Truly amazing story!
Truly amazing story!
Note: this has nothing to do with the actual rescue, just more social media inanity from people who should really know better.
Well, this thing just took a hard left turn into what-the-fuckery. From BBC News:
This is what Elon's referring to.A British cave diver who helped rescue 12 Thai boys from deep within a cave has said he is considering suing tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.
In now-deleted tweets, Mr Musk had called Vern Unsworth a "pedo guy" after the cave expert ridiculed a mini-submarine built by Mr Musk for the rescue effort as a "PR stunt".
Mr Unsworth told reporters on Monday that he was considering legal action.
"It's not finished," he told Australian network Channel 7.
Thailand-based Mr Unsworth's knowledge of the cave complex is said to have played a key role in the rescue effort. He travelled into the caves in the first days after the boys went missing and helped bring in top international cave rescue experts for the mission.
Mr Unsworth had earlier said the mini-sub built by Mr Musk's team, and flown to Thailand before being rejected as inappropriate for the rescue mission by Thai officials, would have had "absolutely no chance of working".
Elon Musk, who regularly takes on journalists and other critics on Twitter, on Sunday tweeted a response to Mr Unsworth, without using his name but calling him a "British expat guy who lives in Thailand".
He said he would make a video showing the mini-sub making it deep inside the cave "no problemo", adding: "Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it".
https://twitter.com/@twitter/status/1016110809662066688
Dude's a billionaire and yet he talks random shit about people online.
"Sapiens dicit: 'Ignoscere divinum est, sed noli pretium plenum pro pizza sero allata solvere.'" - Michelangelo
Elon seems to be cracking ... How the hell did he expect a rigid tube to work its way around through narrow cracks in those passageways?
And then losing his shit, calling a guy who put his life on the line doing the rescue a "pedo" for calling Elon out on it?
Something's going on with Elon..
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
"Sapiens dicit: 'Ignoscere divinum est, sed noli pretium plenum pro pizza sero allata solvere.'" - Michelangelo
Elon done fucked up with the pedo remark and slamming the Thai government.
He'll probably have to write a check to the Brit and he'll never be able to set foot in Thailand for the other comment (Thai's don't play when it comes to disparaging their officials).
As for making a sub video inside the cave... he'll be lucky if the Thais don't jail all his people and throw his sub in the trash much less allow him to make his promotion video.
Tesla stock took a 3% hit following his smartass remark and the BoD is being pressured to replace him as CEO.
What a dumbass...
Last edited by JodyH; 07-16-2018 at 06:48 PM.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
I'd hate to be one of his employees on the ground in Thailand right now.
They're about to get a lesson in third world bureaucracy, EVERYTHING they do from now until they're safely out of Thai airspace will take forever and involve fee upon fee upon fee.
It'll be like a Monty Python sketch crossed with the movie Groundhog Day with just a touch of Midnight Express.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
GQ story on the event: https://www.gq.com/story/thai-cave-r...-at-tham-luang