I once read the hypothesis that the real reason for him promoting hyperloop was to discourage public investment in conventional public transit, which he saw as competition to his electric car business.
I also think that his idea of colonizing Mars is dumb. I often think the following about such projects: colonizing the Arctic is at least an order of magnitude easier. Why isn't there ever any serious effort to use some inhospitable place here on earth for practice, to test ideas, etc? Unfortunately, I think the answer to this question is this: it's because it is not sexy and these efforts are not serious to begin with. It might even be that we will be able to colonize Venus before Mars. Crazy as it might sound, I believe that there is a layer of the Venus atmosphere that is much closer to being hospitable to human beings than anywhere on Mars. Of course this also comes with incredible challenges, not the least of it the one of building floating structures. Telmo Am Mi, 23. Nov 2022, um 23:09, schrieb Brent Meeker: > Elon makes a lot of dumb mistakes, like his tunnel under LA and his demo > version in Las Vegas. His hyperloop LA to SF was dumb too although he passed > it off to someone else. His idea of colonizing Mars is dumb too as well as > what he's proposed for getting people there. > > Brent > > > On 11/23/2022 5:57 AM, Terren Suydam wrote: >> But why would anyone sacrifice so much of their own money to do that? I >> think he is probably a genius, but everybody has blind spots, and anyone is >> capable of making dumb mistakes. This looks like a colossal failure to me. >> >> By the way, if there is a bright spot to inviting Trump back, it's that it >> seriously compromises the future of Truth Social. And, he's under contract >> with Truth Social to not use any other platforms. Not that something as >> silly as a legally binding contract would stop Trump from tweeting, but it >> would give his lawyers yet another expensive project. >> >> Terren >> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 8:06 AM Lawrence Crowell >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Musk has a BS degree from U-Penn (as I recall) which means he is probably >>> smarter than most. However, all of his corporate successes have been built >>> by others, from Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla etc. The engineering of these were >>> done my other people, and Musk just had the money to become majority >>> shareholder. With respect to Twitter, I somewhat suspect he is >>> intentionally demolishing the company. >>> >>> LC >>> >>> On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 7:00:35 AM UTC-6 [email protected] >>> wrote: >>>> Many had thought Elon Musk was some sort of transcendental genius and even >>>> I thought he must be a pretty smart cookie, but when I heard he was >>>> spending $44 billion to buy a company as silly as Twitter I felt it might >>>> be time to reconsider my judgment. Could Mr. Musk really not find a better >>>> use for that $44 billion in Tesla or SpaceX? Alternatively, with that much >>>> money he could've started a new company that would be a world leader in >>>> the field of AI or Quantum Computing, but instead he bought Twitter so >>>> people could continue to send tweets about Taylor Swift and Donald Trump >>>> could get his account back. As if that wasn't bad enough he completely >>>> bungled the purchase, after agreeing to buy the piece of crap he tried to >>>> back out of the deal but it was too late; and as soon as he took control >>>> he fired more than half the employees, an even greater percentage among >>>> the engineering staff, and then belatedly realized the company would fall >>>> apart without some of them and try to hire them back, but with company >>>> morale at an all time low few agreed to come back to a toxic workplace and >>>> would prefer unemployment. He seems like he doesn't have a clue what he's >>>> doing and is just flailing around doing things at random and hoping that >>>> something works. >>>> >>>> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis >>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> >>>> i6g >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/046fd53a-4c3a-4742-a428-f9a24fd15a96n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/046fd53a-4c3a-4742-a428-f9a24fd15a96n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA-VdZ71RbvHQN-BF2Mq1hjFtAb2tR1Ddr6ikHB%2BovNAEA%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAMy3ZA-VdZ71RbvHQN-BF2Mq1hjFtAb2tR1Ddr6ikHB%2BovNAEA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e4afd388-a15b-7bf5-9d71-70f375b4ab62%40gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/e4afd388-a15b-7bf5-9d71-70f375b4ab62%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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