Classic example of having way more money than brains and not knowing what to do with either of them.
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What's Elon Musk up to today…
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Reckon he awoke from a dream of 90% of twitter users leaving for Threads or Blue Sky, with just the Trump stans staying on board.
To me Musk is a paradox.
On one hand, he has some strange views. and seems to be deliberately destroying twitter.
On another hand, he has done some great things for humanity. Not just Tesla, but Space X. There is nothing more important than humankind colonising the Moon and Mars. Nothing.
On one hand, he has some strange views. and seems to be deliberately destroying twitter.
On another hand, he has done some great things for humanity. Not just Tesla, but Space X. There is nothing more important than humankind colonising the Moon and Mars. Nothing.
Like a lot of businessmen Musk is making his money from an overhyped company. Current valuations of Tesla are something like 30-45x EBITDA. They are insane multiples that IMO will never see the increase in realisation of profits.
A lot of businessmen get lucky with timing on investments, and the very best ways then know when to cut and run. He hasn't shown the latter much as yet.
A lot of businessmen get lucky with timing on investments, and the very best ways then know when to cut and run. He hasn't shown the latter much as yet.
Disagree. At his core he is just another typical ruthless business man looking to maximise profits. He's not humanities saviour and isn't doing these things out of the goodness of his heart. He's doing it for money. And ego.
Hard to disagree. but whatever the reason, i still stand by my point. He cares about profits and his ego. I care about the survival of the human race.
Yeah, lets go live on a planet with 1% of Earth's atmospheric density of which 90% is CO2, extreme solar radiation due to no magnetosphere, highly toxic soil, no liquid water as it's about 40 below.
I love scifi, but colonising Mars is a fantasy. We have the perfect planet for us but instead of looking after it, let's destroy it so rich people can live on a planet with where you get a fatal dose of solar radiation after about a 3 years of exposure. Also with 30% of Earth's gravity anyone lives there for any period will suffer muscle wastage and cardiovascular problems, if cancer from radiation doesn't get them first.
Of course, Musk also wants continued exponential population growth on earth because he reckons "there is still plenty of land".
"Saving humanity" is part of Elon's grift.
All of this is true.
But in a billion years earth will be uninhabitable. For us to have any chance of survival, we must be a multi-planet species and we must be a level 2 civilisation on the Kardashev scale.
Einstein was famous for his thought experiments. When he published his theory of general relativity a little over 100 years ago, I wonder if he imagined we would all be walking around with a device that literally had everything at our fingertips 100 years later?
Colonising Mars and terraforming it does look like the stuff of fantasy right now. But imagine how advanced we will be in another 100 years?
The earlier we start trying, the earlier we will perfect interplanetary travel and colonisation.
Personally I'd be very surprised if the human race is around in 1 billion years.
Yeah that may be all true, but it will be worth it if we get women with 3 breasts.
Eccentrica Gallumbits the triple breasted *smile* of Eroticon Six.
Whenever I see that scene with Arnie disguised as the obese woman saying '2 weeks', I always think of Balmey.
For some reason, he reminds me of Bond villain Le Chiffre, played by Mads Mikkelsen, in Casino Royale
