elon musk's thai cave submarine is... absurd. it doesn't make any goddamn sensepic.twitter.com/ntZo2Tghv1
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naturally every publication in the world has written about it. the system workspic.twitter.com/DL3mD3cMVj
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elon musk here with a video of my new funvention: the CaveDildo 2.0. it's a wide, long, heavy, motionless metal tube with attached straps that can conveniently double as a coffin
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I can't decide if this is a case of nobody-tells-the-obvious-truths-to-a-billionnaire or clever-as-a-fox publicity scheme exploiting extreme media gullibility. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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It has been 100% the former so far...
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Dunno. I don't mind the impulse to help or to innovate at all, but the widespread gullible media coverage does make me wonder if the face-value stupidity to any domain expert is actually not as obvious? And nobody around rich people voices these things? Or, look, free publicity?
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i have no idea of course but i suspect it's totally without guile. the media is letting him be Dr. Quest — he gets a rapturous reception for whatever he proposes, like the hyperloop, and it must be an enormous ego boost
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Seriously every billionaire needs a truth-teller or two—not sure if they’d listen, but it would at least save the ones who’d like to not come across this badly. (Then again press coverage was inexplicably fawning or just reprinted PR releases with zero critical analysis).
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I’m not now embedded in cave diving but have enough cave and diving experience (separately!) to immediately see the face-value stupidity. From what I can tell, the cave expert community responded with fear—that a star-struck govt official would let him try and likely kill people.
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i haven't caved in years but the thought of lugging that man-sized torpedo through even a mildly challenging environment makes my head hurt
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And we’ve already had an out-of-gas death—he was hauling a tank. May well have miscalculated the extra exertion. Had buddy—solid professional divers but not cavers. Alas. Also, there may well be room for rescue apparatus innovation. If one is serious, quiet is the way to go imo.
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i'm so mad about how much attention this craven stunt has garnered from the credulous mass media
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It's horrid. Of course his stupid tunnel shit in Chicago will never happen either. Dude can't even make his cars.
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it's amazing and totally predictable
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Wow he's right the media are so unfair to him
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Definitely. Offering his time, money, and resources to save children in a foreign country. Can't think of a greater evil. Thanks for having the guts to call him out on twitter. You are the real hero!
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