Enough Musk Spam
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You forgot about his hyperloop predictions. And his starship predictions
Yeah, he said (in 2016) that SpaceX would put people on Mars by 2025.
e: and yet, ๐ฅ
Hyperloop was never physically possible
Dumb gullible politicians believed him
Afaik it was some trick to prevent a high speed rail way to be constructed, or something like that
Pretty much, yes. It was a stunt to siphon away money and political will from a high speed interurban rail.
Like John D Rockefeller convincing cities to kill their electric trolly system in favor of gas guzzling busses, which spent the next century belching leaded exhaust fumes into the air, essentially lead poisoning the entire American atmosphere and brain power.
And what? That's it? Not coming back to the idea never again?