Comments by "William Warren" (@wbwarren57) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

  1. Reality, rationality, facts, scientific thinking, and common sense are currently out of fashion. Thanks for daring to be unapologetically out of fashion.
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  2. I think you have the wrong perspective! I think we should celebrate Elon as one of the greatest conmen in all of history! Viewed from that perspective we are very lucky to be alive and able to watch as he is working his magic and bamboozling so many people so thoroughly. All hail, the Elon!
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  3. Thank you very much for making certain that that Farrell gets the credibility and popularity that he supposed to deserves!
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  4. You killed Tinker Bell! If only you had believed with all of your heart, the hyperloop would’ve succeeded! Sure, the physics were all wrong, and it was completely impossible to build, but it could’ve succeeded if only you had believed!
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  5. Shame on you! You are not giving Elon credit for the very hard work of finding announcers that can announce the SpaceX starship launches as if they were successful, even though failure is staring them in the face. This is technology that undoubtedly Elon has stolen from North Korea. Very few real people can declare an obvious failure to be successful without their heads exploding in real time.
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  6. You are right. Elon is failing. I think you left out a number of other areas in which he is failing. 1. No independent testing of full self driving software. Everything you see the Internet or anecdotes by either fanboy or people who are flat out being paid to say nice things about full self driving. 2. The heat shield that the entire starship design is based on is failing. Recently musk has began mumbling about using a metal heat shield that has fuel or something leaking out of it to cool it off. Of course there are no figures whatsoever in terms of how much the current heatshield weighs and of course, since SpaceX has never recovered a complete second stage, they really don’t know what’s going on with the heat shield and any great detail. No 3. The boring company that digs tunnels is basically going nowhere fast. 4. The neural link company might eventually deliver a product, but it’s probably decades away. 5. There is no detailed information about whether or not Starlink can actually make money even if it has all of its satellites lofted. How much is it gonna cost to operate? How often will satellites need to be replaced? What is the overall bandwidth that you’ll be able to pump through it? 6. The Tesla semi seems to be going nowhere fast. Plus, I think it would be eagerly awaited by people who want to destroy bridges and infrastructure because it makes such a great rolling fire bomb. 7. The day is coming soon when some terrorist organization realizes that they can drive a Tesla car of any variety into a parking garage set it on fire and cause a major incident not so much with casualties, but with property damage and inconvenience to people. 8. The Robo taxi business looks like a real loser. No one has pointed out that Robo taxi that can only carry two people will actually cause double of the car on the road if a family of four or even a family of three needs to take a taxi. So much for the Robo taxis, taking cars off the road. 9. The low-cost Tesla is still a myth despite having been promised a year after a year after year. In one area, it is indisputable that musk has made progress. He has completed 100s of millions of dollar transaction with Trump to get him himself into a place where he can keep regulators from actually doing their job and where he can talk to his good friend cash Patel and have people who criticize him and his accomplishments actually put in jail with the FBI.
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  7. Thank you! It’s nice to hear some good sound analysis about starship. However, I think the Elon cult members would much rather drink the lemonade Kool-Aid then learn the truth.
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  8. Boy, I really miss the German Japanese couple that used to cheer on Elon so hard. Where can I donate to bring them back? Is it true that they were actually cryogenically frozen? Can we get them thawed out?
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  9. I think you’re being unfair to Glenn Shotwell! I bet she’s really really really good at getting coffee for Elon.
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  10. The line is unstoppable! Considering that the FIFA World Cup is going to be played in November in one of the hottest places on earth, the line is unstoppable because there’s obviously a serious deficit in terms of common sense when it comes to Super big money projects!
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  11. You are entirely correct sir! In fact, there is only one subject that should be entirely protected from criticism at all times (including with nuclear weapons) and that is our Lord and Savior the chosen one the worlds most stable genius among geniuses, president for life Donald J Trump. Am I not right?
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  12. Please don’t attack the every day astronaut. Yes, his adoration for Elon is stupid but generally the every day astronaut is a good guy who tries diligently to do good stuff. He is not a stupid German with a Japanese girlfriend. Please cut him a break!
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  13. Aren’t you God?
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  14. Dear thunderfoot, I am so sorry to hear that you have been completely busted. As a result, do you plan to do the audible thing and sell everything you own and go into a monastery where you will never speak again? If so, I would like to put in a few bids for some of your scientific equipment. Thank you.
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  15. Key question for Thunderf00t: why hasn’t somebody put Elon in jail yet?
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  16.  @zaarkeru3391  You are absolutely correct! Unfortunately, the starship is another good example of Elon building something that really is a bridge to nowhere. However, there are a lot of engineers who really want to build something cool, and Elon is letting them do that. At the end of the day, when the starship is built, however, I think people will begin to realize that is that really good for anything. Elon is building the biggest greatest rocketship in the world, but a rocket ship doesn’t have any real value unless it completes a real mission. And I don’t understand with the mission of the starship really is. Why does it have to be so big? do people really want starship sized vehicles taking off as frequently as the falcon nine does? Are there really gonna be customers for it? It is really cool but like the cyber truck, which also looks cool (sort of) what is it really gonna be good for?
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  17. You have to salute Elon, however! This guy has been making completely wild false promises to shareholders and prospective shareholders for years, and yet he hasn’t been successfully sued into oblivion, or put in prison by the SEC. That is without a doubt, a great accomplishment!
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  18. Whom are you trying to reach with this video Prometheus? Isn’t it obvious that people no longer want facts or reason or science? Right now, the republican party, the cult of Trump, is repeating his big lie over and over and over again and no one will stand up to him who wants to be a Republican politician. Tens of millions of people believe this lie. Why don’t you stop trying to roll your rock up the hill?
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  19. Though everything you’re saying is true, I think you’re being a bit unfair and overly harsh to these two people. Yes, they are true Elon Musk groupies, but they do do a good job of reporting the news as long as they don’t try and do any analysis. The reason I think you’re being overly harsh is that if you are going to start calling reporters out for not knowing enough about science, history, economics, sociology, etc., then you’re gonna have to make a lot of videos from now until the end of your life because even reporters who have the best reputations and appear on the most influential shows often have large, disturbing gaps in their knowledge and often voice extremely incorrect and even bizarre conclusions when they try and do any analysis.
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  20. Once again, you were overlooking the obvious!!! We know that these were aliens because it was aliens who stole the election from our Lord and Savior the chosen one the prophecy made flesh president for life Donald J Trump! Why can’t you except common sense!
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  21. Careful, thunder foot! Elon is the “special boy“ straight out of the outer limits episode of the same name. Elon has a lot of money and a bona fide personality cult, and all of that gives him a lot of power to do almost anything he wants right now. Please be careful that you don’t Spur him onto action directed against you. Unlike Elon, you are valuable.
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  22. Suggestions for your video on the cyber cab! 1. The cyber cab does not have windows so that the passengers can look out and see where they’re going. 2. The cyber cab is not easy to get into or out of 3. The cyber cab only sits two people. What if you have three or four or even five people? Do you have to take two or three cabs? 4. The cyber cab does not have trunk space enough for most people who are going on a trip and want to go to the airport. 5. The cyber cab does not have an easy way to interact with the “driver“ and to tell the driver that you want to be dropped off 100 feet before the exact address or 100 feet after the exact address or that you want the cyber cab to turn into this particular driveway. Being dropped 100 feet from your destination by a cyber cab so that you have to carry your luggage the whole way is incredibly stupid. 6. The cyber cab does not have a driver who can assist you with your luggage. 7. The cyber cab will not have any privacy for the people using it. To prevent people from trashing the interior of the cab, they will be photographed at all times by video cameras, and of course, the microphones in the cyber cab will be listening to the occupants in case the occupants, want to modify the driving directions. In addition to the cyber cab, please do a video about the stupidity of the Tesla robots. They still can’t walk as well as the robots of Boston dynamics, and of course, there was no real demonstration of there capabilities of their hands. In fact, in all probability, the Tesla robots at this vaporware demonstration were probably being driven by people behind the scenes. In fact, the cyber cabs were probably also being driven by people behind the scenes and we’re not at all autonomous.
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  23. Where does SpaceX recruit its engineers? Obviously, SpaceX does have some good engineers who can engineer the raptor engine, and who could also engineer a starship that kind of sort of works somewhat. However, these engineers, who are indeed confident apparently don’t ask any hard questions about the overall goals of the program and how it’s all going to work to really be successful. Where do you get engineers who can be so good in some areas and so blind in others?
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  24.  @Hello_world525  That’s a great suggestion! I’m sure that we can probably breed enough engineers in that way. However, the only change I’d make to your suggestion is that instead of firing engineers who prove to have too much critical thinking or systems engineering predilections, we should use them as dog food instead. That will be a win-win!
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  25. Congratulations! You have won! Elon is in that very first stage of falling when it looks like he’s standing still, and before the acceleration kicks in relentlessly. Unfortunately, for you, most of your time for the next few years will be taken up giving interviews to people writing books about the decline and fall of Elon, SpaceX, Tesla, NeuroLink, the boring company, etc. In that regard, Eli will have the last laugh.
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  26. You’re calling Elon musk con man of the year? What about our Lord and Savior, the chosen one, president for life, the worlds most stable genius genius and the big lie about the 2000 presidential election? Elon musk doesn’t even get near the ballpark as a ConMan! You’re wasting your credibility by exaggerating your criticisms of Elon Musk. Please don’t do that.
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  27. Prometheus, who is worse: the person who gives us hopes by telling lies or the person who kills all of our hopes by telling the truth?
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  28. It may not be too bright, but the German guy definitely had good sex with the Asian women. If that’s dumb, signed me up!
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  29. Nice video! However, I am worried about you! You are addicted to bashing musk and while I understand how much fun it is, too much of any drug is bad! Save yourself!
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  30. Shame on you! Hyper Loop would work if everybody in the audience would just believe in it and clap! It’s people like you who killed Peter Pan! You killed Peter Pan! You killed Peter Pan!
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  31. Whatever happened to the poor deluded fuzzy, thinking, German and Japanese couple who used to make really stupid videos about how great Elon was? I really think someone should follow up on them and find out what their lives are like now.
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  32. There is one way in which musk is succeeding! And that is in the same way that the Star Wars program of the Reagan administration succeeded. Musk has convinced the CCP in China that they need to colonize the moon and China seems to be set to spend tens of billions of dollars to the point of bankrupting their country in order to do that first. The Star Wars program of the Reagan administration completely failed at meeting. It’s larger mission, but what it did help to do is to bankrupt the Soviet Union. Let us hope that musk and all of his promises will convince the CCP in China to destroy themselves trying to get to the moon in the same way.
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  33. Another book idea: a book about the army of Elon stock promoters. Who hired them, who paid them, how much did they make, did they know they were lying when they were telling Tesla or SpaceX, how did they become disillusioned, when did they quit and why. This would be a good companion book to the book called “number go up“ about crypto currencies. Obviously this book cannot really be completed until Tesla has gone bankrupt and SpaceX has been exposed as little more than a scam, but it would also be a good time to start lining up people to interview.
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  34. Could this be a viable moon launch system? Obviously on the moon you get the vacuum for free. What do you think?
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  35. You are being much too hard on Elon! Those multi billion dollars worth of debris fields are actually providing important habitat at the bottom of the sea for so many creatures that it is impossible to count them! You literally cannot put a price tag on more biodiversity courtesy of Elon!
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  36. Buy Tesla (Titanic) merchandise! Everybody alive today missed the opportunity to buy titanic merchandise before it went on its maiden voyage. However, now thanks to Elon Musk. We have the opportunity to buy equivalent merchandise with the name Tesla audit! Boy, are we lucky!
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  37. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am so tired of the fuzzy thinking and out right lies around colonizing mars. You are completely correct in your analysis that this is snake oil! Unfortunately, like your predictions about Brexit, I don’t think you’re going to get a parade in recognition of your truth telling about going to Mars. Too bad. The world would be a much better place if you did!
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  38. Actually, as I think of it, I think a really great book idea would be something that could be titled “profiles in Elon disillusionment“. The book would consist of vignettes of different people who were really really convinced at first that Elon was indeed going to save the world and the document how they became disillusioned to the point that they now hate Elon. I’m certain it would be easy to find people who invested heavily in The various Elon myths, and as a result lost all of their money. It may be a little bit early to write this book because Tesla has not crumbled into dust quite yet and SpaceX still looks like they might develop a working starship so I’m beginning to doubt it more and more.However, certainly it would be a good point now to identify the people who were so heavily invested in Tesla and SpaceX and line them up for interviews the day that the Elon illusion evaporates.
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  39. Heroic analysis! However, similar analysis done on the need for computers (we only need 10 main frames in the world), computer memory (who needs more than 640 K bites?), And copiers (there aren’t that many typed documents in the world to support a large market for copiers) have all proven to be inadequate analysis. I’m not sure you can positively rule out success yet.
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  40. Shame on you! How dare you criticize such an enthusiastically good idea! Obviously, you have been led astray by books that claim to teach “physics“ and “mathematics“ and “chemistry“ and “critical, thinking“! Once we have removed all of those books from the shelves of all libraries, no one else will be led astray And as a benefit, we will be able to burn those books and the people they let astray (E. G., You) at the stake and reclaim even more carbon dioxide! The future (illuminated by your burning corpse) is bright, indeed!
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  41. Follow the money! Where is musk getting all of the money necessary to fund this (failed) product development? He’s doing massive product development in SpaceX with the starship, Twitter with the all in one “X“ app, neural link, the new 46 x 80 battery in Tesla, the cyber truck, the battery, powered tractor, trailer, the robots, etc. Where is he giving all of the money to do that? Is he defrauding investors?
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  42. Our Lord and Savior President Donald J Trump has single-handedly reopened the American economy and saved the world! Obviously, since he has re-open the economy there never really was any COVID-19 pandemic! Anybody who says so is just trying to hurt the greatest man in history, President Donald J Trump! Seriously, if you think I’m exaggerating at all, just start watching Fox news.
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  43. Musk makes unrealistic promises but he’s not evil. Compare his unrealistic promises with those of “OxyContin isn’t addictive“, or “clean coal“, or “the election was stolen from our Lord and Savior, President for life, the most stable genius genius in the world“. The promises of Elon musk may lose money for investors, but they are not going to make addicts out of anybody, they are not going to destroy the climate, and they are not going to tear up the US Constitution. Watching SpaceX and star link is fun whether or not they succeed. Instead of wasting your big brain on Elon musk (who is very entertaining and essentially harmless) why don’t you take on the Chinese communist party and it’s dictator for life Xi Jinping? Too dangerous?
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  44. Gwen Shotwell‘s memoirs, I really look forward to them! Despite the quotes that you show here, I don’t think Gwen Shotwell is a complete and utter idiot so I look forward to hearing her experience of working for Elon Musk at SpaceX. I’m sure there was a phase where she suspended her disbelief, but I’m also certain that her memoirs will document how she became increasingly disillusioned and then certain that Elon is a complete and utter idiot. I hope Gwen is smart enough not to be taking Tesla or SpaceX equity as her pay.
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  45. Suggestion: Please do a video about Peter Zeihan and his many predictions! Captain P0, as I call him sells geopolitical snake oil that has as much validity as the hyper loop. I think it would be a good fit for you.
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  46. You are fighting against the “reverse chicken little“ effect or what I call the “diamonds from the sky“ effect. In the “chicken“ effect, a weak mind takes a few factoids and turns it into a prediction of catastrophe, using sweeping generalizations. In the “from the sky“ effect, a weak bind Takes a few factoids and a lot of sweeping generalizations and bad math and turns it into a gold bind of money raining down from the sky, in this case, free sunlight all the time! For both effects, there are an almost unlimited number of people who want to believe and act accordingly, no matter how many facts you might raise. Great video, good luck, but I don’t think you’re gonna convince the followers who want to believe!
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  47. Thank you for busting Mr. Farrell’s video! As a fellow resident of Massachusetts, I am ashamed that Matt lives here. However, we should not be totally negative because there is a rule for Mr. Farrell in today’s world. Namely, advertising and championing new technologies such as teleportation, telekinesis, freezero point energy, silver bullet solutions to climate change, one drop of blood blood testing, anti-gravity machines, mind reading, talking with the dead, creationism, faster than light spaceship drives, time travel machines, pyramid marketing schemes, etc., etc., etc.! Who else but a mr. Farrell is going to make glossy high-tech videos for all of these emerging technologies?
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  48. You are fighting against the “reverse chicken little“ effect or what I call the “diamonds from the sky“ effect. In the “chicken“ effect, a weak mind takes a few factoids and turns it into a prediction of catastrophe, using sweeping generalizations. In the “from the sky“ effect, a weak bind Takes a few factoids and a lot of sweeping generalizations and bad math and turns it into a gold bind of money raining down from the sky, in this case, free sunlight all the time! For both effects, there are an almost unlimited number of people who want to believe and act accordingly, no matter how many facts you might raise. Great video, good luck, but I don’t think you’re gonna convince the followers who want to believe!
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  49. Great video! You certainly have a talent for thinking outside the box. We certainly need to do a lot of thinking outside the box at this point. Keep up the good work!
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  50. The people who work for Elon should, indeed thank him! Elon takes credit for the work of everyone who works for him, and never mentions anyone else by name with the very small exception of people who make presentations alongside him. Normally, this will be a bad thing such as it is at SpaceX with regards to the falcon nine. However, at Tesla, the people who work for Elon, are extremely lucky that their names are not put out there, specifically by Elon, so that their reputations will be as ruined as his.
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