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2 sats \ 10 replies \ @DesertDave 30 Oct \ parent \ on: What makes Elon Musk so effective? I'm more interested in why. builders
What do you think are his most important contributions to mankind?
I'm not a big Elon guy. There's a chance some of his space or solar technologies end up making a very large difference for humanity, but my knowledge of those things is fairly shallow.
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To me this is completely insane. The only reason we do not have peace here on earth is humans that are hurting each other. It's perfect here. Why would we take our problems to a dead red planet? It doesn't make any sense. To think we could thrive there better than here is completely counterintuitive. But most people have no intuition left. Maybe he is right. Maybe we need to go to Mars. But I really think it's about hype and stock price go up. Elon delivers on some things but most he doesn't. He makes big bold claims and falls short consistently. Maybe he's a visionary. I think it's all an act. And he is part of a bigger machine that is quite anti human. I would love to be wrong by the way. Again, I used to be a big fan of his.
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I wasn't referencing colonizing Mars. I also think that's pointless.
What is in space, though, that's extremely valuable to humanity, are mineral rich asteroids. These have the potential to radically reduce our scarcity of precious metals, which will make mining on Earth unnecessary/uneconomical and drive down the costs of new technology.
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Do you think the moon landing was real? I believe that space exploration is a psyop. A complete myth. A fools errand. A distraction. Am I right? No idea. That's just what my gut tells me which isn't worth much to anyone other than me.
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I do think the Moon Landing was real. They left reflectors up there that you can independently verify (if you have a powerful enough laser). We measured a reflection off the Moon when I was in undergrad and that only works because of those reflectors. Otherwise, the beam would be to randomly dispersed by the uneven terrain to return a coherent signal.
Where I do buy into some of the conspiracy stuff, is that the documentation of the Moon Landing does seem very sketchy and likely fake.
My personal theory is that the Moon Landing happened but the technology to record and photograph it didn't exist, so they faked that part for PR reasons.
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Maybe. Solid theory. Remember not to trust but Verify. I don't have a big laser. So I go by what my intuition tells me. It didn't happen. There is a ton of information that would support my feeling. But there is always plenty of information to back up whatever our bias guides us to. The best I can do is meditate more and know myself better so I can make a better assessment of what I observe.
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I also think in terms of Occam's Razor. Fabricating the entire Moon Landing and subsequent Apollo and Space Shuttle missions would require so many more people being in on it, than just fabricating the evidence.
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Maybe it's just fabricated evidence? I don't know how they might pull that off if it is in fact faked.