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What is truly amazing is that this is becoming normal.

• raldi 9y ago
  The more boring these "rocket successfully lands" stories get, the more exciting they paradoxically become.
• apaprocki 9y ago
  I said it on Twitter.. F9 stuck the landing 1 minute before I had to walk out the door with my 5yo daughter and she was really happy to see it. Then through the bus window as it was pulling away, she made rocket-taking-off hands that went up to space... and then came back down and landed again. I'll be able to tell her about how nice that was to see someday :)
  • jacquesm 9y ago
    Bookmark this comment for her!
  • rdruxn 9y ago
    Got a lot of frisson reading this comment. I just can't understand the people who love to criticize Musk as a charlatan and PR mastermind because either way, true or untrue, he and his engineers are doing undeniable good in inspiring the next generation of scientists.
    • suliman23 9y ago
      Can't be both or what? History is littered with people who did good while being top class shitheads. Elon Musk is such a character. It's a choice who you choose to respect. Because history is also littered with people who did great things without being douchebags.
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      • Para2016 9y ago
        Why do you dislike him?
      • sqeaky 9y ago
        It can't be both per objective reality, but per history it can be both because it is subject to revision. I see no evidence that Musk is doing anything other than working as hard as he can to bring innovation forward. If 1 in 10 business heads had his drive this century someone on Mars be commenting on this now.
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    • chinathrow 9y ago
      > he and his engineers are doing undeniable good I think they do indeed a lot of good - however, launching a classified military spy satellite is not one of it, in my opinion.
    • Robotbeat 9y ago
      Yeah, it is strange. A charlatan is someone who is lying and has no intent on following through on their unrealistic plans. Musk clearly isn't a charlatan as he's trying his very best to make his unrealistic plans a reality, and has already succeeded tremendously. Is Musk crazy? He might be. But he's earnestly crazy.
      • gozur88 9y ago
        I think a lot of the criticism has come from moves he made on the business side, like having SpaceX buy SolarCity bonds.
        • erikpukinskis 9y ago
          Worked out pretty well for SpaceX. At what point do you say "he's made so much money for us that we'll give him at least one major fuckup before we start trying to reign him in."?
          • gozur88 9y ago
            The criticism is SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity are so tied together financially they'll all go down if one does. As an outsider I don't really care how Musk arranges his financial house. However, if I had a financial stake in SpaceX I'd be pretty upset to see my money getting invested in another company for Elon Musk's benefit.
            • gameshot911 9y ago
              Seems to me is that what is for Elon's benefit is to all our benefit.
            • greglindahl 9y ago
              That's up to SpaceX's private owners, now isn't it?
              • gozur88 9y ago
    • Florin_Andrei 9y ago
      > I just can't understand the people who love to criticize Musk as a charlatan and PR mastermind As you hear opinions from a larger and larger group, the ideas start more and more to resemble noise, distributed according to some statistical law.
    • woodandsteel 9y ago
      My understanding is that the idea Musk is a charlatan is being orchestrated by the Koch brothers because they are in the oil business, and he is promoting renewable energy.