What are the risks of putting a Tesla in space?

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Elon Musk and SpaceX have successfully launched a Tesla Roadster into space using the new Falcon Heavy rocket. But what are the risks and the dangers of having a high end electric sports car spinning around the solar system?

We take a quirky look at the potential downsides in this new Risk Bites Lite video -- including a cameo by a heptapod!

Here's the live view of StarMan:

And just in case this seems rather frivolous, inside the Tesla is an Ark -- a repository of human knowledge, designed to withstand the stresses of deep space.

For more information on the challenges of planetary protection and forward contamination, see

Risk Bites Lite videos are shorter and lighter than regular Risk Bites videos - perfect for an injection of fun thoughts when you're not in the mood for anything too heavy! We'll be piloting Risk Bites Lite videos over the next few months - if enough people watch them, they'll probably stay. In the meantime, we'll still be posting the usual whiteboard videos.

Thanks for watching!

RISK BITES

Risk Bites videos are devised, created and produced by Andrew Maynard, in association with the Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society (). They are produced under a Creative Commons License CC-BY-SA

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Clap Trap, by Brightside Studio.

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