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Oh okay. We should accept Musk's instruction to disregard Thai officials and instead accept this snippet of an email he provides which still only shows Stanton

Oh okay. We should accept Musk's instruction to disregard Thai officials and instead accept this snippet of an email he provides which still only shows Stanton saying the effort might be useful days ago. I guess The Guardian and ABC just don't know as much as the glorious Musk: >http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-10/thai-cave-rescue-elon-musk-submarine-wont-be-needed/9965698 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-10/thai-cave-rescue-elon-... >https://www.theguardian.com/news/live/2018/jul/10/thai-cave-rescue-third-mission-planned-to-bring-out-remaining-boys-and-coach-live-updates?page=with:block-5b446023e4b04dbcfcbddeec#block-5b446023e4b04dbcfcbddeec https://www.theguardian.com/news/live/2018/jul/10/thai-cave-... I contributed as much as Musk did to this rescue operation. Where's my parade?

gliptic 8y ago
What exactly are you arguing? You admit it could have been useful, but because they decided to go ahead with another approach because of the circumstances, the effort is useless? Do you also not do backups because, hey, I've never lost data... Can we have some nuance? Nobody is having a parade for Musk.
- Sangermaine 8y ago
  Elon Musk Defends His Rejected Mini-Sub Plan for Thai Cave https://nyti.ms/2NCzvi6?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://nyti.ms/2NCzvi6?smid=nytcore-ios-share >He said the expert was Richard Stanton, one of the first two British cave divers to reach the soccer team, and Mr. Musk shared an email in which Mr. Stanton had asked him to “please keep working on the capsule details.” >But a spokesman for Mr. Stanton said Tuesday that the cave proved to be too narrow for the mini-submarine. Crazy how the Thai official in charge doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and now Stanton doesn’t know either! Why is the world conspiring against Musk with these lies? Where’s your messiah now?
  - gliptic 8y ago
    Yeah, such nuance. Implying that I hold Musk as a "messiah" because I'm defending a backup plan that Musk was asked to continue working on, against people that apparently knew in their heart it was 100% doomed to failure from the start and instead like to shit on people because they tweet about what they're doing or some shit. Musk should have known how this would play out, but I don't think he's self-aware enough for that. I'm certainly happy they had no use for the sub, because it would have meant the situation had worsened and they had to change the plan, some kid being incapacitated or whatever. If it was too narrow after all, they would have had to keep widening the cave, which they had done in places.

gliptic 8y ago

What exactly are you arguing? You admit it could have been useful, but because they decided to go ahead with another approach because of the circumstances, the effort is useless? Do you also not do backups because, hey, I've never lost data... Can we have some nuance? Nobody is having a parade for Musk.

Sangermaine 8y ago
Elon Musk Defends His Rejected Mini-Sub Plan for Thai Cave https://nyti.ms/2NCzvi6?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://nyti.ms/2NCzvi6?smid=nytcore-ios-share >He said the expert was Richard Stanton, one of the first two British cave divers to reach the soccer team, and Mr. Musk shared an email in which Mr. Stanton had asked him to “please keep working on the capsule details.” >But a spokesman for Mr. Stanton said Tuesday that the cave proved to be too narrow for the mini-submarine. Crazy how the Thai official in charge doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and now Stanton doesn’t know either! Why is the world conspiring against Musk with these lies? Where’s your messiah now?
- gliptic 8y ago
  Yeah, such nuance. Implying that I hold Musk as a "messiah" because I'm defending a backup plan that Musk was asked to continue working on, against people that apparently knew in their heart it was 100% doomed to failure from the start and instead like to shit on people because they tweet about what they're doing or some shit. Musk should have known how this would play out, but I don't think he's self-aware enough for that. I'm certainly happy they had no use for the sub, because it would have meant the situation had worsened and they had to change the plan, some kid being incapacitated or whatever. If it was too narrow after all, they would have had to keep widening the cave, which they had done in places.