The enthusiasm for the Cybertruck amuses me because when I first moved to KY I was interested in getting a used Honda Ridgeline, imo the best truck for someone that doesn’t really need a truck. All the truck-owning rednecks as work thought it was the weirdest-looking freak show of a vehicle in the world due to the slight angle to the rear bed at the sides.
Now that Musk is the “defender of freedom,” will attitudes change? I suspect not really - EVs aren’t popular round the parts.
The Cybertruck looks like a drawing that would I would be proud to display on the fridge after my six-year old brought it home from school.
^ from the tweet by one of the bilked.
We all know from the example of Trump that rich guys can do all sorts of illegal stuff, never fearing any consequences from law enforcement. So why wouldn’t Elmo simply decline to comply with the particular law in question?
I’m convinced he’s setting up a run for President.
Constant tweeting, inadequate attention span, lying narcissim, owning the libs, making a heroic stand for free speech, working hard to change his status from actual billionaire to sham billionaire. He knows what the people want.
He needs to work on capitalizing any Words that he Deems Important in his tweets.
You’re certainly right that he’s mastered the ‘how to appeal to deplorables’ list of approved conduct.
There is that pesky “born in South Africa” issue to contend with, however.
I think we covered that upthread, with the resurrection of the Arnold Amendment as the Election Laxity for Musk is Okay Amendment.
Have we seen the long form birth certificate, though?
Not a problem. Elmo will produce a birth certificate showing he was born in the south part of Africa, Ohio.
With enough money, you can forge anything like Obama. The really expensive part is going back in time to put those birth announcements in newspapers.
And Obama got away with it, too, despite all the “stuff you wouldn’t believe” that Trump’s investigators found in Hawaii! If Obama could do it, surely it would be child’s play for a genius like Elmo.
Obama was smart enough to travel back in time and teach himself everything he knows.
It always amazes me how often scamsters introduce patently unbelievable nonsense to the rubes using that exact catch phrase. It’s almost like a magic amulet that absorbs all the disbelief, leaving the rubes totally primed to accept the rest of the claptrap as gospel.
Sigh.
You just know someday SpaceX going to build an ion thruster and he will claim that he invented the electric rocket.
For folks like me and Elon Musk who know nothing about the subject, here’s Wikipedia’s entry:
Musk knows what ion thrusters are. Starlink uses them. He was almost certainly talking about launching rockets from Earth with electricity. Musk isn’t stupid or ignorant when it comes to rockets.
Former SpaceX rocket engineer Jim Cantrel on Musk:
This was while they were still planning to buy Russian rockets, not build their own.
He goes on to say that he left SpaceX because he had decades of experience that told him SpaceX wouldn’t succeed when they decided to build their own. He was wrong, and admits it.
From 2014. I wonder if there might be more recent developments that could potentially inform this analysis.
When his answers are short enough and enigmatic enough to fit in a fortune cookie, you may forgive me for thinking he’s an absolute idiot. I’m surprised he didn’t tell me what my lucky numbers are.
Well, I agree - and his response was appropriate to (say) a child asking if a rocket ship could work just like an electric car. Explaining that the wheels have the ground to push against, but in space there’s nothing to push against, so you have to do things a bit differently.
But was his response appropriate to a question from what appears to be an engineer, who obviously knows this, and is asking a completely different question?
World of Engineering puts out questions to readers. They aren’t asking questions for themselves. Sometimes those questions are very simple, because WoE has readers of all education levels.
Then explain who, exactly, this answer is appropriate for?
Lol no, Newton’s Third Law
The content of that response only makes sense for a child who doesn’t understand Newton’s Third Law. But then the manner of saying it makes you a complete jerk, and explains nothing.
The “gotcha” jerkish manner of saying it implies that the person asking it is an engineer who should understand Newton’s Third Law. But if it’s an engineer then they obviously weren’t asking that elementary question.