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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.
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(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:49PM (4 children)
It's going to be a lot of fun to watch his final mental collapse, the timing of which is only a question of IF rather than a question of WHEN.
Oh, and fuck all you Musk worshippers. You're all a bunch of cock-gobbling losers.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by HiThere on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:59PM
He *is* an egomaniac. Not sure about the "nutcase" part. Some of his ideas, however, work out. Some even make money. But I bet he's got *LOTS* of ideas that never get off the drawing board...and this is likely to be one of them. A few years ago nobody would have heard if he'd come out with one of these "what if we try..." ideas. Now everyone seems to think he's serious about them. *SOME* of them he is, or becomes, serious about. But not all of them. And I suspect he's got a wicked sense of humor, and is occasionally annoyed by reporters.
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(Score: 2) by crafoo on Saturday January 12 2019, @06:38PM (2 children)
Why would you derive pleasure from an intelligent, creative person having a mental collapse? Have you considered why you think things like this? It may be worth your time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @07:13PM (1 child)
Its entertaining. That is why.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:48AM
Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating -- overwhelmingly -- 17 candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Very entertaining!