You damn sure he wants to be in that picture.

Here you go, the highest resolution.

“They only stick around for a few seconds at most...”

https://www.quora.com/When-Elon-Musk-launches-a-rocket-into-space-is-he-releasing-more-carbon-which-is-what-he-is-trying-to-reduce-through-electric-cars

So....Skyscraper = “Sky Hard?”

I do too, but I’m withholding any shred of give-a-fuck until and unless it actually happens.

So what awesome things have you been doing with your life? How many car companies, online payment systems, solar panel systems, battery plants and system, rockets, or futuristic transport projects have you been bringing to reality?

Honestly, i think we need more supervillians masquerading as zany billionaires. Keeps the news less depressing.

It’s a disk, duh

#obligatory

GODDAMN you can task the Musk hate lately. SpaceX has had 47 launches of the Falcon 9 rocket, of those there was a partial deployment failure of a satellite in 2012, the in flight failure of CRS-7, and launch pad failure of Amos6. Shit they have lost 2 fucking rockets in 8 years, not exactly an extensive history of…

Falcon Heavy isn’t SpaceX’s Mars colony rocket. That’s the yet-to-fly BFR, which is in development. Falcon Heavy is for those juicy heavy launches that currently go the Delta IV Heavy or Ariane. At less than half the launch price of Delta 5, it’ll be a nice cash cow to fund BFR’s development.

Actually I believe the current plan is for the BFR, not the Falcon Heavy, to go to Mars.

It’s going to be flung on an orbit that takes it out toward Mars (like a transit, if they had course correction and entry burns). Mere LEO isn’t enough for SpaceX’s Mars ambitions.

TBH, every single rocket manufacturer has a long history of experimental rockets exploding on the launch pad or mid-air. NASA, Roscosmos, ULA, JAXA, they’ve all had their explosive setbacks. Part of being experimental means whatever unforeseen problem will reveal itself before there’s any serious payload involved.

This is the car inside the actual rocket fairing. AFAIK it is the dummy payload. From the CNN article:

Not a dummy ...HIS tesla roadster WILL be on board!

Very cool. And I am sure, with a handle like Morbid Decay, he is probably working on adding the tiny backroom where all the adult material was kept.

Because googling Japanese things is too much work for Gizmodo staff.

famous posthumous performances of Tupac Shakur, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson seen in recent years weren’t really holograms