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Why Does Elon Musk Troll Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez With a Poll?

Elon Musk says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started it by coming after him and calling billionaires evil. He ran a poll on whether people prefer politicians or billionaires, and billionaires won by a lot.

A supporter of AOC then ran a direct poll of AOC or Elon Musk. Elon Musk says he won that poll too.

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Elon Musk x Nelk Boys | Ep. 53 ·

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  1. How Do You Book Elon Musk on the Full Send Podcast?On the Full Send Podcast the host first reached out to Elon Musk after the Trump episode. Elon Musk responded not yet but maybe sometime in the future.
  2. Why Must a Full Send Host Prepare for Elon?A Full Send host says only a few people in the world get to sit down with Elon Musk.
  3. Why Did SpaceX Drug-test Everyone After Elon Musk Smoked Weed?Elon Musk says smoking weed on Joe Rogan was still federally illegal. SpaceX has federal government contracts, so it was not just him.
  4. Why Did Elon's Tesla Private Tweet Cause Legal Trouble?Elon Musk says he is the only person who has had access to that Twitter account.
  5. How Much Does a Starship Launch Cost?The marginal cost of a launch is at least 50 million dollars and maybe 100 million dollars. Every explosion costs 100 million dollars.
  6. How Does Elon Musk Propose Warming Up Mars?Elon Musk says Mars could be warmed with solar reflectors, or with a series of thermonuclear explosions used as artificial suns.
  7. How Does Elon Musk Start a Civilization on Mars?Elon Musk says the first step is a base with food production and water. Ice mining droids would mine ice, melt it, and purify the water.
  8. Why Does Mars Need a Million People to Become Self-sustaining?Mars needs maybe a million people to become self sustaining because a massive base of industry must be recreated or the colony will die out if spaceships from…
  9. Why Would an Alien Body Get a Pentagon Budget Approved?Elon Musk says the idea that Eisenhower met with aliens is not true.
  10. Why Does Elon Musk Fear Population Collapse Most?Elon Musk says population collapse from a super low birth rate is the biggest threat to mankind right now, ahead of nuclear war and natural disasters.
  11. Why Does the Ratio of Adult Diapers to Baby Diapers Matter?People are living longer but the population of Earth will plummet without higher birth rates. One metric to track is the ratio of adult diapers to baby diapers.
  12. Why Does Elon Musk Support Doge?Elon Musk says he mainly supports Doge because Doge has the memes and the dogs, has a sense of humor, and does not take itself too seriously.
  13. Why Does a Hard Hit to the Head Cause Loss of Neurons?Elon Musk says repeated hard hits to the head cause brain damage because the brain has the consistency of jello and the skull is hard like a coconut.
  14. How Does the Neuralink Brain Chip Help Quadriplegics?The initial goal of Neuralink is to help quadriplegics or tetraplegics operate their phone or computer faster than someone with working hands.
  15. How Does Neuralink Allow a Monkey to Play Pong Using Only Its Mind?Elon Musk says most people do not realize monkeys can play Pong.
  16. Why Does Neuralink Start With People Who Have Disabilities?Neuralink starts with people who have disabilities because there is some risk with new technology, so the reward has to be really high.
  17. Why Does the Cybertruck Require New Manufacturing Techniques?Elon Musk says the Cybertruck has a radically different architecture from any other car, so prior manufacturing techniques do not work.
  18. Why Does Tesla Have Value to Civilization?Accelerating the advent of sustainability by 10 years, maybe 20 years represents the real value of Tesla to civilization.
  19. How Soon Does Elon Musk Say Artificial Intelligence Becomes a Risk?Elon Musk says artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly and belongs on the risk list. He puts the danger at probably less than ten years.
  20. Why Does Elon Musk Say Society Needs People to Die?Elon Musk says that when people get old they do not change their minds. They just die.
  21. What Is the Meaning of Life?Elon Musk says a philosophy that makes sense is to go out there and expand consciousness so that we are better able to answer the questions of like what is…
  22. How Does Elon Musk Use Absurdity to Remember an Event?Elon Musk says absurdity is a third way to remember something.
  23. Why Did Hitchhiker's Guide Answer Elon Musk's Life Crisis?Elon Musk says that while he was growing up he had an existential crisis about the meaning of life, and religious texts and philosophers did not give him a…
  24. Why Does the Permian Extinction Stand Out in the Fossil Record?Five great extinction events appear in the fossil record. A great extinction event destroys 70 or 80 percent of all species on Earth.
  25. Why Does Elon Musk Say Mars Costs Infinity?Elon Musk says sending one human to Mars costs infinity dollars right now. No amount of money can do it yet.
  26. How Much of a Falcon 9 Rocket Can SpaceX Reuse?SpaceX has achieved reusability of everything except the upper stage with Falcon 9.

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