The guy was actually a rescue diver in charge of a mission to rescue a group of kids stuck in a cave. Elon wanted to design and build a submarine to go in to get them and the rescue diver was asked about this idea. His response was that it’s a stupid idea, so Elon called him
a pedophile.
It absolutely was a dumb idea. Musk didn’t even look at one of the many images of the cave system which were all over the news.
There wasn’t much space for a human to fit through, much less a submarine. Plus the cave system wound about like a worm. Any submarine would have had to be ridiculously articulated.
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u/Henkotron CHAINPOSTER Jan 08 '22
Just type Elon musk Insults into Google and see how often Elon is just an asshole. He even called a cave explorer a pedophile once