One of many things I dont get about him. Id be dedicating every spare moment I have to improve relations with my children. What else really matters, they are our only real legacy in life.
He doesn’t care, his legacy is all of the tech that he’s been building, which will forever be associated with him - compared to that, children really don’t matter. He’s got an ego the size of a Jovian moon, like Diaper Don, and all that’s important is themselves and what they can accrue in money and power. That’s what being a narcissist is all about.
What's betting that NASA is incredibly inefficient & all their problems can be solved by transferring the government contracts to Space X?
Same with all vehicle related purchasing, if I was Ford or GMC or whoever & I had a contract to supply to local or national law enforcement etc I'd not be banking on that getting renewed because Tesla are suddenly going to be a far "better" choice.
^^ He's just an average hard working, self mafe man looking out for the little guy.
He's an obvious choice to get rid of he elites holding the country back. Stands to reason
What’s betting that NASA is incredibly inefficient & all their problems can be solved by transferring the government contracts to Space X?
There was already talk that Dementia Don would be defunding NASA along with the EPA, FBI and many of the civil service agencies as soon as he gets the power to do so. And as for JFK Jr in charge of health, as a committed vax denier the funeral business could be looking to expand its operations.
There was already talk that Dementia Don would be defunding NASA along
Never. Going. To. Happen. There are way too many NASA centres in States all over the US for them to even think about getting it through congress, even with a majority in both houses. So many of their own senators and congressmen wouldn't allow it. Those NASA centres are hubs of technical innovation. Aviation and tech startups all begin on the same grounds.
People at NASA are every bit as clever as those at SpaceX, they just have a lot more plates spinning and arguably less time and effort to put into each one. And no matter what Musk states, he's got to remember DARPA (P-Falcon) and NASA (CRS) foresight allowed for the creation and expansion of SpaceX.
The year is 2237
The Musk-Yutani deep space mining ship, Nostromo, awakes the crew from their cryo sleep after the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet
Yeah the guy is absolute scum
https://bsky.app/profile/hardeepmatharu.bsky.social/post/3lcalhtlfis2a
Trump and Musk's huge egos will be the down falk of their bromance.
I don't even include Farage in that as he's a political minnow by US terms but let's face it, bunging him a few $100 mill is chump change and could still prove useful to MUSK years after Trump has expired. Have you guy heading the worlds 6/7 largest economy that has its own nukes and an NHS ripe for harvesting. Pretty good investment.
He's overpaying though, Nigel would sell out the country for far less.
Singapore on Thames could still come to me.
Are the gas guzzling hill billies now going to be Tesla fanboys?
Are the gas guzzling hill billies now going to be Tesla fanboys?
That's quite the philosophical dilemma! I wonder how they will square that circle!
That’s quite the philosophical dilemma! I wonder how they will square that circle!
Diesel burning smoke stack generator in the back yard so they have a way to charge their Cyberstuck.
Pretty sure they'll make sure the exhaust is pointing towards the nearest childrens hospital, immigration centre... or give it 18 months, they'll point it at the nearest "Librul Reeducachun Cnter".
He doesn’t care, his legacy is all of the tech that he’s been building, which will forever be associated with him
A legacy of stolen tech and being an unmitigated bellend who no one likes.
I very much doubt that history will be kind to him. Unless his bestie bud, dementia don, manages to get history rewritten.
He doesn’t care, his legacy is all of the tech that he’s been building
His legacy will be the fact that he's rich, and that'll be the start middle and finish of it. Everything else he does is disaster zone from his personal relationships of children and partners to just generally being an offensive prick. As for the 'tech that he's been building' He didn't have anything to do the design of the Tesla battery tech, Space X hasn't done anything innovative - everything they do has been done for at least six decades more cheaply and just as effectively, the Boring Co is literally just a way of making sure that public transport isn't built, and he bought TwitterX to get fanbois to laugh at his jokes becasue he's got no friends and doesn't know how to make any.
Absolute failure of a man.
Space X hasn’t done anything innovative – everything they do has been done for at least six decades more cheaply and just as effectively
I'm not a fan of his but that statement is simply ridiculous.
I’m not a fan of his but that statement is simply ridiculous.
I will give you re-usable rockets*, and that's pretty much it. Even the chopsticks landing thing is decades old, look up the Ryan X-13 Verti-jet, and that was flown by a human pilot, I'd imagine using modern computers makes it hundreds of times easier.
They launch satellites and take food up to manned orbital space stations, and that's it. We've been launching satellites for 60 years now. All the talk about Mars missions is just marketing shite, the only way we're going to do that is publicly funded, Musk's investors and shareholders are going to take one look at a Mars mission and will not let it happen, no commercial organisation will ever do anything so risky - although once the technology's proven, they'll happily muscle into the space and do it more expensively no doubt - like SpaceX do now with satellites and re-supply.
*And honestly; in a world where the Space Shuttle was first built 40 years ago, that feels generous. Fun fact Space X has destroyed 3 times as many Falcon engines as NASA did testing the F1.
Anyone still using twitter because they claim they only see pictures of fluffy kittens are deluding themselves, it is absolutely a far right propaganda machine, and if you are on it you are supporting his efforts.
They launch satellites and take food up to manned orbital space stations, and that’s it.
Well they do need to feed those astronauts stranded on the ISS by Boeing.
You may not like the guy but downplaying achievements as being a piece of piss and nothing special is totally ridiculous.
but downplaying achievements as being a piece of piss and nothing special is totally ridiculous.
All I've said is that Space X haven't done anything innovative, and that what they do is established technology, not that what they do is nothing special or a piece of piss. But they're certainly not advancing the science than publicly funded programmes haven't achieved already. Sometimes quite a long time ago. recyclable rockets look cool, but honestly; we've known how to fly things for quite a while now.
Don't believe it? Here's Neil De Grasse Tyson agreeing with me.
Elon Musk talks shit all the time, recently he said something utterly stupid about drones and F35 showing although he knows shit all about a subject, he still feels like he can just wade right on in, and he can rely on the lap dogs just cheering him on from the side-lines
I was thinking earlier, if the democrats want to end Musks and Trumps bromance, they need a couple of senior dems to do interviews suggesting that Musk is the organ grinder and Trump is the monkey, don't go too heavy on it, just keep slipping it in every couple of weeks.
There is no organ grinder, just monkeys. Monkeys everywhere!
But they’re certainly not advancing the science than publicly funded programmes haven’t achieved already.
Enlighten us. Which other company or organisation had already been landing rockets [with cm accuracy] returning from 70km altitude at a speed in excess of 4000km/h before SpaceX did it?
Sometimes quite a long time ago. recyclable rockets look cool, but honestly; we’ve known how to fly things for quite a while now.
Then how come so many companies still can't do it?
Ars Technica has posted this today:
Then how come so many companies still can’t do it?
How many other companies have been given tens of billions of dollars to fund the research by the US government to do that?
Regardless of whether SpaceX is clever or not can we stop pretending it’s all down to that irritating **** who runs Twitter? There will be some big challenges ‘the industry’ defined that were solved by many smart people using a mix of public and private investment.
How many other companies have been given tens of billions of dollars to fund the research by the US government to do that?
Boeing.
can we stop pretending it’s all down to that irritating **** who runs Twitter?
100%
Musk is a dick (never said he was).
Enlighten us. Which other company or organisation had already been landing rockets [with cm accuracy] returning from 70km altitude at a speed in excess of 4000km/h before SpaceX did it?
Everything SpaceX achieves is in spite of, not because of Elonia.
Elon Musk talks shit all the time
Seems to be a recurring thing for idiots who inherit billions... correct me if I'm wrong but Musks money came from his parents exploits in African mines?
Self made man; my bum cheeks.
Everything SpaceX achieves is in spite of, not because of Elonia.
Absolutely.
He was rich beyond the dreams of most of us at birth, then he lucked out being an early investor in PayPal. His greatest achievement is marketing a myth of great leadership.
Everything SpaceX achieves is in spite of, not because of Elonia.
Sadly, and I hate myself for saying this, but that’s not true. The use of materials, the method of rocket catch, the fully automated Dragon. All of these things may be ideas of others at SpaceX or they may well be Elon’s ideas, but either way. Once he gets it into his head that it’s the right way to do something, no matter the naysayers, it gets done. That’s rarely the case elsewhere. Other space companies have too much history, inertia and management. SpaceX has Elon. Convince Him it’s the right way and you’re off.
Once he gets it into his head that it’s the right way to do something, no matter the naysayers, it gets done.
Weird cave rescue idea
Hyperloop
2 off the top of my head that were absolute pot head fantasy bollocks
Say what you like about him but he can pick a winner.
Enlighten us. Which other company or organisation had already been landing rockets [with cm accuracy] returning from 70km altitude at a speed in excess of 4000km/h before SpaceX did it?
OK, despite the fact that I acknowledged on the previous page that reusable rockets was a development by Space X that is innovative, and the answer is probably; any suitably funded avionics/aeronautical company that had a reason to pursue it. The actual technology is still based around the fact that we've been able to direct unmanned vehicles with "cm accuracy" since more or less the advent of flight, the first UAV was flown in 1917 and was a radio controllable target, that fact that you're impressed by a big tube landing on it's end is mostly becasue the only time you've seen it is probably a sci fi movie. All airplanes (and for that matter GBU and J-DAMS) that use GPS can reach the same sort of levels of accuracy, and as I said at the time, in a world where we bought back a space shuttle (with cm accuracy, it's really not as new as you seem to think) and children are building model space rockets that can land vertically, it's really just combination of 1. building on what everyone has done in the past, and 2. actually being paid (by US tax dollars) to develop it.
None of which means that SpaceX is doing anything beyond putting satellites in space and taking and bringing back stuff from low orbit which are both things that we've been doing for some time now. I mean; we went to the moon 60 years ago, and that's still the furthest humans have been in space. In that respect Space X hasn't achieved anything new. But y'know; a big tube...landing all by itself...on its end...etc etc
Say what you like about him but he can pick a winner.
Someone has to win the lottery.
I think he got very lucky with his bets early on. We now live in a world where it's pretty much impossible for the uber-rich to not continue getting richer. That was more of a collective effort to control governments, anti-competition laws, and tax laws in order to extract the maximum wealth from the rest of us rather than any genius move by an individual billionaire.
It shouldn't really be possible to spend 44 billion on a company and then reduce it's value to 20% of what it was at purchase within a couple of years and still be the richest person in the world but the billionaires and oligarchs have done their job well.
Enlighten us. Which other company or organisation had already been landing rockets [with cm accuracy] returning from 70km altitude at a speed in excess of 4000km/h before SpaceX did it?
Blue Origin did it first,,,
It shouldn’t really be possible to spend 44 billion on a company
Although he didnt spend all that money himself but got a bunch of other suckers to pay in especially a few banks (the only people trying to back out of the deal faster than he was were the banks but they accepted contracts were contracts).
On his cash front a judge has once again turned down his payout from Tesla. So expect Tesla to finish their move to a more musk friendly jurisdiction before asking a judge again.
2 off the top of my head that were absolute pot head fantasy bollocks
Cybertruck...
Although he didnt spend all that money himself but got a bunch of other suckers to pay in especially a few banks (the only people trying to back out of the deal faster than he was were the banks but they accepted contracts were contracts).
The other trick billionaire's seem to enjoy is blurring the lines between what is 'their' money and what is their company's money. The money they use to buy stuff comes from lines of credit secured by the shares they own in their company.
Helps if you want to keep all the profits to yourself but spread the losses around amongst as many people as possible, I would imagine.
Say what you like about him but he can pick a winner.
