These would-be Rambos may have to wait a while to get their new toys, however. Despite being priced at $500 (or maybe because of it), it only took five days for the first run of flamethrowers to be claimed by mayhem-makers around the globe. The flamethrower is being marketed by Musk’s new side hustle, an outfit called The Boring Company. On Saturday, January 27, 2018, Musk opened a pre-sale for what must surely have been an idea scribbled on a bar napkin: flamethrowers. Because we don’t have anything like his bail money. Some of his “exploits” have no perceived value to anyone, but they make the rest of us want to get out there and do something equally daring. He’s always on the hunt for the next big trophy, the one that stops people in their tracks, the one people say he’s crazy to even attempt. In a way, Elon Musk is the tech equivalent of the previous century’s big-game hunters. You wanted to shoot a car into space, and it’s fine. (We’re not buying the whole “experimental payload” line. He sent one of his own $100,000 cars into space, presumably for the same reason that you used to melt G.I. Let’s start with the obvious: Elon Musk is an interesting man. He wants to alleviate Los Angeles’ traffic congestion by building tunnel networks below the city and using them to transport cars on high-speed electric sleds.
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