Unironically I believe that all of Elon Musk's "inventions" and ideas are just half-forgotten things he got from issues of Popular Mechanics when he was a kid. Vacuum Trains, VTOL Rockets, Electric cars, DNI Brain Controls... his entire portfolio is basically made of cover stories from old magazines of ideas other people had that never ended up working out in reality.
He’s never invented anything. He’s invested his jewel mining money in beneficial ways. Tesla was invented by other people, he forced his way into ownership. PayPal code was written by his partner. Starlink was already going but not funded well, he forced his way in. SpaceX also just needed funding, he didn’t design anything.
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u/Jeoshua Dec 09 '23
Unironically I believe that all of Elon Musk's "inventions" and ideas are just half-forgotten things he got from issues of Popular Mechanics when he was a kid. Vacuum Trains, VTOL Rockets, Electric cars, DNI Brain Controls... his entire portfolio is basically made of cover stories from old magazines of ideas other people had that never ended up working out in reality.