Reddit's Wallstreetbets its giddy that Hertz just bought 100,000 Teslas. Hertz also just got bailed out to the tune of $4.2 billion. The base model Tesla is $42,000. This looks like a pass-through payoff to me. Tesla just got a massive cash infusion at tax payers expense with plausible deniability maintained by funneling it through a desperate company. This further confirms to me that Elon Musk is deep state.
We shouldn't be celebrating occurrences like this but noting them and using them to document who is on the take.
Really. A personal attack? Nothing about Artemis delays? Nothing about STILL crashing multi-million dollar boosters, designed for STS up to 19x; being dropped as scrap into the ocean? Nothing about not launching a meaningful rocket since the Shuttle? Nothing about the colossal failure of Aries?
Nothing about the wasted decades on Aerospike research? Did you see how small Bezo’s rocket was to launch to the capsule, or the ingenious landing? We are still using 40 yr old tech to hit a 100 mile radius in the Ocean.
That is pushing mankind forward. Not doing a dress rehearsal on a 40 year old act. You are missing the big picture utterly and completely. Beeps and Musk take risks. NASA is afraid to