After Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk space exploration suddenly became cool again. Maverick billionaire innovator and tech wizard Elon Musk has chosen to call his recently launched rocket Falcon Heavy, BFR (Big F****** Rocket) showing high tech meeting millennial speak, space age science meeting popular culture, its a billion dollar interplanetary project that downsizes technical pomposity and makes genius fun. Musk has playfully cracked an intergalactic joke, placing an electric sports car built by his company Tesla in the rocket and strapping a spacesuit clad mannequin in the car.
“It’s silly and fun” said Musk “but silly and fun things are important”. Stamped on the rocket for the benefit of aliens who can read English is the message “made on earth by humans”. Read More
