Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
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Re: Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
#2It would be cool if Tesla Motors decided to make the museum part of their corporate function to fund the construction and ongoing operations of the museum.
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#4This is bothersome as I have no beef with Tesla but his history of eugenics promotion gets swept under the carpet. His business failures, of course, have nothing to do with poorly thought out concepts and questionable return on investment, but by dirty tricks by Edison. Its also worth pointing out most, if not all of Tesla's patents, are based on previous works and are not original works.
Apparantly, Tesla fandom is impossible without absolutely hating Edison, which is bizarre. That's like being unable to appreciate Mercedes without hating Porsche. There's this terrible whitewashing of history with Tesla. His advocates clean up his image and purposely turn the narrative away from him toward Edison when presented with any criticisms.
I'd like this museum to show us the historical Tesla, not the fanboy generated meme that appears in web comics. I took my wife to a Tesla presentation at a science musueum in Milwaukee a couple years ago and it was the most shrill and factually questionable presentation I've ever seen. It was more or less an hour of Edison bashing with hints toward things like time travel, death rays, and free energy. I want Tesla to get his due, but not the whitewashed grandfatherly Tesla of meme legend, but the real very flawed guy. A bright engineer who failed in business for valid reasons.
I guess everyone likes an underdog story, but this one is beyond reasonable.
Eugenics quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1010618-the-year-2100-will-s...
Re: Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
#5It would be cool if Tesla Motors decided to make the museum part of their corporate function to fund the construction and ongoing operations of the museum.
and investing (more) in the state might do a little help their case in new jersey.[1]
Re: Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
#6A somewhat better URL, a primary source
http://jalopnik.com/5935362/elon-musk-pledges-to-support-nik...
(note Inman's "pledge drive" letter is classic Inman and amusing to read as usual)
Re: Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
#7I've wondered how well being The Oatmeal has financially treated Mr. Inman. Even with the popularity, does he still barely pay the mortgage? Olympic-size pool in the backyard full of $100 bills? If he's driving around in a top-shelf Model S, I guess he's not starving.
Regardless, very cool that Musk ponied up. Makes me want to go buy a Tesla even more now.
Re: Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
#8A somewhat better URL, a primary source http://jalopnik.com/5935362/elon-musk-pledges-to-support-nik... (note Inman's "pledge drive" letter is classic Inman and amusing to read as usual)
That's from 2012. This was a new plea for another $8MM USD.
Re: Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
#9A somewhat better URL, a primary source http://jalopnik.com/5935362/elon-musk-pledges-to-support-nik... (note Inman's "pledge drive" letter is classic Inman and amusing to read as usual)
That URL refers to Inman's first pledge drive, for $800k, to save the site. Musk donated $2500 and Inman raised almost $1.4m.
Inman is now asking Musk directly for $8m, to build a museum. The only primary source is this tweet - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/466518346574626817 - which simply says "I would be happy to help."
Re: Elon Musk Tells The Oatmeal He’s “Happy To Help” Fund Tesla Museum
#10This is bothersome as I have no beef with Tesla but his history of eugenics promotion gets swept under the carpet. His business failures, of course, have nothing to do with poorly thought out concepts and questionable return on investment, but by dirty tricks by Edison. Its also worth pointing out most, if not all of Tesla's patents, are based on previous works and are not original works. Apparantly, Tesla fandom is…
Beginning to resemble American politics. A backlash from our reaction to the original backlash.