A Starman sitting in a tin can is currently navigating the heavens,soundtracked by David Bowie. How did it and we – get there?Video: watch the launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket
It takes a beat or two for the brain to compute. The image is startling, incongruous, or barmy. A car floats in space. At the wheel is a spacesuit,seatbelt on. soil hangs behind it. The two objects don’t work together. The image jars like despicable Photoshop. But it is genuine. The photograph was beamed down to soil courtesy of Elon Musk’s ego, bravado and taste for the absurd. It is human folly and genius rolled into one, and a picture that sums up 2018 so far. Life on soil feels precarious,so we look to the stars.
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Source: guardian.co.uk