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Musk is pretty much the dream of what every nerd wants to become. There's a lot of jaded people on HN who think they are just as smart/talented as Musk but don'

Musk is pretty much the dream of what every nerd wants to become. There's a lot of jaded people on HN who think they are just as smart/talented as Musk but don't have anywhere near the success. They deal with the cognitive dissonance by calling him a fraud/scammer or wanting to see him fail. Fanboys of Musk aren't much better, Musk just seems to attract extremists on either side of the aisle who either love him or hate him

misiti3780 5y ago
I agree, but regardless I dont see why we call cant agree that for all of the guy's faults, he is done some truly incredible things and he is still pretty young. He is a net positive for the world.
- joering2 5y ago
  Because of my consulting gigs, I know of at least 3 multimillionaires (>$100MM), who are hoarding air tanks (similar to scuba tanks, but there is already a small company that produces much larger, home-style tanks for this purpose) because someone in Musk circles told them Musk is doing so, so they assume this could be end-of-the-world scenario. Imagine our atmosphere to be like a giant balloon. And SpaceX rockets are scratching [2] that balloon surfaces every time they go up [1]. Who knows, maybe one day one of the rockets will scratch it enough and our ionosphere goes pop, so to speak. [1] conspiracy theory much? Here is an article based on scientists approach: https://fortune.com/2018/03/26/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-9-ionosphere-hole/ https://fortune.com/2018/03/26/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-9-ion... [2] funny story, a friend who works for NASA told me years ago how upset the management was when they found out that SpaceX rockets are not flying flat enough to enter the Orbit in a gently manner. There is no gov. oversight (yet) because there are very few companies that can reach LEO so in theory regulations are not important, but few people know NASA spent more money flying rockets because they fly them in a way not to tore holes in an ionosphere which probably I don't have to tell you how important it is to ALL life on Earth. In some way, today's SpaceX is a space pirate, and had there been proper regulations, they would have not be saving anywhere near as much money as they do now flying when comparing to NASA.
  - misiti3780 5y ago
    I don't understand how this is relevant?
sixQuarks 5y ago
I don’t understand why you say musk fans aren’t any better. If you’re going to be a fan of someone, why not someone who is transitioning the world to sustainable energy and trying to make humanity a multi-planetary species?
- ren_engineer 5y ago
  there's a difference between a fan and a fan boy who worships everything he does.

misiti3780 5y ago

I agree, but regardless I dont see why we call cant agree that for all of the guy's faults, he is done some truly incredible things and he is still pretty young. He is a net positive for the world.

joering2 5y ago
Because of my consulting gigs, I know of at least 3 multimillionaires (>$100MM), who are hoarding air tanks (similar to scuba tanks, but there is already a small company that produces much larger, home-style tanks for this purpose) because someone in Musk circles told them Musk is doing so, so they assume this could be end-of-the-world scenario. Imagine our atmosphere to be like a giant balloon. And SpaceX rockets are scratching [2] that balloon surfaces every time they go up [1]. Who knows, maybe one day one of the rockets will scratch it enough and our ionosphere goes pop, so to speak. [1] conspiracy theory much? Here is an article based on scientists approach: https://fortune.com/2018/03/26/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-9-ionosphere-hole/ https://fortune.com/2018/03/26/elon-musk-spacex-falcon-9-ion... [2] funny story, a friend who works for NASA told me years ago how upset the management was when they found out that SpaceX rockets are not flying flat enough to enter the Orbit in a gently manner. There is no gov. oversight (yet) because there are very few companies that can reach LEO so in theory regulations are not important, but few people know NASA spent more money flying rockets because they fly them in a way not to tore holes in an ionosphere which probably I don't have to tell you how important it is to ALL life on Earth. In some way, today's SpaceX is a space pirate, and had there been proper regulations, they would have not be saving anywhere near as much money as they do now flying when comparing to NASA.
- misiti3780 5y ago
  I don't understand how this is relevant?

sixQuarks 5y ago

I don’t understand why you say musk fans aren’t any better. If you’re going to be a fan of someone, why not someone who is transitioning the world to sustainable energy and trying to make humanity a multi-planetary species?

ren_engineer 5y ago
there's a difference between a fan and a fan boy who worships everything he does.