Okay, let's say you're all right. Let's leave all Musk's projects alone, how they ended and why he is called "Complete exposure of the" genius of the millennium "Elon Musk."
Let's say you are all right and he is a genius creator, pushing our civilization to new, amazing technological breakthroughs. It is his efforts that somehow moves our society both into space and towards completely different principles of existence on Earth. Let's admit.
But tell me how the genius of our time, the mind, honor and conscience of our era can say in all seriousness, for example, like this:
So casually SpaceX announced not much, not a little about the start of construction of two Starship spaceships, intended for flights to Mars, and in the future, for delivering colonists to the Red Planet.
"SpaceX is assembling two competing Starships at once - in Boca Chica in Texas and at Cape Canaveral in Florida," he wrote.
Moreover, Musk continued to talk about the nuances of construction: each of the teams works independently and independently of each other, however, any ideas received by one team must be transferred to another, but the other team does not have to use them. This is how Musk explained everything, as if adding to the seriousness of the whole undertaking.
If I had read about this without mentioning SpaceX and Musk, I simply would not pay attention to it. Well, you never know what they fantasize and create some kind of incomprehensible movement from scratch. Maybe they create a hype, maybe they cut the budget. But then that! Genius Musk!
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We have already discussed Musk's populism, when he announced several years ago that SpaceX would deliver at least two cargo ships to Mars by 2022, and the first colonizers will be able to fly to the planet in 2024, where they will search for water for fuel production and create a base for long-term stay.
Of course, we need to move forward, try and create new missiles, engines and technologies. But why lie at the same time? They just took and began to make TWO competing missiles that are about to deliver people to MARS. Who is it all for? Is it really impossible to honestly tell about the Martian project, at what stage it is, what they plan to do, etc. Or is it all designed for the mass investor in the Musk pyramid. An investor who needs to be constantly “fed” with sensations and breakthroughs, even if they are not there?
All this undermines the not particularly strong trust in Musk as a genius of our time. Is not it?
At the same time, let's clarify against the background of which these statements about spaceships to Mars occur. First, Elon Musk began to litigate and filed a lawsuit with a claim on purchases and contracts against the US federal authorities. Did they not give him something? Despite the fact that last year, SpaceX lost a contract with the US Air Force to finance the development of missiles to launch government satellites and dropped out of the competition for several billion dollars. And without government contracts oh how painful it is for an independent and private company.
And what about the unique Tesla we have there? The other day Musk sent out a corporate mailing list, where he said that the money was left for 10 months. If we do not reach self-sufficiency by March-April next year, the brand will be in a very difficult situation. And the company itself continues to incur losses - in the first quarter it was minus $ 702 million. During the year, the automaker cut employees twice: 9% in June 2018 and 7% in January 2019. But the wise Musk has already figured out how to fix this: he intends to personally check the corporate spending of his company's employees. Well, that's what he said.
Well, plus to that one of the most innovative, progressive, fantastic elements of Tesla - the autopilot, turns out to be over prohibited. The American National Transportation Safety Board has determined that the use of autopilot on Tesla electric cars is deadly. This is indicated by the preliminary findings of the investigation of one of the accidents involving Model 3, which occurred on March 1, 2019 in the state of Florida.
That's it. These are all naked facts without any humor, groundless assaults and empty accusations towards the unreal genius of our time, Elon Musk.
P. S. yes, and also, in the first photo you see a test prototype of the spacecraft for testing the technologies of the future Starship spacecraft (which, according to the latest reports, is being built in duplicate).
Actually, he did not "live" for a long time and after a few days collapsed due to strong winds at the company's cosmodrome under construction in the village of Boca Chica in the US state of Texas.