Literally went bankrupt and was rescued with Tesla money and absorbed into the company
Tesla Motors
Literally going bankrupt until a media hype event around the model 3 was able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in interest free loans from suckers... oh im sorry a "deposit" on a model 3. Please don't ask for delivery dates. Trade secret.
NASA passed on using reusable rockets in the 70s and opted for the space shuttle program. Reusable rockets are not financially viable at the moment so not worth it. It's not a new invention. Spacex founded in May of 2002. First successful landing of a rocket March 2017. but don't worry you will be able to buy a ticket to mars in 2022 according to Elon
The Boring Company
Digging tunnels underneath some of most expensive real estate in the world in dense cities is totally viable you guys... It's not like building subway lines is easier, proven and cheaper either.
Musk is doing his part to save us all from the 'green commie' menace. He's offering free market solutions to these oil-hating car-hating motherfuckers and satiating their need to feel superior.
Jace Carter
Know what the problem with maglev trains are? That they don't cost enough money.
Hyperloop to the rescue!
Caleb Kelly
Stop shitposting about niggers It's seriously all that you do, I bet you are a fucking virgin sitting in his basement late at night posting about black dicks for "le ebin trollz xd" while unironically masturbating to BLACKED porn
Jeremiah Anderson
because it takes a lot of fuel to get to the moon and NASA had to pick between having the Shuttle Program which can do lots of low orbit trips to work with the ISS and invest in robotic exploration or keep the giant rockets of the Apollo program that could take us to the moon.
In hindsight NASA should've put all the money into robotic exploration and unmanned spacecraft as these generate the most science for the buck.
Lastly Chase did a financial analysis of the entire apollo program and concluded that for every dollar spent on the program $7 was created in the economic later due to technological development. GPS, MRIs, Drones, Lasers the list is just too long of technologies that either came directly from the space program or was helped tremendously.
Austin Nelson
Of course a swede would shill for gluten-free electric cars
Jeremiah Bell
Because it's cheaper and safer to send robots
Thomas Martinez
I know the reusable rocket is just stupid grandstanding; it wastes something like the last 30% of the fuel to land it.
David Rogers
calm down erik, does tyrone have to fuck you calm?
Kevin Green
Where does all this Musk hate come from? Is it just Dunning-Kruger? Is there some basic bitch conservative site they recruits all these morons?
Lincoln Cox
>Where does all this Musk hate come from?
Probably from how much publicity he gets.
Brandon Gray
>Where does all this Musk hate come from? From all the public money he and his companies soak up.
Mason Butler
because the average american is an ignorant retard who thinks he's a genius, moved by media like cattle even the so called "redpilled" autists here are thralls for right wing media
Jackson Torres
>implying tesla isn’t dope as shit I do agree Musk is a hype man, and Reddit sucks his cock 24/7, so that makes him pretty shitty.
But he’s pretty much the best African American in the entire county.
Adam Rivera
Because moon landing was fake United States never had a real reason to do so except making Soviet Union drains to death on their space program
All you have to do is make a perfect fake landing with 1/100000 of actual program funding then watch Russian go crazy and spend all their resources to compete with invisible technology advances. Your enemy collapses you win. Just because sending a man to the moon is awesome and great doesn't make it a nation's primary interest
Dominic Carter
he is an undergraduate in science, and all of his projects failed
Juan Ross
I actually like Tesla though. Electric cars are better for reasons beyond "muh environment".
>no transmission >fastest acceleration available >quicker than supercars >quiet >price coming down >ability to charge your car off grid or using a fucking nuclear plant >not bad looking >completely different driving experience
However >infrastructure fucking sucks >battery technology is lacking hard af, terrible charge times, capacity, weight, expensive, etc >limiting distance and dependability
Don't really care about the environmental part desu.
Jordan Fisher
Because the Cold War ended.
Eli Sanders
>A white sucessful white man creates tens of thousands of high tech jobs for other whites and advances industry of the west >Sup Forums finds a reason to hate him
You're letting your rampant contrarianism force you into being ideologically inconsistent. It's really embarrassing how easily you're manipulated.
Nathan Thompson
And how these shuttles turned out faggot? Biggest failure in history of manned spaceflight. SHuttles were suppose to be cheap and safe. They were neither.
There was no technology capable of landing spent rocket booster back on earth (or on ship), so you cant even say that NASA passed on that.
Kayden Nguyen
How old are you?
Jackson Garcia
he operates on the age old axiom of crony capitalism and kike-tier marketing hype. he received massive subsidies from the obama administration for 'green energy' and suckered the goyim into believing his outlandish lies.
take a look around at the goyim public at large, and to a lesser extent at what Sup Forums has become over the last year. now ask yourself if you're really surpised such a business model could work long enough to cash out massive profits?
Zachary Brown
moon is fake bro, look it up
Anthony Edwards
bullshit calculations not analyzing potential lost private contributions and various butterfly effects therein
also no mitigation based on the premise that but for the program, none of the tech would exist, or at least in its current state
also dishonestly attributes subsequent derived wealth from developments, to nasa
Michael Bennett
Sorry no Tyrones here, that is American culture
t. Poorfag Stop whining about electric cars just because you can't buy one
Wyatt Morgan
Exactly. 1960's CIA spooks clearly had the foresight of Nostradamus and were able to reliably predict that making a meme landing video would inevitably crush the Soviet Union.
You are a brainless retard
Charles White
The only problem I have with Musk is he's a corporate welfare whore.
Christian Brooks
The shuttles sucked balls, the engineers working on them fucking hated them with a passion. They were constantly falling apart and basically had to be rebuilt each use, largely voiding the point of having them.
Jaxon White
>shills paid for by old money attack man with new money who threatens their establishment.
Nah. Ill go with Musk. You are the same fuckhead who has said "con man" for the past two years, and consistently gotten your ass blown the fuck out. Literally, you walk around with a prolapse dragging from wherever you are all the way to Kowloon, so great is the amount of ass BTFO you have.
How can you ever recover? Or will you endlessly roam the earth, dragging your intenstines behind you, shrieking about the failure of Musk? Even as we leave the stars and the earth dies, being consumed by the sun your last words shouted will be "muh con man!" a single tear rolling down your cheek to hydrate your long desiccated anus.
Joshua Perez
Tesla is neither the only not the best for electric cars though. They're basically just luxury electric cars.
Brayden Ward
>fastest acceleration available
What? Why don't pros race electric cars, then?
Sebastian Scott
>he asks obliviously, on a board that has been harnessed into shilling for a man who has driven many companies bankrupt and even had to be bailed out by his dad
Luke Cruz
Thought they had the highest performing models. I'm interested in others though if ya got some sauce on other good makes.
That would be a completely different league. Would actually be really fucking interesting to watch. Wonder how well the batteries deal with accidents.
Nathaniel James
what kind of technology? this one that adds these funny cat ears to people on snapchat?
Grayson Taylor
just admit it, the only reason you shill for musk is because hes white and we are on a politics board.
if it was a nigger your opinion would be completely different
Camden Young
>battery technology is lacking hard af
And will for the foreseeable future until Solid State Batteries become viable. Until that happens and infrastructure catches up, the best you can hope for electric cars is that they become a replacement for inner-city travel.
Because standard gas cars still have the distance advantage at higher levels.
Asher Baker
Because its a dead end, money wise the moon was just a dick-waving contest with the USSR. But the moon IRL is just a parking lot, and we learned about the most important stuff we had questions about
Jace Williams
the acceleration is fast. sustained acceleration is not though. you can go 0-60 faster than most cars but once you start racing into really high speeds the battery uses too much electricity/overheats/throttles. the tesla will win a quarter mile but will eventually lose the full mile.
Juan Hall
he thinks he can colonize mars lmao!!!
i blame the media
Isaiah Kelly
>Solid State Batteries become viable What nonsense are you talking about now?
Brayden Morris
Yeah and I'd prefer battery improvement over sprawling infrastructure. Graphene needs to become a thing.
Christopher Taylor
Do those of you who criticize Musk for benefiting from government subsidies do so out of principled position on the matter? Do you think that subsidies are bad in general or just in this particular case? Do you also criticize the oil industry for getting subsidies? Is Musk the particular target for this criticism because he is a good hype man and reddit like him too much?
Jaxson Young
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Ian Martinez
What? He is a globalist surfing the climate change hysteria and making a lot of dough out of it. >Muh green eletric car that runs for 200 miles in these optimal conditions with a after a brief charge of 6 hours using proprietary chargers and will bump electricity demand by God knows how much Yeah, right. It is totally (((green)))...
Liam Gray
manned missions are a waste of time and resources
and their budget is already tight as it is just by sending satellites to take pics
Henry Myers
Name one who isn’t
Jonathan Brooks
All welfare is bad. Goes for poor niggers and rich niggers.
Tyler Gray
ikr
Jeremiah Campbell
It's intellectually dishonest to claim those things never would have been invented.
The US military, for instance, was already satellite savvy and was getting boners from the idea of satellite-guided bombs before the first Apollo capsule prototypes were being modeled. Ergo, GPS would almost certainly have been made, since its a useful technology for military AND civilian use, but has extreme military applications
Ryan Reed
This guy is the biggest scammer ever. Every week he comes out and says something ridiculous like "our moon vacation program will be ready by 2020". One I believe he said that his company would be taking people to Mars on or before 2025. He can't keep up his scam forever.
The USAF has a larger space budget, fun fact, and it doesnt rely on Russian rockets...
Elijah Cooper
He's not good at the things he's known for.
Brody Flores
I peed on my girl
Liam Fisher
>No transmission >good Americans, everybody
Gabriel Morales
What meant is that electric motors have all the torque available from the get go. That doesn't mean that they are faster, as there are a lot of factors involved (weight being the key).
Brandon Rogers
>thinks shifting is efficient
Latvian intellectuals
Wyatt Gomez
What is formula e? Super dull and boring, though
Mason Myers
>not bad looking
there are plenty of aesthetic gas and diesel cars, dont resort to subjective measures
Benjamin Nguyen
Doesn't matter, he's rich :^) Could say the same about Trump.
Oliver Jackson
Didn't even know about it. Those top speeds are pretty dog shit.
Daniel Long
Quite simply, he is actually doing things many of us have thought about and disregarded as either not possible, too risky or just out of reach for a normal person.
For those of us with some self-confidence it is a reason to respect and admire the man for it. The jealous resentful bitches will feel the need to put him down.
Mason Miller
Lmao
You fucking ignorant shills like the petrodollar? Like spending money on gas?? Fuck you
A sizeable percentage of morons believe in flat earth. An even more sizeable percentage thinks global warming is a hoax. Shut the fuck up.
Leo Wilson
>fully buys into global warming without any caveat >calls others morons lmao >ignorant shills like gas yea, it's been the engine of our progress sine the industrial revolution. but you want to artificially hasten dumping it because your religious leaders told you to
Christian Hughes
Tesla is a shit car company.
Fires, quality control issues, won't sell to dealers, can't buy parts at a part counter like every other car (Tesla won't sell you parts to repair your car)
Ryder Hill
>fires iirc no more than regular cars >wont sell to dealers unequivocally a good thing
Blake Baker
This, I read about a guy who got into a minor fender bender in his model s and had been waiting 6+ months for it to be repaired because of the lack of replacement parts. Terrible car company with great PR.
Noah Davis
I've heard that the cars will get a boost of power for 2018. But man I hate spec racing. Besides, nothing beats the sound of internal combustion engines