For God’s sake, Elon, STOP DREAMING!!!
The author is every bit as annoying as a music or drama critic: they have added nothing to the greatness of human advancement and achievement, created no masterwork, not inspired millions- and yet they feel qualified to criticize those who have.
The opinions of such mean no more to me than those of critics who’ve never won an Oscar, Emmy or Tony, book reviewers who have never had a best seller or music critics who have never made a platinum album.
No, no, no - rumor has it that he’s developed quantum slipstream drive after cannibalizing a Borg cube. Now he can go anywhere!
A couple more Teslas burst into flames and killed a few people this week? Who cares, Elon’s going to Marz!
the new technology of elon’s spacex is absolutely amazing, nearly in the realm of science fiction in some cases, technology advances not possible by the ossified NASA. OTOH, his electric golf carts, not so much ...
The story of Edison’s misadventures with the Goldenrod plant demonstrate that even brilliant men – veritable wizards of technology – often get it wrong:
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Yep. They fail their way to success. Scott Adams wrote a book about it.
Musk’s ambitious efforts actually have a very positive effect on the future of space travel as explained in this video “Why is NASA so Slow ?”.
In short: NASA cannot afford the public failures that private efforts can turn into positives for them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGZagqJ833c
Author is a moron. Starlink and other such systems will be profitable, and will provide low-latency, high bandwidth Internet to rural areas that’ll never get fiber. Current satellite Internet has so-so bandwidth with extremely high latency.
I have selfish motives, as we’re planning on moving to a much more rural area...as telecommuting becomes more prevalent this will remove one of the main obstacles to country living.
SpaceX is driving the cost of orbiting things way down, Musk is brilliantly leveraging his own technologies!
As long as he uses his own money, and doesn’t hurt anyone, he can spend it anyway he wants, including a stripper bar on Mars. If he wants other folks to invest he is responsible to them. If he wants taxpayer money, he needs to demonstrate a net benefit to the country.
P.S Ford’s research on synthetic rubber, if not the actual process, became useful in WWII when the Japanese seized the rubber plantations in South East Asia.
I’d expect an article like this from, say, the Chinese gov’t.
I wonder if Elon can put ‘em up cheaper than the Chinese can shoot ‘em down?
There are, simply put, simpler and cheaper ways to bridge the digital divide.
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No there aren’t. SpaceX will have an incredible cost advantage. They’ll be making everything from the launchers, to the satellites, to the ground stations.
Satellite Internet sucks due to latency. Nobody who has a reasonable alternative would ever use it. (I do realize there are many folks who do not have a reasonable alternative.)
Musk needs the Global Warming scam to be real, leading to gov. intervention against fossil fuels, and preys on those that believe the Global Warming scam is real.
Why?
Those that live under rocks don’t count and should stay quiet
Writer is a pompous douche with a jealousy complex.
Nikola Tesla >> Thomas Edison
The author of this — a political “scientist” — illustrates what is wrong with the U.S. He s not technologically fit to shine Musk’s shoes.
Immediate social concerns seem to be all some folks are interested in. The key, here, is that if you don’t like the way things are then change the conditions. Musk is changing conditions by pushing technology forward rather than adding to the snark fest of social media.
Look, you need to take risks and you need to do so without the carping of social scientists — “social scientist” is an oxymoron I grant you.
Does he consume our cash? You bet, but, given all of the incredibly stupid things that government does, I wold rather give a bit to Musk because he actually does things rather than talk about them.
Some will work, some won’t but the ones that work have the chance to change the world in ways that we cannot really account for.
Again, there is bad and good to this but it is the way it always is when moving forward. If you don’t believe me then quit using the net. After all there are many really bad things that have happened to us because of the internet, right?
Dear elon: I want all the tax money you have stolen returned. Spend you own money and that of private investors.
It's adorable that this journalism major thinks that broadband will be anything close to what we are using in just 25 years. What were we using 25 years ago as the top-of-the-line connections? Telephone lines and 14.4k baud modems. Today, 1 Gig connections are available. That's 14,400 compared to 10^9. In 25 years, kids will be mocking "mere" Terabyte connections. They will likely know connections with Exabyte speeds. (That's 10^18, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000)
Anyone ever stop to think what might not have been invented if nobody had dreams that “overreached?