It was in one of the Iron Man movies, 2 I think - Tony Stark is arriving at a restaurant and Musk is there as himself. They shake hands as congenial colleagues, Musk proposes an electric jet cause he’s king electricity (much like Edison was…) and Stark puckers up with “If you thought of it, we’ll make it work.”
Wow thank you. I looked it up, it was Iron man 2 in 2010. ( The caption for the clip is wrong )
Back in 2010 I think most of us still thought Musk was a progressive visionary. Personally It’s not until about 2016 it really became clear to me that he isn’t. He is a narcissist, who has no decency, and generally shows disrespect towards basically everybody. But happened to be born filthy rich, and have success with his business. As most narcissists he can con you for a while.
Regarding the Cameo, I can forgive them, although in general I hate the Cameo concept, of a celebrity appearance in movies. It’s generally goofy, and it generally subtracts from the movie.
If you saw Musk for what he is already in 2010, that was very well spotted IMO.
It was the solar road tiles/solar roof tiles for me. I only know the barest tiny bit about solar panel design, but I do know that they are waaaaaaay more efficient when large, and also that anything a car drives over thousands of times a day/hour is gonna get clouded up fast. The road ones especially, no, what we do is, we build large panels that span the entire sky of the road, and as a bonus, riders get sunny day scenery to either side and a nice cool car/bus/train.
I didn’t consider him stupid for having the idea, but we both know he ran it by his actual engineers and they either got fired telling him no or just said yep you’re brilliant boss, and either way, he stuck his whole ass out that day. I had not looked into him up until then but I then did an assessment - my observation was that he looks like a billionaire simpleton, the opinion of the public was that he was a genius, so I went and looked for any sign of genius, or even basic intelligence, to balance the simpleton evidence, found none, and have been going with my assessment ever since. He has not let me down, I wish there had been a bet I could have placed.
I don’t recall solar roads as a Musk thing, although I clearly recall the idea as outright moronic for many reasons.
The tile sunroof thing however I do recall that Musk promoted, and I was a bit skeptic, the idea may have some merit, but basically only if you build a new roof, and even then it tends to still be way to expensive.
he ran it by his actual engineers and they either got fired telling him no or just said yep you’re brilliant boss
Now I too know that’s what he does.
he looks like a billionaire simpleton
I thought he was brilliant, because he was the first to make electric cars that were actually cool. He was also the first to make electric cars with a path to profitability, and although they were initially to expensive for mainstream, the idea was to make the technology cheaper, and work their way to mainstream, which he actually did.
To enter a new unproven market takes guts and foresight, either that or being an eccentric with a lot of arrogance. I have come to realize that it was probably mostly the last that he had in spades. Still I was a fan of the concept of electric cars to reduce pollution. And I still respect his efforts to make that a reality, and I still believe he pushed that development forward by about a decade.
going with my assessment ever since. He has not let me down, I wish there had been a bet I could have placed.
Yes he really turned out bad, I was absolutely no fan of his space adventures as plan B. That’s outright moronic too. When he called the British diver a Pedo, it became clear to me he was a narcissist. Now he is all over the place, calling everything non white for anti white, like a little good apartheid South African. And everything that doesn’t discriminate is basically woke. I never imagined he could be this disgusting as a human being. Even for a narcissist he is bad. And that’s probably only allowed by the enormous amount of privilege he has had all his life. It’s a lot like Trump, who is also a narcissist born with enormous privileges.
Ironically, I’m speaking to you via Starlink, so his space company is the one that I have some use for, at least until the new Fibre company gets here and hooks us up. :>
Obviously Starlink has actual uses. It’s the idea of preparing for Mars as a plan B for humanity. That’s utterly moronic. If we destroy the earth, there is no possible plan B for humanity. We may be able to send people to Mars to survive a few generations, but it will take centuries to be able to make a self sustained colony. Making people work on that now, misses the point of actually saving the earth from the eminent dangers we are creating.
It was in one of the Iron Man movies, 2 I think - Tony Stark is arriving at a restaurant and Musk is there as himself. They shake hands as congenial colleagues, Musk proposes an electric jet cause he’s king electricity (much like Edison was…) and Stark puckers up with “If you thought of it, we’ll make it work.”
edit: here ya go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfiRd4Y5z_g
Wow thank you. I looked it up, it was Iron man 2 in 2010. ( The caption for the clip is wrong )
Back in 2010 I think most of us still thought Musk was a progressive visionary. Personally It’s not until about 2016 it really became clear to me that he isn’t. He is a narcissist, who has no decency, and generally shows disrespect towards basically everybody. But happened to be born filthy rich, and have success with his business. As most narcissists he can con you for a while.
Regarding the Cameo, I can forgive them, although in general I hate the Cameo concept, of a celebrity appearance in movies. It’s generally goofy, and it generally subtracts from the movie.
If you saw Musk for what he is already in 2010, that was very well spotted IMO.
It was the solar road tiles/solar roof tiles for me. I only know the barest tiny bit about solar panel design, but I do know that they are waaaaaaay more efficient when large, and also that anything a car drives over thousands of times a day/hour is gonna get clouded up fast. The road ones especially, no, what we do is, we build large panels that span the entire sky of the road, and as a bonus, riders get sunny day scenery to either side and a nice cool car/bus/train.
I didn’t consider him stupid for having the idea, but we both know he ran it by his actual engineers and they either got fired telling him no or just said yep you’re brilliant boss, and either way, he stuck his whole ass out that day. I had not looked into him up until then but I then did an assessment - my observation was that he looks like a billionaire simpleton, the opinion of the public was that he was a genius, so I went and looked for any sign of genius, or even basic intelligence, to balance the simpleton evidence, found none, and have been going with my assessment ever since. He has not let me down, I wish there had been a bet I could have placed.
I don’t recall solar roads as a Musk thing, although I clearly recall the idea as outright moronic for many reasons.
The tile sunroof thing however I do recall that Musk promoted, and I was a bit skeptic, the idea may have some merit, but basically only if you build a new roof, and even then it tends to still be way to expensive.
Now I too know that’s what he does.
I thought he was brilliant, because he was the first to make electric cars that were actually cool. He was also the first to make electric cars with a path to profitability, and although they were initially to expensive for mainstream, the idea was to make the technology cheaper, and work their way to mainstream, which he actually did.
To enter a new unproven market takes guts and foresight, either that or being an eccentric with a lot of arrogance. I have come to realize that it was probably mostly the last that he had in spades. Still I was a fan of the concept of electric cars to reduce pollution. And I still respect his efforts to make that a reality, and I still believe he pushed that development forward by about a decade.
Yes he really turned out bad, I was absolutely no fan of his space adventures as plan B. That’s outright moronic too. When he called the British diver a Pedo, it became clear to me he was a narcissist. Now he is all over the place, calling everything non white for anti white, like a little good apartheid South African. And everything that doesn’t discriminate is basically woke. I never imagined he could be this disgusting as a human being. Even for a narcissist he is bad. And that’s probably only allowed by the enormous amount of privilege he has had all his life. It’s a lot like Trump, who is also a narcissist born with enormous privileges.
Ironically, I’m speaking to you via Starlink, so his space company is the one that I have some use for, at least until the new Fibre company gets here and hooks us up. :>
Obviously Starlink has actual uses. It’s the idea of preparing for Mars as a plan B for humanity. That’s utterly moronic. If we destroy the earth, there is no possible plan B for humanity. We may be able to send people to Mars to survive a few generations, but it will take centuries to be able to make a self sustained colony. Making people work on that now, misses the point of actually saving the earth from the eminent dangers we are creating.