you should read the book ‘character limit’ you will see that musk doesn’t, in fact, have a genius for…anything. what he does have is an enormous appetite for chaos and a complete lack of fear about breaking things, because he can just throw money at the problem - ie hire smart people to fix it.
Nothing this new generation of so called technologists makes is made to last. Not because they don't know how but because they want to keep selling you new shit. They are more into making money with products prone to failure. They then add a gadget and same shit different pile, more money.
I’ve also heard that the implant he successfully placed into a man’s brain is now failing. That’s hundreds of monkeys tortured for a product that still has no practical, long-term use.
I should add an edit actually: the implant in the first patient did begin to fail less than a month after the surgery. There are now 3 patients that have had the chips implanted, and Musk claims they are all working well. I have not seen any interviews of the individuals or their families though 🤔
That is typically my thoughts as well. I’ve caught so many obvious lies coming out of their mouths, I’ve started to just assume that everything that comes out is. It’s gotten so bad, I almost forget to fact check sometimes even before calling them out, because I already know it’s BS.
I read an article about that and it shook me to my core. I visited a lab when I was a kid where they tested on Rhesus monkeys. An aunt was working there and I they thought it would be cool for me to see. Traumatized me and that article retraumatized me. Gutless musk needs to stick one in his brain.
I come from a family of scientists and this was in the 70s. Not an excuse but I'm sure they thought it was educational.
Fortunately the monkeys were just sitting in their cages so I didn't see any signs of the experiments. But I was smart enough (and empathetic enough) to figure it out.
Just a ketamine fueled moron like all his new drug addict pals in the repub party. Seriously America, this is the best you could do. Holy fuck, you guys need an education plan and some chlorine in the gene pool. I suggest you read those books instead of burning them.
The same Starlink air traffic control is allegedly relying on after it was quietly switched off Verizon's hard wired ground based comm systems? I heard that happened and because satellite comms are vulnerable to solar storms, their tracking was allegedly less stable, yes?
Satellites are typically built to withstand space weather. Satellite telemetry is monitored 24/7 by ground systems, and if weird readings occur, operators have various routines they can run to fix anomalies. If Musk cut corners? Potentially big problems.
They are designed to be disposable. But trust me, designing stuff for space is hard. That being said, the more involved he is with something, the more it sucks. He’s an idiot and he causes chaos. Cybertruck.
not really that hard, radiation hardened electronics along with proper radiation shielding goes a long way as well as materials science in what materials are chosen and utilized within the design however I concur about his less than stellar IQ pun intended 😜
Article said that the storms caused atmospheric friction leading to premature reentry.
In this case sat not designed to maintain active orbit i guess.
Still halfass shoddy design and engi tho.
You think?Of course he's not a genius.He's good at a few things,he has experts in science,engineering & mechanics working for him.He didn't build the rockets(that explode!)or invent the Tesla's & those ugly Swasticars by himself,he just funds SOME research(+govt grants!!)& reaps the profits.
Pretty sure the cybertruk swasticar is just a manifestation of a drug-induced pre-pubescent fantasy. Much like I used to draw spaceships when I was 8 years old. Without the drugs, mind you.
He never has been a “genius”. He’s not the brains behind any of his companies. He’s a nepo baby who bought his way into Tesla, SpaceX, etc. Good to have a rich daddy.
In February 2022, SpaceX lost approximately 40 of its 49 Starlink satellites due to a geomagnetic storm. The storm caused the Earth's atmosphere to become denser, increasing drag on the satellites and preventing them from reaching their intended orbit. This resulted in a significant economic loss.
You think? Musk never invented a damn thing. He takes over businesses, helps to destroy them while siphoning off billions into his own vaults and then scrams … just as he has done with his damnable Doge undertaking.
Is there an article about this you could link? I'm gonna go Google it in a minute. This isn't meant to be a musk apologist post, but his dumb satellites are designed to die off and fall back into the atmosphere after a few years. That being said, were hitting a solar storm this week too.
Tldr: Atmosphere is expanding as the Earth heats up, adding drag to Low Earth Orbit. Starlink satellites experience drag, lose velocity, and fall out of orbit sooner than expected.
This fuck wit probably read a lot of William Gibson, Philip K Dick and Isaac Asimov and probably seen himself as one of their intrepid protagonists - he’s a drug addled petty fantasist - with zero ideas of merit - but with buckets of narcissism and petty cruelty. An all round disagreeable prick.
Musk should be forced to clear those satellites out of orbit so that they do not enter our airspace. Maybe he knew this was coming - hence his access via DOGE to agencies that could enforce this.
I honestly don't get why people post memes when it's easier to post a link to the story and the story itself verifies the claim, (as well as providing more information).
“Each Starlink satellite has a limited lifespan, which is typically less than five years.”
Wait, so he wants to get 30k of these guys up there, to then what? Perpetually have to replace them with more and more launches? 5 years seems kinda low for a satellite’s lifespan.
It's a non-story story. There is some actual information at the core of the story - a very very small increase in orbit degradation below expectations under 300 km - but the rest of this is puffed up nonsense. All of this is normal. Not a story.
Half-assed everything seems to be the order of the day. It’s great that people can see what’s happening as corps demand deregulation. I hope I don’t die before regulations become popular again.
The crazy part about this article is the bit about the planned ~30,000 satellite constellation and the average lifespan of five years. Meaning 6000 new satellites a year just to maintain. This means 250-300 launches per year.
We already know they don't always burn up. It's only a matter of time before the debris doesn't land in some vacant field and instead hits an urban area.
The problem here is that the orbits are failing unpredictably which means hundreds of satellites might fall on heavily populated areas.
With the current Congress that means we can expect a bill that exculpates Elon from any financial liability for property and lives lost due to his incompetence
Fortunately they are small satellites that should burn out in the atmosphere before reaching the ground.
But I admit a bit of shadenfreude thinking of him looking at his toys falling one after the other 😁🤭
What was calculated is now random and put's the insurance premiums for SpaceX way up, every insurance company will be aware that a solar storm could cause an incident that can cost them billions.
In August 2024, when a piece of a Starlink satellite was discovered on a farm in Canada and this raises doubts on the design.
Quicker spontaneous reentry are more dangerous than programmed reentry using the thrusters of the satellite on chosen places
Boycott the sun, boycott the sun!!
I can just hear maga chanting this as they rally to musk's support. I wonder how many "Lower Uncton" towns we'll end up with.
They've been doing it now for so long, they don't know how to see the truth anymore. Mental gymnastics 101: musk bought defective glue from a company that was started under Obama's term but folded under Biden's term, and musk was left holding the bag. It was Obama's fault for not regulating the glue
And Biden's fault for not regulating the bankruptcy process. As a result, the sun's destruction of musk's starlink satellites is their fault for not ensuring he had access to suitable glue for space operations.
He is awful, but this is overwrought. The article says that the effects of the sun's eruptions could end his lowest-orbiting satellites' five-year lifespans ten days early.
uh no.
Musk had a company called X and Thiel had a company with some other lord of the rings name and they merged. And Musk didn't write the code for his company. And then Thiel forced Musk out of Paypal
I’m a gamer and trust me, he doesn’t have a clue. His Elden ring build was frankly laughable. He’s no genius, the gaming community know that more than most. They cottoned on to him a long time ago.
Oh, so by that rationale, my elementary daughter could have “done” the coding, since they had to scrap it anyway. Sounds like a distinction without a difference.
Even in the overall glowing biography that Ashlee Vance wrote in 2014 has a passage about how X’s codebase was a complete mess and was discarded by the PayPal team during the merger. If I remember correctly, the each page was different with no comments. No common functions on the whole site.
yeah, the guy that after buying the company had Twitter employees hand him snippets of code PRINTED ON PAPER to "review"... that sounds like a guy who knows the tiniest bit about coding...
My wife has to hold me back from running out and tearing the quarter panel off an e-truck and throwing it on top of a nearby business. Let AAA deal w/ that.
If it's not Union, it's CRAP.
Excellent. I know there is a lot of dependency on StarLink, but I’m glad it’s failing. Maybe he’ll be held responsible for cleaning up all the trash he’s launched into our orbit. And either he’ll go broke or go to jail.
He's never been a genius. He's crafty & explotive. He didn't sign up to DOGE to help his idol. Space Karen did it to get the complaints lodged against his polluting azz, off the books.
Solar flares are also affecting ground comms and electronic devices - not just Starlink satellites. Think what you may about Elons political idiosyncrasies, he is a smart cookie as are the hundreds of engineers he employs. They’ll figure it out sooner than later!
He bought and took over successful businesses.
He is shooting up ketamine and other drugs. He bought the companies with money he inherited from his Grandpa’s apartheid powered emerald mine. He is a con.
In February 2022, most of the 49 Starlinks launched from a Falcon 9 rocket fell back to Earth over the Caribbean, with the event coinciding with a minor geomagnetic storm.
He just goes about buying up other people's ideas and takes the credit for it. Musk really lacks any positive contributary talent. All he's good at is grifting, lying, and being an all-out POS.
Elon Musk is the personification of everything that is wrong with America. Fucking idiots like him came in and ruined basically everything because they couldn’t innovate anything themselves but had the money to buy shit and then squeeze those businesses for every dollar destroying the quality.
And he’s not even fucking from here or educated here and has publicly stated that he doesn’t really know American history. Fuck him and every venture capitalist dollar into oblivion.
Based on Musk's incoherent comments, his intelligence would rank as a low functioning moron & this is being very generous. He's turned Twitter into crap. Add to the list or ruined things.
I was with you until the parenthetical bit. Edison also bought or stole most of his good ideas and was way more successful at publicity stunts and bribery than actually creating anything of value.
There is an Edison Motors! It’s a Canadian trucker that got pissed about how long Tesla was taking to deliver a semi, so he just started building electric trucks himself! He’s got a pretty funny YouTube channel.
Another guy that ought to be hanging in the trees. Racheal Maddow said violence is not the way to win. Protest is. But I have known criminals I was beat in the head broken arms, eye orbits, fractured skull. Robbery I gave them what I had so why? Because some people are evil I looked them in the eyes
You're correct.
People have always thought if you're rich.. you're smart.
But in reality
Those people just know how to game the system, and every rich person I've met.. has been a real pos.. no morals or ethics.
Well there's one thing about that the older rich people knew what it took to make a living these kids that were born into wealth and privilege they don't and they are greedy with no morals or ethics
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Everything and everyone who comes in contact with it goes to crap and the people end up dead,in prison or both.
He talks like an immature 14 year old boy.
HE IS A COWARD OF S MAN
That would explain alot......
Fortunately the monkeys were just sitting in their cages so I didn't see any signs of the experiments. But I was smart enough (and empathetic enough) to figure it out.
Sun dropping satellites, Jupiter throwing asteroids...I fully expect Saturn scythes before lunch.
https://engineerine.com/elon-musks-starlink-satellites-fell/
But spacex until recently was very good about distracting him.
In this case sat not designed to maintain active orbit i guess.
Still halfass shoddy design and engi tho.
Yay! 🎉
Regardless of the warming atmosphere and re-entries occurring ten days earlier than planned, he's an idiot.
Tldr: Atmosphere is expanding as the Earth heats up, adding drag to Low Earth Orbit. Starlink satellites experience drag, lose velocity, and fall out of orbit sooner than expected.
He’s a nihilistic brat of a man.
A soulless entity who’s name will be synonymous with a failed state.
I suspect that the betting lines on this subject are proliferating faster than the LEOs.
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/starlink-satellites-elon-musk-space-b2759288.html
https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si=panArdLoYhuLlM1y
Did you know you can now download pretty much all his stuff for free and with permission?
https://tomlehrersongs.com/category/music-by-tom/
He was a bit too much for the dim-witted.
He sounds like a visionary now.
I honestly don't get why people post memes when it's easier to post a link to the story and the story itself verifies the claim, (as well as providing more information).
People are weird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
Wait, so he wants to get 30k of these guys up there, to then what? Perpetually have to replace them with more and more launches? 5 years seems kinda low for a satellite’s lifespan.
a), I don't trust him and
b), see below.
It's not the going up that worries me as much as the coming down. In a sane world, you put it up there should mean you take it down again.
https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmosphere
With the current Congress that means we can expect a bill that exculpates Elon from any financial liability for property and lives lost due to his incompetence
2) they de-orbit in control
But it is unnecessary pollution.
But I admit a bit of shadenfreude thinking of him looking at his toys falling one after the other 😁🤭
What was calculated is now random and put's the insurance premiums for SpaceX way up, every insurance company will be aware that a solar storm could cause an incident that can cost them billions.
Significantly reduces re-entry risk, much closer to 0
Non-Zero is not zero.
One piece has made it back to ground
Quicker spontaneous reentry are more dangerous than programmed reentry using the thrusters of the satellite on chosen places
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/starlink-satellites-elon-musk-space-b2759288.html
They started from 250kg.
And they will be up to 1250kg when the starship starts to operate.
But they come down in a controlled way.
(8 Mkg of aluminium + batteries every year, if 40k is sent)
As in the Titanic "should be virtually unsinkable".
tested by material scientists and proven through multiple reentry events
Everywhere else, he can't set foot ever again.
'Nice country you have there, as it's the only one you can live in. Shame if it ever turns on you.'
He could have a massive heart attack at any time, given the copious amounts of Ketamine and Cocaine he ingests!
Please show respect and refer to them by their proper name, Swasticars.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
It looks like those employees aren’t good ones or Elon spends more on the sizzle. Less on the steak. We hear the fizzle.
A genius for eliminating all the agencies investigating him and buying off Trump for contracts and deregulation of his businesses.
An evil genius who is very clever. Not necessarily highly intelligent.
I can just hear maga chanting this as they rally to musk's support. I wonder how many "Lower Uncton" towns we'll end up with.
I know who my money is on.
All you have to do to be succesful here is just kill your sense of morality, and lie.
If you care, you learn, you teach you would be called stupid.
'Till the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna hate you
'Till the star links fall from the sky
For you and I 🎵
Entitled fuckstick? Definitely!
Musk has had more gender-affirming care than Bruce Jenner!
Gender affirmation is not just for those seeking transition.
And Musk is a douche bag of average intellect.
Okay I added that last one...😏
That's ALL he's done, but it gave him the money to buy what he named Tesla, etc etc.
Musk had a company called X and Thiel had a company with some other lord of the rings name and they merged. And Musk didn't write the code for his company. And then Thiel forced Musk out of Paypal
If it's not Union, it's CRAP.
Have you been struck by falling Starlink debris? You might be entitled to compensation.
You should be paid in time to Punch Musk In The Face
Theres a bit of articles .. here is one .. but they aren’t dropping like flies… solar flares ect
He is shooting up ketamine and other drugs. He bought the companies with money he inherited from his Grandpa’s apartheid powered emerald mine. He is a con.
Ahem..
I mean...
(Except Edison actually did things ;))
#Cybertruck
#TESLA brand
#DOGE
Etc.
Sounds like his buddy, too-no wonder baby billionaire & big billionaire were so close!
Our country confuses rapacious greed with genius.
People have always thought if you're rich.. you're smart.
But in reality
Those people just know how to game the system, and every rich person I've met.. has been a real pos.. no morals or ethics.
Don’t agree with that one.
Me too..