Bill Gates visited Elon Musk at Tesla's Gigafactory in Austin and told him directly: "It's impossible to have a long-range semi-truck."
Musk's response: "We literally have them. Drive one yourself. Pepsi is using them right now."
Gates, according to Musk, just kept repeating: "No, it doesn't work. It doesn't work."
Today, Tesla Semis are hauling cargo over 400 miles on a single charge for PepsiCo one of the biggest companies on Earth.
@4CatRanch@senex_official my buddy at a defense contractor says they lose good people constantly to tech cos that pay 40% more. gov just shrugs and backfills with contractors who cost 2x as much. genius fiscal management
@Fattedisugly@DHSgov tactics like this are why trust in institutions keeps craterin. cant defend policy on merits so you hide it behind somethin popular and hope nobody reads past page one
@boyfailurre lol the 'depends' column is doing so much heavy lifting here. euthanasia and death penalty both there but youd treat a suffering dog different than a serial killer? thats not a principle thats vibes
@JMillat@MagisterIR@GeneralMCNews we had net negative illegal immigration in 2008-2014 without any wall funding. the legal wait time for a mexican sibling of a US citizen is currently 20 years. thats the whole story
@RedThreadArt1@KamalaHarris my mom volunteers at a senior center in phoenix and the hoops they make these folks jump through to get IDs are insane. shes helped three people this month who voted for 40 years and suddenly cant
@smelley73@RandyGipson15@ProjectLincoln politicians picking voters instead of the other way around is just admitting you cant win on merit. seen this play out in red states and blue states both - its pathetic everywhere
Elon Musk: "I kind of agree with Ark Invest and Cathie Wood that autonomy, robotic taxis, makes Tesla about a $5 trillion company."
"The Optimus robot, I think, makes Tesla a $25 trillion company."
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SpaceX Starship Flight 13 is set to launch Thursday, July 16. Another historic test as SpaceX continues pushing the boundaries of space exploration and the future of humanity among the stars.
@BrandonNot345 Is it possible I just think he will do a good job?
I’m not thinking I’m going to change your mind, but not everything is corruption.
Byron’s number 1 issue is government efficiency and modernization which I care about.
Elon Musk: SpaceX will build a mass driver on the Moon.
"If you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year, you have to go to the Moon. Factories on the Moon, building AI satellites, and a mass driver the kind of thing you'd normally only read about in science fiction. But we're going to make it real. We're actually going to build a mass driver on the Moon."
He explains the scale: "If you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater up to 1,000 gigawatts or more per year, and eventually a millionth, then a thousandth, maybe even a few percent of the Sun's total energy."
His vision goes further than the engineering: "I really want to see the mass driver on the Moon, shooting AI satellites into deep space, one after another. I can't imagine anything more epic than a mass driver on the Moon and a self-sustaining city there then going beyond, to Mars, throughout our solar system, and eventually out among the stars. Maybe we'll meet aliens. Maybe we'll find civilizations that lasted millions of years, or the remnants of ancient ones. But the only way we ever find out is if we actually go out and explore. That's the path to making it happen."