Starman Car Video from Space... Project Bluebeam?

So are you saying the roadster out might be a hologram?

it worked most people believe

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indeed its fucking bullshit

Well, sure seems like some sort of 'sanctioned' project...

That Tesla Roadster should be toast, then ice, repeat, over and over again...


“So when you are directly in the sun, you will actually feel pretty hot–temperatures on the dayside of Earth outside the International Space Station can get into the 100s of degrees Fahrenheit! But then, on the night side, when not in sunlight, it gets really cold, into the negative hundreds of degrees. And once you are at a certain temperature, you aren’t able to effectively transfer it away, so you’ll stay that way–so in space, if you had a hot cup of coffee, it would stay hot for longer than it would on Earth! Yeah…space is the ultimate thermos.”

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Unlike ISS, the roadster was rotated to evenly distribute the heating. ISS doesn't do that, its solar panels must face the sun constantly and so it flies with an attitude that keeps parts of it facing towards or away from the sun for a long portion of the orbit.

Anyway, it's really up there.

So what about low profile tires? How would zero gravity, -200 C and +150 C conditions effect those tires?

And the dash board? Etc.

I've never seen a car melt at 120 degrees. Unless it was made of chocolate or something. But yes, you can actually see damage occurring to the plastic and screen in the center console area in the first few hours after launch. You can see bubbling in the screen the "don't panic" sticker is on.
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At various points there are also signs of outgassing by the seals around the windshield, and possibly from the dashboard and its internal components. You can see residue from the outgassing in the lower part of the windshield here, look at the truss structure holding the camera out in front of the car and how it becomes blurry in the lower part:
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The paint and overall structure of the car is not going to be instantly damaged, but there are some obvious signs of the plastic and rubber parts already starting to degrade.

Like I said, it was rotating, the heat would be evenly distributed and prevent it from reaching those extremes, at least while it's under active control in those first few hours.

Yes? You can see bubbling up of the plastic and outgassing leaving residue on the windshield.

Rotating, but would that regulate temps to cozy day at the beach?

I saw no degrading of the car. But maybe I misses something. Well, for sure!

Next question Astromut.

What is that object at 4 minutes?

Also, in general, are those stars, planets or satellites that streak by, at times... but not all of the time...

Astroturd please tell us why the whole video looks CGI? Is it the "no atmospheric pressure"

Yes. You're used to distance cues and other changes in lighting you get from being inside earth's atmosphere. Those don't exist up there, making things look crisper than your brain expects.

In the video above? The moon.

Generally it's ice and debris from the second stage. You tend to get a lot of ice formation at the engine of the second stage after it shuts down, and rotating it like they did probably dislodged it frequently. Here's an example of icing from a previous launch:
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If accusations that something "looks CGI" constitute proof, then the landing of the boosters must have been CGI as well even though they were independently observed.
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But, you see a full sized sun reflecting in the dudes helmet... So the moon should be fully illuminated, I would assume... if the moon...

In the video above? The moon.

Generally it's ice and debris from the second stage. You tend to get a lot of ice formation at the engine of the second stage after it shuts down, and rotating it like they did probably dislodged it frequently. Here's an example of icing from a previous launch:
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Astroturd,

Another question

I thought all photos of the earth were all composites since the size of the earth is so large....

Why can't we see stars then?

Short exposure video cameras are designed to properly expose things like the daylit car and earth, but the exposures are far too short to capture the stars.

That's not how moon phases work. Just because you see the sun doesn't mean the moon should be full.
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The car is orbiting earth still, so it will see roughly the same phase you'd see standing on earth, about half full during the launch.