Is Elon Musk Nuts? by SIGNYM

Elon Musk says Starlink satellites have to dodge debris from Russia's anti-satellite missile test

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-starlink-satellites-19570888
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 11:25 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Elon Musk says Raptor engine production is a ‘disaster’ that puts SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy

“I was going to take this weekend off, as my first weekend off in a long time, but instead I will be on the Raptor line all night and through the weekend,” Musk wrote in the email. He also urged employees to come in for an “all hands on deck” situation unless they had critical family matters or could not “physically return to Hawthorne,” the location of SpaceX’s headquarters in California.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/30/22809720/elon-musk-spacex-raptor-e
ngine-crisis-bankruptcy-starship

What Musk is asking from his employees is crazy. The engines built on nights, weekends, Christmas, and New Year's Day are more likely to explode on launch than engines built from 9 to 5 Monday through Friday.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, December 2, 2021 10:11 AM

Elon Musk Compares Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal To Joseph Stalin, Meme Goes Viral

https://www.wionews.com/trending/elon-musk-takes-a-dig-at-parag-agrawa
l-shares-a-photoshopped-image-comparing-him-with-joseph-stalin-433508

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Thursday, December 2, 2021 12:21 PM

Elon Musk Proposes Setting an Age Limit on US Politicians

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-age-limit-presidents

Both Biden and Trump would be outTrump now Age 75

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Saturday, December 4, 2021 1:32 PM

ElonMusk made good on his promise to relocate the company’s headquarters from California to Texas

https://www.theepochtimes.com/tesla-officially-moves-headquarters-from
-california-to-texas_4136827.html?utm_source=gab

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Saturday, December 4, 2021 5:03 PM

SpaceX Starship East Coast Orbital Pad UNDER CONSTRUCTION, Tank Testing Recommenced

https://rumble.com/vq64wd-spacex-starship-east-coast-orbital-pad-under
-construction-tank-testing-reco.html

Thin Line Between Genius and Insanity ...

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Saturday, December 4, 2021 10:27 PM

Elon Musk shows off his new robot.

I joke, but not really...

I don't think he's going to be able to compete with people who have been doing it for a long time. His working prototype is a mime in a latex suit.

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Sunday, December 5, 2021 5:16 AM

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Elon Musk confirms he's worried SpaceX could go bankrupt

https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-confirms-hes-worried-spacex-could-
go-bankrupt/

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Wednesday, December 8, 2021 4:46 AM

'Honestly, I would just can this whole bill': Elon Musk rips Biden's 'Build Back Better' Plan

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10284615/Honestly-just-bill-E
lon-Musk-rips-Bidens-Build-Better-Plan.html

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Sunday, December 12, 2021 11:10 AM

Why Elon Musk will be remembered as an automotive pioneer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/11/why-elon-musk-wi
ll-be-remembered-as-an-automotive-pioneer

Elon Musk sells his home for £23million to live in a £37k box: 'It's special'
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1533995/elon-musk-sells-home-ca
lifornia-boca-chica-starbase-texas-boxabl

Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1469762144786919427

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021 8:58 AM

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Elon Musk sold 934,091 shares of Tesla, which are worth around $906.49 million late Monday.

But at the end of the day he owned more shares than he had at the beginning because he also purchased 2.13 million shares at the strike price of $6.24 per share granted to him via a 2012 compensation package. Those shares of Tesla that only cost him $6.24 per share are each worth $966.41 on Monday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/elon-musk-sells-another-906point5-mill
ion-worth-of-tesla-shares.html

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 6:20 AM

Elon Musk tweets that SpaceX will start program to pull carbon dioxide in atmosphere and use it as rocket fuel

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-tweets-spacex-start-013744313.html

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 8:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk tweets that SpaceX will start program to pull carbon dioxide in atmosphere and use it as rocket fuel

https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-tweets-spacex-start-013744313.html

I won't go as far as to say that this is impossible.

But if you were going to to this, you would burn more energy pulling it from the air and turning it into fuel than you'd get out of the deal.

It's pure bullshit. Like the Hyperloop.

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 10:39 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk tweets that SpaceX will start program to pull carbon dioxide in atmosphere and use it as rocket fuel

SpaceX rocket fuel is kerosene. There are 6 million results for convert carbon dioxide to kerosene. https://www.google.com/search?q=convert+carbon+dioxide+to+kerosene

For an example of what Musk might have been reading to get him thinking about CO2 to kerosene: New, cheaper catalyst turns carbon dioxide into jet fuel

An inexpensive and efficient new catalyst for turning carbon dioxide into jet fuel has been developed by a team led by University of Oxford chemists. The researchers say the process could lead to an industrial-scale method of extracting the gas from the air and reusing it in jet engines, thereby mitigating the warming effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The Oxford team want to help move the aviation sector from a linear fossil fuel based one to a circular one based on renewable energy and recycling of carbon dioxide.

‘Because CO2 is extracted out of the air and is emitted again when you fly, the overall effect is a net-zero CO2 emission flight,’ the authors said. ‘Instead of consuming fossil crude oil, aviation fuel can be produced from CO2 and renewable energy.’

Study co-author Peter Edwards, head of inorganic chemistry at Oxford, says the researchers plan to use the process to make fuel for existing jet engines within ‘two to three years’. They are also looking for an industrial partner to develop it, he said. This is where Musk has a role, assuming he read the article.

The study details a catalyst that can simultaneously perform two critical stages of a hydrogenation process for carbon dioxide that form the long-chain hydrocarbon fuels used in jet engines – usually kerosene refined from fossil fuels, with a typical chain length of between eight and 16 carbons. Synthetic jet fuels have been made by reacting syngas – a mixture of mostly carbon monoxide and gaseous hydrogen – over an expensive cobalt-based catalyst in a hydrogenation process called Fischer–Tropsch synthesis. But most Fischer–Tropsch methods require a further step to first reduce carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, and they have poor selectivity – a measure of how targeted the process is for producing hydrocarbon chains of the desired length.

In contrast, the new catalyst is based on iron – an abundant and inexpensive element – with manganese and potassium, and can produce long-chain hydrocarbons in a single step from carbon dioxide with relatively high selectivity. ‘[The] catalyst shows a CO2 conversion of 38.2% and selectivity to C8–C16 hydrocarbons of 47.8%,’ the researchers write, with correspondingly low selectivity for methane and carbon monoxide. That’s comparable or better performance than alternative Fischer–Tropsch catalysts, many of which are made from expensive materials or need large amounts of water to prepare.

Tests with the catalyst using a laboratory source of carbon dioxide and hydrogen in a reactor at 350°C, produced several grams of long-chain hydrocarbon fuel. At the same time, the process generated useful amounts of petrochemicals, such as light olefins, that are usually obtained by refining crude oil.

Edwards says the next stages will be to extract the carbon dioxide directly from the air, and to scale it up so usable amounts of jet fuel can be made from ‘green hydrogen’ in plants powered by renewable energy.

Ultimately, about 4.7kg of atmospheric carbon dioxide – that’s roughly the carbon dioxide generated by a car driving 20km – could be turned into one litre of jet fuel with the new catalyst, Edwards said. He called the development arguably the most important advance in his four-decade career. ‘[Co-author] Tiancun Xiao and I started thinking on this a decade ago,’ but they needed innovations in catalyst design from lead author Benzhen Yao to finally make it happen, he says.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/new-cheaper-catalyst-turns-carbon-
dioxide-into-jet-fuel/4012981.article

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 2:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

But if you were going to to this, you would burn more energy pulling it from the air and turning it into fuel than you'd get out of the deal.

It's pure bullshit. Like the Hyperloop.

This guy Musk while he does seem to troll or have some level of autism we need to give his intelligence credit and maybe Look past the headline. You're missing his almost child like dream, the long term goal and vision. NASA or the USA wants to stay ahead in space, there will be other players, Japan, India, Europe, Russia, the Private sector, some might help the USA and some might not. China now has robots almost as good as NASA on the Moon and exploring Mars. Musk wanst to put Nuclear power into space and so does China, NASA has a current rover with nuclear power called Perseverance investigating the production of oxygen on Mars. Unlike Earth Mars has a very thin atompshere but it is there, Mars is not a total vacuum, atmosphere of Mars is the layer of gases of mostly carbon dioxide (95%), then some molecular nitrogen (2.8%) and argon (2%). It also contains trace levels of water vapor, carbon monoxide.

Maybe he's thinking ahead, has a vision for a village or town out there in space and already planning for the return trip.

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
SpaceX rocket fuel is kerosene.

Now why on Earth or why on Mars would they chose ideas like kerosene...and it seems the new engine, the Raptor, which uses methane instead of hydrogen.
Propellant production? http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3479/1

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 3:04 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:

Now why on Earth or why on Mars would they chose ideas like kerosene...and it seems the new engine, the Raptor, which uses methane instead of hydrogen.
Propellant production? http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3479/1

Musk uses 3 different fuels on missiles:

2 Kerosene-based engines

2.1 Merlin 1
2.2 Kestrel

3 Methane-based engines

3.1 Raptor
3.2 Methox thruster

4 Hypergolic engines

4.1 Draco
4.2 SuperDraco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_rocket_engines

What is next for Musk? Di-lithium crystals from Star Trek? Who knows?

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 3:39 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

A lot of ideas seem good at first glance: for example hydrogen fuel from water. What's not to like? Water is abundant, hydrogen doesn't generate CO2.

But 'good ideas' don't work in the abstract, they work in the specific, the nuts and bolts. Hydrogen has low energy density, so it needs to be handled at ultra-high pressures. Hydrogen leaks through metal and in addition embrittles it. Hydrogen at high pressure explodes. Hydrogen fuel 'tanks' release bits and pieces of metal and plastic, poisoning the fuel cells they're supposed to feed. And entire multi-quadrillion dollar hydrogen infrastructure needs to be built to use it. High energy-usage facilities - steel mills, aluminum refineries, electricity generation, cement kilns - outstrip hydrogen's ability to be generated and transported.

What seems like a great gosh-whiz brilliant idea falls apart in the specifics.

Kerosene on Mars? Well, CO2 is abundant in the Martian atmosphere. But how much hydrogen and how much energy do you need to turn CO2 back into kerosene (or other hydrocarbon fuel?) This needs to be penciled out specifically. But considering how far Mars is from the sun - the only natively available source of energy on Mars - it doesn't seem like it would work out. And if you're going to bring an energy source to Mars to make kerosene, why not just use that energy source directly?

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 6:00 PM

Not to mention the amount of energy necessary to split H2O up for usable hydrogen will ALWAYS require more energy than what you get out of it.

Unless somebody magically finds a way to change the laws of thermodynamics, this will always be the case.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2021 7:55 PM

SpaceX’s towering Starship aims to get humans to Mars

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/20/spacex-starship-hum
ans-moon-next-year

Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:

But considering how far Mars is from the sun - the only natively available source of energy on Mars - it doesn't seem like it would work out.

Everyone today also seems to be looking at Nuclear, that is the Russians, the USA that is NASA plus the Private Sector like Musk, the Chinese, the Europeans are look at Nuclear power in a spacecraft maybe a 'Space-Tug' called Zeus or some kind of reactor on the Moon or Mars... Sunlight is there always, its not as strong as the Solar light on Earth but it is there, think of a kind of Cold looking dull day in Alaska, Russia or Antarctica, Solar power has come a long, long way. Land at the equator you don't have those long night at the poles on Earth you can stay near the Mars equator for yourt long day, its cold but you have a 24 and half hour day, thin toxic air that no person can breathe but the Sun is there maybe less than 44 % the Sun you have on Earth, its enough to power a Rover for many many years on the surface, its not really known what long term exposure to Cosmic Rays or Martain Dust or Solar Storms will do to things and people on the surface, there should be sunlight unless something really unlucky happens and an arrival during months long dust storms.

As a source of power wind is probably out although NASA now has a mini robo helicopter flying in its thin atmosphere

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Not to mention the amount of energy necessary to split H2O up for usable hydrogen will ALWAYS require more energy than what you get out of it.

You forgot your school lesson or you did not pay attention in class that day. With Water the Splitting is easy enough done with electro reaction, Split the hydrogen and oxygen in water is accomplished using a process called “water electrolysis” then of course you can get your free power from our Sun, a simple AA battery does it or a potential difference of 1.25 volts maybe 1.5 V are required for practical use . The electricity drives a very natural reaction, The water chemical reaction where some molecule gains electrons is known as a reduction reaction while reaction where some molecule loses electrons is an oxidation reaction, elecricity is the catalyst of sorts that accelerates used to drive the natural reaction. The hydrogen gas can be collected by example by simply inverting a water-filled tube or jar over the wire producing the hydrogen gas. Chinese are thinking about stuff, they have already tried growing stuff inside a Rover's mini biosphere on the Moon and the guys at NASA, MIT JPL already proved the' on April 20, 2021, MOXIE produced oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere by using solid oxide electrolysis.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Oxygen_ISRU_Experiment

Process of creating air from water is a little more complex than I described, you need some filter membrane, they can do it on subs but it is a longer process as you need to do reverse osmosis and purify any chemical or salts from water otherwise you can create a toxin or gas that can kill you...but it can be done with 'pure water'.

It might be easy enough to set up some solar farm generating many hundreds of MJ of energy or tens of kWh of power. The more difficult part will perhaps be the unknowns how to get past this cold month long dust storm, how to clean machines from all the Moondust or Mars dirt or like how to fix the generator after it got it by a micor-meteorite or why are our plants all dying inside our wonderful Greenhouse on Mars?

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Sunday, December 26, 2021 10:08 AM

'For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year'

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1472754632325795843

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Sunday, December 26, 2021 1:22 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
'For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year'

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1472754632325795843

Elon Musk says Neuralink to start implants next year.(Meanwhile, Neuralink has yet to receive FDA approval)
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/neuralink-to-be-ready-for-human-implan
ts-in-2022%3A-elon-musk

Elon Musk says city officials have approved DC-NY hyperloop. (Meanwhile, city officials have no idea what he's talking about.)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-hyperloop-musk-idUSKBN1A525F

Elon Musk says SpaceX could go bankrupt.

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ANY statement that starts with "Elon Musk says..." should be taken with a mountain of salt. There's ONE thing that Elon Musk said, that I believe:

Elon Musk says he "might be" bipolar.
https://www.inverse.com/article/34948-elon-musk-bipolar-disorder-menta
l-health

Elon Musk is VERY good at one thing: SUCKING MONEY OUT OF GOVERNMENT.

ANYTHING that he's done either depended on government subsidies to make profitable (Solar City, Tesla) or on direct government contracts (SpaceX).

So, Elon Musk says he'll pay that much in taxes? I'll believe it when I see it.

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Wednesday, December 29, 2021 8:39 PM

China slams US after space station 'close encounters' with Musk's satellites

The Chinese say its space station had to dodge a collision with Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/china-space-satellites-spacex-1.630009
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China v Musk: Space rift hits new heights
https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/news/china-musk-space-rift-225512298.html

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Wednesday, December 29, 2021 10:01 PM

The hyperloop is a freakin' joke. It will NEVER happen.

They can't even make a 3 mile long tube above ground that doesn't end up rusting on the inside walls and maintain a seal and integrity that would withstand a constant vacuum.

How the hell would they be able to do the necessary and CONSTANT maintenance underground?

In California of all places, where the ground might not be in the same place as it was yesterday.

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Thursday, December 30, 2021 11:46 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Elon musk: over promising, under delivering:

Tesla Recalls More Than 475,000 US Vehicles Due To Quality Issues
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tesla-recalls-475k-us-vehicles-quali
ty-issues

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Thursday, December 30, 2021 1:07 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The hyperloop is a freakin' joke. It will NEVER happen.

They can't even make a 3 mile long tube above ground that doesn't end up rusting on the inside walls and maintain a seal and integrity that would withstand a constant vacuum.

How the hell would they be able to do the necessary and CONSTANT maintenance underground?

In California of all places, where the ground might not be in the same place as it was yesterday.

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HAHAHA! Too true!

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Thursday, December 30, 2021 2:19 PM

And even if somehow they managed to iron out several of the many, many kinks....

Would you trust your life to anything that could end up doing this around you if one single bolt fails?

Not me. Not ever.

No thanks. I'll walk.

I'd get vaccinated before I ever got on a Hyperloop.

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Thursday, December 30, 2021 3:14 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Vacuum trucks: small but mighty! Useful sucker-uppers of industrial spills, sumps, wells, pits, and septic tanks!

Awesome footage BTW!

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Thursday, December 30, 2021 7:45 PM

Yeah. I hadn't seen that one before. It wasn't the one I was looking for, but I feel it got the point across.

Anyone who buys a ticket to any future Hyperloops should have to watch that first before they decide if it's worth it.

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Monday, January 3, 2022 2:14 PM

SpaceX will take humans to Mars within 10 years, Elon Musk predicts

https://nypost.com/2021/12/29/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-fly-humans-to
-mars-within-10-years/

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Monday, January 3, 2022 4:16 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

He's nuts and super rich. A dangerous combination.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:53 AM

Let’s make the roaring 20’s happen!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1477706142461706248

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Wednesday, January 5, 2022 10:46 AM

Pretty sure that there was a lot more to that tweet than surface level.

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Thursday, January 6, 2022 10:30 AM

These two juggernaut automakers are plotting to dethrone Elon Musk
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/83823/these-two-juggernaut-automakers-a
re-plotting-to-dethrone-elon-musk/index.html

Titans of carmaking are plotting the overthrow of Elon Musk
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/01/06/business/elon-musk-tesla-
automakers/

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Thursday, February 17, 2022 2:31 PM

Musk compares Canada's Trudeau to Hitler?

https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/elon-musk-tweet-compares-justin-trudeau-
to-adolf-hitler/

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Saturday, February 26, 2022 6:42 PM

Ukraine official asks Elon Musk for Starlink stations amid Russian invasion

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-official-asks-elon-musk-starlink-stat
ions-amid-russian-invasion-1682977

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Monday, February 28, 2022 3:46 PM

Elon Musk Activates Starlink in Ukraine Amid Internet Disruption

https://www.mysanantonio.com/cnet/article/Elon-Musk-Activates-Starlink
-in-Ukraine-Amid-16951118.php

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Friday, March 4, 2022 8:30 AM

'Important warning: Starlink is the only non-Russian communications system still working in some parts of Ukraine, so probability of being targeted is high. Please use with caution.'

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1499472139333746691

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 7:27 AM

Germany: Elon Musk hosts Tesla Gigafactory launch ceremony

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-elon-musk-hosts-tesla-gigafactory-launch
-ceremony/a-61207547

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Sunday, April 10, 2022 8:11 AM

'Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway'

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512966135423066116

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Sunday, April 10, 2022 8:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
'Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway'

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512966135423066116

What a great Tweet.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:50 AM

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Tesla stock is Over Priced

It's fair to value Elon Musk's Tesla based on revenue, which is what the Price to Sales (PS) ratio does. Here it is for the world's top 20 car companies:

Tesla's PS ratio is 45 times higher than the average of the other 19 biggest car companies. Needless to say, this makes no sense. It might make sense for a company that has some kind of patented product that it has monopoly or semi-monopoly power over, but Tesla doesn't. Quite the opposite: Every car company in the world is building electric cars and Tesla stands to face intense competition over the next decade. Even if they can keep a top position, that wouldn't justify a PS ratio of more than 2.0 at the most.

In other words, Tesla stock is overvalued by at least 10x even on a conservative basis. And for what it's worth, that means Elon Musk's wealth is probably overvalued by about 10x too. That still leaves him with $20-30 billion in Tesla wealth, which is a lot! But it doesn't make him the richest human in the world.

POSTSCRIPT: If there's a car company in the chart that you've never heard of, it's probably Chinese. Tata is Indian.

https://jabberwocking.com/how-much-is-tesla-overvalued/

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:53 AM

Awww... Twitter pink haired weirdos are mad.

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Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:01 AM

Musk just offered to buy 100% of Twitter at $54.20 per share.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/14/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter-for-54
point20-a-share-saying-it-needs-to-be-transformed-as-private-company.html

Quote:
I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.

However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.

As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.

Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.

Elon Musk

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Sunday, April 17, 2022 8:33 AM

I think the bad moves that Twitter is trying to make now is about a lot more than just trying to avoid losing power.

What secrets are there to uncover about election meddling? About defining the narrative and destroying any dissenting opinions to it?

This ain't the 1960's. They can't just shred documents and burn buildings down to hide what they've done.

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Sunday, April 17, 2022 8:57 AM

Elon Musk takes jab at Saudi Arabia over free speech after prince rejects Twitter bid
https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-rejects-
elon-musks-twitter-takeover-bid/

Vanguard Group?
https://inshorts.com/en/news/who-are-the-top-10-shareholders-of-twitte
r-1649168609917

Mortimer J. "Tim" Buckley is an American executive at The Vanguard Group. The Vanguard Board elected him unanimously to succeed F. William McNabb III as chief executive officer upon McNabb's retirement

Musk reacts after Saudi Arabia rejected his Twitter takeover bid
https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/04/14/saudi-arabia-rejects-elon-musk-t
witter/

Vanguard group dislodges Elon Musk as Twitter's largest shareholder
https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/vanguard-group-di
slodges-elon-musk-as-twitter-s-largest-shareholder-122041600225_1.html

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Monday, April 18, 2022 7:03 AM

Elon Musk says it's 'very annoying' when journalists debunk his predictions, arguing that he's more often right than wrong

https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-very-annoying-when-journalists-de
bunk-my-timelines-2022-4

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Monday, April 18, 2022 9:25 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk says it's 'very annoying' when journalists debunk his predictions, arguing that he's more often right than wrong

https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-very-annoying-when-journalists-de
bunk-my-timelines-2022-4

Don't go there, Elon. Dragons.

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Monday, April 18, 2022 9:46 AM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Elon Musk says it's 'very annoying' when journalists debunk his predictions, arguing that he's more often right than wrong

https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-very-annoying-when-journalists-de
bunk-my-timelines-2022-4

Don't go there, Elon. Dragons.

From the story you are quoting: This is not the first time Musk has taken a jab at journalists. The Tesla co-founder has repeatedly criticized the coverage of Tesla cars crashing while on autopilot. He said that coverage was "irresponsible," arguing that it could lead people to miss out on the potential of self-driven cars to be safer those operated by humans.

It is Musk who is irresponsible. He has promised to deliver a self-driving car year after year after year, but his engineers keep telling him it is not ready, but that doesn't stop Musk from promising!

January 2016 -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk tells reporters on a conference call that the Autopilot system is “probably better” than a human driver. He also promises that Teslas will be able to drive significantly better than humans within two to three years, and he says that within two years it will be possible to remotely summon a Tesla from across the country.

Jan. 20, 2016 -- Shortly after Musk’s announcement, 23-year-old Gao Yaning is killed in the province of Hebei, China, on the way home from a family wedding when the Tesla Model S he is driving crashes into the back of a street sweeper, according to a Jalopnik interview with the victim’s father. The victim’s family sues Tesla, claiming that Autopilot was in use at the time of the crash.

Big Bets and Broken Promises: A Timeline of Tesla's Self-Driving Aspirations
https://www.consumerreports.org/autonomous-driving/timeline-of-tesla-s
elf-driving-aspirations-a9686689375/

Musk should make his promises then add: "Believe me!" That way we'd know that he knows he is a conman.

One of these days Musk's engineers will make his promise of self-driving car come true, but only if Musk stays nuts enough to keep pouring money into that project, rather than let Waymo, Toyota, GM, Mercedes-Benz, or Ford do the work of perfecting self-driving and selling the tech to Tesla.

How Google's Self-Driving Car Will Change Everything
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/052014/how-googles-sel
fdriving-car-will-change-everything.asp

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