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Old 02-06-2018, 02:57 PM  
Busty2
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Originally Posted by Bladewire View Post
That was a fake news story put out there lol

"The rocket carried a playful payload: Mr. Musk’s red Roadster, an electric sports car built by his other company, Tesla. Strapped inside the car is a mannequin wearing one of SpaceX’s spacesuits. They are expected to orbit the sun for hundreds of millions of years."

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/0...ww.google.com/


The spacecraft will journey through Earth’s Van Allen radiation belt over the coming hours. If it succeeds, Mr. Musk’s sports car will head away from Earth onto an elliptical orbit around the sun that extends as far out as Mars’s orbit.

Thats a fucking huge orbit ?
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