ELON MUSK (Tesla, Boring, Neurolink etc)

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publiusr said:
Not impossible—but such a night of long knives may cost them votes they need on other things down the road.

Goddard and Marshall could not be more different, but I can imagine the following conversation happening between two senators:

“Now if you don’t want your big orange killed, keep the orange in chief from axing our climate change sat. You have my back—and I’ll have yours…in return, I ‘ll have the folks in Pasadena understand that their probes go on your rockets alone.”

You KNOW something like that is going to go down…some kind of deal. Trust me, it won’t just be MSFC suffering arterial spray…a wounded beast is the most dangerous.

Kill SLS? Fine…and if Goddard wants more climate change this or that—they’ll bleed too.
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No, wrong. It won't go down. Completely separate groups. Never have been in cahoots before. SLS funding is not related to space and planetary science or climate research and JPL don't want SLS. Goodard and JPL can fly on other vehicles.
Also, more NASA probes means more Falcon, Vulcan and NG, which covers CA, TX, CO, AL, WA, FL, vs just AL, UT and LA. Commerical space now has a broader base and more work than NASA contracts
 
publiusr said:
Kill SLS? Fine…
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Boeing is in moment on best way to kill SLS themselves
The program is over budget and far behind schedule, quality control issues and strikes
And President Trump had issues with Boeing about Airforce One cost
with him back in White House, could be that Boeing face him again on there Government contracts...

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Musk on management
https://twitter.com/x/status/1855572939585843610
View: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1855572939585843610
 
Dilandu said:
My point is, despite all his personal flaws (and he have a lot of them) Elon Musk is a genius. Not genius scientist or inventor; a genius industrialist, in the league of Edison, Ford and Stephenson. His talent is making extremely complex industrial processes run smoothly, turning innovative, cutting-edge technology into reliable mass-produced solutions. That's where he excels.
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Yep.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845483883850350623
View: https://x.com/teslaownersSV/status/1845483883850350623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1845483883850350623%7Ctwgr%5E3ade67353091a1badb55ea41784f4d6d4e9f2f2e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tweaktown.com%2Fnews%2F101094%2Fnvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-calls-tesla-and-spacex-boss-elon-musk-superhuman%2Findex.html
 
Would be interesting to see how that compares to the LM facility in Fort Worth.
 
Trump announce
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first reaction on this news:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1856547918263570784
View: https://twitter.com/alx/status/1856547918263570784
 
Artistic Interpretation
how Elon Musk under D.O.G.E. has deal with FAA... (2025 colorised)

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sferrin said:
SpaceX
  • Falcon
  • Falcon Heavy
  • Starship/Super Heavy
  • Starlink
  • StarShield
  • Dragon
Tesla
  • Automobiles (cars, truck, semi, etc.)
  • A.I.
  • Power (solar, power storage, etc.)
  • Robots
The Boring Company
Neuralink

X
  • platform
  • A.I.

Did I miss anything?
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Hyperloop.
 
Michel Van said:
Trump announce
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first reaction on this news:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1856547918263570784
View: https://twitter.com/alx/status/1856547918263570784
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Musk and Ramaswamy as co-leaders - I think Trump is setting this up for pure cage-fight drama :). The Promotion episode from The Office comes to mind... In this scenario though my money is on Musk. Also, creating a new Government Department to reduce bureaucracy - brillant! The idea's origins feel somewhere between Orwell and Monty Python...
 
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Let's remember that when the Tories promised a bonfire of UK bureaucracy, we ended up with people meeting to discuss scrapping further fire safety regs while Grenfell Tower burned....
 
Conflict of interest is going to be the real bear for Musk here, difficult to think of an arm of government that doesn't cross over one of his business ventures. And while I don't see Musk caring about that, I don't see him having a lot of tolerance for the criticism it's likely to draw. The Twitter meltdowns are likely to be positively Trumpian.

The other issue has to be the further dilution of the time he has available for his actual day job. Space X isn't a problem, he has actual adults to run that for him, and the Boring Company, Neuralink and Twitter are peripheral vanity projects, but Tesla is publically owned, with Musk very much a minority shareholder. The other shareholders would be entitled to express concerns about him taking on another distracting role.
 
DWG said:
Conflict of interest is going to be the real bear for Musk here, difficult to think of an arm of government that doesn't cross over one of his business ventures. And while I don't see Musk caring about that, I don't see him having a lot of tolerance for the criticism it's likely to draw. The Twitter meltdowns are likely to be positively Trumpian.
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He can be an advisor to a committee. There isn't going to be an actual government agency called DOGE
 
DWG said:
Conflict of interest is going to be the real bear for Musk here, difficult to think of an arm of government that doesn't cross over one of his business ventures. And while I don't see Musk caring about that, I don't see him having a lot of tolerance for the criticism it's likely to draw. The Twitter meltdowns are likely to be positively Trumpian.

The other issue has to be the further dilution of the time he has available for his actual day job. Space X isn't a problem, he has actual adults to run that for him, and the Boring Company, Neuralink and Twitter are peripheral vanity projects, but Tesla is publically owned, with Musk very much a minority shareholder. The other shareholders would be entitled to express concerns about him taking on another distracting role.
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EDS is the new TDS.
 
DWG said:
martinbayer said:
Musk and Ramaswamy as co-leaders - I think Trump is setting this up for pure cage-fight drama :). The Promotion episode from The Office comes to mind... In this scenario though my money is on Musk. Also, creating a new Government Department to reduce bureaucracy - brillant! The idea's origins feel somewhere between Orwell and Monty Python...
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More 'Yes, Minister', and the Ministry for Administrative Affairs.
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Maybe the Ministry of Silly Walks?

DRW
 
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