Tesla cultists = Unpaid consultants
Elon's latest idiotic idea: use highly compressed air thrusters to improve the performance of his sports Roadster. Float off the road, move in any direction.

A live human can instantly see the idiocy. What would supercold compressed air do to a road surface? Freeze it and crack it. What would blasts of compressed air do to nearby cars? Blow them off the road. Pedestrians? Dead.

The autistic cultists at Electrek instantly went into computation mode. In a few hours they had determined the necessary tank capacity, thruster positions, compression, control systems, etc, etc, all accurate to the 56322.451.0024th decimal place. (In autist world decimal points have decimal points have decimal points.)

Soon Elon messaged the Electrek author that the idea probably wouldn't be happening right now due to "regulatory pushback". Of course he doesn't really have "regulatory pushback" because the regulators are also cult members.

PING!

This is not sci-fi, this is just the modern version of an old and useful method in gov't and corporate research. Govt always insures that academic researchers are working around the edges of its new tyranny techniques, so it can monitor the academics for extra ideas or cautions. Corporations always hire outside consultants to develop alternate designs, so they can copy features that their in-house people didn't think of.

Often the outsiders are given a fake goal to protect the secrecy of the real goal. The fake goal runs in the same general territory as the real goal so the outside ideas will be appropriate. Elon's real goal may be compressed air as main power source, another very old idea.

Elon is doing it the modern CRIMINAL way. Instead of paying the fake-goal consultants, he galvanizes them with cult worship. This is parallel to the whole "everyone can be an entrepreneur" racket. Cultivate lots of activity, steal the good stuff, let the suckers starve.

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