Is that old footage ? Just wondering because it portrays his second wife Talulah Riley, but (german) wikipedia states they have been divorced for 2 years already.
My understanding is that their divorce was just a rumor...
Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]
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#122“What's important to Musk is reducing green house gas, which he believes, threaten the world” That kind of phrasing annoys me deeply, it tries to spin scientific consensus as if it's a disputed issue.
Anyone care to explain the reason for the downvotes?
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#123It's got to be said that most of the wealth created in the last 50 years or so has been in either financial or software engineering.
Musk is a bit of a throw-back right to the 19th and 20th centuries in this regard. Humanity could do with more folks like him if we're to see real progress in our life-time.
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#124I am thankful to Woz for giving us Apple. And thankful to Musk for a promising future in the industries he is venturing in.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
The charging network also has a lot of risks associated with it. There are 192 other countries in this world all of whom will be looking to charging standards as opposed to relying on a single American company. This means that some time in the near future Tesla will have to go back and retrofit their cars/stations to meet this standard. Apple's walled garden strategy works because the devices are cheap and relatively…
Tesla cars are already compliant with J1772 (a small adapter that comes with every car) and CHAdeMO ($1,000 adapter, coming soon.)
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Salary paid in dreams. That's something that would look great in a marble facade.
Yes, I'd rather stare at a pretty marvel façade than put my kids through college, too. I'm all about sweat equity, but that payoff better be substantial.
Counterpoint: I keep applying for a Linux sysadmin job at SpaceX that would have me taking a ~$80K/year paycut, so I can work at SpaceX.
Substantial payoff? Mine is getting to work in launch operations, no matter what the position is.
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#127The most remarkable thing about the 60 Minutes segment was the simplification of Tesla Motors' history, and Elon's apparent unwillingness to correct the record in front of the camera. Elon was not the founder of Tesla. He was an angel investor, and then became a major investor, and over time took over after ousting the early founders. That is a very different story than he founded the company, that it was his singular vision, blah blah blah.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Tesla Motors and a believer in the vision and how Tesla's going about achieving sustainable transport for the world. But I am also a huge fan of accuracy, and having founded some startups and co-founded some startups and worked for a bunch of startups that I did not found or co-found, I try hard to get the story right and not give people the impression that it was all me. I wish Elon didn't do that. I wish he insisted 60 Minutes get the story right, even if not convenient. I don't like a manufactured story, especially when it's supposed to be nonfiction television journalism.
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Actually, the film's portrayal of Iron Man/Tony Stark was based on Elon Musk. So yeah.
I really doubt that, as Iron Man is a comic character from the start of 1960 or so.
Elon is actually in Iron Man 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2AVFB-g0
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#129Since the car is so quiet... I wonder if the noise the car makes on these clips is an overdub.
There was an interesting section in "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" where Heinlein writes about electric cars, and how the law eventually required them to install speakers which produced fake engine sounds. This was because the cars were so quiet that no one would hear them coming, and they'd step out into the road without looking.
Which is silly if the car is going faster that 15 mph (edit: actually 18.6 mph) . At these speeds what you are hearing is the road (tire) noise, not the engine.
Re: Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire [video]
#130“What's important to Musk is reducing green house gas, which he believes, threaten the world” That kind of phrasing annoys me deeply, it tries to spin scientific consensus as if it's a disputed issue.
Anyone care to explain the reason for the downvotes?
The day scientific consensus fails to be a disputed issue is the day science begins to die.