TIME picks its person of the year 2021

I was shocked. TIME still exists?

Sorry to report that they passed on me yet again. They chose …

8 thoughts on “TIME picks its person of the year 2021

  1. Elon Musk is a very smart man who sometimes disconnects his brain before he speaks. He dreams big and he makes big promises on which he sometimes he falls short. But sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he accomplishes things that very few people thought he could accomplish. Even when he falls short of the goals he sets he gets further than anyone else. He sometimes says dumb things, But I think he is largely responsible for much of the public demand for electric cars. His company designed and built electric cars that excited the public and had the range to be practical for many people. He hasn’t managed to meet all his production goals, but that has only increased the demand. I have no objective evidence of this next statement, but it seems to me that all the demand for Teslas has caused all the major car companies to start offering their own electric cars that they actually expect to sell at a profit instead of at a loss to meet fleet CAFE standards. I am sure that would have happened without Tesla, but I think it happened sooner because of it.

    SpaceX successfully privatized the space industry. The cost of rocket launches has been driven way down because of their success with reusable rockets and boosters. Jeff Bezos is sending celebrities to the edge of space. SpaceX is taking astronauts to the ISS and deploying satellite networks that will make Internet available worldwide. Well anywhere a repressive government doesn’t forbid it. He launched his car into an interplanetary orbit. That wasn’t at all practical and it was a couple of years ago. But it was super f*cking cool. So Heavy Metal.

    I think he is a great choice for man of the Year.

    1. Making a ton of money does not make a person smart in any general way. See Henry Ford, for example. Musk’s hyperloop sounds dumb.

      I am not saying Musk is a fool, but I don’t feel required to respect someone because they made a billion dollars. A person can do that and still be an ass in many ways, IMO.

      Having said that, I am glad to see interest in space exploration. The public seems to has figured that was all over once a man had stepped on the moon.

      1. I’m not saying he is smart because he made a ton of money. Although, by the time you get to be the richest guy on the planet. it might be more accurate to measure his money in megatons. I am actually very happy he has so much money, because he has chosen to use it to advance human spaceflight and to make it so much cheaper to lift cargo to orbit. He has also done more to combat climate change than most billionaires by producing electric cars, and solar panels. But his biggest contribution in that area may turn out to be the powerwalls and other mass battery storage his companies are working on.

  2. National Lampoon hasn’t been a physical entity for over 20 years, but that hasn’t stopped them from slapping their name on an endless parade of movies of ever-worsening quality, to the point where “National Lampoon” is now synonymous with “Surely you have something better to do with your valuable time than watch this awful thing.” Say what you want about Time, but at least they haven’t openly prostituted their brand name.

  3. The magazine has become pathetic in the last decade, the website is for shit. Don’t know why I still read it. Maybe because I have been since ’56 or ’57.

  4. Yeah, Elon is taking us to Mars. Bezos is shooting himself and celebrities to near orbit in dick shaped rockets while his employees struggle to survive.

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