r/spaceporn • u/feeling_impossible • Feb 07 '18

Surreal, absurd, outlandish, preposterous... But there it is. The entire earth clearly reflected off the side of a car. [1920x1080]

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

Is there a window in the cargo bay?

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u/NotTimHeidecker Feb 07 '18

Nope - the car is just fully exposed.

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u/sprucenoose Feb 07 '18

It looks so pristine though. I thought being in the vacuum of space would have had some visible effect on it.

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u/Joe_Jeep Feb 07 '18

The only thing that will affect it is solar radiation.

You know, unless it hits something.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18 edited Sep 21 '20

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u/Joe_Jeep Feb 07 '18

"Space X first group to accidentally land a car on A asteroid"

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u/kalitarios Feb 07 '18

Checkmate, aliens!

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '18

"You clipped me, chief!"

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u/Bazingabowl Feb 07 '18

I wonder what it costs to buy meteor insurance for the next 100 billion years.

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u/Joe_Jeep Feb 07 '18

Still probably cheaper than building the hyperloop

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u/Thebobinator Feb 07 '18

Not quite correct. Almost all the materials used for the car are currently outgassing. The various metals, plastics, and composites all have some amount of air or other gas trapped in them, and its escaping, greatly weakening the components.

I'd imagine everything is much more brittle and fragile than before the launch already.

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u/WikiTextBot Feb 07 '18

Outgassing

Outgassing (sometimes called offgassing, particularly when in reference to indoor air quality) is the release of a gas that was dissolved, trapped, frozen or absorbed in some material. Outgassing can include sublimation and evaporation (which are phase transitions of a substance into a gas), as well as desorption, seepage from cracks or internal volumes, and gaseous products of slow chemical reactions. Boiling is generally thought of as a separate phenomenon from outgassing because it consists of a phase transition of a liquid into a vapor of the same substance.

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u/Joe_Jeep Feb 07 '18

Interesting. Hadn't thought about that kind of thing

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u/Qwiggalo Feb 07 '18

I kind of figured the glass would have cracked or shattered by now(aka instantly) from the extreme temperature changes...