The guy thinks that hiring a team of rocket scientists means that he is a rocket scientist himself and that it means that he already knows all there is to know about everything.
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Never mind the fact that in the early days of SpaceX, there were people hired whose entire job was to distract Musk with bullshit work so everyone else that actually knew what the fuck they were doing could work around him.
When you're so rich you pay to work
This sounds too good to be true. Source?
I admit I don't have a direct source for this one. You spend a lot of time reading things and learning things, it's not really practical to bookmark every last thing you read or hear.
Thanks for the source. So the information is just unverified anecdotal evidence. Well, that's sad.
I misread that as "hiring Team Rocket" and/or "hiring Team Rocket scientists". He'd probably do that, right?
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Here’s a little more context. Elon doubling down and linking Uncylcopedia, a crowd-edited satirical website, to support his stupid stance.
"Nano applies to everything and therefore means nothing. Definitely indicates bs."
What? When will your companies switch from those bs nanometer scale transistors in their CPUs and use down to earth millimeter etching? Make it even more awesome! Centimeter wavelength!
Electric cars don't need physics! Just money!!!
Real men make their electronic components in scales that third world children don't need microscopy to manufacture.
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I'm starting to think this Elon guy might not be as smart as we all think he is
No way! He has money and his own private transportable sink. He's got it all!
And here’s someone much cleverer than me explaining just a few of the uses of nanotechnology and why it’s not BS.
While I appreciate the effort (and the info!) I don't think anyone in good faith actually needs to be told that nanotechnology is real and potentially very useful.
The first reply to this post was asking what nano was so I thought I’d add an explanation with added Musk nonsense. Yesterday I posted in !confidently_incorrect and found that some people didn’t know what “soup du jour” meant in English so I’m erring on the side of caution today!
It's absolutely appreciated regardless!
It's always nice when stupid discussions introduced by trolls in bad faith ends up being an opportunity to actually learn something interesting. :)
Also got me googling to check if "soup du jour" meant something else than soup of the day in English - you had me intrigued for a second!
You’re welcome! Someone replied on the soup de jour post that they “didn’t speak French” and I thought they were trolling at first. I assumed it was a well known loan word for all native English speakers, like RVSP, déjà-vu, cul-de-sac, chaise lounge etc etc. That’s what I get for making assumptions!
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Ohh, so nano does not refer to the Texteditor
How could anyone use uncyclopedia as a source for anything other than laughs? That's ridiculous. Here's their article on redundancy, as a reference to anyone that doesn't know how intentionally and obviously non-serious the site is.
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"The daily public displays of mental breakdown will continue until people respect me".
How is this man the guy who owns the most important, bleeding edge technology company in the world.
We need SpaceX to succeed but do we really want to give this dumbass that amount of power? Oof
Do we need SpaceX to succeed? I'd rather they get dissolved and everything given to NASA. If I could have my fantasy world fulfilled, anyway.
Yep, get private companies the fuck out of space.
I bet we figure out that launching all these satellites into orbit was premature and we've created a new irreversible disaster that private companies knew about but hide from us since they also control social media now
In the case of Starlink satellites they're in a low orbit, and will naturally de-orbit after about 5 years, so they won't really be a big space problem in the future.
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I love it when "with all due respect" translates to "with absolutely no respect" 😂
The set of respect deserved is the empty set.
The only circumstance it gets used, seems like.
I've never heard it followed by something that actually was respect.
Because you don't need to clarify that you are provide all due respect otherwise.
"With all due respect, those are nice shoes."
"With all due respect, I'll have the waffles."
"With all due respect, I think there are a few more jellybeans in there."
It just isn't necessary in these and other common situations.
It's "proper" usage is preface for a statement whose interpretation is ambiguous or easily misunderstood as disrespect, not as a "you're not allowed to be offended" preface for statements intended to be disrespectful.
What I was saying is that the latter use case is overwhelmingly the more common one.
Yup, something like "with all due respect, I don't think you're seeing this clearly right now. You should eat a Snickers."
Not "with all due respect, you're decision-making skills rival a toddler's, but without the low stakes and amusement."
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Do you mean to tell me Elon Musk said something unbelievably stupid and arrogant?!
At this point its a surprise when the man says something that's actually intelligent.
When does that happen
Elon is a Vim fan I guess.
And just because he never figured out how to close it, and he's pretending to know what he's doing as usual!
Clearly this is the guy you'd want to be producing your rockets. Might as well defund NASA right away.
Well, he has Elon Musk in his display name, that definitely is 100% synonymous with bullshit
What is nano
MElon probably means that "nanotechnology is bs", and no it's not, it's just a science that is in it's infancy, and one that may become extremely useful in the future.
Also Elon says that while pushing NFTs and crypto constantly.🤦♂️
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It's a prefix and it depends on the suffix it's attached to. If you are talking about a nanometer it's 10^-9 meters. If you are talking about nanotechnology, that's a buzzward. In between that though there is plenty of meaning. If you are talking about graphene nanosheets, that means they are nanometers thick, i.e. roughly between 10^-9 m and 10^-7 m. In the material science context nano means the size of an object. Nanobeads would be nanometers in diameter. as opposed to microbeads which would be micron sized. A nanomachine would be a machine that is nanometers in size, etc.
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Usually it stands for nanometer. It can also mean very small. Its a prefix which means a billionth of something, like centi means a hundreth.
I assumed the scientist was doing something with nanotechnology, which according to the CDC is “the manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new structures, materials and devices. The technology promises scientific advancement in many sectors such as medicine, consumer products, energy, materials, and manufacturing.”
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Fuck spez and fuck Melon Husk.
Elon, with all due respect, go fuck yourself.
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