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Yesterday, Elon's jet flew a staggering 15 mile flight

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Elon Musk's Jet (@elonjet@mastodon.social)

It released almost a ton of CO₂.

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But hey, it’s on you to save the goddamn planet somehow
- I haven't used a plastic straw in years.
  
  I make sure to recycle all of my 2 liter bottles.
  
  Plastic straws have nothing to do with climate change.
Ok i agree totally with the Elon hate, but sometimes you need to take a plane to the airport next door for maintenance or something. They can’t just throw it on a truck and drive it over there.
- abolish private jets. problem solved
- This. Same shenanigans with Taylor Swift last year. Still not great, and still could fly commercial, but even those need to be moved to other locations with no passengers/cargo from time to time.
  Edit: where is that “thermonuclear lawsuit” we were promised.
  Double edit: in fairness he did follow through! https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/20/tech/x-sues-media-matters/index.html
  
  I wonder if there was a semi-private commercial airline if it would be popular. Like more expensive than business class, but you still share with like 20-30 other people.
  The problem might be that it needs to have destination that are popular amongst that group of people and enough to fill it. So you end up with three lines…
  
  Anyone can file legal process. Need to survive motions to strike and summary judgment before you say he followed through. I think it's going to get tossed within a few weeks.
  
  Yes but if all the 100s of passengers had private jets, there would be 100s of extra flights. This argument is apologist nonsense
- Fair point, but why fly to Pflugerville in the first place? He could have flown directly from Brownsville to Austin and drove to Pflugerville.
  
  Austin executive is a really nice airport? Not sure really but likely the plane needed work and they scheduled with someone there, or they picked someone up or something. Could be anything.
It's OK. He's going to save humanity and settle the stars by ... ah ... killing hundreds of idiots who think he can actually get them to Mars.
- Stockton Rush gave him a special deal on carbon fiber for the dome habitats
- I wonder when people are going to start to notice once the Mars flights start that he never seems to be on any of them?
  
  You make it sound like you believe that Mars flights will ever start! 😜
  He's a grifter. Everything he says and does is a grift. There won't ever be a Mars flight. The Mars flight crap is there so that his starry-eyed youngster engineers will kill themselves working toward that grand vision so he has a launch vehicle to pollute LEO with Starlink crap.
I’m not a rocket surgeon, but can the emissions really weigh more than the fuel?
- Absolutely and that's how chemistry works, basically you take some hydrocarbons(a bunch of H and C) and you add oxygens to them. I know it is weird to think of burning this way because you see the thing burnt disappear but remember that mass cannot be created or destroyed. Burning is really just adding two masses together and getting some waste heat in the process. What is left over from the process is going to be the weight of both the mass and it takes a lot of oxygen to burn jet fuel. Hence why the missions weigh so much more than the jet fuel.
  
  Thanks for the explanation
- I imagine it includes the extraction, processing and delivery of the fuel?
  From a rudimentary chemistry understanding, changing a lighter hydrogen atom for a heavier oxygen atom (burning hydrocarbon -> H2O + CO2) will increase the mass. I dunno how applicable that is in the real world tho
  
  The atoms themselves aren't changing, you'd have to do fusion or fission for that. It's the molecules that are changing.
That's why you need to buy his shitty cars, so he can save the planet.

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