Musk is becoming unhinged. If Tesla is to survive, he needs to resign (or be removed) from the Tesla CEO role. That would free him up to focus exclusively on SpaceX.
You seem to be an idiot. How do you cope with your continued existence?
Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
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Re: Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
#42Musk is becoming unhinged. If Tesla is to survive, he needs to resign (or be removed) from the Tesla CEO role. That would free him up to focus exclusively on SpaceX.
And you are basing this on what exactly? Please elaborate.
When Tesla decided to proceed with the Model 3 project, the most sensible course of action would have been to partner with a large auto maker who knew how to build and service a mass-market automobile. The obvious choice would have been Toyota, a company that had wasted years on fuel cell technology and needed to pivot quickly towards electric vehicles. Toyota had the manufacturing expertise and Tesla had the technology. Together they could have rocked the market. Instead, Musk insulted and mocked Toyota management, making a collaboration unlikely. That was a serious mistake.
Re: Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
#43Musk is becoming unhinged. If Tesla is to survive, he needs to resign (or be removed) from the Tesla CEO role. That would free him up to focus exclusively on SpaceX.
You seem to be an idiot. How do you cope with your continued existence?
Apparently you are new to Hacker News. We try not use name-calling and insults here.
Re: Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
#44So all these clean-room precautions that you normally see when people work on satellites are what for again? I thought that was because we don’t want to contaminate space.
It’s so they don’t contaminate the sensitive instruments on the satellite. If it was about contaminating space they probably wouldn’t leave so much junk there.
Space Junk and bio-contamination are two separate things. Should the car fail to enter orbit and crash onto mars or any other body there's a possibility that it could introduce life where it does not belong.
Re: Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
#45So all these clean-room precautions that you normally see when people work on satellites are what for again? I thought that was because we don’t want to contaminate space.
You are mixing two items:
1. Planetary protection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection): life on Earth might be dangerous for that of another planet, if we land on it. That's why for example the Mars rovers are prohibited from driving near areas where we think there might be/have_been life. And that's why Cassini was sent to burn into Jupiter's atmosphere: so that we would not contaminate any of its moons by mistake.
2. Clean-room precautions for satellites are mostly to prevent leaving anything on them that would freeze and burn depending on Sun exposition.
Re: Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
And you are basing this on what exactly? Please elaborate.
When Tesla decided to proceed with the Model 3 project, the most sensible course of action would have been to partner with a large auto maker who knew how to build and service a mass-market automobile. The obvious choice would have been Toyota, a company that had wasted years on fuel cell technology and needed to pivot quickly towards electric vehicles. Toyota had the manufacturing expertise and Tesla had the technol…
Tesla never had any plans to be only a "car tech" company. If Musk was "sensible" he wouldn't even have started the company in the first place.
Re: Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Tesla decided to proceed with the Model 3 project, the most sensible course of action would have been to partner with a large auto maker who knew how to build and service a mass-market automobile. The obvious choice would have been Toyota, a company that had wasted years on fuel cell technology and needed to pivot quickly towards electric vehicles. Toyota had the manufacturing expertise and Tesla had the technol…
Tesla never had any plans to be only a "car tech" company. If Musk was "sensible" he wouldn't even have started the company in the first place.
And he definitely wouldn’t have started a rocket company.
Re: Elon Musk: Falcon Heavy's first payload will be my Tesla Roadster to Mars
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
And you are basing this on what exactly? Please elaborate.
When Tesla decided to proceed with the Model 3 project, the most sensible course of action would have been to partner with a large auto maker who knew how to build and service a mass-market automobile. The obvious choice would have been Toyota, a company that had wasted years on fuel cell technology and needed to pivot quickly towards electric vehicles. Toyota had the manufacturing expertise and Tesla had the technol…
Tesla and Toyota already had a collaboration that was destroyed by Tesla refusing to remove "one pedal driving" from the drivetrain of the Tesla-powered Rav4. Also, Toyota has been pushing fuel cells over batteries for a long time.
So no, it doesn't look like Tesla passed up your obvious choice.