On the one hand: yes.
On the other hand: (FTA)
Americans are starting to sour on Elon Musk and Tesla.
If profits down 71% is âstartingâ, thatâs a good start.
We can do better!
Well, I never bought one.
This actually called the things he did Hitler salutes and cited Grok as the evidence.
An Elon Musk enterprise lied? Well, this is my âshockedâ face.
Iâd be willing to be 20 years in the future if it meant all this nonsense was over (and only the guilty were dead, instead of millions of innocent victims).
I thought engineers were good at math?
But is Musk an engineer?
I donât know anything about US education. Are Bachelor of Arts in physics and Bachelor of Science in economics engineering degrees?
If I am feeling generous, it appears that they(the poster of the photographs) are attempting to restate something similar to this:
Randall, unsurprisingly, is more fair in his comparison, by comparing the first human airplane flight and the first human spaceflight. While the first spaceflight to land on the moon is certainly a milestone, it is not particularly similar to the milestone of the first human airplane flight. Iâm not sure what a similar terrestrial aviation milestone would be. Maybe the first human flight to a distance that is relative on Earth as the distance between Earth and its moon is to the distance between the far points of the solar system?
At the risk of making a similar mathematical mistake, Iâm going to attempt to calculate that distance.
- The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 363,104 km.
- The distance from the Sun to Neptune is 4,500,000,000 km.
- The distance from the Earth to the Moon is 0.00008069 (363104/4500000000) or 0,008069% of the length of the Solar system.
- The distance one would need to travel in an airplane would be ~3.2 km.
- That milestone appears to have been completed (by the Wright Brothers) as early as 11-09-1904
- Per Wikipedia
On September 20, 1904, Wilbur flew the first complete circle in history by a manned heavier-than-air powered machine, covering 4,080 feet (1,244 m) in about a minute and a half.[76] Their two best flights were November 9 by Wilbur and December 1 by Orville, each exceeding five minutes and covering nearly three miles in almost four circles.
So the distance between those two points in time is largely irrelevant, but the later date is still a better comparison point. That was a fun exercise, and mostly an opportunity to add a little more levity to a ridiculous math error by the worldâs richest man-child. I am also not an engineer, although my current job title calls me one. Hopefully I didnât make any significant mistakes above. Iâm reasonably confident I didnât miscalculate by more than 35%.