Michael O'Leary the CEO of European airline Ryanair picked a fight with Elon Musk over Starlink receivers on airplanes, and things have escalated.
It all started when O'Leary publicly announced that Ryanair planes would not be using Starlink because the receivers create a 2% fuel penalty on the plane with the extra weight and drag.
Elon Musk fired back that it's actually less than .3 percent.
Then in an interview O'Leary said that Elon Musk is a very wealthy idiot who knows nothing about flight and drag.
Elon Musk, who I watch regularly launch friggin' rockets into outer space, knows nothing about flight and drag?
Then during X's recent outage, Ryanair trolled Elon and suggested he might need WiFi.
Well, that seemed to settle it for Elon, who posted the following question on X:
Should I buy Ryan Air and put someone whose actual name is Ryan in charge?
Then he created the following poll:
And that means this could happen.
We all know Elon's fondness for the will of the people:
Vox populi vox dei
Responses to the fight are pretty much what you would expect:
And finally despite the unfortunate swear, my favorite:
So if your name is Ryan, step right up.
You might be the next CEO of Ryanair.
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