Elon Musk

attempting to undermine public transpo projects in the pursuit of selling lousy cars is pretty bad

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:06 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But in the best traditions of the auto Indy which is about the only thing he hasn’t learnt from carmakers.

I guess my point, as such, was that the only thing he's really *achieved* has been his line of fancy cars. Everything else has been sort of a pipe dream work in progress that seems more talk than payoff, as of yet. That is to say, I understand that Space x is a thing, but I don't understand what that thing is. To privatize space travel?

mostly

(I'm in favor of space travel+research fwiw)

lol you guys are such haters.

Space x’s number one thing is to earn money by putting things into orbit.

If he wants to build rockets, that's cool, but it really does seem most directly a guy with money does things for other people with money project, unless one factors in the abstract potential benefits of future space travel. I agree that space travel and research is mostly a good thing, but I'm not sure how good it is in the hands of a select few with the money to do it. For example, who owns the fruit of research financed by Space X?

Which is to say, at the rate we're going Elon Musk will mostly be known as the guy that owns the moon.

afaik they aren't financing any research, so not to worry!

space travel and research is childish and dumb actually

no more so than sports

you use the garbage we throw into orbit every day. spacex puts more garbage that you use into orbit more cheaply than everyone else by reusing the rockets, which they manage to land back on earth after launch.

sports is way better than space travel

spacex might still be a shit business model. new forbes article about that today. nba is a good business model. not paying college players probably the best business model.

sports is way better than space travel

them's fightin words

also stupid words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cLOBHEON20

them's fightin words

also stupid words

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 6:36 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow try growing up then get back to me

typed out a semi-drunk rant about sports vs Musk but then decided it was just easier to use the FP

sports is way better than space travel

for mere earthbound clods like us, sure. but sports are also childish and dumb. I mean that in a good way

sports and space travel are both run by tech billionaires

however, steph curry does not believe we've landed on the moon

sports has athletes who can dunk space travel has what some smelly nerds

Space Jam

just going to throw that out there

sounds like someone's never seen a little movie called SPACE JAM

lol xp

there is a basketball jones and then there is tracy morgan's astronaut jones

umm actually i saw space jam in the theater plz think before u post

you didn't see cars 2 or incredibles 2, though

i saw the incredibles 1

Note that in Space Jam it was the Monstars who were doing the space travel in an attempt to enslave Earth not an argument for the goodness of space travel tbh

anyway space travel and sports are both fun activities by definition, since they are hard to do and there's no reason to do them

humans shdnt go to space its not for us

fine, you can stay behind

if god had meant us to go into space he would've put us in space

space is cursed just like the new york knicks

the one exception is elon musk shd def go to mars and stay there

hey have you ever thought about how, like, we already *are* in space, man

no JD & The Straight Shot in space. 1 point for space.

no were on earth our home, the trash planet

unlike Sanpaku I believe it's important that all humanity perish on this rock made of garbage

i'm not going as far as all humanity but i have a list

it's important to determine how far out our tail of garbage might reach

our best garbage (Voyager) will most likely outlast every trace of human civilization on earth

i thought that plastic bag in american beauty was supposed to be our "best garbage"

I would never call Kevin Spacey best anything

I would never call Kevin Spacey best anything

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:24 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the only good reason to go to space is to kill god

Been there, done that:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTE2NTE0YmYtNTE3YS00NzFmLWJmMDMtZWQ5Njg5NDBmNTFiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg

is there really a star wars where they ill god dont mess w me

shit you not

ok im sold i will read the wikipedia summary