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Hyperloop seriously has a better chance of building an SF-LA line than the state of CA, and also SpaceX has a better chance of reaching Mars before 2024 than NA

Hyperloop seriously has a better chance of building an SF-LA line than the state of CA, and also SpaceX has a better chance of reaching Mars before 2024 than NASA returning the moon in that time (in 2004, GWB announced NASA would return to the moon by 2020). Government just can't do big projects any more.

andbberger 7y ago
an idea has a better chance of building rail infrastructure than a nation-state? Dubious. You seem to be drawing an impossibly broad conclusion. I have taken the liberty of editing your concluding statement by adding an appropriate amount of uncertainty and removing overly general statements. Here's what it says: ''
- loceng 7y ago
  An idea that Elon is actively implementing with The Boring Company. There was also the idea of reusable rockets and he believed it was possible as well - and that has been done too. I'm curious how much or little you know about The Boring Company's efforts so far?
  - andbberger 7y ago
    musk is not implementing anything. I find the consistency with which the asshole figure heads (musk, jobs) are idolized deeply troubling. cool yeah, new tech, wooh. very exciting. but you know what's more important than that? being a good, kind person. which you definitely are not if you are heading a large organization designed to systematically squeeeeeeeze everything it can get out of its peons while giving them as little as possible in return. and also definitely if you like to do things such as publicly call someone risking their life to save strangers a pedophile.
    - loceng 7y ago
      Well you're clearly being absurd, and it looks like you don't have a balanced view and you've bought into negative press that's heavily been propaganda generated by media for click views and by short sellers. Would be a useful exercise, if you can manage, to make a list of positives of what Elon and his companies have accomplished so far. Maybe work on your negativity and emotional reactions so you can understand things more clearly, develop compassion by developing balanced logic which includes full perspective more than just hate.
dragonwriter 7y ago
> Hyperloop seriously has a better chance of building an SF-LA line No, they don't, and in order to make it look much cheaper when they propose an "SF-LA" line it didn't actually come close to either SF or LA, thus creating an entirely new transit problem if any significant number of people were going to use it. And, of course, Hyperloop could only do it with the State (and thus can't do it better than the State), because there is no way to build it without eminent domain.
kjdndisneinj 7y ago
You have Musk-y dick so deep down your throat it's in your stomach.
- dang 7y ago
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andbberger 7y ago

an idea has a better chance of building rail infrastructure than a nation-state? Dubious. You seem to be drawing an impossibly broad conclusion. I have taken the liberty of editing your concluding statement by adding an appropriate amount of uncertainty and removing overly general statements. Here's what it says: ''

loceng 7y ago
An idea that Elon is actively implementing with The Boring Company. There was also the idea of reusable rockets and he believed it was possible as well - and that has been done too. I'm curious how much or little you know about The Boring Company's efforts so far?
- andbberger 7y ago
  musk is not implementing anything. I find the consistency with which the asshole figure heads (musk, jobs) are idolized deeply troubling. cool yeah, new tech, wooh. very exciting. but you know what's more important than that? being a good, kind person. which you definitely are not if you are heading a large organization designed to systematically squeeeeeeeze everything it can get out of its peons while giving them as little as possible in return. and also definitely if you like to do things such as publicly call someone risking their life to save strangers a pedophile.
  - loceng 7y ago
    Well you're clearly being absurd, and it looks like you don't have a balanced view and you've bought into negative press that's heavily been propaganda generated by media for click views and by short sellers. Would be a useful exercise, if you can manage, to make a list of positives of what Elon and his companies have accomplished so far. Maybe work on your negativity and emotional reactions so you can understand things more clearly, develop compassion by developing balanced logic which includes full perspective more than just hate.

dragonwriter 7y ago

> Hyperloop seriously has a better chance of building an SF-LA line No, they don't, and in order to make it look much cheaper when they propose an "SF-LA" line it didn't actually come close to either SF or LA, thus creating an entirely new transit problem if any significant number of people were going to use it. And, of course, Hyperloop could only do it with the State (and thus can't do it better than the State), because there is no way to build it without eminent domain.

kjdndisneinj 7y ago

You have Musk-y dick so deep down your throat it's in your stomach.

dang 7y ago
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