It just confuses me that so many people are so strongly opposed to trying new things. How the heck do you think we do new stuff if we don't try?
I dunno, wanna try cock and ball torture? No? Why are you so opposed to trying new things?
Something like the hyperloop is terrible for many different reasons. First of all it is completely stupid.But that is not the greatest issue.
The way to understand why he is doing these things is by seeing them as a big marketing campaign. Tesla is supposedly known for not making ads etc. Well, they market themselves in a different way. So Musk doing all this stuff isn't just him blowing money on random stuff he likes. It is a marketing campaign, it cultivates his image as a pioneer and boosts his companies. Tesla has been operating on the promise of constant innovation, I think they only briefly made a profit for one quarter and then went into the red again. I'm not sure but I know for sure that Tesla has not been making a profit for the vast majority of its time operating. So the way it is kept afloat is by new investors constantly jumping on board on the promise that one day its gonna get far ahead of the competition due to innovation and make a huge profit. So it is crucial for Musk to try and give off that image, it does not really matter if whatever he promises actually works.
However there is something much dangerous going on here. People have started looking at Musk as if he is someone who's gonna save the world. And, I mean, that's the image he cultivates. Musk is gonna solve all of the world's problems! But this is a serious deflection from the things that actually need to happen, because then instead of focusing on important policy change (for global warming for instance), you passively wait for supposed innovations that will somehow solve all the issues of the world. "Global warming? Eh whatever, Musk is gonna give us all electric cars and then we'll be fine."
Public transport is very important for decreasing emissions and solving traffic jams. Subways are a very eco friendly and very efficient solution. But Musk doesn't care about solving the issue, he cares about his image and selling his cars. You can't sell cars if everyone uses the subway. So his idea was "let's do subways but with cars instead". Which is of course stupid, expensive, impractical and less efficient. However by promoting it he may manage to deflect public opinion away from demanding more public transport and convince cities to stall investment on PT in favor of waiting for Musk's thing. At least the idea was so dumb that it is incredibly unlikely any city will actually ever invest on it.
Elon Musk is not only ignorant, but batshit crazy
Like his dumb idea to detonate nuclear warheads on Mars to terraform it
All levels of WTF and ignorance to how the science works
https://www.space.com/elon-musk-nuke-mars-terraforming.htmlAnother stupid brain fart bubble like that he tweeted to captivate his brain dead audience. 'Nuke Mars'
In a similar way his 'Boring Company' idea came about
For the record, as a testament to Elon Musks idiocy and brushing aside logitistics. When he was told he would need thousands of the most powerful nuclear warheads ever created and detonating thousands of those every day he's like 'No problem'
He's a dick. He knows he'll never
really be expected to follow through. He just wants publicity. He even had T-shirts of 'Nuke Mars' made.
None of these projects are serious to him. They are publicity stunts.
It's funny. We want to make Mars a nice place to live despite what a shitty, inhospitable wasteland it is. Has any one of these nerds thought about how we can make Earth better given the threat of climate change?
Let's just go and nuke Mars
