So when does Elmo start getting visits from Saudi bone saws over the loss of their investment?

There’s something Shakespearean about Musk. He for years paid people to cultivate the image of him as a “maverick innovator” buying him guest spots on SNL, the Simpsons, Star Trek, etc. The PR people running this campaign for him knew well that “the less you see and hear from him the better” as he’d immediately…

Musk has also threatened to sue Meta citing the long established and recognized legal precidents of  “It’s not fair”, “Sour Grapes” and “How dare you?”

1. Lowered trucks rule.

Really, no one thought Heaven’s Gate, the cult that killed themselves in 1997 during the Hale-Bopp comet?

Whew.  Now we’ll have a shuttle ready to go in the event a massive asteroid heads towards Earth.  But will we have the oil drillers prepped in time??

Company CEO: “What’s the first thing you think of when you read the name ‘GATE’?”

I’m noticing a LOT of Hyundai/Kia in these comments, so let me pile on:

For me, it’s gotta be the Mazda3. Not only does it look really great on the outside, the interior looks like it punches above it’s price with nice materials, tech, and buttons (glorious buttons!). Plus, you can get one pretty well equipped for under $25k, and, from what I understand, the drive is a good blend of…

Volvo V60 - one of the few cars that catches my eye when out and about. Refreshing in a sea of bland crossovers.

Doubtful he’ll ever face consequences. His investors have gotten what they want, which is wrestling one of the largest social media platforms into private control, where they can tell Musk what to censor and when, and he’ll happily do it, no problem.

Bad car with a bad tie-in to a bad movie.  This thing is even lamer than a normal one.  Drop a zero off the price and you’d be closer to reality.

There are plenty of good reasons to retrieve these pieces.

So they found the end caps, but the “glass” is missing from the viewing port on one of them. It was only rated to 1500 meters. If it failed, the bodies could have gotten water hammered into the other end cap, with bone fragments possibly now being embedded in the remaining structure. All the soft bits got pulped.

Musk is not a visionary. He’s a guy with a lot of Daddy Slavebucks’ money. He didn’t invent PayPal, or Tesla. 

Length doesn’t factor into the maximum stress that a pressure vessel can handle. Diameter and wall thickness matters. Stress is proportional to diameter and inversely proportional to thickness.

And yet the bell end in charge of this project was the thick one.

500 people died this week when their boat sank off Greece, not millionaires. There was less grief and sympathy for them, who boarded a dangerous ship for important reasons.

At least if the sub imploded they’d be killed so quickly they’d be dead before even their brains had time to register what was happening. They’d be instant chunky marinara sauce

“Yeah, no shit.”