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Falcon Heavy test flight payload announced on Twitter
Sylvia Else wrote:
On 13/12/2017 2:47 AM, David Spain wrote: However orbiting a CD of Bowie songs, including Space Oddity, ought not to be out of the question. And would keep the aliens busy for a long time.... Do CDs, even pressed CDs, work after hundreds of millions of years? Pressed CDs are good for around a century. Burned CDs are an order of magnitude less. -- "Rule Number One for Slayers - Don't die." -- Buffy, the Vampire Slayer |
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Falcon Heavy test flight payload announced on Twitter
JF Mezei wrote:
On 2017-12-17 05:02, Fred J. McCall wrote: Pressed CDs are good for around a century. Burned CDs are an order of magnitude less. Almost done scanning my CD collection, many of which are more than 30 years old. No problem so far. Again, pressed CDs are good for a century. As long as the Tesla has good air conditioning while in orbit, those CDs should keep in good condition :-) No. Missed opportunity for "Moonraker" movie. James Bond could have used a Tesla for on-road, under water, and then on one of Drax's Shuttles, and then manoeuvered his Tesla in orbit to fire its lasers to destroy Drax's space station :-) Moonraker was about 30 years before Tesla came into existence. Out of curiosity: should Falcon Heavy succeed, will the payload (aka: Tesla car) have comms and propulsion required for safe de-orbit as required by intl treaties? Did you miss the "Elon was joking" bit? And lots of things are put up that have no capability for 'safe deorbit', so I suspect you're misreading the treaty. -- "Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." -- Thomas Jefferson |
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