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Elon Musk pretending to be a hero!
    #28535401 - 11/09/23 10:07 AM (2 months, 17 days ago)



Jesus... Elon Musk says he bought Twitter to save the world from a Zombie apocalypse!


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof] * 1
    #28535522 - 11/09/23 11:29 AM (2 months, 17 days ago)

He is a hero, not the hero we deserve but the hero we need.
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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28535534 - 11/09/23 11:40 AM (2 months, 17 days ago)

Elon musk agreed to buy Twitter on a whim. His original plan was to buy a seat on the board of directors. Twitter changed the ownership rules after musk had bought 9% of the outstanding shares and denied him a seat. He got mad and said he would buy the entire company at $44. Twitter immediately agreed, knowing that was a very high bid. They signed a contract that would penalize musk $1 billion if he backed out.  Musk almost immediately started to equivocate and look for ways to get out of the deal. Eventually twitter took musk to court to force him to honor the contract. Musk saw the writing on the wall and bought out all the shareholders at $44

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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: koods] * 1
    #28535802 - 11/09/23 02:33 PM (2 months, 17 days ago)

Right.

And Joe Rogan just eats this shit up man. It doesn't even make sense, what Musk is saying about San Francisco... and twitter..

I really hate the glorification of billionaires.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28537497 - 11/10/23 05:04 PM (2 months, 16 days ago)

I think he really believes it. Unfortunately Joe is a get along guy doesn't push back nearly at all about anything to anyone. So if Joe would've said something like: So you buy Twitter, you introduced buying checkmark for 8$ and then giant sponsors lose billions of dollars because there's fake accounts with blue checkmarks, pretending to be Eli liliy for example saying they're going to make insulin free and they lose a bunch of money.

Do you have any regrets about that? Or Adressing the elephant in the room and say something like what compelled you to rename Twitter X? Because even when you talk about it, you call it X/Twitter, it's a vocabulary nightmare to change sending out a tweet to sending out an X and it seems like absolutely no one is excited about the name change so was that just for you, do you think you missed the mark? That kind of stuff.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #28537519 - 11/10/23 05:13 PM (2 months, 16 days ago)

Elon Musk thinks he is the hero of a epic saga spanning the entire universe.

That is his whole worldview. The universe is a story and he is the main character.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #28537536 - 11/10/23 05:26 PM (2 months, 16 days ago)

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I think he really believes it. Unfortunately Joe is a get along guy doesn't push back nearly at all about anything to anyone. So if Joe would've said something like: So you buy Twitter, you introduced buying checkmark for 8$ and then giant sponsors lose billions of dollars because there's fake accounts with blue checkmarks, pretending to be Eli liliy for example saying they're going to make insulin free and they lose a bunch of money.

Do you have any regrets about that? Or Adressing the elephant in the room and say something like what compelled you to rename Twitter X? Because even when you talk about it, you call it X/Twitter, it's a vocabulary nightmare to change sending out a tweet to sending out an X and it seems like absolutely no one is excited about the name change so was that just for you, do you think you missed the mark? That kind of stuff.




I suspect his gf had something to do with it. I think they named one of their kids X... or some shit like that.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof] * 2
    #28538386 - 11/11/23 09:41 AM (2 months, 15 days ago)

Nope, the wierdness comes from him. elon has a history of loving the letter X.  Weird but true.  His first company was named x and it became paypal.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28544205 - 11/15/23 04:09 PM (2 months, 11 days ago)

Essentially that video says that the left has had their time in the limelight, most people didn't like the way the world was becoming so they stop the non-sense.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Patlal] * 2
    #28544216 - 11/15/23 04:16 PM (2 months, 11 days ago)

That's like the Texas GOP campaigning on fixing all the damage caused by "the left"...after having a GOP supermajority for the last 20 years.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Ice9]
    #28544271 - 11/15/23 04:54 PM (2 months, 11 days ago)

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Nope, the wierdness comes from him. elon has a history of loving the letter X.  Weird but true.  His first company was named x and it became paypal.



Yeah I'd say their kids name was his lady though. One of them is X-AE-12 . Once he was asked how X-AE-12 was doing and he said who? The reporter said your kid X-Ae-12 and no shit he actually said. That sounds like an email password.

Yeah no shit! It's a god awful name much worse then blanket or blue ivy or something regular stupid like that.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #28544305 - 11/15/23 05:24 PM (2 months, 11 days ago)

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Grimes and Musk seem to have different ideas of how to pronounce the name. “It’s just X, like the letter X. Then AI. Like how you said the letter A then I,” Grimes said.

Musk, meanwhile, told podcast host Joe Rogan: “I mean, it’s just X, the letter X. And then, the Æ is, like, pronounced ‘Ash’... and then, A-12, A-12 is my contribution,” he said.




Musk also pronounces it pretty wild if you ever listen to him say it. He says it like a singular word. So if someone just said the letters, he's prolly like :wtf:


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #28544819 - 11/16/23 05:59 AM (2 months, 10 days ago)

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Nope, the wierdness comes from him. elon has a history of loving the letter X.  Weird but true.  His first company was named x and it became paypal.



Yeah I'd say their kids name was his lady though. One of them is X-AE-12 . Once he was asked how X-AE-12 was doing and he said who? The reporter said your kid X-Ae-12 and no shit he actually said. That sounds like an email password.

Yeah no shit! It's a god awful name much worse then blanket or blue ivy or something regular stupid like that.




The AE were meant to be merged... like in some foreign languages.. They weren't allowed to use that, though.

Personally, I think it's almost a form of child abuse, like naming your child Adolf Hitler, or something. In Michigan, we have laws against putting numbers in your kids name, and using certain names (like Adolf Hitler).. It may seem like government overreach, but I think these laws are a good thing.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28544840 - 11/16/23 06:16 AM (2 months, 10 days ago)

musks kids are going to make trumps kids look like saints.

they gonna be a bunch of detached freaks thinking they know whats best for humanity because daddys bank says so.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: mushboy]
    #28544900 - 11/16/23 07:02 AM (2 months, 10 days ago)

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musks kids are going to make trumps kids look like saints.

they gonna be a bunch of detached freaks thinking they know whats best for humanity because daddys bank says so.




Hopefully Musk won't be too involved in raising them. They would certainly turn out to be a bunch of megalomaniachs.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof] * 1
    #28544906 - 11/16/23 07:08 AM (2 months, 10 days ago)

the fathers are never engaged but they are a presence of constant fear and expectations.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof] * 1
    #28546610 - 11/17/23 02:56 PM (2 months, 9 days ago)

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musks kids are going to make trumps kids look like saints.

they gonna be a bunch of detached freaks thinking they know whats best for humanity because daddys bank says so.




Hopefully Musk won't be too involved in raising them. They would certainly turn out to be a bunch of megalomaniachs.



He has 10 kids and goes on interviews constantly and runs something like 3 businesses I think it's safe to say he doesn't spend much time with his kids :lol:


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Seriously_trippin] * 1
    #28546679 - 11/17/23 03:41 PM (2 months, 9 days ago)

My personal experience with rich people shows that the nanny raises the kids, usually.

They all say it's perfectly okay because the nanny is only there to help, not to raise the kids.

But as a former kid with a decent memory, the weirdest little things are what I remember, not the big planned events. The nanny is there for the weird little things. The parents taking an hour to hang out with their kids is the big event.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Kryptos]
    #28546866 - 11/17/23 05:59 PM (2 months, 9 days ago)

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My personal experience with rich people shows that the nanny raises the kids, usually.

They all say it's perfectly okay because the nanny is only there to help, not to raise the kids.

But as a former kid with a decent memory, the weirdest little things are what I remember, not the big planned events. The nanny is there for the weird little things. The parents taking an hour to hang out with their kids is the big event.




Well said man. It's the everyday mundane family time that makes people feel connected. Meeting up for special events is something you do with friends, or maybe extended family, but that doesn't create a strong familial level bond, and it's not the important stuff, really.

Back in slave times, there were house slaves that did a significant portion of raising children. When slavery ended, some of the families were really attached to the slaves, and I've read some really weird letters between former slave's and the slaver families, as a result. It's almost like the families didn't understand at all what they had done to those people.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28547256 - 11/17/23 11:34 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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    #28547280 - 11/18/23 12:46 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

Another thing is musk gives a reason for why he pumps out babies like rabbits and his reasoning is pretty cold. He's a big believer in the world being in danger of bring extremely under populated which may be true but that's his whole reason for having so many kids. Plus I think rich people literally have big families because they can afford it and hope one of their kids does something that'll reflect well on their "legacy". I gotta say with musk though I don't see him as a particularly dumb or evil person. I think he's extremely smart when it comes to renewable energy, rocketry, Evs in particular,  popularizing EVs , advancing self driving technology, advances battery tech etc etc. I think he's made real contributions to extremely important areas of technology and science that he should get credit for,from liberals that hate him because of his political stances. He can both have contributed alot AND do things that we strongly disagree with. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.

I just think he's an idiot when it comes to social media and politics to a large extent. I also think he fell into a true cliche of someone getting rich and then turning super conservative because conservatism is quite literally the best friend of any billionaire. I think because of that he's convinced himself that all his political positions are genius partly because especially people on the right overwhelmingly agree with him. And I feel like he's no different then a conservative uncle who watches very specific news sources and sees the most extreme examples of say the worst areas of San Francisco and pretends and believes that because there's bad areas in SF that the entirety of the area is just a giant shithole.

No mistake made some of it is but then it gets into the rhetoric of all of California is a sshitholeand Texas is a utopia. Of course people in this cam convirntlt skip over why taxes are so high in part which are things like medical or calfresh which helps people struggling immensely. One of my best friends would've been homeless and probably dead if he didn't have those. He had no medical care before medical and he has HIV so it's not really hyperbole to say those programs saved his life and make it so he and his family wasn't homeless and went hungry. The rich like Rogan and musk are so far removed from that reality they just see it as handouts for deadbeats and its not even close to that.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: koods]
    #28547442 - 11/18/23 07:04 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

My x is half black, and her daughter is half cuban... She's whiter than me, and as far as I'm aware, I'm purely Western European blood.


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    #28547517 - 11/18/23 07:29 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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Another thing is musk gives a reason for why he pumps out babies like rabbits and his reasoning is pretty cold. He's a big believer in the world being in danger of bring extremely under populated which may be true but that's his whole reason for having so many kids. Plus I think rich people literally have big families because they can afford it and hope one of their kids does something that'll reflect well on their "legacy". I gotta say with musk though I don't see him as a particularly dumb or evil person. I think he's extremely smart when it comes to renewable energy, rocketry, Evs in particular,  popularizing EVs , advancing self driving technology, advances battery tech etc etc. I think he's made real contributions to extremely important areas of technology and science that he should get credit for,from liberals that hate him because of his political stances. He can both have contributed alot AND do things that we strongly disagree with. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.




I think electronic vehicles are actually worse on the environment, because of toxic waste produced in the manufacturing process, or something like that.

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I just think he's an idiot when it comes to social media and politics to a large extent. I also think he fell into a true cliche of someone getting rich and then turning super conservative because conservatism is quite literally the best friend of any billionaire.




Musk has Aspergers, so it makes sense that he doesn't do well socially. Also, he was born rich.

Anyway... There are many billionaires that I dislike far more than Musk... He can be kind of obnoxious, but I don't think he's particularly sinister.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Tulipslave]
    #28547634 - 11/18/23 08:59 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

Elons big rocket blew up again. Idk how many times you get away with blowing up the worlds largest rocket before investors start whispering

Spacex called it an unscheduled vehicle disassembly

https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-second-test-flight-launch-explodes


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: koods]
    #28547659 - 11/18/23 09:25 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

There is a lot not to admire about Musk, but his approach to failure is admirable af.


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    #28547698 - 11/18/23 09:54 AM (2 months, 8 days ago)

Unscheduled vehicle disassembly is a common joke in rocketry. SpaceX has put more stuff in space than any other entity over the last few years, I don't think a few failures are going to make investors get to scared. Especially not when you consider that the rocket in question wasn't carrying a payload that needed to reach a destination.


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    #28547904 - 11/18/23 12:45 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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Unscheduled vehicle disassembly is a common joke in rocketry. SpaceX has put more stuff in space than any other entity over the last few years, I don't think a few failures are going to make investors get to scared. Especially not when you consider that the rocket in question wasn't carrying a payload that needed to reach a destination.




I think SpaceX has put more shit into space than any other entity period. I mean... How many satellites are there in Starlink?


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28547926 - 11/18/23 01:24 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

The only real way to compare it would be by mass. I highly doubt they have equaled the US or even Russia given the fact that those space programs have existed for 70 years. Consider that the space station is larger than a football field and weighs hundreds of tons.


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    #28547955 - 11/18/23 02:00 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

SpaceX also largely exists because the US government is slowly privatizing NASA.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: christopera]
    #28548210 - 11/18/23 05:04 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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The only real way to compare it would be by mass.




You could compare it in different ways. Mass... Number of separate objects launched into space...

SpaceX created the first re-useable rocket, so I think that has given them an edge over NASA, and other organizations... But idk... I could be wrong.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Kryptos]
    #28548213 - 11/18/23 05:05 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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SpaceX also largely exists because the US government is slowly privatizing NASA.




Privatizing NASA is a mistake.


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    #28548218 - 11/18/23 05:12 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

Something we agree on.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Ice9]
    #28548230 - 11/18/23 05:23 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

I hate to say it, but Elon needs to lay off the drugs.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: nooneman]
    #28548255 - 11/18/23 05:44 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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I hate to say it, but Elon needs to lay off the drugs.




I think he needs to start dropping acid tbh... I say that about everyone though.. But Musk especially..


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28548306 - 11/18/23 06:25 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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SpaceX also largely exists because the US government is slowly privatizing NASA.




Privatizing NASA is a mistake.




I agree. Government agencies such as NASA need to be able to do research with no profitable expectations. Public funded breakthroughs can then be picked up by the corporations that can invest in making that breakthrough into an efficient and profitable product (jobs, objects/services, growth, etc.)


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28548335 - 11/18/23 06:48 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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The only real way to compare it would be by mass.




You could compare it in different ways. Mass... Number of separate objects launched into space...

SpaceX created the first re-useable rocket, so I think that has given them an edge over NASA, and other organizations... But idk... I could be wrong.




“First reusable rocket” lol



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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28548370 - 11/18/23 07:18 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

That's not a reusable rocket, that's a reusable shuttle attached to a one time use rocket. Soviets were closer to reusable rocket.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Kryptos]
    #28548374 - 11/18/23 07:23 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

Sure it is. The entire vehicle was reusable, including the engines


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: koods]
    #28548382 - 11/18/23 07:32 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

Not the big ass orange thing in the middle.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: koods]
    #28548384 - 11/18/23 07:33 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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Sure it is. The entire vehicle was reusable, including the engines




That's a disposable rocket.

Reusable rockets are SpaceX's claim to fame.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28548394 - 11/18/23 07:42 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

The fuel tank? Oh ok well, if you’re going to nitpick, then musks rockets aren’t reusable either because the second stage isn’t reused. It is left in space or deorbited. Unlike the space shuttle, spacex wastes an entire rocket engine every-time it launches.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: koods]
    #28548416 - 11/18/23 07:56 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)



They land the whole thing backwards... I don't think they lose anything.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28548424 - 11/18/23 08:01 PM (2 months, 8 days ago)

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SpaceX becomes first to re-fly used rocket

SpaceX launched its first “pre-flown” rocket on Thursday, marking the first time anyone has relaunched a booster into space, in what CEO Elon Musk called “a milestone in the history of space”.

“This is going to be ultimately a huge revolution in spaceflight,” Musk said on a SpaceX broadcast of the launch.

He said that accomplishment – to “fly and re-fly an orbital-class booster” – was like finally achieving reliable aircraft rather than throwing away an airplane after every flight.

“It’s taken us a long time, a lot of difficult steps along the way,” he said, “but I’m just incredibly proud of the spaceflight team.”

The success is a step toward vastly less expensive spaceflight, which some hope can revolutionize travel in the solar system and take humans to Mars. While Nasa for decades used reusable spacecraft – its famous space shuttle fleet – the space agency has found that the intense maintenance the shuttles need makes them more expensive than rockets, at least with current technology.

“No one has ever done anything like this before,” SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell said in a company broadcast before the launch. “We’re not one-way trip to Mars people. We want to make sure that whoever we take can come back.”




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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof] * 2
    #28548962 - 11/19/23 09:43 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

Musk is a delusional moron who thinks that underpopulation is an existential threat because unless we make the earth uninhabitable, we'll never colonize other planets.  Listening to Elon's opinions about the direction we should take as a society is...probably not in most folks best interest.


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    #28548972 - 11/19/23 09:49 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

People aren't in most people's best interest, bro.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: ballsalsa]
    #28548979 - 11/19/23 09:55 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

Musk is a self-admitted technocrat. He believes society should be structured as a dictatorship of tech leaders. People are a disposable resource to be exploited in the pursuit of technology.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Kryptos]
    #28548987 - 11/19/23 10:02 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

That's what I said, he's a delusional moron.


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: ballsalsa]
    #28548997 - 11/19/23 10:09 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

Lots of people seem to be pro-dictatorship lately. They seem to think it will go well for them.


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    #28549042 - 11/19/23 10:44 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

Most people are idiots and many of them yearn for a powerful father figure to direct them so they won't have to be responsible for their own decisions.



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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: ballsalsa]
    #28549044 - 11/19/23 10:49 AM (2 months, 7 days ago)

Or vicariously live thru.

Either ways theys crazy.
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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Bigbadwooof]
    #28549686 - 11/19/23 10:28 PM (2 months, 6 days ago)

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Another thing is musk gives a reason for why he pumps out babies like rabbits and his reasoning is pretty cold. He's a big believer in the world being in danger of bring extremely under populated which may be true but that's his whole reason for having so many kids. Plus I think rich people literally have big families because they can afford it and hope one of their kids does something that'll reflect well on their "legacy". I gotta say with musk though I don't see him as a particularly dumb or evil person. I think he's extremely smart when it comes to renewable energy, rocketry, Evs in particular,  popularizing EVs , advancing self driving technology, advances battery tech etc etc. I think he's made real contributions to extremely important areas of technology and science that he should get credit for,from liberals that hate him because of his political stances. He can both have contributed alot AND do things that we strongly disagree with. The 2 are not mutually exclusive.




I think electronic vehicles are actually worse on the environment, because of toxic waste produced in the manufacturing process, or something like that.

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I just think he's an idiot when it comes to social media and politics to a large extent. I also think he fell into a true cliche of someone getting rich and then turning super conservative because conservatism is quite literally the best friend of any billionaire.




Musk has Aspergers, so it makes sense that he doesn't do well socially. Also, he was born rich.

Anyway... There are many billionaires that I dislike far more than Musk... He can be kind of obnoxious, but I don't think he's particularly sinister.




The thing with those resources needed to make evs is that virtually everything you do has an impact on the earth but its a reality that natural gas, coal etc are quite literally finite resources that WILL run out. If we continue to improve on evs, specifically battery capabilites alot of that impact will lessen overtime and we won't be in a position as humanity goes where there's literally no alternative. Also to say it's worse then gigantic oil spills for example or greenhouse gases for fossil fuels is really not a good argument imo.


I think you're right about his social skills though that's where I really do think he's an idiot :lol:


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Re: Elon Musk pretending to be a hero! [Re: Seriously_trippin]
    #28549792 - 11/20/23 03:29 AM (2 months, 6 days ago)

I'll take lithium batteries that last twenty + years over gas. Even if electric vehicles are straight banned, that's not gonna stop lithium mining. I see a lot of right wing contractors who scream about the lithium mines damage to the environment meanwhile all their tools run on the same type of battery.


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I'll take lithium batteries that last twenty + years over gas and electric. Even if electric vehicles are straight banned, that's not gonna stop lithium mining. I see a lot of right wing contractors who scream about the lithium mines damage to the environment meanwhile all their tools run on the same type of battery.



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