Did Elon Musk just build the fucking Mach 5?

I watched that Roadster go up a ramp, drive upside down, turn in the air and land. Then it jumped over a row of vehicles. I had to get somebody to check whether this was real, because come on. Look at it.

It’s real. Tesla demonstrated it in Texas on October 15.

Holy shit.

I grew up watching Speed Racer. That was immediately where I went. The Mach 5, all those buttons, Sparky working on the car. Speed heading into something that should absolutely kill him, and somehow Pops had already installed whatever he needed to survive it.

Remember Snake Oiler? The Car Acrobatic Team? That whole race in the mountains where the road washed out and they had to jump across the gaps? You needed a car that could jump just to keep competing.

Put this thing in that race. Snake Oiler would lose his fucking mind.

Racer X would at least have the sense to ask what was under the hood.

I’m fifty-eight. I watched those cars jump when I was a kid, and now I’m watching an actual car do it. You’re damn right I’m excited. How long have we been talking about all the stuff we saw growing up that we thought we’d have someday?

Well, there’s one. Go watch it.

I might think Musk is a dick. Some of the shit he’s said and done has pissed me off plenty. Am I supposed to watch this and poo-poo it because it’s his company?

No. That was fucking amazing. He gets credit for it.

So do the people at Tesla and SpaceX who figured out how to make it happen. Getting a car into the air is one thing. Getting it back down on its wheels, apparently ready to go do something else ridiculous, is a hell of a thing to pull off.

I’d be showing that video to everybody if I worked on it. You’d be sick of me.

That’s what I want to see more of from Elon. Go build some wild shit. Get those people together and see what they can do. Apparently, they can make a sports car jump over the other cars.

We can argue tomorrow. Today you got me watching Speed Racer again and wondering what else we’re going to get to see.

I’m still taking Sparky. I like him better.

But you might have the better car, Elon.

That was fucking dope.

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