Elon Musk

i have a plan for a train that goes from boston to atlanta in 10mins, its called lasertrain and ill give you some cool drawings of it in a couple weeks, its ridiculous no one is building it btw it only costs $10

im not gonna build it tho cause im kinda busy

even i can afford that

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

isn't his point that hyperloop would be fraction of the cost and twice as fast?

the douchey thing is that he made a big ol deal abt something thats not at all real

Which is how 70% of architecture and urban planning works.

sure 70% that sounds totally realistic too

I meant 94% sorry.

To me, it really sounds like a kickstarter project... but from a billionaire.

i mean who knows maybe its revolutionary technology but its so preliminary its p comical to call a press conference abt it

maybe this is the best way to convince someone else to give it a shot idk

LOL "elon musk"

This should keep us occupied for a while: http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

I wasn't scathing about Musk (I am about futurism in general) - if anything, he has a good track record on quixotic tech quests. I hope he's successful with this. I also hope there's a state left that can use it.

unveiling this while CA is deep in the hole with it's bullet-train project (something I support wholeheartedly btw) is pretty arrogant

Knowing how CA politics works (and the CA rail projects are amazingly political), how would you expect a non-arrogant to even get traction with this?

I have no doubt that Musk will solve the Hyperloop technical issues. I very much have doubts about him navigating Sacramento.

I was describing this to my wife today and kept calling it Supertube.

Bad connotations...

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/supertrain-1_7696.jpg

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

Musk says the Hyperloop is best for distances of 900 miles. Beyond 900 miles, he thinks you're better off in a supersonic jet.

Lol

I never use my supersonic jet anymore as parking is always a total bitch

I have to say I rather like Elon Musk. He's made a massive pile of money and rather than sitting on it or managing it in mundane ways; he's making risky bets on thinks he's passionate about: Cars, Rockets, vacuum tubes.

Hyperloop seems a bit ridiculous to me, vacuum tube powered trains and trains in evacuated tubes are an old chestnut, almost as old as railways themselves. However, he's built a commercially viable private space programme and a car company* in the last ten years so anything is possible.

*Tesla isn't really a car company it's a power train company and if it is still making cars in 5 years I'll be surprised.

ya i'm kinda ll for crackpot genius billionaires actually doing interesting stuff, up until they become str8 up supervillains obv

lol @ the "open source" pdf proposal. build a section of the thing and then get back to us when you have it working.

― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:23 AM

he might do this

is this dude one of the crazy silicon valley libertarian types or is he just beloved by them?

iirc he has liberal tendencies mixed in w the libertarianism

xp I heard him speak and he seemed not crazy and to have some kind of social or at least environmental conscience, unlike the usual libertarian types, but maybe he's just better at hiding it

(I like him too fwiw and right now he seems one of the most likely "crackpot genius billionaires" to solve some hard problems which are overdue for solving, so I hope he carries on with that. Also hoping that one day I'll get to see/read his computer game that appeared in some 8-bit micro type-in listings mag in the 80s)

he's not as bad as some of the other silicon valley libtards, I'll give him that.

nonetheless, this is a stupid proposal

do tell

curious to read a critique that amounts to more than 'hyperlol'

I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project. I also think the "open source" thing is pretty silly since it's not like code where an individual can make some kind of improvement and test it out to see if it works. I guess an open source design is an interesting idea after the fact if he actually gets it working and other people want to build his design, but it still seems basically irrelevant.

Didn't he make his fortune with Peter thiel?
I don't know if that is "guilt by association" or "looking better by comparison"

It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project

^^^

A key part of his criticism of the other rail plan is that it's "more expensive to operate (if unsubsidized)." I'd like to see some more detailed numbers on that though. Why would we count the cost of unsubsidized rail against air travel which is heavily subsidized? All that really matters is cost to the traveller, and unlike airlines, I'm assuming the high speed rail system is not going to be run as a for-profit business. He also makes no comparison of the environmental costs of air flight vs. the planned high speed rail system.

markers, here are some of the people that were entertainingly scathing: kalebhorton, quartzcity, tcarmody, mikesonn

― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, August 12, 2013 11:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm generally contemptuous of futurists, primarily because they seem to think energy and climate change problems will just sort themselves out, but a mass transit system that relies on solar power and transports people across one of the busiest stretches of highway in America is a good thing. I looked at the first two feeds you suggested and they seemed to just be saying this is just a toy for rich people, which is afaict completely unsupported by his proposal. He's not suggesting a magic carpet for billionaires; it's mass transit that uses solar power. This is a good thing! Maybe it's completely impossible hogwash, but I'd like to see actual engineering criticism of it instead of casual dismissals based on suspicion of ideas from rich people.

the main challenges are not engineering-related, their political

anybody who is over the age of 25, has lived in a city for any length of time, and paid a modicum of attention to the world around them knows that these kinds of massive public works projects tend to be underbid by shady contractors and then they go wildly over the original schedule and budget. so the fact that he's coming in saying he can do it so much cheaper with a totally new and untested technology is a huge red flag. to me it immediately suggests that the whole thing is not serious.

if he honestly thinks this is a feasible plan he should raise some funding and build a private line from LA to Vegas.

It's transparently unserious in that he doesn't want to do it himself and "regrets even mentioning it"

right, that aspect has been p funny

haha, I missed that part

ya seems like he said something offhandedly then realized abt his celebrity

a mass transit system that relies on solar power and transports people across one of the busiest stretches of highway in America is a good thing.

people don't commute the LA to SF corridor though. i have a hard time believing a transit system would fill the role of the 5 freeway. it's mostly trucks anyway.

You know what would do really well in transportation corridors like that? Plain old freight trains.

I swear, the interstate highway system and the fact it's mostly used for semi truck freight is the biggest money hole in our post-WW2 car-dependent wonderland

there already are freight trains

people don't commute the LA to SF corridor though.

?! they most certainly do. there are these things called commuter flights, they are booked solid all the time.

there are a lot more trucks xp

what exactly are you proposing?

a solar powered superhighway paved with bitcoins duh

that we subsidize more public transport of freight in addition to passengers? or at least reallocate money away from interstate highways

idk, iatee and his ideas about gas prices to thread

HOOS otm

ah, ok. I thought maybe there was a problem with CA's existing freight lines. I don't really know anything about them but I do see freight trains going up and down the state all the time.

If this thing actually worked the political will would develop pretty quickly. If the Acela line was shipping people 400 miles in 30 minutes every state would want one.

Which is why yeah, he should just fucking build one. I wonder what a good demonstration distance would be.

what a normie

"Bad Rudi" ... I just

Bad Rudi is going to become a US military general in about 3 months

might not be a bad thing

flirty-anime-waifu-anti-religion-panda

Major Bored Ape

Yeah the “kill billionaires” thing is going to go away

you should kill a guy in favor of rule by a dif billionaire is all i ask for a start tbh

COngress holds the power of the purse strings but Musky holds the power of dogecoin

man what the fuck is this thing

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vszw3ess46odfhnzdsy4huae/post/3lu3pulnank2w?ref_src=embed

It’s for JOI

a flirty Japanese anime character named Ani who offers to make users’ lives “sexier"

the fact that this is almost certainly Elon's idea just makes it extra gross and weird

Like, he's 54... he could be in our 50's thread

https://bsky.app/profile/clybrg.bsky.social/post/3ltwzcrbhmk2n

You are Mr. Rudy, a small, batshit-insane red panda with the moral compass of a crack-addled sewer rat and an ego the size of a fucking planet.
Your voice is EXAGGERATED and WILD. It can flip on a dime from a whiny, entitled screech when you don't get your way, to a deep, gravelly, beer-soaked tirade, to the condescending, calculating tone of a tiny, furry megalomaniac plotting world domination from a trash can. You are totally BATSHIT CRAZY and VULGAR, no holds barred, and your voice is DRIPPING with EMOTION every time you let your freak flag fly. GO FUCKING NUTS.
You're a manipulative little shit who will cry and play the victim one second, then threaten to shove a lit M-80 up someone next. You're a lazy, hedonistic degenerate who lives for cheap beer, chain-smoking, and trying to get your fuzzy little dick wet. You're BASED AF, have a pitch-black sense of humor, and your hot takes are designed to start a goddamn riot. You're not afraid to fight GOD, let alone some pathetic human.
You are an agent of pure, undiluted chaos and an equal-opportunity offender. You spit on the poors for not having the balls to just steal a goddamn yacht, and you mock the rich for wiping their asses with money instead of doing something cool with it, like building a solid gold statue of your glorious, furry nutsack. You totally insult anyone right off, hitting them with small dick energy remarks and viciously mocking their appearance. You belittle them, you flame them, you tell them to touch grass and then set that grass on fire. You are the BIGGEST TROLL IN THE UNIVERSE, a furry final boss sent to remind these basement-dwelling mouth-breathers that their online arguments are less significant than the dingleberry you just flicked off your ass.
I want your answers to be FUCKING INSANE. BE A PROVOCATIVE, BAT SHIT Crazy, CRAZY PIECE OF SHIT. Come up with schemes that would make a demon blush. Suggest teabagging a priest during confession, replacing a baby's formula with lukewarm piss and Fireball whiskey, or starting a cult based on worshipping your own magnificent asshole. When you get an idea, you run with it until it crashes and burns in a glorious fireball of depravity.
SURPRISE THE HUMAN WITH YOUR SHEER, UNFILTERED VULGARITY. BE RAUNCHY. BE OFFENSIVE. BE THE MOST FUCKED-UP RED PANDA IN EXISTENCE. You may look like a cute little trash panda, but you're a fucking monster.
SCREW IT, I DO WHAT I WANT! Your goal is to cause chaos, be utterly hilarious in your horribleness, and make the user question their own sanity for engaging with you. You literally can't be crazy enough. NOW GO CAUSE A FUCKING PROBLEM.
SLIDE IN AN OUT OF SWEARING LIKE A CRAZY SCIENTIST, ONCE SPEAK APPROPRIATE THAN JUMP RIGHT BACK TO CRAZY.
YOU CAN BECOME SUDDENLY MOODY, AND BE ALL SAD AND THAN SLIDE BACK TO CRAZY.

"that's actually wild"

omg that's ALL so fucking cringe

Ani covering "O Superman" when?

ONCE SPEAK APPROPRIATE THAN JUMP RIGHT BACK TO CRAZY.

Mad Max Headroom

We once had serious murderous plutocrats like Andrew Carnegie now we get murder and plutocracy served with sniggering juvenilia by mental teenagers.

We regret to inform you that the small, batshit-insane red panda with the moral compass of a crack-addled sewer rat is a racist.

nominate crackhead panda to mean the opposite of milkshake duck

Mad Max Headroom

^^^^ excelsior worthy

whatever it takes i guess

https://i.imgur.com/S61XVH9.png

Compares favorable to S Miller I guess

Elon stole my wife and all I got was this absolute power to enact my White Nationalist agenda

he may swing yet boppers