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Yes? Many, many people who don’t work for musk or have a financial interest in him being competent have said in interviews that he has a deep engineering under
by thepasswordis 4y ago
Yes? Many, many people who don’t work for musk or have a financial interest in him being competent have said in interviews that he has a deep engineering understanding of the rockets and especially their engines.
- giantrobot 4y agoMost people have shit understanding of rockets. There's plenty of otherwise very intelligent people that do not have any grasp of rocketry. A competent amateur rocket enthusiast can easily sound like a "rocket scientist" to someone otherwise uninvolved with rocketry. Additionally, anyone being interviewed about Musk can't be said not to have a financial interest in him. Musk doesn't hang out with nerdy rocket scientists in his spare time. He rubs elbows with fellow rich people. It doesn't take much actual knowledge of rocketry to sound super knowledgeable about rocketry to someone with no knowledge of rocketry. Musk isn't a nincompoop but I've yet to hear anything out of his mouth about rocketry that suggests he could intern at his own company, let alone be seriously considered their chief engineer.
- thepasswordis 4y agoThe is such a common thing people say, that there are lists of reasons why you are wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
- fourseventy 4y agoWatch elons multiple hour long interviews with The Everyday Astronaut about rocket design and tell me with a straight face that he has little knowledge about rockets. Or don't because it will destroy your narrative and you would rather live in your own bubble of delusion.