It's in heliocentric orbit, it's getting cooked by solar radiation every day, taking the full brunt of solar flares without a magnetosphere to protect it, etc. If there were a body in the suit, it would surely turn into beef jerky. Or perhaps soup, if the suit can keep the fluids in. All the DNA would be shattered beyond repair by intense gamma radiation.

> but makes a certian amount more logical sense than a dummy in a space suit, huh?

It makes sense as a Heavy Metal reference.

One potential limitation of cryogenics is that the radio isotopes in your own body will eventually cause too much damage to your DNA since natural repair processes will be offline as well. Obviously the radiation environment in space is much worse.

That is a good point.

This absence of evidence is proof of a need for genuine study.

>If there were a body in the suit, it would surely turn into beef jerky.

This isn't necessarily a problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34060818

"And even if they could be bothered, the thawed would be a lab experiment, owned by whatever corporation pulled off the magic."

That feeling when you wake up from your secret space cryostasis, only to discover you're the living (?) embodiment of meat, now owned by Arby's.

It can actually get really hot in space without some kind of active heat transfer. The body in the suit would probably alternate between freezing and frying. Not a great way to preserve a body IMO.

Trying to use facts, logic, and this "science" stuff against me is futile as I have a perfectly good conspiracy theory!

The silver suit couldn't insulate and keep the heat out?

> The silver suit couldn't insulate and keep the heat out?

If you so wish to believe...

The problem is that there is no air to carry away the heat so that whole setup becomes like a miniature greenhouse. Without some active way to cool it eventually you'd cook.

Heat can transfer via Conduction, Convection and Radiation. The vacuum of space may prevent the first two, but not loss of heat via Radiation. Infrared radiation to be precise. The heat loss is very slow, so yes at times it would be a miniature greenhouse.

Depends on where in space. In LEO... sure. In the orbit of the Tesla Roadster it's mostly warm isn't it?

Since it’s never really in the shadow of a planet (heliocentric orbit), it’s probably hotter overall.

From the videos I’ve seen, it’s also spinning really slowly. I think you could see off-gassing in some of the videos. I looked into it a little further, and there was speculation it was from the plastics and paint getting extremely hot in direct sunlight.

“Space” is roughly the same temperature (a little warmer near stars with particles and free gas), but the direct solar radiation is what is so hot. Since space is an excellent insulator, getting rid of the thermal energy becomes a problem when you’re not shaded.

If you want to read some more on this, check out what the JWST has done for thermal management. It’s really cool (no pun intended).

Even if you were to stay frozen, the radiation you'd be exposed to in space would shred you at a cellular level way before the technology would come around to bring you back.

Or maybe that's the real Elon and that's an imposter?

> makes a certain amount more logical sense than a dummy in a space suit

Have you heard of Occam's Razor?

Scientifically not so good. Radiation damage will destroy everything in that body if someone actually did that.

The recent conspiracy I read is that Elon might be making clones of himself.

The last post Ye (Kanye) mades was a symbol that had a star of David with a swastika in it. And Elon personally kicked him off twitter immediately.

But that's actually a symbol for this cultish religious group.

"Raëlism teaches that an extraterrestrial species known as the Elohim created humanity using their advanced technology. It claims that throughout history the Alohim have created 40 Elohim/human hybrids who have served as prophets" You can see the symbol on their wikipedia page.

Raëlism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism

Remember when they cloned Dolly the sheep ... That was over 20 years ago.

Elohim, God on high.

> In 1998, Raël established the Order of Angels, an internal all-female group whose members are largely sequestered from wider society and tasked with training themselves to become the Elohim's consorts.

Wouldn't it boil into soup as soon as the car faced the sun?

Science doesn't hold up, but immediate headcanon.