Posted on 04/21/2018 9:13:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
He is doing better than Edison with SpaceX
Edison was a charlatan, that ripped off ideas
In addition to the intentional misstatements
Musk is the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum. Everything he has accomplished has come at the expense of taxpayers. He knows how to work the system.
So right you are, what an idiot Musk is.
Next thing you know someone will be suggesting Arthur C. Clarke's space elevator is a possibility.
really? So somehow all that taxpayer plunder that that went into Musk's coffers don't count then. The turd's administration picked corporate winners and losers and lavishly bestowed taxpayer pelf on the winners of which Musk is one. Not all that different from Soylandra except he didn't go broke
Never thought to use the ejection charge for something..,ugh
Now you know. LOL
PS self striking matches fit in the barrel of a .177 pellet gun and will slpode and ignite on reaching the target if you give the old Benjamin a dozen pumps :)
Edison was a charlatan, that ripped off ideas
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And ended up powering 12 volt DC batteries, and a light bulb. While the real genius, N. Tesla powered homes and cities and Edison’s light bulb with AC. One is celebrated, the other mostly forgotten.
Next thing you know someone will be suggesting Arthur C. Clarke’s space elevator is a possibility.
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I’d suggest that Arthur C. Clarke’s satellites are a possibility ...
I’ll take the late 40s and 50s thanks; you can have the 80s. And no g-d will not send us back, but if Musk keeps going, perhaps in 20-30 years he’ll be into time machines ...
Any previous effort to catch rocket engines with a helicopter, such as ULA Vulcan operation proposes?
Just retool the Saturn V already!
Tesla was a genius, with no Business sense
Tesla’s stuff still works
Better than f’in’ NASA. Maybe he’ll provide vacations to Venus for the political class (see “The Marching Morons,” Cyril Kornbluth). That would be f’in’ swell. But Mars will do.
Whether he's a scammer or not will be quickly discovered. First off, government should get OUT of the satellite launch business, and let private companies sort it out among themselves.
There's a national defense priority to launchers, and not merely ICBMs, also surveillance of our foes and battlefields.
The only thing that concerns me about SpaceX is that Elon should be concentrating on the feasible -- complete takeover of the commercial launch business -- instead of trying to get suborbital BFR service between Earth's Pacific Rim cities.
Just in the past week or so the Russians realized they have to abandon their own development plans which were being claimed in the first place to compete with SpaceX. "We can't do it," something everyone already knew.
Everything Musk has done was built with private money, or as a contractor selling a product or service to gov't (which as we all know, builds and makes nothing) -- he's not some welfare case sitting on his ass cashing a monthly gov't check, so knock off the stupid and groundless accusations, they just make you look like idiots.
Unless that's what you're going for -- "Musk, you didn't build that."
He does have that huckster marketing vibe like Barnum, but he's also delivering each and every step of the way, regardless of whether he misses his original timetables -- a problem that has in impact on him and his companies, not on taxpayers.
SpaceX will be on Mars before NASA returns to the Moon -- but unless the fed gubmint gets smart, funding on the SLS, a rewarmed STS being built by everyone BUT SpaceX, will still be going out, with NASA having nothing to show for it.
The pro-Musk arguments seem to boil down to “Space X is much better than NASA” - but the upcoming bankruptcy and collapse of Tesla is going to deflate his cult of personality.
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