Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue
by dayaz36 on Saturday July 07, 2018 @12:04AM
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Why do people assume everything Elon does is a marketing/PR ploy? People said the same thing when Elon put his car in space. Pretty pessimistic view of humanity imo if you think people can't do something out of moral conscience. Not sure what Tesla has to do with saving Taiwanese out of a cave and boring company wont be operational for years.
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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue
by KyeRussell on Saturday July 07, 2018 @10:43AM
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You're really fighting against yourself by bringing up the space Tesla—an example with absolutely no humanitarian justification. The choice of a Tesla as a 'test' payload was 100% a marketing exercise and I do not know how anyone could argue otherwise (or if they have). There was no scientific or logistical benefit to using a Tesla, and in the bazar universe where it is, SpaceX's marketing machine spruced it well.