...So he's the God-Emperor after all, right?

>spends lots of money and fucks up everything he touches

Yep.

>imagine considering the head of one of the most successful space companies he built from the ground up a dimwitted cunt

B-but user has lots of reaction images of smug anime girls! Surely that counts for something!

>he's two bad days away from being a bond-style supervillan.
What sort of things could we expect from him when he does?

hes smug enough to be

Being unable to compete with "free" does not mean your business sucks. Most businesses can't compete with free.

but he's not competing with free, he's competing with very underfounded

probobly space superlazers and weather altering satelites

He hustled money from the government and investors to make a worse NASA.

He has never made a company turn profit in his entire life.

Wouldn't make more sense to have a colony of 100 people on the Moon before Mars? Mars is going to be like living on a Galleon with no real-time contact from Earth as communications have like 20 minute-delay. If something goes wrong...

That position is held by Donald Trump.

if something gouse wrong on the moon you still cant help them, either way they are fucked. Plus it easier to hide your james bond super doom weapon on mars than on the moon

>worse NASA
>innovating more than NASA does
>never made a company turn profit in his entire life
>all of his companies are turning profits
how could one man be so wrong about everything

That's why the early projects called for a fleet of ships arguing that had Christopher Columbus gone with one single galleon he and his crew would have never returned alive from America.

>he just threw money at people to do them
Yes because there's no skill involved in organizing companies and courting investors. And there's no risk in involved in investing millions of dollars.

diferent user but he is right about the worse NASA part. NASA cant keep up because they dont have the money, the USA stoped throwing money at them after the space race stoped being as good a PR move as it was before. Musk fucked up a shit ton of projects and really the only reason he is succeding now is because, do to the fact that nasa dose not get enough founding, he was able to pull out the best of the best from nasa.

He made money from paypal
Space X is not stricly worse than NASA, but it lacks their scope

Where does SpaceX get 'founding'?

if spacex is doing better than NASA then how can it be a worse NASA
>b-but muh government funding
that spacex doesn't rely on the government budget alone makes it better

>Yes because there's no skill involved in organizing companies and courting investors.

He still did not do anything that people said he did, he has a briliant team of scientist and tech specialists who do all the work, once againe, he just throws money at them. The fact that anyone is calling space X acomplishments his and not founded by him shows how much people dont understand that organizing some shit, even if it is 20 metric tons of shit, is nothing compared to the work the guys there do

>innovating more than NASA does
That's not how we measure quality anymore. NASA is better because it employs more minorities.

Wrong

Once again, the only reason why SpaceX is doing better is because, at the moment, it has more money. Im willing to bet any amount of money that the moment nasa would get againe good founding most of the space X crew would fuck off back to NASA.

No, a regular scammer.

better because it has more money is still better faggot
quit moving the goalposts

Successful Rouge Trader at best

You are both moving them.

What do you think he spends his 80 hour work weeks doing?

last time i checked? Marketing flamethrowers

Has he “Gene seeded” his “clone-sons” yet?

>You are both moving them.
how have i moved the goalposts at all

>most of the people with anywhere near the amount of money he has sequester it away in tax havens to benefit them and them only
>musky is using his fortune to actually try to further humanity and has almost single-handedly reinvigorated interest in space exploration among the common person
>is a real life hank scoorpio

Tesla isn't turning a fucking profit you nonce, and neither is spacex, paypall only made money after he left, and the rest if his companies don't have a product.

Also, his SpaceX isn't more innivative than NASA, and even if they were the credit should lie squarely with the engineers and scientists he treats like absolute garbage.

>Also, his SpaceX isn't more innivative than NASA, and even if they were the credit should lie squarely with the engineers and scientists he treats like absolute garbage.

So NASA was never innovative because it was actually the engineers and scientists who worked for NASA, right?

Lying about how much he works mostly.

>When asked whether religion and science could be unified, Elon Musk said "not really"
>Elon Musk also said that the chance of this universe not being a simulation created by a superintelligence is "less than one in a billion"
Isn't he basically saying that the monotheists were right, but just too primitive to understand programming?

How is Hyperloop doing? Any success yet?

NASA was about engineers and scientists, spaceX is mainly a PR stunt for a bond villan. Dont get me wrong, i want a guy to get a superlazer into space so we can confirm that the usa and russia have super spies and so they can test them out, but musk still needs a eye patch and a fluffy white cat to do that.

No. But the credit for NASA inventions shouldn't go to the head of the air force

>time.com/4076563/ceos-productivity/
Yeah because being a CEO is all just coke and hookers, and everyone is just lying.

He's quoting the simulation hypothesis. Basically, it postulates that if ancestor (us) simulations are possible and numerous, you are probably one. A single Matrioshka Brain has enough computing power to simulate trillions of Earths through their whole history in an eye blink.

>NASA was about engineers and scientists
NASA was a publicity stunt for the US government you fucking idiot.

...

I'm saying he's lying.

His claims of how much he works and what he does are lies. They have to be. Because his claimed schedule is not physically possible, unless he claims all his show appearances, his time on twitter, and his weird photo ops as work, and if he does he has precious little time to do any the work an executive is supposed to.

Mars is closer to the asteroid belt. This means the mass drive cannon he's planning to point at Earth will have a larger source of ammunition.

He's the CEO, he can take a 45 minute shit while trolling on twitter, and bill it as work time.

This, I simply don't know why people wank so much for him. Must be because he's the millennial dream made flesh.
>rich-ass family funded his first ventures
>made his monies in the 2000's internet bubble
>now just stuffs actual skilled people with absurd amounts of money to make his hipster technologies come true

>mass drive cannon he's planning to point at Earth

Why aren't all the other trust fund babies from the 90's launching rockets then?

what is this thread

the amount of butthurt over one person actively fostering science and technology is hilarious

yes anons. i know all too well how much you hate smart successful people, no matter how good their intentions are

And also, if he counts it as work, and if he further divides his time at work the way he says he does (Mostly engineering, Which is obviously a fucking lie). He'd have like an hour of doing paper work. He's a fucking PR person with executive power who runs companies that don't turn profits and lies about his work load.

Which is fine, that literally just makes him the equivalent of a silicone valley entrepeneur.

Sure is Traditional Games

I'm not sure his intentions are good per se. Elon Musk just reeks of exentric rich buy with way too much imagination, way too much money and way too much free time on his hands.

That said, he is also a prime example of how the free market stimulates innovation more than anything else, and shoving monopolies into the grubby hands of the government only slows down innovation.

It's a little thing called board culture. Get used to it.

>no matter how good their intentions are
I like Elon but I think the jury is out on this one.

When will he hide golden tickets in random Teslas, with the lucky winners getting a tour of the factory where he's building artificial moons?

>too much imagination
The fuck does that even mean?

That no one told him no as a kid,and noe he's firing cars into space and formulating half baked hypotheses based on science he doesn't understand and a rewatch of the matrix.

There are a lot of people who have become allergic to hype. Too many burns.

Means someone who can think of things other than asking Veeky Forums how to turn his favorite high school anime into an RPG, which he will never run.

his whole show so far has been the preamble to Moonraker

except nobody's sending up manned missions much any more, so he's eating satellites instead

I would imagine an acromegalic giant will get an unreasonably fine girlfriend out of all this at some point down the line

Ok
Why is that a bad thing?

Not profitable enough.

at least he's getting shit done

beardy has been promising tourism ready to go since 2001, fuck, maybe even earlier i forget now

never gonna happen, nobody's even working at his sites

He's more wizard of oz than anything else

I always compared him to Willy Wonka

Are we being raided?

I do remember Musk being worshiped in /pol/ and Veeky Forums, but here we see him just as hipster capitalist.

Not him, but I'm the original guy who said he has too much imagination.

It's not a bad thing per se, just not something that makes him a force for good. If you read the rest of my post, you'll see I'm praising guys like him for innovating where government run programs cannot. He's doing utterly retarded shit by launching cars into space, but he's figuring out some interesting stuff along the way. Let the eccentric squander his money as he pleases.

I don't hate him. I just laugh at people who suck his dick. He's just another Jobs, and yes, Jobs was good at what he did, which was selling phones and computers.

Veeky Forums is a place for the minority to vent their hatred against someone actually doing something in the world.

At least Willy Wonka actually made the best candy, and was the one who made all tbe inventions.

because it's a waste of money ? ressources on projects like the hyperloop could be used much more effectively.

So basically you'd prefer it if he just spent the money on corrupt politicians and child prostitutes like the 'sensible' people do.

What gives you authority to speak on what other people should do with their own money? How would the money be spent better?

All this bitterness towards him astounds me. You think Veeky Forums of all people would appreciate a weirdo nerdy manchlid building his own space ships and flamethrowers and shit. Best I can explain is just typical smug Veeky Forums contrarianism.

sorry to burst your bubble but the Emperor is fictional

and thank fuck for that

I don't know how a car in space improves my life or the life of anyone else.

None of you can afford to go to space so who cares

Don't let your guard down

I always wondered how their kids would turn out and if they were minions or spyfolk upon growing up.

youtu.be/Aj1lTyy-HxE

He reminds us of everything we failed to be.

No I'd prefer we launched him and Jeff Bezos at eqch other at a couple thousand miles an hour.
But that's neither here nor there.

As far as his money, he can spend it how he wishes. I merely wish he'd stop making the state subside his weird ideas.

Man, early James Bond movies were fucking silly.

It's probably just pol and biz that have turned against him, you know how it is, when someone gets too popular the hivemind retroactively turns out to hate him all along.
He seemed pretty overrated from day one to me though. But hey, so long as he's enjoying his life, good on him.

He's just a trust fund baby with a few good ideas. Nowhere near as special as people make him out to be.

Capitalism scares the envious and unambitious. Fully automated luxury gay space communism sounds great unless you're an actually existing communist - then everything is about taking money away from people like Musk and giving to Tyrone and Laquisha and their 7 drug-addicted children.

It inspires people to take active interest in science, space and technology?

The money the government is giving to him is jack dick compared to what it spends on welfare and fighter jets.

I read about his treatment of workers,.and that's whem he went from "Generally acceptable weird guy making cool stuff for investor money" to "Actual shithead"

Have you ever considered that you can be a free market capitalist and at the same time think Elon Musk isn't the greatest thing to have ever happened to astronomy? I agree that commies should be entitled to free, government funded bullets but that doesn't mean I think we're gonna colonize Mars in the next 30 years because some guy shot a car into space.

no. Mars has enough gravity to stay somewhat physically healthy. The Moon is the worst of both gravity and low-gravity; it's also coated in electrically charged sharp dust because no atmosphere.

In the same way gold plating Air Force One inspires kids to become politicians?

Welfare tangibly improves peoples lives and is important. A car in space fulfills neither requirement