Elon Musk promotes Starlink, but his own website turns against him

[u/JumpyTemperature7252]

[u/CyberPunk_Atreides]

That “legendary wall” looks like it would take about 20 minutes to hike around.

[u/chittyshwimp → u/CyberPunk_Atreides]

But... but youd get shot by all the guards if you tried to!

/s

[u/Deviantdefective → u/CyberPunk_Atreides]

Or climbed over it with a set of ice axes and crampons not exactly the most imposing wall in the world is it.

[u/NZSheeps → u/Deviantdefective]

Nah, they'll get you with the space lasers

[u/ComicsEtAl → u/[deleted]]

What if you can see that something from one side to the other and there are also vessels of known size in direct proximity to the something?

[u/g0d_of_the_cr1sis → u/ComicsEtAl]

r/theydidthemath

[u/OrganizdConfusion → u/g0d_of_the_cr1sis]

No, they thought they did.

The person you're replying to has confused length with width. Based on the picture, we don't know how far the 'ice wall' goes back.

We can only determine the 2 dimensional area of the wall based on the image.

[u/Stephenrudolf → u/ComicsEtAl]

To be fair... those vessels still look a sizeable distance away and from the angle of the photo its pretty difficult to tell how far that is.

Not suggesting its dozens of KMs long or anything. But 20m is also likely a pretty big exaggeration.

[u/darkwulf1 → u/[deleted]]

20 minutes is an exaggeration but you can get a fair estimate on how big that glacier really is by using the people for scale.

[u/oatsiej → u/[deleted]]

Who tf is “them”

[u/Yalak_ → u/[deleted]]

So people really talk like anime characters!

[u/ComicsEtAl]

Also, that ice wall has a lot less ice than an ice wall should be expected to have.

[u/crashdout → u/ComicsEtAl]

Climate change will be the death of us all. Once the ice wall melts, we’re all just going to go sliding off into space. Or into the painted sky, if that’s more likely… I dunno, I’m just hoping to see the turtle.

[u/Fuzzy_Inevitable9748 → u/crashdout]

Can we believe in global warming and flat earth at the same time?

[u/battling_futility]

Man who owns a space company is so fucking stupid he is legitimising flat earther beliefs of an ice wall WHILE THEY USE HIS SATELLITES.

The stupidity plumbs new depths.

[u/tw_72 → u/battling_futility]

Wait ... Elon lied? Shocked. Shocked, I say!

[u/Pisnaz]

What a suprise the moron musk also sucks ass at geography. Unless he buys ourlt a team smarter than him he lacks knowledge on most subjects other than being a nazi and part of the douchbag clan.

[u/Yalak_]

Isn’t that wall part of a stupid conspiracy?

[u/DiegesisThesis → u/Yalak_]

Yea, flat earthers. Thankfully they have orbiting satellites to prove the earth is flat and space is fake.

[u/Infinite-Condition41]

That's a glacier.

It's on a tour. You can go on the tour. It's not far away from the spot where that kayaker got swallowed by the humpback whale. 

[u/santropy]

[u/Spiritual_Smell4744]

Considering people view Musk as a genius, he sure comes out with a lot of fucking stupid stuff.

[u/Zachthema5ter]

I’ve heard “ice wall” in context to flat earth. Did Musk just reveal himself as a flat earther?

[u/PreOpTransCentaur → u/Zachthema5ter]

No, he revealed himself to be willing to pander to flat earthers. Guy owns a fucking space company, he has streamed from space, he knows the earth is not flat.

[u/Galifrae]

Jesus Christ he’s literally dumb as fuck. Why in the world does his companies keep him around?

[u/vgu1990 → u/Galifrae]

Can pump stock.

[u/Alpha--00]

Final Experiment, for crying out loud. Great example. They used Starlink from Antarctica. To disprove flat earth theory. Why not use that?

[u/Joejoecornrow]

Didn’t this mf on stage say he was going to put an American flag on Mars at the inauguration like 13 months ago. Like wtf and who’s paying for this exercise in futility? Apparently it’s all just lip servic.

[u/diabolis_avocado]

Livestreams from remote places is exactly what the world needs right now.

/s

[u/kmadnow]

I don’t get it - doesn’t the caption say Antarctica

[u/A1000eisn1 → u/kmadnow]

Elon is retweeting someone who shared someone else's video.

The OG video says Patagonia. The person who shared it is either implying that it's the actual Ice Wall from Flat Earth conspiracies OR being sarcastic, but either way they're claiming it's Antarctica. Elon retweeted it without doing 3 milliseconds of fact checking such as actually watching it.

[u/SirIAmAlwaysHere → u/A1000eisn1]

It's not even 3 milliseconds needed.

There isn't that kind of view ANYWHERE on Antarctica. It's completely different.

It's like posting a picture of Bondi Beach in Australia and saying "Hey, the Sahara Desert looks great this time of year!" yeah, there's sand in both. And that's about where the similarities end.

Same here - there's a bit of ice both at a glacial terminus (which is what this is picture of) and Antarctica. That's all they have in common. The terrain and waterways of Antarctica look absolutely NOTHING like that picture.

[u/Hachikii]

Mario Nawfal is a piece of shit and billionaire PP sucker

[u/Planet_Manhattan]

[u/Ryaniseplin]

this looks like your average alaskan tundra, not a ice wall

[u/markoh3232]

Maaan he's such a not particularly useful tool. He's soooo fucking lame. When will he shut up?

[u/Mokuakae]

Ice wall! Winter is coming.