Elon Musk advertised as a feature that he would cut Twitter staff to bring the revenue per employee in line with industry standards.
But I’m curious - What ideas of Elon do you find to be delusional bullshit?
But I’m curious - What ideas of Elon do you find to be delusional bullshit?
The rockets and car factories are impressive.
But the tunnels, the robotaxi, the hyperloop, the solar roofs... So far, a lot of over-hyped promises that are looking more and more like vaporware.
One may hate on Musk for a number of very good reasons, but it cannot be denied him, Shotwell and the rest of the SpaceX team have thoroughly kicked the established space industry mooches into their asses.
Anything he say should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.
I don't think he is a complete fraud, but I would not bet my shirt on his Mark colonization project.
What is a billionaire gonna do once they get to Mars?
Undergo profound physical atrophy leading to organ dysfunction and eventually cancer ...
... since Mars gravity is something like 1/3 that of Earth.
We barely have the capability of living long term on Antarctica, and it has plentiful water, oxygen, gravity, a magnetic field, and doesn't have lethal radiation. Until I see a 100K population colony on Antarctica, I'll be unconvinced that we even have a prayer of building a 1K population colony on Mars.
I'll admit that I'm not sure what the point of a mars colony is either, except for science and to act as a forward space outpost.. maybe it would be useful for industrial purposes? I guess you wouldn't have to worry about utterly destroying the environment.
If it were mostly self sufficient it could act as a seed to repair earth society in the event of a catastrophic asteroid strike or nuclear war, I guess
Maybe no visionary is going to get everything right. But there do seem to be some pretty major areas that have received critical feedback from people who seem to understand those domains.
On the other hand Tesla has been a huge thing. I'm a big anti-EVs guy because I'm, at heart, a petrolhead, and at the beginning I was of course very skeptic of him managing to pull it off. But that opinion of mine changed completely the moment when I realised that a Tesla vehicle is basically a piece of software running/controlling a battery that happens to have 4 wheels attached, and that the Tesla engineers have managed to make good on that.
The rocket stuff is also quite cool.