Thanks for the encouragement fellas

. This is not really a complete research on my part but just ideas for a research. Feel free to expand from them!
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Fbenario: I can see how
in general a startup company gets people to invest in it. I just have a hard time placing the model in such a context, where you create from nothing a company that in 10 years becomes a key contractor for NASA. One so crucial that with a faulty spacecraft could endanger the lives of its actornauts.
How could SpaceX work, make research, make tests
and make profit during those years until it landed this very lucrative contract? And at the same time making enough experience to pull this off without a glitch?
How was it not a corporation like Lockheed picked instead? It seems the natural choice, to outsource to a corporation that already has the knowledge, laboratories, connections, liquidity and everything. Why going to the young good-looking inexperienced one,
if not because NASA needed a completely Hollywoodesque corporation to sell to the public an idea and nothing else?
The basic argument here is that "SpaceX" is an empty store, an eye-candy, a front. Only in fantasyland one goes from 0 to rocket science in 10 years. Even more laughable, after we have been sold the idea that this was all so incredibly hard the Russians kept messing it up after having had an experience in the field of 60 years.
It must be the italian life with Berlusconi, but I simply don't believe in self-made men. I believe in their invisible friends, though. Berlusconi's are mostly based in Sicily.
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3) Tesla Motors
As I stated elsewhere, my feelings toward the legend of Nikolas Telsa are of revulsion and deep, almost irrational distrust. Mind you, I know nothing of the science, if there is any, or the person, if it was ever real. I am merely discussing the way this character and his alleged inventions are presented to the public. The tall, idealistic genius loner who figured it all out but was obstructed and hindered by the greediness of the west. The lost, precious notebooks with all his inventions that maybe are in the hands of the secret service that is keeping all the amazing discoveries away from the public.
Once again, this smells of Hollywood. I don't know about you, but I have first heard of Tesla
only long after the invention of the internet and only for this I am even ready to accept the idea that he is a complete fabrication, that he never existed nor his inventions ever existed.
But even without going so far, the main feeling is that the character has been built up in order to sell us
something. Something that can't be good, if it has to come in the appealing, spooky, hollywoodesque package.
Enters "Elon Musk".
Elon Musk allegedly co-created Tesla Motors, this other successful and supposedly time-changing start-up, back in 2003 (wasn't he busy launching SpaceX at the time? Wasn't that enough work? Wasn't he barely 30 years old? Whatever.)
The company was created in order to "commercialize the T-Zero prototype electric sports car created by AC Propulsion" ... "the Tesla Roadster uses an AC motor descended directly from Tesla's original 1882 design." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors). Good luck figuring out what the T-Zero prototype was, or why everyone has been asleep for 120 years and never noticed that such design could work.
Let's pretend any of this makes sense, like we do when we watch "Armageddon".
Elon Musk presenting the Model S, from http://newshopper.sulekha.com/elon-musk ... 735466.htm
So, in this emulation of the beginnings of the car industry and Henry Ford's "model T", Tesla motors has presented in 2012 the "model S", a completely electrical
sports car.
Sure, the two legends are different: Ford's model was all about simplicity and availability. It was not a fancy product or a niche product and this is why it worked. But I guess times are changed, and today
a caricature of the absurd needs of the riches is what drives the market.
There is another affinity between Ford's legend and the one that is being created around Musk: Both can be traced back to the court of Thomas Edison, as both Ford and Nikolas Tesla were part of Edison's entourage for a crucial time of their lives as inventors.
Edison means electricity. In fact, here we have an electric 416 hp sportscar that very few can afford, but that nonetheless is perfect to
lure and
persuade. Persuade us to what? Well,
that the times have changed and we are saying goodbye to petrol. At least this is the moral that i infer from this lousy movie. One could argue that, in the spirit of times, electricity is a much better fuel not because it is cleaner (it isn't)
but because it allows much more control on the amount of energy anyone of us can use and share. Control is the spirit of times.
Will free energy for everyone ever come out from the "Tesla Factory" in California? (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Factory)
I am more inclined to expect designs for a world where less and less travel is accomplished independently, individually, with at least some remains of personal freedom. Just like this other fancy thing...
4) The "Hyperloop"
Hyperloop is a theoretical mode of high-speed transportation proposed by inventor and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Musk has envisioned the system as a 'fifth mode' of transportation, an alternative to boats, planes, cars and trains. The system would, in theory, be able to travel from downtown LA to downtown San Francisco in under 30 minutes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
How come this vague fantasy has its own page on wikipedia? Why anything this person says has to have all this relevance? Don't you have the same feeling when you first see people like "Lady Gaga" being quoted on the media, long before anyone has even familiarized with their music?
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References AKA places where fakery is likely to be found:
SpaceX youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/spacexchannel
Tesla motors youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TeslaMotors
"The lost journals of Nikolas tesla":
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla ... urnals.htm
...and another zillion of similar pages about Tesla to be found in Google.