Shit brethren, how the fuck do you think white folk made it to America and Australia?The Rod wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:22 pmSaid it once and I'l say it again: SLAVES
I mean, are we surprised that the guy who's family fortunes were built on the backs of slavery would be openly advocating for its return in the form of indentured servitude in a colony on a planet un-bound by the laws of Earth?
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Right, brother, ain't none of us clean.Token wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:49 amShit brethren, how the fuck do you think white folk made it to America and Australia?The Rod wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:22 pmSaid it once and I'l say it again: SLAVES
I mean, are we surprised that the guy who's family fortunes were built on the backs of slavery would be openly advocating for its return in the form of indentured servitude in a colony on a planet un-bound by the laws of Earth?
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The sole contribution to humanity Musk has ever made is incidentally financing some people with good ideas in his ongoing quest to pad his own ego. He is a bad human being who came out of unearned wealth and privilege on the back of an apartheid state, and has been the showcase example of someone consistently failing upward due to having no positive qualities except a substantial bank balance.
Elon Musk could pull his face off tomorrow and reveal he is a lizard and I wouldn’t give two fucks about it.wraith wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 9:34 amThe sole contribution to humanity Musk has ever made is incidentally financing some people with good ideas in his ongoing quest to pad his own ego. He is a bad human being who came out of unearned wealth and privilege on the back of an apartheid state, and has been the showcase example of someone consistently failing upward due to having no positive qualities except a substantial bank balance.
Wait, what? Musk was the pilot? Did not know thatToken wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 11:04 amElon Musk could pull his face off tomorrow and reveal he is a lizard and I wouldn’t give two fucks about it.wraith wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 9:34 amThe sole contribution to humanity Musk has ever made is incidentally financing some people with good ideas in his ongoing quest to pad his own ego. He is a bad human being who came out of unearned wealth and privilege on the back of an apartheid state, and has been the showcase example of someone consistently failing upward due to having no positive qualities except a substantial bank balance.
The man built a fucking StarShip!
Flew it up, belly-flopped it down, landed the fucker!
When he brings it to BRC in 202x it will make the 747 look like pre-coital drip.
burner von braun wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 7:10 pmJust to be clear, there was a "commodifying' post up there between FlyingMonkey and Lucky's posts. I flagged it and it's gone now (thanks as always mods!), but it makes remaining posts sometimes appear awkward.
Thank you burner von braun 
Oh, you'll see him at BRC, he's busy wiping his ass on low earth orbit so we'll have a wonderful view of the grid of 48k LEO sats StarLink wants to put up instead of the stars over the deep desert.Token wrote: ↑Wed May 12, 2021 11:04 amElon Musk could pull his face off tomorrow and reveal he is a lizard and I wouldn’t give two fucks about it.wraith wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 9:34 amThe sole contribution to humanity Musk has ever made is incidentally financing some people with good ideas in his ongoing quest to pad his own ego. He is a bad human being who came out of unearned wealth and privilege on the back of an apartheid state, and has been the showcase example of someone consistently failing upward due to having no positive qualities except a substantial bank balance.
The man built a fucking StarShip!
Flew it up, belly-flopped it down, landed the fucker!
When he brings it to BRC in 202x it will make the 747 look like pre-coital drip.
Maybe the truck bed will have a genny and gas.
I'm a super fan Elon Musk and his projects, But your analogy makes too much senseBBadger wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2017 6:55 pmUnless Elon Musk provides a rocket trip back home to Earth, he better be packing crate loads of cyanide capsules for all the people who are going to want to kill themselves after realizing that Mars is probably the most boring place in the world -- worlds -- to spend the rest of your life upon.
A world with a dimmer sun, no plant life, no way to survive outdoors without a suit.
A land where the terrain is rust-colored everywhere you go.
No radiation protection, so you're living in these specialized pods or underground. Whoopdeedoo! Will there even windows in the rooms?
And what are you going to do on Mars after you've walked the city concourse or seen the same damn red mountains surrounding the city thousand times? Read your Facebook feed at 500 bits-per-second? Stare that the tiny spot on the horizon in the morning that is Earth, longing for the days before you thought it was a good idea to die on this barren desert planet, living underground?
A colony on Mars is a complete waste of time and resources. In fact, there's probably nowhere worth colonizing off Earth. No place we've found, or can get to, even approximates even the worst places on Earth for living. That's right, it's better living in the middle of the Sahara desert or Antarctica, or the bottom of the ocean, than it is to be anywhere else in space.
All these rockets into space for people will serve only one purpose in the future: space tourism. Nobody, but the "sherpas," or maybe some scientists, are going to have a "permanent" presence in outer space. There's no point if you're just "living" there. People will take their week to month trip, have their fill, and then return to Earth.
Who even really wants to see a planet on the ground anyway except in pictures? Did the pictures from Titan look super appealing? It looked like the shores of a lake, only made of methane. Yeah, that's where I want to camp.
What a waste of money too. Why not spend it on rovers or probes or other unmanned vehicles to that don't care about boredom as they seek out and image and sense space stuff. Who needs human eyes seeing these things in person?
there was a project on playa, maybe 09? where a German crew was trying to harvest electricity be some means I don't recall exactly. Like the potential difference and static electricity between the dry moving air and moist alkaline soils sub surface. IIRC, the contact here on eplaya was Karl Von Hess? I'll see if I can find the thread in the search, something like "Power on the playa" or some such. they were loosely connected to "Ein Hammer" Mr. Jellyfish's art project.FlyingMonkey wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:56 amThat would actually be a snarky art project. Have a bunch of EV chargers in deep Playa hooked up to coal powered generators belching black smoke. Something like a steampunk nightmare powering modern "Clean" technology. Next to it can be a toxic pool from the Playa Lithium mine.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that we have so many EV options now. But I think we need to be a little more honest when it comes to the energy consumed & waste produced by the industry. I think we are headed in the right direction but we are far from "Clean".
Ya! I think you have Fräulein fever!ygmir wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 7:54 amthere was a project on playa, maybe 09? where a German crew was trying to harvest electricity be some means I don't recall exactly. Like the potential difference and static electricity between the dry moving air and moist alkaline soils sub surface. IIRC, the contact here on eplaya was Karl Von Hess? I'll see if I can find the thread in the search, something like "Power on the playa" or some such. they were loosely connected to "Ein Hammer" Mr. Jellyfish's art project.FlyingMonkey wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:56 amThat would actually be a snarky art project. Have a bunch of EV chargers in deep Playa hooked up to coal powered generators belching black smoke. Something like a steampunk nightmare powering modern "Clean" technology. Next to it can be a toxic pool from the Playa Lithium mine.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that we have so many EV options now. But I think we need to be a little more honest when it comes to the energy consumed & waste produced by the industry. I think we are headed in the right direction but we are far from "Clean".
yeah, "clean" EV/solar/ wind tech is a long way off. the crowing about how "clean" it is, is very premature...hoping though, at some point, it turns the corner.
Token wrote: ↑Tue Nov 23, 2021 6:06 pmYa! I think you have Fräulein fever!ygmir wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 7:54 amthere was a project on playa, maybe 09? where a German crew was trying to harvest electricity be some means I don't recall exactly. Like the potential difference and static electricity between the dry moving air and moist alkaline soils sub surface. IIRC, the contact here on eplaya was Karl Von Hess? I'll see if I can find the thread in the search, something like "Power on the playa" or some such. they were loosely connected to "Ein Hammer" Mr. Jellyfish's art project.FlyingMonkey wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:56 amThat would actually be a snarky art project. Have a bunch of EV chargers in deep Playa hooked up to coal powered generators belching black smoke. Something like a steampunk nightmare powering modern "Clean" technology. Next to it can be a toxic pool from the Playa Lithium mine.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that we have so many EV options now. But I think we need to be a little more honest when it comes to the energy consumed & waste produced by the industry. I think we are headed in the right direction but we are far from "Clean".
yeah, "clean" EV/solar/ wind tech is a long way off. the crowing about how "clean" it is, is very premature...hoping though, at some point, it turns the corner.
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I don't know bud, as a species I'd say we've been ready and capable for underground roads (tunnels) for quite some time...
