Stupidity Watch 1

Written with the help of Google Gemini We grew up knowing the Solar System held nine planets, but then we were abruptly told we only had eight. This loss occurred in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union (IAU) set new criteria for planethood. While Pluto was spherical and orbited the Sun, it failed the critical test: it had not gravitationally cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. Pluto orbits within the Kuiper Belt, a crowded zone of icy debris, proving it is just one of many large objects out there. Now, let's turn that same objective logic toward our Moon, and the true orbital dynamics reveal a path to having nine major planets once again. The Moon Orbits the Sun The profound irony lies in the history of language: The thing we call the Moon, the single object that gave the name to every other satellite in the universe is, itself, not a moon at all. For the entirety of civilization, the single "moon" humanity knew was the only object in the entire solar sy...

In 1984 when Elon Musk was just 12 years old he created a video game called "Blastar," and sold the code for the game to PC and Office Technology magazine for $500. In 1995, Elon Musk along with his brother Kimbal Musk and Greg Kouri co-founded Zip2 which provided online city guide software to newspapers, offering maps, directions, and business directories. Elon did the coding, Kimbal focused on sales, and Greg Couri was an Angel investor. Four years later in 1999 Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 million in cash and Elon Musk's share of the sale resulted in him receiving $22 million which he used to found X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company where again Musk was the main or only coder. X.com later merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal and the merged company adopted that name. At PayPay he tried to influence the coding and the software but was removed from being CEO for it and all of his code from X.com was deleted, ...