The Falcon Heavy launch was not supposed to be a publicity stunt for Tesla by any means. Oprindeligt skrevet af AndrewHunter:You're getting it wrong. I doubt our children's children will look back on this kind of flippancy without shaking their heads in shame at our overly commercialized society. Pretty disgusting that the first artifact an alien species may come across that was made by us is a car floating in space. This is nothing but a transparent ploy to raise Tesla sales. He's a business man, looking to take your money and put it in his pocket. And I don't understand how you can see this launch as being insulting to the astronauts that gave their lives to explore space, complete nonsense.

He's not a simple business man, he wants humanity to go forward and advance as a species even if that means not being first place anymore. Don't you want that? And also, Elon Musk has stated that he wants a space race, a competition, even if that means losing. If it would've been a publicity stunt don't you think he would've placed the new Roadster as payload and make an ad out of it? And more importantly doing something fun (like sending a car to space) that has never been done attracts people, especially kids, inspiring them. He choosed to have as payload a car, his personal car, more specifically the first Tesla Roadster *Not the new Roadster*. This is nothing short of an orbital advertisement, he might as well have sent a giant billboard up into space. I've lost a huge amount of respect for Elon Musk. This is why the private sector should have stayed out of space this sort of ridiculous publicity stunt is insulting to all the brave astronauts who gave their lives to explore space, and it's in very poor taste in general. He's just trying to prop up one of his failing businesses with his other more successful business.

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