Elon Musk is not only the richest person on Earth, he is also one of the most hyped and mediatised person in the world. In fact he is a master at self-promotion... and deception. Few really famous people lie more often than him, and that includes politicians. One of his most famous lies is that he co-founded PayPal and Tesla (he actually joined later as an investor).
Tesla
The third video below quotes how the SEC investigation found 150 "mistruths" (a more diplomatic term for "lies") in Elon Musk's PR over Tesla, constantly misleading investors to manipulate the stock price. He has also promised completely autonomous self-driving cars since 2014 and they still aren't there. It's broken promise upon broken promise. The man is a born politician.
But the lie that bugs me the most, because it has a huge impact on Earth's future, is that Tesla cars, or electric cars in general, help combat global warming, when in most cases they only make it worse. I have opened a separate thread to explain all this in detail. It's extremely insidious as the man has almost single-handedly launched the EV industry by advertising it as a way to save the planet from global warming, when it is in fact making it worse due to the huge carbon footprint of EV batteries. Elon clearly doesn't care at all about climate change and just callously uses it as a PR trick to deceive hundreds of millions of people to enrich himself.
SpaceX & Mars
Another lie is that humans will be able to live on Mars, Elon Musk's other big project through his company SpaceX. Anybody with any knowledge of Mars would know that is is BS. Of course there is water on Mars, maximum temperatures around the equator can reach a comfortable 25°C (77°F), the planet is about the same size as Earth, and a day on Mars (24 hours, 37 minutes) is almost the same length as on Earth. We could use the water to terraform Mars by making plants grow there. They would probably need to be genetically modified to adapt to the different conditions, but that's a relatively minor hindrance nowadays. After planting massively the Martian atmosphere, which is 95% CO2, would progressively fill itself with oxygen. Sounds perfect, doesn't it? Well, it isn't.
Even if plants could grow on Mars, it will never be suitable for humans. That's because Mars does not have a magnetic field, so its atmosphere is extremely thin. The atmospheric pressure on Mars is only 1% of the one on Earth. That means that even with 20% of oxygen like on Earth, we would need to breathe 100 times faster to absorb as much O2. But we could still live there with oxygen masks on at all times, right? Only if you want to die very fast. The lack of atmosphere and ozone layer means that Mars is constantly bombarded with carcinogenic cosmic rays that would destroy our DNA and seriously reduce our lifespan. One way to avoid this would be to wear a protective spacesuit at all times. Not very convenient to have a shower or have sex (if the aim is to live on Mars like we do on Earth), among others. So yes, humans could live on Mars, just as they could live on the Moon or inside a spaceship in space, but never roaming freely outside, breathing the air and giving up their spacesuit. It's all a big lie. Once again the only purpose is to raise money by playing with people's imagination and dreams, knowing full well that it's all BS.
Twitter/X
There has been plenty of controversy about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. One of the latest is that his policy on Twitter has contributed to growth of Russian propaganda. It has also been revealed that nearly half of his 155 million followers on Twitter are fake accounts. How sad is that? He is already the richest man in the world, but he still feels like his ego needs a boost by creating millions of fake accounts to appear more popular than he is. He must have had a very shitty childhood.
There are plenty of other reasons to dislike or distrust Elon Musk. This video is a good summary (although it's already 2 years old).
There are other videos that explain his various lies.
Tesla
The third video below quotes how the SEC investigation found 150 "mistruths" (a more diplomatic term for "lies") in Elon Musk's PR over Tesla, constantly misleading investors to manipulate the stock price. He has also promised completely autonomous self-driving cars since 2014 and they still aren't there. It's broken promise upon broken promise. The man is a born politician.
But the lie that bugs me the most, because it has a huge impact on Earth's future, is that Tesla cars, or electric cars in general, help combat global warming, when in most cases they only make it worse. I have opened a separate thread to explain all this in detail. It's extremely insidious as the man has almost single-handedly launched the EV industry by advertising it as a way to save the planet from global warming, when it is in fact making it worse due to the huge carbon footprint of EV batteries. Elon clearly doesn't care at all about climate change and just callously uses it as a PR trick to deceive hundreds of millions of people to enrich himself.
SpaceX & Mars
Another lie is that humans will be able to live on Mars, Elon Musk's other big project through his company SpaceX. Anybody with any knowledge of Mars would know that is is BS. Of course there is water on Mars, maximum temperatures around the equator can reach a comfortable 25°C (77°F), the planet is about the same size as Earth, and a day on Mars (24 hours, 37 minutes) is almost the same length as on Earth. We could use the water to terraform Mars by making plants grow there. They would probably need to be genetically modified to adapt to the different conditions, but that's a relatively minor hindrance nowadays. After planting massively the Martian atmosphere, which is 95% CO2, would progressively fill itself with oxygen. Sounds perfect, doesn't it? Well, it isn't.
Even if plants could grow on Mars, it will never be suitable for humans. That's because Mars does not have a magnetic field, so its atmosphere is extremely thin. The atmospheric pressure on Mars is only 1% of the one on Earth. That means that even with 20% of oxygen like on Earth, we would need to breathe 100 times faster to absorb as much O2. But we could still live there with oxygen masks on at all times, right? Only if you want to die very fast. The lack of atmosphere and ozone layer means that Mars is constantly bombarded with carcinogenic cosmic rays that would destroy our DNA and seriously reduce our lifespan. One way to avoid this would be to wear a protective spacesuit at all times. Not very convenient to have a shower or have sex (if the aim is to live on Mars like we do on Earth), among others. So yes, humans could live on Mars, just as they could live on the Moon or inside a spaceship in space, but never roaming freely outside, breathing the air and giving up their spacesuit. It's all a big lie. Once again the only purpose is to raise money by playing with people's imagination and dreams, knowing full well that it's all BS.
Twitter/X
There has been plenty of controversy about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. One of the latest is that his policy on Twitter has contributed to growth of Russian propaganda. It has also been revealed that nearly half of his 155 million followers on Twitter are fake accounts. How sad is that? He is already the richest man in the world, but he still feels like his ego needs a boost by creating millions of fake accounts to appear more popular than he is. He must have had a very shitty childhood.
There are plenty of other reasons to dislike or distrust Elon Musk. This video is a good summary (although it's already 2 years old).
There are other videos that explain his various lies.
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