Is Elon Musk Nuts?
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Musk turned a college kid's whole world upside down by spreading a false flag conspiracy on Twitter.
Elon Musk Claims 'Limited Understanding' Of Why He's Being Sued After Tweets Forced A Family To Flee Their Home
https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-claims-limited-understanding-of-why-hes
-being-1851397341
He also claimed that he had no idea that Brody had requested he retract his “false flag” posts and that despite millions of followers seeing his posts, he doesn’t agree that Brody “has been meaningfully harmed by this.” According to Musk, it’s “rare” for incidents like this one to have “a meaningful negative impact” on the victims.
Great guy, that Elon Musk. Truly our best and brightest.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Did Elon Musk fib about SpaceX's Starlink breaking even? (yes)
By Victor Tangermann | Apr 10, 1:57 PM EDT
https://futurism.com/the-byte/huge-problem-spacex-starlink-profit
In a brief announcement on his social media platform last year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk celebrated that the company's Starlink broadband service had "achieved breakeven cash flow."
"Starlink is also now a majority of all active satellites and will have launched a majority of all satellites cumulatively from Earth by next year," he said at the time.
But according to a damning new report by Bloomberg, Musk may have once again rigged the numbers in his favor by greatly underplaying the costs involved in launching the satellites, when in reality the company is losing "hundreds of dollars on each of the millions of ground terminals it ships."
According to Bloomberg's sources, SpaceX's accounting was "more of an art than a science" and the much-hyped system isn't actually profitable, despite Musk's assurances.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-10/is-elon-musk-s-star
link-profitable-spacex-satellites-are-money-losers?sref=YfHlo0rL
The company has kept its financials close to its chest, especially while fundraising. During a March press conference, SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen appeared cagey, telling reporters in a carefully worded comment that "I don’t know that I want to quantify those numbers, but we are in positive cash flow and profitable territory for our satellite business now."
In short, is SpaceX's Starlink business cashflow positive, as Musk claims, or merely in "profitable territory"? The distinction could make all the difference for Musk's outsize plans for space colonization. The mercurial CEO has long argued that the internet satellite broadband arm of his space company will provide the funding necessary to get humans to Mars. According to Bloomberg, Starlink represents more than half of SpaceX's revenue this year.
As of now, SpaceX has launched 5,600 satellites into low-Earth orbit and is planning to launch tens of thousands more.
Despite eclipsing the total number of all operating satellites in Earth's orbit, Starlink isn't just struggling to cut even. Experts are concerned that trying to provide the entire globe with internet via satellites — instead of expanding coverage with cell towers where needed — could prove difficult, with speeds already beginning to decrease in 2022.
In other words, SpaceX will have to pump out untold numbers of satellites to keep up with quickly growing bandwidth demands.
More bad news. According to Bloomberg, all major US airlines have rejected SpaceX's Starlink to provide internet service on flights, though an exact reason as to why remains unclear.
Nonetheless, SpaceX has exceeded expectations when it comes to generating revenue over the years. Sales could grow from $4.7 billion a year ago to $15 billion this year, per Bloomberg's sources.
SpaceX may end up spinning off its internet service with a potential IPO. But that's still years out, according to company officials.
More on Starlink: SpaceX Announces Plans to Set 100 Starlink Satellites on Fire
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Is Musk's plan to colonize Mars nutty?
Getting to Mars isn’t enough: Why staying alive will be the biggest challenge.
SpaceX’s Starship is projected to be ready for a trip to Mars in the next 5 years. But are we? Colonizing space in the next few decades may seem like a forgone conclusion, but let's take a more honest look at the science.
An honest look at the science is exactly what Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, the authors of A City on Mars, are offering. These space optimists turned into space realists while researching the possibility of human habitats in outer space.
The environments we would encounter on other planets aren’t just harsher versions of what we have on earth. In some ways they’re actively hostile to any living being, more hostile than practically any environment on earth. From dramatic temperature swings to deadly cosmic radiation to bone degradation, here are the real – and often overlooked – factors we need to contend with if we’re going to be able to successfully incubate human life on another planet.
https://www.freethink.com/series/hard-reset/city-on-mars
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The only new model in Tesla’s lineup doesn’t have sufficient demand to run all the shifts? That’s very troubling but not surprising. I guess the decision to launch an $80,000-120,000 niche truck that’s worst in class in every regard except acceleration wasn’t the best plan. Maybe instead they should’ve been focusing on drastically improving the core lineup and adding additional models that would be easier to produce and potentially sell in the hundreds of thousands to a million units per annum. If the decision to can the $25,000 car in exchange for a “robotaxi” is even the least bit true the future of Tesla looks bleak. Robotaxis are years and years away not only due to their technical challenges that are so far from being solved but also due to government approvals and the market’s acceptance of such a product.
Maybe Elon will also learn that the anti-vax anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists he’s trying to be buddy-buddy with on Twitter aren’t exactly the EV buying type either. All he’s doing is turning off the people that actually have and would buy a Tesla. Elon needs to go. It would be best if he left on his own but that’s extremely unlikely to happen. The board is full of Elon apologists but maybe if they see their portfolio crashing that will motivate them to make a move they otherwise wouldn’t have done on a moral or ethical basis.
EVPaddy commented:
Musk has to go, yes. But the share price basically can‘t be saved that way either. It has been inflated by Musk‘s lies over many years. It will only know one way for a long time.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/14/tesla-rumor-massive-round-layoffs/
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This was a crazy decision Musk made:
Elon Musk reportedly dismissed almost the entire Supercharger division of Tesla, including its head Rebecca Tinucci, after Tinucci refused to lay off workers beyond the planned numbers.
What Happened: Tinucci reportedly had a meeting with Musk to discuss the future of the charging network. This meeting was subsequent to a previous round of layoffs, where Tinucci had reduced the staff by 15% to 20%. However, Musk was not satisfied with the presentation and demanded additional layoffs. When Tinucci opposed it, arguing that it would negatively impact the business fundamentals, Musk reacted by terminating her and the entire 500-member team.
https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/05/38846223/elon-musk-fired-superchar
ger-chief-rebecca-tinucci-and-her-entire-team-after-she-refused-to-lay-off
Time has passed and the crazy Musk decision is being partially undone:
Tesla Inc. has begun hiring back some of the almost 500 members of its Supercharging team that Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk dismissed late last month. Chief among the personnel who have returned is Max de Zegher, the director of charging for North America, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. De Zegher was one of the top managers after Rebecca Tinucci, the senior director Musk fired late last month along with virtually everyone else in the charging group.
Tesla vs S&P 500 (Tesla is down 30% vs the stock market is up 12% so far this year)
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/.INX:INDEXSP?authuser=0&compa
rison=NASDAQ%3ATSLA&window=YTD
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Elon Musk - Dead at 52 - Says There Is No Need for Misinformation Laws
Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.
The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform.
Police revealed that Musk, who says it is up to the public to decide what was true or not, had been fighting incest charges at the time of his death.
His funeral is next week.
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/elon-musk-dead-at-52-misinformatio
n-laws/
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Nazi Anti-Freedom Australian Senator wants Elon Musk imprisoned for allowing actual video posted by Aussie Citizens to remain uncensored.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/musk-targets-australian-sen
ator-gun-laws-deepening-dispute-over-x-stabbing-2024-04-24/
So he must be doing something right.
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Here’s why a Japanese billionaire just canceled his lunar flight on Starship
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/heres-why-a-japanese-billionaire
-just-canceled-his-lunar-flight-on-starship/
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Biden camp hits out at Elon Musk and ‘sucker’ Donald Trump
https://www.ft.com/content/43eeaae2-cf51-4e38-9976-40b7b9624edc
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'Legalize humor!!'
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1802010958828843203
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And yet, I was shocked to learn that Musk is not only the richest man in the world, hes almost twice as wealthy as the next richest, Zuckerborg.
He is not the richest but has some cash
The British Royal Family, Rothschild and the House of Saudi are far richer
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