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WalterBrightyesterday at 10:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

> nothing we want is on the other side

Wow.

> You decided the rest of the solar system is dead, not the scientific community.

The odds are heavily stacked against other life existing, and get worse with every probe. Of course, nobody can prove there is no other life. And it's not very credible that Terran life will out-compete locally evolved life.

And the idea that preserving some slime mold on Pluto justifies us constraining ourselves to Earth is just sad.

> If you really can't comprehend the reason why Elon Musk is villified by people then there's no point in trying to explain it to you.

I once asked another Musk-hater on HN why? All he could come up with is Musk called a diver a pedo-boy. I pointed out that Musk only did that because the diver went on national TV and told Musk to shove his submarine up his backside.

If you've got a better reason, I'd love to hear it!


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direwolf20today at 2:02 AM

Ironically, thanks to the recent releases of the Epstein files,now we know that Musk is a pedo–boy.

kentmyesterday at 11:46 PM

Notwithstanding the other myriad of reasons to not like Elon Musk (of which there are many)…

You’re equivocating a childish insult with insisting that a person is a pedophile and hiring a private investigator to prove so and then writing scathing emails to reporters because they refuse to repeat claims uncritically. This is an appalling failing of morality on your part.

I’m frankly not inclined to dive into why I, previously a big fan of Elon Musk, find him personally repugnant because I expect you to apply the same standards to everything he does. That doesn’t take away from SpaceX, but we shouldn’t overlook his failings just because rockets are cool.

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