tifosi77's thread of Musk

[Pavel Bure]

The point isn’t that they’ve had X number of successful launches. The point is that it takes 1 failed launch/explosion to irradiate everything for probably hundreds of miles.

Well, yeah. I wasn't saying that trying to launch nuclear waste into space was a good idea. It's a staggering bad idea, both for the risk of failure and for other reasons, such as the fact that nuclear waste is quite dense/heavy, so you would need a massive number of launches (at massive expense) to get rid of it all. The cost would absolutely dwarf the cost of waste reprocessing, for example.

I forget where I read that the majority of nuclear waste is irradiated water. While not dense, it is unusually heavy and would probably be difficult to prepare for the forces a launch into space would require. I don’t think “into the sun” is to be taken literally so much as get it past the massive debris field surrounding earth and let momentum take it away from this planet.

[Kaiser]

In orbit around the sun would be plausible, IF you absolutely must launch it to space. Into the sun would be way more difficult than it's worth.

[NTP66]

[Troy Loney]

lol

https://x.com/katerqburns/status/178733 ... 93339?s=46

[Pavel Bure]

Tesla removed all US job openings. My company contracts with them and the guys said internally that Tesla is literally eliminating whole divisions and dumping the work on people that don’t know what they’re supposed to do.

[nocera]

Don’t worry, Elon about to get his $56 billion pay package.

[shafnutz05]

Tesla removed all US job openings. My company contracts with them and the guys said internally that Tesla is literally eliminating whole divisions and dumping the work on people that don’t know what they’re supposed to do.

Remember all the tax breaks Elon got for creating jobs?