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Every bit of negative Elon Musk oriented news brings out an apologetic post excusing failure and painting it positively, with a pile of democratic support. Thi

Every bit of negative Elon Musk oriented news brings out an apologetic post excusing failure and painting it positively, with a pile of democratic support. This is a failure, and failure is perfectly ok working on something like this, but what drives people to volunteer their time to spin such things as positively as possible or even signal boost ? I can’t believe it’s purely investor driven. It’s almost as if people are finding personal purpose in sacrificing their time to this cause.

biomcgary 7y ago
Why do people cheer for sports teams? Many nerds avoid team sports, but we share some of the same psychology as the more typical. Many people like to dream big, but most of the time life is mundane. SpaceX's efforts are the embodiment of sci-fi fantasy with a chance of becoming real. Why not cheer?
- scrumbledober 7y ago
  I have for years thought of SpaceX as my sports team to cheer for. I get just as excited watching their launch livestreams as many get watching football games.
kanox 7y ago
Space is fun and rockets are cool. Let people enjoy things.
knolax 7y ago
Repeated exposure to the idea that anything wrong with one of Musk's projects is the end of the world could probably produce an extreme opposite response, even if they weren't interested in Musk at first.
RareSoft 7y ago
Because people admire their courage in being so transparent about failing publicly. That's undoubtedly helped in building their audience over the last decade not because they want to see SpaceX fail, far from it but because it reminds us that they too are only human and failing is normal no matter how much others try to hide or gloss over their failures.
RivieraKid 7y ago
I turned from a Tesla / SpaceX fan to someone who's indifferent to or even enjoys failure. The cultish fans and more importantly the narcissistic CEO ruined it for me. This comment will get downvoted.
jp555 7y ago
I think it's much less likely that it's all those people who are wrong than that you don't really understand how people work.

biomcgary 7y ago

Why do people cheer for sports teams? Many nerds avoid team sports, but we share some of the same psychology as the more typical. Many people like to dream big, but most of the time life is mundane. SpaceX's efforts are the embodiment of sci-fi fantasy with a chance of becoming real. Why not cheer?

scrumbledober 7y ago
I have for years thought of SpaceX as my sports team to cheer for. I get just as excited watching their launch livestreams as many get watching football games.

kanox 7y ago

Space is fun and rockets are cool. Let people enjoy things.

knolax 7y ago

Repeated exposure to the idea that anything wrong with one of Musk's projects is the end of the world could probably produce an extreme opposite response, even if they weren't interested in Musk at first.

RareSoft 7y ago

Because people admire their courage in being so transparent about failing publicly. That's undoubtedly helped in building their audience over the last decade not because they want to see SpaceX fail, far from it but because it reminds us that they too are only human and failing is normal no matter how much others try to hide or gloss over their failures.

RivieraKid 7y ago

I turned from a Tesla / SpaceX fan to someone who's indifferent to or even enjoys failure. The cultish fans and more importantly the narcissistic CEO ruined it for me. This comment will get downvoted.

jp555 7y ago

I think it's much less likely that it's all those people who are wrong than that you don't really understand how people work.