Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims - eviltoast
Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • laughterlaughter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    100 people are, like, 19,000 lbs. Why the weight difference between 100 people and just cargo? Because of life support systems?

    • laverabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      1 ton per person for living quarters, supplies, etc. I’m not sure if life support is part of that, and also not sure how exactly they settled on 1 ton.

      SpaceX has stated that Starship, in its “baseline reuseable design”, will have a payload capacity of 100–150 t (220,000–331,000 lb)

      https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship