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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
Musk said yesterday that there was a 70% chance that he was moving to Mars. For all his alleged brilliance, he's an idiot.
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The best idea Musk ever had was stealing emeralds from his dad to make some money. It taught him the valuable lesson that being so rich you literally don't know what to do with your money means you can do virtually anything with no repercussions.
He was never brilliant, he was always rich.
He was never brilliant, he was always rich.
sandmann wrote:Zak S wrote:I'm not a dick, I'm really nice.Zak S wrote:(...) once you have decided that you will spend any part of your life trolling on the internet, you forfeit all rights as a human.If you should get hit by a car--no-one should help you. If you vote on anything--your vote should be thrown away.
If you wanted to participate in a conversation, you've lost that right. You are a non-human now. You are over and cancelled. No concern of yours can ever matter to any member of the human race ever again.
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"Space Travel" is still an absolutely worthwile goal to pursue, because right now we're a single planet species and that sucks.
It's insane that we're seemingly funding this by rich private investors instead of public agencies. Still, I'll take SpaceX over NASA's ever shrinking budget.
But SpaceX apart, Musk's entire thing is pretty well summed by the not-a-flamethrower case.
It's insane that we're seemingly funding this by rich private investors instead of public agencies. Still, I'll take SpaceX over NASA's ever shrinking budget.
But SpaceX apart, Musk's entire thing is pretty well summed by the not-a-flamethrower case.
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There will be no shifting.
It will be an added cost.
It will be an added cost.
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Shrapnel wrote:TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.
Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
SpaceX is literally state funded. It doesn't fucking have private funding for shit.nockermensch wrote:"Space Travel" is still an absolutely worthwile goal to pursue, because right now we're a single planet species and that sucks.
It's insane that we're seemingly funding this by rich private investors instead of public agencies. Still, I'll take SpaceX over NASA's ever shrinking budget.
But SpaceX apart, Musk's entire thing is pretty well summed by the not-a-flamethrower case.
But also, it's EXPLICITLY so that he can not have to deal with stinky proles, which is... a bad sign.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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Musk is no Nikola Tesla, no matter how much he might want to be. First off, Telsa was constantly broke, because he literally had no idea how money worked. Westinghouse had to basically pay for his home and food and such. Further, Tesla was not just a genius, but also utterly batshit insane, had no want for personal fame or glory, and had zero interest in woman. All in all, the perfect human being.
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Tesla, for all his genius and many accomplishments, kind of had Musk's problem of promising a whole lot before he actually did anything. But in Tesla's case, it definitely helps that what he did do was genuinely revolutionary.Shrapnel wrote:Musk is no Nikola Tesla, no matter how much he might want to be. First off, Telsa was constantly broke, because he literally had no idea how money worked. Westinghouse had to basically pay for his home and food and such. Further, Tesla was not just a genius, but also utterly batshit insane, had no want for personal fame or glory, and had zero interest in woman. All in all, the perfect human being.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-lawsuit
US news, but since we are talking about Musk here
US news, but since we are talking about Musk here
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Wait...
Make roads go 3D? Has Musk never heard of bridges?The Guardian wrote:The tunnels are Musk’s solution to “soul-destroying traffic”, a way to make roads “go 3D”, according to the company’s website.
sandmann wrote:Zak S wrote:I'm not a dick, I'm really nice.Zak S wrote:(...) once you have decided that you will spend any part of your life trolling on the internet, you forfeit all rights as a human.If you should get hit by a car--no-one should help you. If you vote on anything--your vote should be thrown away.
If you wanted to participate in a conversation, you've lost that right. You are a non-human now. You are over and cancelled. No concern of yours can ever matter to any member of the human race ever again.
Some other assholes from California invented the bus not that long ago, so we shouldn't be surprised. Disappointed in humanity, sure, but not surprised.Pseudo Stupidity wrote:Wait...
Make roads go 3D? Has Musk never heard of bridges?The Guardian wrote:The tunnels are Musk’s solution to “soul-destroying traffic”, a way to make roads “go 3D”, according to the company’s website.
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Space exploration? Great, fantastic. Landing people on Mars as a technological and engineering challenge? Sure, whatever. Space colonization, on the other hand, is the dumbest fucking idea anyone has ever put forth as a serious public goal.
Something Bruce Sterling said, as quoted by Charles Stross in an excellent blog post on space travel and colonization:
"I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."
There is literally no resource available in the universe that cannot be more cheaply and efficiently extracted on Earth. I don't care how low your price per kilogram up the gravity well gets and how much rocket fuel you can synthesize at the colony, it cannot conceivably be cheaper than just mining, or even recycling, the materials already available on Earth.
IMO, Elon Musk is delusional or a charlatan or both.
Something Bruce Sterling said, as quoted by Charles Stross in an excellent blog post on space travel and colonization:
"I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."
There is literally no resource available in the universe that cannot be more cheaply and efficiently extracted on Earth. I don't care how low your price per kilogram up the gravity well gets and how much rocket fuel you can synthesize at the colony, it cannot conceivably be cheaper than just mining, or even recycling, the materials already available on Earth.
IMO, Elon Musk is delusional or a charlatan or both.
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That's why I like to advocate terraforming Venus. Not only is learning how to reverse global warming likely to be helpful here at home, everything about Venus makes it a better choice. For example, your weight on Venus is 91% of your Earth weight; Mars it is only 38%.
But I am all for nudging all the asteroids (4% mass of the moon) into Mars. Not only will it add a lot of heat, it'll add a little mass, and all the pieces will be much easier to pick up (assuming that asteroid mining makes sense). It may also add significant amounts of water.
But I am all for nudging all the asteroids (4% mass of the moon) into Mars. Not only will it add a lot of heat, it'll add a little mass, and all the pieces will be much easier to pick up (assuming that asteroid mining makes sense). It may also add significant amounts of water.
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He doesn't want to do it because it's efficient, he wants to do it because he has a fundamental hatred of humanity and a visceral felt urge to be working to get as far away from them as possible, and into a position where he can murder anyone who bothers him.Mord wrote:Space exploration? Great, fantastic. Landing people on Mars as a technological and engineering challenge? Sure, whatever. Space colonization, on the other hand, is the dumbest fucking idea anyone has ever put forth as a serious public goal.
Something Bruce Sterling said, as quoted by Charles Stross in an excellent blog post on space travel and colonization:
"I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."
There is literally no resource available in the universe that cannot be more cheaply and efficiently extracted on Earth. I don't care how low your price per kilogram up the gravity well gets and how much rocket fuel you can synthesize at the colony, it cannot conceivably be cheaper than just mining, or even recycling, the materials already available on Earth.
IMO, Elon Musk is delusional or a charlatan or both.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
I mean, even if he actually got a colony up and running, it's internet will be shit. And the social isolation would be worse than living in Antarctica.Maj wrote:Musk said yesterday that there was a 70% chance that he was moving to Mars. For all his alleged brilliance, he's an idiot.
Isn't that literally just a subway?Longes wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-lawsuit
US news, but since we are talking about Musk here
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Nah. Subways are communist trains that quickly carry large numbers of people to and from defined locations. Elon Musk wants to build underpasses for people to drive in. Because as you are doubtless aware, what people really want is the self empowerment to get stuck in traffic while enclosed in an idling motor vehicle in a smoggy carbon monoxide infused tunnel.hyzmarca wrote:Isn't that literally just a subway?
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Wow. It's been proved time and again that overwork reduces overall productivity and increases costly mistakes, accidents, and illness. But at least it's possible that he's not a malignant robber baron, maybe he's just insane from sleep deprivation.
Working 80+ hours/week will 'change the world,' though; in the same way that the Scarecrow's compound will 'take you places.'
Working 80+ hours/week will 'change the world,' though; in the same way that the Scarecrow's compound will 'take you places.'
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