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Elon Musk has a habit of showing his inventiveness and altruism.
A few hours after the last teenager came out alive from a cave in Thailand, Elon Musk began a discussion on Twitter about the credit he deserved to offer to help save the children
The Rescue efforts drew international attention for a week after Richard Stanton and another diver found the boys trapped by the rising waters. One by one, the dozen teen members of the football team and their coach were escorted out of the cave, alive. And Musk was there, with an invention he had imagined on the fly and brought to the rescue site, just in case it was necessary. The invention was a submarine the size of a child, Narongsak Osatanakorn, the official coordination of the rescue operation, said the Guardian was 'not practical' for their mission.
And that's the quote that prompted Musk to fight online about his role in the rescue. Questioning the official's expertise, Musk said Stanton was the real expert, and offered his e-mail exchange with the elite diver to prove his ideas were welcome.
As disasters unfold online, Musk is a pioneer: the potential savior who becomes part of the story, whether they really helped or not. The adjacent virality of Musk in the case of the Thai football team has even become a meme.
Prior to Musk's offer, there was Jake Paul, a mbadively popular YouTuber who lives in a theater pit. Last summer, after a month of controversy over his public behavior, Paul drove from Los Angeles to Texas to save the city of Houston from the floods that followed Hurricane Harvey. Paul collected donations – causing a minor riot in a Wal Mart parking lot – and brought personal watercraft to help go door-to-door to save people from their homes. Houston needed someone who could step in at that time. He also made good vlog material. While Paul was living his rescue work, he spoke alternately of his good heart and his many enemies
"We will bring them provisions, we will save their lives, and we will sail all the same time!" Paul said in a video, "We are going to get up, and we go every day – graze him, in their face."
It was not clear at that time when he wanted say the devastation of the hurricane or the people who are writing negative things about him and his fans online. The vlog left the impression that Paul did well to own the enemies.
Musk, too, has a history of showing his inventiveness and altruism. After Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, he sent Tesla batteries to the island to power 600 locations. Once, he had an idea to solve the traffic in Los Angeles. And before Musk built a submarine to rescue the children from the caves, he had criticized the media for negatively covering his company.
Among other things, Musk seemed upset by a report by Reveal News detailing his safety concerns in his factories. His response included a now viral diatribe in which he proposed to fix journalism by creating a Yelp for journalists, allowing the public to badess the reliability of journalists and individual outlets.
Like Paul, Musk has a lot of enemies. He is protected in part by his many online fans, who encourage his tweets to attack perceived enemies, and treat him as the real superhero he imagines himself to be.
And so is Musk involved in Thailand in first place. One of Musk's fans tweeted it last week, imploring him to help, and Musk embarked on a long process of brainstorming on Twitter to find a solution that the country of Thailand could not create himself.
A child-sized submarine built from rocket parts. Musk tested his device in a pool in Los Angeles and then flew with the pod to the caves site.
Finally, his experimental submarine was not used, but he thought that he would leave it in Thailand just in case the country needed it later. Musk tweeted:
"I just got back from cave 3. Mini-Sub is ready if necessary, it's made of rocket parts and named Wild Boar after the football team for the kids. Leaving here at case where it could be useful in the future is very beautiful. "
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