"Elon didn't bring us reusable tail landers though.. that shit was done in the 70's.. It was a flying grain bin basically.. they also did it in the early 2000's with another rocket."

I am an avid enthusiast. This information is not known to me. Please provide source.

However, the point I made is still valid. The Elon dropped the price of a payload to orbit by 10x. That REALLY matters.

"...gravity waves..."

This is the compression and stretching of spacetime, which I approve of learning how to do. If we can learn to control this, we can get places fast.

However, I've seen no evidence we can do this.

"Elon merely buys out companies..."

I don't care. The point is that Elon, even if he's only a front, is fronting enormous changes to these industries. These change are material and significant. That's what matters. Besides, how could we tell?

I am uninterested in Neuralink or surveillance EV's. I think that if I want an EV that meets my needs, I'll have to build it myself, and I'm considering it at this time. I have an FWD vehicle with stub axles that would be suitable for mounting hub motors on and it wouldn't cost enormous sums to do it. I don't need any eldritch software or surveillance crap to do this. Just batteries and a way to charge them, some good wiring, good hub motors, and a rheostat, at least to start.

I suspect there's a reason for the physical chip in Neuralink. There are claims being made that very granular EMF (even satellite) control of wet neural networks - brains - is operational. What would be a good way to defend against this? That may be the angle. I dunno, but I'm not getting a chip in me, unless this kind of attack is demonstrated and Neuralink demonstrates a defense against it. If the remote control of our brains can be attained it's an existential threat.

Palmer Luckey is pretty impressive, though he could also be a front.