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Cave diver criticizes Musk's kid-sub rescue plan. Musk suggests he's a pedophile (LAT)
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-pedophile-twitter-fight-20180715-story.htmlCave diver criticizes Musk's kid-sub rescue plan. Musk suggests he's a pedophile
By Russ Mitchell
Jul 15, 2018 | 11:00 AM | San Francisco
The Elon Musk story took a bizarre turn Sunday morning, as the world famous entrepreneur took to Twitter to suggest a critic of his submarine rescue plan is a pedophile.
Musk’s tweet was directed at British cave diver Vern Unsworth, who had participated in the rescue of 12 Thai children and their soccer coach from a water-filled cave. In a recent CNN video news report, Unsworth had belittled Musk’s plan to deploy a mini-submarine made by SpaceX engineers to rescue the children.
“He can stick his submarine where it hurts,” Unsworth said when asked about Musk’s plan. “It just has absolutely no chance of working.”
Musk tweeted Sunday that he’ll send a sub through the cave to prove it could have worked, followed by an attack on Unsworth:
“We will make one of the mini-sub/pod going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo. Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.” Musk tweeted.
Challenged on the social media site to provide evidence to support his accusation, Musk tweeted: “Bet ya a signed dollar it’s true.”
(Musk’s pedophile-related tweets were deleted early Sunday afternoon).
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