Discovery had it’s moments.
From a Star Trek universe perspective it hit way too many lows, though. This is just my opinion, of course. I found it hard to sit through some episodes. The actors are generally great, but there is too much cheap dialogue (listen to some of the Season 2 and 3 “Picard” dialogue in comparison!), underdeveloped characters, statements like the above that were written without even considering how they might age… well, this was discussed ad nauseam in many places, so I’ll stop the rant before it starts.
Thank you Discovery for showing us what doesn’t work. Other shows learned from you.
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I’m slightly talking out of my ass but I remember a while back that Elon was basically buying up a bunch of mentions and cameos in popular shows. This was one and the other that springs to mind is his appearance in rick and morty. Cringe and poor taste? Absolutely. But this blunder may not have been 100% on the writers
So I’d completely wiped this from my memory … but Elon Musk is Star Trek canon now?
Like even if Musk doesn’t do anything justifying him being remembered by Starfleet … in the Star Trek timeline … he did??
SpaceX pretty much kept US Spaceflight alive between the time of the Space Shuttle, and… whatever comes out next. Tesla corporation has proven to the rest of the car manufacturers, and other startups, that the way of the future is not via burning fossil fuels.
Elon showed the world what a shitheel he was after that.
So, I’m pretty sure that this dialogue was written before Elon became the obvious shitheel that he is now. And, as many point out, mirror universe Elon Musk might’ve been even more instrumental to their world, than ours.
Keep in mind that in the Star Trek canon, Joe Piscopo is regarded as the greatest comedian of the 20th century. It’s already an extremely weird alt timeline.
Also on Discovery, Tilly mentioned attending Musk Junior High School, so yeah, apparently. Both of these mentions would have been before he bought Twitter, I’m not sure if the writers would be so quick to name drop him today.
Which is the problem with name dropping someone from the present.
The Good Place shits on Musky a few times too
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Well… Devil advocate here. He believes he can get a crew to Mars in 2029 so if it happen it will be an historical event.
IF it happen…
Probably not.
His craft will implode. But seriously he isn’t going to Mars, he was always all talk and acting like he’s Tony Stark, when in reality it was always other people doing the inventing, while he was being a rich kid jackass
it was always other people doing the inventing
True about all products. And yet, people write books about Steve Jobs and talk about all those company founders that developed nothing themselves except the very first version. Management is a crucial part of success.
Maybe he can get all the nazis to colonize mars. I’d even chip in for their tickets.
He can get them there. Just not back.
He can’t anything except pay for it, let’s not diminish the achievements of the actual talented people working on those projects.
To be fair Elon/SpaceX revolutionized apace travel, even if you ignore Starship.
Doesn’t really change that he is a dick, but Wernher von Braun also was a Nazi.
It kinda annoys me to see people say “Elon revolutionized electric cars and space travel”
No. No he didn’t.
Tesla took full advantage of economies of scale. If you mass produce an item, you can sell it for cheaper and still make a profit. Elon did not create Tesla, he bought it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc. So it’s fair to argue that Tesla’s idea was likely not Elon’s idea. He just bankrolled it
SpaceX created a reusable rocket. However that’s not the first time they were created, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusable_launch_vehicle#:~:text=In the 1960s and 1970s,were reduced to prototype testing. So spaceX took an idea that had been proven as a proof of concept, productized it and… Took advantage of economies of scale, again.
Elon isn’t a genius. He just has enough money and the right people who manage him to successfully pull off other people’s ideas and take advantage of economies of scale.
Ps: to be faiiiiiir
But Tesla actually did it. Amd its not a money thing, VW also has the money.
You’re right and wrong.
VW has money, but they have established themselves in the market. They sell cars and don’t have all that much reason to switch over to EVs because they are a relatively successful company.
Telsa is a new comer on the block, with any new business your first challenge is determining what you’ll be focusing your business on. What exactly will be your advantage over your competition.
Telsa decided to focus on EVs which were few and far between. To do this, they produced a large number of vehicles (almost definitely at a loss) combined that with a solid marketing strategy and would later reap the profits. To afford that strategy takes money and is not a position an established company will take only a new company.
Having worked in a startup I can guarantee you, that was the original owners thought and do it well enough they either break even and go for the IPO or get bought out. I would suggest working in a startup but startups suck and will rove years off your life from stress so maybe don’t go work for one.
