Who's Elon Musk? Is he important?

Does he have his own like of perfume?

This guy looks so weird... it's like he's white, but it's also like he's Asian, but it's not like he's a combination.

>>29115248
Founder and CEO of SpaceX which he started with his own money.

A company that is almost single headedly drastically reducing the cost of rockets with the ultimate goal of making human colonisation of mars possible. He's already reduced the cost of rockets by a factor of 10 and expect to be able to reduce the cost by at least another factor of 30 by making completely reusable rockets.

Oh, and on top of that he also is co-founder, CEO and lead product architect at Tesla Motors where the first car they completely designed themselves (the Model S) just won the Motor trend Car of the Year. The entire reason he started the company was to accelerate the adoption of electric cars globally.

He also runs another company called Solar City that makes solar panels. This is a guy who comes up with ideas for technology and gets that shit done.

How do I stop Linux Mint from rendering text so shitty

>>29115248
>>29115280
>>29115311
fuck me. first three comments and no one fucking knows who he is.

>>29115311
He's South African.

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>>29115333
this is an Elon Musk thread. Get out.

>SpaceX
>Tesla Motors
>PayPal

lel

>>29115343
Nigger your getting trolled

>>29115351
problem?

>In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion.

>>29115360
I only fucking hope so

So he's going to design really crappy electric cars for 10 years which will sell well with artists who are big on brand loyality and tollerate being abused.

Next he's going to download various open source hardware car parts off the internet, put some faux wood and faux leather interior, and sell it to suave hipsters who he can ply on their on white/yuppie guilt to sell trendy fads and make them feel better about themselves, and then ignore any and all complaints for the next 10 years, esentiallly selling what should have been a $10k smart car for $20k.

He'll then dictate what speakers, intake and exhaust you put on it, sue chevy for patent infringements on the volt, and get his crowd of loyal followers to cover up his mistakes.

Then we'll start talking about how much of an innovater he was, but the people who did most of the real innovation will die quiet deaths, unnoticed by the technology he made popular.

Or mabey we should stop using the term "The Next Steve Jobs" out of the context of meaning "the next George Pullman"

>>29115360

>your
Stop trolling please, you epic troll you. So epic. Awesome troll maybe you can teach me?

He also has an idea for something called a "hyperloop" which sounds fucking awesome.

Basically a pipe that would run between cities. People could enter it at any time, never any queues. You could be transported from the east to west cost of America in 30 minutes. It would also apparently cost 1/10th of what a high speed rail network costs.

He hasn't gotten into details about how it works exactly however. Can't wait to see what this guy comes out with.

>>29115386
no one said anything about steve jobs.

>>29115222 (OP)
Commercial exploits in space scare the shit out of me, I've just finished watching PlanetES.

Do we really want to extend imperialism into space before we've unified globally?

>>29115417
One of elons primary drives for wanting to goto mars is to make human survival much more secure. So if there was some huge fuckup on earth. IE, nuclear war, super volcano, asteroid strike or whatever we'd still have a stable population on mars.

Don't expect any global unification on earth in any case any time soon.

>>29115444
humanity is cancerous, it's best we keep our damage to one planet and leave the rest out of it

>>29115461
What? You want to save the universe from humanities evil presence?

The universe doesn't give a fuck.

>>29115469
no cancer is better than cancer

>>29115222 (OP)
This man started a company with his own money to build rockets to send humanity to mars. He plans to die on mars someday.

What technology are you going to build in your lifetime /g/?

>>29115492
I don't know how you expect anyone to know what the fuck you're trying to say.

>>29115444
>whatever we'd still have a stable population on mars.
A stable population for who though? That's my point. We still have problems here on Earth that we need to fix before we take to the stars and start beating up Klingons and raeping Vulcan/Orion wimminz.

>>29115222 (OP)

Wtf?

He looks asian and white but he doesn't look like a halfie.

Wtf is going on here?

>>29115621
A stable population in the case of a fucking asteroid hitting the earth and putting our civilization back in the stone age.

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>>29115404
>>29115404
>>29115404
>Basically a pipe that would run between cities.

>>29115657
or wiping out all life entirely, certainly not impossible.

>>29115461
>humanity is cancerous, it's best we keep our damage to one planet and leave the rest out of it

that is not how cancer works bro.

>>29115404

It would be too expensive to build a one-size-fits-all pod for Americans.

>>29115724
is this a American-r-fat joke?

>>29115753
no, it's an american-r-fat statement

>>29115753

I made a fat joke.
I am clever.

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>>29115776
hopefully they can just ban fatties from using it.

>>29115786
no one cares if you didn't read, horsefucker
>>29115776
>it would be too expensive to build a one-size-fits-all pod for Germans
see what I did there?
it funny cause Germany is the fattest country on this planet

>>29115404

It's something like ~3,400 miles from FL to CA, coast to coast.
How are you going to get people moving at like 2 miles per second? In a tube? No queues? WIthout dying?

>>29115811
>it funny cause Germany is the fattest country on this planet
source?

Germany doesn't seem to be in the top ten and USA is still number one. In spite of having like the highest rate of poverty in any 1st world country.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/22/obesity-rates-rising-developed-fattest-world_n_1294212.html
#s716419&title=9_Luxembourg

>>29115831
with science of course.

>>29115909
Elon Musk confirmed for Cave Johnson

>>29115947
more or less. but at the same time he's proven himself pretty well, especially with the safety shit.

people might have asked how can you make a rocket ten times cheaper then rockets available today and not expect it to blow up and kill everyone half the time?

The Dragon capsule + falcon rocket will be sending astronaughts to the ISS next year and it will be the safest form of space transport for humans to date as the dragon capsule is capable of launching away from the main rocket and land by itself if anything goes wrong.

The Model S car is also (according to safety ratings agencies) more or less the safest car ever built with 5 star ratings in every safety category which I believe is a first.

>>29116041

The man sounds great. Always great to see problem solvers work.

>>29116055
lots of even more exciting shit to come:

In the next three years SpaceX hopes to have working reusable rockets which should bring down launch prices by fucking 98.0%. HOLY FUCKING SHIT. That will open up a whole new world for possibilities for space exploration and commercialisation.

in the next 2 year I believe Tesla motors plans to start shipping it's BlueLine range of cars which is to be a $30,000 price point mass market electric car. The model S has gotten stellar reviews but is a luxury sedan and starts at $50,000. Bringing out cars at that cheaper price point is what will truly start shaking shit up.

>>29116041
>dragon capsule is capable of launching away from the main rocket and land by itself if anything goes wrong.
It's just like my 30 year old rockets

>>29116109
yeah, I'm missing some of the details here. But I know there's something like this it can do, or the way it can do it that makes it far safer then the shit that's been around before.

if you haven't had sex with a bird you don't know shit about technology

he should have done hydrogen fuel cells with tesla not batteries

>>29116125
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_escape_system
there is something about spacex here

>>29116142
>implying everyone has easy access to hydrogen
electricity on the other hand is pretty easy to come buy in most first world countries.

You can charge a Model S to 60% capacity in 30 minutes. Charge it over night and you can get 200-300 mile range depending on what battery you bought. Pretty good for most people.

you can also stop at tesla super charger points that tesla have built (and are building more) on highways in America where you can charge your car for free. yeah, FUCKING FREE. FREE FUCKING FUEL. pretty nice advantage there.

>>29115386
>George Pullman
I love Independence Day!

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>>29115222 (OP)
I just leave this guy here,

>>29116279
who the fuck is that?
>not bothered to look up the name in the filename

>>29116041
The reason SpaceX is cheaper is because they don't have to deal with government unions and pension costs.

>>29116284
Werner von Braun

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>>29116284
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

“Father of Rocket Science”

>>29116288
>The reason SpaceX is cheaper is because they don't have to deal with government unions and pension costs.
yeah no. union wages and pensions do not make up 90% of the cost of a rocket launch at nasa. Also, if it were that simple there's be loads of rocket companies like SpaceX and there isn't. There's only a small number and the other suck in comparison.

>>29116288
/pol/ pls go

>>29116337
>small number and the other suck in comparison
INSULTING GRORIOUS JOHN CARMACK? HERESY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace

>>29116288

Half-truth. They're also subsidized. That's why NASA is so ass mad.

>>29116381
the last thing I heard about
John Cormack's company is that they crashed an expensive spaceship they were building because of a software bug. lul

>>29116390
who's subsidised? Nasa is 100% subsidised. Nasa isn't ass mad, nasa is saving a shit load of money by hiring SpaceX to send astronauts and supplies to the space station and much much less cost then it could cost them to do themselves. Nasa can spend money on other things like orion.

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>>29115404
>>29115689
Old news

>>29116279
he looks like cpt. America's actor in the avengers

Elon Bump

>>29115500
Create cyborg army based on clones my my DNA and take over/unify the world
Then colonization of mars.

>>29117393
>elon musk has kids (effectively clones of his DNA). Will likely end up with electronic implants of some kind in their lifetime as technology progresses, effectively making them cyborgs. Will likely follow their father into careers of world leading entrepreneurs, effectively leading unifying the world in one way or another.. Will likely travel to mars to visit their dad.

Elon is way ahead of you.

>>29117472
Son of a bitch, that fucker beats me to everything
Clean energy, electric cars, clones
If he wasn't so successful, I would hate on the fucker like /g/ hates macfags

>>29117472
>clones of his DNA

But epigenetic expression depends on environmental factors. Just because they have the same DNA doesn't mean they're going to have the drive or the skill doing everything he does.

>>29117686
>Just because they have the same DNA doesn't mean they're going to have the drive or the skill doing everything he does.
Yes, but it's not uncommon either.

>>29117686
>>29117763
Does that mean my 100% genetically accurate representation of myself raised under the right circumstanses will have the drive or the skill doing everything I do?.

>>29117813
under the right conditions, both should happen. Theoretically, if you raised him in an environment absolutely identical to the environment you grew up in he should turn out the same as you. Though doing such a thing would be impossible really.

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>>29115222 (OP)
b-but ive been following him on twitter for about year

PENIS