Gestural Design Process Like Iron Man Used, From Tesla & SpaceX Founder Elon Musk (Tweets)
Science non-fiction is becoming a phrase that brings to mind Elon Musk. Let’s review: to his credit, we have a sideways-flying rocket ship that is reusable; a high-tech, super-high-speed transportation concept (800 mph); and what is widely considered the best car on the planet, an electric car. Musk is also thinking about a future metropolis for Mars.
Scientist, entrepreneur, and nerd superstar Elon Musk seems to have just glided straight onto some high-flying, science-Zen wave and is able to navigate it, without end, taking us all along to the space age. His non-fiction, which sometimes makes our science-fiction look normal, is quite impressive. Musk’s latest such announcement is something out of an “Iron Man” movie, specifically the part where Tony Stark gesturally made an Iron Man suit.
OK, it’s not exactly at that level, but it’s the same concept. Musk has tweeted that he and his team have figured out how to design rocket parts (for his highly regarded private rocket company, SpaceX) using hand gestures (more or less as Tony Stark did).
Last Friday, the Tesla Motors and SpaceX founder & CEO tweeted that he and his team had “figured out how to design rocket parts just w hand movements through the air.”
Don’t believe him? Well, he said he’d be posting a video to demonstrate….
Does this guy not sleep?
Musk and team actually seem to have gotten the idea from Iron Man. Iron Man director Jon Favreau actually got on twitter to ask Musk, “Like in Iron Man?”
Musk replied, “Yup. We saw it in the movie and made it real. Good idea!”
Favreau is of course a VIP, so he then got better access to the news than most of us could dream to be granted. 4 hours ago, Favreau tweeted, “Visiting @elonmusk at #SpaceX to see what he’s up to… http://say.ly/REy6CdC.”
Apparently, though, this isn’t the first time the two have hooked up. Favreau also tweeted the following 4 hours ago: “Fun Fact: SpaceX was where we filmed Hammer Industries in Iron Man 2.”
Here are the actual tweets mentioned above:
We figured out how to design rocket parts just w hand movements through the air (seriously). Now need a high frame rate holograph generator.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 23, 2013
Will post video next week of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & then immediately printing it in titanium
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 23, 2013
Like in Iron Man? RT @elonmusk: Will post video of designing a rocket part with hand gestures & immediately printing in titanium
— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) August 24, 2013
@Jon_Favreau Yup. We saw it in the movie and made it real. Good idea!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2013
Visiting @elonmusk at #SpaceX to see what he's up to… http://t.co/rwXjMbgiI6
— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) August 30, 2013
Fun Fact: SpaceX was where we filmed Hammer Industries in Iron Man 2
— Jon Favreau (@Jon_Favreau) August 30, 2013
No tweets from Elon since all this. Prior to the Iron Man tangent, Musk was just tweeting about the Tesla Model S getting the best safety rating of any car ever tested by the US government:
Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested by US govt http://t.co/W1rZ5ceEVX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 20, 2013
and videos of rockets + cows:
Same rocket flight, but this time with cows! http://t.co/qhF5JWzyCW
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 16, 2013
h/t CNET
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