But electric cars, solar panels, and reusable rockets are all clearly useful for more earth-bound pursuits, so I’m not complaining. But you’d need to mine the uranium and refine it first, so an extensive network of solar panels and electric vehicles would be key.ĭo you think this whole idea of colonizing Mars is stupid? Good for you. And though Musk does not have a nuclear company (yet), he is pro-nuclear. There is uranium on Mars, though, so a nuclear-powered Mars colony is ultimately feasible. There are no fossil fuels on Mars, so you couldn’t power a Mars colony with coal, oil, or natural gas. But if your tunnels were on Mars, you actually would want them to be sealed off from the outside atmosphere. You wouldn’t even notice.” This is obviously untrue as you can quickly confirm by Googling - subway tunnels are not isolated from the external environment because, among other things, they need ventilation. The other day, Musk tweeted, “Underground tunnels are immune to surface weather conditions (subways are a good example), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface. But to colonize Mars, you really would want to dig a lot of narrow tunnels. From a traffic engineering perspective, this really does not make any sense, and yet Musk is far too successful to dismiss as an idiot. For a while now, I’ve been baffled by some of Musk’s comments about the Boring Company’s ability to solve traffic congestion with narrow tunnels. I think Musk sincerely wants to colonize Mars. Back in 2012 Musk was an Obama donor, and Mitt Romney was slamming Tesla as a “loser” company propped up by the Obama administration’s misguided policies. In the 2016 cycle and earlier, he seems to have given mostly to national Democrats but also to a lot of (mostly Republican) state-level Texas politicians. But in 2018 he was a classic bipartisan rich guy, maxing out to the DCCC and the RNCC. In 2021, he made only a few political contributions, all to the RNC or WinRed. Musk’s own politics seem to have shifted in tandem. These are not classically areas where American liberals have clashed with business. We’re talking about a guy whose fortune is built on electric cars and solar panels and whose big aspiration is going to Mars. The transformation of Elon Musk into a hated figure in American progressive circles is fundamentally odd. But it’s my blog and I can be incoherent if I want, so here are some thoughts in scattered epigrammatic style: It touches on so many things - climate, space travel, economics, media - that I couldn’t really work my thoughts into a coherent whole. Read Next: Elon Musk Reacts To Media Coverage Of 1.Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is a Black Hole of Discourse that has engulfed the entire media, and I’m no exception. "Are you prepared for that eventuality," they questioned. government were to make the same request as the Turkish government. Going a step further, one Twitter user even asked Musk whether he would do the same if the U.S. 2022, the billionaire said the purchase was due to his desire to make it a free speech platform.Īnother Twitter user also offered their thoughts, tweeting, "The blueprint for government censorship just dropped." Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment's Ross Gerber, a Tesla bull, also jumped into the conversation, tweeting, "Free speech isn't free …" When Musk bought Twitter in Oct. In response, Musk said that Twitter could post what the Turkish government had sent it. Krassenstein, however, also requested “a public announcement regarding the reasons for the block. Twitter Divided: Independent investigative reporter Brian Krassenstein chimed in and said that he understood the logic behind Twitter's move.
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