Sunday, February 18, 2018

Climateer Line of the Day: Elon's Relationship With Reality Edition

Today's winner of the prestigious CLoD is the engineer-creator of WhereIsRoadster.com:
...After the launch, Pearson started modeling where the car could be in space, but his calculations didn’t match the orbit Musk had released. How did he feel when he found out he was right and Elon Musk was wrong? “I was just relieved to know that I wasn’t doing anything critically wrong,” Pearson says.
“Elon Musk is a visionary man, incredibly far forward, but there’s a reality distortion field when it comes to him.”
...much more at The Verge: "Track Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster in space with this aptly named website"