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leincredibleme
· 7 years ago
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How romantic
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· 7 years ago
in german news they think he is crazy.. but i think we need "crazy" people like him. he does good stuff.. i like him.
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funkmasterrex
· 7 years ago
that's fucking awesome.
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jimcrichton
· 7 years ago
Wait... is it going to space or to Mars? If it's going to space, ok. If it's going to Mars that's pretty irresponsible, NASA craft are made such as to introduce as little contamination to the Martian surface as possible.
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dancadamorte
· 7 years ago
The destination is non-landing Mars orbit. If the orbit fails and it heads for the surface, it will likely burn up before impact. Just like the probe we recently crashed into Saturn (I think?) to burn on entry and avoid contamination.
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funkmasterrex
· 7 years ago
Cassini, yeah.
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jimcrichton
· 7 years ago
Is the Martian atmosphere really thick enough for things to burn up on entry? A cursory googling suggests that incomplete immolation is the most likely scenario for a Martian atmospheric entry.
dancadamorte
· 7 years ago
No, but it can get hot enough to kill living things on anything entering the atmosphere, because it can get hot enough to cause plenty of damage. That's why deployed Mars missions have heat shields. At this point, I don't think anything Musk puts there will do much more damage than Mars 2, that hit the surface in the early '70s and I'm thinking SpaceX has at least as much sterile tech as the '70s had.
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funkmasterrex
· 7 years ago
really the only place anything would have a chance to survive is in a seat cushion inside of the car. I'm betting the inside of the car will be totally inhospitable when they launch it, just to be sure.
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