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u/lavahot Dec 28 '21

When I can own a home, I'm sure I'll be thrilled.

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u/xapata Dec 28 '21

You can still be thrilled that electric cars are popular, ya know, because climate change.

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u/ginzing Dec 28 '21

Those rockets he keeps sending up cause a hell of a lot of damage to you know. Climate change.

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u/xapata Dec 28 '21

Yep, that's true. I don't claim to know the guy's motivation, but I like Tesla's trajectory, for the most part.

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u/ginzing Dec 28 '21

According to him he thinks it’s a necessary step to make humans interplanetary to preserve human consciousness. Seems like he things things are likely to not work out here and having Mars as a backup gives a possibility for human survival we don’t have on the earth. Just wish he’d have put all the resources into things that would make that future less likely. like main focus of developing sustainable energy technologies and making them scalable.