Elon Musk Claims The New Tesla Roadster Hits 60 MPH In Less Than One Second

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    I just don't think musk is pulling shit out of his ass. He usually comes very close to what he claims

    Battery swaps, snake charger, 600 mile range, autonomous cross country travel, full self driving, tesla solar, NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop, 29 minute rocket flights to London at the price of economy air travel, drive-in roller skate restaraunts at super chargers, a candy company, low cost housing from Boring company byproducts, fixing Flint's water, a cave diving mini-submarine, electric skate pods for Dodger Stadium, One Hour bodyshops, no-replacement brake pads, $250k appreciating robotaxis, jobs on Mars, SpaceX ventilators, underground car tunnel networks with an elevator into your garage...


    He says so much wild shit that a high pressure gas jet system that's going to put out the 2+ million watts per second to get a 2 second car to 1 second, and can jump with a controlled landing that doesn't explode the suspension of a car made by a company with a history of suspension failures, isn't as far fetched as fixing Flint's water, but it's out there.

    I was looking at a lot of archived Ken Carter jumps going back to the 1950s (Pre and post rocket Lincoln). He has never "landed" a jump ever - all his jumps ended in crashes. He made at least two more rocket jumps that were smaller in scale post Superjump - the last one which killed him in 1983 - he overshot the landing ramp by 70 feet high and 100 feet long, landing upside down. Brutal stuff.... hard to watch. He did not survive. He really had no idea what he was doing.


    Sad story... He lost his life savings in the Superjump and was trying to build the hype back up for another Superjump where he could make a bundle and finally retire. On the Superjump - he refused to do the jump in the week of, because he felt the ramp and car weren't ready - so while he was 45 minutes away in Ottawa with his lawyer (his son was a very good friend of mine back in the day) for a presser, the guys at the event site double crossed him and slipped in Kenny Powers to do the jump without Ken's knowledge.

    Another good one is that flat earther guy who built a rocket so he could go high enough to see if the earth was actually round. It didn't end well.


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    Another good one is that flat earther guy who built a rocket so he could go high enough to see if the earth was actually round. It didn't end well.


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    he could have just built a fucking balloon. What an idiot. Just put a camera on a balloon.

    I think most flat earthers know the truth, they just enjoy being part of the flat earth community - the social aspect, and for leaders, something to be in charge of. You know, it's like being a big wheel at the stamp collector club.

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    Another good one is that flat earther guy who built a rocket so he could go high enough to see if the earth was actually round. It didn't end well.


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    Rookie move. You always have got to check your staging in KSP.