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Elon Musk: New Tesla Roadster will use Thrusters to Float Above the Ground

posted by martyb on Saturday January 12 2019, @09:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-is-Moller's-Skycar-doing? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

Elon Musk has a knack for tweeting out some real eyebrow-raisers. On Wednesday afternoon, he delivered, once again:

The new Roadster will actually do something like this https://t.co/fIsTAYa4x8

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 9, 2019

So, is Musk just joking around?

“I’m not,” Musk replied on Twitter TWTR, -0.66% to the delight of his fan base. “Will use SpaceX cold gas thruster system with ultrahigh pressure air in a composite over-wrapped pressure vessel in place of the 2 rear seats.”

Can't help but think Musk is full of crap here - even with the "removal of the rear seats" idea, I doubt that a tank of that size using cold gas only could hover a car for more than a handful of seconds.

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-new-tesla-roadster-will-use-thrusters-to-float-above-the-ground-2019-01-10

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Nuke on Saturday January 12 2019, @10:36AM (2 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Saturday January 12 2019, @10:36AM (#785451)

    Musk gets off by tossing "outrageous" ideas to the media and then watching the commotion, like chucking a fish into a pool of seals at the zoo. The media lap it up because it's s story, whichever way you take it. I'm just waiting for Musk idolatry to go out of fashion.

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  • (Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday January 12 2019, @06:35PM (1 child)

    by crafoo (6639) on Saturday January 12 2019, @06:35PM (#785617)

    It's refreshing to have an intelligent, successful person shake things up. Maybe it's not idolatry but a supreme weariness of focus groups, lawyer-speak, and safe, thoroughly unimaginative rich people doing stupid shit and wasting our time?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:46PM (#785645)

      We have the same in the political arena right now