Elon Musk - news and discussion

[gentlegreen]

Musk's "Flash Gordon" rocket blows over.

Elon Musk: Top half of SpaceX's Mars test rocket blew over and will take 'a few weeks to repair'

 

[gentlegreen]

Just heard a bit of a dreadful programme on radio 4 where they were talking credulously about the Hyperloop and comparing Musk with Brunel.
This is why I no longer listen to live radio or watch TV.

BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Elon Musk's Hyperloop and Brunel's Atmospheric Traction Rail

 

[a_chap]

I heard the same program.

Yes, they compared Musk with Brunel and were fairly clear that Brunel was yer actual Engineer whereas Musk was most definitely not. I did like the bit where they pointed out Musk did not found Tesla but was brought in simply to raise finance.

However, I wish they'd been a little more realistic about the Hyperloop i.e. called it out for the pie-in-the-sky crap it actually is.

 

[8ball]

Just heard a bit of a dreadful programme on radio 4 where they were talking credulously about the Hyperloop and comparing Musk with Brunel.
This is why I no longer listen to live radio or watch TV.

BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Elon Musk's Hyperloop and Brunel's Atmospheric Traction Rail

What’s wrong with that?
Musk.
Brunel.
Both cunts.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Just heard a bit of a dreadful programme on radio 4 where they were talking credulously about the Hyperloop and comparing Musk with Brunel.
This is why I no longer listen to live radio or watch TV.

BBC Radio 4 - The Long View, Elon Musk's Hyperloop and Brunel's Atmospheric Traction Rail

I heard someone on the radio this afternoon saying that they wouldn't vote for Howard Schultz for President, but they'd be willing to vote for Elon Musk.

(fortunately, he's not a native born citizen).

 

[gentlegreen]

So much gee wizz design woo out there at the moment.
The crowdfunding winner at $20 million is probably ultrasonic phone charging - which employs a team of actual scientists and enginers - though the web-connected fruit-juice dispenser came close for stupidity.

 

[petee]

sooo ... he's got form for slandering his "enemies"
i'm including a big chunk in case it's DACA'd

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

By the larger-than-life standards of Elon Musk, the story was far from a blockbuster. On June 4, 2018, Business Insider reported that Tesla Inc. was scrapping or reworking 40 percent of the raw materials at the Gigafactory, its huge battery plant in the Nevada desert. The article cited a source who figured the inefficiency had cost Musk’s electric car company $150 million, describing giant piles of scrap materials in the factory. Tesla denied the report, and a few hours later, the world moved on.

The world, that is, except Elon Musk. Although he wasn’t asked about the Business Insider story the following day at the company’s annual meeting, he stewed for weeks, dispatching a team of investigators to try to figure out who’d shared the information with the press.

The leaker, they determined, was one Martin Tripp, a slight man of 40 who’d spent his career in a series of low-level manufacturing jobs before finding his way to the assembly line at the Gigafactory. Tripp later claimed to be an idealist trying to get Tesla to tighten its operations; Musk saw him as a dangerous foe who engaged in “extensive and damaging sabotage,” as he wrote in a staff memo. He implied that Tripp had shared the data not only with the press but also with “unknown third parties.”

...

On June 20, the company sued Tripp for $167 million. Later that day, Tripp heard from the sheriff’s department in Storey County, Nev. Tesla’s security department had passed a tip to police. An anonymous caller had contacted the company to say Tripp was planning a mass shooting at the Gigafactory.

When the police confronted Tripp that evening, he was unarmed and in tears. He said he was terrified of Musk and suggested the billionaire might have called in the tip himself. A sheriff’s deputy attempted to cheer up Tripp and then called Tesla to tell the company that the threat, whoever had made it, was bogus. Tripp wasn’t dangerous.

Many chief executive officers would try to ignore somebody like Tripp. Instead, as accounts from police, former employees, and documents produced by Tesla’s own internal investigation reveal, Musk set out to destroy him.

Tesla’s PR department spread rumors that Tripp was possibly homicidal and had been part of a grand conspiracy. On Twitter, Musk suggested the Business Insider reporter, Linette Lopez, was on the payroll of short sellers and claimed Tripp had admitted to taking bribes from her in exchange for “valuable Tesla IP.” Lopez denied the allegation.

 

[DotCommunist]

did anyone hear his rap about harambe? ffs

 

[FridgeMagnet]

did anyone hear his rap about harambe? ffs

I heard about it and absolutely refused to investigate any further.

 

[extra dry]

A family member of mine, believes Musk is an alien from well another dimesion.

One of them must be wrong.

Edit letter

 

[tim]

Cunt's Cnut moment

SpaceX's Center Core Booster for Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Lost at Sea

 

[mauvais]

Tesla just made a $702m loss in Q1.

It's pretty big, although General Motors once made a $42.5bn quarterly loss.

 

[Ming]

So i'm watching a thing about the 'tears in rain' soliloquy in Blade Runner (gets me every time). Turns out Elon quite likes it too.



He Tweeted 'One day we will be there to see for ourselves'.


Does he like the idea of a Blade Runner future????

 

[elbows]

Oh what a shame.

Musk faces trial over 'pedo' tweet

Elon Musk must defend himself in court after calling a diver who helped save Thai schoolboys trapped in a cave a paedophile, a Los Angeles judge says.

The federal court judge set a 22 October trial date.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Astronomers hate Elon Musk: 'Disaster': Elon Musk enrages astronomers with mass satellite launch

 

[kabbes]

Astronomers hate Elon Musk: 'Disaster': Elon Musk enrages astronomers with mass satellite launch

Oh FFS. Kiss goodbye to the night sky. Thanks Elon, you prick.

 

[tommers]

Nier: Automata Fan Art Forces Elon Musk Off Twitter

Dickhead

 

[mauvais]

There's potentially even more to that.


The man is a liability.

 

[Lurdan]

That twitter flounce didn't last long

 

[gosub]

 

[mauvais]

Electric cars will always win a drag race, because maximum torque is immediately available.

 

[gosub]

That twitter flounce didn't last long

C'est plus compliqué que ça

 

[gosub]

The wild physics of Raptor: SpaceX's methane-guzzling rocket engine | WIRED UK


By strange coincidence, 2as listening to R4 World at One where they were trying to work out what to do with excess CO2

 

[petee]

still at it

Elon Musk testified he worried Thai cave rescuer might be 'another Jeffrey Epstein'

 

[weltweit]

I can see Musk losing this court case expensively.

 

[NoXion]

The wild physics of Raptor: SpaceX's methane-guzzling rocket engine | WIRED UK


By strange coincidence, 2as listening to R4 World at One where they were trying to work out what to do with excess CO2

Turning atmospheric CO2 into methane, only to release it back into the atmosphere again by burning it in a rocket engine, would not seem to be a very effective way to deal with the problem. Indeed things like process inefficiencies and methane leaks would mean that it would in fact contribute to the problem.

It's a fucking stupid idea, like that wizard wheeze of fighting the ice caps melting by spending energy to freeze them again.

Do they not teach thermodynamics any more?

 

[discokermit]

If he ever ends up matey with musk, well, that's me and guy finished.
I will miss that cheeky twinkle in his eyes.

 

[gosub]

Turning atmospheric CO2 into methane, only to release it back into the atmosphere again by burning it in a rocket engine, would not seem to be a very effective way to deal with the problem. Indeed things like process inefficiencies and methane leaks would mean that it would in fact contribute to the problem.

It's a fucking stupid idea, like that wizard wheeze of fighting the ice caps melting by spending energy to freeze them again.

Do they not teach thermodynamics any more?

Doesn't have to be THE solution, just that Earth isn't a closed model.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Only Jamie Oliver has a more punchable face than this cunt.

 

[tommers]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/unsworth-reply-elon-musk-fucking-idiot

Ouch.