Re: OT?: Musk: We are going straight to Mars

On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:59:26 -0800, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 06 Jan 2025 06:30:05 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:
 

On a sunny day (Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:52:12 +1100) it happened Bill Sloman
<bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote in <vldkof$vf47$2@dont-email.me>:
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On 5/01/2025 7:40 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sun, 5 Jan 2025 06:12:18 -0000 (UTC)) it happened
Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> wrote in
<vld7s2$3c22c$4@gonzo.revmaps.no-ip.org>:
 

On 2025-01-04, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

Elon Musk: “We’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a
distraction.�
What to make of Musk's comments that are critical of NASA's lunar
plans?
  https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/elon-musk-were-going-

straight-to-mars-the-moon-is-a-distraction/

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Musk seems promising, but he has a history of not delivering.

 
SpaceX, Tesla, X, Startlink...

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What Musk did to Twitter while he was renaming "X" didn't add to it's
value.
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"The Washington Post reported that the company had lost $24 billion in
equity value, "a vaporization of wealth that has little parallel
outside the realm of economic or industry-specific crashes, or
devastating corporate scandals.""

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It depends, I was thinking the same thing when he took over the thing
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But now speculations go that it may merge with Truth-Social (Trump's
platform)
https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/trump-musk-social-media-truth-social-x-

alliance/

and that gives him all Republican advertisers begging to use it.
That is half or more of America.
We will see where it goes!
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SpaceX also went almost bankrupt testing, and look now...

 
The Silicon Valley mantra is "fail fast, fail often."

..."leave a good-looking corpse."

You missed that last bit out. ;-)