Musk Lashes Out on Twitter (07.16.18)
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
– Elon Musk lashes out against British diver Vern Unsworth in response to Unsworth’s critical comments
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Monday July 16th episode of Tesla |
| 0:07.5 | Daily on official Tesla podcast. |
| 0:09.3 | My name is Rob Maower. |
| 0:10.1 | Today we are again talking about Elon Musk on Twitter unfortunately. |
| 0:13.4 | Yesterday Vern Unsworth, who is a British diver who was involved in the Thailand |
| 0:17.4 | cave rescue of the youth soccer team, responded to a question regarding his |
| 0:21.2 | thoughts on Elon Musk's idea to help out with that rescue by saying |
| 0:25.2 | amongst other things quote he can stick his submarine where it hurts it just had absolutely no chance of |
| 0:30.5 | working end quote this really seemed to strike a nerve with Elon, which I think is understandable |
| 0:35.5 | given the fact that Elon has already been widely accused of involving himself in the situation |
| 0:40.7 | solely for PR purposes. |
| 0:43.0 | Obviously this is not the case, as we can see in the email thread with Rick Stanton, |
| 0:47.7 | who is another British diver working on the rescue. |
| 0:50.3 | Stanton had emailed Musk saying, quote, we're worried about the smallest lad. |
| 0:54.0 | Please keep working on the capsule details. |
| 0:57.0 | And after some back and forth on that, Musk said, quote, |
| 1:00.0 | if it isn't needed or won't help, |
| 1:02.0 | that would be great to know. |
| 1:03.2 | Otherwise it would be helpful to have as much design direction as possible. |
| 1:06.3 | End quote. |
| 1:07.3 | Around that same time, Musk had also been tweeting that he was going to be sending a team |
| 1:10.8 | to the cave because he was sure that there were nuances there that |
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