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Wizkid Elon Musk is not concerned that Apple could be a potential rival in the electric car industry. He says that the Cupertino-based tech giant hires employees that were ultimately fired by Tesla.

Elon Musk told the Handelsblatt, a German publication, that Apple has only poached engineers that didn’t make it at Tesla. He continues to add that they were clearly not important to the company.

Elon Musk says that they have a running joke regarding fired engineers that join the Cupertino-based company – he dubs Apple the Tesla Graveyard. Individuals that don’t make it at Tesla, ultimately go to work for Apple.

Considering this, nobody at Tesla is worried because Apple is working on their electric car program titled Project Titan.

Elon Musk isn’t the only one foretelling Apple’s demise if the company decides to sink money into its automotive ambitions. Bob Lutz has warned Apple that their new project may end up being a giant money pit.

The Tesla founder respects that Apple is trying to actually build something significant, but he adds that cars are way more complex than your average smartwatch or phone. He continues to explain that the giant tech company will never be able to surpass his own success, nor reproduce it. Yet, he failed to argument why.

Success is a somewhat of a relative term to Elon Musk, considering that Tesla is expected to turn a profit from 2020 upwards.

It’s not news that Apple and Tesla are battling over engineers. Regardless of how much Elon Musk wants to say that those who end up in Apple are Tesla rejects. However, Tesla is indeed getting the big end of the stick – in May, they announced an attrition rate of five to one.

Apple is reportedly enticing ex-Tesla employees to jump ship by offering a 60 percent salary raise and a staggering $250.000 signing bonus.

In the past couple of months Apple has been pushing aggressively on their Project Titan front. Reports earlier this year claim that almost 1.000 employees have been assigned on their electric car project. But despite how many individuals have been hired by Apple, nothing else has surfaced. We don’t expect anything to leak, because Apple keeps a contractually tight lid.

A few weeks ago reports have showcased that Apple is secretly undergoing car operations out of a hidden dedicated facility in San Jose.

Elon Musk is a respected entrepreneur, and a brilliant mind, but he seems to be putting on his poker face with these statements. We aren’t sure whether Apple’s electric car will be a hit or a not, but considering that Elon Musk is discussing Project Titan reassures us that Apple is indeed working on one.

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NASA wants to probe the remains of a supernova that exploded 20,000 years ago – examining the Cygnus Loop may result in one of the biggest, and fruitful, experiments in our history.

The mission will involve a probe which will analyse the contents of the Cygnus Loop. A sounding rocket will gather data emitted from the stellar event – to be more exact, x-rays are still being emitted, and scientists think that they can find crucial information by analysing them; crucial information that can lead to a better understanding of what supernovas are made of.

Also, scientists hope that by studying Cyngus Loop’s contents, they will shine a bright light on one of the biggest questions that has plagued our world. What is the Universe made out of? The new data that NASA will acquire will most likely sprout a ton of new questions regarding our stance in the universe, and our fate in the infinite unknown.

On May the 2nd, NASA launched OGRESS – Off-plane Grating Rocker for Extended Source Spectroscopy – from White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico.

A following voyage is planned for 2018 on the star Capella.

But NASA isn’t the only one trying to breach the universe’s hard, and mysterious, wall. Elon Musk, the famous tech billionaire with a huge passion for spaceflight, and all space related things, is known for trying to be one of the pioneers that would make human life multi-planetary. Unfortunately he is encountering some technical difficulties, regarding his rockets taking off, and then actually landing them, without the whole utter destruction thing – here’s a YouTube video of the Falcon 9 landing failure.

Also, Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp is leading the private spaceflight project called Mars One – a non-profit organization with its roots in the Netherlands that plans to form a colony on Mars by 2027. The plans are that on 2027 the first humans will arrive on Mars, and every two years additional teams will be added. The goals is that by 2035 there would be 20 people living on Mars.

Slowly, but surely, humanity is entering a new space era, and in 100 years Mars will probably be a tourist destination.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also has a company with interests in space. Called Blue Origin, the company is doing the same research in reusable crafts like SpaceX, and on the 29th of April they have successfully launched, and landed their space-ship. Although everyone is bashing them for the design of the ship. Yes, it looks phallic, but do we really care? It’s taking people up-to-and-back from the heavens. Take a look at Blue Origin’s first flight.

It saddens me that companies don’t team up, and share their research. They are doing a great job, undoubtedly, but let’s be real for a second – they are seeing this as a huge opportunity that will make them even more rich in the future. Frank Herbert was right, corporate driven houses will conquer space, not governments.

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