Lifelong consumer of cheezy space operas here. And so years ago I cheered for Musk, thinking he might actually bring about the utopian futures I hoped for. But he’s a douchwad, and even if he got a self-sustaining colony on Mars in 20 years, it would be a colony of douchwads. So what kind of utopia would that be?!?
I for one hope Elon loses both his nuts in a tragic accident. He already has plenty of kids, kids he assuredly never would have been given the opportunity to father if it weren't for his giant pile of money. You take away the giant pile of money, and no one is checking the "yes" box for him to be their sperm donor.
"Mr. Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he now expects one million people to be living there in about 20 years"
I'm imagining Musk as Mr. Burns, holding up a model of his XShip or whatever he's calling it this week, commanding his employees to get into it, and pulling a gun on them when they refuse. Isn't it wonderful having the most wealthy person on God's grey Earth be a FUCKING LITERAL CARTOON VILLAIN?
Free Market [tm] has spoken, Lonnie. The wonderful, perfect Free Market [tm], that is the solution to all the world's problems, has spoken. Turns out nobody wants to pay top dollar to advertise on Parler 2.0. Sucks to suck, I guess.
It really is quite silly how it seems to be the (faux) free market billionaire libertarians who are constantly crying about other companies and/or the government having free will to make their own decisions about who to do business with.
I mean, if Hobby fucking Lobby gets to be "a corporation is a person" and deny birth control over religious opposition, then I think that other corporations are people, too. And can choose to use their strongly held belief to not advertise with Elon & his shit show.
The solution, of course, is to go directly on to Twit and comment that Lonnie is a fat, dumb notzee with hair plugs, which will result in getting banned by him. Can't stand up in court that you're not using a service you're not allowed to use.
As far as I know, the title of "author of the most pedantic space adventure novels ever committed to paper" was awarded some time ago, to that other guy who looked like what you'd get if you crossed Musk with Donald Trump in a lab... L. Ron Hubbard. He could just buy the rights to the Hubbard oeuvre and call it a day. All he'd have to do is change his name to "Elron" and get Travolta (or Tom Cruise, for that matter) to appear in a crappy film that serves only as answer to obscure trivia questions.
Has he checked to see if there's a mountain full of alien technology that, when activated, could create an Earth-like atmosphere on Mars? Just wondering—I think I saw a documentary on that last week.
"Our own personal sci-fi theory that there is an alternative universe where Elon Musk is the obscure and impoverished author of the most pedantic space adventure novels ever committed to paper remains in play."
This title should've belonged to L. Ron Hubbard, but then he decided to con millions of people with a pseudoreligion instead.
Anyone that thinks you can build enough infrastructure -- including water and air! -- on another planet in 20 years that will support a million people is not a serious person. I mean, it would be one thing if we had a mostly-inhabitable planet where we could drop a few thousand colonists with the knowledge and equipment to build the tools they need to build a colony, using resources they were equipped to find and exploit there. But this is Mars. Barely an atmosphere. No significant water sources, to our knowledge. It'll take more than 20 years just to develop the tech to keep more than half a dozen people alive on Mars for a week.
Also, in talking about "engineering new lifeforms" for Mars, may I direct him to Frederik Pohl's excellent "Man Plus." He's already killing monkeys trying to invent brain chips, let him waste the rest of his money trying to build cyborgs.
I think it was Cory Doctrow who recently wrote a piece about Elon Musk being just the current iteration of hucksters promising us things like jetpacks, with basically no viability to come to fruition... just to keep the money spigot turned on from both private investors/shareholders and the government giving him lucrative contracts, tax breaks, etc.
Musk has been making ridiculous promises and predictions that didn't even remotely come true for a good solid decade. But I guess like Trump, whether he's famous or infamous, he's good for ratings and clicks.
“In a 2022 podcast interview, [Musk] said he would tackle the planet’s icy temperatures with a series of thermonuclear explosions that would warm the planet by creating artificial suns.”
Lifelong consumer of cheezy space operas here. And so years ago I cheered for Musk, thinking he might actually bring about the utopian futures I hoped for. But he’s a douchwad, and even if he got a self-sustaining colony on Mars in 20 years, it would be a colony of douchwads. So what kind of utopia would that be?!?
I for one hope Elon loses both his nuts in a tragic accident. He already has plenty of kids, kids he assuredly never would have been given the opportunity to father if it weren't for his giant pile of money. You take away the giant pile of money, and no one is checking the "yes" box for him to be their sperm donor.
"Mr. Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he now expects one million people to be living there in about 20 years"
I'm imagining Musk as Mr. Burns, holding up a model of his XShip or whatever he's calling it this week, commanding his employees to get into it, and pulling a gun on them when they refuse. Isn't it wonderful having the most wealthy person on God's grey Earth be a FUCKING LITERAL CARTOON VILLAIN?
Off Topic...
I understand that the British navy put buttons on the cuffs of they uniform sleeves to keep the sailors from wiping their nose on their coat sleeves.
From the looks of ole Tom Corbett, Space Cadet on the above poster, the Space Cadet Force had a MAJOR runny nose issue.
Free Market [tm] has spoken, Lonnie. The wonderful, perfect Free Market [tm], that is the solution to all the world's problems, has spoken. Turns out nobody wants to pay top dollar to advertise on Parler 2.0. Sucks to suck, I guess.
It really is quite silly how it seems to be the (faux) free market billionaire libertarians who are constantly crying about other companies and/or the government having free will to make their own decisions about who to do business with.
Would be interesting to see it come full circle and have the oil companies sue Tesla for not buying gas.
I mean, if Hobby fucking Lobby gets to be "a corporation is a person" and deny birth control over religious opposition, then I think that other corporations are people, too. And can choose to use their strongly held belief to not advertise with Elon & his shit show.
"he threatened to sue all the companies involved"
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The solution, of course, is to go directly on to Twit and comment that Lonnie is a fat, dumb notzee with hair plugs, which will result in getting banned by him. Can't stand up in court that you're not using a service you're not allowed to use.
As far as I know, the title of "author of the most pedantic space adventure novels ever committed to paper" was awarded some time ago, to that other guy who looked like what you'd get if you crossed Musk with Donald Trump in a lab... L. Ron Hubbard. He could just buy the rights to the Hubbard oeuvre and call it a day. All he'd have to do is change his name to "Elron" and get Travolta (or Tom Cruise, for that matter) to appear in a crappy film that serves only as answer to obscure trivia questions.
Has he checked to see if there's a mountain full of alien technology that, when activated, could create an Earth-like atmosphere on Mars? Just wondering—I think I saw a documentary on that last week.
What's that? It was a sci-fi flick from 1990?
Never mind.
He saw Arnie say "Get your ass to Mars!" and took it literally.
Prometheus comes to mind...........
"Our own personal sci-fi theory that there is an alternative universe where Elon Musk is the obscure and impoverished author of the most pedantic space adventure novels ever committed to paper remains in play."
This title should've belonged to L. Ron Hubbard, but then he decided to con millions of people with a pseudoreligion instead.
A million people on Mars in 20 years.
Yeah, right.
Anyone that thinks you can build enough infrastructure -- including water and air! -- on another planet in 20 years that will support a million people is not a serious person. I mean, it would be one thing if we had a mostly-inhabitable planet where we could drop a few thousand colonists with the knowledge and equipment to build the tools they need to build a colony, using resources they were equipped to find and exploit there. But this is Mars. Barely an atmosphere. No significant water sources, to our knowledge. It'll take more than 20 years just to develop the tech to keep more than half a dozen people alive on Mars for a week.
Also, in talking about "engineering new lifeforms" for Mars, may I direct him to Frederik Pohl's excellent "Man Plus." He's already killing monkeys trying to invent brain chips, let him waste the rest of his money trying to build cyborgs.
I think it was Cory Doctrow who recently wrote a piece about Elon Musk being just the current iteration of hucksters promising us things like jetpacks, with basically no viability to come to fruition... just to keep the money spigot turned on from both private investors/shareholders and the government giving him lucrative contracts, tax breaks, etc.
It's snakeoil meets tech.
Musk has been making ridiculous promises and predictions that didn't even remotely come true for a good solid decade. But I guess like Trump, whether he's famous or infamous, he's good for ratings and clicks.
“In a 2022 podcast interview, [Musk] said he would tackle the planet’s icy temperatures with a series of thermonuclear explosions that would warm the planet by creating artificial suns.”
Lord, the “Empress Theresa” flashback I just had.
Musk as King Canute, sitting on a throne commanding the cold to retreat
What.a.clown.
Ta, Gary. Musk's idiocy is growing exponentially.