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EarlyAdopter
Active Member
Aye, and yours truly happened to give the local service center one of his stickers a couple weeks before he came in to pick up his Model S. Maddy put it up in the window to her office and Matthew saw it and blogged about it here. Glad I brought a smile back to his face, since he's brought so many to mine.
I love the Oatmeal's stuff and his comic was great on page one, but page two was a little schizophrenic and...
...yeah it bummed me that he acted like Elon owes this (despite trying to disclaim that this wasn't what he was doing). Also I was baffled by his implications that it's problematic that the company is named after Tesla; IMHO it's a serious homage to a woefully under-appreciated genius, and there's more connection between Tesla Motors and Nikola Tesla than some other things named after the guy. ;-)
But I still love The Oatmeal, and the first page was so awesome, OMG! I seriously LOL'd when I hit the part about how when someone comes up and admires your car, you should hit all the buttons in the mobile app and freak them out. :-D
...yeah it bummed me that he acted like Elon owes this (despite trying to disclaim that this wasn't what he was doing). Also I was baffled by his implications that it's problematic that the company is named after Tesla; IMHO it's a serious homage to a woefully under-appreciated genius, and there's more connection between Tesla Motors and Nikola Tesla than some other things named after the guy. ;-)
But I still love The Oatmeal, and the first page was so awesome, OMG! I seriously LOL'd when I hit the part about how when someone comes up and admires your car, you should hit all the buttons in the mobile app and freak them out. :-D
mitch672
Active Member
He is asking Elon/Tesla Motors to come up with $8 million, that's 32 average SuperChargers, so probably won't happen... It would be nice if Tesla Motors offered some type of crowd sourced matching campaign, for every $1 donated or raised from the crowd sourced site, Tesla Motors would match it (with a $4 million limit, say spread out over 2-3 years, so not a huge hit to shareholders). Ultimately, they could put a few Model S's on display, and especially a skateboard version, and close up of the AC induction motor. They could even locate a SuperCharger onsite, could become sort of an east coast showcase of Tesla Motors technology, and give credit to Nikola for inventing it over 100 years ago.
"The Nikola Tesla Museum" (sponsored by Tesla Motors)"
"The Nikola Tesla Museum" (sponsored by Tesla Motors)"
gg_got_a_tesla
Model S: VIN 65513, Model 3: VIN 1913
Agree that it's iffy to put Elon in a spot like that. $8 million is a lot of money to give to one cause even if it's "pocket change" for Elon. Showing the $2,500 figure that he contributed the last time seems a bit semi-accusatory to me.
Having said that, it'd indeed be great if Elon can jumpstart this round of fundraising. There are so many more people who are aware of and are fans of Tesla (atleast the car company) now than back in early 2012. A crowdsourced fundraising effort may pull it off. I contributed the last time and will do the same this time as well. Nikola Tesla deserves to be remembered for perpetuity and honored for what he did for humanity.
The cartoons themselves were hilarious as always.
Having said that, it'd indeed be great if Elon can jumpstart this round of fundraising. There are so many more people who are aware of and are fans of Tesla (atleast the car company) now than back in early 2012. A crowdsourced fundraising effort may pull it off. I contributed the last time and will do the same this time as well. Nikola Tesla deserves to be remembered for perpetuity and honored for what he did for humanity.
The cartoons themselves were hilarious as always.
ddenboer
MODEL X #1770
I met him about 18 months ago, the day I got my Model S. He was driving a friend's Roadster and I was driving my S. We did drag racing in the parking lot of a prominent animation studio. It was fun!
Check out @elonmusk's Tweet: Twitter / elonmusk: @Oatmeal I would be happy to help
Elon agrees to help!
Elon agrees to help!
How could he not? They can get the naming rights so that it's the Tesla Motors Tesla Museum, or TMTM for short.
I don't think he really put him on the spot. In his begging letter, he noted specifically that Elon Musk chooses to invest his wealth in, essentially, huge semi-philanthropic projects instead of yachts, strippers or yachts with strippers, but said that he did spend $1M on a very expensive (awesome) toy, so how about $8M to build and run a Tesla museum, Elon?
Elon Musk added another tweet:
Elon Musk @elonmusk · 3h said:
(No explanation of the zeroth law needed here, I presume).
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gg_got_a_tesla
Model S: VIN 65513, Model 3: VIN 1913
Rifleman
Now owns 2 Model S's!!!
Funny Article about Tesla Ownership - comic's perspective
You'll get a chuckle out of this one...
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s
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You'll get a chuckle out of this one...
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s
:tongue:
Jaff
Active Member
Elon’s tweet was in response to Inman’s about Hari Seldon so you were right to look toward Azimov; it’s not the zeroth law of thermodynamics but of robots "A robot may not harm humanity, or through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm”.
A brief background, for those unfamiliar:
Humans create highly intelligent robots, which could be dangerous, so to protect humanity they are created with 3 laws:
Laws of robotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia said:
The zeroth law was conceived by one of these intelligent robots, Giskard, who determines that it was in humanity's interest to have a catastrophic event that would force them to leave Earth. (In a book written not long before Asimov died that tied together the Robot series and Foundation series.)
Anyway, what Elon's saying is that not only should new technology be improving humanity, but that we shouldn't be idly accepting a harmful status quo or doing nothing about future threats. His pies are SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City: he means it.
