Comments by "Colorme Dubious" (@colormedubious4747) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

  1. Give Musk credit for getting one right: Two years after he said it, there really is NO ONE in his robo-taxis. Bravo!
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  2. About two decades ago, San Antonio increased their available water supply by roughly 25% (iirc) by aggressively finding and patching leaks. More recently, they reduced usage by about 50% by instituting conservation measures. Common sense FTW.
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  3.  @andrewfranklin4429  I've been researching and writing about transportation and transit issues since the 1990s and I can tell you exactly why the LVM went bankrupt: It was due to the concerted effort by taxi and shuttle operators to prevent its connection to the airport. I assure you that those Loop capacity projections are complete nonsensical fiction. You're comparing systems that actually EXIST with a lovely graphical rendering created at the behest of an investor who has NEVER built one linear foot of a public transit system -- HE SELLS CARS. Grow up, child. If you are actually interested in learning something about REAL transit solutions, come join us at the APTA Expo in Orlando next week. There will be lots of trains, buses, presentations, complimentary snacks, and free swag. I've been to several and it's a hoot!
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  4.  @jessicatriplev9802  Look at you, defending a right-wing billionaire, a proud member of the capitalistic white patriarchy! Do you have ONE SINGLE consistent value? No, you do not. You're just a low-level grifter defending a high-level grifter. Thanks for the comedy!
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  5. I think that animation was based on the "depth-charged by their competition" theory. 🤣
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  6.  @medexamtoolscom  One of the guide rails is needed as ground because that's how electricity works. If the other guide rail is hot, then you have basically run lethal current through the axles, into the body of the train, and potentially executed all of your passengers. That MIGHT have a negative impact on your ridership stats.
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  7. Automated (partially) restaurants actually existed for a while. They were called Automats. The first one opened in Berlin in 1895.
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  8.  @andrewfranklin4429  It's interesting that you completely avoided addressing the point. EVERY so-called "innovative" transit solution proposed over the past 30 to 40 years has been an abysmal failure. Several flavors of urban PRT (most notably Raytheon's PRT2000), the DuoRail concept, cantilevered monobeam, and too many others to list. Each and every one of them promised use of "off-the-shelf" technology, insanely cheap implementation, and even the impossible "profitable operation at no cost to taxpayers." Each failed because there was NO compelling reason to select it over existing transit modes. Like your boy Musk, the developers of these "innovative" transit modes insisted on solving "problems" that simply DO NOT EXIST. In so failing, they distracted from real, proven solutions with actual operational history and predictable costs with their pie-in-the-sky bullshittery. Likewise, Musk's bullshittery WILL cost the taxpayers plenty: street-level disruption during construction, opportunity costs due to distracting the local government from more viable transit modes, surface connections to the "system" of holes in the ground eating up acres of streets and sidewalks, emergency services, etc. You're defending a slick con man whose only goal is to SELL MORE CARS. HIS cars. His tunnels lack adequate ventilation, ensuring that only pure electric cars can operate in them. ALL of his still-existent companies depended on taxpayer handouts to become profitable. SpaceX needed NASA contracts. Tesla needed billions in state and local tax incentives plus a per-vehicle federal tax credit that YOU paid for whether you bought a Tesla or not. I must repeat: Musk has NEVER built one inch of functional transit infrastructure. NEVER. His Boring Company was actually FIRED from multiple transit projects. Why are you defending him? Do you own Tesla stock?
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  9.  @DCBChump  Which is ALSO a conservation measure. California needs to raise their water rates to discourage people from building swimming pools and growing turf lawns in a desert.
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  10.  @ayajade6683  Then they'll be funding water system improvements and posting hilarious videos of nearly fatal backyard Jet-Ski crashes. Everybody wins!
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  11.  @penapickle  Wow, are you gullible. I have some ocean view property to offer you in central Nevada. Do you even know what a "robo-taxi" is? Please link proof that his automated cars are picking up fares and delivering them to destinations without a human controlling the vehicle. That's what he promised and it remains undelivered to this day.
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  12.  @penapickle  Overpromised and underdelivered. What else is new?
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  13.  @Reach3DPrinters  [Citation Needed] How many Hondas have you owned? How many Teslas have you owned? Tesla has produced a bit more than one million vehicles in about a decade. Honda produced over 1.8 million vehicles last year ALONE. Honda has the highest fleet mileage rating and lowest co2 emissions in the industry. Honda also set an all-time record for electric vehicle sales in the USA last year. Teslas, meanwhile, went viral for hitting the brakes because they couldn't tell the difference between a traffic light and THE FRAKKING SUN.
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  14. He didn't found PayPal, he bought in. He's an investor, NOT an inventor!
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  15.  @andrewfranklin4429  Again and again, you completely dodge the real point and ignore uncomfortable questions. It's almost as if you realize that you're being an apologist for a con man whose ridiculous promises are utterly indefensible.
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  16.  @andrewfranklin4429  It is impossible to debate a religious fanatic. You uncritically accept everything your Messiah says in willful ignorance of everything he's gotten wrong in the past. This project will fall apart as have so many others before it. You need to study the examples I gave you, but you won't. Keep defending the uber-wealthy because they care about your life so much.
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  17. Most US rail transit systems use a 3rd rail or overhead catenary. This has been the case since 1892.
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  18. I'll take "Nations that no longer exist" for $400, Alex. Come on, Daily Double! Daddy needs a new pair of hypershoes.
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  19.  @craigstephenson7676  More than 60 American cities with rail transit systems would like a word with you.
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  20.  @andrewfranklin4429  Why would you believe any of those claims in the face of his abysmal track record? Did you not see the construction videos from the itty-bitty tunnel construction? MASSIVE holes were dug to get the boring machine into position. approach ramps would need to be emplaced in several locations for vehicle insertion and retrieval. escalators, stairs, and elevators will be needed to get people to the stations. Maintenance facilities will need to be built on the surface.
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  21. Over the years these marketers have spent yammering about empty sewer pipes, an actual, functioning MagLev could have been built between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The entire 4-mile Las Vegas Monorail line was built in just over two years. Sure, it had some problems but it EXISTS.
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  22. ">doesn't go there and actually drive over them" -- Drive over them on that little SIDEWALK? Really? NOBODY can drive on them. Also, they can't work. They'll be in the shade most of the time. Rooftop solar works. This stuff was and remains a SCAM.
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  23. That last part is inarguably true. No one has ever died from falling, or skydiving would have a near-100% mortality rate. They died from the blunt force trauma of the impact.
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  24. The LAST thing scammers want is for their scams to be exposed in a court of law.
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  25. Ewwwwwwwwwwww!
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  26. Me not up to technological challenge of make smoke. Me express approval by beating hollow log with sticks.
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  27.  @Reach3DPrinters  They offer 5 Hybrid-electric and PHEVs in the US market: Insight, Accord, CR-V and Clarity, which also has a fuel cell version. You should focus more on reading comprehension and less on being a toxic fangirl for Musk.
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  28.  @Reach3DPrinters  I'm not the one who started sprinkling salt and ad-homs in this discussion, Mister "Honda sucks compared to Tesla." Let's face reality, here. Musk is an INVESTOR. I'll give him full credit for financial acumen but he has never INVENTED a thing. Take PayPal, for example: "PayPal was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998." Musk BOUGHT it, went public, and then sold it to eBay. He did not invent new battery technology. Such tech has historically experienced average efficiency gains of one to two percent annually. Battery tech is about where it would be anyway without his influence. His Tesla is based upon the original 19th century automobiles (which were battery powered) and the self-driving research of many other companies (Google was testing autonomous cars here in Texas for many years before Tesla hyped it up). ALL of his rocketry tech is based on public-domain NASA research (and some Russian stuff, as you mentioned). The so-far mythical Hyperloop is simply a combination of Alfred Ely Beach's pneumatic subway from 1869 combined with the MagLev developed at the Brookhaven National Lab in the 1960s as imagined by Harry Harrison in his novel "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" in 1972. As to my issue with Musk on a personal level, it's mainly the fact that he's made himself exceptionally wealthy by picking the taxpayers' pockets. SpaceX wouldn't even exist without government-funded research and government contracts. He wouldn't have sold half of the Teslas he made without that juicy EV tax credit. I'm all for space exploration and reducing fossil fuel dependency, but his constant overpromising and underdelivering offers more harm than benefit to those causes. My issue on a professional level is that his Hyperloop is a completely unnecessary modal alternative. We already HAVE proven high-speed intercity transportation technologies. We already HAVE several proven urban transit modal options. He could have offered useful incremental improvements to those. He did not. He hyped a shiny coffin in a sewer pipe instead, because he's an investor, promoter, and hypemaster. What have I done lately? Glad you asked. I'm at the finish line of a decade-plus project to convert my stick-built suburban house into a USGBC LEED-certified dwelling unit. I've adapted it to the hot local climate with a number of passive techniques that have worked so well that I was able to downsize my HVAC system a few months ago (out with the 5-ton, in with the 4). I've replaced appliances and lighting with Energy Star certified devices. I've also automated the whole joint for aging-in-place. I've eliminated most sources of VOCs and replaced them with low- and no-VOC items. I've replaced climate-inappropriate ornamental plants with dry-climate trees and shrubs and producing fruit trees. I installed a rainwater capture system two years ago. I installed a 7.5Kw solar array after that and just last week I ordered my first Tesla Powerwall module (4 month lead time on those at the moment). After that's installed I'll build some raised garden beds and a greenhouse watered by a drip irrigation system to grow veggies super-efficiently. I doubt I can reach a LEED platinum rating in a 1980s stick-built house but I can push it close to silver, if not beyond. My monthly electric bills in the hot Texas summers are down from about $225 to around $33 for a 2,400 square foot single-family house (which includes my offices -- I have a 40-foot commute and a full tank of gas lasts me 1 to 3 months). My water bills are about the same. I'll collect another year or two of data before I publish. That's what I've been up to. Yourself?
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  29. Today I learned that Brits measure weight in stones, distance in rods, and volume in Bill-and-Teds. EXCELLENT!
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  30. Do you know what's REALLY good for the environment? The plastic Otterbox case I bought for my Note9 about six years ago (for 1/3 the cost of the Pela product) that still works like a charm and will probably NEVER need to be replaced.
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  31. "Why don't we use more geothermic power if it's so clean and unlimited? Is it because of the energy mafia?" -- There ARE a number of geothermal plants in the western U.S. Most of them were built by the so-called "energy mafia," whatever that means (it sounds conspiracy nutty). They are extremely expensive to build and maintain. The fuel cost is zero but hot brine is hard on the pipes and equipment. Other implemented uses of geothermal in the U.S. include melting snow from roads and sidewalks and heating greenhouses. There are a number of places where it's cost-efficient but It is NOT an "unlimited" resource.
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  32. West Virginia makes PERFECT sense, given its illustrious history as a leader in innovative transportation technologies. In 1975, the government funded the prototype Morgantown PRT project which ran years behind schedule and overshot its budget by 3 - 4 times. It still exists and works fine 90% of the time (I've ridden it) but nobody EVER built another one and nobody ever will. History will inevitably repeat, as it often does.
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  33. Bongs for SCIENCE!
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  34. /clap /clap /clap /clap /clap /clap /clap <- Here ya go!
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  35. SIG, sir!
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  36.  @ShortbusMooner  Then please explain what you meant.
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  37. It's very strange that Boring Co. couldn't automate a simple vehicle lift, considering that fully automated multi-level parking systems have existed for DECADES. There's one in Kuwait that can manage over 2,000 cars. There's one in Germany that can retrieve a car from its space in less than 2 minutes. There's one in DC that will have your car on the exit pad before you get downstairs from your condo. They're everywhere. They work. What's YOUR problem, Boring Co.?
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  38. Yep. One of my neighbors got his "incredibly advanced alien technology" hung up in a tree last week. He managed to retrieve it without involving the Pentagon.
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  39.  @electric7487  Exactly!
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  40.  @GameTimeWhy  I said no such thing. Whoopsie!
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  41.  @GameTimeWhy  Whoopsie! My bad. It can be hard to tell when Poe's Law is in play when Musk is the topic. :)
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  42.  @nielsssg  Partly, sure.
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  43.  @hhiippiittyy  You are correct, sir! Aviators also have an old saying: "Anyone can FLY an airplane. The tricky part is LANDING it so it can be flown AGAIN."
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  44. Just clip the audio from the Tomorrowland Transportation Authority recording.
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  45. It's terrible that, in addition to everything else that's happening in today's world, we also appear to be running out of rooftops. It's clearly another global pandemic. #SaveTheRoofs
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  46.  @pete_lind  For that matter, why does my NOT-a-Tesla's LKAS randomly lose sight of lane markings? Why does my auto-braking trigger for no reason when the closest car is more than a mile ahead in a different lane?
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  47.  @dmrr7739  That is some truly astute futurism, my friend.
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  48.  @caelusmaxima2214  Then perhaps you shouldn't be continuously making unkeepable promises of results that you've continually failed to deliver. That was the entire point of this video, after all.
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  49. Grandpa drinks, right?
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  50. 1) Send Mr. Ferrell a link to this video. 2) Wait a few weeks. 3) Watch his newest video: "Miraculous Breakthrough Technology Converts Light into Fire." 4) Profit???
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