With the advent of electric transport, some people are worried about what happens when an electric vehicle is submerged under water following a storm or during a flood. There’s a misconception that somehow battery-powered cars are more subject to damages than a gasoline-powered car in this situation. It didn’t help when Fisker famously lost $30…
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Why Millennials Want to Work for Elon Musk, Even If the Pay Sucks
Data from PayScale shows that the most meaningful jobs in tech may not be the best paying or least stressful, and the stickiest workplaces may not give the biggest raises. You might think Elon Musk would be upset about data from PayScale that pegs Tesla and SpaceX as low-paying employees by tech industry standards,…
Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket’s crash landing
Elon Musk isn’t afraid to admit when things go wrong. The SpaceX founder tweeted out a video on Thursday of the company’s rocket crashing as it attempted to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Looks like early liquid oxygen depletion caused engine shutdown just above the deck pic.twitter.com/Sa6uCkpknY — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)…
Trump calls on Elon Musk to settle all Muslims on Mars
Donald Trump approached visionary inventor Elon Musk yesterday with an offer to name Musk as his Secretary of Transportation on the condition that he transport all the nation’s Muslims to Mars on his rocket ships. “This solves the problem of Mars volunteers and the problem of safety all at once,” said Trump, “because it wouldn’t…
First SpaceX missions to Mars: “Dangerous and probably people will die”
In a WaPo interview, Elon Musk says those who found cities on Mars will know the risks. As we get close to the end of September, when Elon Musk has promised to lay bare his plans for colonizing Mars at an international space conference, it seems like the ambitious founder of SpaceX can hardly contain…
At least a trillion alien civilizations have ‘almost certainly existed’ in the universe
Billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX Elon Musk often weighs on robots, Mars colonization, and alien civilizations. On Sunday, his convictions about the existence of extraterrestrial life got a boost – this time from an article in the New York Times by astrophysicist Adam Frank, which is provactively titled “Yes, There Have Been Aliens.” Frank’s research…
Elon Musk is building a supply chain to Mars
SpaceX’s aim to colonize Mars is inspired by the Age of Exploration, but the plans themselves look a lot more like a white board at a global logistics firm. The Elon Musk-led company, which announced in April that it will send an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars in 2018—following years of research and testing to…
TESLA PLAYS FRANKENSTEIN WITH ITS HYBRID ELECTRIC GARBAGE TRUCK
Tesla cofounder Ian Wright and his company Wrightspeed teamed up with commercial truck builder Mac Trucks to create a new hybrid electric trash hauler. They featured the Mack LR Model at the 2016 Waste Expo in Las Vegas, and was a move in the right direction for resource wasting refuse vehicles. This hybrid electric truck…
10 Rules Of Success By Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company. He is also the co-founder of Tesla Motors, SolarCity, OpenAI, Zip2 and Paypal. In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for $1.5 Bn in stock, of which Musk received $165 Mn. As of April 2016,…
Would You Be Willing To Fly On Elon Musk’s Mission To Mars?
Why Is This Important? Elon Musk’s Mission To Mars? Because Elon Musk is looking for pioneers to colonize Mars, but they could have to pay the ultimate price. Long Story Short Elon Musk has been cryptic about his dream to begin colonizing Mars within the decade, but he released a few new details Friday, including…
Is this the year Elon Musk’s SpaceX fortunes will lift off?
By most measures, SpaceX has enjoyed a banner 2016. In the first half of this year, the company took critical steps toward proving it can reliably retrieve and reuse its first-stage rocket boosters, successfully landing rockets on a floating drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean three separate times. It broke a monopoly one of its…
Is Elon Musk working on an “Iron Man” flying suit?
It’s a question that has been asked before: Is Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk the real-life version of “Iron Man?” If this tweet from Musk himself is anything to go by, the answer might be “yes.” On Wednesday, CNN reported on Musk meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter at the Pentagon. Referring to the…