Elon Musk

Gotcha.

like many, many things, that makes me want to reread Against The Day

I get the "putting your car into space" move as tacky, but having spent some time working in a space-centered STEM educational outreach program for kids, I read it a little less cynically.

if they asked you "why" what would you say? my son asked me that; i had no answer

I mean they had to deposit some sort of payload out there as part of the test, right? Why not make it something attention grabbing and fun? It’s a striking image and I see it as an easy springboard into deeper topics.

(FWIW, even though I worked in the program mentioned above, I am not an educator, this just absolutely came across as something they’d love)

yeah i don't see how this is any worse than launching another satellite that will be used by world govts to spy on everyone

i thought it was crass and self-promotional, the opposite of what space exploration should be about

back in the.. 90s i guess? disney had an idea to launch three massive interconnected rings into space, to orbit the moon. they would be packed tightly into a spacecraft and inflate once in orbit, and the reflected light from the moon would illuminate them and create a visible mickey mouse logo. eventually the rings would deflate and crash into the moon. i recall mockery and eyerolling at the time and they finally nixed the idea. (this is of course impossible to google for, but trust me)

anyway, this feels like that, but thankfully smaller scale

I dunno, most of space is kinda empty and dull. Gotta fill it with something wacky hey.

What's the plan for this car then? Is it just going to eventually crash into the sun?

"i thought it was crass and self-promotional"

I mean... it can be more than one thing. Unfortunate side effect of having space exploration headed by a private company.

The amount of debris in space may not be a pressing issue yet, but it soon will be. http://stuffin.space/

Shooting disco balls into space because you're a dumbass billionaire doesn't sit well with me at all (but I'll concede it's different from Musks effort here)

disco balls would be better imo

"Musk occasionally performs a ritual called anointing. When the he encounters a new scent, he will lick and bite the source, then form a scented froth in its mouth and paste it on its spines with its tongue. The purpose of this habit is unknown,"

Elon Musk Hedgehog -photoshop experts please produce this!

Sounds like something really weird I used to do with stacks of Doritos in middle school

Where is that quote from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog

Isn't the car going to end up in orbit around Mars? I was thinking if all went right, that's where it would end up.

Got to figure if ends up in a stable orbit and he pulls off some of his schemes, he'd eventually pick it up to complete the stunt.

That disco ball in orbit I guess has ticked off the antenna folk as since its highly reflective if it comes onto the line of site its light reflection is bright.

apparently it's 'blasting' star man at top volume which seems like obnoxious and almost like pollution

https://imgur.com/gallery/DWTOb

He migth as well send his dick to mars what a braggart

fuck this guy

xpost luckily there's no sound in space

which reminds me, i really want to know what sound sounds like on the edges of the atmosphere, just before there isn't sound.

(apparently it sounds like this: https://www.livescience.com/50721-near-space-sound-recorded.html)
(although that's kind of cheating because the recording "instruments eavesdropped on atmospheric infrasound, or sound waves at frequencies below 20 hertz. Infrasound is below human hearing range, but speeding up the recordings makes them audible.")
(i want to hear the last audible gasps of sound still within the human hearing range. i guess i could just simulate this on my laptop, though)

flat earthers gonna hate!

elon musk go to mars bitch

now if George Clooney was in the spacesuit instead of a mannequin, well all right

He's gagged up in the boot

i want elon musk to move to mars and try to stay positive while it dawns on him how bad it sucks, also i want him to get stuck there

Holy shit, did the flat earthers unionize? pic.twitter.com/hTrQ7bwLqf

— Nora Blake (@NeitherNora) February 7, 2018

mars: also flat, bitches

day 300: finally weve reached our destination, mars! (and its dick shaped?)

A local politician is found blasted into space in a car atop a heavy lift rocket. Suspicion falls on a South African-born Canadian American business magnate, angry that an unreliable power supply might threaten his plans for world domination of the electric vehicle market.

— Midsomer Murders Bot (@midsomerplots) February 7, 2018

real earths have curves

― lag∞n, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 10:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I like my planets fat and not flat

I love big buttes and I do not lie

I'm in love with my curvy planet

oops

https://i.imgur.com/JX3iSXT.png

http://www.audibletreats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/A_1_Unpredictable_The_Repo_Man.gif

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"

― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:50 (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Convinced this will happen some day.

what a loser, tried to send his car to mars ends up in ASTEROID BELT - dick!

great guy

https://m.sfgate.com/business/article/Elon-Musk-promises-frozen-yogurt-roller-coaster-10966087.php

actual "frozen yogurt roller coaster" would be legit breakthrough

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/12/elon_musk_invents_bus_stop/

“elite projection” is my favorite term of the day and I’m gonna use that piece in a talk I’m about to give. Thanking u

humantransit.org is a gift

https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-hires-several-pastry-chefs-away-from-entenm-1823807651

Can we use this thread to track the impending implosion of Tesla?

He bonds they sold last August are now trading at 88c on the dollar, their debt is rated barely above junk, people are leaving left right and centre.

New car, new production techniques, new factories, it’s starting to get very ugly.

But he put fake man in car in space. Going in wrong direction, sure.

If the point was making huge profits, then yes, it's failing, but the whole "disrupting the industry" strategy + opening minds to the possibilities of electric cars = success.

the famous business strategy

Who Killed The Self-Driving Car?