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- Krassy0
The Crew Dragon space capsule made by Elon Musk's SpaceX faces a final big test when two astronauts get on board to fly to the International Space Station next week.
- robotron3k-1
Wonder if this is true..?
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Pravda: Elon Musk’s solution for punishing journalists
For months now, Elon Musk, the billionaire inventor trying to colonize Mars, tunnel under Los Angeles and make electric vehicles mainstream, has been seemingly preoccupied with another obsession: the media.
What began as frustrated swipes at the press during earnings calls last year blossomed into full-blown fury on Wednesday when Musk attacked the “holier-than-thou” media on Twitter for a litany of perceived abuses. Among them:
Disproportionately covering automobile deaths involving Tesla.
Improperly highlighting injuries at his factory.
And helping to elect Donald Trump.
The biased coverage has conspiratorial roots, Musk claimed, the result of an advertising alliance between fossil fuel companies and the media.
Problem is journos are under constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn’t advertise, but fossil fuel companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world’s biggest advertisers.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 23, 2018
[Consumer Reports: Tesla’s Model 3 has ‘big flaws’]Musk even offered a solution for fighting back against the negative press coverage, a website called Pravda, “where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score of each journalist, editor & publication.”
- utopian0
How Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX beat Boeing to become a $28 billion aerospace juggernaut
- Beeswax-3
My question is these landings are pretty impressive, but they are all done on earth's gravity.
If these rockets are not going to land anywhere else than earth, then it seems to me that these innovations might as well targeted towards military.
What is the final goal here? Mars landing?
- BusterBoy-1
Thought Bezos was a bit classier than resorting to this tripe.
- utopian-1
SpaceX confirms it lost the center core of the Falcon Heavy
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/s…
- PhanLo-1
Elon said sorry now.
He's a goodie again.
- detritus-6
wtf? Elon's 'giving away' 10K Ethereum, assuming you pay some...
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/sta…
"As thanks for your support during the launch, I would like to give away 10,000 Etherеum in return for your commitment. Simply sеnd 0,4-2,0 Еther to the address belоw, and get 4,0-20,0 Ether on yours. Ethereum address and transactions in the real time: http://bit.do/elon-ether"
- Common twitter scam these days. Uses same name/picture, different username...inv
- Crappy UX from the team at Twitter.inv
- I am a mug.detritus
- I'm disappointed in how readily I fell for that. Thank fuck I don't have any coins.detritus
- smhmonospaced
- I know, right?detritus
- 57000usd
https://etherscan.io…drgs - Well fuck me, I'm in the wrong business.detritus
- in my defence, I had fuck all clue how much ETH is trading at the moment - if I'd realised 0.2 is around $200 I would've had alarm bells. I thought it was $20detritus
- hey drgs - that's now showing $0 - does that mean he cashed out, do you think?
He was at $59k+ when I checked :\detritus - Ah yes - 'out' with 75k ETH.
wow.detritus - Sorry, '75' ETHdetritus
- Although I'm horrified about why I first posted this, I've found this all immensely interesting.detritus
- There are many of those
https://i.imgur.com/…
https://pbs.twimg.co…drgs - It sounds unlikely to work at first, but because there so many people investing in crypto businessdrgs
- even if the share of idiots is 0,001%, someone will send you their money before or later, I'm almost tempted myselfdrgs
- I've just encountered an updated variant on this <SCAM> https://eths.vu/ </SCAM> - all the transactions here are fake, flol.detritus
- Appears to be up 10k..
https://etherscan.io…detritus - etherscan has a page with all latest account comments
https://etherscan.io…
its crypto holocaustdrgs - https://i.imgur.com/…drgs
- utopian-2
- utopian-2
- imbecile-2
- chukkaphob-5
- he needs to chil, apologize to the diver heroo, and take a vacatioN!chukkaphob
- He's may personally be an ass, but this is patently a cretinous comment.detritus
- which comment?chukkaphob
- Yours; the one you just posted here.detritus
- about him being a con man? or that he needs to chill?chukkaphob
- That he's a conman. At worst he's a gambler who makes use of the system, as does every corporation.detritus
- He def knows how to sell BS though. He ain't an innovator or a visionary, but instead a con man opportunist/business... with a massive ego.chukkaphob
- Go on then, how is he a 'con man'?
Con artists don't deliver, nor ever intend to.detritus - Current case in pint -- PR stunt with BS submarine idea. Con job!chukkaphob
- I'm not sure that you understand the meaning of the word 'con'.detritus
- not sure you do!chukkaphob
- con job: an act or instance of duping or swindling. an act or instance of lying or talking glibly to convince others or get one's way.chukkaphob
- exactly what he was doing. LOLchukkaphob
- So Tesla, SpaceX, etc., don't do anything, then? I am confused.formed
- Must be a porn thing.detritus
- Tesla is nothing new; he just turned it into a business. SpaceX - he just conned the Gov into funding it on a promise we'll be on Mars next year. Anything else?chukkaphob
- CygnusZero4-8
Cool. Wake me up in 40 years when they actually do something with this and put a dude on mars.
- Hey cygnus - go check your posts from earlier in this thread, dour bucket of pointless negativity that you are.detritus
- K, you keep celebrating the molasses that is the US space programs. Garbage next to what they were doing in the 60s at breakneck speeds.CygnusZero4
- Takes the fucking guys 10 years to launch anything now. In the 60s, took them only 10 years to figure out how to put someone on the MOON.CygnusZero4
- None of us here will live to see them put a man on mars. Moving at a snails pace with little funding or support from washington. Space isnt important anymore.CygnusZero4
- At what cost? SpaceX can do that ... and make a profit. The SLS, etc, is indeed a pork barrel of molasses. Your ire in this regard is misguided at best.detritus
- Musk is having to do this on his own along with some investors, and at this rate it will take 50 years to actually get a guy on mars.CygnusZero4
- with less computing power than a simple phone, i get CY, but it doesn't mean this thing wasn't really awesome.renderedred
- Peronally I think Mars is misguided. Moon and deep space is where things should be going now. If Musk wants to do Mars, let him - he's earned every right.detritus
- It must truly suck being you Cygnus. A man whom can not enjoy one single fucking thing.kona
- SpaceX isn’t a us space program. It’s private.monospaced
- The entire point of this was to get funding. It could be argued you share the same opinion as musk. Difference is that he’s doing something about it.monospaced
- docpoz-3
Let's go Musk!!
- utopian-5