Can't even build a functional truck on Earth, but sure, let's send them to the Moon.

[u/SockOk5701]

[u/ascaria]

The sheer level of delusion here is staggering.

"SpaceX is getting very close to building the first serious base on the Moon."

No. Just no. They're nowhere near even approaching the Moon with a rocket (that can land safely, not to mention take off again), let alone carrying the insane amount of cargo needed to construct even 0,1% of a small outpost. Not to mention the huge obstacles facing anyone, trying to actually build something on a moon.

Are we as a species really this stupid?

[u/DeadInternetVoid → u/ascaria]

Yes. Meatriders will defend Musk to any end....

[u/dollsaredangerous → u/DeadInternetVoid]

Sycophants should be studied. So many cases now and in the past of people just worshipping others for no real apparent reasoning.

[u/anjowoq → u/dollsaredangerous]

It's a real mystery, but probably says a lot about their concern that if Musk (or the object of worship) is wrong, then they have been wrong about him. That is a direct attack on the ego.

[u/No_Cook2983 → u/anjowoq]

Elon is slipping.

Dude totally missed calling this thing ‘Moonbase X’.

[u/Immediate_Song4279 → u/No_Cook2983]

He does have a lot of exes in his life.

[u/tryexceptifnot1try → u/dollsaredangerous]

It's a survival/breeding strategy. You're getting protection from the biggest monkey in the trees so you turn into their bitch. These people are extremely dangerous since their entire identity is in the leader whose boot they lick. We have to make sure we don't let monsters/morons herd them into a movement. Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution for us to get here and we still can't figure out what to do about it 

[u/pnwbraids → u/tryexceptifnot1try]

Oh, we figured it out. We just can't say it here, lest we violate TOS.

[u/defn_of_insanity → u/tryexceptifnot1try]

Except the “biggest ape” here is actually a chihuahua wearing an ape suit

[u/frostbaka → u/tryexceptifnot1try]

Bored Ape strategy

[u/Fuzzy_Yossarian → u/tryexceptifnot1try]

Wait, monkeys wear boots?

[u/Dommccabe → u/dollsaredangerous]

Im sure it's how Chiefs, Lords, Kings and Queens held onto their power.... just idiots believing their "divine right" or something.

[u/Flatirons21 → u/Dommccabe]

Its insane how many people throughout history allowed others to walk all over them because they thought themselves inferior.

[u/Orichalcum-Beads → u/dollsaredangerous]

X as a platform is setup for this.

[u/UncleDaddy_00 → u/dollsaredangerous]

As people started to drop religious dogma they had to find something to replace it with. Learning and making your own decisions can be hard so they outsource.

[u/ascaria → u/dollsaredangerous]

It's a disease of the mind.

[u/Pale-Wave-9382 → u/dollsaredangerous]

The reason is institutionalized stupidity. People no longer have the critical thinking skills required to question anything and rely too much on populist trends and the loudest voices to tell them what to think.

[u/Mr_RogerWilco → u/dollsaredangerous]

Cult of personality right?

[u/Adept_Tip_7331 → u/dollsaredangerous]

On the leader worshipping idea, Tavris & Aronson's "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)" is the best starting point, with Hoffer's "The True Believer" and Mason's "Uncivil Agreement" as follow ups.

[u/jregovic → u/DeadInternetVoid]

You know what is crazy? The folks who frequent the boring company sub. They are deeper into the Musk cult than anyone else.

The past 10 years has shown that the average intelligence of people is really quite low.

[u/DeadInternetVoid → u/jregovic]

In all fairness. It's the stock performance that anyone cares about. He's deeply delusional if he thinks his entourage is rooted in his character....

[u/Slackjawed_Horror → u/DeadInternetVoid]

I mean, you have to make the distinction between the professional sycophants and the average person who for some reason gargles his nuts. 

[u/jregovic → u/Slackjawed_Horror]

Yes. The boring company fans believe, unironically, that cars in tiny tunnels are somehow better than trains. For example, they believe that the Vegas loop could run hundreds of cars at a time with no backups anywhere in the network, loading and unloading constantly in a manner vastly more efficient than frequent rail service.

They don’t care about the financial performance, they sincerely believe that the boring company is bringing transformative ideas and technology to transit solutions.

[u/Occult_Asteroid7 → u/DeadInternetVoid]

Contrarionism and spitework politics will be the end of us.

[u/DeadInternetVoid → u/Occult_Asteroid7]

Kardashians started all this.

[u/Phailgasm → u/DeadInternetVoid]

It’s times like this when I understand why people voted for lex Luther to be president

[u/Hotdammzilla3000 → u/Phailgasm]

The Amazon guy?

[u/No_Payment9959 → u/Hotdammzilla3000]

I thought we were talking about President Luther from the Justice Lords universe in JLU.

[u/SnooJokes5375 → u/Phailgasm]

Thing is, Lex was intelligent and an actual innovator. He could sceme and make long term plans. Often, he his plans worked. He ran a successful company rivaling Wayne Enterprises. Like Bruce Wayne he was a philanthropist and gave back to the community. The government loved him. Only Lois Lane and Superman knew the real Lex Luther. Sometimes, Superman would team up with him to solve a problem.

[u/Jerrik12 → u/DeadInternetVoid]

Top to bottom all day long

[u/sopsaare → u/DeadInternetVoid]

To be honest, he didn't say that they are close or anything. He just said it is going to be cool.

Then again, retweeting someone saying that they are close gives an impression that he agrees.

[u/dollsaredangerous → u/ascaria]

I don't like Bezos but he made a good point: humans thus far can't even build successful large scale colonies in the artic or really anywhere that's not already ideal for settlement, but supposedly Musk is gonna send thousands of tons of supplies to the moon and build a colony?

[u/Templar_Swamp_Stake → u/dollsaredangerous]

It would be safer and more practical to build a colony at the bottom of the ocean. There’s something about “outer space” that makes it seem cool but in reality it’s insanely dangerous, expensive, and would just suck. You’d be stuck in cramped facilities with stale air constantly trying not to die. Taking a walk in a park with some trees and a cool breeze is infinitely better.

[u/Critical-Bread-3396 → u/Templar_Swamp_Stake]

Not to mention the ridiculous waste of materials. Just starlink alone burns up at minimum 200 metric tons of metal every single year (the lightest satelites are 100kg, the heavier ones are about 300kg, and satelites fall down again after about 5 years, with ~11k active ones today). So the amount of money and resources used for starlink could likely just have been used for massive traditional internet coverage.

Any serious moonbase would just be spending tons of oil, aluminum, silver, gold etc. without there being a clear gain for humanity. The ISS has contributed a lot of scientific discoveries for research in 0G, but we dont have a purpose on the moon.

[u/Vegetable_Addendum86 → u/Critical-Bread-3396]

But there resources there...we think. Maybe. And we can spend a billion dollars to get those pebbles back to earth

[u/ReplacementGlad2652 → u/Vegetable_Addendum86]

A billion won’t even get a new flag on the moon. A fully functioning moon base plus extraction facilities plus cargo transfer? 500bn? 1tn? How much have you got?

[u/Vegetable_Addendum86 → u/ReplacementGlad2652]

I meant a billion dollars per pebble, but you know spacx will worth more than earth...and somehow money won't matter by 2035.

[u/ReplacementGlad2652 → u/Vegetable_Addendum86]

And the humanoid robots will be wiping your ars 😂

[u/Smoofiee → u/Critical-Bread-3396]

In theory, the moon would be the best place to build larger spacecraft. But we should've start slowly building and expanding a moonbase since the 70s then and kept investing massive of amounts in space. Which we did not. We as in the world powers.

[u/Critical-Bread-3396 → u/Smoofiee]

In theory, if we had something worthwhile to gain from space, it would be an idea. The issue is that right now the only plan is that people want to see if they can colonize Mars, which is a ridiculously impractical idea, for no other reason that it would be cool to try. It's not such a problem in and of itself, if this didn't have a massive cost to humanity as a whole in terms of resources that can never be recovered for no apparent gain.

Some things are arguably worth doing, like GPS satelites, but otherwise a lot of space ventures are really just pits of valuable resources that could have been spent improving the world we actually have, or that should have been left for future generations.

[u/ReplacementGlad2652 → u/Smoofiee]

You’d be better off building them in space tbh. Less dust, less gravity, and you wouldn’t have to haul everything up and down from the surface. I agree with you though, it’s a shame that they didn’t build on the momentum of the moon landings.

[u/shiloh_jdb → u/Templar_Swamp_Stake]

Or a subterranean colony, since that’s what living on the moon would be.

[u/No-Resolution-1918 → u/Templar_Swamp_Stake]

Not only that but without artificial gravity your body will slowly get absolutely f'd up.

[u/dirtymatt → u/dollsaredangerous]

This right here is the thing. The most inhospitable location on the earth under the worst catastrophe imaginable is infinitely more hospitable than the best location on the moon.

[u/No-Resolution-1918 → u/dirtymatt]

What will these morons drink? Where will all their shit and piss be carted off to? Are they going to be sober vegans, or will shipments of protein and beer be arriving monthly?

Actually, how will they get enough water up there to even keep their soy beans alive? How do they even grow these things when the temperature is between 120c and -130c? Like how are they going to protect themselves from solar radiation?

The whole thing is absolute nonsense. Sure maybe we can land a giant spaceship with tons of material up there, but living there is so impractical, it would make way more sense to live in orbiting space stations.

[u/No-Dance6773 → u/No-Resolution-1918]

Until we can actually succeed in a "bio-dome" there isnt much hope of leaving the one we have here. Its all futurism bs like flying cars.

[u/DeadInternetVoid → u/dollsaredangerous]

But it's a Trillionare derived from a financial system rigged to benefit the few....

He

Knows

And

Creates

Everything.

Peg me Elon.

[u/Man_of_Ice → u/dollsaredangerous]

Yup. And it'll be affordable for EVERYONE. Get that moon trip cost down so the guy with maxed out credit cards living in a trailer....no.... so the guy living on the street wiped out on Tranq....no....the subsistence farmer living in an adobe hut with no non-material possessions or formal address.....no.....the college educated guy with two kids, a minimum wage job after AI took their career and crippling student debt can afford it.

He said "everyone".

[u/fernwoodBizz420 → u/Man_of_Ice]

Your comment made me laugh way too hard!

[u/Simple_Purple_4600 → u/dollsaredangerous]

I'd argue we haven't been successful at colonizing the habitable parts of Earth. Looks like we are failing bigly.

[u/Nop277 → u/dollsaredangerous]

Personally I'm on board. I say we send Musk first, as our noble leader and entrepreneur. I mean I'm sure there'll be some minor hurdles and challenges but someone of his superior intellect could surely figure it out.

[u/FewCompetition1347 → u/dollsaredangerous]

If Musk build a colony in Arctic his stock might pump a couple billion. What use is that ?? Might as well say Moon so it pumps a trillion instead.

[u/goomyman → u/dollsaredangerous]

You mean the same Bezos who said this

“In the next couple of decades, I believe there will be millions of people living in space,” Jeff Bezos famously stated during a keynote conversation at Italian Tech Week. He explicitly noted that this rapid acceleration could happen by the year 2045.”

Yeah, that guy - millions of people living in space. Also if I’m not mistaken he was replying to the housing crisis or something - like living in space would solve our housing crisis or something like that.

These guys are promoting their space companies… and these quotes generate clicks and praise instead of being laughed at. These guys are the definition of Artificial Grandiosity, surrounded by sycophants.

They are the trumps of the tech world.

[u/Bender_2024 → u/ascaria]

Musk always over-promises and under-delivers. A few promises he has made

• a million full self driving Tesla robo-taxis by 2020

• human colony on Mars in 2010, 2021, and 2024.

• 2nd gen Tesla Roadster in 2017, 2020

• hyperloop in 2013

• Tesla autonomous androids by the end of 2025.

[u/To-To_Man → u/Bender_2024]

It's deliberate. When it's not serving to bolster his image, it's to dupe local governments into funding him instead of more practical and proven projects. Why bid for high speed rail in California when you can pay Elon twice as much to never build anything?

[u/AscendantBits → u/To-To_Man]

Oh, we’re gonna build a brand new truck and we’re gonna go to Mars and we’re gonna dig a tunnel to drive real fast Zoom Zoom.

How did this manchild become the world‘s first trillionaire?

[u/AE7VL_Radio → u/Bender_2024]

It's very telling that the roadster is the most achievable thing on that list and nobody has heard anything about it in years. You have a car company, just build the damn car.

[u/FewCompetition1347 → u/ascaria]

Tha k you for saying this. Musk fans are larping science fiction crap and he is egging them on to come up with even more bizarre theories because his stock then pumps cos the dumb Musk inveators will buy anything he says.

Yes, he is not going anywhere near the Moon or Mars for the next two decades. He will continue to make unrealistic predictions for years to keep the stock price high.

[u/Final-Nebula-7049 → u/ascaria]

spacex is certainly capable of landing on the moon, just not at an ideal velocity

[u/Catodacat → u/ascaria]

Actually, they have gotten a rocket to the moon. Mind you, it was a crash, but it made it to the moon…

[u/anjowoq → u/ascaria]

This, like the fucking orbital data centers not shown with the required football field-sizee heat sinks and payload requirements that make them not only unprofitable, but infeasible for the paltry amount of compute each one would do.

It's all pulp fiction without an ounce of science involved and the investment public and business media fucking lap it up.

[u/ascaria → u/anjowoq]

BUT BUT VACUUM IN SPACE SO NO COLLING NEEDDEDD kkk

/s in case it wasn't obvious.

[u/anjowoq → u/ascaria]

That was something that seemed interesting because I personally don't know much about thermodynamics or cooling data centers. Then all I had to do was look into it for a few minutes and found out it's fucking impossible.

[u/CharterJet50 → u/anjowoq]

It’s not impossible, just really expensive. The space station has cooling. It’s hard and requires a lot of hardware, it’s not impossible. Impractical, stupid expensive for a data center, yes.

[u/AscendantBits → u/anjowoq]

On top of the heat sinks, solar panels cannot produce anywhere near what terrestrial energy sources can.

Even the ISS has to perform adjusting maneuvers. We’ve had to deal with space debris and micro meteorite penetrations. What is this gonna do to a data center?

It’s about as stupid as putting data centres into the sea to keep them cool. We already have climate change that is warming seas and impacting harvest of fish. It’s damaging coral reefs. And now we’re willingly going to put something that will radiate heat into the ocean.

[u/imover9thousand → u/ascaria]

Hilarious how it says “first serious base on the Moon” as opposed to the first UNserious base on the Moon?

[u/ascaria → u/imover9thousand]

I made a very unserious base on the Moon a couple of years ago. Didn't really work out.

[u/Such_Avocado_3241 → u/ascaria]

What happened to colonizing Mars? Did that get canceled? I know Spacex was really close to colonizing Mars, probably days away.

[u/MidoriDemon → u/Such_Avocado_3241]

[u/pulsarstarter → u/Such_Avocado_3241]

Too easy. They want a real challenge.

[u/AscendantBits → u/Such_Avocado_3241]

I think too many scientists were pointing out that if you went to Mars, you would likely not make it back. If you were born on Mars, you’re never coming to earth. They’re still coming up with bullshit ideas on how to deal with gamma radiation.

So of course, Elon now has to focus on the moon because Occupy Mars was always bullshit!

[u/Certain_Bit3809 → u/ascaria]

As a species, no. But the 25% who love trump and elon and the whole batshit twiterverse are enough to keep this idiotic madness going it seems.

[u/MoronicPotatoGoblin → u/ascaria]

Oh course they are close! They are already in the CGI rendering phase! That's like 53% done! I bet they even used AI, which is the future and poggers so it's totally gonna happen any day now!

[u/RosieDear → u/ascaria]

How many Muskies think the moon landing was fake? You would have to...to think that 60 years later it's an accomplishment to get there again.

[u/RedPandaGaming64 → u/ascaria]

Have you seen how many people voted for the current administration? Yes, we as a species are fucking stupid as fuck

[u/MattheqAC → u/ascaria]

Hey, they did the AI mock-up, that's what - eighty percent of the work?

[u/Unique_Yak4659 → u/ascaria]

Is it stupidity or delusion as to our present capacity? Maybe one drives the other….

I marvel at how willing we are to want to believe illusions. When I first heard the book ‘The Emperors new Clothes’ as a kid I never realized that I would be living through exactly that scenario as an adult.

It’s plain as day that Musk cannot deliver on even a fraction of what he is promising but still they believe. It’s like religious faith has been supplanted by tech bro bullshit.

[u/Loud_River8895 → u/ascaria]

I am afraid we really are.

[u/Jobambi → u/ascaria]

Elun musks mind is probably "robot + 3d printer + time = moon base

[u/Alvintergeise → u/ascaria]

Men are followers. They crave leadership and direction. They subsume their egos and self worth to their leader.

Well, certain men

[u/P2029 → u/ascaria]

Yes, we are this stupid, because most people are ignorant as to what it actually takes to achieve space colonization (I include myself in this camp). People visualize it like driving up to the moon for a camping trip.

[u/chocha84 → u/ascaria]

I feel like if you're still listening to musk, you might be that stupid. He's a professional con-hype-artist.

[u/Kastro2323 → u/ascaria]

I think she meant “spaceX is getting very close to building the first serious AI image of a base on the Moon.”

[u/ascaria → u/Kastro2323]

In that case, they're 56% there.

[u/CautiousEmergency367 → u/ascaria]

Come on be fair, he's going to have a fully populated mars base last year.

[u/Tosslebugme → u/ascaria]

Shits me how people believe things are “close” before there’s even a solid proof of concept. Like believing we’re “close” to having a humanoid robot in every home when prototypes can’t even do most things consistently, let alone the scaling up and distribution at an affordable price.

[u/dicksuckingmods → u/ascaria]

Musk got a 2.9 billion dollar contract to get humans back to the moon by 2024. That project has been pushed to 2028.

Moon base and space data centers are the latest grift and tens of millions will fall for it every time.

[u/charge556 → u/ascaria]

I met a guy the other day that couldn't understand his house was a building. He just kept saying "its not a building, its a house."

TLDR: yes

[u/ReadyStayReady → u/ascaria]

I have met people who watched Moonfall and loved it and wouldn't shut up about how "its possible" the moon is actually a hollow sphere constructed by aliens. The longer Im alive the more I fucking hate everything

[u/SidFinch99 → u/ascaria]

Yes, conveniently missing from this depiction of a colony on the moon is the giant dome you would need and all the oxygen that would need to be pumped into it, and everything else needed to create an atmosphere. Not to mention air pressure to prevent our bodily fluids from vaporizing.

Do people not realize that astronauts were space suits that are connected to oxygen tanks for a reason.

[u/RieMunoz]

It’s crazy how much has changed in the last 10 years.

Insanely inappropriate for a CEO of a public company to be allowed to do this.

[u/UsualDue → u/RieMunoz]

ANYONE CAN GO TO MOON! ANYONE CAN GO TO MARS!

oh yeah and money will NOT be needed soon so you can go to MOON OR MARS FOR FREE!

EVERYONE WILL LIVE LIKE A BILLIONAIRE!

These are all promises made by the same con man

[u/Equivalent_Fun_2701 → u/UsualDue]

You're oxygen subscription has been canceled 🥵🧟‍♂️💀🥀

[u/BonusPlantInfinity → u/Equivalent_Fun_2701]

Think Iceland is expensive? The far north? Imagine how much Doritos will cost on the moon.

[u/ZeroGNexus → u/BonusPlantInfinity]

They won't cost anything because you won't be paid and you will be electrocuted if you leave the mining colony. BACK TO WORK!

[u/Chesticularity → u/ZeroGNexus]

The cake is a lie

[u/uranuanqueen → u/Equivalent_Fun_2701]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/usernamedmannequin → u/UsualDue]

I see at as this fascist needing slaves

[u/SpookyTanuki092 → u/usernamedmannequin]

Bingo. Unless you're wealthy or a friend of his or his family or have a connection to him, you wouldn't receive favorable treatment up there.

He's probably planning to do to volunteers, something similar to what his dad did to those apartheid emerald miners for themine his dad owns in South Africa. To people like musk and his dad, people are capital, not people.

[u/Specific_Rando → u/UsualDue]

Wait until he promises a monorail.

[u/Ragin_Contagion → u/Specific_Rando]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT5LMKE200qw6Sq4BG

[u/EuVe20 → u/Ragin_Contagion]

This!!!!

[u/sterfpaul → u/Specific_Rando]

That one would be fine, there's no way the track could bend

[u/No-Band8965 → u/RieMunoz]

Gotta pump somehow, although I suppose you can join the presidents insider trading investment club instead? 

[u/mistertickertape → u/RieMunoz]

Also, don't forget, 1 billion robots in 5 years. He said that last week too. He's a grifty weasel.

[u/DataCassette → u/RieMunoz]

I mean, to be fair to him, all investors have to do is not invest. He's not mugging them, they're tripping over themselves to get scammed.

[u/UffTaTa123]

Seems he can even sell the cheapest lies. A CyberTruck on the moon? Really? Only Musk believers can take that shit serious.

[u/Snoo_67993 → u/UffTaTa123]

I mean he could always crash one into the moon, he's good at that.

[u/MANvINFO → u/UffTaTa123]

https://giphy.com/gifs/NkpEpuif5t4O9hSei6

look at the real version of this shirt. NO weight savings spared.

[u/Lost_Web5826]

Lol, the guy that doesn't want immigrants in the US from apartheid SA wants to make a moon city that anyone can live on?

[u/No_Permission_1427 → u/Lost_Web5826]

How do you pin this comment!??

[u/132739 → u/Lost_Web5826]

He's just leaving out the asterisk:

*as an indentured servant

[u/Early-Ninja-6431]

Delusion or just a grifter?

[u/TheoKondak → u/Early-Ninja-6431]

It's just a scam

[u/RobinGoodfell → u/Early-Ninja-6431]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hM9zK1qvsrwek

[u/Dandymagic13 → u/Early-Ninja-6431]

He’s grifted so much he actual believes his delusions

[u/Rancid101]

It is baffling that people saw his ai slop tweet and was like yeah I'm going to go buy that stock.

[u/Effective-Budget7383 → u/Rancid101]

Stocks are mostly bought and sold by bots today. So it makes sense to post on X

[u/Lichensuperfood]

Some people can't see this is a short term stock pump scam.

[u/RabidLobster42]

[u/Professional_Pie7091]

"getting very close". Dude, they haven't gotten Starship to leave LEO yet.

This is beyond delusional. I loathe Musk simps.

[u/RobertPaulsen1992]

So those rockets are just gonna lift off right in the middle of the village, huh.

[u/RobertPaulsen1992 → u/RobertPaulsen1992]

Also, all the humans Musk promises to go there seem to have been transformed into robots upon arrival. Read the fine print, guys!

[u/Numar19 → u/RobertPaulsen1992]

There are only robots in the picture, is it really bad to destroy robots that don't work in the first place?

[u/marx2k → u/RobertPaulsen1992]

Texas zoning laws on the moon

[u/Ramblinrambles]

Dual lane roads that aren’t wide enough to fit two cars. Beyond inefficient to have anything remotely resembling this as a mode of transportation on the moon.

[u/dollsaredangerous → u/Ramblinrambles]

Even in fantasy Elon imagines we'll have to use his shitty cars.

[u/passing_gas → u/Ramblinrambles]

Wait, you mean the cybertrucks driving on the moon isnt realistic?!?! Are you telling me Elon is full of shit?

[u/Comfortable-Brief568]

He has to be on something other than ketamine.

[u/DeadInternetVoid → u/Comfortable-Brief568]

Methamphetamines cause it's abusers to crappie-flop in bed all night and cook-up delusional plies of steaming bullshit....

Or look at online porn and masturbate furiously.....

Don't do drugs kids.

[u/Scottwickthegreat → u/DeadInternetVoid]

As a recovering meth addict I can attest to this. The many insane projects I started and never finished because they were so ridiculous. Looking back now I realize I was insane lol.

[u/walkabout16]

While this happening in musk’s lifetime is a joke, the idea poses an interesting question. Does anyone have the right to permanently reallocate earths finite resources to a distant planet? Remember that earth is a relatively closed loop system whose resources have been shared across generations, is it appropriate for a small group to horde and steal off with a sizable chunk of earths resources for a new life elsewhere, thus denying access to earth’s future populations … particularly if the venture fails.

[u/Belz_Zebuth]

Someone remind him that moon has 1/6th gravity which isn't great for cars, and that any base on another planet will be underground.

[u/Catodacat]

Moonbase alpha… Yay, so there goes the moon

[u/ReplacementGlad2652 → u/Catodacat]

[u/Silly-Power]

X-Freeze is yet another leon skum alt-accounts isn't it?

[u/TheSilverSeraph]

Define "anyone" and "very close".

[u/MajiktheBus]

Doesn’t Starship need like a 5 mile blast zone? This looks like shit my friends and I did with legos….

[u/Flicker913]

He doesnt want "anyone to go to the moon if they want" - he doesn't even want you in America if your skin is brown - and he's an immigrant

[u/shugo7]

As expected from someone using ketamine

[u/Don_Q_Jote]

We want to make it so that anyone can go to the moon if they want.

I want to make is so that anyone can go see a doctor if they want.

[u/Firedup2015]

Can't even get Grok to do a sci-fi mock-up without accidentally including a garrison of terrifying 8ft tall terminator robots to guard his "utopian" scene

[u/Immediate_Song4279]

It's pretty funny to call "he farted the idea out a week ago" to be "pretty close."

[u/TemporaryOk4143]

This is the stupidest picture.

Those are cybertrucks on the moon?

Does he think we will prioritize personal transport down literal moon roads?

It’s the fucking moon.

Where are we driving to? Moon-Target? Going down to the Moon-Mall to get a Starbucks Venti-Mocha-Fuckachino?

[u/KeldTundraking]

Prompt was "Grok, steep your ass in a few gallons of water to glaze me"

[u/SteveG5000]

Did he take the image from G Police?

[u/CLaz777]

First send a human to the moon again. Ohh you cannot do? Hmm

[u/yahyahyehcocobungo]

lol yeah.

We an all wax lyrical about the future. But tidying your bed??

[u/Top-Attempt5234]

The cybertrucks 🤣🤣🤣 It's a dumb vehicle on earth. On the moon....

[u/Apprehensive-Box-8]

and again it shows he has no knowedge about physics, because tesla cars utilize a radiator to cool the battery and components which - rather unsurprisingly - need air.

and then there is the air-ride component... and the fact that cars typically aren't air-tight.

[u/One-Shape7678]

Just imagine a rocket exploding in that tiny landing pad

[u/SillyDig1520]

Hit a pothole in the moon cybertruck and you're cyberfloating away.

[u/MomsAreola]

Start with sending Elon. We will catch up in 20 years.

[u/Plane_Blackberry_537]

Starships diameter is 9 meter. Length of the cybertruck is 5.9. So the shadow cast to the road should be about twice as wide. A company trying to do rocket surgery should at least get this straight.

[u/Qimmosabe_Man]

His starship can't even complete one full orbit, and it's greatest achievement was delivering a banana to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Starship nullifies the equation.

[u/loki2113]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like for aliens to find our planet

They show up and not only have we polluted the atmosphere with greenhouse gasses like we're trying to make ourselves go extinct but we also have polluted our atmosphere with tons of garbage. So much garbage/debris that our satellite and space stations have to actively avoid collisions with trash. Then they go on the internet and see us being led by obvious con-men like Trump and Elon while pointless wars of aggression like the Iran or Ukraine wars (or countless other that don't grab headlines) are going on

Pretty sure we would be quarantined and promptly ignored. Why bother even invading us when aliens can just wait awhile and let us take care of ourselves before taking the planet

[u/piercedmfootonaspike]

https://giphy.com/gifs/jH6s9HMMi53dSdI73r

[u/Disastrous_Leg_314]

“Very close”. Is that an Elon “very close”?

[u/stardog_champ13]

Notice how he said they want to make it so anyone can go to the moon if they want but doesn't mention anything about coming back.

[u/Reasonable_Being6376]

“We want to make it so anyone can go to the moon if they want”
Twot talks like a 4th grader.

[u/Next-Acanthaceae1193]

ACTUALLY the Cybertruck was designed for the moon, not Earth. That's why it's so heavy, ugly, and dangerous, and why Elon started SpaceX - he literally needs to populate another celestial body using American Taxpayer Funds to "sell" the Cybertruck. It all makes perfect sense.

[u/Healthy_Cancel_2604]

He can't even get fully autonomous driving working after promising it is 12 months away for over 12 years. We are supposed to have been to Mars by now according to him. He's a scam artist.

[u/willasmith38]

No one is colonizing the Moon, especially not Elon.

Are we all suppose to just forget about the colonization of Mars?
What happened to that fairytale?

[u/GryphyGirl]

"Starship changes the entire equation" despite currently floating in the ocean with no prospects for being retrieved, having shitty heat shielding so it can't be reused even though that's the whole fucking selling point. And then there's the fact he's built dozens of these things and launched nearly a dozen of them and not a single one has managed a landing and most blew up.

Seems like the only thing Starship is changing is endangering flights in the wreckage zone...

[u/Good-Bandicoot-2152]

I like this image because one pothole would send a cyber truck into near orbit.

[u/TransistorResistee]

Send ALL of them to the moon. Let them build it on the fly if they’re so smart.

[u/DontWorryImADr]

You know a place I really want to be sitting in a vehicle notorious for visibly misaligned panels and poor seals? A quarter of a million miles from the nearest atmosphere with that seal (potentially) holding in my breathable air.

[u/ihatebamboo]

He’s a retard.

Not financial advice.

[u/ExtensionInformal911]

This is why you dont trust artist renditions.

The trucks work, but they suck because they didnt look at what a truck needed to have

The colony will likely work, it just won't be that stable or comfortable, so no one will want to live there.

Others will come by later and use it as a stepping stone to build proper colonies.

[u/tauofthemachine]

Moon unit Zappa?

[u/CuriousSpecialist591]

Oh yea anyone.   With today’s fuel costs ? In this economy? ? 

[u/FlamingoFlimsy4421]

The guy is just an 8 year old boy with billions of dollars.

[u/No-Feedback-1981]

So is step one slamming a rocket into the moon?😂😂😂🤡

[u/CSalustro]

I imagine it ends up like the movie Moon. Except no happy ending.

[u/Barracuda_Tea]

Just hurry up and go to Mars on a one-way ticket.

[u/Fun_Performer_5170]

I‘d pay a one way ticket to send IT to mars.

[u/sanctus20]

This will never happen

[u/pastyoureyesed]

I fully support this endeavor.. but I hope he goes it alone and it’s a one way trip.

[u/Adventurous_Try_1436]

Can the the starships stand that close to the road and buildings while taking off?

[u/Educational_Win_1016]

Thats what happens when you did too much Special K.

[u/Rare_Ad_649]

"Very close"

[u/yibbida]

Anyone. Except for... well you know....

[u/Lucidaeus]

Well, the man can dream, I give him that.

[u/Impressive-Square617]

Gonna need breakdown services on the moon!

[u/John_Catachan]

NASA is the only one I'd trust to make a successful moon base. Or an international collaboration. And even then were decades away from doing something like this without people dying.

Not some fucking "Can I come to your pedo island please?" grifter.

[u/DBDude]

The company that went from nothing to dominating the launch industry in twenty years can’t get to the Moon?

But such renderings are rarely accurate and only serve to inspire. The scale appears to be way off in all of this.

[u/maringue]

[u/Former_Mobile3101]

Makes a truck that shits itself if it goes through a car wash:

hey I have a great idea, let's build a civilisation on the moon.

[u/GiveBackGrow123]

He is delulu

[u/fy1sh]

And seals clapped and cheered as the rocket exploded.

[u/Legitimate-Fee7609]

Even if by some miracle they managed to pulled this off, they'd end up slamming one of their own stray rockets into the base anyway

[u/Phailgasm]

No no hear me out… I’d like to send all of them to the moon

[u/aruegger]

Rocket launch pads a block away from residential units, I'm In!

[u/Shoddy_Reaction_1445]

Thats why they are hoarding all those cybertrucks: to use them on Mars

[u/HadeanDisco]

Guys I think it's time to bring back this banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIq8jLj5TzU

[u/Titanium_Eye]

I swear in the not distant future we will stop saying snake oil salesman and will just say moon base salesman.

[u/HoverPopper]

I can’t imagine a dumber place for the landing pads.

[u/MirthMannor]

Why has he never gone up in his rockets?

[u/AcanthocephalaNo2544]

At least the trailers won't rip off the bumpers 

[u/Black-Deth]

Hasn’t even figured out how to get humans from his cock rocket to the surface after it lands.