Easier method is just to modify the FDA acceptable level.
Easier method is just to modify the FDA acceptable level.
colonizing mars is the dumbest idea I ever heard it doesn't even have a atmosphere.
lolwhatttt wrote:
colonizing mars is the dumbest idea I ever heard it doesn't even have a atmosphere.
Stop the nonsense. We never landed on the moon, we never went through the Van Allen belts and there will NEVER be a manned mission to Mars.
Always a big-government solution wrote:
Easier method is just to modify the FDA acceptable level.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1017154709642072064
He's not really doing it. Only if you follow him on Twitter and reply to this particular post. I can't imagine a large % of the city will do that. And in any case, sending a guy over isn't really fixing the city's problems.
Earlier today, ProPublica published filings which revealed that Elon Musk is a top donor to a Republican PAC named Protect the House and aimed at keeping control of Congress. The PAC raised over $8 million in in the second quarter for Republican lawmakers hoping to fend off Democratic challengers. Self-proclaimed Socialist Elon Musk was one of the top 50 donors of the PAC, just below Ken Griffin and Hank Paulson and above the Bass family and Stephen Schwarzman.
“Climate change is the biggest threat that humanity faces this century, except for AI,” Musk said in an interview with Rolling Stone late last year. “I keep telling people this. I hate to be Cassandra here, but it’s all fun and games until somebody loses a foucking eye. This view [of climate change] is shared by almost everyone who’s not crazy in the scientific community.”
Well, everyone except most republicans, and as Salon notes, "that Musk believes this yet insists on helping the Republican Party win elections does not compute with reality. Some of the most influential climate-change deniers are members of the GOP; not to mention that the Trump administration's policies have curbed Obama-era efforts to fight global warming."
This, coming from the guy who quit Trump's business advisory council so that nobody would listen to anything he called to object about.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1008013111058526209https://projects.propublica.org/itemizer/filing/1246378/schedule/sahttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1018268378962640896https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiGafZ6V4AAmNxT.jpglolwhatttt wrote:
colonizing mars is the dumbest idea I ever heard it doesn't even have a atmosphere.
Yes it does.
OMG!
Elon Musk is contributing to Republicans. Elon Musk is a fascist! He had everyone fooled. I hope Tesla goes out of business, and a worthy replacement company not owned by Musk takes its place.
Earth Guardian wrote:
OMG!
Elon Musk is contributing to Republicans. Elon Musk is a fascist! He had everyone fooled. I hope Tesla goes out of business, and a worthy replacement company not owned by Musk takes its place.
Yep, almost as much as a swerve as the ending of Cars 2, where (of/c) the former Big Oil turned enviro-guru turns out to be sabotaging his own biofuel. Cue the Scooby Doo music.....
real news wrote:
I have been doing some research on Tesla lately, and have found that the amount of Lithium Ion Tesla uses in their batteries is astounding. The resources used to make these batteries will eventually become depleted, becoming more and more expensive, driving the price of all battery operated goods upward.
However, Elon Musk is the biggest name behind the driving force to colonize Mars. I have been curious as to why he would want to colonize Mars, and I believe I have found a reason. Elon wants to be the first to colonize Mars, and monopolize the mining industry there, and finding a what to efficiently transport the resources.
Elon Musk is simply another greedy billionaire. A bully of humility.
That really is a cool story brah. Especially considering that man has never been out of low Earth orbit.
zack8994093 wrote:
real news wrote:
I have been doing some research on Tesla lately, and have found that the amount of Lithium Ion Tesla uses in their batteries is astounding. The resources used to make these batteries will eventually become depleted, becoming more and more expensive, driving the price of all battery operated goods upward.
However, Elon Musk is the biggest name behind the driving force to colonize Mars. I have been curious as to why he would want to colonize Mars, and I believe I have found a reason. Elon wants to be the first to colonize Mars, and monopolize the mining industry there, and finding a what to efficiently transport the resources.
Elon Musk is simply another greedy billionaire. A bully of humility.
The idea that Musk's endgame is to mine metals in Mars and ship them back to the US has to be one of the dumbest ideas ever floated on LR.
I think it’s f***ing hilarious
The Saudi Public Investment Fund has confirmed an investment of over $1 billion in Tesla competitor Lucid Motors to enable commercial launch of their first electric vehicle, Lucid Air, in 2020.
Lucid Motors announced today that it has executed a US$1bn+ investment agreement with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia ("PIF"), through a special-purpose vehicle wholly owned by PIF.
Under the terms of the agreement, the parties made binding undertakings to carry out the Transaction subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
The Transaction represents a major milestone for Lucid and will provide the Company with the necessary funding to commercially launch its first electric vehicle, the Lucid Air in 2020. Lucid plans to use the funding to complete engineering development and testing of the Lucid Air, construct its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, begin the global rollout of its retail strategy starting in North America, and enter production for the Lucid Air.
Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating the most captivating luxury electric vehicles, centered around the human experience. "The convergence of new technologies is reshaping the automobile, but the benefits have yet to be truly realized. This is inhibiting the pace at which sustainable mobility and energy are adopted. At Lucid, we will demonstrate the full potential of the electric connected vehicle in order to push the industry forward," said Peter Rawlinson, Chief Technology Officer of Lucid.
Lucid and PIF are strongly aligned around the vision to create a global luxury electric car company based in the heart of Silicon Valley with world-class engineering talent. Lucid will work closely with PIF to ensure a strategic focus on quickly bringing its products to market at a time of rapid change in the automotive industry.
A spokesperson for PIF said: "By investing in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle market, PIF is gaining exposure to long-term growth opportunities, supporting innovation and technological development and driving revenue and sectoral diversification for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
The spokesperson added: "PIF's international investment strategy aims to strengthen PIF's performance as an active contributor in the international economy, an investor in the industries of the future and the partner of choice for international investment opportunities. Our investment in Lucid is a strong example of these objectives."
I'm a progressive guy who sees somebody with Musk's wealth as the kind of person who rides a fine line between being a hero or a villain. I want environmental solutions and I want us in space. Maybe he wants these same things. But he's doing a great job of sucking money out of progressives and businesspeople alike by finding environmental solutions that he bills as profitable. The only problem is that so far none of them are actually profitable and he has not yet reached the stable production level with his businesses where his big up front environmental impact has been offset by years of future efficiencies.
I respect him for being an innovator first and a businessman second, but his claim that Tesla was going private was quite possibly the most egregious financial mistake of any CEO in modern history. The #1 way to see a stock jump is to announce something like a buyout. It's also the best way to get short sellers out of your stock. These have both been goals of his -- raise stock price and get rid of shorts. He accomplished it all with one tweet. The problem? It was a complete lie. It was a purposeful or negligent way to manipulate the stock price. It is illegal for company officers to use false news to manipulate stock prices. He should be fined and he should have to repay many stockholders for losses incurred immediately around that date. He really needs to just stick to being an idea man, but it's hard to regulate your own ego when it's been built up to the tune of billions of dollars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/business/tesla-elon-musk-sec.htmlreal news wrote:
Elon Musk is simply another greedy billionaire. A bully of humility.
