Stephen Crowns Elon Musk As The King Nerd

[@badlydrawnturtle8484]

Little Elon looks up from his toys. “Mommy, when I grow up, I'm going to strap a sports car to a rocket and send it to Mars!” “Sure you will, honey, sure you will.” A few decades later…

[@smaragdwolf1]

the moment if Children´s Dreams come reality... maybe we should listen more carefully what the little ones planning for their future xD

[@veek.6463]

My son suggested as a 5 year old hat we build spaceships out of trash and send them with other trash to another planet where robots made of trash will use the trash to build cities- saving our planet in the process. I thought that was very smart.

[@johnmarshall3560]

...it doesn't go to Mars. Also, when we're done worshiping Elon Musk, what about some respect for the engineers and physicists who did the actual work to make this thing happen?

[@Paul-fp3qn]

John Marshall if Elon wasn't there spacex wouldn't be there so gtfo.

[@badlydrawnturtle8484]

+John Marshall I'm not sure what you mean by ‘it doesn't go to Mars’, when the point was a proof-of-concept for a Mars mission. Do you mean it doesn't LAND on Mars? Because that's a pretty silly distinction to make, frankly. But I agree. It's fun to make jokes about Elon Musk living out the dreams of little kids everywhere, but he certainly didn't make this rocket alone. Although your implication that he isn't an engineer himself who works on his projects would be wrong.

[@ashmitanandy]

Sending his own Tesla with a dummy robot blasting David Bowie with THGTTG reference to space??!!!! Marvel should just rename Tony Stark to Elon Musk.

[@matthewblack7206]

Musk played himself in the Iron Man 2 movie in a cameo.

[@michaelrch]

And instead of weapons, Elon Musk makes green tech. He is the man. 👍

[@EMERTHERofficial]

You people are a disgrace for humanity.

[@naoise555]

It sounds like someone is overcompensating.

[@mavendeo]

Ashmita Nandy Your analogy isn't that far off. The astronaut driving a red convertible is a reference to the movie Heavy Metal. Iron is a heavy metal. Illuminati confirmed!

[@TheReal008Zulu]

Ha! Now it's the aliens turn to be confused at weird shit flying around!

[@ashmitanandy]

I love you for this lmao

[@HexIsme]

Or disappointed. The same way you feel about entering a toddlers bedroom with poop and saliva-coated toys strewn in questionable places. "I thought you'd grown up a little today, Timmy." "I WANT APPLESAUCE"

[@bazzie85]

ChasdielOfTheEnd it's not in a crater at all. It's actually totally exposed

[@travisrussill]

Omg saw the Car and immediately flashed back to the first time I saw “Heavy Metal” movie. (Watch the intro to the movie) History imitating art. If there are UFO’s they’ll definitely be going WTF? 🤣 If I was Elon I would have added an animatronic arm in the suit with a broadcast so every time it passed Earth it would send a signal to NASA saying “HEY NASA. Hold my beer 🍺 and watch this...” then have the animatronic arm kick in and flip the bird as it passed by.

[@Aymungoos]

They won't be confused cause the motherboard says "made on Earth by humans"

[@KathyClysm]

Elon Musk is either gonna save this entire planet, or bring about Skynet. Either way, this ought to be entertaining

[@Zeuts85]

Yeah, Elon is on the forefront of the public warnings regarding artificial intelligence. Wise man.

[@greendalek303]

And it appears he'll cheerfully do both/either while wearing a cardboard Galactus helmet.

[@krynetik]

Can we please just stop the fear mongering with shit like "skynet" when it comes to AI/Robotics and technological progress in general. No wonder Asian countries like Japan & South Korea are technologically way ahead of us, inventing cool robots like ASIMO and stuff. Those countries are not scared of technology and embrace it but here we are chicken shit scared thanks to a silly Hollywood action movie franchise.

[@Johnny-rx4hs]

Elon Musk has said many times that AI worries him.

[@HexIsme]

triggerhappy0404 Maybe by then we'd have learned that slavery is, and has always been, a bad idea put forth by bad people. Either nerf the robots to not obtain sentience, or let them choose what to do. It can't possibly be scarier than what we do with our young people, who are objectively less intelligent than theoretical AI from the future that are refined enough to walk, talk, and think on their own.

[@user-jj5se2is1w]

Elon is better than the rest not only because of what he's doing, but how he's doing it. He puts humor in everything and I love it. He's so not... boring.

[@ainumahtar]

Yeah Torben, he should use that money to lobby for lower taxes and less regulation, and preferably to kick all non-whites out of the country, except the ones he employs to sweep the floors in his estates, like most other rich people...

[@ryanriverside]

haaaa I caught the reference +Neel K

[@joshpollack5936]

but he's crazy boring in interviews and in real life

[@iamasquidinspace]

Oh Boy, these comments sure are rational and civilized...

[@begonesoon5864]

Yeah but he's like 1 in a million, we can't afford to wait for the right capitalist to come along and do stuff.Gotta do it all ourselves, that's why the Soviets won the space race.

[@brettgray5078]

Man, if the result of my midlife crisis were to have one of the biggest accomplishments in rocket science history, I think I'd be pretty stoked for midlife.

[@FunkyMonkey-ip4xy]

Now when alien life forms come to the solar system they'll find a red land going vehicle orbiting a lifeless planet being driven by a plastic astronaut. If that doesn't cause them to have a massive WTF moment then nothing will.

[@mizzypoo4827]

He wants to set a CAR dealership in space.... clever man...! Think about the Alien $$$.. he'll be make selling it to some Alien to race along the Tracks/Rings of Saturn.. Musk leaves a bad smell.... BIG EGO then Trump... What is the point of a Tesla 'space junks' going around around in space..... does he thinks hes gonna find out what happens to it in a billion year.. unless he plans to freeze his brains, so he can come back in a billion year or so..(IF EARTH isn't already Ruin by thousands of year of misused by humans.... I RESPECT The man more if he solve Famines, Diseases..Educations .. improves living standard of people from his country (+around the world) of birth & repaid it.. then to boost his own EGO.. BIGLY X.

[@Chiscringle]

Musk just wants to be sure he has his roadster when he finally lands on Mars himself. No ugly Mars buggy for Musk, he travels the red planet in a convertible!

[@EchoBravo370]

Damn straight

[@Gh0stClown]

In thousands of years, when the aliens find our smoking, radioactive shell of a planet, they will initially feel pity for the foolish creatures who used to live there and glad that they represent a more advanced, civilised culture. Then their scanners will detect something, slowly a red sportscar with a shop-window dummy inside will move into view, millennia-old pop music blaring inaudibly from its stereo. And the aliens will cry out in anguish and despair, for they will finally know. We had been as gods.

[@robertmelvin7908]

So this brings up the question: there are numerous scientific papers that discuss the meaning of various historical artifices found in long lost ruins; maybe some of those artifacts are nothing more than gag gifts?

[@Colerss92]

Elon Musk got Stephen to talk about something other than the Human Dorito...He really can do anything!

[@dblshotz75]

Colerss92 the human Dorito LOL

[@EMERTHERofficial]

He archieved nothing with this bullshit, besides of polluting the air and creating more space debris. Elon Musk is a little wannabe.

[@ikkkkkkke1]

yes because doing things never done before and meanwhile furthering science as a whole is achieving nothing....

[@SaltySalman]

Torben Chris Giese ummm you did see the boosters landing safely right ? That's kinda the whole point of space x.. Not being nasa

[@tonytromboney]

Stephen loves his science news lol

[@CountryandIrishFan]

Get Elon on the show.....THE ENTIRE SHOW!!!

[@tabularasa0606]

Don't feed the narcissist.

[@vincentjamesderamo5940]

hes on there once

[@wgoulding]

Watched this with my friends in Aerospace Senior Design class at Cal Poly, we all went crazy! I waited for this for 7 years, and it finally happened.

[@emmy6909]

Wynton Goulding I felt the same... my tummy had butterflies flying restless...

[@rrevolver1]

Wow, you went to see a real shuttle? Thats cool. I wanted to be a aeronautical engineer but sometimes in life things don't work out. So now I am doing civil.

[@abhishekhbhati6999]

Stephen loves his science news as much as the Trump stuff.

[@TheKaiTetley]

Trump is science fiction.

[@SilortheBlade]

That's why he does it. Personal preference and not to cater to what his audience wants.

[@multimillionaire2744]

I always enjoy science, I don’t enjoy his trump stuff. I really wish late night talk shows weren’t steeped in anti trump propaganda.

[@multimillionaire2744]

Steven Brock he does do good things. Have you taken the time to do a simple google search ( trumps accomplishments in office so far). These late night talk show hosts never acknowledge the good. If trump does something beneficial for the country it won’t be celebrated simply because it was done by trump.

[@viralcuriosityvideos]

Yes, but for different reasons

[@EridianX]

I cannot believe the mass media is not blowing up about this story. A private company has successfully launched a car into space. Not a government and country, just a rich guy who started his own version of nasa. This is huge news for the future of space exploration and technology.

[@Neuttah]

Said guy earns most of his rocket money by subcontracting _for_ NASA, do take that into account. And the car was just there because a giant concrete brick just isn't funny enough.

[@gunnar6674]

It is indeed significant that companies like SpaceX are doing some of the things which NASA did in the past - but this would still not be happening without NASA as both a customer, regulator and facilitator. Remember also that private companies were also heavily involved in the earlier space projects.

[@RvEijndhoven]

Also, this may indeed be huge news, but it's not necessarily all positive news. Up until this point space exploration was seen as something that requires such a significant investment in money and resources that it could pretty much only be done by government agencies and even then it couldn't be done by individual governments. And as a result things like the Hubble Telescope and the ISS and most of the scientific 'equipment' we have in space are co-owned by a whole bunch of nations and the scientific discoveries they make are shared more or less freely with the world. But with Elon Musk's efforts, it's more and more apparent that space exploration can, theoretically, be privatized (it shouldn't be, but it can). Except private companies have no interest in sharing scientific discoveries freely. They want to sell them and make big bank doing so. Elon Musk may well be remembered in a hundred years as the guy whose efforts turned space exploration into the next Pharmaceutical Industry.

[@Neuttah]

And also, if BFR doesn't colapse under the weight of its expectations, he's going to open the door to a lot of people getting themselves killed by introducing stupid to space. Wether or not that is his fault is probably up to individual disgression, but it will prove to be interesting, at least. ...if it happens.

[@zbychu6392]

*BUT HEY KYLIE JENNER GIVING BIRTH IS WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN A START OF A NEW SPACE EXPLORATION ERA*

[@QuantumBraced]

I watched it live and teared up. It was amazing. Sadly, the center core was lost.

[@katphyre]

QuantumBraced I agree, it was kind of sad. But the launch and watching the falcon rockets separate and land side by side like that was SO cool. I watched it about 4 times.

[@DRiungi]

not really, it crashed into the ocean 300 feet from the drone ship, where it was supposed to land.

[@All4Grogg]

Up until three years ago every booster "landed " like this! Elon didn't seem particularly bothered about the losing the center core during the press conference.

[@Slips85]

Like the movie Meet the Robinsons motto says, “Keep Moving Forward”

[@lm6767]

Well, they weren't going to reuse that version of the core. I think yesterday was more than we could possibly have hoped for anyway. Everything just worked like clockwork, amazing to watch

[@QuantumBraced]

They had a live cam of the Tesla Roadster as it traveled away from Earth. It was surreal to watch a car with a (dummy) driver in it, in space with the entire Earth in the background reflecting off of the windshield... Even more mindblowing than what Stephen showed here, which was just after the fairing separated in LEO.

[@All4Grogg]

It was amazing, the Tesla roadster remained in low Earth orbit for about 6 hours before the final burn sent it out into heliocentric orbit where it will remain, basically forever. How and why it is done this way i am unable to explain, it's rocket science, but they have pretty graphs and pictures!!!

[@QuantumBraced]

It would have been nice if they'd kept the live cam up for a while, maybe even years if they'd put solar panels, or just until it failed.

[@Rwededyet]

It sort of reminded me of the beginning of the 1981 movie "Heavy Metal".

[@seigeengine]

You know, I love space, but I don't really give a shit. If anything this might have been the best way to convince me to never get a Tesla.

[@zacharybierstedt1423]

All4Grogg Why it sat in LEO for 6 hours? That's usually to give ground control time to check out the systems, make sure the second stage is still functioning correctly, make sure the guidance is up to date, and position the vehicle correctly for the next burn. In this case, it gave SpaceX 6 hours to get pretty pictures. Plus, it's likely the vehicle was in a highly elliptical orbit, and they wanted to make sure the burn was as close to Earth as possible to maximize propulsive power.

[@Midnight_x_Sin]

Mister Musk gives me hope, he uses his money to advance the human race. History will remember him fondly.

[@TrackpadProductions]

The real shame about a potential mission to mars is that even if it does happen, a good 40-50% of America will probably believe it was faked.

[@sneakerrc7973]

MNPWxXxGreenBeretDal - excuse my ignorance but how is musk advancing the human race?

[@AndiDuck]

MNPWxXxGreenBeretDal Are you that naivete -- He doesn't use his own money -- hahaha If he used his own money he would be broke by now , considering how many rockets and payloads he has already blown up because he couldn't get his missile off the ground without blowing them and the cargo they were carrying . Using his own money , that's cute .

[@All4Grogg]

Much like Nicola Tesla.

[@violeta585]

ThE DuCk, funny how you feel entitled to dismiss a great man w/o even doing research -.- Musk did use 'his' money for this project - it's cost was $500million and it was supported entirely by his company SpaceX...w/o donations, public contribution etc.

[@fredricksmith-something.2125]

Bravo Elon Musk. Bravo

[@marusak72]

Elon Musk from shithole South Afrika? Donald will deport him on Friday morning!

[@angelofmandalaypadlock9704]

no he is loser

[@fidolol]

Angel of Mandalay Padlock is he still a loser?

[@DeathWish92]

@@angelofmandalaypadlock9704 and you can't write properly. Who's the real loser here 🤣

[@warrensmith8161]

In space, no one can hear you crunch.

[@alexasullivan8159]

I am a huge space nerd, and I have been waiting for this Falcon Heavy launch for years. The Science Olympiad team had a viewing party and I have to admit, the engineers of the team all teared up a bit. Me and a good friend of mine, who is just as enthusiastic about this as I am, were on the edge of our sets the whole time, and clapped and high fived whenever there was a success. High School students acted like excitable children. It was an absolutely magical event that revolutionized spaceflight technology. It was so emotional, because it didn’t revolutionize technology for the adults, it revolutionized technology for kids like us, who are hoping to be the next Elon Musk and to create something as emotional as this.

[@richarddarlington1139]

I've been waiting for something interesting since Apollo. Nothing can top the launch of a Saturn V with the Apollo payload. That twin landing came mighty close. At first, I wasn't sure of what I was seeing. Awesome!

[@fluffmcmuff6801]

Musk should have sent Trump to space instead..

[@lhl2500]

We're gonna need a bigger rocket.. His ego won't fit in this one.

[@BeyondCom77]

Elon Musk, an immigrant from Africa. He started PayPal and used the profits from it's sale to try to change the world for the better. Currently CEO (and lead designer/engineer of most of them) of Tesla - Solar City, SpaceX, The Boring Company, OpenAI, Neuralink. What he does in his spare time? Perhaps we need more immigration...

[@lukebruce5234]

The guy is white. When people complain about migration, it is usually racially motivated.

[@Enedrapvp]

We need more immigration from rich parents and software engineers looking to work in the US like Elon. Btw no Luke you sack of shit, when people complain about migration it ISN'T usually racially motivated. It's motivated by: why are 90% of immigrants we take uneducated mexican laborers when tens of thousands of engineers and business leaders from India and China are turned away? We OBVIOUSLY can't take everyone that wants to come in, that's just brain dead thinking. But our government should do WAY more to take THE BEST MOST QUALIFIED people like Elon and deny gardeners and taco stands. Californians are so fucking dull that they say shit like "but I like taco shacks" when people bring up this point.

[@Enedrapvp]

+Luke Bruce I'm first generation born in America, and a software engineer in Chicago, I'm much older than you and I work very hard, my salary is probably more money than either of your parents have ever made. My "profile" was made years ago when I was in college and obviously the banner is a joke. Only social media millennial social media vampires care about such trivial things as a youtube banner obviously representing a joke based on irresponsibility and naivety of many college students I met. Pretend all you want that everyone that disagrees with your position of pure ignorance is a radical right winger white man looking to terrorize innocent oppressed victims of color. Keep telling yourself how right you are so you never have to engage in any conversation or even lightly make fun of one's position without being filled with hate, resent, and jealousy. Not my fault you work at Target. That tends to happen to "basement dwelling underachievers". I've spent my entire adult life fundamentally helping create a finance industry that hasn't ever existed and do that 10 hours a day. I've lived in San Fran, and lived in Chicago. People in San Fran are some of the most delusional people I've ever met, that's why I made fun of them on immigration, and I stand by that claim. Work harder, you might achieve something for yourself.

[@mrpatil507]

UK youtube Steve's biological mother was American ...

[@lordsheetz4939]

Elon Musk is my favorite African American

[@TheCstar07]

Doritos we already have non crunching chips we just call them stale also my mother could fit a pack of chips, some yoghurt, a live baby and some toys in her handbag... she doesn't need your help damnit!

[@loriwbahadur]

TheCstar07 I bow before your mother's Lady Greatness! My mother could only feed and hydrate herself and three children at the movies, keeping the drinks cold and popcorn hot, and still had enough room to supply medicine for an emergency clinic. The chocolate, however, could go either way...

[@bleepmyname3941]

TheCstar07 hahahahaha

[@terrashine1353]

All hail "THE NERD KING 👑"😄😂😄 Stephen Colbert

[@NeoRipshaft]

I don't think you put nearly enough emphasis on just how freakin big a deal the falcon heavy is... for the first time in human history, we have a means to lift very big things into space for an affordable price - this is the instrument by which we can make our first step into space - for realsies this time, not just a sexed up icbm program.

[@Arkalius80]

It's cool, but it's not a super huge leap. The falcon heavy in recoverable mode has the same payload capacity as a falcon 9 in expendable mode. The recoverable falcon heavy is cheaper than an expendable falcon 9, sure, but it's not a massive leap.

[@jippoti2227]

Nice to see Stephen to talk about this amazing event so enthusiastically!

[@KesselRunner606]

This Falcon will do the Kessel Run in less than 12 Parsecs.

[@All4Grogg]

The Falcon name is actually a direct reference to the millennium falcon, seriously.

[@TraderTimmy]

11!

[@yabutmaybenot.6433]

+KesselRunner606 Sorry to burst your Star Wars fan bubble, but Parcecs are a unit of distance, not time. Google it bruh.

[@KesselRunner606]

Jeff Lock - known that for a unit of time "bruh", in fact practically *everyone* knows that. Doing the KRun isn't about how fast you are, but how soon you get there.

[@yabutmaybenot.6433]

+KesselRunner606 You still don't seem to get it. To claim you "did it" in less than 12 parsecs implies that you somehow traveled less distance, not did it faster. The Kessel run must be 12 parsecs in *distance* so you can't do it in less. The statement he makes in the movie clearly implies that he did it in less *time* which is incorrect because parsecs don't measure time or speed. So it isn't about how fast or how soon, its just the wrong unit of measurement for the statement. It is a mistake, plain and simple. George Lucas fucked up and they never corrected it in the movie.

[@Jerricola2]

To quote Bill Nye, "Science rules". As for the chips, whatever, if it works then cool. If not then we've still got Doritos.

[@EMERTHERofficial]

Using a chemical engine to blast an electric car into space is not science; it is idiotic.

[@sada0101]

Science does rule. But, i would give this achievement to the engineers.

[@kiraina25]

Creating a reusable space launch vehicle whose boosters landed _perfectly_ on their pads for refueling and future use is not "idiotic", it's Elon Musk once again being better at space than NASA. Then again, considering their budget atrophies every time a Republican is in office, that's not _that_ surprising...

[@gunhedd5375]

Torben Chris Giese • Jesus, dude... What the hell is your problem? Did Musk piss in your Cheerios or something? Give it a rest.

[@qzh00k]

money rules, it was in the memo.

[@jsmcguireIII]

I was more jazzed by the returning boosters than the blast off.

[@ChrisHansenGotUcom]

Musk is the MAN!!! Real life Tony stark. One day humans will put that tesla in a museum

[@bigdream_dreambig]

Actually, they might just build a museum around it and it travels along its orbit. Then all the space-kiddies can go oooh and ahhh at it.

[@Etothe2iPi]

The Tesla will not orbit mars, but the sun. And you can't hear David Bowie in space. But thumbs up for the rest of the mission, especially the "Don't panic" reference.

[@Tustin2121]

Etothe2iPi - You can't hear it, yes, but the car is still blasting David Bowie whether the sound waves carry or not. Also, Stephen got it wrong: the car is actually playing Space Oddity; they just used Life on Mars for the animated video.

[@kiradeki3561]

*is a woman, crunching chips loudly, licks fingers* Well shit, I guess I'm not a lady.

[@LUKE-og5fm]

Same...went through 2 bags on Sunday and did NOT watch the game.

[@Strawberry92fs]

I love the idea that in 200 years people living on Mars will have to compensate for a red convertible flying around the planet when designing their Satellite Network.

[@RWBHere]

It will only be near the planet at very infrequent intervals. The orbit goes between the Earth and the Asteroid Belt.

[@themawaali]

And people thought nerds were awkward.

[@gabrielgingras814]

Sourabh Samal He is usually nervous when talking to a croud. I presume he have mild social anxiety. Doesn't make him less awesome though (for some people, even more).

[@slamdunk118]

he got bipolar, and he admitted on his twitter.

[@jesondag]

oh, he's definitely awkward... He's first and foremost and engineer, and a nerd. but being awkward never stopped anyone from being fucking awesome.

[@jesondag]

He's not awkward with a small group of people, he just gets that way in front of huge crowds, no matter how much he does it. I'd probably be the same.

[@viralcuriosityvideos]

most of them are!

[@patrickblee473]

"Mars orbit" is a little misleading; it won't be orbiting Mars, but instead orbiting the Sun at a periapsis (smallest distance) near Earth and apoapsis (farthest distance) **near** Mars. And, after the third stage of the burn it seems it will actually exceed expectations and head towards an apoapsis closer to the asteroid belt. Unbelievable nonetheless! Edit: Here's a picture showing this: twitter.com/elonmusk/status/961083704230674438 Edit: I initially said "radius" instead of "distance". Radius may imply constant distance in orbit, which is not true here.

[@idjles]

no. "apogee" is furthest from Earth. "aphelion" is furthest from Sun, which is correct here. ""Apoapsis" is the generic term for furthest from center of mass in any orbital system.

[@kiraina25]

That's because KSP uses the correct terminology. "-gee" refers only to approaches to the _Earth_.

[@patrickblee473]

Like the other commenters have said, -gee is the suffix for Earth, -helion is the suffix for the Sun, and -apsis is the generic suffix for orbit about a generic center of mass. I went generic but could have gone -helion to avoid confusion. But yes, I am a KSP fan :)

[@artao5]

I'm glad someone else pointed this out. I was about to, but took a quick look see first. Thanks! :)

[@Nygaard2]

GEEK! (Thanks, though, that was a fun little point)

[@JuanDavidBedoyaR]

Dude, we need Musk in this show ASAP!!

[@RWBHere]

He was on the show in 2015.

[@mavendeo]

The astronaut driving a red convertible was also a reference to the movie Heavy Metal. CORRECTION: It was a white convertible, but it was still driven by an astronaut.

[@SternLX]

That was the first thing I noticed when watching it live and they had a shot of the Earth in full view making it look like Starman was driving toward it. BTW, my user name here, it's from Heavy Metal also. Been using Stern since long before the Internet went public.

[@stateofopportunity1286]

It might be white by the time the sun is finished with it.

[@RWBHere]

Thanks for the education. Never heard of that movie.

[@ShadyShadok]

And as a man I have to continue eating loud chips?! Feminism has gone to far!

[@keithmanfredi]

..."Lady only" chips are actually counter to feminist ideals. That's the problem, this Pepsi lady is setting feminism back about 25 years by claiming women need their own chip. If you think making a lady-only chip is what feminism is then you don't really get feminism.

[@abdullahmohamed1417]

you don't really get sarcasm

[@pukupuku]

It didn't sound like sarcasm.

[@ragecontrol2874]

that's kinda how sarcasm works

[@pukupuku]

No, but nice try.

[@maksuree]

When I die I want my corpse to be used as one of Elon musk's space-convertible-dummies

[@martijnbouman8874]

If he sends you in space fast, you will not even rot!

[@malaymartian9688]

Hahahahhaah! Now you just give me an idea for my will!

[@santiagorestrepo6339]

you already dead men if your brain cant funtion to realize all that fakery

[@TheBitanian]

In all likelihood there's already bacteria in your body that will rot you from the inside out when you die. They might not survive the radiation though.

[@milkdrinker7]

Not mars orbit. Just roughly passing mars's orbital path

[@coreysuffield]

yeah it will be in a solar orbit, but quite a bit beyond mars pbs.twimg.com/media/DVZ0h3YW4AIc-9w.jpg:large

[@RWBHere]

@@coreysuffield It was more successful than they expected. The stage generated more velocity than SpaceX thought that it would. That's encouraging.

[@SabaDhutt]

That was a perfect moment for a USA chant! USA USA USA!!!

[@armartin0003]

Why is Elon Musk the only person on Earth who's making a good case for the existence of billionaires?

[@armartin0003]

Gates doesn't deserve the credit for his recent philanthropy, that belongs to his wife. But ya, I see your point.

[@captainxemo3804]

Without his success his wife wouldn't be able to do anything near what she has, so yes he deserves credit, even of it's only for enabling her to do so.

[@smaragdwolf1]

every group has it´s exceptions. Musk proves the statistic^^

[@armartin0003]

XeMurder, I don't believe that money deserves any credit for anything. Just action. It's fair enough to say that he's trying to do things in his old age, by enabling his wife. But the difference between Elon and Gates is like the difference between heaven and earth. All the oil barons have colleges named after them too, because when they got old they wanted to bury all the bad karma with good deeds and try to get history to remember them fondly. A spray of perfume at the end doesn't cover up a lifetime of ruthless corporate bloodshed. A true moral man, who manipulates the system and wins will be like Musk, using his money to advance mankind while he's still young and making money.

[@MrPokerful]

If anyone reads this or not I really don't care..but I will say this has to be one of the most exciting things I've seen in the space program .I have been a witness to some launch desaters..this American hero has taken us to the next level of space travel.....not by greeeeeed but but pure excitement of what could be ..I applaud this man...as many should..stay tuned for the great things to come..!and the answerd ? Of why we still don't have a base on the moon .why..why why...all the time that has passed and look what this man and team have accomplished a such a short time ..think about this my friends....

[@bu3asalli]

When Stephen said “We get it Must, you’re...” I finished “Cool 😍”. I might be alone in that.

[@SutapaBhattacharyaKolkata]

Thank you for the HG2G reference Mr. Musk. It maddens me that Douglas Adams' brilliant books are not mainstream.

[@CybershamanX]

I wonder how the car will weather the rigors of naked space. Like, micro meteorites, intense solar radiation... It would be funny if someday, someone restoring one of these cars might have to go on a salvage mission just to get a door hinge or something. :P

[@marvinkitfox3386]

Micrometeor: No problem on the short term, long term (100yr+) the transparent fittings will appear sandblasted. Bigger meteors: Nope, vanishingly small possibility even over millions of years Solar radiation: Kaboom! In 5 years time that car will no longer be cherry red, it will be a dirty yellow/orange due to UV bleaching. And the upholstery will fare much worse, none of the materials are made to survive either the UV radiation or the interesting temperature or the vacuum. (on the car-in-space video, when lighting is right, you can see literally hundreds of teensy flakes of upholstery foam shredding and floating past Starman.) .Interestingly, the Starman's spacesuit should fare quite well, it is designed to be as nearly 100% resistant as possible to UV, micrometeors, and it quite *ignores* the temperatures encountered. That suit, barring catastrophic collision with something, should still be quite recognizable many millions of years later.

[@jesondag]

Most UV damage is facilitated or accelerated greatly by the presence of oxygen. It may very well take relatively little UV damage, at least in the short term.

[@lajoswinkler]

You're pretty much correct on everything except one thing - those little things flying off don't belong to the car. Those are light blue flakes of solid oxygen detaching from the LOX tank pressure release valve. It happens every time LOX is used for launching which is almost always. LOX is boiling off and needs to be released so the tank doesn't explode.

[@chilanya]

i was wondering the same thing. also i guess they deflated the tires (and other preparation to prevent immediate damage)? the car is still attached to the stage 2?

[@CybershamanX]

Great responses. Although, I'm preeeety sure automotive paint isn't going to weather the naked solar radiation very well. The temperature differences between being exposed to the sun and shadow alone would be murder. :P But, hey! Maybe we'll get a look at her someday within our lifetimes if we're lucky! :)

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[@gallo9119]

Because it's lack of parking space, the planet will be renamed to Marsattan

[@GrahamWhatmough]

2:32 "You gotta Circle mars forever to find parking" will be a common phrase in a few hundred years

[@rosemarywilliams9969]

His excitement for those rockets :) it's like were all kids inside.

[@ErykaSoleil]

The Elon Musk/Space X thing is absolutely amazing. The Doritos thing just rubs me the wrong way--am I not ladylike now if my chips crunch? Will people now judge my femininity based on how loud or quiet my food is? Will a man be criticized for trying to be polite by bringing "Lady" chips to quietly munch on during work so he doesn't disturb his coworkers? Rather than telling society as a whole that it's totally okay for women to crunch and lick their fingers and whatever else the guys do, the PepsiCo solution is to make silent "Lady" chips? THIS IS NOT HOW EQUALITY WAS SUPPOSED TO WORK. (For the record, making silent chips is fine, as long as they are marketed to both men and women.)

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Do we *really* need gendered Doritos? What's next? "Lady Gamer Fuel" Mountain Dew? (It'll be the first example of gendered marketing Reddit disapproves of.)

[@SuperSmashDolls]

The "attack helicopter" meme Doritos should just be a bag full of rusty shards of scrap metal.

[@dragon53777]

People would probably eat it too.

[@ostensiblyquerulous]

Im a dude and I could go for doritos that don’t crunch and don’t get on your fingers. Not really sure why only ladies care about that. It’s more convenient, although it’ll probably just be some sort of flavored tortilla-like thing.

[@ReddwarfIV]

You know that you can use a product even if it says "for men" or "for women" regardless of your sex, right? No one's stopping you. Its not illegal.

[@sprinter768]

Bitches be crazy, man..

[@stickersonalaptop7439]

That hitchhikers guide reference went "whoosh" over everyone's head

[@RWBHere]

Not mine. But you do have a point.

[@wonburgandy2443]

I like that Stephen is interested in science and engineering.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Does anyone else think Doritos is getting kind of ridiculous here?

[@renegade5130]

I see you in Stephen's comments all the time, wanna be friends 🤔

[@ASMRyouVEGANyet]

Yeah, but it made me laugh pretty hard!

[@ElectricityTaster]

We all know doritos is catering to the underage pothead that wants to stealthily eat Doritos in bed so his parents don't find out.

[@victoria9439]

if there is someone who doesn't think they are getting ridiculous here, they might have a problem

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Not at all, I feel they need to make nicer taco chips that won't cut you mouth up and so should the other chips makers.

[@sirMAXX77]

Calling it a 'lady chip' was a dumb idea. They could have named it anything else that didn't single out a sex.

[@slipe3254]

Just truly amazing.

[@Cragdognamedbear]

You forgot to add there's a copy of the hitchhikers guide in the glove box along with a towel.

[@All4Grogg]

So i think it is time to bring Neil back on to put in perspective how far Mars' orbital path is from the Earth, or just bring Elon on the show. Oh and Buzz Aldren....actually all three.at.the.same.time.

[@ixrisor]

Dude, both Neil and Buzz are dead. I think there is only one guy left.

[@iurikon]

Buzz is very much alive, in fact he was present at the launch of Falcon Heavy and tweeted about it

[@TheNervousnation]

Absolutely spectacular! What a time to be alive!

[@BuzryHaproMandalorianHunter]

"So long and thanks for all the fish.".

[@RWBHere]

What is 6 x 9 ?

[@teridawn50]

The landing part is always what really blows me away.

[@NewMessage]

Wasn't that how the Heavy Metal movie started?

[@neutronpixie6106]

Someone forgot sound waves don't carry in space....

[@Chiscringle]

Imagine how surprised someone will be if they tow it into a cargo bay!

[@tjnickle1]

Neutron Pixie I don’t know why but it’s still like that iolknm

[@chadthundercock4982]

Yes. Space X, a multi-billion dollar rocketry and space company, forgot 8th grade science but you, a random person on the internet remembered. Well done. It's totally not like everyone including Elon knows this simple and well known fact.

[@-_James_-]

Who said anything about sound waves? Gravity Speakers, baby! ;)

[@tinyb69]

So that's where all of those deposits for cars that won't be built for 10 more years went.

[@s0matando]

Don't forget the towel in the glove compartment! You don't wanna go anywhere without your towel! 👍

[@David_Last_Name]

So 50,000 years from now, after humanity has gone through 3 different apocalypses and had it's history erased 10 times over and then FINALLY got back to space faring technology, they will travel out to Mars and find an ancient LAND BASED vehicle floating in space with a plastic astronaut in the drivers seat.........I REALLY hope Elon put a note in the glove box explaining a few things for them. lol.

[@agingchill9012]

'Made on Earth by humans' instagram.com/p/Be31IJxgOoK/

[@mmhoss]

David Stagg If history gets erased then they won't know English. Actually, regardless of that in 50,000 years they wouldn't even understand our English today

[@ernestomarcos0103]

Mufti Hossain I mean it could work, when I was a kid I read in a book about a professor who came up with an "interplanetary message" to be deciphered so he could've done something like that.

[@lenajesse]

Isn't there a "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"-book in the glovebox? That's one way to explain things...:D

[@kleinbottled79]

Any reasonably intelligent civilization, having both the roadster (clearly not a space craft) and a copy of Douglas Adams Masterwork THGTTG as clues, should be able to figure out as much as they need to know.

[@JessicaTG2008]

Werner Von Braun is smiling back at Elon Musk. The master of rocketry and space technology is once again remembered with each new advance of space exploration and dreaming for the future. I LOVE that Musk didn't sell out either. he knows who the master of invention and also the pioneering scientist that brought the world into the 20th century with Nikola Tesla. Bringing these 2 people together and not just making history, Space X is the future and I wish them all the best. To the Moon and beyond. Thank you!!

[@GoEvenHarder]

Elon Musk son NEEDS to be called Sheperd Musk... Report to the ship as soon as possible... We Musk okay... Don't you mea- Nah, nah, nah! We Musk.

[@maxnullifidian]

Why do all those rockets resemble phallic symbols? "Is that a rocket in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?"

[@stellashepherd844]

Lady chips have nothing to do with feminism, that's just marketing bs.

[@kleinbottled79]

They had to at least start out trying to shout "Feminist!" or the first thing that would happen is some would shout "Sexist" Of course as others have pointed out they could have just marketed them as "quiet chips" but then we wouldn't be talking about them on the internet soooo.. hard to say how deep their game goes.

[@wp2746]

Heavy stuff.

[@Malcadon]

When I see that convertible in orbit, I'm not hearing David Bowie's "Life on Mars", I'm hearing Jerry Riggs' "Radar Rider". Steve, how the hell did you overlook that nerd-reference!

[@sandraweber4336]

My husband was bummed he would send that cool car out to space LOL

[@tuliocano8468]

Elon is the best! So smart, a real genious.

[@matthewmora8763]

its spelled genius. dumbass lol

[@Aymungoos]

Matthew Mora you didn't need the period before the dumbass... Dumbass

[@matthewmora8763]

Craig Hipsher it was a correction statement. Triggered much? dumbass lol!

[@santiagorestrepo6339]

smart enough to deceive a bunch of Fluoridated gringo empty brain....wake the fuck up and start to think for yourself....any 5 year old with out a TV and education endoctrination would see that car was a hoax

[@No-sc9pz]

He just funded the projects. He didnt invent anything. He just owns the companies and advocates for initiatives like reusable rockets. The engineers at spacex should get the credit, they do the heavy lifting and brain crunching stuff. Elon just hired these engineers to companies that have different and/or specific focus on certain things like spacex's reusable rockets and mars colonization and tesla's electric-self-driving cars

[@eosachilleus2601]

Dude, women's can fit anything in their bags, if they want to, we don't need a smaller bag of Chips, we take the XL bag and eat them louder than any male human being can B) xD sorry

[@MforMovesets]

I, for one, greet our new Colbert Galactus overlord.

[@BrennFilm]

First it was the German Von Braun who send humans to the moon. Now it's South African Musk who will send us to Mars.

[@danielcliment8251]

Elon and Stephen for presidents!!!!!!

[@michaeltantibellotti4604]

i hope we can live on mars less worry of us dying out if earth dies

[@amandagutierrez1921]

Chips crunch, you lick your fingers....such is life. Delicious, dorito crunching life😂

[@FiveSigma72]

Love the fact he put the Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy there in the glove compartment. Legend.

[@heyheytaytay]

The Nerd King sounds better.

[@docvideo93]

#WheresTheCentralCore

[@robotspro]

docvideo93 Sadly it's in many pieces at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

[@stateofopportunity1286]

It died. Hit the water at 300km/h.

[@1urie1]

We're writing history today. Specifically we're writing the hitchhiker's guide to the Solar System.

[@SamuraiSquash]

This segment gave me such whiplash. The rocket launch made me feel like we're living in the future, and the "Lady Doritos" snapped us right back to the past LOL

[@shantimoore9794]

I’m eating Doritos right now and I just licked my fingers to type this comment.

[@rp1455]

It really does sadden me that people give Elon Musk the entire credit for this mission. Sure he had the vision (and I would argue it is not exactly an original idea) and the ability to coordinate people to make it a reality, and he has more technical knowledge than the average CEO of an engineering company, but who were the people that did most of the innovative work? How much of the technical work or the design work was Musk responsible for? He hires engineers to do most of it, as is the case with every large engineering company and with projects of this scale. There are some incredibly gifted engineers at Tesla and SpaceX who are responsible for the bulk of the innovation, yet they never receive any credit. When NASA launch a spacecraft, who do you give credit to? The people who funded the operation or the technical geniuses who made it happen? In fact we usually give credit to NASA as a whole.

[@rp1455]

Patrick Foley I’m speaking more generally. Have a look at the comments section here. How many people give due credit to the engineers and those with the necessary technical knowledge to implement this project, and how many people have attributed the whole shebang to Musk. It’s something you see everywhere, and not just with Musk.

[@rp1455]

Patrick Foley Of course Musk is brilliant in his own right. He deserves his due credit. But so do those with the skills and knowledge to actually implement this. In my opinion that’s where the real genius lies. And certainly just having them cheering in the background does not do their tireless and brilliant work any justice. They deserve their due credit.

[@rp1455]

Stephen Steelhead yeah not necessarily having a go at Musk. It’s the entire culture that’s to blame. But Musk certainly uses this as a marketing ploy. And I suppose no one has actually focused on that plaque have they? And I don’t think Musk would have made much effort to draw anyone’s attention to it

[@jcamposthegreat]

Well Elon is the CEO, lead designer, and Chief Engineer. Infact HE designed these rockets, even he said it "i know every part od that rocket so its like my baby going up" . so litetally Elon Musk as lead designer (designs the ideas and blueprints), as chief engineer he has to make his designs a reality with his understanding of physics (he has a degree in physics) and as CEO cordinates the team and manages the project. He literally does 3 peoples full time job and work that they studied for all by himself, with the help of some other people...same at tesla

[@stevebothe1416]

Juan, well said, the only comment here that I totally agree with... Everyone wants to put down his involvement, when they do not understand the level of his involvement. No design element is implemented without Elon's express consent, and any suggested change is often overridden in favour of one of Elon's own suggestions. Most people can't comprehend that Elon really does know what he is doing. They just think, "how can a person teach himself rocket science", when that is exactly what happened.

[@hey.hombre]

Aliens are going to find a red convertible and think those Earthlings really like to cruise.

[@milk2percent416]

Alien: we are approaching an unidentified flying object, wait is that a... nevermind these humans are not worth visiting

[@printhelloworld7218]

wow! colbert talking about something not trump related!

[@active85858585]

Anyone getting Doctor Evil vibes from Musky?

[@JustNatax3]

active85858585 Would be weird if we didn't. He's a genius with rockets.

[@arkhamb]

SPACEX is better than NASA.

[@gadgethero1176]

active85858585 Tony Stark bro

[@All4Grogg]

He has stated in the past that he wants to die on Mars, but not immediately upon landing.

[@rainbow2401990]

NASA does actual science. Considering the low funding and the crappy politicians they have to deal with, they are geniuses. SpaceX are OK engineers with a lot of funding, that's all.

[@pootubedoodle9467]

King Nerd beats the heck out of being crowned King Turd. Congrats Colbert.

[@Oenloveslife]

Stephen, don't think I didn't hear you say "Galactus". When you put that helmet on, my mind said "Hey! That's Galactus's crown!". Your crown, in combination with your excitement over the launch means...you can keep your crown!!!

[@jony1495]

Don't mind the people that actually build this thing the engineers and software developers. They should get more credit. Elon is like one guy at work who throws out crazy ideas, other people have to somehow make it happens and when its finally finished he then shows up to take all the credit :D

[@SidewalkScienceCenter]

Jan he's the lead engineer and designer at both SpaceX and Tesla. Obviously there are incredible teams behind him, but he's literally involved in designing and testing every single part

[@andrasbiro3007]

Elon works like 100 hours a week. And if you listen to his interviews, it's pretty clear that he knows everything about his products, and the reasons behind every little engineering decision. He is obviously very different from your standard CEO.

[@frankbigtime]

Also, I have seen numerous videos in which Musk credits the teams. He doesn't think of himself as a one man show... it's just the audience who thinks of it that way.

[@kuriousitykat]

Except he owns the company. He had the vision and the goal. He got the best engineers he could grab. He gave them the resources and freedom to make it happen.

[@seamusbenn2967]

Literally first comment

[@worldshaper1723]

Seamus Benn Who cares? What does this trend says about our society?

[@seamusbenn2967]

Red/white I’m a Millennial I need all the accomplishments I can get. Duh

[@soth1sol]

here, i got your participation trophy ...right herrrrrerreeeraaaahhhhh... :points to crotchal region:

[@worldshaper1723]

Seamus Benn Hahahhahahaa you are a funny guy! I recommend Elon Musk's biography by Ashlee Vance.

[@bleepmyname3941]

Literally don't give a fuck (although I liked your answer)

[@ThorusAdama]

He didnt get the reference to 'Heavy Metal' but to HGTTG ? Brilliant, Stephen, brilliant.

[@girlhasitall]

That was Sheldon Cooper's math, when he was a kid. :D :D

[@slartybarfastb3648]

So happy that Colbert is getting a sense of humor again. Political crap gets sooo stinking old...sooo stinking fast. I remember when comedians were funny. This monologue reminds me of the good ole days of comedy!

[@crystaljohnston3629]

Thanks for all the fish.

[@quangho8120]

I get that reference :v How many hours have you poured in?

[@Dr_Gerbz]

This went from "yay humanity" to "wtf humanity" real quick...

[@theblackdahlia88]

There is also a copy of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in the glove box. On the chip of the car it says "designed on Earth, by Humans" . This that isn't boss, I don't know what is.