They have a point, though it may have been more about scaring up a 1500+ kg satellite for the launch.
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The important question: does Starman have a teapot?
The car of course does not launch itself.
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i’m not gonna say that wasn’t a PART of it, but there are some hard science reasons for this launch that keep getting shoved aside for some flashier hot take. it’s sour grapes that Musk knows how to package his launches and market them for a contemporary audience.
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I’m not rooting for Musk to fail, I just see it happening. Not being a fanboy has nothing to do with hatred and everything to do with experience seeing the history of tech falling on its face.
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Relevant Ars Technica article on what the FH means for launch costs going forward:
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The other hemisphere looks angry. Keep an eye on that.
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So, a Not-so-Great Red Spot.
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Make the Red Spot Great Again!
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this is one of those things about getting older that really sucks: this is another thing that was taught to us as constant, inviolate, a standard of time: jupiter without a giant red spot is just as unfathomable to me as pluto being demoted to planetoid status. it SUCKS. other than being huge, jupiter’s red spot was one of those things that made jupiter JUPITER. i mourn the loss of our big, gassy planet’s eye. 
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed planet is king.
Long Live the King!
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Small condolence here.
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Though, looking at the image in the tweet, it really looks more like a mouth, with two eyes in the lighter band above it. Jupiter’s making a kissy face at us…
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But we don’t know how long it’s been around, or even if the current spot is the same as Cassini’s. If it isn’t the same, it could be younger than the steam locomotive.
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true, it’s nothing on the overall scale of things, but on a human scale, 400+ years might as well be considered “forever” 
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I have it on good authority that the Spot has been around exactly as long as sapient life has been present on Earth.
What? No, no special significance to the Spot disappearing within the next couple decades. Why do you ask?
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Jupiter has always terrified me, and I welcome a solar system where it’s just a little less menacing.
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