People say Elon Musk is a stupid man’s idea of a smart man but that’s way off Musk is a Ritz cracker’s idea of quantum mechanics His rhetorical use of the solar absorption of Earth in 7.5 billion years to frame his transparently scammy Mars scheme as urgent is the Sistine Chapel of absolute gall - ThreadSky

sethabramson.bsky.social • 1 day ago

People say Elon Musk is a stupid man’s idea of a smart man but that’s way off

Musk is a Ritz cracker’s idea of quantum mechanics

His rhetorical use of the solar absorption of Earth in 7.5 billion years to frame his transparently scammy Mars scheme as urgent is the Sistine Chapel of absolute gall

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coherentlight.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's a good one.

Elon's image is huge. And then you meet the real guy and you are like ... omg, what a dud.

gorgonlin.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes, let's blow trillions on getting 20 people living on a baron red rock with almost no atmosphere, hazardous radiation, massive storms that last weeks and zero substrate to grow anything.

The money could be spent here fixing the gloriously green planet we already have.

Just stupid, like Trump.

floriankoch.bsky.social•1 day ago

The tech elite thinks they deserve to get to power. They would happily risk and destroy the earth for their ideas. Compassion means to them weakness.

mudlady64.bsky.social•1 day ago

Poetry. 🤌🏼

saintbridge.bsky.social•1 day ago

We cannot now or in the near future safely send a crewed mission to Mars. That needs to be amplified A LOT!

johocas5.bsky.social•1 day ago

Notwithstanding that Mars will also be swallowed up.

pugsalmighty.bsky.social•1 day ago

So when we wreck the livable atmosphere here, we go to Mars that already has an unlivable atmosphere?!
It's a scam alright. It makes no logical sense.

THAT ALONE proves, in no uncertain terms, that Musk is not only NOT a genius, he's a moron.
Yet so many, paid so much, to say he's a genius.

lisinhere.bsky.social•1 day ago

Black smoke is in the conclave of his mind.

craig-4.bsky.social•1 day ago

Agreed.
But watch your mixed metaphors.
😆

donottreadonm3.bsky.social•1 day ago

Way too complex way to say Musk is playing us all.

patrickkevin.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk knows what he is doing. Lie, cheat, accept billions in government handouts and repeat. Science is not a part of his calculus.

raeann.bsky.social•1 day ago

Brilliant

ffa1984.bsky.social•1 day ago

Earthlings will become ash as the Martian landscape remains totally 👍🏻.

pfiore8.bsky.social•1 day ago

this is a keeper: "Musk is a Ritz cracker’s idea of quantum mechanics"

driver9.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am a huge fan of the idea of Musk and every other MAGAt all going to Mars ASAP, where they will all soon die horribly from the intense cosmic radiation that bombards the planet's surface.

salloyd.bsky.social•1 day ago

😂

antisocialprole.bsky.social•1 day ago

Apparently, his father was a fan of the Nazi we put in charge of NASA after WWII, and that nazi wrote a sci-fi about colonizing Mars with techno-states (?). The ruler of Mars was called the Elon. Explains a LOT.

jeyges.bsky.social•1 day ago

We may have a new Pope by then. 😏

fredgrott.bsky.social•1 day ago

keep in mind that he has a NASA contract for lunar lander that was supposedly to show something in Feb....all we got was crickets...

abqgnu.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm no rocket scientist...I'm no quantum physicist...but I was a better than average student and if the sun has absorbed earth it's only going to be about 3 minutes before Mars gets gobbled up too. At the speed of light we're only three minutes apart.

jtony898.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is not so much bothered about going as using it as a vehicle to obtain taxpayer dollars. There was an English guy who pulled the same scam but on a smaller scale https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starchaser_Industries&ved=2ahUKEwja7qjLkZKNAxUI_7sIHb49IUAQFnoECB0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0VSGj0wsFOqWyaKQiKCdyg

kingjat.bsky.social•1 day ago

😘😁

mellofellow.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hamsters could evolve into Orcas a 100 times over before the sun swallows up the Earth.

jefespicoli.bsky.social•1 day ago

Conservatives (MAGA) don’t even understand any of that.

juakar.bsky.social•1 day ago

The man is a welfare queen !

johnscudder.bsky.social•1 day ago

No! He didn’t!?! Thats not so much gall, as it is transparently dumb.

sethabramson.bsky.social•1 day ago

He 100% did

flyme2damoon.bsky.social•19 hours ago

mynameredacted.bsky.social•1 day ago

Indeed. Mars can wait 100 years, we have issues to resolve closer to home.

wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is the P.T. Barnum of Our Times.

https://bsky.app/profile/wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social/post/3li2ps6zuy22b

mikebrady.bsky.social•1 day ago

There should be Hearings in Congress because Musk is Mars first and a danger to Earth.

Read his posts and consider the implications of what he plans to do.

j-lastcoolletter.bsky.social•1 day ago

All true, but an important point is that with him, T, et al who exaggerate and lie so wildly is that their lies are an expression of power.

What he's really saying is "How dare you question the premise that we need to go to Mars?!?!" It barely matters what is said, just the way it's expressed.

cherylestora.bsky.social•1 day ago

Took a hot minute to find the thread. This whole thing is incredibly insightful and important imho.

https://bsky.app/profile/politicalbreakdown.bsky.social/post/3ljetj5hwi22c

j-lastcoolletter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Interesting. That is a higher level thing than what I'm pointing out, which is just reptilian expressions of dominance over 1:1 or 1:few in an argument.

See how it doesn't work when a member of congress squeezes one of these fools, because in that context they don't have the power to lie.

cherylestora.bsky.social•1 day ago

Understood. But the more people exposed to the WHY underlying the 4Chan-ification of society, the better we can fight back. Musk's likely just as dumb as you surmise. But the rest of that particular sect of the Death Cabal fancy themselves a fucked up Second Foundation and Trump their Mule.

j-lastcoolletter.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think both of these levels are important. I didn't imply that Musk is dumb. It is just the way those people assert power (and the truly dumb like T can do it too).

The reason they're doing it is explained by what you're saying. Sci-fi wankery and all.

cherylestora.bsky.social•1 day ago

My bad. I personally think Musk is average intelligence at most. And nothing is wrong with that. It just annoys me as someone who tested into MENSA stoned af that weaponized narcissism can be so easily dressed up as genius.

scotsandlit.bsky.social•1 day ago

He never claimed he was a scientist. 🥴

spookymorales.bsky.social•1 day ago

intlsmkgjct.bsky.social•1 day ago

Urgent! We only have 7.5 billion years! Meanwhile here on Earth we’re doing very little to prevent causing the only habitable planet to become inhospitable.

dchloe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wow what a mouthful of an insult. Bravo

njbrpe.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'd contribute to a gofundme for his trip this year

hotspurstudio.bsky.social•1 day ago

He should just leave already.

independenthuman.bsky.social•1 day ago

Personally, I'm down with him leaving within the next 5 years. The journey would be a win-win for all of us. He's either gone for so long we won't miss him at all and his businesses will likely thrive without him.

Or his journey will end in failure that ends him and I won't decry it one bit.

independenthuman.bsky.social•1 day ago

And for anyone who tries to claim this would be the equivalent of wanting to lose an Einstein or a Tony Stark I will say this: Elon's no genius. Not even as a businessman. He's not the brains behind any of his companies. He's the bank account. Nothing more. Tesla's stock freefall is evidence of that

cherylestora.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is literally the fall guy for Thiel and the other actually smart facists. He just had trust fund money during PayPal era; and now enough narcissism not to understand the consequences of being the public face of American Oligarchy. Dumbasses thought they had already subdued us so easily. Lulz.

maeveblue.bsky.social•1 day ago

Come on. He’s way too chicken to personally go to Mars.

iliketheplanet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good luck making Mars habitable by humans. It never will be. If humans arrive, they will always be dependent on a critical, but fragile, network of living quarters supported by a mountain of technologies. No going outside for a stroll, no taking in the scenery, just survival for a few decades tops

profejtigre.bsky.social•1 day ago

And even that is generously optimistic.

innovationfocus.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Hey! Keep the Ritz crackers out of this

factaccessory.bsky.social•1 day ago

See: Life phases

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

coloprof.bsky.social•1 day ago

When the sun gets old and expands into a red giant in 7 billion years, it will send out enough radiation to strip Mars of its atmosphere and water, and may actually fling it further out in the solar system. I found this out from a 2-second Google search. Elon can do the same.

izabella2001.bsky.social•1 day ago

but what if we’re all just one planet further east when the sun explodes? In billions of years
I’m just asking questions 🙄

lobelia1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Looks like Musk has received enough funding from the taxpayers to make a go of it...
https://goodjobsfirst.org/elon-musks-business-empire-is-built-on-38-billion-in-government-funding/

gort88.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk is obviously thinking small. When the sun turns into a red giant, Mars will be toast, too.

Our best bet is Europa or Enceladus, and even then, it's just a temporary respite.

It's inevitable; humans WILL go extinct. No technology will ever exist that can prevent it.

Grow up, Musk. 💩🤡

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derpyllama.bsky.social•1 day ago

I am confident that we'll achieve interstellar travel within that 7.5 billion years window, we can even wait 7 billion years before we start working on it.

johnscudder.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah, thermodynamics is like that. Harsh but true.