{"id":86154,"date":"2020-10-10T02:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T23:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-stunt-thats-so-worthwhile\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T02:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T23:55:05","slug":"a-stunt-thats-so-worthwhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-stunt-thats-so-worthwhile\/","title":{"rendered":"#a stunt that’s so worthwhile"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#a stunt that’s so worthwhile<\/strong>”
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\n \u201cThere\u2019s a starman waiting in the sky. He\u2019d like to come and meet us,\u201d but he\u2019s 37 million miles away and busy passing Mars.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nearly three years since Elon Musk launched a Falcon Heavy rocket into space carrying his own Tesla Roadster convertible. In the driver\u2019s seat is the mannequin dubbed \u201cStarman,\u201d after the David Bowie song, wearing a spacesuit prototype designed by Musk\u2019s company, SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Eccentric and burning cash for an evocative stunt: That\u2019s Musk, with more money than he can possibly spend on Earth.<\/p>\n

Back at launch, the car\u2019s stereo blasted Bowie\u2019s \u201cLife on Mars?\u201d while the dashboard flashed \u201cDon\u2019t Panic\u201d in a nod to \u201cThe Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Starman isn\u2019t only a stunt. The craft will orbit the sun for tens of billions of years at about 13.5 miles per hour. So it will cross the orbits of Mars and Earth many times, and came within .05 astronomical units, or under 5 million miles, from the Red Planet\u2019s surface this week.<\/p>\n

This is significant progress toward NASA and Musk\u2019s personal goal of collecting more info on Mars and eventually even colonizing it.<\/p>\n

Getting a dummy millions of miles away doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re that close to getting a human there, but counting coup this way is a fine sign we\u2019re on our way.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#a stunt that’s so worthwhile” \u201cThere\u2019s a starman waiting in the sky. He\u2019d like to come and meet us,\u201d but he\u2019s 37 million miles away and busy passing Mars. It\u2019s been nearly three years since Elon Musk launched a Falcon Heavy rocket into space carrying his own Tesla Roadster convertible. In the driver\u2019s seat is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/TESLA_STARMAN.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[75041,43,39394,67907,5019,4965,36402],"class_list":["post-86154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-9-20","tag-editorial","tag-elon-musk","tag-science","tag-space","tag-technology","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}