Elon Musk needs his own thread because he's in every damn thing/positive Elon Musk

Not that we know of publicly. What's known is that there's gonna be an event day on Oct 10 about robotaxi at Warner Bros movie studio.

The location doesn't inspire something remarkable is going to come out of it

 

Redwood, the new low end Tesla is scheduled to begin production in mid 2025, by which we'll have a fully functioning colony on Mars.

 

More election interference from you know who...

X’s AI chatbot spread voter misinformation – and election officials fought back
When the Grok tool gave false information, a collection of election officials sprang into action to tamp it down

Soon after Joe Biden announced he was ending his bid for re-election, misinformation started spreading online about whether a new candidate could take the president’s place.

Screenshots that claimed a new candidate could not be added to ballots in nine states moved quickly around Twitter, now X, racking up millions of views. The Minnesota secretary of state’s office began getting requests for fact-checks of these posts, which were flat-out wrong – ballot deadlines had not passed, giving Kamala Harris plenty of time to have her name added to ballots.

The source of the misinformation: Twitter’s chatbot, Grok. When users asked the artificial intelligence tool whether a new candidate still had time to be added to ballots, Grok gave the incorrect answer.​

At this point he's simply declaring a propaganda war against western democracies.

I have an idea. Why don't we just ban twitter down like Brazil or, better yet, just take it over under some sort of updated defense production act or whatever it was called.

 

In theory robotaxis have been in production for years, the software is still being worked on. But if you believe him, as soon as is ready, all TESLAs on the road become robotaxis.

 

This dude is getting in Howard Hughes territory......If he ends up like Hughes, I will keep it classy and say "thoughts and prayers".

Elon Musk won’t even leave his Burning Man camp anymore. A deep dive by me + Jack Ewing on how the billionaire is barricading himself behind lots more security as death threats are rising (and he’s more paranoid!). We went through a lot of police and Tesla docs to bring you this tale nytimes.com/2024…

 

The death threats are no good. Not cool.

Cagefight vs Zuck is where it is at.

 

You could have also read any of my many posts in this topic and saved yourself some time.

• No magnetosphere/ has a solid core
• Minimal atmosphere
• Lower gravity (~38% of Earth’s) will lead to serious complications over time. A colony would have to quickly evolve to handle that.
• Sending all that stuff into space is incredibly infeasible and/or costly. Questionable we could make a base on just the moon.

 

There’s this…and the fact that there is literally nothing mankind could do to the earth that would make it less hospitable to mankind than Mars….that either couldn’t be overcome at a fraction of the cost by building that colony on earth…or wouldn’t also destroy that Mars colony’s ability to survive without a fully inhabited and functioning Mother Earth.

Manned space flight (as opposed to unmanned) has been one of the biggest waste of resources in human history.

 

I disagree with this statement. We have learned a whole lot launching humans into space, and running human-led experiments in space that couldn’t happen without them, and also repairing equipment that we don’t have robots capable of diagnosing or completing those repairs.

Colonization is a fools errand.

I could see the potential of some sort of moon base where astronauts spend months, not years, at a time like they currently do, but I won’t live to see it.

 

So much of our modern world is built on sending a dozen guys to the Moon. I can't even fathom what sending people to Mars, much less figuring out how to keep them there, would do to benefit future Earth.

Elon's idea of a colony is dumb, but that doesn't discount the benefits of doing it. It would have profound impacts on Earth and would benefit us in some predictable ways and unpredictable ones. We'd learn so much and inspire new generations to do even more, same as happened back then.

I just can't understand anyone saying space travel doesn't help or we should spend those resources elsewhere. It's shown to have a compounding beneficial effect and we should be doing more to have NASA push travel further.

 

You already know how I feel about this.

I’m still all for pushing for space travel and discovery, just not particularly manned exploration, and most definitely not colonization.

 

I hope this ************************ gets a visit from the secret serv.

Hours after former President Donald Trump was targeted in a second apparent assassination attempt, Telsa and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk weighed in with a post that sparked outrage online.

"And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala," Musk said followed by a thinking face emoji on X, formerly Twitter, which he owns. Musk was responding to the question from another X user, "Why they want to kill Donald Trump?"

"Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text," the second post stated. USA TODAY reached out to X for comment.

Despite deleting the post, screenshots of it have been widely shared, with some users tagging the FBI, the Secret Service and calling it "extremely reckless and dangerous" or "disgusting."

 

Much as I like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica . . . we're not going to be traveling through space at faster-than-light speeds. Largely because doing so would, in real life, suck.

 

I have always dreamed of humanity colonizing other worlds, but at this point, it seems impossible with our current or foreseeable technology. It may or may not happen long after we are gone from the face of this planet.

In theory, nothing can travel faster than light-speed, but there might be other approaches, like wormholes or hybernating (ala Avatar/Alien movies) while the ship travels at a fraction of light-speed. IMHO the most misguiding part of space sagas (besides loud explosions), is the concept of quasi-fighter jet battles where small ships change direction almost at will.

 

I’m stealing the Antarctica line. That’s great.

And don’t get me wrong. If a purely private effort by Elon to colonize Mars ends up bankrupting him and we never hear from that shit weasel again…the mission would have done a good deal for humanity.

 

Oh, there are other approaches: see my signature line.

 

I really believe this is the overriding goal of his life. He started SpaceX for the sole reason of making rockets to go to Mars after he found out directly buying rockets from Russia for this purpose could not be done. All his other ventures (electrification, solar power, communication, tunnels, even the financial stuff) all have the ultimate goal of making a model Mars society.

Not that any of it will happen.

 

That's not really the product of a healthy mind.