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Elon Musk's Greatest Accomplishment

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  1. William Redoubt

    William Redoubt Senior Member

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    What is Elon's greatest accomplishment?
    • Space X?
    • Autonomous driving/AutoPilot?
    • Tesla?
    • Australian Grid-Sized Solar Battery?
    • PowerWall?
    • SuperCharger?
    • Paypal?
    • HyperLoop?

    Nope. Elon's greatest accomplishment has been reversing baldness.

    Photo on left: Years ago. Photo on right: Now.
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    Perhaps it might be inexpensive broadband Internet service, with speeds comparable to fiber and cable services. SpaceX is going to launch 4,425 satellites in low earth orbit for that very purpose and has gotten FCC approval.




    https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/spacex-gets-fcc-approval-to-build-worldwide-satellite-broadband-network/%3famp=1

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    the thomas edison of our time? (i need to check in with him on the baldness cure:cool:)
     
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    SpaceX has launches almost every week.
     
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    In my opinion, Elon’s greatest accomplishment to date was to dramatically accelerate the adoption of electric cars.
    Primarily, by changing the way the general public saw EVs.
    By chewing up the high end luxury market, prompting shareholders of BMW, and likely others, to ask where their EVs were.
    By giving Lutz the leverage to brow beat the GM board into allowing the Volt program to see the light of day.
    And yes, to putting 300k to 400k EVs on the roads.
     
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    It used to be paypal, he fooled everyone....and anyone that complained...he froze their connected bank account, then he sold just as a Class Action suit was going to start.
    Now it's fooling everyone into paying at one point almost 400$ for stock backed by His guile, now, he's getting closer and closer to being bought by Apple.
    Wonder what's next.
     
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    And I thought it was going to be the flamethrower.
     
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    Mmmm… …well, an interesting person, v. smart, but how far can you trust a man who throws his toys out of the planet into deep space at the slightest provocation? Still, I think he's a better man than ZuckaTurd with his wretched FarcePuke debacle! :rolleyes:
     
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    Thread bumped because two astronauts are en route from 39A to ISS. First stage made a barge landing.

    Bob and Doug's excellent adventure :)
     
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    And no fleshy-headed mutant encounters... yet.
     
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    They said it was a smooth ride. Solid boosters burn bumpy. Allegedly.
     
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    if you got conned at $400. you would have only doubled your money in two years :mad:
     
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    Tsla (NASDAQ) dipped to 361 in March and there have been no buy opps since then. Spacex is not 'listed' but may spin off a starlink IPO.
     
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    Good example of a post that didn’t age well ;)
     
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    Nice space shot...I was worried but all went good thank gosh.
     
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    They made that launch look easy! Of course now they're going to have to land it. But that's later.

    Watching the launch yesterday, with riots all over the country, I really felt like I was back in the '60s. But the picture on the TV is way better now, so one thing has improved anway.

    Congrats to the SpaceX team, Bob & Doug, and to America for finally becoming a space faring nation again.
     
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