And I mean literally, heading out into an orbit that will cross Mars’s own orbit. Because if you own a spaceship company, why not send one of your roadsters into space?

Of course, I wonder if M. Musk and his colleagues have realized that one of two things is going to happen:

1. Assuming we survive to the point where inter-system space travel gets underway, there is going to be the treasure hunt to end all treasure hunts to find the roadster.
2. Aliens will find it and assume that we are really, really weird spaceship engineers.

I’m good with either of those.