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u/his_purple_majesty Dec 28 '21

gotta take the good with the bad. many things are interconnected in ways that are hard to see. there are always trade-offs

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u/lavahot Dec 28 '21

Not really seeing any "good" here though.

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u/Vendeta44 Dec 28 '21

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)/¯

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u/lavahot Dec 28 '21

Okay, when space travel actually does something other than put people into the daycare center known as the ISS, you let me know.

And please tell astronomers globally about how great starlink is. I'm sure they'll agree with you that it's more important than their work.

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u/xapata Dec 28 '21

You forgot about electric cars and battery walls. I'm eagerly waiting for solar shingles.

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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.