Elon Musk Has a New Excuse for Not Making It to Mars

kn0wmad1c , 4 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

Remember when Las Vegas was set to receive the country’s first high speed rail between there and LA until Elon Musk promised the city commission that he could do it cheaper using the hyperloop? And then the hyperloop became a murder subway until it eventually crumbled beneath his hubris?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

ikidd , 4 hours ago

Monorail…

casmael , 2 hours ago

6399 or 6990?

kautau , 2 hours ago

Or the fact that the whole thing was a gimmick to stop the rail from being built so that it wouldn’t affect the sales of teslas.

disconnect.blog/the-hyperloop-was-always-a-scam/

And the fact that he can suck it because it’s still happening

newsweek.com/high-speed-trains-between-california…

CodingCarpenter , 2 hours ago

What do you mean by murder subway?

kn0wmad1c , 1 hour ago

gqindia.com/…/scientists-explain-hyperloop-danger…

UnfortunateShort , 4 hours ago

Didn’t they perform 3 test flights this year alone? (Under Biden?)

FlyingSquid OP , 3 hours ago

Yes but have you considered the fact that shut up and vote for Trump?

NuXCOM_90Percent , 2 hours ago

Getting a rocket (or even a spaceplane) into space and sending a crewed mission to mars are VERY different challenges.

Let alone the colonization claims/promises that have been made over the years.

And… this is exactly what musk has been living off of for over a decade now. Spacex is a company with a LOT of great accomplishments (mostly because it was actually founded by engineers from NASA and JPL who took advantage of a money mark to poach staff from every other aerospace company/org but…). But it is almost exclusively focused around:

1. Getting satellites/payloads into orbit
2. Crewed missions to orbital stations

But musk has spun that as he is a god of space and is going to be colonizing mars any day now. Which is a VERY VERY VERY different challenge.

Think of it like this. Someone is REALLY good at driving a speedboat around a local lake. And they keep talking about how they are going to be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean any day now.

ravhall , 3 hours ago

He can’t leave until he knocks up Taylor Swift?

Asafum , 2 hours ago

What a piece of shit…

That “government efficiency office” is literally the position Trump offered him…

“Trump wants to put me in charge and she doesn’t so wah wah wah!”

As usual: get fucked muskrat.

pruwybn , 2 hours ago

If Harris becomes president, Musk will never meet his original goal of putting a human on Mars by 2021!