Thursday, January 16, 2025

🚀, Man

I’m sure people in the debris field are entertained. NASA rockets stopped blowing up at launch in the early’60’s*. Mark Cuban calls Elmo the entrepreneur of the century. I still don’t understand why. His rockets blow up; his cars blow up, his Cybertruck is dragging down Tesla, his Boring Company is building a “hyperloop” in Vegas that’s been reduced from pods to Teslas shuttling people underground. Which won’t solve anybody’s traffic problems.

And it was P.T. Barnum who said there’s a sucker born every minute. Or did he say “you’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public”? I’m pretty sure it was Poor Richard who said “A fool and his money are soon parted.” Or none of the above. The point is, there’s nothing new about Elmo. Or remarkable. He just proves how gullible how many of us are. And the accuracy of those aphorisms.
I've been so blind:
I BET DEI DID THIS
The answer was staring me in the face.
Woke rocket science did this
Also probably true.

*Challenger is the exception that proves the rule.
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