Re: Elon Musk
Pierre said:
I hope that Elon Musk is a true hero like Putin because, at this point, the people desperately need good inspiring leaders. However, I'm wondering if Elon Musk is really who he seems to be.
What first caught my attention was this
article showing how Musk used and fired Eberhart, the inventor of the first Tesla cars.
I also have doubts about the benefits of electric cars for manhood and the planet. When you think about it, electricity has to be produced by power plants (nuclear, coal, diesel,...) which exhibit large environmental costs, in addition massive quantities of batteries have to be manufactured and they come with large environmental cost too (laden with toxic material and poorly recyclable. So, in the end, are electric cars
more environment friendly than efficient fuel cars?
I really hope that I'm wrong and that Musk will help shape a better future.
As about electric car, yes it is not really a big deal if there is no real replacement for other infrastructure that still use gas etc ... here is something just created in Japan:
_https://www.rt.com/news/336116-japanese-electric-car-vehicle/
that leads to solution more suitable for clean energy use if accompanied with solar panels in space, that will provide sun energy directly form space ... what I have a chance to see at Kyoto University with scientist Hiroshi Matsumoto, where they developing this technology of harnessing sun energy from space, where they also demonstrated to us something like this electrified road ..
but yes electric car is not a big deal, but idea to give all patents for free, and not invest a single money in marketing, is actually a really big deal for one American investor ...
he seams to be vague to place in a niche straight forward, but than yep I also do hope his intentions are good, as if so, than all his effort will bring positive change ... some how same as Tesla or anyone who was so crazy about doing his ideas that were hardly understand and far out of time .. scientist in general they all work for future, as it is not enough one human life to see things form a bigger perspective ..
Woodsman said:
Elon Musk's mission may be vanity based on ignorance.., but he doesn't appear to know that! At present, his creative endeavor is kind of awesome, filled with genuine hunger and drive. That makes for an engaging lesson!
While his adventure falls outside several of the relevant boundaries of the what those of us on the SOTT forum are exploring, it would be a shame if he didn't get to finish his cool painting of spaceships and electric cars. -And there IS some overlap. For him to succeed would (possibly) indicate a branch of reality where the psychopaths hold less power.
yep I also bug my mind with the idea how is it possible that he never stumble upon things like this forum sot etc ... well how can we know that?
Reading between the lines, when he talks in general about work, success, life, people, money - he really don't care about money at all ... education - he formed a school for his kids as he was unsatisfied with all what exist in the world ...
Also I have a feeling he know far more about those things than I do for sure, but he just don't speak about it openly. And I can understand why. It is totally clear that he is completely sure that governments are bunch of idiots, and that is why he decided to invest his money at something that governments invested and failed all the time ... so no need for him to say that loudly, when he know that.
Also for what he do and what he try to achieve, specially with his space program, he can't do it without "super smart cooperation" with all this ugly big heads in governments and around ... so he has to be very very smart about how he communicate with and about them ... so it is not just that people who are on this forum and who share sott stuff are the ones who can deliver something that contribute ... the work of real scientist who work for science not for his career and salary, is a work that rarely has one end or final solution at the life time of a scientist, so he as a scientist, he just understand that he has to use his talent + money to do something much bigger than pleas hims self ... for example as without Tesla who knows if we will ever had a chance to be on this forum to communicate and share ... so it is very very important to scientifically continue and keep going development of technology of communication and energy consumption, and space exploration, as we had no idea how that will affect the "future" generations where ever they are already or where they might bee ... from earth to mars and beyond and already ;)
So when I see him how he stumble upon a problem, and he is not ranting around it, he just see if he can improve it, and he do that ... hey! that is how you do your life right .. if you feel you are oppressed by the system, it is much better to create your own, than to fight the old one ... and he can do that, as he has enormous amount of money on his disposal to make it real, so it will be quite stupid not to do that I think ... I am asking myself, how there is no much more of rich people from creative industries, who are investing in improvements of society and human life .... what all those actors, singers, start of all kind, what they do with that money?!?!? We all know how much is needed for normal life and we all know what we can do extra with just 10% more .. so why that is not a trend among rich people who are in 40th actually?....
So it is more like that he don't have time to mess around with that stupid games in politics. He have to deal with a quite complex things every day through his mind, form pure "with mind up in the stratosphere" innovation, to very down to earth production, and it is not simple to handle that, and for sure he can't cloud his thoughts with trying to communicate with the world unnecessary information and opinions about stuff he is not considering him self to be one expert, like in those he is, and he is taking his full capacity in ...
Still keep reading this blogpost ... and feel like he is really fascinating and good role model for younger generations in many things ...