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The number of titles that follow the format, "Elon Musk wants X" I think are starting to warrant a browser extension that replaces them with "No Mr. Bond Elon M
by valarauca1 13y ago
The number of titles that follow the format, "Elon Musk wants X" I think are starting to warrant a browser extension that replaces them with "No Mr. Bond Elon Musk wants the World" or something similar.
- reuwsaat 13y agoI was just thinking something along the same line! If you look at him early in his career he was much more of an introvert. He appears to play to the press to increase the exposure of his companies which have missions in which he truly believes. He's said something to the same effect. As someone who believes in the missions of the companies he's help found and run, I'll excuse this annoyance. But yes, agreed, enormous annoyance.
- larrydag 13y agoReading more into the article Elon's SpaceX has a genuine argument. The US Administration specifically put certain Russian dignitaries (some of which are part of Russia's space program) on the sanctions list for Russia's involvement in Ukraine. SpaceX brought it up with the Federal courts which the US Administration should have already enforced. Now on the flip side it seems that SpaceX is putting their relationship with NASA as a priority. You would think they would want Russia as a client in the future as well but I think that will never happen now.
- djcapelis 13y agoMusk and Russia burnt bridges a long while back when they screwed him and made fun of him when he was trying to first start doing space. He got fed up and in sentiment along the lines of "fuck you, I'll do it myself" decided to go make his own rockets instead. I strongly doubt he is interested in being polite to Russian rocket industry.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoSomeone else posted the article link a few days ago on HN, but it went like so: Elon: I'm here for 3 ICBMs. The price is $21 million, correct? Russians: No, the price is now $21 million for 1 ICBM. You don't have that kind of money? You can't play with the big boys. Elon: on the plane ride home How hard can it be to build a rocket? The Russians also had a salvage tug off the Space Coast leading up to the CR3 resupply mission (it was the most powerful salvage tug in the world at its commissioning). Take that for what its worth.
- reuwsaat 13y agoElon's priority is to keep SpaceX healthy as a business and lay the regulatory framework required so that human life can become multi-planetary. Simple as that.
- XorNot 13y agoRussia isn't going to be in a position to afford to launch it's own satellites for a good long while in the future, and no one not in Russia would want to help them given the way they're currently acting as a government. Plenty more money from pretty much anywhere else in the world to be had in terms of payloads, but in a practical sense I suspect it's a lot easier to launch US-based payloads then ones from overseas - shipping sensitive satellites around the world can't exactly be easy.
- jon-wood 13y ago> Shipping sensitive satellites around the world can't exactly be easy. While I certainly don't disagree, we're talking about a company who's business is shipping sensitive satellites into orbit, so they're probably better positioned to know how to undertake shipping them round the world than most people!
- moron4hire 13y agoIt's a lot harder to fly a payload any meaningful distance than it is to launch an ICBM with the payload and a parachute on top. Well, maybe not on Earth, but definitely on Kerbin.
- Mikeb85 13y agoHow do you figure? Russia is flush with cash, and while their economy may contract, they're not exactly doing badly... Further, what makes you think Putin and his government is unpopular at home? (hint: they aren't)
- vitno 13y agonot true at all. I JUST spent several weeks in Russia, people will go out of their way to bring up Putin and be unhappy about him (at least to foreigners).
- Mikeb85 13y agoCompare this to the universal love and admiration for Obama in the US, and say, Stephen Harper in Canada... Because no one in the west is ever dissatisfied with anything politicians do.
- sschueller 13y agoShould just replace his name with Hugo Drax [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Drax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Drax
- osipov 13y ago...and conversion of HN into 4chan is complete
- Pxtl 13y agoI was thinking Hank Scorpio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEsjd1WZuY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEsjd1WZuY
- pepon 13y agoI was thinking about the classical "My butt" replacement. Like in https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
- valarauca1 13y agoI use this myself, that's what I was hoping for.
- bnferguson 13y agoBe careful if you use the GitHub "Web Flow" (edit button on files on GitHub) and this Extension. Saw one commit where someone was editing a readme to make some small correction. Well, the extension went ahead and replaced all the instances of "the cloud" with "my butt" along side his changes. He didn't notice, and it was amazing.
- batmansbelt 13y agoHa! I love that one. Good pop culture reference!
- wwwwwwwwww 13y agoI'll get around to that right after I make the one that changes all instances of "Hacker" to "Rockstar" on HN and in the hiring threads.
- valarauca1 13y agoActually a generic addon that let you swap any 2 parses. Because I really want something that replaces, "Full Stack Engineer" with "Knows python AND java-script". Because every time I hear that parse I cringe, 75% of the Linux Stack is C, how is a full stack engineer skating by without knowing it?!
- bayesianhorse 13y agoYou can replace "Elon Musk wants X" to "Elon Musk will achieve X" ...