Mega-dork is way too weak. He is a full blown Nazi and wants nothing but more power, money, influence etc.

Rocket science is really cool. Rocket scientists are huge geeks about rocket science. If there are really only a handful of organizations hiring rocket scientists (and most of them are run by megalomaniacs or deeply entwined with the MIC), you're faced with the prospect of working for a bad company, or not working on your passion that you specialized in.

I remember some AMAs from The Site That Shall Not Be Named by SpaceX employees, and a common comment was that they do their best to keep him distracted so they can do their actual work because his ideas are stupid.

You don't really need a cult following, either. Most engineers just want to get paid well for their hard work and experience. Does Musk pay well? I don't know. But it's hard for me to believe so many smart people work for him just because of a cult following.

It should be (and might be?) illegal for him to call himself an engineer unless he graduated from an accredited school with a degree in engineering

mega-dork

Hey now, let's leave the poor whale dicks out of this. 🥲

Not even that. Brilliant people made brilliant things, word reached his vulture ear, and he bought their company.

People, stop giving your money to schmucks. Don't let them buy your company, take control, and fuck shit up. Aim for sustainability, not impossible growth.

This

The only Tesla car that is 100% Elmo's idea is the cyber truck and well, it shows.

The guy is, in hisnown words, fully removed, and a serial liar. I don't understand why anyone ever thought anything positive about him

We're still trying to find the bottom of that barrel unfortunately

And how many of those are from bots, and how many are from Elon’s PR team?

Bots, not people

It’s x dot com. 😔

X algorithm goes:

if (poster == Elon) intialLikeCount = 200000;

else intialLikeCount = 0;

Plenty of people here on lemmy downvote me when I politely ask folks to consider not using that epithet. While it seems the usage of it has gone way down, there are still plenty who feel it is their god-given right to use it. I've been given all sorts of reasons people think it's okay to use.

That's a low blow.

tbf his tweets make more sense 99% of the time if you think of it not as messages directed at others, but his inner voice made digital manifest.

This is kinda what Twitter always was. It's what happens when you sort by author instead of by topic.

There's no point, is the thing. It's literally just moron tier bait for investors, almost a parody of itself (what if we built data centers, but in SPACE). Nobody needs that. The massive explosion in demand for compute is pointless in the first place anyways.

They are absolutely possible technology and could be constructed in such a way as to be viable.

Cooling in spaces a massive pain in the arse but if you do it at large enough of a scale it actually becomes efficient.

The problem is we need access to a space elevator before we could build at that scale otherwise you'd be sending up hundreds of rockets just to build data center 20% the size of anything we could construct on Earth. Which would obviously be pointless.

So Elon Musk should be working on a space elevator. Except he can't because that would involve advanced physics and material engineering, both of which he is crap at, given the fact that he tried to make a car out of pig iron.

To be clear, they are absolutely possible. There’s nothing preventing them with today’s technology beyond cost.

That doesn’t make musks statements correct. You can’t “easily” cool things in space. Virtually none of the conventional cooling methods work as most rely on heat moving from hot thing to cold thing, that cold thing usually being air in the end. But in space, where there is only vacuum and no air, heat will just build up until whatever is heating it breaks.

As the original tweet said, you can still get rid of heat, but it’s much slower (unless you’re ejecting super heated material regularly) and is quite inefficient.

Scale ISS-style hardware to the modest 1 megawatt data centre, and the mass is punishing: roughly 100 tons of radiators alone. By comparison, 1 megawatt of cutting-edge AI compute racks is on the order of 10 tons. That is the economic knife edge: the radiators alone could weigh close to ten times more than the compute hardware. Since launch cost scales with mass, cooling could impose an order-of-magnitude launch-cost penalty, before the first token is generated.

Also; slop?

hard R word

Just a gentle reminder that the phrase "hard R" refers to an entirely different insult. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if Elon used that word, too.

Also,

Teslas are great cars

The heck?!

If he is autistic, then you can tell he didn't grow up in a school like most neurodivergent people.