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It wasn’t an aberration, a typo, a joke, it wasn’t a covevfe or whatever, Musk has been banging on about AI / skynet / terminator for weeks now.

Which puts him firmly on the same level as everyone expecting planet nbiru to arrive next week, the level where you have a stark choice between;

• A – Being a person who is too dumb and too ignorant to make any intelligent observations or speculations, eg a fucking asshole.
• B – Being a person who believed in fairytale shit, eg a fucking lunatic.

Pick one.

It doesn’t matter which one you pick, the jury is no longer out, which means everything he touches is going to turn to shit.

To be sure, it’s part of a world wide malaise, NASA scientists with plans to cool down Yellowstone, it’s about on a par with geologists with plans to build a faster than light starship.

Does anyone remember the NMS / MSX 16 bit computers?

I had one, made by Phillips, it ran Windows 1.1

It was the Tesla of computers, lots of quite clever ideas packaged together and hyped to fuck around the beginning of 16 bit computing… I bought one instead of an early atari… read the computer press today and you’ll read a lot of articles by people who clearly never used any of that shit back in the day about how the Psion / MSX / Spectrum / Atari / C64 / crapple ][ / Dragon / etc are the DNA of modern computing, proving that they neither know anything about evolution or computing, because all of these things were interesting failures, dead ends and cul de sacs on the route to what did come to pass.

Tesla will be the same, a future footnote in the history of EV’s somewhere on a par with the Jowett steam car today, some future Jay Leno type asshole will have a mint model x somewhere in a shed alongside a twingo and an old english electric milk float.

Musk himself it is claimed is a great engineer, yet he has never shown any of the traits of even a mediocre motor mechanic, and his success is down to a series of fortuitous business deals, zip2/compaq buyout xcom / paypal / fleabay buyout, with the common thread throughout of Musk wanting to be a CEO, and nobody else wanting Musk to be a CEO, so Musk shares more in common with Jobs than he does with Wozniak or Gates, in other words he is a fucking idiot with grand ideas who screams at other people when they fail to make his grand ideas work.

The differences between Musk and Jobs and most of the other similar natured assholes out there, is one way or another they got rich enough that people would put up with the screaming in exchange for the paycheck.

So now that musk has hyperloop up to 200 mph, the Chinese have announced plans to build a 2,400 mph version, and they have done the math, even if the western press has to search to find some chinese asshole who would breathlessly predict, in shades of Stephenson’s rocket, that human passengers would be unable to endure such ludicrously high speeds.

The guys riding the Saturn V upper stages to the moon went at 10.4 km/sec, which is 37,440 km/h, which is 23,400 miles per hour, so 10x faster than the chinese hyperloop, but none of them died of the speed.

I knew someone who met Buzz Aldrin, he told me that Aldrin said it was one of the things that pissed off all the Apollo crews, people only talked about who walked on the moon, or who walked on the moon first, nobody talked about all of them being the fastest humans that ever lived.

Down here on the surface escape velocity is 11.2 km/sec or around Mach 33 so the chinese hyperloop doing mach 3.1 aren’t even fucking close, though they will feel a weight loss if travelling a great circle route.

But, if they can do that sort of speed in atmosfear, it will be enough to ignite a scramjet on the track, but far more interesting than all that is the precision and control needed to run maglev at those speeds, fuck making bog standard 18650 LiOn cells slightly fatter, they’ll be playing with high temperature superconductivity and magnetic containment and steering to make it all work, and so the “drive” technology of the chinese hyperloop will have far reaching effects that blow anything Musk ever dreamed of out of the water, after all, the only difference between a linear electric motor and a radial one is one is curved into a circle and the other one is not.

Mach 3.1 on maglev is also a ballistic weapon platform with twice the velocity of anything a smokeless powder will do, see your .50 cal 49 gram hornady at 1,750 mph and raise you 100 tonnes of 144.00 cal train doing 2,400 mph… I don’t even want to think about the muzzle energy… 20 bullets in a kilo so 20,000 in a tonne so 2,000,000 in a hundred tonne train, so 18 kilojoules for the 50 cal and 50+ giga joules for the train.

Some cunt in Oklahoma will still try to make a handgun to fire it… lol

But if you needed any other metric to note that tesla was doomed, you only have to read about the workers complaining about conditions and pay in the factories, it should be robots from one end to the other.

If Musk or *anyone* else at Tesla was a real engineer then one of the first things they would have built in would be “follow my leader” and DGPS parking and retrieval and movement, just assemble the battery frame wheels drivetrain and a basic electronic package and the cars become their own production line, within the confines of a production facility, or a tesla sales room, or an owners property and garage, amazon robots should NOT blow away tesla cars for basic functionality.

The thing is amazon robots are built from the ground up to be an amazon robot, tesla cars started out as a concept with a chevy / ford IC car design in which they started crossing out all the things they didn’t like, and designing electric alternatives to fill the blanks, and then added an autopilot on top of that.

There is NOTHING in the tesla autopilot that you could not retrofit quite cheaply to any modern IC engined auto trans fly by wire vehicle, which is many of them.

The fact is they don’t, and they don’t because 95% of the sensors and patents are owned by Bosch.

Nobody buys a Bosch car, they buy a merc or a beemer or a volvo, but most of what makes the car work nowadays hidden away behind panels is Bosch or someone very similar.

Basically Bosch and Yamaha are your two real practical buy it today choices if you want to buy in electric motors for your bicycle factory, to make yourself an e-bicycle factory, and that shit just works out of the box.

CANbus yeah man no problem built in standard protocols, want a bunch of sensors that just plug in too? No problem man, so now you can go out and convert your bicycle factory to a e-bike with ABS factory.

Now here is the thing, one thing the proponents of EV’s all agree on, 95% of 95% of people’s journeys are 20 miles or less, so EV’s are fucking great, let’s go hug a fucking tree.

Well any argument that you can make FOR the EV, be it a tesla or a Nissan leaf, the e-bike wins hands down and blows you out of the water….  but but but I have me and three passengers… no matter, FOUR fucking e-bikes still blows you out of the water.

I actually *can* see myself buying or building (thanks bosch / yamaha etc) an ebike for myself in my future, so 30 mph and 250 watts is the current legal limit, age 14 or over, no licensing or limitations, me I don’t give a fuck, I have a 1700 cc harley so I can just go out and buy a proper electric scooter or motorcycle, say from yamaha or bultaco or many other well known brands or even a zero… the 2 wheeled tesla equivalent in terms of features and range and price point….. but being honest 30 mph and 250 watts is good enough, especially for an engineer than can make it 35 mph and 500 watts cos no fucker is going to know esp with the hidden feature / bluetooth/RF fob in pocket to enable full power, all my local in city journeys are 4 miles each way or less, most of the roads are 20 mph limit, some are 30… one bit of one is 40 but you can only do that at 2am, rest of the time there is traffic.

30 mph is a mile every 2 minutes, so a specific 4 mile journey is 8 minutes, in a car at 2 am it’s ten minutes, in a motorcycle it’s 6 or 7 minutes, in traffic an electric bicycle would be 10 minutes tops… in a car its 35, even a tesla or leaf, on a bike 15…

Course, maybe Musk doesn’t like the fact that Bosch call their level 3 connected car project Skynet (no.. seriously… and idiots tell me ze germans, zey heff no sense of humour…. germans have *great* senses of humour, it’s just different, and it seems to me as an auslander to lean heavily on satire rather than word play) So I dunno, maybe Musk read about that and did some bad mushrooms and then played a little wolfenstien, but he’s still a fucking tool…. and in future tesla will be remembered as well and as fondly as the MSX 16 bit computers and windows 1.1.

Gerald Ratner.

“our products are crap”

This is musk’s ratner moment.