirt, ended in full bundle! Sun came up, headed down, back to T-shirt shorts in no time! Great experience.",
"Absolutely, and make sure to spend a night at the Fujisan Hotel, aka the original 8th station. We hiked up with Fuji Mountain Guides, they book the stay for you, and then you get to hike up in the early morning to watch the sunrise. \nOne of the best experiences of my life, by far!",
"Don´t show it to logan paul, it´s close to the forest",
"Was it snowing, because it should be",
"This photo was in an interesting post a while back:\nhttps://petapixel.com/2014/07/25/things-learned-photo-hit-1-spot-reddit-probably-shouldnt-posted/",
"I'm always an hour late!\n\nWhat'd he say!",
"r/buttisitart\nIts not snowing.",
"Is it dormant?",
"Everything the light touches...",
"That's the spot where I would start digging if I were you. \n\n",
"So early in the am, I can just smell that fresh air mmm",
"Nature, you good at triangles ",
"Thanks for sharing this!!",
"Somewhere in that shadow is the only decent Marine Corps training installation.",
"And at the tip of the shadow is an ancient burial crypt of a Japanese sword smith that made a katana so sharp magical and powerful it snipped the tip off mount fuji ",
"thales theorem",
"thales theorem",
"It looks sorta like the shadow from mount chilliad😎",
"Illuminati",
"Get out... of ma... Swhamp!",
"Lol\n",
"It's as though the earth was struck by some enormous morning wood....yeah, \"mother\" nature, my ass!!",
"Cool thing is, those lines are parallel.",
"what?",
"Let me guess , behind you there were 100s of other tourists ",
"My hero!",
"Think of all the touges.",
"fuckyouicandowhateverthefuckiwantitssnowingonmountfuji",
"/u/pursel93 I don't see much snow...",
"This is one of my new favorite things.",
"Illuminati confirmed",
"Idk. Needs more hdr",
"I wanna be sedated",
"\"Everything the light touches will be yours someday.\"\n\n\"Wait. What about that huge dark triangle right in front of us?\"\n\n\"Oh shit, sorry son, I was supposed to make this speech at sunSET, not sunrise.\" ",
"Damn that's beautiful!",
"That's a bad ass picture. I love this!!",
"I read the title as \"Mount Fuji Surprise\" and spent way too kong waiting for a gif to kick in...",
"I remember climbing mt fuji in the middle of the night to see the sunrise. I only saw clouds",
"What kind of nancy drew tomfoolery is this? Oh, you werkin' mawma? It doesn't matter if you want to go there, you've already been *brought* there. *Henny.*",
"Most people call it a shadow, actually. ",
"3718 Meters. Crazy high for a tiny island!",
"Wait? I thought you were leaving for good! I’m so happy to see you again! ",
"Oh hey its snowing in mount Fuji. Dan was right for once",
"This looks soooooo unreal",
"So, someone standing at the tip of this shadow would see the sun rise from the top of Mt. Fuji.\n\nSomeone at the very base of this shadow would see the sun rise later than everyone else in the area.",
"climbed mount fuji once last summer and it was a really great experience, seeing sunrise at about 4 was spectacular. the ¥300 (roughly $3) cup of noodle was the best part obviously.",
"Look Simba everything the light touches is our kingdom",
"not as big as ur moms",
"Fucking Monikammmmmmm",
"And a view all the way down to the sea.",
"that is not a joke.\n \nit is a reference.\n\nto Mt. Fuji and it's snow.",
"I live on Tenerife, you can get this from Teide, a mountain roughly the same height but rising directly from the sea.\n\nIt's one of my favourite hikes.",
"I knew this, but the reasons why, I wont tell.",
"Use of the words \"shit\" and \"bloody\" in one post. British at all?",
"Or your mom's shadow at noon!",
"No you see, that's where you're wrong.\n\n[It IS a Haiku.](https://youtu.be/kBKXgCnB9nE)",
"Where's the hi-res?",
"Pyramid Power!",
"What would the guy be fucking? 😂",
"I'm gonna fuckin pre dude. I love it when they say that. Danny and Arnold. Love those two guys.",
"Just read an article a day ago about how the original poster regrets putting it on reddit, the irony..\nlink if anyone’s interested\nhttps://petapixel.com/2014/07/25/things-learned-photo-hit-1-spot-reddit-probably-shouldnt-posted/\n",
"Is this the thing they say that guy Moses did? ",
"Something about pooping his pants.",
"Everyone calls that a shadow",
"Hey thanks for commenting. I hope I didn't cause any issue by posting it (made sure to credit you).\n\nAmazing shot and glad that it worked out in your favor in the end!",
"Someone has a lower resolution, this HQ photo does not load on my nokia.",
"Wow incredible shot. ",
"r/bettereveryloop?",
"ふじ山!",
"[Fujiko got big](https://m.imgur.com/WkMxZaY) ",
"Were you on the peak? Could have had the longest shadow cast by anyone on the planet at that time!",
"All things serve the beam.",
"Wow that looks amazing!",
"That area must be cold af",
"Beautiful ",
"\"Sorry. Morning wood.\"",
"A wise man climbs mount Fuji. Only a fool climbs it twice. ",
"This is hell of a landscape for sure !!! Oh my..",
"Using this for D&D now. The only way to enter into whatever bullshit my players are going after is to \" walk the Shadows Road\" on Mt. Whatever.",
"1) Be there first. Not hard to do. You just have a lot of time to kill once you get there hours before everyone else.\n2) Most people want to be on the other side to actually see the sunrise. Not as much competition for space on the \"I want to see the shadow\" side of the rim.",
"smooth one desu",
"I expected more morning wood jokes in this thread.",
"Did your mom take this?",
"Pyramid of Giza.",
"Sonic the Hedgehog\nYou are the best game ever\nIt's snowing on Mount Fuji",
"Wonder how long it'd take Neymar to get away from here ",
"I've never seen it in person, but I've always been fascinated by how huge Fuji seems to be compared to everything around it. It's gotta be close to the biggest in those terms, no?",
"Normal people? ",
"Who doesn't love a good vista. ",
"Omg they made Mt Fuji from Civ 5 into a real thing",
"Beat me to it!",
"First off, beautiful. Second off, @Laid-Back Camp the anime because it's about camping and some places near not fuji",
">This fujing guy\n\nFTFY",
"Almost looks like a POV from Moses parting the red sea",
"Almost every other comment is \"it's snowing on Mount Fuji\" am I missing something?",
"Dark side of the mountain ",
"Too bad it was foggy when I climbed that sumbitch. I didn't see shit. ",
"That orange glow at the tip... Did this unlock a Shrine?!",
"And is that the shadow Logan Paul’s massive fuck up?",
"/u/buttisitart I tried doing this 2 hours ago but failes",
"Amazing ",
"It's like the shadow leads to another planet full of dark mountains and black skies",
"Hey that's the same shadow I see cast from my bed at sunrise!",
"*neck breaks*",
"I got a couple photos published in a national magazine when I was in high school. \nNothing happened. ",
"Well... it doesn't have to be ME that finds out",
"Its amazing to think that the sun rises on its flat side, huh. What an amazing world were live in. S/",
"Was it snowing on mt. Fuji?",
"Looks like a pyramid if you ask me. I wonder how tall its shadow is compared to Michael Jordan? Could he jump that high?\n\nWhat a successful launch to Mars yesterday. I think i'll go listen to \"Life On Mars\".",
"If you look closely, you can see the Infiniti logo.",
"Could I also have a link as well please? ",
"Is that the suicide forest below it? ",
"Fuck that's trippy",
"Okay, now do Sunset",
"Is that Logan Paul’s career I see down there? Dead, in the forest?",
"I read this in their voices.\n\nAnd I just remembered James Earl Jones is getting up there in age and may not be with us for much longer.\n\nAnd now I have the sads. THANK YOU u/diggitydizzarci\n\n(heh, just kidding. I feel silly today)",
"Today I learned \nA new and wonderful thing \nIt's snowing on Mount Fuji",
"Now THIS is podracing.",
"Looking at this photo, I just realized I lived in Albuquerque for most of my life and never watched the sunrise from the Sandia Crest.\n\nI imagine the shadow isn't as striking as big, triangular Mount Fuji, but I bet you can see the shape of the crest.",
"Mufasa would want you to honor his legacy, not mourn his loss. \n\nI like your silliness. ",
"All I see is more proof that the earth is a triangle",
"Definitely. I did it last August myself! Just make sure you go down the same way you went up, otherwise you’ll end up on the wrong side of the mountain like me 🙃",
"Wait\n\n\nIs it snowing there?",
"Oh my gosh I want to experience that ",
"It's snowing on Mount Fuji.",
"*It's snowing on Mt. Fuji. ~*",
"He is standing in front of the crowd",
"Other than the one the moon makes, when the moon goes into Earth's shadow, it becomes really cool too. Next time that happens is Jan 20, 2019. ",
"I'm actually not convinced that OP isn't Nadeshiko.",
"This doesn't even look like the top though I could be wrong. The original photographer was lucky to get a view of Fuji-san without the clouds. I was in Japan for 11 days last year and only saw a clear view of Fuji-san once on my 2nd to last day there. ",
"Last time I was at the top of Mt. Fuji I took a very similar pic. Such a beautiful view from the top there!\n\n",
"Indiana Jones needs to find the Ark! ",
"You could make a big ass sundial with that.",
"Looks like a shadow of a pyramid. Incredible",
"This really puts into perspective the scale of Fuji.",
"Pretty grim and spectacular. ",
"I'd like to image a beautiful star destroyer bringing peace to this planet.",
"I hate to be a bother, but do you think I could have a link also?",
"Haha! There it is! It’s been my desktop background on my laptop since I first saw it posted here! Hard to believe that was almost four years ago.",
"That’s one deep V",
"Can we take a moment to appreciate how lucky we are that Mount Fuji faces west?",
"Seeing something like this, it's easy to understand why ancient peoples would have imagined the mountains as homes of the Gods, if not Gods themselves (or otherwise mystical places). ",
"I think I can see Logan Paul in the distance...",
"The rule in Japanese is 5-7-5 *mora*, a mora is smaller than a syllable. 5-7-5 syllables is almost always too long.",
"That's a great shot! It would be really awesome to see a time elapse of this view over a day or so.",
"Pyramid shadow rules.",
"This makes Mount Fuji feel super big, and also super small",
"This photo went viral on Reddit a few years ago. [The photographer's experience was detailed in this essay](https://petapixel.com/2014/07/25/things-learned-photo-hit-1-spot-reddit-probably-shouldnt-posted/).",
"In Japanese, a mora is a syllable. Are you talking about transliterating English into Japanese so the “Mount” in Mount Fuji is 4 syllables ma-u-n-to?\n\nIn Japanese, the “san” in Fuji-san (meaning Mount Fuji) has two syllables: sa-n, because the N Counts as a separate syllable in Japanese. But that doesn’t change the rules of haiku in English, where the word “Mount” is one syllable.\n\nFor the curious:\n富士山\nふじさん\nFu-ji sa-n",
"It's definitely worth climbing, but make sure you're prepared gear wise or you're going to have a bad time. Rainproof clothes and a headlamp is a must",
"Illuminuji",
"Of course.",
"You've got mail.",
"Thanks. Awesome photo. ",
"Yes, at least once! The ramen at the top will be the most satisying ramen youll probably ever have.",
"You're welcome. I might make an album of my stay on tenerife, i'll let you know.",
"A mora is not a syllable, however Japanese is based on mora so sometimes they will loosely be called syllables when teaching Japanese outside of formal linguistics.\n\nIn Japanese each mora has approximately the same length, which is why the basis for the 5-7-5 mora rhythm. In English syllables have vastly different lengths (compare \"a\" with \"squirrels\"), so if you create a poem based on counting syllables the rhythm won't work at all. This is why English poetry is normally stress based, with roughly equal time between stresses. However if you're adapting the haiku to English then you at least need to be conscious of syllable length, and count syllables accordingly. A word like \"mount\" would count as either 2 or 3.",
"Do it. Climbed it twice. You'll remember it forever man.",
"Anyone know of similar mountains in America that do this? Preferably in the Rocky Mountains?",
"*Super* Star Destroyer",
"I can’t vouch for how good it is. Basically it probably is super",
"Look at the size of that thing, compared to Mt. Fuji",
"That’s called a shadow\n\nOther mountains throwing shade\n\nIt’s snowing on Mt. Fuji",
"Fuji-san",
"Shade, no shade. When you exercise a lot to be in shape and failed but this mountain is effortlessly have a perfect shape. Reality sucks.",
"Timelapse anyone?",
"Everything the light touches is your kingdom. ",
"Where’s the curve? /s",
"I drove through the suicide forest (Aokigahara) about 20 years ago. I believe that forest is within the perimeter of this shot. Someone confirm?",
"It's a big mt. I remember I was kind of freaking out when I was near the top with my friend and we were the only people in sight for over an hour.",
"In the thumbnail I didn't even realize that it was a shadow",
"Isn't that the place where suicide forest is in? ",
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[
"That sum spicey pepper",
"Is that really him ?",
"In a Parallel Universe.",
"Looks like he took himself to the other side.........of the planet. ",
"The man stays in shape living clean helps",
"I once had a whole bunch of red hot chili peppers in a meal while in China.\n\nI can definitely say I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day.",
"Now a pepper needs to hold a picture of this picture",
"Does that mustache look good?",
"Yum yum Give me sum. ",
"Didn't recognize him with his shirt on. ",
"I hate him with that mustache ",
"When did he become a hipster?",
"And then sprinkle pepper on it",
"Yep, pornstache, check",
"I wonder what's going on with the women in the back who are pointing at him and looking at their phone. RHCP isn't really big with middle aged Korean women, haha.",
"It's getting harder and harder to tell what came first",
"His skin does this weird thing where it looks like he was obese at one point, and then lost a lot of weight and now has skin flaps",
"I wonder if he sang that one culturally sensitive part of Around the World while standing there. ",
"He does not age apperently...",
"The redest, hottest, chiliest pepper of them all.",
"The chili peppers are themselves middle aged. And have been around for thirty years. I feel it’s possible ha.",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/jRmYwaS.jpg) a related picture with Flea. These were posted to Flea's Instagram account (which he has since deleted) in June 2016.\n\nPer [here](http://www.ajudaily.com/view/20160722143803352):\n\n> 2016-07-22 \n\n> Red Hot Chili Peppers' (RHCP) members Anthony Kiedis and Flea roamed through Seoul's traditional marketplace, savoring the moment.\n\n> RHCP's bass player Flea uploaded a couple of photographs showing himself and the band's lead vocal Kiedis on his Instagram and wrote: \"King rocker savours the colors and smells of Seoul.\"\n\n> The pictures showed Flea and Kiedis standing by a salted fish store and enjoying the atmosphere. Strangely and understandably, nobody in the market seems to recognize the legendary rockers, giving them a time of peace.\n\n>The famous rock band is currently in South Korea to perform at the \"2016 Jisan Valley Rock Festival\" Friday as its headliner. The festival will run from July 22 to 24. Along with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Zedd and Disclosure will perform each day on the main stage.",
"Anthony was a hipster before hipsters existed",
"Where are there chili peppers? The trays look like they’re filled with sea food and chicken dishes. ",
"“Red Hot Chilli Pepper...and some produce at a market” ",
"I wonder if he likes spicy food",
"Hot tamales and they're red hot!!! Yessss we gott'em for sale, I mean... yess we gott'em for sale!",
"RHPS...Rocky Horror Picture Show?",
" I got upvote number 666 on this post 😈",
"He definitely dyes it too",
"he looks good for his age and probably all the drugs he's done! WTG Anthony!",
"Wow that is a mighty bush.",
"California ",
"Why does he look like a white guy trying to play an Indian guy in hollywood remake of a bollywood film?",
"Maybe it was the lightning, but at first I thought he was a cardboard cut out",
"How much you think he spends a month on hair dye to keep his moustache that color?",
"I wonder if they would have chosen a different name for their band if they had known they would spend the majority of it being bland. ",
"How is their going unnoticed both strange & understandable? O.o",
"This is South Korea right? The Olympic games I assume.",
"Kiedis is not very nice ",
"And a pic of Peter Piper picking a pic of a pepper holding a picture of this picture.",
"Did they take you all the way?",
"It’s better than before, when it was way thinner and he looked like he trolled truck stop bathrooms. ",
"Were you takentothe place you LOOOOVE",
"Too bad that those aren't red hot",
"I bet those peppers have a wider vocal range.",
"\"K-i-s-s-i-n-g\nChicka chicka dee\nDo me like a banshee\nLow brow is how\nSWIMMIN' THROUGH THE SOUNDS OF ASIAN CROWDS\"🎶",
"Ha! It’s funny you say that. When the video for “Under The Bridge” was first out we were fixated by the folds that ebbed and flowed on his sides during the shirtless running sequence.",
"This man might not be able to turn a festival stage into fire anymore, but god damn he looks so good and healthy now.",
"Exactly, I was referring to that, and a couple of other moments. In this photo though, the skin on his arm stretches across near the inside of his elbow.",
"Better give those peppers a weigh now",
"You know like it feels strange to not be recognized, but when you think about it isn't that weird because you are in god damn korea? I guess that is what is meant maybe ?",
"Probably? The guy was a god damn heroin addict",
"[hide Your 14 year olds](http://imdb2.freeforums.net/thread/70327/chili-peppers-singer-disclosed-year)",
"Perhaps strange because they usually don’t go unnoticed, but understandable because of the country they were in.",
"Same here. Then three hours later on the toiler the peppers were like \"Don't forget me.\"",
"I saw them at Bonnaroo this summer, and when he came on stage to start the set, I kept thinking that something was really strange and off about him. \n\nI realized, after he took his shirt off after the first few songs, that I was confused by the fact that he was ever wearing one in the first place. ",
"The comment you replied to has been deleted and now I have questions.",
"He looks like Ben Stiller in Dodgeball",
"On the other side",
"We want chilly willy!",
"Well, suffice it to say, there was a mighty bush involved.",
"It's definitely not him. There is no reference to California whatsoever. This is in direct conflict of the RHCP contract with Satan in 1991 that guaranteed a staggering amount of undeserved fame and wealth for a period of 15 years.\n\nEdit: lol @ salty RHCP fans. Anything after Mother's Milk is garbage and if you don't know that then you're not a valid human being.",
"California, California!",
"It’s such a *weird uncle* ‘stache but idc Anthony Kiedis is still the shit",
"This supposed to be based on \"Californication\"? cause thats how I read it.",
"\"Suck my kiss\"",
"Uncle Tony!",
"You're telling me this isn't Jason Sudeikis?",
"The hottest thing in that pic is is those Airs, amirite?",
"A snake named Kiedis lives in my house. I believe this is who he was named after.",
"I'd wager more than makes any sense at first glance, since he's probably got an accountant who figured he could write it off as a business expense. ",
"Ouch",
"DAE thinks that Anthony Kiedis with that mustache looks like Bob Belcher? ",
"Note to self: get that tattoo you always wanted.",
"Bet it smells overwhelmingly of kimchi and garlic.",
"Looks like Frank Zappa and a merchant marine had a baby.",
"7",
"This is obviously Ben Stiller",
"That lady in the background has crabs. A lot of crabs.",
"Speedballs are I'd combo of choice so don't forget the liberal doses of crack",
"Where I drew some blood?",
"Oh he knows ",
"he's 55 years old ",
"Ah yes, thanks for the reply. ",
"He also wears two socks now...",
"[*w/o his sock](https://youtu.be/06Dql7EiMWE)",
"Still the worst lisp in music..",
"I get kind of a Zappa vibe from it, and I think that's cool. ",
"Who made who?",
"Iggy Pop is somehow reverse aging. It's weird.",
"Does anyone else see the bucket of what appears to be scorpions casually sitting there with the peppers ",
"It would be so cool to be so rich that you could just go to other places and be rich there. Think about how little of an impact this trip had on his annual budget! I'm so jealous.",
"The market probably has a pretty strong smell, too.",
"There's a great video out there if Jackie Chan trying to go unnoticed in Seoul with one of those face masks on that people wear when they are sick. People still almost instantly recognized him.",
"This that new Yakuza DLC?",
"It's strange because, as physical objects, someone should have noticed them. It's understandable because Koreans are GOAT at pretending you're not there.",
"erm.....goat? Is this a term I should know?",
"You do a little dance and then you drink a little water, \nAnd then you take a little nap and then you feel a little better.",
"Hah! Love this response!!",
"Greatest of all time",
"3 socks ",
"Have you ever seen Elon Musk shirtless?",
"4\n\nHe's old enough that he should be keeping his rocks warm as well",
"I feel like he’s slowly morphing into iggy pop ",
"Antknee!",
"Our lyrics are like our children, man.",
"A little ben stiller esque. ",
"I'd recognize that panchan (sidedishes) and traditional market anywhere! Isn't that Dongdaemun? \n\nI can see salted fish roe, hanul peppers (pickled green hot chilis), baby crabs pickled in soy sauce, seaweed, and large crabs pickled in soy sauce. \n\nThe photo opportunities in these markets are HUGE. Don't miss it. \n\nhttps://imgur.com/7l5nsWd\nhttps://imgur.com/ayOLOUv\nhttps://imgur.com/n7etU50\nhttps://imgur.com/3yOUB96\nhttps://imgur.com/Zv0zyeb\nhttps://imgur.com/RL6Y698\nhttps://imgur.com/ZSabheP\nhttps://imgur.com/AOOkKzR\nhttps://imgur.com/wIaBqhb\nYES. TRY THE NOKDUJEON. Special instructions: eat with pickled onions and a beer. Lady nearby has it all. Worth. \nhttps://imgur.com/qPuQEMd\n\nHe looks super healthy. Is it heresy to suggest he bury the hatchet with Mike Patton?",
"Nucks, as it were.",
"In Korea...it's the small green ones you have to watch out for. They'll decapitate you. ",
"FUCK RHCP\n\nThey purposefully tour in countries with low age of consent so they can fuck little girls. ",
"\"Under the Bridge\" is really about him shitting blood after eating chili peppers. That's a little fact for you all. ",
"Agree 100%",
"Ajumma #1\n\"Land's sake, he certainly has a lot of tattooes...even for a foreigner.\"\n\nAjumma #2\n\"Make him try a bunch of stuff and instagram his reaction LOL.\"\n\nAjumma #1\n\"I'll get the toothpicks.\"",
"You should probably quit when you're too reddit for reddit.",
">something was really strange and ~~off~~ on about him. \n\nFTFY",
"Nah they don't keep that long and they get sold quick. It goes in lots. For further reference check:\n\nhttps://www.maangchi.com/",
"Must be refreshing to travel to a country where you aren't super recognizable. Especially \"smaller\" cities in Korea. He might go a whole day without fan boys and girls calling his name. ",
"also, crabs.",
"Dunno. Might not be that time of year. They wouldn't dry them in the market anyways...they'd be on a blue tarp on a rooftop or on the side of their quonset greenhouses. Missed opportunity. It's easier to find people selling peppers in that market than finding Doritos. \n\nStill possible bout them Doritos, doe. ",
"He used to be more muscly. He got older, produces less testosterone now. ",
"He looks like he owns a chain of pizzerias.",
"You can't smell either for all the fish that's hangin about. It's a bit whiffy there. I'd call it a rich tapesty of smells. Totally worth it...and not so bad. They got free samples like at Costco.",
"They're crabs. There no scorpions in South Korea. People just eat the whole baby crab, shell and all...go figure. Very crunch. ",
"Oh! Thank you!! I was genuinely puzzled. lol",
"I think that's just what age looks like on someone who has always been and still is in great shape. Look at recent pix of Henry Rollins. He still looks amazing but you can definitely see age in his skin.",
"This pepper does:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRnBS3hmwA\n\n(is Mike Patton, not pepper)",
"Of California ",
"The way they openened that set was so awesome. That jam session between Flea and Josh that slowly turned into Can't Stop made the whole crowd nut. Maybe they do that every show though... ",
"> It’s such a ~~weird~~ creepy uncle ‘stache\n\n",
"Seriously how is Anthony kiedis Pushkin his biceps up to look bigger? See even famous ppl can have self image issues ",
"Your butt was like *giveitawaygiveitawaygiveitawaynowwwww*",
"Which market in Korea is this do you think?",
"I see you realize where my dislike of Kiedis stems from ;)",
"If I were as legend as RHCP and Anthony Kiedis, I guess I'd have to go to a foreign Asian country like Korea to have a normal outing and take regular touristy pictures. ",
"Moms spaghetti ",
"They don't always do that, but that might be part of their current performance routine. For the Slane Castle concert they start Californication with a jam (actually this concert also starts with a jam into can't stop I think. EDIT: NVM, its intro jam into by the way). ",
"Why with the pedo mustache? WHY?",
"He's fluctuated somewhat drastically because of his addiction.",
"Thank you. Someone had to say it. I've had a massive crush on this man since I was 12 year sold but that stache is TERRIBLE. ",
"I raise you [Red Hot Chillin Peppers](http://thechilisource.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers_New_Press_Picture.jpg)",
"Oh god me too!!! I got Mothers milk and I was like Oh, HELLO!!!!! ",
"I love how he’s turned into a Mario brother. ",
"I know the way, ma bruddah:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocjQVCBRStY",
"Truly, this man was my sexual awakening. \n\n<3 you, Anthony. ",
"Yeah its typically the song they open with.",
"Ugh I had forgotten about that",
"Not until he reaches his final form will this happen. In the fullness of time, grasshopper. ",
"Yep, I noticed that myself.",
"They will walk right through you. But they as polite as hell at the same time. Go figure. ",
"And hair dye. Lots of hair dye.",
"Strange - because they're superstars around other parts of the world but here no one really knows who they are outside of western music fans/rock fans and etc.\n\nUnderstandable - because of the second part above.\n\nTaylor Swift used to like going around Korea because she was totally unrecognizable. While just across 1 hour plane ride away, in Japan, she'd get swarmed. ",
"Source?",
"The band Pepper can hold this pic",
"Uh, yeah, no, that's Justin Long ",
"This is just how people look nowadays, grandpa",
"I bet Musk's nips are actually small tusks.",
"Quick, bring up more people of Lithuanian descent, let my country be known!\n\nRose Namajunas!",
"Shirt and mustache Kiedis is weird to me",
"Writes 95% of song\n\nGets stuck\n\nCHINGADONGALINGLONG",
"*I CANT TELL IF ITS MY ANUS OR A FIREBALL*",
"This is pretty sweet is he in South Korea or little Korea somewhere in Cali ",
"You sound pissed off over nothing until you can link an article or something your a bullshitter. \nJerry lee Lewis married his underaged cousin and was a scourge in England but there's actual proof of those actions.",
"he looks like a pervert. ",
"He admits to having sex with a 14 year old in his book. ",
"Thanks for the info. Sorry for calling u a bullshitter just this era we live in its easy for false information to run rampant ",
"His face is an ad for just for men gel",
"Taken all the way. ",
"They always always do an intro jam to the show...then other songs will have small jams in between too ",
"Ooh i love those little crab snacks ",
"Each time I saw them in 2017 they started off their shows with the Josh and Flea jam into Can't stop.",
"got a video anywhere so I can experience it? ",
"Looks like that guy has crabs. ",
"That looks like Bruce from the leather bear bar. ",
"More like around the world",
"Jesus, are they turning into the Grateful Dead?",
"Could always dry them I guess?",
"Well I haven't kept up to date since 08 on the Chili Peppers, so between that, the mustache, and a shirt I just couldn't recognize him.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVItj2mc_js\n\nHere's the full show my dude",
"So different, and they've been doing it forever...rhcp are known for their live jams. It's not grateful dead or phish style jam, more...succinct ",
"Shit, no 30 minute long Dark Stars or 12 minute Space? But seriously, maybe I should give them a listen.",
"Listen to Live At Slane Castle for an idea of how they elaborate on certain songs. I saw them live last year and they actually jammed more than they used to which was awesome. But Slane IMO is just them at their absolute mastery of the live show.",
"Downvote if you like, but I recently went to one of their concerts in Toronto, and felt a bit let down. I get it, in a large stadium it’s hard for a band to really connect with the audience, but Anthony just came in, did the set, and left. Not a word to the crowd. I’m not a fan of Josh’s style - he murdered the Scar Tissue solo, for example. I guess this is a subjective thing, but it definitely wasn’t MY thing.",
"All that super black hair dye is making him look like the dude from Hall and Oates.",
"Looks younger than my 50 y\\o dad",
"So what do we think about dudes dying their facial hair? I'm not on board.",
"I thought it was just some Italian guy posing in the spice market.",
"i'm 45 and have a 100% grey beard ",
"I gave the 6969th upvote.\n\n*edit*\n\nAlso, I think that lady in the background is pointing at him saying he's for sale too.",
"r/redhotchilipeppers",
"For real at first glance I thought it was Ben Stiller with a mustache",
"Welp, i know what im doing for the next hour and a half. ",
"Actually she wasn’t fourteen. Her name was Ione and she was 16. He was 18 at the time and this was in the late 80’s. He was at her house constantly and her Mom loved him and approved of the relationship.",
"Really well spent time, trust me. Plus seeing Frusciante do his thing is a treat.",
"They're big (strange not to be noticed), but they're not household name level big (understandable not to be noticed) in korea. ",
"Seriously I'm 24 started going grey at 21 genetics just aren't fair. Thank cosmetics for hair dye.",
"I did. What's your point?",
"Saw them in London last year and they were so bad that I've really lost any love them as a band now. Out of synch and a shitty attitude - 45mins of that for rip-off £90",
"Well my point is he didn’t have sex with a 14 year old?",
"Look up Californication from the Live at Slane Castle dvd. The duet that turned into the real song is sooooo fantastic. As much as I appreciate Klinghoffer, Frusciante was damn close to a god. ",
"Haha!\n\nWe actually have the same hairdresser, which is weird",
"What’s so special about uncle rico anyway? ",
"I feel if Paul McCartney did this it would take a fairly dark turn.",
"I wish he would just accept the fact that he's got gray hair. The dye job makes him look like an old-timey villian, without the curly mustache. ",
"I went off on the other guy because he made it seem like rhcp only tours in Thailand, Myanmar, Slovenia, Mexico because they wanna fuck pubescent adolescents. It upset me and i thank your for actually adding to the dialouge with additional info about Keidis.",
"Oh man, that sucks, timing, timing, timing. I know, they're pros and that shouldn't happen, but...........\nI've seen more than one band on an off night, and more than a few that shined. But, 45 minutes? Come on!",
"GO SUCK A DICK",
"For the red pepper powder that's exactly what they do. The ones in picture are pickled in soy sauce and maybe vinegar. ",
"You're telling me this isn't Ben Stiller?",
"I'm old Greeeeeeeeeeeg",
"And here I thought he was allergic to shirts😂",
"Why is Will Ferrell on drums?",
"I'm guessing the OP of this chain was making a joke about the Band members' ages, and I was trying to follow up on it, but hell yeah man. Looks like a lot of raw peppers and a bit of some other shit I can't tell without seeing in person. Haven't tried too much of that, but it looks dank? Newbie-ish prep cook here. Still trying to learn.",
"Is it me or does he look like a cardboard cut out on the right?",
"They did it pretty regularly in the mid 00s with John and Flea too. I've listened to so many of those concerts on YouTube. ",
"TIL Anthony Kiedis is now a barista",
"*NINGNAGNONGNONGNINGNANGNONGNINGNANG",
"He actually hung out with Zappa in his youth, kinda see where he got the inspiration",
"This needs to be a Photoshop battle",
"That is some gnarly stuff bro.",
"\"Culturally sensitive\" LOL.\n\nIs that the Mother Russia part?\n\nMother Russia do not suffer\nI know you're bold enough\nI've been around the world And I have seen your love\nI know I know it's you",
"Are you saying he shouldn't have to try hard to be in shape at 55?\n\n55 is like dad's age didn't think I'd be rocking out to his stuff.",
"Those are all Korean side dishes to eat separately with any meal. By the looks of it the only Chili's there are the green chilli that's behind his backside there. The other stuff are things like seasoned roots like that of ginseng. ",
"Who?",
"Didn’t recognize him without a sock on his cock. ",
"[Or just any women](https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/04/03/Singer-convicted-of-sexual-battery-indecent-exposure/2421639115200/).",
"And now I can die!",
"I guess he didn't... Give it Away",
"Red hot Chili pepper love Him\nAsian doesn’t know him.",
"Those were placeholder gibberish lyrics kept at the request of Flea’s daughter, fwiw",
"Ok if I see her around I’ll let her know you think that. ",
"I think that was about drugs. Either drugs or California. ",
"Yeah he's the least talented member of the band by far. ",
"He needs to stop dyeing the hair jet black.",
"I actually think even in the US where they are household name level big, most people wouldn't recognize their faces anyway.",
"Hell of an artist and singer, and dude is looking great for his age, or any age. This is bullshit! I used to be younger than him!",
"Best band in the world. Been true for the last 30 years\n\nHere is for 30 more",
"Ok, ok, I get it now. \nStrange because they’re RHCP\nUnderstandable because it’s Korea",
"Oh yeah. I'm not much for the sea-stank but lots of people are pretty keen. The preserved veggies and peppers are really good though. The mung bean pancake is FREAKIN AMAZING. \n\nMostly it's just a good place to take pictures of exotic food. ",
"Last tour they played three shows in London. According to Setlist.fm they played 19 songs, 18 songs, and 18 songs respectively. So a very typical set for that entire tour. They did not play for 45 fucking minutes, so stop lying your ass off. ",
"Very slowly",
"for me it was the hair",
"fucking geek, lol",
"You should always remember:\n\nget that tattoo you always wanted.",
"I've seen them there times over 2016-2017 and every time Josh and Flea start the show off jamming like that. I don't remember if they go into Can't Stop every time but Josh and Flea have little improv jam sessions like that throughout the whole show! ",
"Damn skippy. "
] | 251 |
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Just some Red Hot Chili Peppers. And Anthony Kiedis.
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[
"I guess there’s a bull in town",
"https://youtu.be/B3RJUMm-hd0",
"Flooring it. The most logical thing to do when you start going forward when you mean to go in reverse. ",
"Ow my balls!",
"Looks like a definite gut punch. "
] | 5 |
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"I swear, officer, the machine jumped right out in front of me"
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/r/pics/comments/7vvlv8/today_someone_took_the_identical_screen_cap_as_me/
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[
"Hundreds of people posted virtually identical images!\n\n",
"It’s fucking annoying to see the same image reposted literally over 50 times when browsing.its their fault i now hate this image.",
"Maybe you missed out on negative karma. \nI started downvoting everyone who posted this picture yesterday. It got a bit annoying after the 50th post.",
"/u/JavaPlane, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/JavaPlane&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vvlv8/today_someone_took_the_identical_screen_cap_as_me/?context=10\\))"
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Today someone took the identical screen cap as me from Starman and they made it to the front page... I missed out on some Karma!
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/r/pics/comments/7vvmun/the_shipping_lane_passes_just_outside_our_summer/
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[
"Your summers suck.",
"Sometimes I wonder why anybody ever settled here. Some cavemen wandering around, and they decided that Finland would be the best place. I kind of feel resentment towards them. Nice when the summer actually arrives though. They must have arrived in summer and got fooled.",
"The Finlanders that came to America settled in similar areas. Michigan and Minnesota. "
] | 3 |
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The shipping lane passes just outside our summer house here in Finland
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/r/pics/comments/7vvmvu/i_painted_a_dream_anxiety_and_time_is_a_common/
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[
"Really cool. Ilove the art ",
"Time is a friend to no man.\nNice painting. ",
"Thanks Basshead, time flies when you procrastinate and it will haunt you if you aren't careful. I still dream that I forgot about tests and I'm years from school ",
"Whoa. I hope this gets more attention bc this is amazing",
"Dark and intense.",
"You have some cool dreams.",
"A little dash of mental illness helps ",
"Nice. \nI use depression and suicidal thoughts to make art too. \nBut then again, i use art to make them fade away. Does it work for you too?",
"Jesus, you really put your art out for karma all over Reddit. I have seen three of your posts on the front page.",
"Sorry if you saw these more than once. Just trying to see if this art thing is feasible to pay rent and FB and social media just has their hand out to get your picture in front of anyone. Hope my post didn't bother you ",
"It works for me if I can just get it to a good home after. I dont know how it would end up if I had all these paintings throughout the house. Just get it on canvas and shoot it into the world I guess\n",
"No, I like the art.",
"eh i dont have that problem. I draw just for myself",
"Do anyone else notice this in this picture?\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vvufw/about_bankrupted_the_household_trying_this_whole/",
"Anxiety Time!\n\nSounds like a swell theme park",
"I'm 27 and still dream about forgetting which locker is mine, the combination to the locker, or where my classrooms are. It's crap :(\n\nYou have awesome talent and amazing art. I wish you luck in turning your talent into a living, or at least some beer money!",
"Appreciate it man, keep doing you in school and hopefully we can look back at these memories and be glad we grinned",
"you can out run the devil if you try but you can never out run the hands of time."
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I painted a dream, anxiety and time is a common theme in my nightmares
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[
"It’s like the coffee you get at the Pho place",
"I see that coffee can all the time! Finally a sign, doing this next grocery trip!",
"Definitely get the sweetened, condensed milk to go with it.\nThe Café du Monde is pricy at round-Eye stores, get it at H-Mart if there is one near you.",
"Yeah I usually get Lavazza cause I don't want to upset my Italian ancestors hahah but I'll give the French a shot",
"I like that one too!\nAnd Cafe Bustello",
"Yo, update, why is my condense milk...so dense...? I feel like an idiot now hahaha I was expecting super sweet milk but got gloopy glop milk ",
"You just need a tablespoon full.\nStir it in",
"Ah yes, YouTubed it! But it's amazing!\n\nEdit: I don't know why you're getting downvoted... at least it's not another god damn progress pic! ",
"People hate me sometimes because I am NEVER bullshit.\nI’m not always right, but I’m never bullshit."
] | 9 |
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This is “the shit”. (Just sayin...)
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/r/pics/comments/7vvn31/finished_this_last_year_exploration_risks/
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[
"Awesome work!!",
"Cool, although you forgot the new potential of being run over in space.",
"Cool looking? Do you make prints? I’d buy one. ",
"😂"
] | 4 |
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Finished this last year, Exploration Risks
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/r/pics/comments/7vvnm7/oldest_known_photograph_of_a_tornado_south_dakota/
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[
"How are these verified? I always wondered. Alot of really old pictures (1800's) look so fake or faked. ",
"Somebody make this into the batman symbol",
"Google reverse image search says NAOO confirms [they question if it's been doctored] (https://weather.com/storms/tornado/news/worlds-earliest-tornado-photos-20130609)",
"Where’s that Byers kid? It’s like some strange things are happening again...",
"That is terrifying yet super awesome.",
"I really need to scroll up more. I spent five minutes looking for it in the clouds not realizing the black line wasn’t the bottom of the photo. ",
"I was going by the caption used on the official NOAA Photo Library Flickr page.",
"Yea someone asked how it was confirmed",
"For anyone interested, [here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/5054696167/in/album-72157625053846454/) is that page and caption.\n",
"Before I read the title I thought it was an x-ray of teeth... I should go to bed.",
"It's amazing to see how well tornadoes have aged over the past 30 years.",
"Are those teeth in the front? Was the camera in someone's mouth.",
"Looks like a dragon and the tail hit earth!",
"Uh.. you mean 134 years? ",
"No. Thats a dragon. ",
"\"What do you see here?\"",
"Does anyone hear great gig in the sky playing?",
"Last summer I ran across a website with a paper arguing that this photo is of a tornado that Laura Ingalls Wilder (author of the Little House on the Prairie novels) witnessed and wrote about in her final book in the series, *These Happy Golden Years*. Here's the link, if you want to check it out for yourself: https://ams.confex.com/ams/27SLS/webprogram/Paper255543.html. Click on the Handout link there.\n\nEdit: Fixed web address.",
"I'll be damned. ",
"Wow. Amazed and terrified at the same time",
"Are you me? I did the same."
] | 21 |
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Oldest known photograph of a tornado. South Dakota. August 28, 1884.
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/r/pics/comments/7vvnm8/my_wife_asked_for_a_chesire_drawing_three_years/
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[
"Now it’s my nightmare. Something about all those extra teeth is soooo creepy to me. Great job! 🤣",
"Appreciate it, I was lucky because I have done other versions since then and can't capture the look of the original (this one). Idk what it is, I can't figure it out, but the wife was happy and I hope to get better over the next few years with this whole painting thing",
"Probably something to do with the eyes? I find that even a minute difference in the eyes can change the look of a face. Anyway, great job with the painting and hope to see more!",
"I think you are right. Anyways, thanks for the comments and check out my other posts if you want to see what i have done since then. Broke after paying rent so thought I would show reddit some paintings to see if it is worth continuing. Have a great day Nyxtoggler! ",
"That's fantastic, it's like a cross between Disney, American McGee and LSD.!",
"That is awesome lol would proudly hang that in my house",
"Appreciate it! The original is spoken for, but I have prints for my US compadres :)",
"Oh Im afraid you cant help that. We're all mad here, Im mad, youre mad.",
"That is very cool. I hope she loves it.",
"This is amazing! Have you no previous painting skills?!?",
"How much for a print? That's awesome!",
"are you selling this or other pictures?\nI'd like to buy one",
"Is it TOO late to learn proper grammar?",
"So.... When are you going to learn how to paint?",
"Someday hopefully",
"I have prints on my etsy if you are US located for only $13 shipped. Travis Simpson Art, I appreciate the support!!",
"I have prints on my etsy if you are US located for only $13 shipped. Travis Simpson Art, I appreciate the support!!\n",
"I drew a bunch as a kid but the cost of painting always was intimidating. But its been fun and I strongly recommend everyone to try on mounted canvas. ",
"Oh wow. I've been impressed by your art before. I'll probably end up buying a rick and morty print for a friend. Awesome work.",
"It means alot, thank you!",
"Does it glow under black light?",
"Just the eyes and the mouth. I put it under one of those Dimming RBG strips and as it dims, the face gets darker, but the smile starts to pop out. I wanted to try to see if I could make it look like the old cartoon ",
"Looks amazing",
"Upvote because I can’t stop laughing",
"Omg that's awesome. \n\nIf u two split up... sell it to me?",
"Love the colors!",
"I love it!! What a sweet hubby you are. 💜"
] | 27 |
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My wife asked for a Chesire drawing three years ago, and it started my biggest obsession in learning to paint. It is never to late to learn a skill
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/r/pics/comments/7vvoa2/i_painted_a_dream_i_had_last_year/
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[
"\"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.\" Robert Fulghum\n\nI went down a few rabbit holes in folklore and I think this dream came from that random night of apocalypse stories and such. Idk, but curious what you guys see in this sketch\n",
"Amazing art! Do you sell any of your paintings by chance? ",
"This is what I imagine an acid trip would be like...",
"not a fun acid trip I would imagine",
"True. Good painting though. Well done being able to capture such detail.",
"Very grateful for the kind words! I do eventually find homes for my paintings, this one included, but I do have some in the finishing stages and will share them once they are done :) I normally post on instagram under travis_simpson_art or on etsy under basically the same name (art by Travis Simpson), feel free to catch me there and I also have prints for the low if you are shipping USA. Cheers!\n",
"man, this takes me back to my DMT experimentation days. ",
"I think you need to check OP's username.",
"Death and destruction on either side, hope and safety lies ahead—but only if you focus on straight and not side. \n\nI could also see an alpha/omega you need darkness to follow the light vibe... but its eerie with everyone in a line walking to hope... doesn’t seem very hopeful or good. So... maybe it’s live your programmed safe and hopeful life, or jump into the lethargic, firey waters and truly live. \n\nEither way fuck this is beautiful. "
] | 8 |
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I painted a dream I had last year
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/r/pics/comments/7vvp7x/wifes_boss_wanted_their_cats_in_a_breaking_bad/
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[
"This is pure gold, I love it!",
"Purrfect",
"Love the Milk Stout. Nice touch.",
"I'm the one who purrs!",
"Looks like the cats were getting high with their own supply."
] | 5 |
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Wife's boss wanted their cats in a Breaking Bad scene and gave it a shot on a spare canvas
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[
"“We had two bags of Doritos, seventy-five packets of animal crackers, five sheets of high-powered fruit roll-ups, a saltshaker half-full of sugar, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored jellybeans, suckers, pretzels, Gushers... Also, a quart of kool-aid, a quart of milk, a case of apple juice, a pint of raw Yoo-Hoo, and two dozen cookies. \n\nNot that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious snack collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the Yoo-Hoo. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a muppet in the depths of a Yoo-Hoo binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.”",
"Amazing, did you just repurpose that quote just now??? Bravo! ",
"Hahahaha they just swapped out snack names for drugs. Nevertheless bravo 👏🏽 ",
"Marry me",
"We can't stop here, this is bat country!",
"Does anyone have any info on the creator of this piece? I'd love to purchase this, or a print of it. Phenomenal. Love it!",
"I gifted this to a buddy and no prints were made but let me know if you ever need any art :)",
"I'll send you a PM! Thanks!",
"I need a art."
] | 9 |
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Fear and Sesame St
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/r/pics/comments/7vvtvk/so_my_brother_made_a_chocolate_sculpture_today/
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[
"That’s awesome, reminds me of Frank Fontaine ",
"Looks irresistible. Soon, in r/instantregret: *so, I ate a chocolate sculpture my brother made today*",
"Professor X looks cut!",
"Your brother has talent!",
"I made you a chocolate sculpture but I eated it. ",
"Today’s Zumbo challenge is...",
"“a chocolate sculpture”? It’s “The chocolate sculpture” man!",
"Being so casual about it, makes me think you either very proud or a bit jealous. ",
"I refuse to believe that's chocolate ",
"holy shit that looks amazing",
"Dude, how could someone eat that? Meticulous af. \nPlus, It’d probably make Fontaine so mad. ",
"I could do that, I just don’t want to ",
"Easy, put a giant bowl of ice cream underneath it and use a kitchen torch.",
"Does the temporary nature make it seem like a waste of time or heighten the beauty?",
"Is that handsome squid ward?",
"I just got through watching season one on Netflix. As I'm not an oz native, I'd never heard of Zumbo. Clearly, he's some celebu-chef. What's his deal? Did he invent the boomerang pavlova or something? And WHAT is with his 'assistant' Gigi? \"You tahm stahts NAOW!\" That's not an ozzie accent. Is she actually a pastry chef or just eye-candy Zumbo keeps around?\n\n\n\n",
"Can we get back story? I'm really interested in how long it took, cost to the customer, and who the hell would pay for something so eccentric ",
"What plasmid is that?",
"It’s likely from a competition. Maybe pastry overall, but probably chocolate only. The teams typically purchase the ingredients through the hotel they work in. Most restaurant staffs don’t have chocolate/pastry people at this level of technical refinement.",
"Where's the dick???",
"what competition is this for ? I’m curious being in the baking and pastry making world myself :D",
"This is gorgeous! and yummy i bet. But who would want to eat it it's too beautiful!",
"Ho \nLy \nMoly",
"What is the event he is doing it for? Looks expensive! 👌🏻",
"Nice, thanks! ",
"Can’t believe I went so far down the comments to find someone who was thinking the same thing as me. Extra points for the details.",
"How? You could try double fisting it and shoving in your mouf",
"While I appreciate your thanks, these are just pretty educated guesses. I’d search deeper but my desktop took a s#*t last week so it’s mobile only. I’d imagine the sponsors on the station behind the sculpture would give us all we would need to know.",
"r/instantregret: so, I ate a chocolate sculpture my brother made today not knowing it was made almost entirely of ex-lax.\n\n",
"I’d feel so bad after I bit off his head. ",
"Hands are hard.",
"You have this walleyed eccentric desert master being a douche to his contestants and then out of left field we have this shrill Austrian heel stomper barking at a volume that seems...excessive. it was a weird show. ",
"Is Bretyy gud",
"Looks like a still image taken from a Tool video. Great craftsmanship.",
"Looks like Cthulhu Putin"
] | 36 |
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So my brother made a chocolate sculpture today
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[
"I think you should have used the plural.",
"I should have, i'd like to edit but have no idea how.",
"You can't edit titles.\n\nNice picture though.",
"Thanks!",
"Is it difficult to find your own bike?",
"FTFY: Thank! ",
"Must you torment me.",
"This isn't too bad yet. [This is Nijmegen central station](https://images4.persgroep.net/rcs/qZxMMyAbh3WVB7tSvSas6Nzq8ig/diocontent/101730202/_fitwidth/694/?appId=21791a8992982cd8da851550a453bd7f&quality=0.9)",
"[Delft has opened a 2nd underground facility to store bicycles](https://www.delftopzondag.nl/nieuws/algemeen/84404/tweede-ondergrondse-fietsenstalling-bij-station-gaat-maandag-open-)",
"Side note, the parking area has 2 floors and there is another area maybe 100metres away",
"You just have to remember where you parked your bike. It is similar to finding your car in a large parking lot.",
"Where is this picture taken? I can't recognise the school. Also, Al mot ik kruupen <3",
"I love your city. I participated in the annual march long ago. Had a great time.",
"stedelijk gymnasium, at the entrance near the police station\n",
"congratulations on participating, much respect!"
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Bicycle at a high school. Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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[
"Wow",
"That bear got herpes now. ",
"She must be freezing, she's practically in her bear feet!",
" r/ANormalDayInRussia/ ",
"I have been this bored before ",
"Is that bear style?",
"Where's the Bearzzers logo? ",
"New still from the gritty live-action adaptation of “Masha & the Bear!”",
"OP, most wedding photographers would prefer you give them credit for their work.",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/ci7vz2v.jpg) is a higher resolution and less cropped version of this image. Per [here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5194085/Acrobat-flaunts-flexibility-gets-peck-bear.html) (which has ten more images from this photoshoot):\n\n> Contortionist Stefanie Millinger pulled some incredible moves with the help of her assistant, a bear named Stephan.\n\n> The large brown bear was enticed into helping Stefanie with her moves after he was offered some berries in return for taking part in the photo shoot.\n\n> She braved the freezing conditions using gloves while performing handstands, and it seems the snow didn't bother her.\n\n> Stefanie, from Salzburg, was a finalist for German talent show 'Das Supertalent'.\n\n> She trains for seven hours a day and boasts a huge following on social media, with over 16,000 followers on Instagram. \n\n\n\n\n",
"The bear and the maiden fair!",
"Masha and the Bear?",
"Wow, she's really pretty.\n\nThe human isn't too bad either.",
"I'm not really sure what is hard to comprehend about this.",
"r/confusedboner",
"Yep same ",
"What, you don’t kiss your bear every morning?",
"I have no problems with a bear watching us as long as it's chill.",
"I remember seeing a video of this and there was a bunch of people taking pictures. Must be some kind of tourist thing.",
"Never wanted to go to Russia until now.",
"This is like the gymnasts' equivalent of the \"duck face\" pose.\n\nAll around the world it's the same.. they have to do this in every pic.",
"So much Russia in 1 photo. ",
"I don't understand, this is just a picture of a Russian couple.",
"This is not r/roastme ",
"Yup a normal day in russia",
"The truth is that I don't even know where the fuck one would have to go in Russia to run into a bear. 99.99..% of Russians have never seen a bear in the wild. In US, on the other hand, if you go for a hike in Appalachia, for example, you will probably meet a bear (a black one).",
"Cant blame the bear.\n\nI mean, look how high she can put her leg ...",
">a\n\nYou dropped this eh?",
"I mean, there are a plenty of brown bears in Russia, and more than 0.01% of Russians probably saw one, but yes, they mostly live very far from any sort of urban places. There is an insane amount of black bears in the US though, so you are much more likely to see a bear here. ",
"Even in Connecticut I see a bear at least one time a year ",
"There's a strong chance that you have herpes and don't even know it ",
"that bear looks happy as fu%$#",
"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_(novel)",
"I would say it gave me a confused boned, but I know exactly what turned me on in that picture.",
"if shes posing like that, she clearly wants the other set of lips licked....",
"The use of 'WTF' before Russia is redundant.",
"so is bear",
"( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ)",
"I like bears too, but not quite to that degree",
"Wooo! Fellow Nutmegger. Good to meet you, pal.",
"Anyone know who she is?"
] | 40 |
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WTF Russia
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/r/pics/comments/7vw177/finished_a_custom_skate_deck_for_my_brother/
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[
"looks sick dude",
"Looks awesome! How long did it take?",
"Grind on it",
"8 posts in the last hour or so. Quit spamming.",
"It reminds me of [Chris Dyer’s](http://positivecreations.ca) work. Love it!",
"Pretty fucking dope man",
"If I was your brother, I'd never want to put trucks on this thing. It's too cool to get thrashed...",
"I dig a lot. If you have an IG of your work I’d like to see it. "
] | 8 |
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Finished a custom skate deck for my brother
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/r/pics/comments/7vw1w6/existence_is_pain/
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[
"I'm Mr. Meeseeks. Look at me.",
"It’s just two stokes ",
"\"anyone who says different is selling you something\" ",
"\"I'm a little bit of a stickler Mr. Meseeks. What about your short game?\"\n\n\"Oh my god, what about your short game?...\"",
"“Your problems are your own, old man”. ",
"Cringe",
"I need this",
"Thanks! I got prints for $13 shipped if you are US located at my etsy under Travis Simpson Art",
"You think you're safe on this subreddit...NEVAR!"
] | 9 |
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Existence is Pain
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/r/pics/comments/7vw39p/beautiful_bird/
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[
"I guess some birds like big butts",
"[OP stole this image] (https://www.hbw.com/ibc/photo/oriental-turtle-dove-streptopelia-orientalis/bird-showing-tail)",
"Either the universe is a good artist or the one who created it is.",
"♫ I'm sexy and I know it ♫",
"To be fair. Reddit would have a lot less content if people only posted their own original content. This subreddit is for pics. And op posted a pic. He did not claim it was his pic. \n\nAlthough yes, he should have sourced it. ",
"Mourning dove- tasty, but dumb as hell and they crap all over your yard.",
"The Norwegian Blue, yeah? Beautiful plumage.",
"Bird be sayin': \"Yeah...but can you do...THIS?!\"",
"Tldr: to be fair, who gives a flying fuck..",
"meh, not dirty enough but a solid 8 out of 10 otherwise.",
"Beautiful picture of a rather plain, common mourning dove.",
"The problem isn't that he a picture that's not his, but how he did it. If you look at the source image, it bears a watermark.\n\nSo it seems like while OP was too busy to attribute, but surely not busy enough to forget to crop out the creator's name. That's low.\n",
"the wings look as if they were stained wood..birds...are..so good\n",
"There are a lot of 'ugly' creatures and countless gruesome diseases. That's nature.",
"I like Swallows better.",
"Ah, the ol flip and crop. Or crop and flip.",
"Try saying that to yourself when your intellectual property is stolen.",
"Yeah? Why don't you marry it then, eh? How's that then? ",
"Beautiful bird",
"Beautiful pigeon."
] | 20 |
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Beautiful Bird
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/r/pics/comments/7vw39u/11_months73_lbs_240167_jan_2017nov_2017/
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[
"Never has a man tried so hard to make the most awkward pose ever seem natural. \n\nGood weight loss tho dude. ",
"i laughed out loud to this! Yeah posing is something I definitely didnt work on enough. Thanks!",
"Next 11 months... get those legs in shape mate! ",
"Do you and the other body building boys exchange handjobs after competitions? ",
"For sure! im actually prepping for a show in April, legs is actually one of my stonger points. i lost a ton of strength and muscle cutting for a year. ",
"dont ask dont tell",
"Who doesn't. "
] | 7 |
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11 Months/73 lbs - 240-167- Jan 2017/Nov 2017
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/r/pics/comments/7vw7bf/moved_to_new_hampshire_from_florida_got_here_at/
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[
"You got that backwards, you are supposed to be in FL in winter and NH in summer.",
"I'm a very backwards kind of person!",
"Me too. I love NH no more do for me!"
] | 3 |
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Moved to New Hampshire from Florida, got here at night. Woke up and was blown away in the daylight.
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/r/pics/comments/7vw86b/first_painting_i_tried_with_a_palate_knife/
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[
"Palette knife",
"I need my coffee, thanks for the correction. Wish I could edit the title.",
"FUCKING SEXY\n\nso i'm looking at your painting on my phone and just rapidly zooming in and out... FUCKING DOPE DUDE\n\nif i were trippin id be flippin",
"This is gorgeous. ",
"Yo tight work contrast like a booooowce",
"This is not bad at all. You could work on your spelling though.",
"/r/Heavymind ",
"Whats the size of it? Are u selling",
"I read it as an Italian word at first lol. \n\"What's a *pa le tay?*\""
] | 9 |
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first painting I tried with a palate knife
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/r/pics/comments/7vw8iu/nothing_but_deep_respect/
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[
"Qian Hongyan, from Yunnan, south west China. She lost her legs in an car accident in 2000 when she was 4 years old. Till today she won several gold medals in the 100m breaststroke swimming finals in the Yunnan Provincial Paralympic Games.",
"And a couple questions",
"That shit is cray cray",
"Definitely not the droid I’m looking for.",
"Damn, I can't imagine losing half of my body. Thankfully it looks like she bounced back",
"😀",
"[I just looked her up, really fascinating life](https://china-underground.com/2017/01/06/basketball-girl/) ",
"China's new concrete finishing droid.",
"On the bright side, well, no, there is no bright side.",
"How proud must her friends and family be? I’m a total stranger, and over the moon for her!",
"She also stole the basket ball amd broke the pomell horse though..... not cool.",
"Yeah, no harm no foul.",
"Stan Marsh",
"Probably getting down voted because you're a cunt, rather than what you're saying. ",
"I guess you're probably right, drivers need to maintain the lane.",
"BB8",
"Well, I thought it was funny....",
"I am humbled. May the grace of God be with her and her family. ",
"How about some aid and health cair, instead of your thoughts and fake god......",
"When ball is life",
"wait ...wait..no looks like the basketballs in ...her court tss tss",
"Brehhhh...",
"Agreed.",
"Yes we all hate you. ",
"If the grace of God was with her and/or her family, she would not have had the accident where she lost her legs. ",
"life will teach you some hard lessons",
"[more recent pic](https://i2.wp.com/china-underground.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/basketball-girl-011.jpg?resize=297%2C373)\n\n[article](https://china-underground.com/2017/01/06/basketball-girl/)",
"Agreed. Lets give credit to those that deserve it. Like this woman and her incredibly hard work. \n",
"> you're a cunt\n\nThat's your irrational reaction to someone who's right, actually.",
"but then ppl will say it was god that gave her strength to come back from that. ...it has nothing to do with her own strength and determination I guess",
"lol she swims 3000-4000m..i swim maybe 300-400m, if i'm lucky on a good day. \nHonestly paralympians can probably beat out most average people. ",
"Oh fuck off. Fucking karma whore.",
"She could kick most redditor's asses. The other ones would just run away scared.",
"She's not kicking anyone anytime soon. Maybe a good ass whooping, but no kicking.",
"Traveling. ",
"The Obwongs",
"Less weight they have to carry, I imagine "
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Nothing but deep respect
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/r/pics/comments/7vw95l/i_sat_next_to_two_of_the_funniest_ladies_ive_ever/
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[
"So, you gonna hookup with them?",
"Of course he did",
"Someone's looking forward to a cougar sandwich.",
"Mom? I thought you were going to Minneapolis to visit Aunt Linda.",
"But, did you fuck? "
] | 6 |
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I sat next to two of the funniest ladies I’ve ever met on a flight the other day, while on their way to party it up in Cabo. We shared music, colored, and laughed non-stop. Best flight I’ve had.
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/r/pics/comments/7vw97p/looks_like_keanu_reeves_didnt_need_his_stunt/
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[
"Looks like Keanu was the stunt double for the stunt double",
"Is this from the filming of the new Bill and Ted movie?",
"Maybe John Wick 3?",
"Which pet did they kill now? His goldfish?",
"They killed his stunt double. Big mistake.",
"budget keanu looks somewhat relieved.",
"There can be only one",
"Lookslike a Tide commercial.. ",
"Oh man I just realized being the stunt double of Keanu is the best job ever, I don't care about other actors but with Keanu, it's just a dream job",
"The stuntman is Mack Kuhr. Per his Imgur page (@mackkuhr):\n\n> Our last day on NYC unit💪🏻John Wick: Chapter 2 blasts into theaters this weekend! Hope everyone loves it!!\n\n> FEBRUARY 10, 2017\n\nAnd yes, the blood on Keanu is makeup.",
"Keanu Reeves and Kevin Reeds",
"Damnit, that's the movie he needs to make!",
"Keanu Reeves does all of his own stunts. Also the most amazing actor out there as he's taken pay cuts for movies so other actors could be in it. He's also taken his own money from a movie and paid the people behind the scenes working the cameras etc.",
"Being a stunt double for Keanu Reeves has a worse job outlook than being a Coal Miner.",
"I'm thinking he's back.",
"if he does all his own stunts, why is there a photo of him with his stunt double?",
"He doesn't do his own stunts. He does fight scenes and gun scenes, but he has major issues with his knees and neck and does not do stunts. ",
"They killed his Continental account. ",
"Jackie chan does his own stunts."
] | 18 |
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Looks like Keanu Reeves didn't need his stunt double (x-post /r/KeanuBeingAwesome)
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/r/pics/comments/7vwame/this_is_really_a_bad_thing/
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[
"some undamaged nutella... nice.",
"5 Million US$ damage",
"Ahhhhh... NUTZ!",
"Oh, the humanity!",
"It sure is. That stuff will eat away the roadway. ",
"Its actually a good thing. That stuff is almost poison "
] | 6 |
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This is really a bad thing!
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/r/pics/comments/7vwbh3/hello_do_you_have_time_to_talk_about_our_lord_and/
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[
"Don’t close the door. Bear with me here. Let’s just paws and prey. ",
"Yogi, he hibernates for our sins!!",
"No thank you beary much. ",
"Not if you didn’t some delicious cookies. ",
"I feel like he's been tagged twice because he's a troublemaker",
"“Will you listen to our offer? I’m asking for the bear minimum here..” - bear ",
"Hello! Do you have some time to talk about how often this is reposted?"
] | 7 |
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Hello! Do you have time to talk about our Lord and Savior?
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/r/pics/comments/7vwdk8/old_man_and_his_rooster/
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[
"I'm imagining him doing that thing where you toss a baby up and catch it, but with a chicken. ",
"Or that rooster is coming in for the kill. ",
"My rooster hates me, I have a beautiful mottled Houdan. He thinks I'm after his ladies. I'm not, I'm just very popular with them since I bring home fancy restaurant treats. ",
"This breed is called an O-Shamo, FYI",
"Just sitting in the woods playing with his cock..."
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Old man and his rooster
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/r/pics/comments/7vwezk/the_view_from_lake_louise_ski_resort/
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[
"I want to go to there. ",
"That hint of green, just made me think of the Mountain of Madness",
"You should you won’t regret it "
] | 3 |
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The view from Lake Louise ski resort
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/r/pics/comments/7vwix7/the_valley_of_lights_trompia_valley_italy/
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[
"It's like lava but fancier. ",
"Looks like a fun place to be when there is a storm... ",
"River of streets. "
] | 3 |
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"The Valley of Lights" - Trompia Valley, Italy
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/r/pics/comments/7vwj8f/f14_and_f15_tag_team_against_soviet_bomber_tu95/
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[
"Against?",
"Not on friendliest terms.",
"*Communicating*. Keeping up foreign relations.",
"AKA, \"Local Eagle and cat chase off marauding bear\"??",
"I wonder what kind of plane took the picture?"
] | 5 |
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F-14 and F-15 tag team against Soviet bomber TU-95. US Navy photo near Alaska from 1987 [1200×806]
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/r/pics/comments/7vwkij/spacex_falcon_9_blueprint/
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"/u/kwagenknight, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No comics, maps or infographics.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/kwagenknight&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vwkij/spacex_falcon_9_blueprint/?context=10\\))",
"Any idea where I can post this? My company is in the supply chain for the 2nd stage tanks for the 2nd stage engine.",
"/r/space perhaps.",
"Yeah thanks Ill have to wait until Sunday which is the only day for pictures supposedly.\n\nThanks though, have a good day!"
] | 4 |
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Blueprint
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/r/pics/comments/7vwqcz/cat_naps_with_a_toy_version_of_itself/
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[
"Mini me-ow",
"[Here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIxuQqWVwAARwUR.jpg:large) is a much higher resolution version of this image. [Here](https://twitter.com/akihimatandon11/status/904218889889882112) appears to be the source.",
"The cats get me every time.",
"Huh? That's the same resolution as the one I posted, which I got from the cat's twitter page.",
"I thought the title was \"Cat dabs with a toy version of itself.\"",
"r/2healthbars\n\nr/meormyson",
"You're entirely right. Sorry. I was doing to many things at once and done goofed up."
] | 7 |
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Cat naps with a toy version of itself
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/r/pics/comments/7vwqrb/falcon_heavys_booster_rocket_with_human_for_scale/
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"Named and shamed for posting the source of the image.",
"r/HumanForScale",
"Now I need a human with a banana so I can visualise this accurately."
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Falcon Heavy's Booster Rocket (with human for scale)
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/r/pics/comments/7vwqx3/nyc_skyline_a_dream_shot_of_mine_finally_come_true/
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[
"Composite image. Two photos, same location.\n1 short exposure (to capture the moon better)\n1 long exposure (25 seconds)\n\nCanon T6i\n24mm F22 ISO 100",
"Non-level horizon is freaking me out. Otherwise nice shot!",
"Sorry. Lol. This was a last second decision to take some pictures. I tried to level it best I could with no steady, flat surface that wasnt obstructed.\n\nI will definitely try again (i can send you an edited version that corrects the water line if you want. Lol)",
"It's a Photo Shoot graphy.",
"But why didn't you rotate it digitally? Lightroom even has a auto-level function which works well with photos like this.",
"Honestly? Overlooked it."
] | 6 |
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NYC skyline. A dream shot of mine, finally come true.
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/r/pics/comments/7vwsq2/help_locate_my_car_thief_sent_this_pic_with/
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[
"Waaaaaahhhhhh",
"booooooo.\n\nPosting original content is not actually spamming you know... It takes a lot of trial and error to find out which sub sticks.\n\nLets see some of your own original content that you took time to create, Mr, Partypooper!",
"No, it's not reposting but it **is** spamming. ",
"Perhaps, under a broad definition... Yet if you have ever had a post get to #1 on /All then you likely had to do this... It is just the nature of Reddit.",
"Nah, I have and you don't. ",
"OK frustrated virgin, This image is not a screenshot.\n\nThere is no picture of a screen.\n\nNo added digital elements, graphics, or diagrams.\n\nNo text, although I could credit my original content apparently.\n\nSo thanks, but your comment is null and void.\n\nFAIL.\n\nYou really need to go get laid I think. Judging by your comment history, you are a Negative Nelly and pretty much everyone hates you. Such is the life of a Troll I guess.",
"Well, you are right that you don't have to all the time. Check my very first post I ever made which was on #1 of All for over a day, many years ago. (Trophy box on right tells you when you hit #1 which apparently you actually did not)\n\nAnyway my point is more that these days, there are a lot of angry people hanging out at the bottom of subs. More Ethan there used to be. So it is becoming a necessary evil to try your post out on various subs, in an effort to get past the angry trolls.",
"That is not what the rule says. Never once do the rules prohibit retouching photos. All photos on a screen are digital by the way. That is how they appear on your digital computer screen. My photo of my car is composed over a real photo of the Earth. Photo composition is not prohibited.",
"/u/BMWbill, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must convey accurate information. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/BMWbill&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7vwsq2/help_locate_my_car_thief_sent_this_pic_with/?context=10\\))",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5by1wy/should_have_been_bernie/\n\nYou're right, guess I got Inciteful. It's still in the top 10 of all time if you sort it on all.\n\n\nEdit: point is, it doesn't matter. Oc isn't always GOOD content",
"It is only sad because now nobody can see the thread exposing what a loser you are!",
"OK well you are a Bernie fan so I can't be hard on you now.\n\nAnyway my post was banned so nobody but you can read this now... That loser troll who spends his life making angry comments to people posting new links must have flagged mine for being too photoshopped..."
] | 12 |
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Help locate my car! Thief sent this pic with ransom note
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/r/pics/comments/7vwwfy/beautiful_handmade_houseboat/
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[
"Original post (although not much additional info): https://www.reddit.com/r/CozyPlaces/comments/7vo53v/handmade_houseboat/\n\nAlbum: https://imgur.com/a/vv1Dt",
"That's awesome! I want 1.",
"All I can think of is \"Mosquitoes\".",
"This house is my spirit animal.",
"What’s the alternative to a hand made house?",
"Me too. I’m from the gulf coast where this seems appealing but it’s actually scary and you can easily walk out on the porch to be greeted by an alligator and storms of mosquitoes lol",
"Store bought, manufactured. \n\nI mean - http://www.eliteboatsales.net/index.php",
"My aunt and uncle had one on Lake Travis when I was growing up (outside Austin). The only problem I can remember is that cockroaches were rampant. ",
"Can you get malaria from cockroach bites?",
"Disco ball, ladder to the roof, it floats around, loads of natural sunlight, like blindingly off the water. I'd love to see more of the inside. This place kinda reminds me of a dystopian surviving after the apocalypse vibe idk why. ",
"I doubt it. Not in Texas, at least. ",
"Oh, but in Texas you have to worry about the scorpions.",
"Probably the combination of the lights and the self made vibe",
"I hate the machine made ones",
"> Disco ball \n\nHey now, that's a [gazing ball](http://www.hgtv.com/design/decorating/design-101/gazing-ball-history)! Or Butler Ball. Or Witch Ball. Or a bunch of other names. ",
"Oh haha that's so interesting. Globe of happiness. I stand corrected. So much more than Disco.",
"They say there's no such thing as a dumb question. ",
"I always want to own and live in one of this. But then I think or no good internet then I give up the idea.",
"Saw a lot of houseboats like that around amsterdam.... Wanted to move there and live in one so bad. Couldn't imagine living on my houseboat with amazing internet speeds as well.",
"\"we call this house Full-O-Gaters\"",
"Isn't that more of a barge? ",
"Aren't those still made, by hand? There's no house press on an assembly line. ",
"I don't want to argue about semantics. I used \"hand made\" because that's what the original post used. I suppose \"bespoke\" or \"from scratch\" would be better.\n\nThe point is that the owner of this vessel made it themselves, and did not purchase it from a company that makes house boats as a business. ",
"There's gotta be a decent but probably expensive broadband solution for this scenario.",
"I mean, goddamn, right?",
"I live in chicago right on the shore of lake michigan.\n\nWhat would happen if I made something like this and just stuck it out in the water? would that be illegal? ",
"is there a word or phrase for that?\n\nAlso, is there a subreddit for people to find out if there's words/phrases for things like this?",
"cockroaches on the open water? ",
"Oh god I can hear the buzzing. ",
"I want something like this so bad. Just a mile from my house are mangrove forests that run for miles. The water is skinny but the wildlife is off the charts. You could park and not see anyone for days. Absolute heaven.",
"I build homebuilt aircraft, with my hands (and assorted tools). Somehow they are different than factory made (Cessenas). Or so the FAA thinks.",
"Come to Europe.We have none of those.",
"You'd get murdered (can confirm, from Chicago)",
"And Texans.",
"I always wondered what happened to the \"human waste\" when you live on a house boat like this one.",
"How do cockroaches get in if the boat is on water?",
"They can jump from trees and catch wind and fly to the boat, I guess.\n\nI was outside before a storm a while back and a nasty cluster of about half a dozen(that I could see-at night) big-ass cockroaches fluttered through the air and landed on my front door. \n\nThey then proceed to scurry about looking for entry around my windows, whilst I attempt to dispatch as many as I could before they dropped off into the grass and disappeared.\n\nI do not like them. Thanks.",
"Found an article about it through a google image search. \n\nhttps://inhabitat.com/two-photographers-are-sailing-through-europe-in-amazing-handbuilt-houseboats/",
"Gotta dock somewhere. Little fuckers are crafty. \n\nYou take the boat to the marina to pick up beer and food, a few of the little bastards hop aboard and lay eggs. They like to eat a lot of the crap that grows on houseboats and there are a lot of other little critters aboard already (think gnats, etc.). They *love* the moisture. ",
"I feel like it would be easier to eliminate them on a contained space like that than in a giant ass apartment building, but yeah they're crafty.",
"yeah I've seen them fly before, they're the grossest looking things in the world when they do that. I'm just glad I grew up in the north where the only cockroach you'll see is maybe on the street in the summer in a big city like Boston or something.",
"Loot lake. ",
"Theyre rampany everywhere. They get big AF and can fly too in TX as you said. ",
"and that is my fear of ever living in an apt again. And bedbugs. ",
"Ugh.\n\nOne of my worst childhood memories is something I call Night of the Cockroaches. I grew up in the tropics and one Sunday night, the bakery next door to us called pest control to fumigate. Literally *thousands* of roaches came scurrying out of every crevice to get away and of course they all headed in our direction. I was killing roaches all night. The next day the ground was littered with thousands of dead roach carcasses. These weren't those silly little half inch ones either, they were 1.5 - 2.5 inches long.\n\nStill makes me sick.\n",
"I just don't understand why of all the bugs they are hated so much. It's so arbitrary yet primally just about everyone agrees on it. Even PETA people kill cockroaches lol.\n\nOne of the many strange mysteries of life.",
"Until your float into the Gatormen's territory. ",
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"[more of the inside](https://imgur.com/a/vv1Dt)",
"What do their bites cause?",
"I've been to Europe, and while it didn't have mosquitoes or scorpions, it did have tons of Europeans, and they bite worse than anything we have in the US.",
"Artist and builder on instagram: @claudiusschulze",
"shack on a raft",
"Actually there are scorpions in Europe, Italy for example.",
"Actually we do.But nothing like the nasties in the states.Bee sting territory.And bees.We have bees too. Bark scorpions..nope titity nope. EDIT.species.",
"Bark scorpion would have been better here but you get the idea.800 killed in mexico in the 80's. "
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Beautiful handmade houseboat
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"Can't unsee the weird boobs",
"?",
"Horsey"
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No name yet
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"Assumptions can get you into trouble! He may not be mad; maybe the dog tooted.",
"Or maybe he didn't want his pic taken by a stranger!",
"Good point; dogs *hate* paparazzi!!"
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Angry man with pink dog snuggly
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"What’s the sound that activated the photo? Elon giving an affirming “cool.” when it didn’t explode?",
"The noise of the rocket lifting off causes circuit to close and fire the camera. ",
"Ah, interesting, so im assuming the camera was far enough away that by the time the sound reached it the rocket was already departing the launch pad?",
"For this camera, the sensitivity was high enough that it started taking pictures once all 27 engines were firing, but the first few pictures have the rocket base obscured by the support tower. I chose a later picture in the sequence that showed more of the rocket in flight. ",
"Why is the sound activated feature necessary? \n",
"It's quite magnificent, and I can't be the only one to appreciate the fact that the falcon looks like Dr. Evils escape rocket from Austin powers",
"Because at this distance, a human being would be unlikely to survive the launch. We leave the cameras a few hundred feet from the rocket, and then retreat to a safe distance, usually 2-3 miles or more away.",
"Johnson: [Noticing Dr. Evil's spaceship on radar] Colonel, you better have a look at this radar.\n\nColonel: What is it, son?\n\nJohnson: I don't know, sir, but it looks like a giant--",
"Hmmm deceiving distance then. You're not allowed to he that close but they let you leave equipment close by? Interesting, I've never been to a launch. ",
"The Tesla groupies sure are Muskterbating all over Reddit and Imjur today.",
"Exactly; as credentialed members of the press, we're given a limited window of time to place cameras around the launchpad. In this case, it was Monday afternoon, so the cameras all sat out overnight waiting for the launch Tuesday afternoon. After the launch, we were escorted out to claim most of them around 5:30pm, and the remainder were picked up this morning, after the pad had been safed."
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy lifting off from Kennedy Space Center. I shot this photo with a sound-activated camera at Launchpad 39A.
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"Nice picture and fantastic idea to heat someone.",
"It looked like a person roasting over a fire for a minute",
"It was just an optical illusion. The fire and the hammock were about 3m apart."
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Hammock winter camping in the woods
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"We dinner there want going yes.",
"Let us go to Italian Restaurant. ",
"Billy Joel song?",
"Scienes from outside Italian Restaurant",
"Hungarian restaurant !!!"
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Well where so you want to go to dinner?
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"Seems legit ",
"If it's stupid and it works it ain't stupid \n",
"/r/diWHY",
"you mean extended bed model. the cab wasn’t extended... "
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The extended cab model
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"Lucky bastard",
"Are you John Krasinski? Cuz this looks like a still from that new Jack Ryan series. ",
"This is photo evidence that you never look back.",
"Nah, you didnt.\n\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/784c20/moved_to_the_pacific_northwest_last_year_and/?st=jdda6wmv&sh=325c3c72",
"What game is this?",
"Damn, good memory.",
"Hahahahaha! Suck it OP you pathetic karma whore!",
"Release the hounds",
"Rekt.",
"PITCHFORKS!!",
"Go ahead and delete, OP. Karma whores don’t like downvotes "
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Moved to the Pacific Northwest last year and haven't looked back since.
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"Fuck it why not",
"\"enjoying\" \n\nDude looks pretty miserable. ",
"At first I thought the man didn’t have the bottom part of his legs and was sitting on the ground around a really tiny table that some nice people made specially for him. It was a nice thought though.",
"Folks gotta eat.",
"[here photo taken outside] (https://i.imgur.com/8xsfJ4g.jpg)",
"\"Seafood so fresh you'd swear it just swam into the kitchen\"",
"Much better photo"
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This dude enjoying his dinner while there is a flood
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"do you have a higher res version?",
"I don't. Just an amature taking photos on my iphone 5...\n",
"Heh, I've literally taken the exact same shot.\n\nGreat minds think alike."
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Just went through 15,000 pictures over 2 years. This is my favorite. The Vatican.
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[
"The Dukes of Hazard would love those sweet jumps",
"That's got to be one hell of a sled ride.",
"Are they made of dolomite? You know, the tough black mineral that won't cop out when there's heat all about.",
"[Dolemite!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUEHsyt54I)",
"It’s Dolomite, Baby! ",
"That's one ballsy lawnmower",
"I'd hate to be playing on that golf course.",
"Credit to the photographer, [Kevin Kunstadt](http://www.kevinkunstadt.com/). \n\n[Here](http://www.landscapestories.net/issue-15/ls_15-026-kevin-kunstadt?lang=en) he explains:\n\n> I took these photographs in August 2010 in The Dolomites – a section of the Alps located in northeastern Italy. The Dolomites are named for a type of carbonate rock that has a distinct pale rosy-orange hue. Within this series of photos I have tried to capture the specific grandeur of this range, as well as present a document of the myriad ways in which people interact with and experience it for themselves.\n\n\nThe photographer was standing somewhere [around here](https://www.google.com/maps/@46.6035828,11.66535,3a,45.1y,117.65h,96.51t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipM9DX5xZNxlA_ryEevChTaKzO3PNhNGvCNgwQ0!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipM9DX5xZNxlA_ryEevChTaKzO3PNhNGvCNgwQ0%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya268.5-ro-0-fo100!7i5656!8i2828).\n",
"It's like fantasy worlds are based on reality . . .",
"I prefer the Son of Dolomites",
"Or be the visiting soccer team.",
"You know, teams switch halves at halftime.",
"Yeah but by then the visiting team will be tired AF.",
"['Twas the night before Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKV5j97xcXQ) \nAnd all through my brain \nNot a thing was I thinkin' \nExcept \"who stole my pimp cane?\"",
"Hey! I'm 40% Dolomite. \\*knocks on chest twice\\*",
"I prefer the [Mad TV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWU7JPXajOk) version.",
"Rip ancient trees",
"Favorite map on battlefield ",
"nah, its obviously coincidence.",
"This location is known as Seceda. ",
"Out of my way, and let me pass. Otherwise I’ll be shoving these Hush Puppies up your motherfuck’n ass. ",
"Reminds me of final fantasy ",
"This has a cable car thing to get up to it right?",
"Won't help if half your teammates have already fallen down the cliffside ",
"It does, but you can hike up it as well which is free and quite nice. ",
"I'd put the 18th hole right on the edge.",
"More like used for fantasy inspiration, here's [Mountain](https://6d4be195623157e28848-7697ece4918e0a73861de0eb37d08968.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/151827_200w.jpg) from the card game Magic: the Gathering.",
"If gaming has taught me anything. Is that jump is gonna be fucking amazing.",
"I was wondering if someone had gone and added up all the metals that Bender is made of (edit: of course because internet). Here's the list from the wiki on Bender:\n\n40% zinc (1ACV13)\n40% titanium (2ACV03)\n30% iron (3ACV22) - Presumably mixed with osmium. (3ACV17)\n40% dolomite (4ACV07)\n40% luck/horseshoes (ITWGY) - Composition of the horseshoes unknown.\n40% chromium (6ACV03) - Bender was not the one to make this claim, it was an Antarian.\n60% storage space (6ACV10)\n40% scrap metal (6ACV23)\n40% wire (7ACV03)\n40% empty (7ACV09)\n0.04% nickel impurity (3ACV17)\n40% lead (FVG) - Canon status of video game uncertain.",
"Came to find this comment. Was not disappointed. Good news!",
"> (duuuh, because internet)\n\nSpluh.",
"Valmalenco?",
"When you turn the difficulty of soccer up to 11.",
"Lord of the rings ",
"I hear Jamer Horner's Krull orchestral pieces playing when I see this image.",
"That’s all I could think about when I saw this picture ",
"If someone could photoshop the falcon heavy landings in this, it would be a fantasy sci-fi.... but real.",
"[dollarmite!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2hHWrWhQo)",
"nah, it's obviously nature trying to imitate fantasy worlds . . .",
"Or fight a [war](https://youtu.be/5JI-UC_Osg8) there",
"mother nature is such a fangirl sometimes.",
"They are made of Toblerone",
"Any ~~Rockstars~~ Geologists around, with some interesting tidbits?",
"I think It's just grazed",
"I’ve said spluh instead of duh since I was a child. It really thins the buggalo herd ",
"Hey! That's my phone background. ",
"Flatearthers find this pleasant",
"Where can I set up the slip n slide??",
"I heard Skyrim music....Is that a dragon?",
"All you could think about was the guy that pushes the lawnmower's balls? ",
"I imagine an old Italian man smoking a cig and drunk but making impeccable lines",
"Considering that almost all modern fantasy has been influenced by Tolkien, and Tolkien's geography for Middle Earth was influenced from a trip to the Alps (where these mountains are), this is quite logical. Although to be fair, he visited the Swiss alps. ",
"More than that, Middle Earth drew heavily from Tolkien's experience visiting the Alps, which these mountains are part of. Although to be fair, Tolkien visited the Swiss alps and these are Italian. ",
"Ah so this is what Snoop was talking about in the 90s...\n\n“Pimpin hoes and clocking a grip, like my name was Dolomite”\n\nEdit: spells \n",
"Actually, it's straight out of this world.",
"Bitch! You know I don't wear no cotton drawers!",
"He was talking about Rudy Ray Moore's [kung foo pimp character](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolemite)",
"The calm lands",
"no they are in Italy, thats europe",
"I heard the Swiss Alps drew heavily from the Dolomites in Italy . . .",
"in such straight alternating lines? what're you smoking mate?",
"do they make a roomba mower?",
"I'm a let you finish... but the Austrian Alps are the best Alps of all TIME!... all TIME!",
"I have found the source of all oldschool blacksploitation jokes. The search is finally over.",
"I'd think that the horseshoes could be made of titanium. And that any of the listed metals could come from scrap metal. And I don't think that wire and storage space and empty space should be counted towards his material, but to his volume and weight.\n\nOther than that, I have no gripes with th",
"I bet you'd find a korok seed if you climb that peak",
"That's Dolomite, baby! ",
"Reminds me of the west of Skyrim near Rorikstead. It's probably my favourite reigion too",
"I legit thought this was r/imginarylandscapes before I realized it was r/pics!",
"Used to mow this place. As long as you go top to bottom you'll be fine. Our saying was \"Mow side to side, go for a ride\".",
"Why would anyone do drugs when they could just mow the lawn?",
"Mow up and down, you're going down? ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q5BkubPGuY",
"From the pattern there, they went side to side. ",
"Y tho",
"Dolomite is limestone where the calcium has been replaced by magnesium. I have a piece if the Dolomites on my windowsill, it's very light tan colored. ",
"...grass?",
"Imagine the cataclysm that created that.",
"Then back up again.",
"This is where Tom Brady goes to train. The documentary said so. ",
"I'm 40% Italy!",
"This has the potential to be the most epic sledding hill in the winter",
"I went backpacking here in the Dolomiti, summer of 2016. Absolutely gorgeous! The entire time we backpacked through it, all of us were saying things like,\n\n“Are we trapped inside a desktop wallpaper?”",
"That's an ancient alien runway. ",
"I’m using this in my dnd campaign",
"I was wondering the same thing",
"yeah i was looking for this in the comments :)",
"Damn i would love to sled down that hill. ",
"How fast would I have to drive my car over that edge to make it into space?",
"Or slip and slide",
"m",
"\n[It reminde me to Icelend](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKWJcB1xD0)",
"I actually used to mow lawns for a living, as lame as that sounds. The trick with a slope is to go diagonal. If the mower is self propelled, you might try to go up and down but in reality on a steep grade there’s still a very real risk of slipping and falling on your ass with your feet shooting under the back of the deck/into the blades.\n\nWish I had a clever joke or meme to add but that’s about it.",
"Lawnmowers have balls?",
"I'm 40% dolomite, baby *clink* *clink*",
"about seven",
"7.1\n\ndo the math",
"That's always the first thing I think about when I hear \"Dolomite.\" Used to work with a bunch of older black dudes in Chicago and they turned me on to this stuff. It's--off the wall!\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voxp3ckwJZ0",
"All I could think about is a car ramping off of it",
"I was just thinking that I hope this is something you can ski in the winter ",
"Rest in Peace Shane McConkey",
"South west Europe?",
"Dolomite is my name, and fuckin up motherfuckers is my game",
"RIP McConkey.",
"The Duke boys: *heavy breathing*",
"Apparently you and I are the only ones in the thread who thought of this first.",
"If you look closely along the edge closest to the viewer and near the top you can see they made a few passes up and down before they switched to side to side, probably to keep some distance between them and the cliff side for most of the job. Or maybe the last thing they do is that edge going up and down and moving inward to clean up their lines. ",
"Why fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?",
"Rolled a ride mower in a gully behind my parents' place one time years ago; it was meant to cut out if you got off the seat but it rolled onto the seat and started right the f back up as I was running away. I can still see the blades going in my mind. I was stupid at 14. ",
"It is, the most beautiful place on earth to ski",
"4 months ago you stated \n\n>I live in AZ, with well maintained, wide lane freeways and interstates.\n\nAlso\n\n>Also, as someone who was law enforcement for 4 years, \n\nThen \n\n>I was a sensor operator for RPAs (drones) in the USAF.\n\nThen\n\n>I was working security forces at Randolph afb, \n\nWhich is in Texas\n\nYou also stated\n\n>I've killed for my country,\n\nWas that as an officer of the law or as drone pilot or working security at the Texas Air force base?\n\nAlso you are a trucking expert?\n\n>I've been in the transportation game for a minute and can give more details on who not to use if you want it.\n\nThen some discussion of literal ass rape\n\n>Have you tried surprising her with butt stuff? My gf fucking hates it, so I \"accidentally\" try to jam my dick in her ass every couple months or so. It makes her so mad. Then, we have new things to talk about for a few days, new arguments to have, etc. It really is a breath of fresh air. \n\nDude What The Fuck?\n\nAlso below a parting gift from me to you and in your own words\n\n\n\n>Eat some fuckin shit you fucking stupid bitch.\n\nEdit: Just got banned from r/funny for my well received Rick and Morty quote here. Guess I'm just too edgy...\n\nEdit2: Yo mods, little help here? I mean, r/funny is a garbage sub, but I'd still like to be able to comment if I feel so inclined. It was a quote from a show, not a personal attack. Cute robot you got there, though. Try and reign it in a bit.\n\n\n\n\n\n",
"DOLOMITE, BABY!!!!",
"be sure to check out some paragliding videos from there.",
"Include me in the screencap.",
"You should offer this as a paid service. Not only do I feel like I have a fan now (stalker?), but its like a list of my greatest hits. Maybe all of it is true, maybe just everything but mowing mountains. Maybe I'm 13 and made all of it up. ",
"A dolomite turn to a million and we all rich, thats just how I feel.",
"Who mowing that mountain? ",
"It's actually rows of indica plants.",
"It's not out of a fantasy world. It's out of YOUR world. Go out and see it. ",
"This is pretty how I picture The Windblades of Kholinar. ",
"oh yeah i used to have one of their bank accounts as a kid",
"Bruh im goin to italy",
"That’s really cool\n",
"Lemme roll down this hill real quick.",
"Lemme roll down this hill real quick.",
"I think that'd be a goat or sheep. But yea",
"This area was settled by a farmer with four sons and, as the farmer aged, and his sons matured, he would award them a mountain's worth of land.\n\nThe first son got to farm the nearest plot in the picture, the next one got to farm the second plot while the third became a famous mountain climber.",
"Only the male ones.",
"I'm sad this isn't the top comment.",
"This shows us how mountains are made",
"Cynthia used to drink Slurm",
"Straight out of ... real life?",
"Why do you lie to strangers on the internet?",
"Except for that stupid bunker which is almost impossible to capture. ",
"Chance of earthquakes: high.",
"Holy shit....",
"All I see is one fucking kick ass ramp to Awesomeville. ",
"they do have to be quite large to carry their young",
"Which, FWIW, totals to 450.04%.",
"My wallpaper is a screenshot from this [youtube video of the Dolomite ranges](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG2HTePcMpU) that I keep rewatching on my tv. Here's my [screenshot wallpaper](https://i.imgur.com/osAe7jp.jpg).",
"It looks like the rest of the mountain fell off.",
"They have very precise goats.",
"I want to be the guy that cuts that grass.",
"Excuse me, did you just assume that lawn mowers gender!?!",
"Dat rain shadow though",
"Pressure... and time",
"Ditto. Only reason I looked at the comments on this one, tbh.",
"If you believed I used to mow the grass in the picture, that's a you problem, not a me problem. ",
"My guess is hay or some other animal feed.",
"Why do you lie to strangers on the internet?\n\n",
"I wanna ask [this person](https://i.imgur.com/5Yq9j4L.jpg) if they're okay and give them a hug.",
"Woah, that's really cool. I'll have to put this down on my list of awesome places to visit before I die again. ",
"Not only that, but the rifugio to eat is equally amazing. One of the best spek potato and egg I ever eaten",
"They just got to watch out when going reverse",
"*And it seemed that the land itself decided where the border would be. The two kingdoms let the Great Rift alone, whether it was out of superstition, respect, or genuine fear, not even the people knew.*",
"Is that... a golf course? Why we gotta ruin nature like that :( ",
"Where the world buckles and splinters.",
"Let it figure that out on its own, c’mon.",
"Sex, not gender.",
"I have a sneaking suspicion that the fantasy realms are straight out of the dolomites rather.",
"God, Snoop Doggy Dogg went through my head....\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr5WWakDt38\n\n",
"Crazy how I can move my phone around as I sit on the toilet and see the Alps. What a time to be alive. ",
"How is there fertile soil on top of that mountain?!",
"Looks like I'm going to find Mark Hamill on this hill",
"And 100% reason to remember the name.",
"I tell you what",
"Why not both?",
"It's Dolomite baby! ",
"It's good for 2 green mana but comes into play tapped ",
"This reminds me of that video of people playing soccer on a mountain. This must be the field",
"PROFESSOR! LAVA! HOT!",
"Careful, your mental illness is showing. ",
"Mental illness. Pathological liars exist. Hell, our president is one of them. ",
"Careful, siding with someone who has gone to great lengths to prove they don't understand the difference in a joke or serious statement, can make you look like you can't either. \n\nThe hyperbole or outright satire in my history (or lack, thereof), should be clear to anyone with a 5th grade education. I have a small nonprofit that teaches adults basic reading comprehension and life skills, if you know anyone who could benefit from that, I mean.\n\n(Because you obviously need it spelled out for you, the non-profit was a joke, meant to be cutting, to anyone who can't tell the difference between a serious post and a joke about mowing mountains.)\n\nEdit: Downvote me you dirty girls, its tough to call someone stupid these days. I'm totally comfortable going on record saying, that this asshole is one dumb piece of shit. Possibly a product of the American public school system. We can do better, people.",
"I want to sled down that.",
"When I hear of the Dolomites all I can think of is the poor soldiers 100 years ago during WWI, when these mountains were the front lines and high altitude battles were fought.",
"I wanna smoke weed there ",
"nearly all of italy is a fantasy world. Right nearby here is Lake Como which is one of the most unbelievably picturesque places I've ever been, but so are Venice and the Cinque Terre and Florence. I haven't been any further south than that but I'm sure it's all just as good.",
"The flat part is called Sasso Piatto (flat rock) and the big thing in the back is Sasso Lungo (long rock). Went there as a kid. There’s a bar up on Sasso Alto that gets all its beer on a zip line-type thing; no way to get up other than walking.",
"Yes?",
"That's the ramp ole Musky used to get his car into space ",
"Bro I thought it was a damn video about the place!!! You!! Evil you!! Here is my like take it!!!",
"Complete with the map wall restrictions",
"The edge of an mmo map where the textures go polygonal because the devs never intended on you wall hopping to go explore it.",
"That is gonna make one awesome landslide at some point in the future. ",
"Sure thing, buddy. Good luck in life. ",
"I either really do, or really don't want to be the guy that mows that. I haven't quite figured out which yet. ",
"Thank you so much! I was trying to find the original photographer but the most I could find was his flickr account that had been deleted, kkmedia.\n\n^(I mean I took this yes OC yes good)",
"When the kid down the street says he can jump something if you can build a big enough ramp",
"Grazing animals often create a pattern of lines like this when they graze. I've never seen an example this pronounced but it definitely happens.",
"RIP Shane McConky",
"My life is awesome. I'm married to 3 super models from the year 2127 (girls are a lot hotter then, I'd explain why but you wouldn't get it) and I drive a car that runs for free, powered by my own sense of self satisfaction. The dashboard, of coarse, is made of the bones of my enemies, and your mom's sweet, sweet photos, constantly updated photos, that is. \n\nIts LED, of course, and I could change it, but that face she makes before she cums...honestly, it's the closest I'll ever be to god. Its weird when I take girls on dates, what with your mom projected on the dash and all, but totally worth it. And generally, they get on board after the initial shock. If anything, they try to compete with her acrobatic shenanigans, which benefits me all the more. Thanks again. Pass my best to your mom. Tell her \"Only if you bring bacon grease!\" She'll know what I mean. ",
"Finally home from work and looked this over. You failed to say what you had a problem with. 10 yrs Airforce covering security forces (military police) and drone ops (pred and reaper) posting insights people don't normally get into that world in my history (years). That handles the law enforcement and drone stuff, the mowing mountains thing was a pretty clear joke. Don't be silly, try a little harder to determine the difference between a serious comment, and a guy mowing a mountain.",
"This pic looks exactly like one of the golf holes on Wii Sports",
"Oooooo a Trump name drop! Get this guy to the front page people! He doesn't like Trump, he's a fucking revolutionary! Please pm me with more amazing insights! Ill be your subscriber for life! ",
"[[mountain|UST]] for anyone from /r/magictcg",
"I can guarantee you that is exactly the case ",
"I'm pretty sure there's a shrine hidden there for Link. ",
"Seems like 90% of shots of the Dolomites I see posted are this scene. ",
"\"Later, dudes.\"",
"Amazing!",
"Thanks!",
"honestly broken hearted still."
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The Dolomites of Italy, straight out of a fantasy world
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"Photographer: Andrew Soundarajan",
"That's a pretty good place to make a proposal. Where is it and where do I get a girlfriend? ",
"looks scary (I am scared of heights)",
"Looks like the Shire from the hobbit",
"Pretty sure this is the blue ridge mountains. Shenandoah Virginia Maybe ?",
"Do I find my girlfriend in Shenandoah or is that where I bring her to propose? ",
"Well if you're like me just make it a twofer and attend a family reunion. ",
"Photograph was taken at the [Chestoa Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina](https://pixels.com/featured/steps-to-a-view-andrew-soundarajan.html), apparently. BRB visiting North Carolina.... \n\n"
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"Nice! Creative and original, how long did it take?",
"Thx! I think around 4 hours ",
"Nice work. ",
"That's super nice! They're very calming colours.",
"Thank you :-)",
"Do we have an etsy shop? ",
"I like [this piece](https://i.imgur.com/dwPUmcT.jpg) of yours even better.\n\n\nMore of OP's work can be found at fullmetalneedle on Instagram or FullmetalneedleShop on Etsy.",
"https://gfycat.com/BraveInnocentIberianbarbel",
"Sooo pretty! Did you paint first then embroider?",
"Thx! My mom wanted to have it ;-)",
"Yes, I leave the fabric in a hoop while painting ",
"This is the best embroidery work I've seen in a whale.",
"Update: this one is sold. First sale on etsy yay!",
"Your talent is over-whale-ming.",
"beautiful! ",
"I fucking love this!",
"Stunning. \n\nQuite impressive work.",
"love it! ",
"I can't figure out if the background is a grainy photograph printed on a canvas, or if it's embroidered. OP's style is just beautiful.",
"This is beautiful! What is your etsy shop called? You are so talented, only 4 hours to make! ",
"x-post /r/Watercolor if you haven't.",
"I admire embroidery posts, but this is just WOW! Great skills op!",
"I think it’s actually watercolor. ",
"Congrats!! Whats the name of your shop?",
"I checked out your shop and you have beautiful work. Will you be doing any more ocean/whale themed pieces? I would buy this one if you had another available. ",
"That humpback still looks tasty AF. I tip my hat 🎩 ",
"Is the whale painted? If not that is a tremendous ability to create small details of color change in thread.",
"Fullmetalneedle",
"i cannot find your shop! I have searched for you and nothing comes up... I want to buy!",
"Do ya like watercolors? ",
"> FullmetalneedleShop\n\nEDIT: i found it. was not searching correctly. ",
"It's amazing!",
"Man, these are fantastic. ",
"Omg what is going on! Thank you all ",
"Nonsense. How could you possibly know that?",
"The whale is embroidery. Thank you ",
"I can tell by the pixels.",
"So simple, so elegant!",
"This is awesome! You should trying doing this on pockets of t-shirts or something it'll definitely sell :) ",
"That is LOVELY. My mother and sister are good at embroidery, but I have never had the patience to sit still for it.",
"Water is really hard to paint. I’m impressed. ",
"That’s amazingly fast. ",
"How are you so good? 😻",
"This warms my Wes Andersons",
"Fullmetalneedle ",
"What kind of fabric did you use? This is awesome! ",
"Wow that is really unique and lovely.",
"I LOVE THIS ",
"I hope you are not FIN-ished making great puns!",
"Every day for like 3 days nows the top post from r/pics is basically a circle lol",
"First of many I'm sure! Your work is really great!",
"Wow, op this is beautiful!",
"I'm now also selling it in a order to make ",
"I think you're about to have a few more requests than usual. ",
"Very beautiful",
"Absolutely beautiful! What a great idea.",
"just bought something from you as well! ",
"This is really beautiful; I'd like to get better at embroidery. Your piece is gorgeous :)",
"Nice ",
"This is lovely! How long did it take you to create this?",
"It's clearly a picture of water, so what other color could it even be?",
"Is that actual watercolor paint or do you paint with a water color effect? I love it so much.",
"Amazing indeed. Would love to make one for my lady.",
"That is a really really cool idea. Well done OP",
"How good? You might suggest embroidery of D&D maps for gamers.",
"can you post a link to your shop? Nothing is coming up when I search Fullmetalneedle",
"\n\ni love your etsy shop, i'm definitely going to save up and get something. beautiful work!!!",
"That's really beautiful",
"Love it, its pure inspiration and now im going to your etsy shop.",
"ayyyy",
"Do you take custom orders? ",
"Be proud of your work! That’s super cool!",
"This is really, really good. I'm going to forward to all my needlepoint friends. Inspiring! ",
"So happy this popped up on my homepage. These are amazing. Just bought one for my girlfriend as a present. She'll love it so much.",
"Neato",
"Didn't Elon Musk buy this?",
"LOVE this!! ",
"Nice",
"Fullmetalneedle",
"That hedgehog you did is amazing too.",
"Well goddamn, that's lovely. What a beautiful idea! ",
"Five minutes until the etsy copycat crowd gets in on this.",
"Beautiful!!",
" I love this so muxh",
"I would like to know this as well. I am an embroiderer but, I have not done any work which has been painted before the embroidery. Why are you using watercolors rather than a more durable painting or dying technique? What threads are you using, cotton embroidery floss, silk floss, or some other thread? Also, what is the size of the pieces you are doing? Just wondering since you are doing them in 4 hours. I can work for 4 hours on a piece and not be close to finished. Size does matter.\n\nYour work is really nice and very creative. Well done!",
"ewwww. :)",
"Talent, a unique concept, and you posted to reddit. The perfect storm. 👏👏 ",
"Make sure you search for shops, not items. I just made that error.",
"Seeing beautiful things like and I feel so guilt because I just want to copy it and make it. ",
"Dope!!!",
"Whales are my favorite, and I need one of these! Do you have any more of do you do commissions?",
"So cool! ",
"/r/madlads",
"This is so calm and peaceful to look at, I love it",
"Noice",
"Amazing Tide Ad",
"This is really, really beautiful. Good job!",
"> FullmetalneedleShop on Etsy\n\n",
"Love the user name",
"Lovely and so creative! ",
"This looks lovely!",
"wait a second dont you mean your gf makes those for fun and you thought we'd like to buy some\n\nwhy arent you getting roasted like this guy \nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7v7fg2/my_gf_draws_these_for_fun_and_i_thought_you_guys/\n\nah the reddit wind blows",
"How do you get people to see your product? I'm interested in selling some of my work. ",
"Wow, this is gorgeous!",
"Mixed medium artwork can be incredible. You nailed it! Congrats!",
"Wow, your stuff is awesome! Wonderful mix of soft watercolors with bold embroidery subjects. I want everything in your shop lol. ",
"Absolutely beautiful!",
"Favorited your shop! Please do more simple things like this! They are just lovely and I'd love to get something as a gift. ",
"It's a photo printed on canvas, and then embroidered. OP says so on their instagram. It's still just as bad ass, and it blends so seamlessly.",
"Can you do a yellow lab? I’d like to buy one. ",
"It's weird because when you type it into the search box, it searches both items and shops and still comes up blank",
"Disgusting that in 2018 we are still confining these majestic, highly intelligent creatures to small, cramped quilting hoops.",
"I’m using the app where you have to specify shops. Don’t know about the website. ",
"I can't believe this is your first sale! If it only took you four hours to make then you'll be raking it in. :-) I've been embroidering--and so looking at lots of other people's work--for about eight years now, and this is one of my favorite pieces I've ever seen.",
"EMBROIDERY: The art of deconstructing and reconstructing fabric",
"There's no porpoise is making any more puns. ",
"🤘",
"Post on reddit, r/pics ^^/s",
"First of all, this is awesome! I've been trying to figure out how to step up my cross stitch game, do you mind my asking if you can paint on Aida the same way you paint on paper?",
"You need to add a Klingon Bird of Prey hovering above the water. ",
"You are very talented! This is stunning!",
"A reddit post with 13k points ought to do the trick.",
"That’s wayyy cooler",
"Nicely done!",
"Be careful with orders for repeat pieces if you're the creative type--perhaps consider putting a limit on numbers? I had an Etsy store in college, and I really enjoyed making pieces that I was drawn to create and selling them. Then I made one that really took off, and suddenly that was the only thing people wanted, and I ended up feeling more like a production line than an artist. Wound up taking all the joy out of it.\n\nIf you're doing it primarily as a business, that kind of thing is great! But if you're doing it to support a creative pursuit that you love, it's important to preserve your ability to do what you want to do. :-)",
"At first the whale looked like a plane? Anyone else see a plane first?",
"black and white if you're colorblind.",
"Noise",
"Nose",
"I love you for making embroidery hit FrontPage on Reddit.\n\nI hate you for making me dream of spending thousands of dollars on machine embroidery software for a hobby that I know I can't make money off of... I miss working in that industry.",
"Is that oil paint, the waves look real. \n\nAwesome work!",
"Pretty clever o.p",
"Reddit is obviously a good way, like OP did. You could also do Instagram and Facebook ads, it's actually relatively cheap and lets you select specific audiences you're trying to reach and occasion for purchasing like Anniversaries, New home owner, etc.\n\nSource: My girlfriend owns an Etsy shop to sell her one-line artwork. Check her out! www.GraceTaft.com IG: gracieloopy",
"Noose ",
"What software do you use for your embroidery?",
"I think we have only breached the surface on how far we can take this.",
"Amazing!",
"It'd be fucking wild if someone posted some small, functionless piece of art on r/pics without trying to solicit sales and pump them out. \n\nThere should be a sub for that... there probably is... but since most people aren't looking for that why not just put it somewhere tangentially relevant and high-vis?",
"Nurse ",
"So gorgeous! OP, is this hand embroidery or machine embroidery?",
"Already at 7! Thats awesome",
"Is it a photo behind the needlework? ",
"I mean you're not wrong. They sold it two hours *after* this was posted.",
"This niche is what I would spend my money on.\nIf^I^Had^Any^Haha",
"here we go again, r/pics, the flea market",
"Is that a Fullmetal Alchemist reference? :o",
"imitators can never produce as good",
"Tide Ads\n",
"Thank you! I will definitely check it out. \n\nEdit: I really like your girlfriend's style. :)",
"That's beautiful!\n",
"Nords",
"If you are colorblind, then how many fingers am I holding up?",
"Nacelle",
"you are the new bob ross.",
"Talent. Some people are good at embroidery. Some people are good at eating 2 big pizzas in one sitting.",
"Milk",
"I love this! Cool idea!",
"I'll have to hire David Harbour for it. I only have $1, half a stick of gum, and a piece of lint. Do you think that'll be enough for his salary?",
"Oh well...maybe someone might post the link on here :)",
"Reeeeee",
"Pooccpcccp",
"Really nice stuff. I never even knew this was a medium I'd be impressed with, but it looks great. ",
"How much was it, if you don't mind me asking? Interested in them for sure",
"ah thank you! Adding Shop at the end made all the difference!",
"Meh 😒 seen better",
"i need to buy this. ",
"Are you willing to make multiples of this so I can buy?",
"Love it! <3",
"so lovely!",
"[Nice.](https://i.imgur.com/qOD5ULj.gifv)",
"Moose",
"This is amazing! Good work! :D would you consider doing one of Mario dupalnters drum head works like This? ",
"Actually..celebrating them.",
"I want this more than anything I’ve ever seen on the Internet. ",
"Sadly, people still buy the shit/bootleg versions of things to save a buck",
"The /s tag is there to prevent the downvotes I assume, because it's a true statement.",
"Meese ",
"Norse",
"People amaze me. That's beautiful, can't wait to check out your shop. ",
"Noid",
"Anyone else see a plane first?. I love this so I can buy?. Love it!",
"well this looks suspiciously like something that can be mass produced quickly and cheaply showing up all innocuous-like on this sub again\n\ni mean i come here to browse khajiit's wares, i'll be damned if someone takes a pic of something i can't buy",
"Or due to lots of practise.",
"Noid",
"Amazing!",
"Throw in a third of a can of beans. That should cover it.",
"I cal this one 'close as you can get to baileys without your eyes gettin' wet'",
"Thank you! She just started experimenting with it! (:",
"Selling used pizza crusts for $20 on etsy\n\n*pizzacrustsarenotymmy*",
"You've got 2 pieces in your etsy shop of women in the waves. What are the sizes of those? They are beautiful!!!",
"and you think eating 2 big pizzas in one sitting doesn't require any practice?",
"the /s was more for the \"please do not do this, this isn't a marketplace\" than a downvotes thing, idc about downvotes.",
"Nice!",
"/r/crappyoffbrands/",
"❤",
"I have been following you on Instagram for a while and when I saw this reddit post I thought, \"This is really impressive but I've seen this media mixture done before\". Duh. Because it was you. :)\n\nYour work's beautiful as always!",
"> really unique\n\n",
"I like ya. What do ya think of me?",
"Damn I’m not good at either of those things ",
"I couldn’t wrap my brain around it. ",
"so beautiful!",
"LOOOVE ITTTT! GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR ETSY SHOOOP!",
"r/thalassophobia",
"You should see me eat embroidery things.",
"Noid",
"You rule!!!! I love this",
"Nietzsche\n",
"I have never seen this technique before so to me at least you created a whole new genre of art to appreciate. Thank you ♡",
"WOW! You do neato work! ",
"Anyone else think of the Gojira from mars to sirius album cover? ",
"As an artist I can tell you that it's mostly lots of hard work and practice, talent helps but doesn't get you far on its own. \n\nIt took me years to be able to get that much pizza down without throwing up.",
"You're good at making people feel better about themselves by existing on this planet.",
"That looks amazing. I keep telling myself I am going to teach myself to embroider but I just keep chickening out. \nI’m already a cross stitcher, but I suppose I will have to get out of my comfort zone at some point. ",
"Noodle",
"Can I see a pic of the back?",
"Ew",
"I have a CNC embroidery machine, which makes me really wanna try this",
" Was gonna say better than anything I've seen on Etsy :)",
"whoa, i love that embroidery-photo collage, really beautiful",
"They might not be able to post the link because of subreddit rules. To cut down on spam.",
"Probably! Becoming great at anything requires practise, simply having talent is never enough.",
"Not to mention one of the draws to etsy for consumers is to have original art by independent artists, its less fun if 100 other people have the same thing ",
"Doubt ppl would have interpreted it that way, but ye I agree.",
"The reddit hug (of death) is what's going on. ",
"That's beautiful!",
"It's there, but it's cloaked.",
"F",
"Very Nice",
"Do you have the whale one for sale? (:",
"Whale, isn't this lovely.",
"Looks like some of them are printed and then embroidery added while others are water color. This one appears to be one of the printed works. ",
"How much was it sold for, if you don't mind my asking?",
"Whoa. This just gave me a cool idea for a music video.",
"*Nudes*",
"Alright dangit...you gotta make more now!",
"F",
"Not to brag, but some people are good at both.",
"r/embroidery would love this.",
"Yeah they can look at the the yeti copiers some of them make a higher quality product",
"this is so beautiful! I'm jealous of your skill and creativity. Good luck with your Etsy shop. ",
"If you are colorblind, then how many fingers am I holding up?",
"I would have spoken it sarcastically for that reason so I just marked it as such. whether or not people took it that was is beyond me.",
"proof?",
"What a creative idea! I love this. Combining those 2 mediums is so effective and fresh! Really nice work :) ",
"> Fullmetalneedle\n\nomg, I just looked at your shop--GORGEOUS! The sleeping squirrel!! ",
"Fire?",
"Can someone post a link to the shop? I can't find in mobile?",
"I feel like this was a PR-stunt so people could buy stuff from OP's etsy page",
"Question - how would I even begin to learn something like this? I'd love to be able to make gifts like this.",
"Nice ad",
"I love this, but also whales.",
"Yes?",
"I don't know if you do video game related ones.... But that'd be a gold mine. I know I'd buy a bunch!",
"This! Please don't duplicate the designs. Keep them one of kind. ",
"Awesome. ",
"Nah, I'm not that good at embroidery. I have some cross stitch in my history, but I'm mediocre at best. ",
"But can you cross stitch while eating pizza, though?",
"You are immensely talented and I’m proud of you.",
"Can we once, *just once*, have someone say the word \"talent\" on this website without anyone saying anything about how much practice it takes? Must we be so insecure and/or pedantic as to always say \"well actually, it's partly/mostly/entirely practice and hard work\", as if to not *explicitly state that* is to somehow slight those who've worked to be good at something? It's like some people with PhDs who get pissy when people don't call them Doctor.\n\nI'm not talking to you specifically, I'm just so tired of seeing that over and over again.",
"dig it! so cool!",
"Seriously... what am I missing? It looks like she spilled dirty liquid on it...",
"This is gorgeous!",
"Gorgeous and inspiring! ",
"Looks stupid, like you spilled crap on it. Not impressive at all, why is everyone going crazy??",
"Woah these are awesome! I love the squirrel. What gauge of fabric do you use/where do you get it??",
"I can haz? ",
"Hearted. I’ll be watching",
"I’m not OP. Apologies, it’s FullmetalneedleShop. Sorry about that.",
"That’s outstanding. You’re very talented! Do you take commissions?",
"niche",
"I never thought of doing this! I have a seashell piece that I will try this on",
"Maybe I was boosting a bit when I said 4 hours( it's the internet) Did not know this would get so much attiontion. I don't remember anymore how long it took. But yes, probably longer then 4 hours. ",
"you really are a charismatic biscuit",
"Fenomenal",
"I find performance enhancing drugs also help i.e. weed",
"Tagging /u/fullmetalneedle so you can see this comment from :\n/u/Motheroftheworld \n> I would like to know this as well. I am an embroiderer but, I have not done any work which has been painted before the embroidery. Why are you using watercolors rather than a more durable painting or dying technique? What threads are you using, cotton embroidery floss, silk floss, or some other thread? Also, what is the size of the pieces you are doing? Just wondering since you are doing them in 4 hours. I can work for 4 hours on a piece and not be close to finished. Size does matter.\n> \n> Your work is really nice and very creative. Well done!",
"Fus roh dah",
"This is so gorgeous! Mixed media is one of my favorite mediums and I’ve never seen anyone do anything like this! Awesome!",
"Can you make one but instead of a whale can you make it a penis with a large genital wart on it? I’ll pay you twice if you don’t ask why",
"Wow, that's beautiful, have you seen Paulina Bartnik? She does birds.",
"At first glance I thought the person was dabbing. ",
"Deal!",
"Does the embroidery frame always stay on? Or is it usually only just to stretch the fabric? (obviously in this case you want it as a frame) ",
"This was already a thing.",
"How did you find it? Searched Etsy, nothing. Did Google with the name and Etsy, nothing.",
" Well-played. ",
"Dang, 8 sales already! Talent and luck can go a long way. ",
"This is stunning!!!",
"I hope you make more of these! Please make a manatee one!!!!!!",
"I love this!! I was just about ready to pass along my embroidery supplies as I'm into watercolor these day and now I see this!!! Amazingly beautiful integration of both arts!!! ♡",
"naiyse",
"That's cool as dicks ",
"She did. Dirty paint water ",
"This is super adorable! Good job ❤️",
"Good work",
"r/streetwear would like 10 hoodies, 5 pullovers and a pair of vans thanks!\n\nGreat work tho for real haha",
"If you sell the pattern, let me know!!",
"Daaamn, this looks soo sick! Is the ocean/waves painted or is that a photograph? This is epic. ",
"Gonna do this but with a whale shark!",
"Ocean",
"I love this!",
"Very nice!",
"It appears that you did. ",
"You are a true artist ",
"I feel like I need this in my life. Hanging on the wall by my desk. It's perfect. ",
"Is it difficult to paint on the fabric or is it like painting on a canvas? ",
"I just started embroidery, and the idea of mixed media hadn’t even occurred to me yet. So many possibilities. ",
"This is amazing ! I love mixed art styles",
"This is *nice*! So happy to see your work on the front page!! ",
"Etsy is a crafts store more than an art market. The expectation that you deserve the *only* super mario themed terrarium or whatever in existence is a little naive. If you care about having something one of a kind, support a local fine artist.",
"Oh yeah for sure, I'm just talking about the art aspect. Of course you can't expect original pieces of work in every case ",
"Once it's sold, what do they do with it? Put it in a frame?",
"You may want to try using Derwent Inktense on your fabric instead of watercolors. You can get Inktense in either pencil or blocks. They work just like watercolors but when they dry they are permanent. ",
"Congrats! Came here to ask where I could buy this from you... make more please?",
"Stellar creative job, very resourceful and lovely. Keep it up! ",
"Very creative! I wouldn’t never thought of doing that.",
"Wow that is absolutely stunning work. Beautiful. ",
"This is awesome! Best of luck to you!",
"I love this, I'm going to make pretty much the same thing because it is so beautiful, thanks for the inspiration!",
"Damn",
"Brilliant! Well done and beautiful. Artistry indeed. ",
"GOOD point ",
"I mean it’s one word so.... fullmetal it is",
"My ancestors are smiling at me, Imperials. Can you say the same?",
"This is gorgeous ",
"Beautiful",
"This is really beautiful! ",
"This is so cool!!! ",
"Cool stuff m8",
"This is really beautiful! ",
"How selfish of her! It belongs in a museum! ",
"That is the coolest embroidery ever!!!",
"That is the coolest embroidery ever!!!",
"I'm cetaphobic (whales terrify me!) but this is a very cute whale",
"This is beautiful as well as creative. Also, the whale looks spot on",
"Wow that's amazing holy cow ",
"Is your shop down? Can't find it on Etsy website or Google :(",
"I love this! Do you paint the water color before embroidering?",
"you must be etsy-static of all the hype youre getting! Beautiful craftsmanship, op! ",
"Ooh, whose doing yeti knockoffs?",
"When you type the name in the search box, another box kinda pops up below it that says \"find shop names containing fullmetalneedle\" and then you click on that.",
"Wait.... so I have a talent then?! Ah shieeeet.",
"Pretty lazy tbh, you got sick of embroidering didn't you?",
"Beautiful!",
"I love it",
"Wow that one is stunning ",
"Post it to r/aquariums ",
"That is just Awesome!!!",
"Absolutely beautiful",
"So are we ignoring the well crafted water color pun or?",
"This would be a dope T-shirt design with the whale where the polo player/alligator usually goes.",
"Nein",
"WOW I’d love to know the process that goes into this!!! You just decide what you’re going to be making, watercolor the background and embroider?",
"I would actually like to buy. What’s your Etsy name? ",
"Is this being sold? ",
"Firstly, congrats on the sale! This is a beautiful piece; simple yet elegant. Though, I need to know, from a medium standpoint, what’s the life expectancy for the water color on said fabric? How long until it needs re-touching to restore the vibrance?",
"Wow this is really cool, actually. And well done. Nice job!",
"now you just have to rename yourself to /u/shittyembroideredwatercolor and do these in random reddit threads",
"I second that! I need one of every print. How did she set it up so that her personal page checks out on Etsy... is that common? ",
"I mixed hot sriracha and mayo in tuna and cheese sandwich today which was pretty lit, so if you need any inspiration hmu. ",
"you fucking savage",
"Very creative, Nicely done.",
"Well, you did a really good job.",
"Nerds",
"FullmetalneedleShop",
"WOAH! That's a cool effect! Very nice. ",
"That happened with a Terrified Gingerbread Man ornament in my shop. It's so laborious so I'm not crazy about making them.\n\nThough it's nice once something takes off to be able to channel your creative energy into new products and do the older ones on auto-pilot.",
"That happened with a Terrified Gingerbread Man ornament in my shop. It's so laborious so I'm not crazy about making them.\n\nThough it's nice once something takes off to be able to channel your creative energy into new products and do the older ones on auto-pilot.",
"Same here ",
"Only made one... 50k up votes on reddit already... I don't even know the price and I know didn't charge enough. ",
"Well done!",
"Thats pretty dope....",
"Beautiful!",
"I am in love with this technique! I will have to try it for myself! You are going to sell like crazy!!",
"That turned out whale!",
"This is super neat ",
"I had to add \"shop\" to the search. ",
"I had the exact same experience running an Etsy shop in college",
"Yes. ",
"The etsy shop name is FullmetalneedleShop. It doesn't pop up otherwise.",
"Beautiful!!! ",
"Beautiful! ",
"This happened to me. I was making unique hand stamped cards and I just closed my store because I didn't like the process work it had become. I felt bad closing it as I've had it for years but your comment made me feel like it was the right choice. ",
"Please go re-read the question.\n\nThe answer to that is not \"talent.\"\n\nThe answer to that is hard work.",
"Knuckle ",
"Your stuff is fantastic and different. I haven’t seen anything like this before. I do a little bit of embroidery but would have never thought of this. Glad you’re having success!",
"Dude. Embroidery is what I needed in high school. I could have made so many little polo guys on wal Mart shirts",
"You should try a magnetic hoop, they are wonderful",
"oh hell yes",
"Of course it sold - wonderful!",
"This is an amazing piece of you do another I'd probably buy it!",
"I've saved your shop and will keep checking back to find something to buy!! Please tell me you ship to australia (and not for more than the cost of the work haha)",
"I just went from having a place to offload my excess creativity (and make a little money you boot) to feeling pressured and beholden to too many people at once. It wasn't what I was looking for at the time. I'm considering getting back into it now that I'm older, wanting different things, and more willing to go into it treating it like a business. ",
"Stunning!!",
"Can ya do one with one uh them swimmin' camels.",
"You should make another one and frame it in a porthole cover. Probably increase value by 4x",
"I am from China,so pleasure to know you can do this.My mom can do this too.But she may not have the creativity as you.",
"Seriously beautiful.",
"Love this",
"awesome!",
"K I’ve been embroidering for 15 years, am a decent digitizer but this piece just blew me away. You’ve managed to turn thread into hair, and that sweater looks organic too. You definitely know your shit, because both of those things are pretty damn difficult to master. The whale looks great too, beautiful detail work and I love it’s stomach. \n\nFor those not “in the know,” thread can be very difficult to work with, especially detail work, especially on small logos. This is some superior craftsmanship. I would love to pick your brain about techniques :) ",
"Well butter my biscuit this is neat as heck!",
"I need this on a t-shirt",
"It’s very pretty and simple. I love it.",
"Thank you for your kind comments! :) This is Grace Taft! Regarding my website, Etsy now has its own website builder called \"Pattern\" that allows your shop to be displayed as a website and function as an Etsy store page! I found it's really helpful since I prefer to use my own domain name! It's also super easy to customize and set up (and it's very affordable, I think it's $15/mo)! I don't think using Pattern is common right now, because I think it's a fairly new feature. Hope this helps!",
"Quickly start selling these before someone steals your idea ",
"Setting aside how much talent plays a role in acquiring a difficult skill, usually when people say \"talent\", they just mean skill. And, based on the rest of his comment, it seems obvious that is what he meant. Hence the \"pedantic\" part of my comment.",
"Still more tank space than Sea World :/",
"I not much of a commenter. Just came here to say your work is fantastic! Keep going and experimenting!",
"dang sick! such a cool idea",
"His name is not Sean!",
"Best name ",
"Fnord",
"your art is very nice. HOw much did this go for?",
"I really like this combination",
"Its so beautiful! If you make more I'll buy!",
"That's incredible. ",
"Amazing concept!",
"Mixed media ❤",
"When you make more, I’ll totally buy one! This is awesome. ",
"RTIC, ozark, pelican, igloo, the one with the killer whale, they all make rotomolded coolers that are all very quality pieces. In my opinion RTIC is the best price and best imitation. They’re literally half the cost of Yeti’s \n\nEdit: orca, im an idiot lol",
"I love it",
"That’s cool!",
"I’m sure the OP is super busy fielding questions. But can anyone give me an idea how one would display these? Do you keep them in the hoop or do they shrink when taken out and need to be stretched in to a frame, sorta like a canvas?",
"Wal-Mart, rtic, Costco and a few others I can't remember. Yeti had to take them to court because they were all making basically the exact same product",
"can I buy this from you? I’m dead serious ",
"this is super pretty and super creative",
"This is really awesome!",
"It does! Thanks for the info. :)",
"So lovely! I feel inspired to pick up my embroidery stuff again!",
"I LOVE this! ",
"Thank you! I did a little research and thought it might be Pattern but I wasn't sure. It looks great! You might have motivated me to start one now, aaaand I'm gonna need that succulent print :) ",
"I googled \"fullmetalneedleshop on etsy\". Not sure if it was the shop part or the fact that I google with the intention of finding etsy results quite often. ",
"Thank you guys!:) Glad you enjoy my work!",
"What the hell? Everything began with a nice \"nice\", then everything came to be a interesting game of words and the piece of art what? This is beautiful and the technique so creative /u/andrestorres12",
"This is fantastic and I need one. ",
"Aaannndddd Etsy",
"Yes definitely needs to be right time, right place. Good luck! :) ",
"Try searching FullmetalneedleShop. That's how I found it :)",
"Does it color fast?",
"It's full metal jacket ",
"Thank You! I will deffenitly do that ",
"That's so nice if you to say, thank you ",
"45 euro ",
"Cotton or linnen. The sale is on cotton ",
"The hoop is indeed in the frame and is glued in ",
"I want one! ",
"Indeed ",
"Post on reddit and hope that you get on the tending page ",
"I think your right about that ",
"They are glued in the hoop. You can hang to hoop on the wall ",
"That is really cool, and not something that I would have ever thought to make.",
"wow",
"It's beautiful.",
"Noodles",
"That's such a good idea!!!",
"I'm great at both of these things. It's the keeping pizza grease off of my embroidery that's the real challenge.",
"mejor usar started, en vez de begin, ese verbo es jarto de usar. \nse dice \"an interesting game\"\ncuando dices this is beautiful no es claro si estas hablando del hilo de comentarios graciosos o de la pieza de arte\n",
"It's hard to know ahead of time if something is going to blow up like this though. :P",
"Thanks for replying! I really like the work you did!",
"It stays that way, but It should be out of the sun ",
"I'm still buzzing ",
"Yes ",
"It bleeds easy, but for the rest it's nice because the fabric doesnt rip like paper can ",
"Aaaw ",
"I will make loads more with different kind of fish ",
"She is amazing!",
"I was thinking of warhammer. What video game would you suggest?",
"I think that's what everyone does who post pictures of things they make and sell.",
"Stay tuned for my tutorial with pattern ;-)",
"Trust me, embroidery is not a quick rich sceme ",
"You gotta do what you gotta do to survive",
"Yes you can ",
"I would get roasted if I had a title like 'hi reddit, I made this embroidery and my boyfriend said that nobody would like it on reddit' because those people are bullshit ",
"I'm not that good. It's indeed a picture that I had printed on silk",
"Thank you! I would have no idea how to use a embroidery machine. They are also super expensive ",
"I'm everywhere! I even love imgur. That place is so mean to me, But I kind of think it's funny ",
"Thank you! Yes it's also allot of luck because there is some amazing embroidery out there that is not posting on reddit ",
"Making it rain with etsy embroidery;-)",
"Good to know. Thanks.",
"From one Etsy seller to another, just keep doing what you're doing! SEO and photos are important of course, but doing what you love and sharing it with others is the only thing that's going to keep it from becoming just a job :)",
"Honestly any that are popular, if you're thinking about the money.",
"Awesome! Also I couldn't locate your Etsy shop under Fullmetalneedle....",
"It's more that I really love making something that people like. I did a hedgehog portrait for 60 euro that took 20 hours, But the buyer put them in her wedding invites and on her wedding set up table. I mean... I would have done that for free. That's so amazing ",
"You can also go to my website it redirects. \nwww.fullmetalneedle.com ",
"You can also go to my website it's my username ",
"I hear ya. I'd just take requests then. I know Mario, zelda, and other Nintendo ones would be good. Everyone loves Nintendo lol",
"Sounds like once you get used to the bleeding that you could get some really nice paintings. Thank you for replying so quickly. ",
"Yes! Love that I can inspire you to pick up that needle again",
"Never heard of those. Will look into that ",
"I'm already looking to much at dogs and whatcouldgowrong on reddit. I should not feed the reddit addiction more then it already is ;-)",
"Haha if only this could be done on a machine. But that would also take the fun out of it ",
"Hope you will pick it up again. Just try it on fabric, you will love it. ",
"Do you know if you can buy embroidery machines where you can design very specific your own design? Would love to try but they are like 1200 euro and that's a bit expensive for trying out ",
"I did cross stich in the beginning and then I saw emilie Ferris work and I just zoomed in like crazy to try to work out how she does it. I'm nowhere near her skills but it's just looking and unpicking and being frustrated in the beginning.",
"I first have to Google what that is Hahah ",
"Thank you for the encouragement! I think I will! :)",
"My hands ;-)",
"I don't use a machine. But tbh I would go insane if I did embroidery full time. ",
"I'm making more. ",
"I can not find cotton shirts with pockets. I only looked for woman shirts but how is this not for sale ",
"Thank you so much. ",
"Your totally right. But I have to be honest that this is now such a lifesaver for me. I lost my job and I now have a new job but I was a month without a salary and I don't know about the future buy at this moment in grateful to pay my bills ",
"It's a bit confusing because the other one that was posted here was on a picture from a while ago and I went from that to painting my own fabric ",
"If you're doing it with business in mind, then there aren't any problems with doing repeats that you can knock out without too much planning or risking running out of ideas. :-) I'm sure you're going to do very well with it, too! ",
"Shipping is always 6.50 euro",
"http://marioduplantier.com/product-category/drumheads/",
"Ok I now need a drumhead that is so cool. Would be nice to to embroidery on ",
"I really like both styles for different reasons. Great work!",
"Right? He is a super talented drummer and an awesome artist, like you :) if you do ever do stuff like this embroidery or otherwise, PM me ",
"I'm going to send him a message. Thanks and I will let you know ",
"Cool! Thanks :)",
"I actually work for the guy that invented and patented them, tbh. But they are wonderful compared to how the older designs work.",
"Neat! I've done this too, [check it out!](https://imgur.com/a/r6DW4)",
"It's gorgeous!!!",
"Sorry, late response. It's 16cm and I use dmc thread 2 strands and some are 1 strand. The one with the girl did take much longer. When it involves so much shading it will take much longer. The whale does not take long for me to stich. The watercolor is a different story. That takes 5 times before I think it's good enough. \n\nI like the effect of watercolor and if I don't put it in the sun it does stay the same with the colors. I would like to try other forms of dying. I saw this book about dying with plants and tea and that kind of things. Thanks for making me think more about it. ",
"Indeed! I can see why people were confused ",
"that's interesting! Have you looked at american appearal and the like? You could probably find some tanks with frockets if you can't find t-shirts",
"Thats soooo cool! You could even draw more complex watercolour designs if you use wax to draw separating lines (batik? Batique?), and mix embroidery with that too. So much potential~~~",
"I love this! I tried it once with a shark but I wasn’t careful enough and my blue ocean bled into my white shark thread ):"
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"The Never Ending Story",
"To clarify. I work in VFX, and my current producer worked on The Never Ending Story. He thinks this was one of about 4 copies of the Auryn that was made for the shoot. I was paranoid about dropping it the whole time I had it!",
"Is that the actual Auryn from the movie? If yes, where is it? How did you get to hold it?",
"I work in VFX, and my VFX producer worked on a lot of cult fantasy films in the 70s/80s, some of which he kept props from. He think there were about 4 copies on the film and this is one of them! I asked him if he could bring it in to work as I’m a huge fan of the film! I feel incredibly lucky to have seen it in the flesh.",
"[...the AURYN!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVatCqNXAAM1XIP.jpg)",
"The director gave Steven Spielberg one of the Auryn as a present for helping with the final edit. It sits on his desk. I'm jealous. The Neverending Story is one of my favorite books (and I grew up on the movie). Such a treasure.",
"On the anniversary of its release...\n\nMan, if they're gonna reboot everything else they should reboot this. But don't make it all shitty like the third one. ",
"Please tell me you called out her name.",
"AAAAATREEEEEYUUUUUUUU",
"Moonchild!",
"Life is not fair.\n\nYou made me jealous.",
"Of course! :p",
"There were rumours last year that Peter Jackson was on board to reboot it. I don’t know what became of that though.",
"Sorry! If it’s any consolation I didn’t get to keep it :(",
"When I was 12 I would have killed you for that.",
"[I feel better now](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/e/e9/Nelson_Ha-Ha.jpg)",
"Should I be wary of 12 year olds now?",
"I can't imagine it'll actually happen, but I'd love to see a reboot trilogy or even a mini series. There's a lot in the book that either doesn't make it into the movie, or was changed.\n\nMy [favorite quote](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6v5b2k/til_the_neverending_story_film_only_features/dlxub53/) about the Auryn (they also call it the Gem).\n\nAnd [this bit](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/7vo6zk/they_can_see_straight_into_your_heart/dttt65h/) about the original Sphinxes came up yesterday.",
"In 1984, yes. Kids these days are probably more interested in their Pokemons and shit. ;)",
"Yeah man, if I had a gym badge to hand out, different story!",
"Found the luckdragon. ",
"Never give up, and good luck will always find you!\n\nI mean. No...? I have no idea what you’re talking about.",
"I didn’t know that! Oh man, now I want to steal this one and keep it on my desk...",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"12 year olds from 1984 are 46 now. This means that while they are slower and less energetic, they now have access to substantially more money and heavy machinery.",
"Don't get sad or you'll sink",
"To the winch, wench!",
"The Orin or Auryn?",
"Good point. When I was 12 I had a slingshot. But now I can afford a hitman.",
"ARTAAAAX 😭",
"ARTAAAAX 😭",
"ARRRRR-TAAAAAXX!!",
"😢",
"):",
"BASTIAN!!!!! Call my name!",
"Just don't wish for a !@#$ing spray can...Most ridiculous waste of a wish. ",
"Not that it matters, but....yes",
"Does he have a Glaive from Krull??",
"It still be jealous if you got to sleep with Alison Brie, even if it was only for one night and she didn't call you back.",
"Is it metal or plastic?",
"Too soon. ",
"Jesus Christ there was a third one?!",
"[Turn arouunnndddd...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geVYIHOat5o)",
"It’s light, not metal. Resin I believe. Apparently the main one they used was cast metal.",
"Does this movie still hold up today? or will I be super dissapointed when I go back to watch it.",
"One of the best memories of my childhood was going to local drive-in that was closing and watching this. One of my worst memories was watching the sequel on VHS.",
"Not as bad as 3 though...",
"I never watched 3, 2 was soul-crushing for me.",
"I think it does! In the same way that a lot of movies from that era do, because the effects are mostly in-camera and the storytelling is decent. Be prepared to get some dust in your eye a few times though.....",
"OP make a 3D scan of it so the world can 3D print it.",
"I only found out a few years ago the iconic and horrendously catchy theme song (which I like to play and sing along to when I'm alone and super drunk) from the movie was sung by a man and not a woman.\n\nI want to say that song won a grammy or something similar too but that may be cobwebs in my head telling me things.",
"I found it in the bargain bin of my local Walmart and it even came with the digital copy, so I can get nostalgic any time I want....",
"That scene wrecked me as a kid. It's the way Atreyu is all optimistic at first that he can find a workaround and that it's no big deal, then the dawning horror as he realizes that the horse is sinking. And the way he begs him to move. Gah I got goosebumps just thinking about it. ",
"In my opinion it does, I still watch it from time to time when I'm feeling nostalgic. I was totally Bastian as a kid so it gives me all the feels. ",
"Oh man the interplay between Atreyu and Bastian is cringey as *fuck* in that movie. ",
"[New Found Glory did it best](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1gGWc_mRz8)",
"[DAH DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAH DA DA DA DA DAAAAAAAAH DA DA DAAAAAAAAA DA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAA DA DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heHdOTt_iGc) ",
"The only snakes I know of are those of Set and those accursed towers. They have spread to every city. Two or three years ago, they were just another snake cult; now, everywhere.",
"Do you know the riddle of steel?",
"Of course Giorgio Moroder was involved",
"I loved Neverending Story, I would even put it up with some of my other childhood favorite films... (Dark Crystal, Labrynth, Secret of Nimh... god there so many great stories)...\n\nBut watching NES2 the feeling I had was beyond disappointment. I would have been about 13 or 14... idk. I never felt more badly crushed by a sequel before. This is when I realized the people who make movies are often idiots.",
"I watched the scene on YouTube and cried all over. It was the first movie I saw where something I cared about died. I remember being ecstatic when Artax is alive at the end.",
"I'm pretty sure this scene was the first time I cried during a movie as a kid!",
"I never watched it as a kid. So as an adult I decided to read the book then watch the movie. I missed out on a lot of classic films growing up, so this is kind of a habit and I've really enjoyed a lot of films this way. Neverending Story was one of the ones I think I needed to have seen as a kid to enjoy.",
"I always hated that this was what he named her. What's wrong with \"Suzette\" or \"Eleanor\"? ",
"I believe it's in keeping with the book, anyway. If ya prefer, she's also the Golden Eyed Commander of Wishes, and her names don't exactly stick.",
"Asking the real question here.",
"We need a barbarian to clear out those dens of serpents ",
"I only found out about (and subsequently devoured) the book a couple years ago; you really could make a whole movie that was almost an entirely different story.",
"Good God, time to re-traumatize myself with the Gmork. ",
"It has Jack Black in it. It's awful.",
"Artax can speak in the book, which makes his death disturbing on a whole other level.",
"I read it about once a year. There's so much depth and clarity to the way he tackles issues of narrative and the self.",
"FAAAALCORR!!!",
"I saw the sequel in the theater... It was the first date I'd ever taken a girl on. The regret is palpable.",
"I don't think so, speaking as someone who first saw it as an adult. I only have vague memories of the movie, but I recall a lot of the challenges facing the hero were really thinly-disguised life lessons, and pretty shitty ones at that.\n\nOne thing that stands out in my memory was a statue that fired some kind of ray that could only harm the boy if he was afraid. So, with no real indication of why the boy was afraid before or why he wouldn't be now, we just see that he evades it. It's a shitty lesson about bravery, because real bravery is when you realize something really does risk bad consequences, but you do it anyway (assuming it really needs to be done). Other moments of the movie had that same \"don't be bad, be good, and then everything will work out for you\" morality that I found repulsive.\n\nLooking on [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_(film)), I see that the author of the book tried to sue because the movie deviated so greatly from the spirit of the book, but failed. That gives me more hope about the book, which I have never read.",
"Brutal. I feel bad for you on this one, lol.",
"I watched that scene over and over and could never tell what the hell that kid was screaming. MOOSHAYA!",
"Maybe, I’ll ask! ",
"Yeah, the laser-eyed statues aren't in the book. [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/7vo6zk/they_can_see_straight_into_your_heart/dttt65h/) the passage. The movie stops at about the half-way point of the book, changing its meaning greatly.",
"It does. Had my 8 year old watch it with me and she fell in love with it. :)",
"Napinating on the pee pads...",
"We don't even care... whether or not we care.",
"This looks sorta like the relic from conan the barbarian. The one he steals from the temple....but alas im wrong",
"FALLLLKKKOOOORRR!!",
"Yes, so much practical effects going on. Wish more movies used this instead of cgi. There is a behind the scenes documentary on YouTube showing how they filmed many of the scenes, check it out after you watch the movie.",
"I....don't.....care...",
"Do it!!!!!!",
"No, fuck no! It was literally my favorite movie when I was little and it is so unspeakably awful now. Don't do it!!",
"Can everyone take a moment to go to IMDB and look up Neverending Story III? It's something special...",
"Aaaaagroooo! ",
"Wait, there was a third one?",
"It might even be further back than that from what I remember. As a kid, I was really excited that the book just kept going and going past what I knew from the movie.",
"nice, it looked really familiar.",
"You got an auryn, you're good!",
"just 3D print a copy, they'll never catch on :)",
"I always thought he said Melissa...you can imagine my surprise when I learned the real name.",
"The horse in the swamp. Who does that to children?",
"The 80s, when the prevailing thought was that scaring children helps them build character. See: all other 80s kids movies. ",
"The book is so fucking awesome. More people need to know about it. ",
"It’s very 80’s and very German and feels heavily inspired by a Georgia OKeefe painting in terms of the scene architectures. It doesn’t hold up but you’ll still cry at the swamp. ",
"Artax!!! ",
"I always cried when Artax was in the swap of Sadness, recently I rewatched The Neverending Story and that scene still got me. ",
"Atreyu!",
"I watched this woth my 12 and 10 year old recently. When he finally wemt under the mud, as i sat there crying, my kid goes glub glub glub and laughs about the horse dying. It killed me inside. ",
"It does. ",
"Why did the horse just give up like that? Why?! These are things that shouldn't even be in adult movies let alone movies for little children.",
"Well photo seems high enough resolution to trace and export to 3d model and render on a printer, the. We cannot all have one on our desk. ",
"Whole thing struck me as a metaphor for suicidal depression.",
"For real though. Upon seeing this post, I was all, “I should do a rewatch!”. \n\nThen I remembered that it would mean watch THAT scene again. I’ve been feeling pretty emotionally raw regarding animals recently, and this shit would just floor me.",
"Kids can be so cruel. Especially one's own.",
"I can’t handle the feels again. It’s been probably 20 years since I first watched it, and it’s still just too soon.",
"😫",
"I was always amused by the number of times in the book it would say \"but that's for another story to tell.\" There's a reason it has that title.",
"Wow",
"I used to watch that movie as a kid like crazy knew it word for word “the never ending story”.",
"https://youtu.be/Qs3w6M4rzCg",
"Sooooo sad",
"I also never saw The Wizard of Oz growing up. So I also read and then watched it. The book was mind blowingly good. I've had many a good conversation about it with random people.",
"What does the back look like? ",
"MOR-EY-AH!!",
"Now I just need to get ahold of a life size good luck dragon!",
"Lmao",
"Ask and you shall receive. \n\nhttps://www.thingiverse.com/3080/collections/the-neverending-story",
"Many are practiced at combat reloads from cover these days, so who is to say?",
"Wow I haven't seen that thing in over 20 years and I knew exactly what it was. gj OP.",
"Bastian!",
"The book is still really good. The monologue of Gmork is much more chilling than in the movie. The movie is only the first half of the book. I love them both for what they are, but it's clear that the book covers more in-depth \"adult\" topics. Apparently germans aren't afraid to lay it all out there. Western civilization has a bad habbit of watering down material in an attempt to shelter their kids.",
"I like that scene more every time I watch it. It reminds me of Peter Pan and clapping for faeries. It's this 4th wall breaking moment where you're rooting for the character and trying to be a part of it. What if you were there? And of course you're experiencing it all through a kid who is observing the story. I think it's a concept that draws the reader/viewer in that hasn't been topped since. It would be cool if someone were to write a book similar without using names. It's like a shock twist that *you* are the kid who is reading the story, and you are actually the kid who screams out her new name. If they didn't add a specific name for the kid or the moonchild, it would be better. I challenge anyone to make a similar book and do better.",
"Great analysis. The movie didn't really explain the mirror, where most men run away screaming. Most people can't handle looking inside and facing the truth of their own mistakes, let alone learning from it and becoming a better person. Gmork talks about this. Those who control information through lies/fantasy have the power. It's frightening, thinking of a group of people who use fantasy to rule, and I never really thought of it this way until you said this, but Bastian eventually realizes that he, too, has control of his construct of fantasy and then can create it how he sees fit, instead of being at the mercy of other people's fantasies.",
"Neverending story remake imo",
"*Turns into giant puppet wolf and hunts you down.",
"Auryn",
"Fun fact: the horse was placed in a sort of mud-filled elevator and lowered. Of course the horse panicked at some point and wrecked the entire set ...",
"I watched it recently with my son, and I am convinced whoever made this did a ton of psychadelics. \n\nIt was WILD and visually trippy.",
"fucking shit are you serious??? how does the conversation go?",
"The Orin! ",
"I made my bf watch this last week I was in tears when Artax died he just like this hasn't aged well. Little bit of love lost for him that day ",
"[This](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/XClkBZ_aUTKFIij5NzkGxcfgofI/fit-in/2048xorig/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2017/07/18/938/n/38761221/f7a7289685cce81e_MCDJUPA_EC038_H.JPG) isn't a puppet, nor is it close up.",
"[Let's both look.](https://youtu.be/HzZkNdn5hpA?t=3m19s) Not anamatronic.",
"But is there a reason you keep ignoring the CG shot I linked to twice? You don't think it looks great?\n \nEdit: I'm talking about that shot specifically, not the entire scene- in case that's whats causing the confusion. I am very aware that some of the shots are a puppet.",
"I derailed the topic a bit because you were specifically listing practical effects, but when I saw Jurassic Park and practical effects in the same sentence I had to link to that shot. The fact that it looks as good as the puppet (possibly better? less stiff?) is mind boggling to me, especially considering [the technology](http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/53bca4176bb3f7ff16c537ec-1422-923/softimage-jurassic-park.png) available at the time."
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"I wish to live in a world like that.",
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"Let's see both have fake guns and one has a helmet killing both his peripheral vision and his hearing, so I'd say it would be rather easy. ",
"Why does that mandalorian's blaster have an N7 logo? ",
"I dunno, but it makes my teeth itch."
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"Why are all these damn Trump supporters downvoting this post. Its disgusting! ",
"He wasn’t scandal free??? He lied about his birth certificate and was accused of being an isis sympathizer. ",
"Scandal free? Have you been watching the news???",
"Because they believe in a different reality.",
"You sound like Trump supporter. Why are you brigading this sub. Go back to T_D... I don't understand why you hate minorities so much.",
"This is exactly what a Trump supporter would say. Damn, you people really have no shame. Don't you have a KKK hood to put on?",
"Brigading? I have no affiliation with US politics. I don’t even vote in the US election. I just look at the facts and the evidence. Both of which do not support the writers opinion and stance. ",
"I know! Right. Don't you think we should just round up all these fucking Trump supporters and take away all their rights and keep them away from us civilized people in society? They are really the WORST part of this country. Then we could make sure that in the future only Democrats get elected president.",
"I hate trump but he’s right.",
"Nope. Although I don't agree with them, they are entitled to their opinions.",
"LOL, you are clearly a Trump supporter brigading this thread. None of the racist things you say will change that. I know seeing Obama hurts you fragile masculinity, but little snowflakes like you have to realize that Obama never did anything wrong, and nothing anyone ever says or finds out will prove that he did. He was literally the BEST president ever.",
"Lol, yeah right, you are clearly part of the brigade. Go back to T_D and nurse on Trumps nipple just a little bit more. When will all of these racist Trump supporters learn to stay in their own area. They should all be put in a camp.",
"How is anything I am saying racist? Wouldn’t me saying Trump is a bad president because he is white and old be both racist and discrimination. I never said anything about Obama’s skin colour. That is all on you. ",
"No they are not. And you saying that makes me think that you might actually support Trump. Anyone who supports him or tolerates people who support Trump, as you are doing now, is destroying this country. Only through TRULY taking care of the Trump problem in this country. Supporting Trump should be illegal and all the illegal immigrants should be given automatic full citizenship and then jobs that Trump supporters used to have after we take them away.",
"Awe, the little snowflake is angry he has gotten called out for what he actually is. Go back to T_D and tell them they are not wanted anywhere else on Reddit.",
"Don't let the current fucktard in office make you believe Obama was a good president. He wasn't.\n\nWe have not had a good President in a LOOONG time, and they just seem to be getting worse and worse. Although it is going to be hard to top fucking Trump.",
"No anger here. Going to take a lot more than your words to lead me away. ",
"In this link you can see a list of political scandals under each of the administrations (not only Obamas) but he is far from being a \"scandal-free president\".... Also you can´t choose him to be your only president, you should really come back to reality. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States#Barack_Obama_administration_(2009%E2%80%932017)",
"Oh please, you insult Obama with your disgusting lies and pretend like you dislike Trump. This sort of disgusting trolling is exactly what a Trump supporter would say. Obama literally gave us a new path to a greater tomorrow, but the ignorant racist whites who make up 70% of this country voted for the demon that is Trump, and from the sounds of what you are saying about Obama, you might have voted for Trump yourself.",
"Its simple, either admit Obama was the greatest president ever who never even got CLOSE to committing anything close to a scandal, or else you are essentially a pure-bred gun-totting Trump supporter.",
"Damn, what is it with all these Trump supporters brigading this thread? Don't you little snowflakes have better things to do, like nurse on Trump's nipples? I didn't know white men's masculinity was so fragile.",
"Nah. Even if I did agree with your above statement. After your accusations and racial profiling of both myself and president Obama, I wouldn’t give you the satisfaction. ",
"Settle down and take your meds.",
"Then go right ahead and exercise you 2nd amendment right.",
"Shut up. I fucking hate Trump. I voted for Gary Johnson in the election because I was not going to support either of the two idiots that were running for the Republicans or Democrats.\n\nObama was as bad as W. Bush, he just fucked up things on the left side vs Bush fucking them up on the Right.\n",
"Oh please, in not voting for Hillary, you are implicitly supporting Trump. You know that. Anyone with a brain knows that. And sitting here pretending like you DON'T support Trump, when you clearly do, is disgusting and it insults hard working female minorities and proud POCs. I wish just for a second you would think about how your support of Trump was hurting the trans-community, but no, you spend all your time posting hate on T_D.",
"Wow, talk about fragile masculinity. I didn't know you white men were so sensitive.",
"You are really bad at being a troll.",
"Op, you are batshit crazy. What happened to turn you from Trump? Just weeks ago you were all about Trump staying til 2024 and all the snowflakes and libtards were the problem. ",
"Lol, Trump supporting troll is trying to divide us everyone. We need to eliminate this vile toxic masculinity, so please stop spreading it on Reddit. It is very disturbing and is DESTROYS minority communities, so please check your privilege and STOP. If you don't recognize everything Obama did for the trans community and all he did to earn his Nobel prize, then you are a Trump supporter.",
"Lol, go back to T_D.",
"i just realized what you are doing...... -.-",
"Try harder Troll",
"Lol, looks like we have another brigading Trump supporter here, spreading intolerance and hate to undermine and destroy minority communities. Do you realize Obama did more for America than any president in the history of America? Clearly you don't, because all you guys over there at T_D talk about is the KKK and hurting female POCs.",
"You do know that your post history is public, and that it's easy to see that you're a trump supporter, right? Or do you lack the mental ability to process such things?",
"You mean making people aware about how great of a president Obama was. Damn straight! I will not allow any snowflake Trump supporters to undermine his amazing and scandal free legacy.",
"Mhmm. Lack of transparency. Iran US nuclear confrontation. Isis sympathizer. Jihadist and Syrian sympathizer. Sounds like he did a lot for your trans community. ",
"Lol, looks like we have another Obama hating birther over here, trying to undermine his amazing Presidency. All this Obama hate you are spouting is only undermining the trans community.",
"Funny you say about putting people into a camp. Hitler felt that was a good idea too. I bet your favorite outfit is white polos, khakis, and a tiki torch.\n\nI literally did not vote for him. You can be conservative and not like this president, dipshit. He’s racist, disregards all environmental issues, and is lining the pockets of the rich. Don’t tell me what I’m about, son.",
"You got me wrong. I never said anything about who i supoort and who i dont. You are the only one undermining through intolerance and hate. I know nothing of T_D other than what you are telling me. You seem to spend a lot of time there. Look, you need some help. All you have to do it reach out. Im sure there are organizations near you to help you get the help you need. There is no need in intentionally going through life feeling this way. ",
"OMG, look at this Trump supporter here spreading lies and maliciously false accusations against Obama. Every single one of those things you just stated is completely made up... is that all you guys over at T_D do all day, is make up lies to smear Obama's amazing legacy? I guess I wouldn't expect anything better from hood wearing redneck drooling hill people.",
"Don't try to hide your hate for Obama by pretending you hate Trump. that is disingenuous and it puts pressure on proud native and POC communities. Trump literally murders black people, and until you can admit that, you are no better than he is.",
"Lol, this is exactly what a Trump supporter would say... stop spreading your white privileged by saying these hateful and insensitive things. It is simply a dog-whistle for racism and the execution of POCs, womxn and at-risk trans people. It hurts me so much to hear you say these things. Please just admit how amazing and scandal free Obama was and I will forgive you. ",
"Lol, says the Trump supporter. Go back with your fragile masculinity to T_D and cry like a snowflake.",
"Your comment history is public. Who do you think you’re fooling? Think about your motives for this post and the lengths you’re going to. Realize how pathetic you are and change.",
"Ok. Ok. You got me. I must be honest. I fucking love Obama. Ive been so privileged and wrong for years. I even ordered some custom made Obama underoos. I keep a picture of him on my night stand. I even eat spaghetti O's just so i can say Ooooooooobama every time i take a bite. Forgive me for my horrid ways and let the others know im coming out.",
"This would be funny if it weren't so sad.",
"You’re ridiculous. You’re labeling all conservatives that love trump. That’s the same as saying all black people are ghetto thugs. It’s bullshit. Stop trying to paint a picture that all conservative people want trump in office and that we are evil. You’re just sounding like a one sided asshole. ",
"You reap what you sow. Obama will soon be president again.",
"I mean, if you aren't part of the RESISTANCE to dethrone Trump, then you are part of the hood-wearing Trump-Hitler enablers. It doesn't matter what Trump has or hasn't done. He is pure evil and the country will only be great again once Obama is put back in office. Trump is murdering holocaust-denier, and the sooner you realize that, you sooner you will be on the CORRECT side of history. When we come back to power, there will be no forgiveness for Trump or his supporters like you.",
"Don’t mind this butt hurt piece of shit. His mommy neglected him as a child and now he has no scope of reason or sense of what’s logical. Probably sitting in his studio apartment with his 7 rats (roommates) and typing on his Obama-phone he got for free Bc he’s a loser that can’t get or hold a job.",
"Oh shut the fuck up. This isn’t Star Wars, you fucking loser. How much does rent cost in fantasy land? ",
"That's exactly what a Trump supporter would say. Say hello T_D for me."
] | 54 |
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Our amazing scandal-free President! This is the only president I will ever have.
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[
"Milk an yoghurt is just a waste of space though, could think of some other liquids is would rather have there.",
"Fermented yoghurt.",
"Not what I was thinking",
"Human blood? Mercury?"
] | 4 |
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Asian markets are so efficient. I can do all of my grocery shopping in just one aisle.
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/r/pics/comments/7vy277/italian_peaceful_countryside/
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[
"This looks like Toussaint from The Witcher 3.\n\nEdit: [Image](https://i.imgur.com/fEAs6Kg.jpg)",
"What the hell killed everything in the middle?",
"One of my favorite things from visiting Italy was seeing all these stunningly beautiful landscapes. I just love how this country, which has been through so many wars, now has such vast spaces of peace and quiet",
"I can almost see Russel Crowe walking through the fields.",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/ER83eTU.jpg) is a much higher resolution and less cropped version of this image. [Here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/129647554@N04/27761454059/) is the source. [Here](https://500px.com/photo/219671381/tuscany-hills-near-terrapille-by-fabrizio-lunardi?ctx_page=2&from=user&user_id=1063375) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [Fabrizio Lunardi](https://500px.com/blazblue78?stats_source=photo_page), who provided the following caption:\n\n> Tuscany hills near Terrapille\n\n> In my opinion the hills near Monticchiello are among the most beautiful in val d'Orcia. In this shot we can see the famous farmhouse Terrapille where the last scene of \"Gladiator\" was made.\n\n[Here](https://i.imgur.com/2yGBNo5.jpg) is another version that is even less cropped and colored more similarly to OP's.",
"I knew it was Tuscany immediately. I spent some of the most important months of my life near this area - this photo instantly transports me back. There is nothing like nostalgia.",
"Peaceful Italian countryside",
"Yet another reason to take European factory delivery of a new Porsche 911 or Cayman! ",
"Yep, we don't think about it much, but there is a preferred order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjective#Order",
"As a Scandinavian I can't imagine how hot it is. 40-45°C?",
"25-35°",
"I am pretty sure this is the building in the forefront: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Agriturismo+A+Terrapille/@43.0657767,11.6633705,2528m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xe17d609ff396a702!8m2!3d43.065721!4d11.665163)\n\nNotice the order of the trees, the side of the road they are on, the small cart next to the road to the north (on the map), and the middle building in the background of the image (specifically the shape and the large trees). Unfortunately no street view but there is an image at the location which further corroborates my guess. ",
"Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.\n\nHands down, one of the best soundtracks out there, too",
"countryitalian peacefulside",
"Hans Zimmer is a musical genius. ",
"Looks exactly like Just Cause 3",
"Came here to put this.",
"If you look closely at the building in the left there is some nazi graffiti on there.",
"But his fields were in Spain!",
"looks like that will laminate Valley in Oregon",
"Huh, that's a strange thing to say. Aside from both World Wars like the rest of Europe, it's always had vast spaces of peace and quiet, ever since the Roman Empire. Areas of farmland for agriculture and plenty of wilderness, from the forests to the Alps.\n\nMost of Ancient Rome's wars were fought a long way from home on the fringes of its ever expanding empire, and the barbarian hordes didn't exactly annihilate the entire countryside. The rest of Europe suffered far more at the hands of Romans than Italy itself. And medieval battles and skirmishes hardly affected the geographical landscape.\n\nAlso, there were far less people in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During the Dark and Middle Ages one could travel previously popular trade routes for days without coming across another soul.\n\nIn medieval times Europe's population density had drastically decreased, and after a small peak in the 1300s it was still declining into the Renaissance. There were vast areas of wilderness and wildlife thrived, in part due to feudalism that drove peasants out of previously popular trade centers and into smaller communities.\n\nBy comparison, at its peak the city of Ancient Rome had over one million people. No western city would have as many again until the 19th century. Rest assured there's always been picturesque Italian countryside.",
">But his fields were in Spain!\n\nNope, in Elysium!",
"Glorious terrain for bike riding. Makes the wine and pizza at the end of the day so much more enjoyable. ",
"That's it, getting my Italian citizenship. ",
"Needs more diversity.",
"that was my first thought as well.\n\n",
"Everyone else sees a quite Italian landscape... I see an excellent Group B rally course. Now all we need are some way-too-close spectators on those downward chicanes and we can really get to business......"
] | 27 |
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Italian peaceful countryside
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[
"What if you see blue and gold?",
"I see..... the colour _repost_!",
"Not this shit again. OP, go sit in a corner....AFTER you delete this.",
"It changes for me. I see both. Full brain power, bitches!",
"That's what I see.",
"This is the most aggravating goddamned thing I’ve ever scene. I clearly see white and gold, and my wife and son see blue and black, looking at the same screen at the same time. WTF?"
] | 6 |
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What colours do you see??? Those whose right side of brain is working, they will see the color of the dress as blue and black.. If left side is working they will see white and golden color....
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[
"Wow me to! I was like neat panda... wait wtf is this thing ",
"It's the new 2 headed hybrid any eating panda!",
"It’s the [wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteater) image so I don’t think there is any skulduggery. "
] | 3 |
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Took me too long to realise that there isn’t a panda standing in front of this anteater
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[
"*The poo on my toilet paper made unusual art.*\n\n*The snot on my tissue made unusual art.*\n\n*The piss on the toilet seat made unusual art.*\n\nNo, no it did not. It's just dirty. ",
"Art is the expression of that which cannot be put into words. If a design is made without intention, then it is not art. That’s what separates this from something like the work of Jackson Pollock, he made a big ol mess but it was done with intention.",
"Nah, just looks like you need to wash your hands."
] | 3 |
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Paint water cup made unusual art.
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[
"Why don't you want your counter tops to smell like an entire sorority vomited on them? ",
"The perfect aperitif for Tide pods",
"Sponsored by the pumpkin pie makers association. ",
"It’s all downhill from here. "
] | 4 |
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We have gone too far...
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[
"RIP :(",
"This title makes no sense.",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"):",
"One of the funniest people to have ever lived.",
"Who's cutting onions here? :(",
"Are you not lonely? Are we all not lonely?\n\nIf you want to know where loneliness is, look in the mirror, because if *he* was, then everyone is.",
"what story?",
"I miss him. <3 ",
"Truth be told. Thank you. ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"/r/circlejerk",
"Wikipedia says he had a brain disease that made him paranoid. Maybe he was OK up until it got bad. "
] | 13 |
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Where loneliness is...
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[
"“Why is there a line for the urinal on the right?”\n\n“Oh”",
"Nice one, made me laugh ;)",
"Joke's on them. I'll sit to pee!"
] | 4 |
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This restroom in a restaurant
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