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“Willy waving contest” is long over and, ironically, SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell is the winner. She’s a super hero in my book. Musk had the dream but she’s turnin
by chasd00 5y ago
“Willy waving contest” is long over and, ironically, SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell is the winner.
She’s a super hero in my book. Musk had the dream but she’s turning it into reality which is the hard part.
- sschueller 5y agoI am sorry but some of the stuff she has said is quite nuts. Point to point travel with Starship is never going to happen the way she describes it. A rocket that big makes so much noise you can not launch it at half to ports they listed. If you would launch a Starship on Zürich lake you will blow out every window in the city.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoDoesn't matter. That would be a good incentive to have their windows blast proofed. Which is good for the special glasses industry. And all the workers! And makes turning houses into bunkers so much more easy. The swiss like their bunkers.
- chasd00 5y agopossibly, granted i haven't gone over everything she's said. Her job description of running SpaceX day-to-day balanced with SpaceX's achievements is what makes her pretty amazing in my eyes. Maybe things have changed, maybe she's delegated the day to day ops to someone else. I can't be 100% sure. The people who make it happen are the ones i most admire. It takes a village, i mean you're not getting anywhere without the vision and foresight of people like Musk. You're also not getting anywhere without a leader assembling the right team (which i think is Musk's real talent) but, to me, i most admire the people on the ground making plans, managing/coordinating, and turning wrenches.
- cma 5y agoHer TED thing of point to point rocket travel cheaper than business class plane tickets by 2028 was just embarrassing.
- HaggardFinical 5y agoI mean, Elon made the same claims about Starship Earth to Earth, Mars colonization, plus other outrageous claims about the hyperloop and the boring company and Tesla autopilot (in 2014 he said that in 5 years you'll be able to go to sleep behind the wheel). At what point does the genious marketing end and defrauding investors with false promises begin?
- Isinlor 5y agoWhen they intentionally deceive. When you promise something without intention of delivering. In case of SpaceX and Tesla they claim outrageous things with every intention to deliver. Sometimes they are right, sometimes not. It's up to investors to know the difference.