Elon Musk

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?

Dennis Guilder

they are facing another Moody's downgrade very soon iirc

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/tesla-shifts-model-3-production-lines

I fear for their poor workers, but I won't be able to deny the schadenfreude if Musk goes down.

it's clearly rich guy on rich guy vengeance, this is what happens when you shut down your corporate facebook accounts

ballistic: musk vs. the zuck

trying to think what Musk’s businesses’ actual recent successes are and if they’re at all notable

rocket stuff: pretty good? more showboating than innovation
cars: driving tech ahead of most competitors, pushing battery industry forward through demand. actual car production sucks, QA on car assembly is bad

solar company: not any better than any solar company doing the subsidy/home install game. might be a front to sell batteries

mass transport company: they’ve dug some holes in the ground and are selling gimmicks for publicity

branding game: relatively strong

the real coup de grace was the car company purchasing the struggling indebted solar company imo

its all pretty funny imo except the mass transpo company which seems just another obvious attempt to undercut public transpo with a car dependent future

not even sure he even believes he can build his tunnels and suction tubes might be purely an attempt to inject chaos into the public transpo planning process

stando evil industrialist scheming

pushing battery industry forward through demand

But not fulfilled with Tesla/Panasonic batteries. Elon makes all the noise but LG and Samsung make all the sales. Even the 120MW big battery in Australia is full of Samsung cells. It keeps my day interesting that he keeps sprinkling the tech but it’s it where the money is going.

they’re not doing much research overall, right? they’re an integrator/reseller

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/img/bills2.gif

heh heres the article https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash

The thing that really annoys me most about Elon is his name. I really want him to be called Elton Musk. Like a seedy jazz saxophonist from the 70s.