Nah, Nikola tesla was working with something unknown and strange at the time. There wasn’t a hundred years worth of engineering work behind the field. SpaceX’s

Nah, Nikola tesla was working with something unknown and strange at the time. There wasn’t a hundred years worth of engineering work behind the field. SpaceX’s “new thing” was recovering the first stage, which made subsequent launches cheaper. We have a LOT of engineering experience behind carbon fiber structures. Sometimes, you listen.