Tesla unveils flying Roadster, and crypto markets trade it all weekend
Watcher Guru posted that Elon Musk's Tesla $TSLA officially unveiled a new flying Roadster Timmy Turnes listed Roadster specs: first announced in 2017, revealed after nearly 9 years, flew over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Semi, Model Y and Model 3, pulled a mid-air kickflip, uses 10 SpaceX-inspired thrusters, carries 600 liters of compressed air, uses suction fans to drive upside down, claims top speed above 230 mph, offers a single-seat Rocket version at $250,000 reservations, targets 2028 production, and Musk admits it may not be legal everywhere Sevenup27 cited a 0-60 mph time under 1 second, top speed above 230 mph, rocket-style thrusters and SpaceX technology Sevenup27 quoted a $TSLA price of up 6.4%, bouncing from $360 toward $383 resistance, with $148M in 24h volume and $93.6M in open interest Padracrypto said the driver of the car was the Optimus robot and that SpaceX technologies were used in its construction Elon Musk posted 'Turns out the future does have flying cars' Minnus said the Roadster demo happened afterhours but $SPCX kept trading on Solana, with $1.92M in tracked spot volume between 8pm and 11:35pm ET Minnus said 75% of SPCX volume in BWR-covered pools on Solana traded outside regular US market hours from Oct 8 to 14, Tesla 68%, NVIDIA 64%, and for SPCX alone that was $55.7M outside those hours Unvint said a dispute is going on at Polymarket over whether the Tesla Roadster's 0-60 mph time will be less than 1 second, and that Polymarket's official account mentioned 0.81 seconds Unvint said 'Cant believe Polymarket is selling $1 for $0.22' and referenced 79% odds of seeing a flying car today The Wave Analyst said merger odds for Tesla and SpaceX went from 30% to 55% in two days after the Roadster reveal, that the stock gave back its premarket pop, and that earnings come on Wednesday Linklicks said people are pumping Solana and Ethereum memecoin pairs themed on the Tesla Roadster Rangerfinance said $INJ will 'fly like Tesla Roadster' in Q4 Emvee420_ joked about adding the new Tesla to GTA 6, tagging Rockstar Games Emvee420_ posted a joke about getting a flying Tesla 17 minutes after Jeanphil_nft posted 'Flip me' tagging Elon Musk and Tesla Xrp_seer claimed 'If this flying Tesla Roadster isn't the biggest green light... XRP TO MOON NOW!' Pudgy_xd said 'If anyone sees a Pudgy Penguins sticker on the back of a Tesla license plate... you found me..'
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