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Is Elon Musk Nuts?

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Monday, April 19, 2021 5:12 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Anyone who signs a contract with Musk is as nutty as he is.

Yes, I know: The American space station program ... such as it is ... depends exclusively on Russian "heavy lift" rockets, and since Biden* has done such a fine job pissing off the Russians, and the Russians have threatened counter-sanctions, those in charge of the spce station program must be having a butt-puckering moment.

BUT.

You won't find a solution in a "Hail Mary" SpaceX shot, which AFAIK have NEVER landed successfully!

Tailfin landings??? Seriously?? At least the space shuttle took its inspiration from Star Trek. Musk's program takes its inspiration from Buck Rogers!

Space Shuttle takes inspiration from Star Trek?
How so?
Space Shuttle research, development and testing predates Star Trek.
Even one of the later non-thrust bodies was testing before Star Trek ended. The M2-F2, IIRC crashed horribly. You can see the actual footage of that crash, which was used as the intro to the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.


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Monday, April 19, 2021 5:47 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


OK, so Star Trek took inspiration from the shuttle program.

Still, SpaceX has not had much luck with its tail-fin landing approach. The last effort blew up midflight, when it was attempting its turnaround for tail-first landing. And this was the fourth explosion in a row!

I thought they were supposed to be making progress on their program. Instead, they seem to be going backwards lately. I get the distinct impression that they're beating a dead horse/ relying on a model that's fundamentally flawed.

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Sunday, April 25, 2021 6:33 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, if SpaceX or any other firm doesn't get paid until ... what is the interim project goal, again? A successful UNmanned landing?? .... then NASA doesn't have to continuosly pour money down a rathole. Which is a good thing.

Not sure how that works for the company involved. There has to be some interim successfully-achieved goal, and then the partner company gets .... what?

Altho, based on SpaceX's achievements so far (a lot of rockets exploding) they have not yet achieved any sort of milestone. And if the contract is worded as you say, they will CONTINUE to pour their own development money down their own rathole until ...?

Elon Musk has another project that only looks like a rathole that Musk is trying to fill with money. The project is Starlink.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

Starlink requires thousands of communication satellites be launched. Once the system is in place, after many years of work, Musk can finally start getting his money back from millions of customers, not one customer, NASA, in the case of the moon landings. The two projects are actually related. Starlink satellites are planned to launch on Starship, an under-development rocket of SpaceX that will launch 400 satellites at a time and also go to the moon for NASA.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, April 25, 2021 6:54 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



People think making rockets work is easy.

But there's something about those massive exhaust flames shooting through nozzles that makes them for unknown reasons become unstable. So having working rockets depends mostly on tweaking older designs previously achieved through trial and error. Even today, every now and again, a rocket from a reliable design and manufacture goes rogue. Or, if you think you're really brilliant and don't have to learn from others, and start from scratch, it happens more often.


Oh testing man, oh testing man,
How did that last run go?
Thus queried the harried engineer:
Speak man! For I must know!
The testing man, he scratched his head,
And settled in his chair.
Oh, I don't know, oh engineer,
But I think 'twas pretty fair.

Taken from memory: Rocket Man



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Sunday, April 25, 2021 7:12 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

People think making rockets work is easy.

But there's something about those massive exhaust flames shooting through nozzles that makes them for unknown reasons become unstable. So having working rockets depends mostly on tweaking older designs previously achieved through trial and error. Even today, every now and again, a rocket from a reliable design and manufacture goes rogue. Or, if you think you're really brilliant and don't have to learn from others, and start from scratch, it happens more often.


Oh testing man, oh testing man,
How did that last run go?
Thus queried the harried engineer:
Speak man! For I must know!
The testing man, he scratched his head,
And settled in his chair.
Oh, I don't know, oh engineer,
But I think 'twas pretty fair.

Taken from memory: Rocket Man

There is Firefly Aerospace. Firefly keeps delaying the first launch of Alpha, with Reaver engines, named after the TV show Firefly's Reavers. http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=20&tid=63463

One day Firefly Alpha will either fly or explode. Maybe both! Maybe neither! Maybe this month. Maybe next year. But for months the rocket has been sitting on the launchpad waiting for some daring engineer to push the ignition button and see what happens.
https://firefly.com/launch-alpha/

If Elon Musk owned Firefly Aerospace, I am sure he would be asking his rocket engineers at least once a month if there is some reason for not launching next month. Musk would want to know exactly what the engineers need from him before they will be ready to launch. Whatever the engineers needed, Musk would go and get for them. That is not nuts for Elon Musk. That is how Musk runs his companies. Expensive? Yes. But worst plans have succeeded, and better plans have failed.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9:54 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Bezos protests SpaceX's NASA moon contract. The Sour Puss loser rings up his Legal Teams? https://au.news.yahoo.com/bezos-protests-spacexs-nasa-moon-034922791.h
tml

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021 9:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Bezos sucks all the balls.

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021 10:24 AM

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Bob Smith, chief executive of Blue Origin, said NASA had placed a bigger emphasis on bottom-line cost than it said it would. He added that in any case, the space agency should have stuck with a desire it had stated many times, of wanting to hand out awards to two companies.

Mr. Musk made a remark that played off the fact that Blue Origin has not yet achieved orbit with any of its rockets: "Can’t get it up (to orbit) lol" (Blue Origin bid: $6 billion. SpaceX: $2.9 billion. I think I know why Blue Origin lost.)

www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/science/spacex-moon-blue-origin.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 4:35 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Elon Musk Confirms $100 Million Prize for Carbon Capture

To truly address rising temperatures, we need to reduce atmospheric carbon, not merely stabilize it. And planting more trees won't do it. Roughly speaking, the infrastructure for removing carbon would need to be similar in size to the infrastructure for adding carbon. In other words, about the size of the entire fossil fuel extraction industry. Big.

But maybe someone can figure out a better way. Good on Musk for identifying this as a place where a billionaire's money just might be able to make a difference.

https://jabberwocking.com/elon-musk-confirms-100-million-prize-for-car
bon-capture
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Thursday, April 29, 2021 8:27 PM

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Astronomers are very frustrated with Elon Musk’s satellites

Elon Musk’s SpaceX had launched 1,300 small satellites into space as part of its Starlink internet service. SpaceX alone already has permission to launch 12,000 satellites, with dreams of launching a total of 30,000 one day. Particularly painful is the situation for astronomers. When the satellites cross into the view of their observatories, it can ruin the images. Beyond appearing as just streaks in images or distinct lights in the sky, the satellites can also introduce a diffuse glow into the background darkness of the night sky. This has already begun.

“The fact that one person can take control and completely transform humans’ experience of the night sky, and not just humans, but every organism on Earth … that seems profoundly wrong,” said Caitlin Casey, a University of Texas Austin astronomer.

More at https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22396388/space-x-elon-musk-star
link-too-bright-astronomy-stars-pollution


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Thursday, April 29, 2021 10:48 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


You know what comes next, right?





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Sunday, May 2, 2021 9:00 AM

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Elon Musk does it in the dark: May 2, 2021 Updated 7:49 a.m. ET

In darkness, four astronauts splashed down just before 3 a.m. Eastern time Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Fla.

That marked a successful end of a mission for NASA led by a private company, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to take its astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

One advantage of a nighttime landing could be that fewer private boats are likely to be around. That was a problem in August when the earlier SpaceX capsule splashed down. More than a dozen boats — one of them flying a Trump campaign flag — converged on the singed capsule, and a few went in for a closer look.

www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/science/spacex-nasa-landing.html



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Monday, May 3, 2021 10:17 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk Says We Need Advanced Rockets As NASA Admits Our Missiles Can't Stop Asteroids
https://www.republicworld.com/technology-news/science/elon-musk-says-w
e-need-advanced-rockets-as-nasa-admits-our-missiles-cant-stop-asteroids.html


NASA tells Elon Musk's SpaceX to halt lunar lander work pending the big expensive Legal Team protest by scumbag fraudster Bezos, the Amazon rocket that never even went to orbit?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9531301/NASA-tells-SpaceX-hal
t-lunar-lander-work-pending-contract-challenges.html

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Monday, May 3, 2021 10:18 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I want to see Armageddon 2 starring Elon Musk as Bruce Willis.


Bezos' ugly bald head can play the asteroid.

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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Sunday, May 9, 2021 8:50 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk's 'SNL' monologue is, if nothing else, an accurate portrait of Elon Musk
https://mashable.com/video/elon-musk-saturday-night-live-monologue-snl/

Dogecoin crashes as Elon Musk calls it a 'hustle' on SNL
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/dogecoin-crashes-as-elon-musk-calls-it-
a-hustle-on-snl

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Thursday, May 13, 2021 5:30 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

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Friday, May 21, 2021 10:09 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk says Mars city is 'next logical step' for humanity
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-musk-mars-moon-base-spacex-b1
851517.html



... possible

Quote:

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2017/06/19/elon_musk_making_h
umans_a_multi_planetary_species_paper
/ , https://forums.space.com/threads/does-anyone-think-we-spacex-elon-musk
-can-land-the-first-people-on-mars-by-2024.37691
/ , https://www.city-data.com/forum/science-technology/1733590-elon-musk-i
-will-go-mars.html
, https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.883177-Lets-Nuke-Mars-Sa
ys-Elon-Musk
,

Jim Cramer asked Muilenburg whether he or Musk would “get a man on Mars first.” “Eventually we’re going to go to Mars and I firmly believe the first person that sets foot on Mars will get there on a Boeing rocket,” Muilenburg responded. Elon Musk offered a pithy response on Twitter: "Do it."

Boeing CEO: We’re Going to Beat Elon Musk to Mars?

https://hardforum.com/threads/boeing-ceo-were-going-to-beat-elon-musk-
to-mars.1949896
/



space X seems to be winning in recent times

Musk however has missed a few of his own deadlines

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Friday, May 28, 2021 10:36 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk sending glowing baby squid and 5,000 ‘water bears’ to ISS for Nasa

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tech/7176423/squid-sent-to-space-nasa/

Competitor fears Musk's SpaceX could 'monopolise' space
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Competitor_fears_Musks_SpaceX_could
_monopolise_space_999.html

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Sunday, June 13, 2021 8:08 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Musk is sane, the rest of the world is nuts

How China’s space station could help power astronauts to Mars
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-space-station-could-help-091612782.htm
l

Elon Musk says 'new space race has begun' as billionaire races to put Dogecoin on the Moon
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1446687/elon-musk-space-race-pu
t-dogecoin-on-moon-bitmex-spacex-latest-news-evg



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Sunday, June 20, 2021 12:55 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk tweeted that he planned to sell his last remaining house, located in California's Bay Area. Musk said that he has already sold all his other houses to fund a Mars colony.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-house-sale-selling-californi
a-mars-colony-spacex-2021-6


https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-sell-last-remaining-house


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Sunday, June 20, 2021 2:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I dunno how true that is.

Musk, like Bezos, hardly pays any taxes at all on anything because he can get nearly zero interest loans backed up by his holdings.

Why sell your shit and pay 20% capitol gains taxes when you can get a 1.5% interest loan for half a billion dollars whenever you want to?



Like Trump, they're not doing anything illegal. But it's seriously fucked that the top richest 25 people in America pay less than 1% in taxes on their income and gains because our system allows them to. That's not even taking into account how their business do almost as well (and in some cases like Amazon get away without paying anything at all some years).

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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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Sunday, June 20, 2021 7:52 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



BIG IDEAS ... BIG MONEY ... small critical details.

Like cosmic rays. They have to solve that or anything outside of the earth's protective magnetosphere is a short, one-way trip.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021 12:06 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk Tweets Name Of New Dog Sending Cryptocurrency Skyrocketing

https://comicbook.com/irl/news/elon-musk-dog-name-floki-cryptocurrency
-skyrocketing
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
But it's seriously fucked that the top richest 25 people in America pay less than 1% in taxes on their income and gains because our system allows them to.



He is pocket change

The British Royal Family, Rothschild and the House of Saudi are far richer

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Monday, July 5, 2021 5:16 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk asks space-themed video game for ideas to get humans living on Mars
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-ma
rs-spacex-kerbal-space-program-ksp-b1876310.html


Elon Musk is living in a prefab tiny house worth only $50K on SpaceX site
https://nypost.com/2021/07/05/elon-musk-is-living-in-a-prefab-tiny-hou
se-worth-only-50k
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 7:07 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk says SpaceX's Starship could 'chomp up' space junk on its way to Mars
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-chomp-up-spa
ce-junk-2021-7


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Does Elon Musk intend on traveling to Mars with a group of people and proclaim himself emporer of Mars?
https://www.girlsaskguys.com/technology-internet/q4567284-does-elon-mu
sk-intend-on-traveling-to-mars-with-a-group-of-people




Elon Musk's 'main home' is now a tiny 375 square foot prefabricated rented house worth just $50,000
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9759869/Elon-Musks-main-home-
tiny-375-square-foot-prefabricated-rented-house-worth-just-50-000.html


Musk living in a prefab tiny house on SpaceX site

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Sunday, July 11, 2021 12:39 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Branson Virgin beat Bezos?

Richard Branson Has Completed A Historic Trip To The Edge Of Space On Virgin Galactic
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/11/1015079564/richard-branson-has-complete
d-a-historic-trip-to-the-edge-of-space-on-virgin-gal

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Sunday, July 11, 2021 1:55 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk says ...

Any sentence that begins with "Elon Musk says..." should be treated with scepticism.

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THUGR posts about Putin so much, he must be in love.

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Sunday, July 18, 2021 9:04 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk reveals huge first test of Starship rocket booster built for Mars

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-reveals-huge-first-202623941.html

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Sunday, July 18, 2021 9:57 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk says ...

Any sentence that begins with "Elon Musk says..." should be treated with scepticism.



What? You mean you don't believe that Elon's rocket ship has Pac-Man strapped to the hood?

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Sunday, August 8, 2021 9:14 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk Says the Sun Can Power All of Civilization. Of Course He's Right.

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-says-sun-power-124500762.html

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Friday, September 17, 2021 9:09 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Space Wars that never happened?

The Soveit Russian Salyut-7 fails then a plan for kidnapping? and examine the error and failure


https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2554/1

Musk, tourists and Tom Cruise
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2183891/spacex-tourists-talk-to-tom-
cruise-from-orbit-provide-update-on-flight


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Monday, October 25, 2021 4:51 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


How Elon Musk Walloped Jeff Bezos in the Billionaire Space Race
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-walloped-jeff-bezos-082104139.htm
l


Russian director who filmed first movie in space says the Moon or Mars could be next
https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/10/19/russian-director-who-filmed-f
irst-movie-in-space-says-the-moon-or-mars-could-be-next


China’s New Moon Rocks Hint at a Violent, Wet History
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-moon-rocks-hint-violent-090023118
.html


...What the ...
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1450212973314658305

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021 7:32 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Elon Musk says SpaceX's 'Starship will be ready for its first orbital launch attempt next month'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10119957/SpaceX-fires-
SN20-Starship-prototype-time.html

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:54 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:01 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6:35 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


SPACEMAN
I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid

Quote:



The notion that genius is only thinly separated from insanity goes back to the Birth of Western Civilisation at least to ancient Greece. Aristotle linked the two when he said, “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.”

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. — Oscar Levant. Genius has its limitations. They are walking the line between genius and insanity. — Madeleine Roux. The step between genius and insanity is very short. — Albert Einstein. Genius is insanity right up until it




SpaceX shows off its 'Gateway to Mars' for Starship launches i

https://spacenity.com/spacex-shows-off-its-gateway-to-mars-for-starshi
p-launches-in-video


https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/34169/20211026/spacex-shares-its
-stunning-gateway-to-mars-footage-for-starship-rocket-launches-watch.htm

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Monday, November 1, 2021 2:39 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


the media were posting against Musk told him to feed the world???


Elon Musk wants proof his US$6 billion can solve world hunger

https://nationalpost.com/auto-news/industry/elon-musk-wants-proof-his-
us6-billion-can-solve-world-hunger

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021 6:24 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


The Dangerous Power of Insecure Billionaires

Elon Musk doesn’t think visionaries like him should pay taxes the way little people do. After all, why hand over his money to dull bureaucrats? They’ll just squander it on pedestrian schemes like … bailing out Tesla at a crucial point in its development. Musk has his sights set on more important things, like getting humanity to Mars to “preserve the light of consciousness.”

Billionaires, you see, tend to be surrounded by people who tell them how wonderful they are and would never, ever suggest that they’re making fools of themselves.

But don’t you dare make fun of Musk. Billionaires’ money gives them a lot of political clout — enough to block Democratic plans to pay for much-needed social spending with a tax that would have affected only a few hundred people in a nation of more than 300 million. Who knows what they might do if they think people are snickering at them?

Still, the determined and so far successful opposition of incredibly wealthy Americans to any effort to tax them like normal people
raises a couple of questions. First, is there anything to their insistence that taxing them would deprive society of their unique contributions? Second, why are people who have more money than anyone can truly enjoy so determined to keep every penny?

On the first question, there’s an enduring claim on the right that taxing billionaires will discourage them from doing all the wonderful things they do. For example, Mitt Romney has suggested that taxing capital gains will cause the ultrawealthy to stop creating jobs and buy ranches and paintings instead.

But is there any reason to believe that taxation will cause the rich to go Galt, and deprive us of their genius?

For the uninitiated, “going Galt” is a reference to Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” in which taxes and regulation induce wealth creators to withdraw to a hidden stronghold (Mars for Musk), causing economic and social collapse. Rand’s magnum opus was, as it happens, published in 1957, during the long aftermath of the New Deal, when both parties accepted the need for highly progressive taxation, strong antitrust policy and a powerful union movement. The book can therefore in part be seen as a commentary on the America of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, an era during which corporate taxes were more than twice as high as they are now and the top personal tax rate was 91 percent.

So, did the productive members of society go on strike and paralyze the economy? Hardly. In fact, the postwar years were a time of unprecedented prosperity; family incomes, adjusted for inflation, doubled over the course of a generation.


And in case you’re wondering, the wealthy didn’t manage to dodge all of the taxes being imposed. As a fascinating 1955 Fortune article documented, corporate executives really had come way down in the world compared with their prewar status. But somehow they continued to do their jobs.

OK, so the superrich won’t go on strike if forced to pay some taxes. But why are they so concerned about taxes anyway?

It’s not as if having to cough up, say, $40 billion would have any visible impact on the ability of an Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to enjoy life’s pleasures. True, many very wealthy people seem to consider moneymaking a game, in which the goal is to outperform their rivals; but standings in that game wouldn’t be affected by a tax all the players have to pay.

What I suspect, although I can’t prove it, is that what really drives someone like Musk is an insecure ego. He wants the world to acknowledge his unequaled greatness; taxing him like a “$400,000-a-year working Wall Street stiff” (my favorite line from the movie “Wall Street”) would suggest that he isn’t a unique treasure, that maybe he indeed doesn’t deserve everything he has.

I don’t know how many people remember “Obama rage,” the furious Wall Street backlash against President Barack Obama. While it was partly a response to real changes in tax and regulatory policy — Obama did, in fact, significantly raise taxes at the top — what really rankled financiers was their sense of having been insulted. Why, he even called some of them fat cats!

Are the very rich pettier than the rest of us? On average, probably yes — after all, they can afford it, and the courtiers and flatterers attracted by huge fortunes surely make it harder to keep one’s perspective.

The important point, however, is that the pettiness of billionaires comes along with vast power. And the result is that all of us end up paying a steep price for their insecurity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211102172118/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/11/02/opinion/tax-elon-musk-billionaire.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, November 11, 2021 6:29 PM

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Friday, November 19, 2021 6:08 PM

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Elon Musk’s Starlink Will Monitor Illegal Deforestation In The Amazon Forest

https://wonderfulengineering.com/elon-musks-starlink-will-monitor-ille
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Sunday, November 21, 2021 2:29 PM

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Elon Musk Says First Orbital Launch of Starship Could Happen by January

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-first-orbital-launch-of-starship-co
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Friday, November 26, 2021 6:27 AM

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Saturday, November 27, 2021 4:51 AM

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Musk doubles down on plan to build 'permanent moon base' and 'city on Mars'

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/elon-musk-doubles-down-pl
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Sunday, November 28, 2021 5:28 PM

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Elon Musk’s mother mocks Biden, Harris and Buttigieg for ignoring Tesla in electric car push

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-mother-mocks-biden-230509366.html

Quote:

Trolling the Biden administration has become a Musk family affair.

Maye Musk, son Elon Musk and his sister Tosca Musk have been trading barbs at Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg for the past four days after the White House excluded Tesla from recent events to promote electric vehicles.

Ms Musk dropped a series of laugh and zany face emojis on Twitter after the president praised General Motors and its CEO for leading the United State’s electric vehicle industry, saying the company "electrified the entire auto industry".



"Biden’s speech was written 20 years ago, just before GM killed the electric car," Ms Musk tweeted, referencing the year GM cancelled its electric car programme due to weak sales.

"His speechwriter uploaded the wrong file."

Quote:

Mr Musk responded with a "sigh", while his sister, Tosca Musk, joined the family by adding, "What mon said. AF".

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Sunday, November 28, 2021 8:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


This is what happens when a geriatric moron surrounds himself with diversity hire morons.

Idiocracy was a warning, not an instruction manual.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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Monday, November 29, 2021 4:14 AM

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


StarLink: another overhyped failure

https://fintecology.com/2021/11/25/spacex-starlink-delays-customers-or
ders-blames-silicon-shortages
/



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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake


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Monday, November 29, 2021 6:39 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
This is what happens when a geriatric moron surrounds himself with diversity hire morons.

Idiocracy was a warning, not an instruction manual.

Good thing you don't have money in the stock market because you can't spot a stock that is over-hyped. The White House did NOT promote Tesla because it is a stock market bubble. Elon Musk is selling Tesla while fools rush in to buy his overpriced shares. This month Musk has sold $9.85 billion worth of stock in the electric vehicle company, which is valued at around $1.10 trillion.

Tesla's stock market value surpassed the combined market values of the 11 largest global automakers. (In other words: Tesla is a vastly over priced stock.)

With only 500,000 cars sold last year, Tesla’s market value is roughly $2 million per vehicle sold. (Tesla is a vastly over priced stock.)

So far this year, the company has sold 627,000 cars and aims to reach a million in sales this year. https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-vehicle-del
iveries
/

6ix, check out Tesla stock at https://www.fxempire.com/news/article/tesla-is-worth-3-times-more-than
-toyota-792531


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, November 29, 2021 11:06 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Yeah? What's Pfizer worth now that our government has been blowing them with cash infusions and trying to install a captivated for life customer base until the end of time?

If you're going to continue to quote people and reply with completely unrelated bullshit, I'm going to do the same thing.

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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."

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Monday, November 29, 2021 11:58 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah? What's Pfizer worth now that our government has been blowing them with cash infusions and trying to install a captivated for life customer base until the end of time?

If you're going to continue to quote people and reply with completely unrelated bullshit, I'm going to do the same thing.

There are three companies, not just Pfizer, selling Covid-19 vaccines in the USA: Moderna and Johnson&Johnson. And there are a dozen more out there, including the Sputnik vaccine from Russia. But one thing I've noticed about all Trumptards is they misunderstand the stock market while believing they have complete knowledge, fools that they are. So it is completely unsurprising that when Tesla's total value on the stock market (and Elon Musk's networth) is more than the next 11 Auto companies combined, Trumptards don't realize Tesla (and Elon Musk) are far over-valued.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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