Elon makes nerds cool

[dustbinflowers]

So today's Falcon Heavy launch was pretty awesome



https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M

[Dead Kid]

Watching it felt like worshipping a phallus, just like in ancient times. 'Twas under a lot of pressure to perform with 2 million+ people watching live.

I did laugh at The Verge's idea of a small hiccup, but relatively speaking they're not wrong:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980 ... ed-landing

The center core was only able to relight one of the three engines necessary to land, and so it hit the water at 300 miles per hour about 300 feet from the drone ship. As a result, two engines on the drone ship were taken out when it crashed...


It’s a small hiccup in an otherwise successful first flight.

[Red_switch]

Nerds were always cool. Elon is not.

[Rizzo]

Cheap access to space is all well and good but Ol' Musk is a dick - https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/24/elo ... for-tesla/

[dustbinflowers]

That's disappointing.

[Dead Kid]

Nerds were always cool.

If they were, the nerd would get a girl at the end of The Breakfast Club. Or maybe it's just a crappy movie.

[Red_switch]

The breakfast club is a great movie, but remember, it is pitched as self-redemption for the non-nerds.

[Nurgin Churgleburger]

[yossarian]

I'll take "things that aged poorly" for $400 please Alex

[Nurgin Churgleburger]

[yossarian]

Images that are so embarrassing they can kill

[Dead Kid]

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellne ... cle-724555

Aspartame, a sweetener used in thousands of products, produced anxiety-like behavior that can even pass on to further generations.

[Red_switch]

I'll take "things that aged poorly" for $400 please Alex

Can we get a like button on here?

[Nurgin Churgleburger]

[Dead Kid]

Elon on the path to being the next Henry Ford in the worst way:

Henry Ford, Elon Musk, and the Dark Path to Extremism

After he had accumulated massive wealth and achieved global fame, Ford allowed bigotry and paranoia to dominate his life. Deeply anti-union, he created a network of company spies who surveilled his employees and tried to control their lives. He also bought a newspaper that disseminated lies and antisemitic conspiracy theories. He followed that up by publishing a series of antisemitic books that were influential among Nazis and other European fascists between the First and Second World Wars.

[9seconds]

i really dont understand this, why would a billionaire dress in cheap cosplay armour from aliexpress?

[Dead Kid]

A current headline on the Herald reads: Elon Musk's Starlink internet proves value in cyclone-struck regions. Cyclone-related article behind a paywall... no complaints about not reading more on Elon I guess.