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[...] Musk has a top-secret level clearance because the company he founded and leads is certified to launch military spy satellites for the US government.
The review underscores the ramifications of Musk's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in September, where he took a puff of a marijuana blunt during the livestream. Musk's appearance on the program didn't sit well with NASA's top officials, who earlier this month ordered a review of the workplace cultures of SpaceX and Boeing.
NASA's contracts with the aerospace companies -- worth a combined total of $6.8 billion -- require both companies "maintain a program for achieving a drug-and alcohol-free workforce."
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Elon Musk's Security Clearance Reportedly Under Review Due to Pot Use
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Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by ikanreed on Friday March 08 2019, @08:12PM (1 child)
Several reasons, really.
1. He took a well-planned luxury electric car company, bought a majority stake, then paid a fortune in PR money to make it synonymous with him.
1a. Then he ran it into the ground
1b. Added DRM to cars
2. He's quashed unions, made false allegations of mass murder terrorism to the FBI against a safety whistleblower from one of his plants.
3. He's managed to insinuate himself into the public transit politics through the hyperloop/boring company never gonna happen promises, and successfully derailed legitimate mass transit plans to propose a car-tunnel based solution lightyears outside the realm of pragmatism
4. He accused a hero who saved several dozen people's lives of pedophilia for lightly criticizing him
5. (not his fault)Become an icon of "self made billionaires" when he really just invested his parents' diamond mine money at the right time and place in the dotcom bubble
6. "Oh haha, I was only joking that a third party was offering extremely high prices for privatization when my stock prices were crashing"
To my knowledge, SpaceX has mostly been a pretty good thing. Boeing and Lockheed and Northap Gruman are parasites, and disrupting them is great.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Friday March 08 2019, @09:25PM
Wow, thank you, great answer, I didn't know most of those details. I tend to look at the good someone does. I'm not sure how to weigh the good and bad that he's done. Often in life bad comes with good, but of course sometimes the bad is intolerable, and those debates rage on around the world.
My only response: it was the pot made him do the bad things. Or maybe the pot made him do the good things.