Muskrats are cute:
However, Elon Musk is not cute. He has a huge fan base because he is flamboyant, and has great charisma, but he is doing stuff which is along the Dr Frankenstein lines, and deserves strong criticism, which he does not get because everybody likes the guy.
“Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that Neuralink — his brain-computer-interface company — could be launching human trials by the end of 2021.
Musk gave the timeline in response to another user's request to join human trials for the product, which is designed to implant artificial intelligence into human brains as well as potentially cure neurological diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
"Neuralink is working super hard to ensure implant safety & is in close communication with the FDA," Musk said on Twitter in response to another user's request to join human trials. "If things go well, we might be able to do initial human trials later this year."
Yes, it is always justified by the “it will cure cancer blah blah line.” But what we end up getting is more powerful tools of social control for the ruling elites, with a few crumbs of benefits tossed to the plebs to shut them up. Mark my words, this is straight out of the Terminator movies.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/elon-musk-1.5903000
“Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's Starlink satellite program is changing the night sky over Saskatchewan in ways never before seen.
Musk's company SpaceX has launched more than 1,000 satellites into orbit since 2018. Each 250-kg satellite is orbiting the Earth at 550 kilometres, meant to bring high-speed internet to rural communities around the world.
It is an unsettling development for many who look up at the stars.
On Friday around 7:15 a.m. CST in Saskatoon and Regina a string of bright lights began moving west to east across the centre of the sky, the lights even spaced and moving at the same speed. They were as bright as the stars and moon, already shining in the sub-zero air.
This went on for four minutes.
"Well, it's scary," said University of Saskatchewan astronomy instructor Daryl Janzen.
"I mean, on the one hand this is going to provide internet to people who can't currently get it. But on the other hand, you know, from an astronomy standpoint, we don't really know what the impact is going to be."
Musk plans on launching 40,000 satellites, which Janzen says will complicate matters for people on the ground trying to study the stars.
He said that satellites "slashing through images" will make it near impossible to do astronomy from the ground.
"From an astronomy standpoint, it could be pretty catastrophic. And then just from a naturalist environmental standpoint, if we've got satellites flying around the sky that are constantly visible, that also would not be good."
Janzen also has philosophical reservations about the project. The science that was used to put these satellites up in space is directly linked to studying the stars and planets.
"Looking at the motions of the planets and trying to understand them and that search for what's going on and where we are led directly to Newtonian physics and Newton's law of universal gravitation," he said.
"That was like a 2,000-year human venture to come to that understanding. And now, 350 years later, we've taken that theory and destroyed the sky that led to it. Or potentially."
Not too many people can boast about killing off an entire science.