Elon Musk Lashes Out At Thai Cave Rescuer, Baselessly Calls Him A 'Pedo Guy'

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Elon Musk Lashes Out At Thai Cave Rescuer, Baselessly Calls Him A 'Pedo Guy'
HuffPost  Hayley Miller,HuffPost 4 hours ago
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-lashes-thai-cave-175229265.html


Elon Musk went on a bizarre rant against a British diver involved in last

Elon Musk went on a bizarre rant against a British diver involved in last week’s Thai cave rescue after the diver mocked the billionaire tech entrepreneur’s proposed plan to help with the mission.

Vern Unsworth told CNN on Saturday that Musk’s idea to use a kid-sized submarine to transport the 12 boys out of the cave where they were trapped was “just a PR stunt.”

“He can stick his submarine where it hurts,” said Unsworth, who had a “pivotal” role in the rescue by helping authorities pinpoint the boys’ location, according to CNN. “It just had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like.”

The 47-year-old Tesla and SpaceX CEO didn’t take the criticism too kindly, lashing out at Unsworth in a series of tweets Sunday in which he baselessly accused the diver of being a pedophile.

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[mountaineer]

Musk appears to be increasingly unhinged.

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[mountaineer]

Elon Musk’s Thai Cave Rescue Grandstanding Explains What’s Wrong with Tesla
Elon Musk's embarrassing, thick-skinned grandstanding about the Thai cave rescue offers some lessons about the problems with his own company, Tesla.
By Robert Tracinski   
July 16, 2018

I held back on criticizing Elon Musk about his Thai cave rescue grandstanding because he claimed the rescuers encouraged him to help, even though his solution came after divers were already pulling the boys out of the cave. I figured, who knows? Maybe it was true. Maybe he really was trying to help, and the obsessive publicity-seeking that surrounded his effort was just a habitual reflex.

But then another Musk reflex kicked in: getting really sore and thin-skinned about criticism and lashing back about it on Twitter. So I figure if he’s so willing to dish out criticism of everybody else, he deserves to get some of it back.  ...

There are also some big lessons for Silicon Valley itself, lessons that might help explain some of the problems Musk has been having with his own company, the electric car maker Tesla.

1. Sometimes, Established Experts Actually Know Something

People who are experts in a specialized field—like, say, cave-diving—generally are not idiots and don’t need a Silicon Valley guy to come swooping in to say, “Well, actually, here’s how you really do it.” In fact, a big emerging story from the cave rescue is the crucial decision of Thai officials to hand control to a team of foreign cave divers after one of their Navy SEALs died during part of the rescue mission.

Even highly trained SEALs don’t know all of the challenges specific to the dangerous specialty of diving in caves, where oxygen supplies have to be managed with extra care because it is impossible to surface if anything goes wrong. The rescue wouldn’t have succeeded if not for a small group of enthusiasts who spent many years developing this expertise.  ...   

Read the entire article at The Federalist

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Read the entire article at The Federalist

Great article, @mountaineer.  If you want to understand the basic differences between conservatives and progressives this explains it beautifully.  And, why Silicone Valley is a hotbed of progressiveism.

[berdie]

Musk makes me really mad over this.

The submarine would have been a good idea...in a different situation.

Unless he had put on a wet suit and tank and gone in that cave, which I don't believe he did, he needs to stfu. Those divers were incredibly brave. The fact that they got all of the boys out still amazes me. It was a miracle...from beginning to end.

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This was absolutely amazing and he's been doing his best since to make people forget it.  What a clown.

[txradioguy]

Elon's just pissed he didn't get to add to his gov't funded fortune with...wait...more government money to help with the rescue.