Talk:Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster

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Props for creating this already historic page! --Quyxz (talk) 16:22, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Payload: a car

1) The spacecraft carries a payload, which is a Tesla car. The car is Not the spacecraft or "a" spacecraft.
2) It is unclear if the spacecraft will perform an orbit insertion burn which needs a lot of fuel, or aerobreaking. Musk stated the spacecraft will be drifting in space for ever, which may mean a Mars flyby, and heliocentric orbit, etc. Let's wait for the ~~stunt~~ plans to be refined and ran by the SpaceX engineers.
3) It may be a joke: Elon Musk told us he was sending a car to space, then said he totally made it up.

In my opinion, he will not risk launching such a heavy payload that has not been tested for integrity by vibration testing and G forces. He will not risk a Heavy Falcon with a space oddity payload. BatteryIncluded (talk) 15:38, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is your opinion. But you have no source about that. Do you think the French cheese which was launched on the first Dragon capsule was tested for vibration or G forces ? Hektor (talk) 15:49, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ask that to the FAA, who has to approve the payload. BatteryIncluded (talk) 16:11, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hoax or not? (delete or keep?)

So far, only The Verge has published that the payload is a joke. All other news outlets sustain it is real. As weird as it sounds to launch a car, Musk is very excentric, so we should wait a few more days before deleting this article. In the case it is for real, I think it will be a very popular subject (it is already), making it notable to Wikipedia standards, so it will be a keep. Stand-by for a few days. BatteryIncluded (talk) 16:18, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, we should keep this around for more time until more information is known about the mission. There is conflicting information but this will absolutely need its own article soon if it does launch, so I agree that keeping this article for the time being should be the proper course of action. Keavon (talk) 04:16, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be willing to move it to my personal sandbox area as a draft space, or to some other community location (preferable) that is outside of the main article space until some substantial details about this vehicle are forthcoming. I don't know who put the VIN number down (that is likely some vehicle owned by Elon Musk... but no confirmation that is the actual vehicle in the tweet), but there is a whole lot of conjecture and speculation going on that is completely unfounded. BTW, Bloomberg just said it is the real deal and not a joke, so take everything including if it is a joke with a grain of salt.

At the very least, something like this article does eventually need to be written when the actual payload of the Falcon Heavy demo is finally confirmed along with substantive details. This whole incident about the Roadster certainly deserves a paragraph or section in whatever article eventually gets written about that payload. --Robert Horning (talk) 23:08, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]