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Evil Thoughts · October 16 · 18 min

STUPID MAN FLYS

Last night Elon Musk (the left's favorite punching bag) rolled out the next-gen Tesla Roadster at SpaceX's McGregor site. It climbed a ramp, stuck to it upside-down, launched into the air, flipped & landed on thrusters. It also clocked 0-60 in 0.81 seconds. While the smartest people in the room are busy inventing a car that treats gravity as optional and acceleration as a suggestion, the usual suspects are still stuck on the "he's just a dumb rich guy" script. Production delays & real-world road legality are fair game for skepticism. Pretending the engineering isn't wild is not.

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Last night Elon Musk (the left's favorite punching bag) rolled out the next-gen Tesla Roadster at SpaceX's McGregor site. It climbed a ramp, stuck to it upside-down, launched into the air, flipped & landed on thrusters. It also clocked 0-60 in 0.81 seconds. While the smartest people in the room are busy inventing a car that treats gravity as optional and acceleration as a suggestion, the usual suspects are still stuck on the "he's just a dumb rich guy" script. Production delays & real-world road legality are fair game for skepticism. Pretending the engineering isn't wild is not.

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