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>This is the only time I've out-visioned Elon ... I want to meet other people in other solar systems. You're not out-visioning Elon; it's a petty attempt at on

>This is the only time I've out-visioned Elon ... I want to meet other people in other solar systems. You're not out-visioning Elon; it's a petty attempt at one-upmanship. It just doesn't seem genuine. I want to meet people in other Superclusters. Now she's been out-visioned!

ncallaway 8y ago
> "it's a petty attempt at one-upmanship" I think it was just a light-hearted joke.
JumpCrisscross 8y ago
> it's a petty attempt at one-upmanship Gwynne Shotwell is SpaceX's President [1]. She and Elon are on the same team. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell
gfosco 8y ago
It was an attempt at humor. Take a deep breath and try to do something useful today.
igravious 8y ago
Employee #7 at SpaceX didn't you hear? Relax, they're on the same team.
- AskewEgret 8y ago
  And a really interesting life story. I like how she randomly ended up in the job: https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/rocket-maam.html https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/roc... > Four years into the job, Shotwell had lunch with a co-worker who had just joined the then-startup company SpaceX. They walked by the cubicle of CEO Elon Musk. “I said, ‘Oh, Elon, nice to meet you. You really need a new business developer,’” Shotwell recalls. “It just popped out. I was bad. It was very rude.” > Or just bold enough to capture Musk’s attention. He called her later that day in 2002 and recruited her to be vice president of business development, his seventh employee. She wrestled with the decision. “The history of startup rocket companies isn’t exactly great,” explains Hughes, SpaceX senior vice president and general counsel. “This was not necessarily the safest play.”
bluGill 8y ago
You will never meet anyone from another solar system. Even if we assume such life exists (it might or might not - either is extraordinary), there is every reason to believe it is far away. It would be extraordinary again if that life is close enough to earth that the round trip of a radio transmission is within a human lifetime. There are just a few hundred (I wasn't able to find an exact number) starts within 25 light years - 50 year round trip time for a radio signal. We know of hundreds of earth like planets, but only by a definition that includes mars which is pretty much dead.

ncallaway 8y ago

> "it's a petty attempt at one-upmanship" I think it was just a light-hearted joke.

JumpCrisscross 8y ago

> it's a petty attempt at one-upmanship Gwynne Shotwell is SpaceX's President [1]. She and Elon are on the same team. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell

gfosco 8y ago

It was an attempt at humor. Take a deep breath and try to do something useful today.

igravious 8y ago

Employee #7 at SpaceX didn't you hear? Relax, they're on the same team.

AskewEgret 8y ago
And a really interesting life story. I like how she randomly ended up in the job: https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/rocket-maam.html https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/roc... > Four years into the job, Shotwell had lunch with a co-worker who had just joined the then-startup company SpaceX. They walked by the cubicle of CEO Elon Musk. “I said, ‘Oh, Elon, nice to meet you. You really need a new business developer,’” Shotwell recalls. “It just popped out. I was bad. It was very rude.” > Or just bold enough to capture Musk’s attention. He called her later that day in 2002 and recruited her to be vice president of business development, his seventh employee. She wrestled with the decision. “The history of startup rocket companies isn’t exactly great,” explains Hughes, SpaceX senior vice president and general counsel. “This was not necessarily the safest play.”

bluGill 8y ago

You will never meet anyone from another solar system. Even if we assume such life exists (it might or might not - either is extraordinary), there is every reason to believe it is far away. It would be extraordinary again if that life is close enough to earth that the round trip of a radio transmission is within a human lifetime. There are just a few hundred (I wasn't able to find an exact number) starts within 25 light years - 50 year round trip time for a radio signal. We know of hundreds of earth like planets, but only by a definition that includes mars which is pretty much dead.