Remember that Tesla Roadster Elon Musk mounted on the top of a Falcon Heavy Rocket? It’s now beyond the reach of Mars and headed to an unknown fate.

Earlier in February, Elon Musk made the executive decision to mount a dummy payload on the tip of the upper stage of a Falcon Heavy Rocket. Not only did Musk mount his personal roadster, but he also mocked up a mannequin in the driver’s seat which has been lovingly dubbed as Starman. As per @SpaceX in a tweet they put out earlier this weekend (Nov. 2, 2018) it looks like Starman and the Roadster is safely beyond the reach of Mars and is headed to “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” which is in reference to the second novel in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series.”

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Check out that tweet below.

Earlier in the year when Starman first took off, there was a slight possibility, if only that, that this Roadster could land on the surface of Mars. Although the outside of the Tesla Roadster was cleaned and sterilized before being loaded on the edge of that Heavy Rocket, other inner parts of the Roadster were not.

A Purdue Professor hypothesized that if this roadster DID land on Mars, there was a slight possibility that a dormant bacteria in the Roadster could spring to life and invade the red planet, “uploading” so to speak, the Earth’s biome into Mars. But, with the Tesla Roadster far beyond Mars, that’s no longer a possibility, thankfully.

Contrary to popular belief and according to Space.com (as well as a cursory search on Wikipedia) details that this Tesla Roadster is on a Heliocentric Orbit, which, as the name suggests, means this Roadster is in a sun-centered orbit will slingshot back to us as soon as 2091. And, as orbits do, this Tesla Roadster continues its orbit, there’s a small chance this Tesla Roadster might smack into Earth, again!

That is, if the Earth as we know it is still here but not really in our lifetime.

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