Elon Musk

seems like we should have a thread on this guy, idk

Who he?

It's really an anagram of "Nole Skum."

Suk Lemon

ahe's kinda like tony stark, so i gather from ten mins research, but without the weapons and with clean energy and space

it's kinda surprising he isn't more well known all things considered

seriously. if wiki is even half-accurate shouldn't he be a fixture on Time mag or something?

His family sound really annoying. Was married to, uh, somebody who was in that St Trinians film, uh, the one with Russell Brand.

You realise that if he was ever to become involved in some sort of scandal and subsequent cover-up, newspapers could use the headline, "Elongate"

if he was caught cheating he'd be THE MUSKRAT

dude owes his company's survival to gov programs but
says it's no big deal if Romney wins and makes good on his promise
to obliterate them all.

lots of companies do well out of govt contracts/programs, i'd imagine.

so hyperloop huh

people on twitter so mad. trying to understand why. i guess it boils down to:

1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people

2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there

3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude

still, i mean, it's pretty cool, right?

1) shouldn't we fix BART / buses / systems that working class people use before building toys for rich people

There are lots of problems everywhere all the time. Can't let it stop technology from moving forward.

2) LA-to-SF only is ridiculous, there's like a whole state in there

There's a whole country, even! LA-to-SF sounds like a perfectly fine beta test.

3) nobody wants to hear half-baked plans from an arrogant rich dude

Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.

people on twitter so mad.

who do you follow?

i'm not getting that impression from all the tech ppl i follow

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

You might be right, Johnny, dunno. I was just trying to figure out why there was this explosion of contempt all over my twitter feed after the announcement.

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

i do follow tim but i guess whatever he said didn't stick

cool monorail bro

lol

i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10

im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy

even i can afford that

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?

the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real

Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.

sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too

I meant 94% sorry.

To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.

i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it

maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk

LOL "elon musk"

This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?

I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.

I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.

Bad connotations...

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.

Lol

I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch

I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.

Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.

*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.

ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM

he might do this

is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?

iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism

xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it

(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)

he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.

nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal

see i wldve gone with he was just havin a laugh

there is a massive closed and abandoned buca de beppo in my town which everyone hates b/c no one is taking care of the building so it has an extra layer for me

this is hilarious

I thought he was referencing jail and scorsese

Listening to neon neon and tried to explain delorean as like musk, thought i was being all crazy insightful lol, but thread was on it. years ago. btw that album is still fun.

delorean actually was very good at making cars to begin with tho, no? just not when he branched out alone

i told my kid that my recall was that he was trying some different design stuff (didnt the car have different sized wheels or something?) not to mention facilities location. You’re right tho he was at least a car guy making cars.

first you monsters deny elon the title of 'engineer'. now you would take away 'car guy'? And after previously awarding that title to a poster that admits to not even owning a car!

https://mixmag.net/read/grimes-elon-musk-baby-name-burial-archangel-news

Well said! Please run for office. The politicians & unelected bureaucrats who stole our liberty should be tarred, feathered & thrown out of town!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2020

so I had a short stint at a small stealth-mode cybersecurity startup once. my boss told me he had heard from one of the Y Combinator founders at a party that Elon Musk believed in Bostrom's simulation argument, but with one small amendment: that he, Elon Musk, was Real

— biz malarkey🌹 (@uhshanti) May 7, 2018

there is a massive closed and abandoned buca de beppo in my town which everyone hates b/c no one is taking care of the building so it has an extra layer for me

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:39 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

You probably ought to check whether Elon Musk is hiding out in there

oh good pic.twitter.com/CBigbC8ffE

— Cynical Bathtub (@cynical_bathtub) May 17, 2020

I love that these conspiracy nuts still overwhelmingly like to adopt the hip lingo of a 20+ year old movie and haven't found anything else to latch onto in recent years

nothing else has utilized the duster as effectively

funny thing is if there was ever a pill you could take to go under and live in a dream world and have lots of money and sex these would be the first people to sign up for that shit

*morpheus voice* in a sense thats what theyre doing

delorean actually was very good at making cars to begin with tho, no? just not when he branched out alone

Yeah, because he was an idea guy at Pontiac, which was GM's 'engineering' division where a lot of concepts got tried out first (mid-size performance cars, rubber bumpers, hidden wipers, optic cable radio antennas inside windshields etc.), and things started downhill for when he was promoted to the more conservative Chevrolet.

After he broke loose, his own company had a lot of problems getting started (among other things, coming along after a number of similar other failed 'performance/safety car' startups littered throughout the 70s didn't help), and when production finally began, they made the mistake of using underpowered Renault engines.

And then, yeah, cocaine...

Fuck both of you

— Lilly Wachowski (@lilly_wachowski) May 17, 2020

nice

<3

This is Grimes' mom. Thanksgiving is going to be fun. pic.twitter.com/7i3oLnzvrO

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) May 17, 2020

everything seems normal

still don’t understand why he included the rose emoji with that post

He self identifies as Tuxedo Mask

the red pill is actually democratic socialism

Funny thing about Grimes's mom is that she was a Tesla-owning Elon Musk fangirl well before her daughter started dating him.

sounds like she has been red pilled since then.. about elon musk

its sad when your enthusiasm for a luxury electric vehicle brand is marred by your daughter having the child of its psycho ceo

the classic tragedy

elonmusk @ coronavirus

and its more famous prequel, elonmusk space x

This is a thread about what it’s like to be Elon Musk’s neighbor.

— Rachel Monroe (@rachmonroe) May 21, 2020

brutal

these fucking people

So do you want him to personally apologize for being the only person really making strides to make the world a better place? And actually executing ideas? Cool keep up the good work

— Noya (@NoyaOfficial) May 21, 2020

Saving hmanity is worth the inconvenience.

— Jub 🖖🧢 ☂️ (@hjub) May 22, 2020

the cartoon in that string ha

Breaking news:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/25/elon-musk-grimes-change-baby-name-roman-numerals-look-better

Musk said that he told Behnken and Hurley's kids: "We've done everything we can to make sure your dads come back."

— Miriam Kramer (@mirikramer) May 27, 2020

as trump told the widow of a dead special forces soldier, 'he knew what he signed up for'

"we'll see what happens"

"there's always the AZ-5"

Saved by the weather, lucky bastards

Musk looks like a face transplant recipient. I don't know if it's the Michael Jackson stubble or what.

he and zuck def rolled straight outta the uncanny valley

^ yes. They look like video game representations of themselves.

idk what Zuck's excuse is but Elon's definitely had a ton of implants put into his face so that he can look good from precisely one angle

Uncanny Valley, CA
Pop. 2

zuckerberg clearly some sort of not quite human inter dimensional traveler

boom

The SpaceX Starship rocket prototype SN4 exploded after an engine test this afternoon in Texas.

Credit: @LabPadre livestream https://t.co/aPJknKdl6M pic.twitter.com/gXKWTH0VLn

— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) May 29, 2020

imagine being the astronauts waiting on their rescheduled launch

meteors did it