Timeline for Can I drive Elon Musk's Tesla after it's been in space for 100 Years?
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| Feb 8, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | Everyday Astronaut | Just in: Scientists believe that radiation will tear the car into pieces within a year. without any specific sources, found on foxnews.com/tech/2018/02/08/… | |
| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:44 | comment | added | MyPreciousss | At that point it's worth asking if it's a Ship (car?) of Theseus! | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 5:35 | comment | added | Keith McClary | @PeterA.Schneider I expect it will be securely mounted in the payload capsule (so it can't rattle around). It would require some complex engineering to detach it, open the capsule, and eject it naked into space, however cool that might be. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 15:32 | comment | added | Hobbes | @TylerH: Nothing I've seen indicates they'll do that. It'd take a lot of additional engineering to install sensors, a communications system, a movable dish, power supply etc. etc. And changes in material properties are difficult to detect without mechanical components that can try and bend a sample of the material, etc. This is a stunt, not an experiment in the vein of LDEF. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 15:25 | comment | added | Alan B | @AnthonyX Even some top-end consumer graphics cards in PCs need liquid cooling. | |
| Jan 12, 2018 at 5:36 | comment | added | KalleMP | @AnthonyX Many (perhaps all) of the various model Tesla motors, batteries and motor controllers use liquid cooling loops to keep things compact. The liquid is air cooled. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 22:33 | comment | added | TylerH | I have to imagine Musk is planning to attach a lot of sensors to the car to send back data on the status of the car as it flies through space... there are a ton of products and materials not normally sent to space; we could learn a lot about how they (and how a car in general) behave this way. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 13:06 | vote | accept | James Jenkins | ||
| Jan 10, 2018 at 11:00 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | Interesting... , to prevent most of the evaporation and the cold-welding: Could one not have a light-weight (compared to the Tesla proper) hull around it, essentially a heavy-duty, shaped balloon, or a carbon fiber box, which stays pressurized with Helium or Nitrogen for 100 years? I assume it would need to have a self-healing double-skin or similar to deal with damage from small meteorites over time. (Of course it's not a trivial task to keep a car roadworthy for 100 years in any environment, but that's not a space question.) | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 4:15 | comment | added | Danila Smirnov | @AnthonyX Any electric system of significant power needs significant cooling. Tesla's cooling system does use liquid. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 1:30 | comment | added | Anthony X | Coolant? It's an electric car. Wouldn't cooling systems for the motors, batteries and electronics just use air (fans, ducts)? | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 21:10 | comment | added | Uwe | Rubber to be used in a car is not made for a vacuum, it may degrade by outgasing too. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 18:14 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2018 at 17:06 | comment | added | MackTuesday | So... no, then. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 13:58 | comment | added | J... | Rubber degradation happens on Earth due to exposure to oxygen, ozone, and UV. If the car is in the vacuum of space (and protected from direct solar radiation) it will not suffer from these effects. Ionizing radiation would, however, still contribute to degradation of polymer materials. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 13:24 | comment | added | DevSolar | Ionizing radiation, exposure to particle impacts... | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 12:02 | history | edited | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2018 at 11:44 | history | answered | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |