Elon Musk calls Thai cave rescuer a 'pedo guy'

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Elon Musk is apparently none-too-pleased with recent comments from a British explorer who slammed the Tesla CEO's plan to save the Thai soccer team trapped in a cave.

The verbal sparring between Musk and Vernon Unsworth, a cave explorer who helped rescuers pinpoint the location of the missing Thai soccer team, is over the child-sized submarine Musk sent to Thailand earlier this week in an attempt to assist the rescue. Unsworth, who is an expert in the Tham Luang cave system, told CNN it was a "PR stunt" with "no chance of working."

"He had no conception of what the cave passage was like," Unsworth said. "The submarine, I believe, was about five-foot-six long, rigid, so it wouldn't have gone round corners or round any obstacles."

Unsworth also said Musk "was asked to leave very quickly."

"And so he should have been," he added.

The comments clearly rankled Musk, who shot off a series of tweets Sunday morning, including one that referred to Unsworth as a "pedo guy."

You know what, don’t bother showing the video. 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. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2018

"You know what, don't bother showing the video," he wrote in one tweet. "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."

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"We were external expert-sourcing the design with experienced cave experts on the Internet. We showed progress videos to iterate with the local dive team," he continued in another tweet. "And ... we certainly didn't lie. Proof will be in the pudding shortly, when we take mini-sub all the way in & out of Cave 5."

In response to one user's tweet calling his submarine "absurd," Musk responded: "Stay tuned jackass..."

Musk also took to Twitter to refute The Hill's report that Musk donated almost $40,000 to a PAC "aimed at maintaining Republican control of the House."

"Reports that I am a top donor to GOP are categorically false," he wrote. "I am not a top donor to any political party."