Elon Musk Admits He Is Too Busy To Build Hyperloop

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 8, 2013 @02:10AM from the if-you-can-bear-through-the-intrusive-ads dept.

DavidGilbert99 writes "It sounded like the future — a 600mph train taking people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 30mins. In fact it sounded like a future too good to be true. And so it seems to have proven. As Alistair Charlton at IBTimes reports, Elon Musk, the man behind PayPal, Tesla and Space X has admitted that Hyperloop is a step too far and he should never have mentioned it in the first place — 'I think I shot myself in the foot by ever mentioning the Hyperloop. I'm too strung out.' Oh well, let's hope SpaceX works out a bit better ... " Considering that SpaceX has already sent materials to the ISS and retrieved the capsule, it seems to have worked out pretty well so far.

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Re:Elon Musk... by DerekLyons · 2013-08-08 04:07 · Score: -1, Troll

You can say a lot things about Mr.Musk, but he is taking risks with his own money that everyone might one day profit from. As opposed to the usual route of billionaires which seems to be taking risks with everyone elses money so that they can profit from it.
Hmm.... let's take the tax money pumped into Tesla, and repaid not from income but from bonds sold on the market. And the tax money being pumped into SpaceX...
Whose money is he taking a risk with?