Starman Memes

Interplanetary rideshare gone wrong! The top image shows a stranded astronaut on Mars (54.6 million km from Earth at closest approach) checking his phone for transportation, while his "driver" is casually cruising through space in a Tesla Roadster. That's one heck of a surge pricing situation! The average one-way light time between Earth and Mars is 13 minutes, so that "be there in a minute" promise is technically breaking several laws of physics. Good luck explaining that to your Martian colonization supervisor when you're late for your shift at the hydroponic potato farm!

The ultimate escalation of car salesmanship! While regular dealers are stuck in the "cargo space?" conversation (like, can I fit my groceries in this thing?), Elon Musk is out here taking the phrase literally and launching actual cars into actual space. It's the perfect punchline to the "car go road" dad joke - because why settle for roads when you can have orbit? This is what happens when you give a space enthusiast billions of dollars and nobody to tell him "maybe don't put a perfectly good Tesla in the vacuum of space." But hey, that's one way to avoid traffic!