In the market for a used car? Have I got an unbelievable deal for you!

This baby is a racy red two-year-old Tesla Roadster, like new with perfect tires and, get this, it goes from zero to 42,600 miles-per-hour so fast it could make your head look like this: 

Yes, Teslas are impressive.

So what's the catch? OK, the car does have a few miles on it... just a little over 93 million and counting, but it gets great gas mileage,11,745.9 per gallon... really.  It is out of warranty but according to the calls I receive around supper-time at least 4 or 5 days a week, I can extend my warranty if I act now. Delivery is problematic but hey, it's a Tesla, right? 

Oh, that  figure in the car is a manikin in honor of David Bowie listening to Space Oddity nearly 300,000 times  in right ear and Is There Life on Mars about 400,000 time in the left if the battery is still working...and I wouldn't bet against Elon Musk. This tells more. 

You can see the car somewhere near Mars but you'd have to wait for when a telescope that is about 8,000 feet in diameter is invented to do the job.You perhaps remember the story, and it is really impressive, so a reread is called for. Below is that blog post I wrote when this happened three years ago. 

And yes, I am a fan of Elon Musk who, coincidentally, just became the world's richest man, worth $185 billion and passing Jeff Bezos. He is eccentric and that makes him even more interesting. And he makes rockets to send people into space (like his car) and return to earth standing up on the launch pad just as the did when they left.

That blog post: 

Both are unbelievable but one is true, one is false. Any guesses?

We were thrilled when Henry bicycled across the moon with ET in his bike basket.

 

We were also thrilled (sort of) when the red Tesla streaked past the earth on it's way past Mars.

OK, everyone knows ET will never reach home in the basket of Henry's bicycle. But could a red Tesla ever speed past Mars, with David Bowie's Space Oddity blasting on its audio device, and drive forever into space? Most incredibly amazing, it could. That IS an actual photo you're looking at.

Is there anyone today more interesting and inventive that Elon Musk? Truly this South African born 

Elon Musk

Canadian American billionaire at age 48 has done more than even the best fiction writer could imagine... but it's true. He founded Xcom which became Infinity which bought PayPal which was bought by ebay. He founded the automotive company that developed the Tesla automobile and founded SpaceX which developed the most powerful rocket booster that put his red Tesla with a manikin driver behind the wheel into space forever. Even more astounding, two of the three rocket boosters on the most powerful rocket actually returned to base, landing as if reverse of the take-off. Take that NASA.

So his failure is that the space-bound Tesla that was supposed to land on Mars but missed, is destined to drive forever, at 42,600 miles per hour, into outer space for infinity. It joins with NASA's two Voyager missions to infinity. Imagine the incredible gas/electric mileage per gallon and what would happen if it was ever pulled over for speeding by an alien patrol officer with radar. "Sorry officer, I was running late for Mars so I stepped on it and didn't realize how fast I was going."

Consider that perhaps, eons from now, a distant civilization will encounter both Voyager spacecrafts with their golden records of us saying 'Hello" in 140 different languages and also the Tesla playing David Bowie's Space Oddity and wondering who in the hell those people are/were.

Well, that's space for you.