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Well you can think that but that doesn't make it true. Considering someone who is qualified to do a Physics PhD at Stanford as someone who has no scientific tra
by rowanG077 5y ago
Well you can think that but that doesn't make it true. Considering someone who is qualified to do a Physics PhD at Stanford as someone who has no scientific training is really quite ridiculous. A Physics bachelor is 3 years of full-time scientific training. And I'd imagine it's not easy getting into a Stanford PhD program.
Not that I disagree that Musk is selling bullshit a lot of the time. But that is completely separate from his academic career.
- tsimionescu 5y agoHe was accepted there ~25 years ago. And 3 or 4 years of a bachelor's degree don't mean much - hundreds of thousands of people get such degrees each year all over the world. And by and large, they are nowhere near qualified in discussing any realistic possibility of something like terraforming. Also, money opens many doors even in the top universities in the USA, so being accepted for a PhD you don't even start is not an iron-tight guarantee of that much (if he had finished his PhD, I would not say this).
- rowanG077 5y agoI was not objecting to your claim that Musk is not qualified to make an assessment about terraforming. I was objecting to your claim that Musk has no scientific training.