Eh, a lot of things started out primarily as war-related. Those compact electronics in your smartphone exist because the US military needed compact electronics for missile warheads back in the 20th century.
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Like fixing the pipes in Flint, or deploying that sub to save children in the cave, or when he promised to donate $6B to the UN to fight world hunger.
Oh, that’s easy. Musk doesn’t have a company that makes electric trams.
Ah yes,... the majestic monorail... “Mono”, of course, meaning “four” and “rail” meaning “wheels in a single lane tunnel”...
Burning the marshmellow is delicious. People don’t like crispy marshmellow skins?!
Brilliant.
What impressed me even more than her own Star Wars franchise coming to her defense was Star Trek - SNW captain Anson Mount doing so, unprompted.
You forgot another one - There is no such thing as an “assault rifle”.
The .72 caliber Brown Bess Muskets fired a HUGE projectile (relatively speaking) and are just as deadly as the AR’s 5.56 cartridge. The AR has greater range and is more accurate. But make no mistake, both will leave you just as dead with just as grisly of a wound.
You sound like every Republican refusing to call Dr. Jill Biden a doctor.
It’s sounding more and more like the funding he thought he had fell through, and he doesn’t have the $1B fee it'll cost to back out.
*Jordan Peterson watches trailer, begins sobbing uncontrollably and oscillating wildly, corned beef hash erupts from every pore on his face*
Bit of an uncanny valley going on there, but nothing so egregious I wouldn’t watch it.
“It will be years before we get another End Game payoff.”
And that one took 11 years to reach in the first place!
If this were sports, this would be the rebuild year(s). The old pros have moved on, time to introduce new heroes, greater threats, etc. The only downside, unlike the comics, that this takes so much time. It will be years before we get another End Game payoff.
Until then we need to be happy with our wins, and our…
Even Star Trek wasn’t immune to the phenomena that you’re describing... remember that Star Trek IV was all about traveling to 1986 San Francisco, where the crew of the Enterprise engaged in wacky hijinks involving a whole Save The Whales plotline that meshed with topical culture of the day.
Musk’s vision is for millions of people to be living on Mars and then beyond as a backup drive for the human species, not for Mars to be a paradise for the elite.
He openly talks about indentured slaves serving as labor. He’s friends and business partners with literal nazis like Peter thiel. What is wrong with you?