The Bear Thesis:
Perhaps Musk has the same difficulty about estimation as my ex described to counter Larry Summers. When Larry was president of Harvard she explained his alt-fact on women’s difficulty in mathematics: “Well that’s because we’ve been told by men all our lives that (and she separated her index fingers to show 3”) to be (and then she signed 8”)."
It is quite clear Musk falls short on timelines, but is he also deficient in other measures? For example, take the phrase “mouse nuts” which many members here celebrate as though well calibrated, including myself, without actual measurement and thus its empirical value. It might be an alt-fact, I don’t know and frankly, my dears, I don’t care/give a damn.
But what about the relative size of these publicly shared gonads compared to the rest of the body? Is it just another alt-fact slur? What about their relative mass? What about their relative effectiveness? (I’m reminded about comparisons of sperm count per animal “service,” to use a family friendly term for this site, by an ancient Scientific American article. I’m not clear on exact numbers, but the order of magnitude is likely correct: pigs produce ten times as much as humans, while ant males effect 1/60,000 of ours—I guess not all of us are designed to marry queens.)
The Bull Argument:
But there is an argument in Musk’s favor. I read somewhere the weight of a sperm whale male gonad is three tons. That would put it at over 4.6% of its mass, say 65 tons. In terms of his ambition, intelligence, drive, and importance to saving the life of the planet this Earth Day Elon Musk has whale nuts. No wonder MSNBC thinks he wobbles as he walks, or talks—I can't remember which!
Sorry, I was raised on Rabelais.
Perhaps Musk has the same difficulty about estimation as my ex described to counter Larry Summers. When Larry was president of Harvard she explained his alt-fact on women’s difficulty in mathematics: “Well that’s because we’ve been told by men all our lives that (and she separated her index fingers to show 3”) to be (and then she signed 8”)."
It is quite clear Musk falls short on timelines, but is he also deficient in other measures? For example, take the phrase “mouse nuts” which many members here celebrate as though well calibrated, including myself, without actual measurement and thus its empirical value. It might be an alt-fact, I don’t know and frankly, my dears, I don’t care/give a damn.
But what about the relative size of these publicly shared gonads compared to the rest of the body? Is it just another alt-fact slur? What about their relative mass? What about their relative effectiveness? (I’m reminded about comparisons of sperm count per animal “service,” to use a family friendly term for this site, by an ancient Scientific American article. I’m not clear on exact numbers, but the order of magnitude is likely correct: pigs produce ten times as much as humans, while ant males effect 1/60,000 of ours—I guess not all of us are designed to marry queens.)
The Bull Argument:
But there is an argument in Musk’s favor. I read somewhere the weight of a sperm whale male gonad is three tons. That would put it at over 4.6% of its mass, say 65 tons. In terms of his ambition, intelligence, drive, and importance to saving the life of the planet this Earth Day Elon Musk has whale nuts. No wonder MSNBC thinks he wobbles as he walks, or talks—I can't remember which!
Sorry, I was raised on Rabelais.
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