Banuielile sunt ca acel posibil cadavru ar fi al rivalului lui Jeff Bezos sau al actritei Amber Heard sau chiar al asasinului fictional de film, John Wick…
Tesla reports skyrocketing losses as Musk shares ‘last pic’ of his roadster en route to Mars
While Musk was sharing the final picture of “Starman in Roadster enroute to Mars orbit and then the Asteroid Belt,” back on Earth, Tesla reported a $675,350,000 net loss in the last quarter of 2017.
The declared loss is a record high in the history of the company. During the last quarter of 2016, Tesla lost a “mere” $121 million. Tesla blamed the loss on the huge investments into rolling out the Model 3 sedan, the production of which has been running months behind schedule. The company built only 2,425 Model 3 vehicles in the fourth quarter and had to cut the production target yet again last month, admitting it won’t hit full-scale production until at least the end of June.
“At some point in 2018, we expect to begin generating positive quarterly operating income on a sustained basis. With the planned ramp of both Model 3 and our energy storage products, our rate of revenue growth this year is poised to significantly exceed last year’s growth rate,” the Palo Alto-based company said in its quarterly update released Wednesday. “Our recent acquisitions of advanced automation companies have added to our talent base and are helping us increase Model 3 production rates more effectively.”
The company also told investors they were “thrilled to surprise everyone with the next-generation Roadster,” a day after Musk sent his first-generation Roadster to Mars aboard a SpaceX rocket. The electric sports car is piloted by a mannequin, with David Bowie’s Space Oddity on loop and a copy of Douglas Adams’ ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ in the glove compartment.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder seemed to downplay the production issues on Wednesday, saying it was “just a matter of time” until the company starts producing 500,000 Model 3s per year.“If we can send a Roadster to the asteroid belt, we can probably solve Model 3 production,” Musk said. He also warned investors about the planned capital expenditures on rolling out the new Tesla Y model in late 2018.
Despite production struggles, Tesla reiterated its cosmic ambitions to launch the next-gen Roadster in 2020, touting it as the “fastest car in the world,” which will put to rest “any debate about the limitations of electric vehicles.”
https://www.rt.com/business/418173-tesla-reports-record-loss/
Musk’s ‘Mars murder plot’: Redditors suggest sinister intentions behind rocket payload
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launched yesterday with the roadster on board, and it didn’t take long for the Reddit rumour mill to go into overdrive with a thread bluntly titled ‘Elon Musk got away with the perfect murder by sending the body to Mars.’
The outrageous suggestion has gathered more than 17,000 upvotes at the time of writing and 500 responses as commenters borrow from Hollywood plots to push bizarre theories of how Musk could have got away with murder.
Speculation on who the hypothetical victim could be ranges from rival spaceflight entrepreneur Jeff Bezos – despite his open support for the Heavy launch – to actress Amber Heard and even fictional movie assassin John Wick.
Musk sent his Tesla Roadster towards Mars aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, Tuesday. A mannequin called Starman, wearing an official SpaceX crew flight suit, was in the vehicle.
“Elon Musk launched a car into space with a dummy in a spacesuit in the driver’s seat. The idea is that the dummy is actually a corpse, hidden in plain sight on international news, and nobody will ever be able to find the person he killed,”one Redditor proposed.
Others suggested there could be two bodies – a second one in the trunk, or perhaps the mystery passenger is a cloned version of Musk himself returning to his home planet. Taking the discussion to another level, a wannabe CSI investigator suggested that “the reason you can’t see the bloodstains is because (the car) is cherry red! Until you enhance, of course..”
Musk is famously no stranger to wacky theories around his endeavors. The billionaire has addressed some of the more fantastical suspicions inspired by his projects with tongue in cheek logic.
Last year he even provoked flat earthers asking, “Why is there no Flat Mars Society?”
