Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Tech Chasm" channel.

@brett4264 He definitely believed first in "the mission", that we must switch to sustainable energy is obvious to anyone, it's in the description. He CREATED the market. He is concerned about CO2 levels staying--say well below 1000ppm as best I can read him. Not a climate alarmist but concerned and doesn't want to see us short of energy as fossils fade, has pushed back against vilifying fossil fuels. You can take him at his word but what he doesn't say is harder to figure. He obviously doesn't give a crap about money other than to accomplish his grand goals which will involve trillions. You don't take $100M fortune and spend it ALL on two companies that are most likely to fail if personal wealth is your goal, both Tesla and SpaceX were far more likely to fail than succeed and almost did multiple times.
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Any examples? You must be a snowflake to come up with that.
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@brett4264 Closest thing to a miracle in business history is that either Tesla or SpaceX survived 2008. Tesla was on the ropes as recently as 2018/19 when in desperation Elon attempted to get Apple to purchase them. (biggest best mistake Tim Cook could possibly make was to not even take Elon's call) That they have both now "taken over the world" will be talked about for centuries. SpaceX is looking at 90% of GLOBAL launch payload next yr, and while NASA contract saved them in 2008, SpaceX now saves NASA 10X on launch costs....taxpayer money. I believe 500/600ppm CO2 (about where we will top out I suspect) is a much better place to be than preindustrial 280ppm, that's an unpopular position but I have my reasons for it...mainly that recent glacial maximums have dropped atmospheric CO2 to extremely dangerous levels, threatening mass extinction like we've never considered. The next glacial max should be less treacherous. Tho CO2 is not THE driver of climate it is a significant factor in warming.
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@deltalima6703 There's a lot of backlash, predictable from elements on the Right who reflex against anything "green" and being 'forced into EVs' plus it's popular among much of the Left, many who support toxic bigoted TRASH like Bernie Sanders and Robert Reich, to loath, demonize and dehumanize the ultra wealthy.
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@Garryck-1 100X energy below. Amazing Mr. Who's Origin is even compared to SpaceX.
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Spoiled guy? Uhmmm....think he mostly made it on his own, but yeah, no respect for failure suits. You ain't slowing down Elon this easy.
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Seems we need an international plan to begin cleaning up the trash or at least prevent future additions to the rubbish. Call it the Kessler Project.
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T. and Walmart came to an agreement on their own perhaps? What actually happened there??
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@TechChasm The story concerned me as a TSLA long and fan. T solar has not done well in recent yr.s in general. Happy the suit is dropped, at the very least T took care of it to Walmart's satisfaction. Seems unlikely the solar installation wasn't to blame but things go wrong sometimes. Walmart was one of the first to signup for the semi truck too.
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@DaT0nkee EVERYTHING is obvious after the fact . Did YOU predict this 15 yrs ago?
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@DaT0nkee But of course you predicted everything else, like EVs taking over, you saw that coming 20 yrs ago and made millions on it naturally. Right?
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@DaT0nkee So you made tens of millions on it? Yes or NO? If not WHY not?? I made over a $1M going on 3 or 4M, and you are SO much smarter than everyone else so.....
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@NoopityNoop For the hard Left no doubt, the same non-think that results in anti-wealth nonsense. Any business person is anti union.
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@AdariousMistdancer I haven't tried to quantify which side is worse in this area. Did you bother to read the 2nd half of my post?
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@godfather7339 What are you referring to Child?
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LOOK at those bids! Hahaha 1:50
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Why the hell am I still paying for the turd SLS?? Lean mean free enterprise RULES.
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Many of these haters are full of self loathing, they'd be SO MUCH happier if they focused on advancing their own pathetic life instead of a quick fix via tearing others down. Many environmentalists view humans as the enemy of life on Earth so humanity's, or at least civilization's extinction as a good thing.
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It's been used so much as to be a little tiered by now, but ok in small doses.
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@TechChasm You do great work including minimizing use of cute sayings. :D
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Bezos might spend more of that 'productive' energy on reaching orbit?? Just a thought. To be fair Bezos has every right to contest this and it won't change anything, certainly won't slow SpaceX.
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NOT to diminish the need for urgency of becoming multi-planetary, but we could move Earth to a 'higher' orbit over millions of yrs and we have 100's of millions of yrs to do it.
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@Jogeta5 Absolutely and we must have a multi-method approach to diverting or...last resort...blasting incoming objects. One thing seems to be missed is that while the center of mass will still be on same trajectory, the mass itself can virtually entirely miss Earth if we were to crudely nuke an impactor. Simply spreading it so wide that only the debris that's randomly going straight toward or straight away from original object trajectory would still be on a collision course, with the bulk of it spread as wide as--say the orbit of the moon. Possibly multiple nukes in rapid succession (or simultaneously if the 1st blast would take out follow up missiles) for insurance against failure of one missile and to further accelerate the pieces away from the impact trajectory. Way sub optimal compared to diverting it yrs in advance but we won't foreseeably find all of them yrs ahead of time. We should have an option for only days to weeks notice. Rockets on fulltime standby.
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Move to Mexico, the USA doesn't deserve SpaceX. This is one of the primary motivations for voting R, every biz in the country deals with this crap ALL the time. "Old Space" only exists on the ground.
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Won't slow SpaceX much, I'm more concerned about the FAA.
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