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Elon Musk's Boring Company Delivers $600 Flamethrower (theverge.com)
Last December, Boring Company CEO Elon Musk promised to sell a Boring Company-branded flamethrower after selling 50,000 Boring Company hats. Well, sure enough, 50,000 hats were sold and Musk is delivering on his promise. The Verge reports: Mark this down as one of the promises Elon delivers on, apparently, because it looks like the Boring Company flamethrower is here. Redditors in a few SpaceX, Boring Company, and Musk-related subreddits noticed earlier this week that the URL "boringcompany.com/flamethrower" started redirecting to a page with a password box. And at least one user was able to guess the original password, too: "flame." (It's since been changed.) Behind that password was a shop page that looks just like the one for The Boring Company's hat. But instead of a $20 cap, they found a preorder prompt for a $600 flamethrower. "Prototype pictured above," the listing reads. "Final production flamethrower will be better."
Why "flame"? This doesn't exactly work with the push against the carbon industries. Perhaps something like a plasma thrower would be more appropriate. You could generate that with electricity.
Maybe you could ionize the flame and accelerate it with an electric field as a compromise?
Got my hat yesterday. I wear it proudly because I believe in this mission. If successful this is what Musk will be remembered for in the future.
>> Boring Company, the Flamethrower
If it's good enough for Spaceballs, it's good enough for Elon.
It's actually legal is most states, because they either have no laws for it or require a license.
This would really spice up the next paintball outing.
I got my hat today. I feel like they waited for the flame thrower numbers before they sent out the hats. I'll probably invest in that and wear it around as I believe in the mission.
”And at least one user was able to guess the original password, too: "flame." (It's since been changed).”
That’s just the kind of attention to security best practices I’d expect from a Founder of PayPal.
#DeleteChrome
Perhaps the superhero (or is that supervillain?) Elon Musk is showing his true identity.
Obligatory Dune reference.
Musk is doing this to drum up PR to get investors to keep buying stock in his companies which are unable to subsist on their own without the public dole.
Want!!! What will I do with it? ANYTHING I want. Who's going to stop a guy with a flamethrower...
As the dragon said, "fucking millenials."
Elon is poised to announce an RPG launcher for those afternoons when you just want to goof around in the yard...
.... this place needs purifying.
He's so edgy, he's my hero. Bro he even read rocket science books.
Get to low earth Orbit :)
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Boring hats are already weeks beyond their originally quoted delivery dates, for a hat. I can imagine the safest way to keep your kid's hands off a flame thrower is to let them order one from Musk.
do you get a Founder's Series flamethrower?
I'll give you my flamethrower when you pry it from my scorched, dead hands.
Tesla and Solar City stock certificates are Elon Musk toilet paper.
The lunch box.
An affordable flame thrower for the masses! What could possibly go wrong?
'Flamebait' has a whole new meaning now.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Musk is doing this to drum up PR to get investors to keep buying stock in his companies which are unable to subsist on their own without the public dole.
As opposed to GM?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Elon's end game is becoming clear.
TBC produces tunnel boring machines, flamethrowers, hats. Add an anvil and some rocket engines to the catalog and he can rename the company ACME. Contract SpaceX for the 'instant delivery' option.
of thay flamethrower?
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DLZGOZWDHs
You seem outraged by what is a very common thing for larger business, particularly in USA.
Hope you donâ(TM)t drive any other car, use a bank or take any medications.
Maybe youâ(TM)re just angry because now you know how a bit more about how the world works and you canâ(TM)t believe you never knew.
Did you also know that large businesses get custom tax rulings? You can get totally different rules with enough persistence and threats of shedding workers. The government will essentially pay to employ people via tax kickbacks.
WHAT: flamethrower was invented to remove paperwasp nests.
WHY: on thousands of acres of crops, paperwasps are always welcome for hunting caterpillars, but paperwasp nests uncontrolled could grow hidden the size of a bus and mean certain death should any man or animal walk near.
HOW: inspired from napalm, sprayed on a nest which is physically crafted by cellulose, burns the nest and pupae and adult wasps in quick time.
WHEN: make your own mockup flamethrower with a squirt gun loaded by alcohol-based liquid hand soap by attaching a cigarette lighter near the barrel without damaging the gun.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?
To quote B-grade sci-fi... that does not compute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
I want to know.
P.S. Flamethrower on normal cars, to deter car thieves, won the 1999 Ig Nobel Peace Prize.