NY Times: Elon Musk Thinks a Minisubmarine Could Help in Thai Cave Rescue
By JULIA JACOBS
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Hark! The trumpets of Mount Olympus are calling us to prayer. On your knees or on your feet, and bow in reverence, boy and girls. The all-wise, all-knowing super scientist / super-inventor / super-business mogul Elon Musk ™ doth address us with the details vagaries of his latest inspiration -- a mini-submarine to rescue a group of cave-stranded, flooded-out youth football (soccer) players in Thailand. Never mind the fact that Thai rescuers actually on the scene as well as worldwide specialists in such rescue efforts have already dismissed Musk's scheme as impractical. To members of the Cult of Musk, it is always and only Elon's "visionary" fairy tale that matters -- never the actual results.
Before even dispatching Sugar the Crazed Conspiracy Cat to do a bit of data-digging on this curiously over-rated character, we had already suspected, based upon a number of hints, that Elon Musk ™ was the product of a sophisticated CIA puff-up operation. We observed the instant and seemingly effortless accumulation of wealth in the hands of a young man who seemed to have "come out of nowhere." We observed the constant hyping of his multiple companies (Tesla, SpaceX,