What do we not like about Elon Musk?

He’s South African.
He’s richer than God.
He’s really rude, obnoxious and arrogant.
He sacked all those Twitters by email.
He dates loads of lovely women. Then marries them. Or really, he marries the same woman loads of times. Same difference.
He’s South African.

What do we like about Elon?

He’s the cleverest man possibly ever.
He’s richer than God.
He’s a true polymath.
He is funny. Very funny.

On some of his Tesla cars you select the ‘mode’ from sort of ‘eco’ to fast. And then he has “Ludicrous+” mode for maximum power. I like that. Call it what it is. And then yesterday. Ahhhh, yesterday. When his Space X company launched the most powerful space rocket ever to be launched from this solar system. I can’t speak for other galaxies. And it went up, but then it went wrong, so they destroyed it in mid flight to avoid it falling down and hitting someone on the head. But they don’t say it was ‘aborted’, or destroyed, or blown up. Not Elon. He calls it a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. RUD. And I love that.

And I love that whilst everyone in the world is shouting ‘disaster’, Elon’s congratulating the team on the bit that went right. Even though, in Earth-time, it wasn’t a very long bit. But heh, little by little. Baby steps. Even though each ‘step’ probably costs around $100 million. That’s my estimation. Elon won’t tell. But I mean, build a space rocket, cos you can’t exactly get one ‘ready-made’, get a launch pad, employ at least 1000 people even if all they do is sit in front of computers screens clapping the lift-off.

Elon is the chief designer at Space X. Because he’s so far ‘along the spectrum’ that no-one would argue with him. And the man is definitely a genius. In the true, Michaelangelo sense of the word, rather than the Ngolo Kante meaning. He built Tesla, having made a ‘few bob’ at Paypal. Then he made a vacuum tube through which carriages can be projected at incredible speeds. He never built a real on, only prototypes. But they work and he gave the specifications to ‘the world’. For nothing. Because he ‘didn’t need the money’. Though that may have changed since he pissed away a chunk of his wealth on a Twitter he didn’t really want.

So ‘we’ have a love-hate relationship with Elon.

I’m sure he’s really bothered about that.

Happy Friday

A xxxx