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OAITW r.2.0

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27. If you want insight into Musk, I recommend reading "The Man who sold the Moon" by Robert Heinlein.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Dec 26, 2024, 07:52 PM

Dec 2024

Heinlein fully develops a storyline that revolves around the heroic actions of the protagonist, the richest and smartest man on Earth.

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Musk is wrong about Mars [View all] struggle4progress Dec 2024 OP

Melon Husk loves to over promise and under deliver Blue_Tires Dec 2024 #1

See also: autonomous vehicles, the Cyber Truck, high-speed tunnels . . .. hatrack Dec 2024 #8

Oh right, I forgot about his abandoned maglev project outside of Las Vegas Blue_Tires Dec 2024 #12

'Unbreakable' windows shatter struggle4progress Dec 2024 #26

There's no such thing as an unbreakable window anyways 😅 Blue_Tires Dec 2024 #30

In 2014, he said people could expect Tesla self-driving cars with within months. Wiz Imp Dec 2024 #33

One million Robotaxis would be on the road by the end of 2020, Musk promised in October 2019 Wiz Imp Dec 2024 #34

Musk tweeted on July 20, 2017, that he had received "verbal govt. approval for the Boring Company to build an Wiz Imp Dec 2024 #35

Elon Musk if full of shit and he knows it misanthrope Dec 2024 #2

Only .39 of our gravity too IbogaProject Dec 2024 #3

All of this. It would take so long to make even part of Mars SURVIVABLE... Parallax El Dec 2024 #14

I recall Musk's appearance on Colbert misanthrope Dec 2024 #17

who would go? rampartd Dec 2024 #4

Start with his first prediction from 2011 Roy Rolling Dec 2024 #5

First of all... 2naSalit Dec 2024 #6

Yet now Maher worships Musk misanthrope Dec 2024 #20

A very good... 2naSalit Dec 2024 #23

He probably thinks it full of caramel mercuryblues Dec 2024 #7

finally someone addresses the lack of a magnetic field HAB911 Dec 2024 #9

That is the foundational matter misanthrope Dec 2024 #21

I just watched a couple of hours HAB911 Dec 2024 #25

That would qualify for science fiction misanthrope Dec 2024 #31

A BS in BS! HAB911 Dec 2024 #32

Dangerous delusion NJCher Dec 2024 #10

Human consciousness doesn't reside in human beings? misanthrope Dec 2024 #22

This type of thinking Linda ladeewolf Dec 2024 #11

I would like to see humanity in its present form Crunchy Frog Dec 2024 #13

How can you "wreck" a dead planet like Mars? EX500rider Dec 2024 #24

Why doesn't he go to Mars and populate it? LisaL Dec 2024 #15

For what it would cost to colonize Mars... Wounded Bear Dec 2024 #16

I'm not 100% opposed to colonizing Mars in the near future if muskrat is on the lead rocket. retread Dec 2024 #18

We might figure a way out to colonize Venus before Mars. Xolodno Dec 2024 #19

What would be the point of either of those ventures spapeggy Dec 2024 #29

If you want insight into Musk, I recommend reading "The Man who sold the Moon" by Robert Heinlein. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #27

Trips to mars don't justify the cost spapeggy Dec 2024 #28

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids edhopper Dec 2024 #36