Re:A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys ...
by Itaxpica on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:32AM
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People’s issue isn’t with Musk trying to help, it’s Musk trying to help as a thinly-veiled publicity stunt. If Elon Musk has reached out quietly to the Thai government and asked what he could do with his resources and connections to help, THAT would have been using his resources for good. Throwing a bunch of your money at a cool-sounding but absolutely useless project that nobody asked for while making a lot of noise on Twitter about how helpful you are is pure self-aggrandizement, and that’s what people are reacting to.
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Re:A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys ...
by jonhendry18 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:57PM
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"absolutely useless project that nobody asked for"
The rescue effort started earlier than expected, so there wasn't time to iterate on the design. There's plenty to criticize Musk for but it's dumb to comment if you don't know the sequence of events.
Re:A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys ...
by thisacctforreal on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:45PM
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Please limit the amount of duplicate comments.
Re:A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys ...
by compcoffee on Saturday July 14, 2018 @05:24PM
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One of the rescuers said it wouldn't have got 50 ft and that Musk had no clue what it was like in the cave. Pure PR, just like a bunch of us said in many threads about his submarine heroics on this site.
Sorry you couldn't see through it.
Re:A rescue diver on what it was like to save the Thai boys ...
by jeksus on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:25PM
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He is Musk. He is under the media radar. It's kind difficult for him to do thing quietly.
Also, he initially didn't want to help
>I suspect that the Thai govt has this under control, but I’m happy to help if there is a way to do so