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THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 15
Re: THE Electric Vehicle (EV) Thread pt 15
by theluckycountry » Mon 21 Oct 2024, 15:41:09
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mousepad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', ' ')to the defense of Elon,
I stand in awe of Elon's achievement. Flying a rocket into space, building a car company? Stuff like that I can only achieve in video games.
So you're a gamer, a yungen? Well that explains your ignorance. Rockets have been flying into space since the 1950's, and people have been building car companies for 100 years. Actually musk didn't built that company, he simply bought into it and then drove out the men that had the brains to invent the concept. Like I say, he's a huckster, a confidence man, but you're not alone in worshiping him, people talk about the rich as greedy pigs for the most part but in reality they just want to be rich too, so they look up to them. Space-X wouldn't even exist if the NASA contracts hadn't been handed to him on a silver platter.
Educate youself:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')esla Motors was founded as an electric carmaker by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003. Elon Musk, co-founder of Paypal, was an early investor in Tesla and board member, before taking over
How Elon Musk took over Tesla using money, strong-arm tactics, and his own popularity https://www.theverge.com/23815634/tesla ... the-giants
NASA money.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n 2004, SpaceX protested against NASA to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) because of a sole-source contract awarded to Kistler Aerospace. Before the GAO could respond, NASA withdrew the contract, and formed the COTS program. In 2005, SpaceX announced plans to pursue a human-rated commercial space program through the end of the decade, a program that would later become the Dragon spacecraft. In 2006, the company was selected by NASA and awarded $396 million to provide crew and cargo resupply demonstration contracts to the International Space Station (ISS) under the COTS program.
The first two Falcon 1 launches were purchased by the United States Department of Defense under the DARPA Falcon Project which evaluated new US launch vehicles suitable for use in hypersonic missile delivery for Prompt Global Strike. The first three launches of the rocket, between 2006 and 2008, all resulted in failures, which almost ended the company. Financing for Tesla Motors had failed, as well, and consequently Tesla, SolarCity, and Musk personally were all nearly bankrupt at the same time. Musk was reportedly "waking from nightmares, screaming and in physical pain" because of the stress.
The financial situation started to turn around with the first successful launch achieved on the fourth attempt on 28 September 2008. Musk split his remaining $30 million between SpaceX and Tesla, and NASA awarded the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract awarding $1.6 billion to SpaceX in December, thus financially saving the company.
Was he lucky? Or did TPTB make a deal with him, bailing him out with the promise of unlimited future funding as long as he toed the line. What line is that you ask? Access to all data for starters, everything that's uploaded from his vehicles and everything that comes down from his satellites. Don't forget, the future is based on control of information and Governments with their agencies, like the NSA, want eyes on everyone and everything. A similar 'Hero' was created in the form of Bill Gates. A man whose company controlled access to most of the personal and corporate computers on the planet.
I know, it's far fetched, but you'll understand when the digital currency takes over and every aspect of your lives is under the microscope. When non compliance is swiftly punished by a withdrawal of services.
We're 17 years past the peak now and the 3rd World is going hungry and dark. We'll be next, we're well on the way in fact.
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Then they rebuilt just the wheel part...it only took another 3 years. Was probably done by contractors that hired some Americans or Japanese who understand engineering to do it for them.
