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First Human Patient to Receive a Neuralink Brain Implant Used it to Stay Up All Night Playing Civilization 6(www.ign.com)

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FaceDeer@fedia.io
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It sounds like things are going well for this guy and that is great and all, but how much would we honestly expect to hear if it wasn’t going well?

Given how eager people are to pounce on negative news about anything Elon Musk-related, I expect we would be hearing way, way more about this if it wasn’t going well. “Elon Musk’s Neuralink Damages a Man’s Brain!” and “Elon Musk’s Neuralink Fails!” Headlines and such from every rooftop.

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BossDj@lemm.ee
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Can’t we just fling him into the sun and let someone else take over these companies?

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JDubbleu@programming.dev
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That takes an immense amount of fuel. We orbit the sun at 30 km/s, of which you have to cancel about 24 km/s to actually hit it. This is after escaping Earth’s atmosphere (another 11 km/s of delta V) and effective sphere of influence which takes even more fuel. We could use some gravity assists off the moon and inner planets to get there, but even then it’s not really economical. Our best bet would be to send him out super far using ~9 km/s of dV, and then use a very small amount to cancel out any remaining angular momentum and let him slowly fall into the sun. Unfortunately, as with all efficient space maneuvers, you pay for them in time, and this maneuver would take you 3 years. We’d have to somehow support the little bastard all that time but it might just be doable.

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EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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We could just set him up for a one-way orbital rendezvous with his car and be done with it…

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Gamoc@lemmy.world
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If we get him outside of the atmosphere and throw him in the direction if the sun, he won’t eventually get caught in it’s gravitational pull?

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catloaf@lemm.ee
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You mean like these articles doing the rounds a while back? https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/

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FaceDeer@fedia.io
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Yeah, exactly. People love to amplify any negatives they can find about Musk, it plays to the rage mobs and that translates into clicks and endorphins.

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Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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It kinda seems like you’re saying it’s a bad thing to report on things he does that are bad simply because there’s an audience that’s interested. But, that’d be kind of a weird take

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Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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…do you think that fucked up things like that shouldn’t be reported on?

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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considering that we’re not out of the realm of complications… it’s too soon to know if it’s going well or not.

there’s a reason most CBI researchers are keeping things as not-implants.

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EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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lol seriously. dude is acting like people cover up bad news about musk. I hate the fucker but if he rolled his eyes at a waitress it would be front page news.

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Breaking News! Sources in Lemmy said Elon Musk of Tesla rolled his eyes at waitress at an undisclosed restaurant!

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