Elon Musk buying Twitter

[Gman]

He can buy the holdings of individual stockholders without the boards' approval. He'll control enough of it that the board won't really have a choice.

...or he cashes out and does something different.

It is funny watching the true interests of those at the heart of Twitter having a complete meltdown. Like Musk is some die-hard conservative that's going to set the Twitter home page to the Bible.


Full TED Talk:

[brutal]

FWIW, Vanguard now holds more than Musk.

Rumor was the Saudi's were making a play as well.

Interesting times we're in folks.

[Ah Pook]

I don’t do Twitter but am having fun watching the drama.

[Aloha_Shooter]

If I had that much money, I'd be building nuclear powered space craft that can do C+. It is called break through propulsion physics. If you can build starships, you could own this planet.

I was referring to photo fission propulsion that is capable of faster than light travel. Not sure if this covered by laws governing nuclear technology. Building this technology would probably be insanely expensive, but not impossible. Admittedly it is an exotic materials problem and uncharted territory.

More than insanely expensive, what you're talking about requires new physics. Not just new engineering, new physics. Even getting close to c requires changing paradigms (like Robert Forward's laser pulsed lightsails) to get around the mass of storing on-board propellant. The nice thing about Robert Forward's stories was that he explained the physics behind them in the appendices to the stories. As much as I would love it, I haven't seen any credible physics for FTL travel.

Musk is already putting significant sums towards pushing space technology. He can do that and still bait the totalitarian demagogues at Twitter. In fact, it looks like he's baiting them AND going to make a huge profit at the same time. I've heard someone else has put forth an offer to buy Twitter and if it competes with his, he'll be able to nearly double his investment and then watch them go down the tubes. Musk right now seems to be the closest contemporary analog to Heinlein's fictitious characters of D.D. Harriman and Shipstone and our best bet for really pushing outside Earth's gravity well.

[rondog]

If he bought Area 51, he'd then have that technology!

[FoxtArt]

It is quite possible to travel C+ in relation to earth without breaking any physics at all.

Consider this: In the early days of the universe it expanded faster than light speed by many orders of magnitude.

That's because spacetime (and the expansion thereof) is independent to C. By working with spacetime instead of "throwing shit out the back (rocket engines), e.g. compressing spacetime in one direction and expanding it in another, you can transit distance without the problem of time dilation as well, and exceed C to an award observer without actually moving much at all.

And there's evidence of it on earth. Impressive sensory data collected by US, and confirmed by the US Gov to exhibit methods of propulsion that are impossible under standard physics.

The report came to no conclusion about what the UAPs were, based on a lack of evidence, though in a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics, including high velocity, breaking the sound barrier without producing a sonic boom, high maneuverability not able to be replicated otherwise, long duration flight, and an ability to submerge into the water. Some of the UAPs appeared to move with no discernable means of propulsion, and it was noted that the alleged high speeds and maneuvers would normally destroy any craft.

June 2021 ODNP report of the US Gov.

Note that the encounters were repeatedly witnessed by dozens of airmen and sailors across multiple carrier groups over the last 18 years, and visual, video, and sensor data all correlated. There are two main ways this kind of flight is possible: 1) Spacetime manipulation or 2) Magic is real, and Gandalf is trying to get a ring to Hawaii.

No suggested conclusion as to what they are, but I think it's silly to say we don't know they are something, that utilizes physics outside of our kinetics.

[rondog]

It is quite possible to travel C+ in relation to earth without breaking any physics at all.

Consider this: In the early days of the universe it expanded faster than light speed by many orders of magnitude.

That's because spacetime (and the expansion thereof) is independent to C. By working with spacetime instead of "throwing shit out the back (rocket engines), e.g. compressing spacetime in one direction and expanding it in another, you can transit distance without the problem of time dilation as well, and exceed C to an award observer without actually moving much at all.

And there's evidence of it on earth. Impressive sensory data collected by US, and confirmed by the US Gov to exhibit methods of propulsion that are impossible under standard physics.


June 2021 ODNP report of the US Gov.

Note that the encounters were repeatedly witnessed by dozens of airmen and sailors across multiple carrier groups over the last 18 years, and visual, video, and sensor data all correlated. There are two main ways this kind of flight is possible: 1) Spacetime manipulation or 2) Magic is real, and Gandalf is trying to get a ring to Hawaii.

No suggested conclusion as to what they are, but I think it's silly to say we don't know they are something, that utilizes physics outside of our kinetics.

Um, whut?

[Great-Kazoo]

Um, whut?

42, the answer's 42.



ignore everything else you've been told.

[BladesNBarrels]

Universal Number 6

[battlemidget]

No Sasquatch references yet?