SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt

Re:SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to astero... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @10:41AM (#16325128)

There's risk management involved.

Sanitizing is considered when you're planning a planet landing. Space is big, so on the timescales of human civilization, the probability of actually hitting a planet by accident is negligible. If that Roadster lands on Mars in a hundred million years, we won't care.

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Re:SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to astero... by godelski on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:07PM (#16325980)

If that roadster hits Mars and seeds Mars, that would be huge and interesting for science. Mostly because "How did something survive in space for that long?"

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Re:SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to astero... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:11PM (#16326022)

True, but by that time it won't be our science, it will be descendants-of-our-dolphins' science. Or aliens-from-outer-space science.

Seriously, the only way I can see humanity not getting to Mars before the Roadster is if we completely fail as a species.

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Re:SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to astero... by mulmen on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:53PM (#16329564)

Also "how did a plastic car survive reentry?"

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