idk, the cult of Musk makes a lot more sense than the conventional tech wisdom that the uber dudes are visionaries. i mean, he's trying to get to space and build a train that goes 800mph, the appeal of these things seems obvious even if you don't share it.
― intheblanks, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:34 (eight years ago) link
Teslas aren't sold from the dealership. You order one, they build it and deliver it to you.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 May 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
Elon Musk is a living indictment of our broken economic system
― larry appleton, Monday, 16 May 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah idk there is no tesla dealership, maybe you saw a place with free charging stations
I think my friend with a Volt has been optimizing his routes to be able to charge his car for free while drinking
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 16 May 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
I mean, ducking in for a drink. Probably not a good idea to drive too close to him, just in case
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 16 May 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
There's Tesla showrooms in a few places. There's one in a mall near here. On one of the upper floors, no less, which just seems weird.
― bothan zulu (El Tomboto), Monday, 16 May 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
“As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, ‘I am the alpha in this relationship,’” Justine, who was wed to the mogul from 2000 to 2008, wrote in a Marie Claire article. “I shrugged it off, just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement . . . Elon’s judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking,” she continues, saying he told her, “If you were my employee . . . I would fire you.”
― salthigh, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link
Sort of what I'd expect from a billionnaire called "Elon Musk"
― Treeship, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:32 (eight years ago) link
if this isn't technically a dealership, it is at least surrounded by dealerships and occupies a space that was previously a dealershiphttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Tesla+Motors+Santa+Barbara/@34.4336131,-119.747588,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x80e9151f819505f7:0x4e0b1a589e5a265c!8m2!3d34.4336131!4d-119.7453993
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
but yes, they seemed to only have one of each model type available for test drives or something. which is a bit hilarious because the lot is huge.
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:54 (eight years ago) link
musks brother has a restaurant empire in colorado and hes a bigtime thought leader
http://i.imgur.com/6bH7YH0.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:56 (eight years ago) link
tomato signal is strong
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 04:59 (eight years ago) link
im against gmos personally
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
fwiw i agree that food is def the new internet
― Clay, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:03 (eight years ago) link
i just emailed an ice cream sandwich to my face via my hand
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:06 (eight years ago) link
"What time is it? No time to look back. Food is the new internet."http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/08/Byrne.jpg
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 16 May 2016 05:07 (eight years ago) link
all I do all day is facilitate gmos
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 16 May 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
www.wired.co.uk/article/hyperloop-hype-machine
― just sayin, Monday, 5 September 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/elon-musk-has-delivery-issues
― just sayin, Monday, 16 January 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
the cult around this guy is baffling, except for paypal i've yet to use anything he built.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
didn't even build this - it already existed at another company that his company (X.com) merged with.
― Neanderthal, Monday, 24 April 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
Toupee-pal more like (he wears a wig or has implants or something)
― everything, Monday, 24 April 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
T MINUS TEN MINUTES!
https://www.facebook.com/Floridatoday/videos/10155860010880937/
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
or try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
pls tell me someone strapped Musk to the nose
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
isn't there a left wing podcast you should be listening to?
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
pls tell me you have better things to do than harsh my buzz, comrade
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
idk I think it would be a win-win
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
okay that was fucking cool
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
the car + the 'don't panic!' thing was a little gross but w/e
the boosters just coming back home to their own separate landing pads was the best part imo
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
Welcome back lil guys!
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
yeah the booster landing was amazing, the live footage from the rockets themselves was boss
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
coworkers were watching this across the row from me.
main comment i heard was "lotta white dudes"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
as much as i loath this kind of thing as an early example of advertising/marketing in space, i have to admit this is kind of riveting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:48 (six years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/ZZ_Top_-_Afterburner.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
are we sure spaceX isn't just faking all this footage? when the boosters re-landed, i don't know, looked pretty fake to me
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
that really is something, though, when it happens at about 38:00 into the video the late great posted. that's just fucking amazing.
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
I don’t think the third booster made it? No footage was shown.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
a billionaire putting a car on mars in an age of record inequality is very "Whitey's On The Moon" imo
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
xp
Yes nothing was heard or seen of it, don't know tbh
― In space, pizza sends out for YOU (Ste), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
otm xp
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
Taking nothing away from the people involved in making this happen, which I'm sure has been mind-bendingly complex, but watching that video I've never before seen so clearly the Kubrickian link between a spaceship and a caveman getting excited over a flying bone
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
you're a flying bone
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
Tracer OTM. I appreciate the scientific accomplishment here, but it's a douchy thing to do and I'm afraid we'll see way too much of it in the coming years. Sending a car into space huh? What's next, sending a monkey into orbit? (j/k)
Like this fucking guy. It's a very vain way of polluting space.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
ugh I thought LBI's gizmodo link was an Onion article, and I appreciated the effort of setting up an external website, but thought it possibly a little on the nose that they picked a real company name
literally did not realise my mistake until I'd read the entire article and scrolled back to click on the link
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
back to today's launch, twin landings cool, anything to do with the car ugh
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
haha wow, well I can't blame you for mistaking it for the Onion. All too real though, sadly.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
Lost opportunity not to have a small bit of robotics in the car passenger so he could wave and move his head randomly. Looked like a dead guy.
― nickn, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
I was wondering that if instead of burning heavy lift on a car, the test could have been used for something useful - like sending a camera and a drill to ‘Oumuamua. it's possible, but the orbital mechanics stink.https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2017/11/10/project-lyra-sending-a-spacecraft-to-1ioumuamua-formerly-a2017-u1-the-interstellar-asteroid/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
guys hate to be the bearer of bad new but elon musk fucked the rocket and died rip
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 03:33 (six years ago) link