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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] RogueBanana 7 points 59 minutes ago

Was wondering why this is on musk spam and who this guy is... Still having a hard time recognising the cunt in this pic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Shaved cunt or not, always a pussy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 44 minutes ago (2 children)

May as well roll on ketamine at the trump rally?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Ketamine doesn't allow you to jump like. That's unbridled love for fascism right there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 40 minutes ago

Probably makes it less boring

[–] [email protected] 3 points 59 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Oh look he has his little cowboy belt buckle. He’s a real cowboy now!

What a fucking cunt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

What a fucking cunt

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump: "Jump!"
Musk: "How high?"
Trump: "Get as high as you can!"
Musk: "I am already as high as I can, I wanted to know how high I should jump!"

[–] Cethin 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, I think it's Musk doing the commanding. Knowing as much as I do about Musk's philosophy, that's not a good thing. If Trump wasn't fascist enough, Musk certainly isn't going to help.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I have no doubt they are empowering each other in a sick feedback loop.

I had a friend that was always into guns but was normal about it. Then he started hanging out with this other gun guy. Within a couple years they were both psycho gun nuts. He started sleeping with a loaded the gun under his pillow. Even though he had a five year old son. To quote "He isn't strong enough to cycle the slide so it's ok ..."

I noped out of the friendship after that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

One my old friends became a cop. He would leave his service Glock in it's holster on his belt, hanging from his computer chair. While his then 7 year old daughter and 9 year old son ran wild, with no supervision.

"They know not to touch it."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

Did he forget that kids will go out of their way to touch it. I remember when I was a little shit, I did a lot of things I wasnt supposed to do. I only got caught for the worst ones.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

They seem to honestly believe that Musk will get human beings to Mars before the end of Trump's next term (under the assumption he has one).

I'm sorry. This won't happen in Trump's next term (assuming he has one). This won't happen in my lifetime. This won't happen in the lifetime of anybody currently over the age of 20.

MAYBE someone who was born today will see human beings land on Mars.

MAYBE the grandchildren of someone born today will see human beings build something semi-permanent on Mars.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Hear me out: They're planning to lose.

Promise ridiculous prosperity will happen when they win.

Lose.

No matter how successful the winner might eventually be, they can always point to the ridiculous prosperity that never happened, letting them rob their base of even enjoying the basic joy of any progress, keeping them mad, hateful, and controlled.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

I mean the technical hurdles aren't insurmountable. But we lack the political will power to put resources needed into it.

It would take 60s moon landing level of commitment for 10-15 years to do any sooner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

How close would 44bn get us to Mars? I can't help think that would have been a better investment than twitter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's a stupid idea, and a massive waste of resources that could be used here. There are multiple articles from real scientific sites, and YouTube videos from real scientists why it's a stupid idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

I wasn't commenting on whether we "should" go, only that I felt we had the resources/ability to go...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

It's technically feasible in the bare minimum “Got there” sense. Bringing someone and getting them back. But we learned a lot by the moon exploration, and that is that we aren't ready for colonization. Living there, for a long time, let alone indefinitely, that is where the million details are still unresolved. I think that's the problem that is worth tackling. We already know we can live in space for a long time as long as there are continuous shipments of resources from Earth. We could just flood the logistics problem with money and get to mars next year if we wanted to. Other than the psychologically horrifyingly long distances involved, of course.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

You are mistakenly assuming the human being travelling to Mars will still be living.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Well getting humans onto Mars he could do.

But getting them back.........

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

They might not even make it there. The radiation doses that they would take on the journey are massive and likely to do heavy damage like cataracts and organ failure, especially if solar storms were to hit while they were outside the magnetosphere of either planet.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nope. He won't even be able to get humans onto Mars. Not in four years. Not in 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean if you count bodies as humans you can just do a Mars rover style drop.

But I was of course not talking seriously because obviously there is 0 chance humans get to mars in the next decade.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago

This is so weird... Real reminds me of Theresa May's dancing on stage in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago

elon is the beta-est cuck of all time

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