Well…I am constantly amazed at what people bitch about these days and how the trolls always try to turn something good into something ugly. This morning, when I got up and checked into twitter to see what was going on, there was a meme developing that was attacking
Elon Musk and SpaceX for launching Elon’s Tesla roadster into space…saying that it was a waste of money, that people are starving and Elon is an ass for launching the car. Now, I have my experience with trolls here on my site that I ignore every day, but I marvel at the ignorance of the commenters on many sites that I read every day….let’s get something straight, this launch was not just to send the car into space for a joke, it was to test a new rocket that will be essential to putting the US back in the lead in space travel and give us the capability to stop using the Russians to get to the ISS, along with the future trips to both the moon and Mars. Scientific progress is made when people support the work that goes into that progress, and to launch a car into space and to livestream it so people can be part of it give us a shared feeling of hope that we are progressing…and SpaceX has been visionary in this work…the last thing: not one dime of tax dollars went into this launch…it was a privately financed scientific experiment that immediately drove us forward…I have this to say to the haters out there…where the hell were your comments when the idiot trump spent $100 million dollars golfing…or when he proposed spending $30 million dollars just to fluff his ego? Until I hear that from you ignorant right wingers out there, just shut the hell up…geez….
Oh, and one last thing to remember…Elon is an immigrant from South Africa who, like millions of other immigrants, has made this country better…and the idiot trump tweeted his support for him Tuesday night…I wonder if that would have happened if he was a black South African? Yeah, we all can guess that one….
Well…even with the country falling apart and turning into a kleptocracy in front of our eyes, there is still some cool stuff happening that can and should make us smile a little, especially if you’re a science geek like I am. On Friday, maybe, there is going to be a live fire test of the 27 rocket motors on the Falcon Heavy, getting it ready for a launch in the next couple of weeks. I liked Elon Musk’s comments from a couple of weeks ago that there is probably a “50% chance” that the thing is going to explode on launch since it is 3 times more complex than the Falcon 9 it is derived from…after all, it is really three Falcon 9′s strapped together…and two of them have been flown before…but, the really cool part is that they are going to try to land all three of the first stage boosters after they separate from the second stage….oh, and the payload? Elon Musk’s personal Tesla roadster that they are going to put into orbit around the sun if everything goes right. Now, I like the whimsical idea of launching a car into orbit where it will stay forever…unless we gain the capability to go out and get it in the next hundred years or so….I will be watching Friday and later in the month for the launch…it takes my mind off the idiot in the WH……
Well…amid the total failure of the idiot trump and his fake companies to restore electrical service to Puerto Rico…5 weeks in and over 70% of the island is still without power…there has been one bright spot that was just reported on today. The San Juan children’s hospital has been hard hit by the hurricane and it’s aftermath, trying to keep the children alive using unreliable generators and the hurculean efforts of it’s staff….enter Elon Musk of Tesla who, a couple of days after the hurricane hit, offered to start the transition of the island to renewable power using his solar panels and batteries…but trump and his minions had no interest since coal and oil are the only things they think about….oh, and trying to make profit off of this disaster….in three weeks, Musk and his team have installed and started an installation that is supplying all of the reliable power that the hospital needs…and saving the lives of the most vulnerable….Now, this is how things should operate in a caring world..but, we live in trumpworld so good luck with that…..impeach…
Well…with over 95% of Puerto Rico still without power after hurricane Maria, and the idiot trump not giving a damn about when or if the power will be restored…I guess trump thinks it was enough to throw paper towels at the people there…here comes Elon Musk proposing he can scale up his solar panel/battery storage systems to power the entire island….as he has done for some other smaller islands across the world. With PR having the oldest, most expensive electrical generating equipment of any US state or territory, why should we just rebuild the old stuff and keep PR paying 3 times as much for electricity? To reward trump’s buddies who are already circling the island like a bunch of vultures? The long term cost would be much lower to modernize the grid there, and it could be decentralized so that even with another hit by a hurricane, the entire island would never be without power again. the only problem here is with the idiot trump, who would never approve anything like that…after all, he can’t profit from it…impeach…
Well…after the head of Uber resigned from the idiot trump’s business advisory committee, the public has started to put pressure on the rest of the collaborators to trump’s fascist regime to get them to resign. The response by Elon Musk has diminished him in my eyes immeasurably….he tried to justify his continued seat on the committee by saying that it is better to work from within…blah, blah, blah….and that trump will listen to him and the rest of the people on the committee…now I’m laughing out loud…have you ever met this idiot Elon? He is no more likely to listen to you than a fricking wall….remember, he has said constantly that he knows more than anyone about everything so why the hell do you think he would listen to you? All your continued collaboration with this racist, fascist regime is doing is giving it an air of normalcy and legitimacy, which it is neither….Elon, you are from South Africa and you saw the damage of businesses going along with the apartheid regime there…the damage done to anyone who was not white, and now you support a regime that wants to create the same type of second class citizens that apartheid created by it’s hatred against the LGBT community and immigrants? Shame on you Elon, you have played right into the propagandists tiny little hands by helping them in any way….