Elon Musk - news and discussion

[gosub]

Farting unicorn row: artist reaches settlement with Elon Musk

 

[Rob Ray]

One other thing about that pedo row, in 2008 he divorced his wife (and mother of his five children) after she told him she didn't want to be a trophy partner any more. Six weeks later the then 37-year-old called to inform her he'd gotten engaged to a woman in her early 20s, actress Talulah Riley. You might remember her from the 2007 film St Trinians, in which she played a schoolgirl. Now to be clear, I'm not saying he's a pedo. He is however a horrible bastard who should think very carefully about throwing around accusations about creepy behaviour.

Elon Musk's First Wife Justine Musk Talks Their Messy Divorce

 

[mather]

There's no correlation between being a genius and being a cunt, tis possible to be both, either or neither. I've always thought he was the first but sadly this episode seems to provide evidence for being the second as well.

People always keep saying that he is some type of genius, where is the evidence for this? What has he done to be placed on the same level as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking?

 

[weltweit]

People always keep saying that he is some type of genius, where is the evidence for this? What has he done to be placed on the same level as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking?

I don't think Musk is a genius, but he isn't stupid and his business ventures are more interesting than most.

 

[gosub]

People always keep saying that he is some type of genius, where is the evidence for this? What has he done to be placed on the same level as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking?

Chris Morris is a genius but he never landed two rockets similtaniously

 

[JimW]

 

[NoXion]

Chris Morris is a genius but he never landed two rockets similtaniously

Musk didn't do any of that, that was all the work of his underpaid engineers.

 

[8ball]

People always keep saying that he is some type of genius, where is the evidence for this? What has he done to be placed on the same level as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking?

The term “genius” has been massively overapplied for more than a few decades tbf.

 

[8ball]

Musk didn't do any of that, that was all the work of his underpaid engineers.

I don’t think that would have happened without him.

 

[NoXion]

I don’t think that would have happened without him.

I dunno, there seems to be a surfeit of absurdly wealthy tech nerds about these days. Musk isn't the only one with skywards ambitions, the modern Mr Burns himself Jeff Bezos of Amazon has got his own Blue Origin thing going on.

 

[MickiQ]

I dunno, there seems to be a surfeit of absurdly wealthy tech nerds about these days. Musk isn't the only one with skywards ambitions, the modern Mr Burns himself Jeff Bezos of Amazon has got his own Blue Origin thing going on.

Musk is an engineer himself much of the design work on Space X was done by the man himself while Bezos is purely a business man, he is now so obscenely wealthy that he can effectively buy a space program
He is personally about as rich as the entire nation of Hungary

 

[tim]

Musk is an engineer himself much of the design work on Space X was done by the man himself while Bezos is purely a business man, he is now so obscenely wealthy that he can effectively buy a space program
He is personally about as rich as the entire nation of Hungary

Classic personality cult stuff: the Great Leader always has to be a genius and polymath.

 

[NoXion]

Musk is an engineer himself much of the design work on Space X was done by the man himself while Bezos is purely a business man, he is now so obscenely wealthy that he can effectively buy a space program
He is personally about as rich as the entire nation of Hungary

There's nothing on Musk's wiki page to indicate that he did any serious engineering work before starting SpaceX. That makes me doubt that Musk did any more than sketch out the broad-strokes concepts, with the engineers being the ones who turned Musk's visions into reality.

 

[BigTom]

There's nothing on Musk's wiki page to indicate that he did any serious engineering work before starting SpaceX. That makes me doubt that Musk did any more than sketch out the broad-strokes concepts, with the engineers being the ones who turned Musk's visions into reality.

He has a degree in physics (along with one in economics) which makes me think he can probably discuss stuff with the specialist engineers at a decent level, and therefore be involved with much of the engineering but only at a high level like you say. People with highly specialised aerodynamics, fuel/propulsion, material science type phds/masters/experience will be doing the actual engineering/design work surely.

 

[Rosemary Jest]

One other thing about that pedo row, in 2008 he divorced his wife (and mother of his five children) after she told him she didn't want to be a trophy partner any more. Six weeks later the then 37-year-old called to inform her he'd gotten engaged to a woman in her early 20s, actress Talulah Riley. You might remember her from the 2007 film St Trinians, in which she played a schoolgirl. Now to be clear, I'm not saying he's a pedo. He is however a horrible bastard who should think very carefully about throwing around accusations about creepy behaviour.

Elon Musk's First Wife Justine Musk Talks Their Messy Divorce

The fella sounds like a bigger cunt than we already knew him to be.

 

[Kaka Tim]

There's nothing on Musk's wiki page to indicate that he did any serious engineering work before starting SpaceX. That makes me doubt that Musk did any more than sketch out the broad-strokes concepts, with the engineers being the ones who turned Musk's visions into reality.

 

[Dogsauce]

Quite a lot of the media seems to be under the impression that he came up with the idea of a train in a vacuum tube (hyperloop). It’s almost like there’s journalists out there that never read the Ladybird book of Trains, the ignorant cunts. Idea has been around for decades, probably since before Musk was born.

 

[NoXion]

Quite a lot of the media seems to be under the impression that he came up with the idea of a train in a vacuum tube (hyperloop). It’s almost like there’s journalists out there that never read the Ladybird book of Trains, the ignorant cunts. Idea has been around for decades, probably since before Musk was born.

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It goes all the way back to 1904:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-scifi-story-robert-h-goddard-published-100-years-a-1494959842

 

[Poi E]

Bring back the Atmospheric Railway to Croydon, I say.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Elon Musk donated nearly $40K to Republican PAC, filings show

Seems to be a typical rich donor--donating to whoever will let him do whateverthefuck he wants without regard to anyone else.

 

[tommers]

Car maker moaning about traffic.

 

[mojo pixy]

 

[tim]

The gobshite is being hoisted by his own pet turd!

HALLELUJAH!

 

[NoXion]

The gobshite is being hoisted by his own pet turd!

HALLELUJAH!

What is happening?

 

[tim]

He announced that he was going to take the company private: us backing from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to buy back Tesla shares traded on stock markets. This temporarily reversed a fall in share prices, but doesn't seem to have much substance to it. He's now being sued by traders who were trying to short the share price.

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Elon Musk Details ‘Excruciating’ Personal Toll of Tesla Turmoil


How much trouble is Elon Musk in?

Former insiders think Elon Musk needs a strong No. 2 to help lead Tesla

 

[tim]

Share values down by 20%

Investors betting against Tesla made $1.09bn since Elon Musk's tweet

 

[gosub]

The morally neutral, polymath billionaire saviour figure is a common trope in sci-fi. Musk's persona seems more suited to fiction than to real life, not unlike most of his miracle technologies.

Even his name is better suited to a character in one of those hamfisted Ben Elton satires than to a real person.

How very Boy named Sue.

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If the Saudi's are going down the Lucid route..... Was staying on mates boat a couple of weeks ago and this fella comes up and wants to charge his iPhone....no one on the boat uses iPhone (not that it not a product without merit), so we were unable to help as there wasn't a cable with the right connector., so he had to wander off nursing what was left on his battery. /just saying

 

[gentlegreen]

By all accounts it's very difficult and expensive to get Teslas fixed ...

 

[mauvais]

Tesla's not going private then, as was entirely obvious from the off. If the US were a functioning state with a functioning SEC, Musk'd probably be looking at prison for securities fraud. As it is, probably nothing will happen.

 

[MickiQ]

Tesla's not going private then, as was entirely obvious from the off. If the US were a functioning state with a functioning SEC, Musk'd probably be looking at prison for securities fraud. As it is, probably nothing will happen.

It was on the news a couple of weeks ago that a group of stock market short selling funds were on about suing him since this meant they had lost millions on their deals rather than made millions, It is hard to feel particularly outraged about this tbh.