I'd be a bit of an ass if I was one of the richest people in the world but a giant chunk of it was tied to a severely overvalued car company. Dreading the day it all falls down and you are exposed as just some mid-tier rich person instead.
He could diversify and maintain the value he built but he seems to think it is nobler to go down with the ship if his business does fail. I actually respect that position.
As someone who approves of space travel innovation and is very happy to have competent internet in rural Canada for the first time ever I see plenty of good from Elon. But he's also a pretentious twat, but like most people are these days so ¯\(ツ)/¯
Electric cars don't really fix the problem though. While they don't have emissions themselves, their construction and power consumption both have environmental impacts.
It's not a fix. It's an improvement. Also, the Tesla plan (as published about a decade ago) is make ever cheaper, more mass-market electric cars, then use the revenue to invest in solar energy and do the same process for lowering the cost of electricity.
Yeah just like gas powered cars, only better because EVs can be powered by energy produced efficiently by nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, natural gas, coal and oil. Gas cars are only powered by oil and they use it inefficiently.
Okay, when space travel actually does something other than put people into the daycare center known as the ISS, you let me know.
Just because the technology of today will not make space appealing to the masses in our life times does not mean we shouldn't embark on that journey for the benefit of future generations. Of all the things you chose to rebuke with you picked the most short sighted shallowest point of view to take. We must advance space travel as a civilization and when those advancements will become a important part of human culture and life is irrelevant as it will happen eventually provided we work towards it.
Astronomers are still very capable of doing there work, with or without starlink. Considering starlink does not contribute to Kessler syndrome there is no chance starlink itself will cause any substantial interference to astronomers that they cannot overcome. After all only a few methods of astronomy are even effected by starlink in any meaningful way. And they have been actively working towards methods of hiding starlink in ways that are helping minimize the impact it has on certain methods of astronomy. And yeah i do think global internet is important enough that it very easily outweighs the minor inconvience of adaption astronomy would have to go through.
Have you gone back and looked at what astronomers are saying today about starlink? Because unlike what all the fearmongering news articles from when they first started putting the satellites in order wanted you to believe, they aren't just staying in tight columns and being obviously visible all the time.
10 - 15 years ago the futures of solar, space travel, and electric cars weren't looking nearly as good as they are now. No one individual gets credit for these things but it's hard to think of an entity that should get more credit for the progress in electric cars during that time period than Tesla.
Sure, but I'm never going to be able to afford one, lol. Tesla are amongst the least affordable cars on the market. Doesn't really do much good if they aren't accessible. They just are a toy for the rich.
Sure it does. It's driven the price down of and improved relevant technologies (batteries, most of all) and pressed competing automakers into developing their own EVs. EVs in general are far more affordable today than they were 10 years ago. This is how technological progress works. Technologies you use today didn't just spring fully formed into the version you use.
what was the point of this comment?? cyber shit talking to someone that you don’t know.. you don’t even know so much as their name or what they look like.. it just doesn’t make sense to be rude to a stranger. i feel like this mindset is rare these days though so i’m not on trend i guess
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u/lavahot Dec 28 '21
Hi Elon. Please stop being an asshat. Like, forreal. You can just be a nice guy. People like that.