Via Snopes:
Both U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts initially used pencils on space flights, but those writing instruments were not ideal: pencil tips can flake and break off, and having such objects floating around space capsules in near-zero gravity posed a potential harm to astronauts and equipment. (As well, after the fatal Apollo 1 fire in 1967, NASA was anxious to avoid having astronauts carry flammable objects such as pencils onboard with them.)
You are aware that socialists are opposed to green capitalism too. You can’t consume your way out of climate chaos in the way that Musk want us to. I am far from a primitivist, but green capitalism is untenable.
We need another way.
For some reason this whole thread makes we want to rewatch this:
At least in sci-fi movies you can engineer you way out…
But… the technological achievement of some of his companies are not his inventions, remember, this guy is an investor, at worst a PR guy.
Not a scientist, not an engineer, an investor.
Edit to add this link : Elon Musk’s Vegas Tunnel Isn’t Public Transit - Curbed
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