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LATEST: Elon Musk and the Boring Company's first tunnel under LA is "almost done," opening December 10, @elonmusk tweets. Here's the sneak peek #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/HhcxuBYr9l
— Bloomberg QuickTake (@QuickTake) October 22, 2018
Continue reading Underground LA ‘Loop,’ or final touches on supervillain scheme?
Whatever it takes, man.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Monday night that entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa would be the first private person to fly solo around the moon aboard the company’s Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) launch vehicle. Maezawa, a 42-year-old from Japan, is a billionaire who founded Zozotown, an online retail shop. The excited future space traveler exclaimed at the event, “I choose to go to the moon.”
Continue reading SpaceX announces passenger for 2023 moon orbital mission.
Every time he does one and it makes the news it always seems like it’s coming out of a technothriller. For example:
Back in 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported that the founder of SpaceX and Tesla was figuring out how to launch small satellites into space to create a high-speed network with the capability of reaching everyone on the planet. This week, SpaceX will take a significant step forward in their mission to turn that dream into a reality. The company will be launching two test satellites on February 21, after initial plans to begin on February 17 were delayed to “perform final checkouts of upgraded fairing.”
Continue reading I have a confession to make about Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches.
Via Geeks Are Sexy, here’s the live feed:
3:10 Eastern Time, which means… not at 3:10 Eastern Time, sorry. Expect a delay on this launch, because there’s always going to be a delay. Heck, it might not even launch today. But if it does, Elon Musk is going try to send a Tesla to Mars.
OK. I’m not particularly enamored of our current self-appointed tech barons. But I have to give him style points for using a car with ‘Space Oddity’ playing as ballast payload.
Is it really happening? Really and for true?
After 50k hats, we will start selling The Boring Company flamethrower
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2017
Maybe. Apparently, flamethrowers were available for pre-order (behind a password). And as many people are bemusedly finding out right now: you can buy flamethrowers in the USA! As in, legally. You don’t see them very often, because not very many of my countrymen are damned fools who would seriously consider picking one up, just for the heck of it*. And some locales do ban them. But you can buy flamethrowers. Legally. Continue reading Tweet of the Day, “SpaceX The FLAMETHROWER!” edition
Allahpundit has a definite point about the Reusable Rocket Race going on right now:
Gotta say, in the long list of ways, salutary and otherwise, in which spectacularly rich people have attempted to one-up each other historically, a race between [Elon] Musk, [Jeff] Bezos and whoever else to normalize space travel must rank pretty high.
For one thing, we’re going to get something useful out of this grudge match. Possibly several useful things, since Musk and Bezos are working on similar but not identical concepts. Also: they’re giving the money to a class of people (aerospace engineers) whom I like*. So, you know, win-win and we should all egg on Bezos and Musk to keep upstaging each other.
Moe Lane
*No, my wife isn’t in on this particular contest. But she could be, so I suppose full disclosure, and all that.
