Elon Musk, what's going on ?
You come around to think of Elon Musk as someone who is creating electric cars and helping the enviroment. Then when you research further, you realise that he is destroying the environment by trying to send people into space and wasting a load of money on space rockets, When he could give others money to save lives. He has a net worth of around $21.8 billion so he could give a 1/4 of that to charity. The work at Tesla, SpaceX and PayPal has done him good as he is the 37th richest in the world according to Forbes.
Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX and what he wants to do is send people into space. It seems easy but launching a rocket takes a lot of hard work. It costs millions of dollars. Although he has never been to space, he has sent loads of rockets into orbit and everyone enjoys it but he really needs to focus on helping out people. He was making his own rockets when he was a kid with his housekeeper when his parents weren't at home. Musk has been told that he has to go to court this December after calling a lifesaver a "pedo guy" on twitter.
This post was done by sociable_volcano and resillient_apple in a joint piece of work.
Comments (18)
12 Dec 2019
Nice work.
12 Dec 2019
Well done
12 Dec 2019
I agree with both of you because Elon musk can probably give a 1/4 to charity because there are much more important things that we should be doing such as.
Giving money to charity
Saving for better things
This is my opinion.
12 Dec 2019
I think that what Elon Musk is doing is wrong because.
Firstly, it is a massive waste of money because every rocket launch costs a gigantic $152million and a lot of money could and should be spent on cancer research, charities , saving peoples lives or tackling climate change. These things are a lot more important than peoples vacations.
Secondly, people can get diseases and illnesses to their genes or blood. This was tested by NASA when 1 twin went into orbit when the other had his genes and blood tested. After the landing, the astronaut had the same test happen and compared to his twin. Their were changes, massive changes. It was found out that going into orbit changes your genes and blood. We don’t want it to happen to more people.
Finally, some spacecrafts loose contact with Earth. India’s most recent rocket is an example of this. People sometimes forget just how bad that news is to the people in that family. It is heartbreaking. The rocket lost contact with the space station as the were about to land on the moon. Some space shuttles don’t even make it off the ground. This was shown by the challenger in 1986. It was carrying a teacher and it blew up on liftof, some children had to watch that happening. Another heartbreaking moment.
Does this make Elon Musk wrong, or all space travel wrong, or both?
12 Dec 2019
Elon Musk is both dangerous and rude. He is wrecking the environment!
I think that Elon Musk is not a bad person. It is just what he does that may seem to be the wrong thing to do. Elon Musk is not the only person that is causing this wreckage of the environment, everyone on space exploration teams is a contribution too. He is actually trying to prevent the earth's crisis from getting worse by making electric cars that don't emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and electric rockets to stop pollution in space. Elon Musk is in a hard place because it is his job to build space equipment but he cannot help that the problems regarding global warming are at the point they are. He is trying his best(thanks to him, electric cars will be common by 2030 which will help to save us from extinction) the global crisis has gone too far and is almost irreversible. He is famous which doesn't help. Everyone will know him and rumours spread. To conclude I don't understand why Elon Musk is given the blame, due to the fact that he is one of the only examples that we have to look at, and it only seems like he is doing more bad than good but in theory, he is really helping the environment. I understand this is your opinion, but this is mine.
12 Dec 2019
This is a great post, it is a great idea for a discussion starter because everyone has different opinions. Good work!
13 Dec 2019
I think Elon Musk is wrong because he doesn't make electricity and he is the one who made people want to go to space
I agree giving_elephant. He is not caring about how much damage he is doing to the planet.
13 Dec 2019
I don’t think Elon Musk knows how much damage he is causing to the environment. He also thinks that space is more important than the planet he lives in.
13 Dec 2019
Although ElonMusk is destroying the environment with spacex ,he is throwing money away which he could of gave a 1/4 to charity
Exactly. You do the talking!
13 Dec 2019
You too teaming up make absolutely pure perfection! Very well done.
13 Dec 2019
Although Elon Musk is destroying the environment with spaceX, he is working on re-usable rockets which in the long term could actually help the environment. However, these reusable rockets will only reduce the materials required to BUILD rockets, and not the fossil-fuels that are burned when getting it off the ground. This could encourage people o launch more of them as they are less expensive so we could actually HARM the environment. In my opinion, we just shouldn't launch anything into space at all and should focus on reducing poverty around the Earth
13 Dec 2019
Thank you skillful_skill for commenting on my comment
That’s OK.
20 Mar 2020
What a post
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