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According to SpaceX's original Mars timeline, they're going to start colonizing Mars next year. So color me unimpressed that people are reporting on SpaceX opti
by lincon127 3y ago
According to SpaceX's original Mars timeline, they're going to start colonizing Mars next year. So color me unimpressed that people are reporting on SpaceX optimizing boosters.
- dgrin91 3y agoSpaceX/Musk always gives way overly optimistic projections. That shouldn't take away from their successes. 'Yeah your car can go 1000 miles per gallon, but you promised be 10000 next year so color me unimpressed'. Doesn't that sound crazy?
- archagon 3y agoWith an increasingly unstable and untrustworthy CEO at the helm, it makes me worry that SpaceX will eventually morph into RocketGate.
- hersko 3y agoThe SpaceX CEO is Gwynne Shotwell
- panick21_ 3y agoIts funny to how people have called Musk unstable madman for years now. And even before the twitter stuff people often had that complaint. And yet, he is the longest serving CEO in the car industry and the space industry (at least large companies) and he has been incredibly stable and predictable in working on EV and rockets for 25+ years. And not only that, during that time both major companies experience incredibly success in that time period. And yet somehow people think its reasonable to call him unstable, inconsistent, loss canon and so on. I guess what you write on twitter matters more then what you do with 100B$+ cooperation's.
- archagon 3y agoI mean, he also lit almost $50 billion on fire in a public, idiotic way. Once you're rich enough, you're insulated from the consequences of your actions.
- panick21_ 3y agoTwitter is still worth something, like not 44$ billion but lighting it on fire is simply inaccurate. And likely he believes (based on good evidence) that he can make the company successful. He might be wrong or it will turn out he will be wrong. > Once you're rich enough, you're insulated from the consequences of your actions. That's a totally different argument then the one you made before.
- PoignardAzur 3y agoI mean... he had some incredible high-profile successes and some incredible high-profile failures, as well as the occasional public meltdown. "Unpredictable" seems as good a label as any.
- panick21_ 3y agoWhat are these 'high-profile failures' and how much time and money investment was there in these? Some people claim 'hyperloop' is failure, ok that like a couple of weeks fun project with no investment behind it. FSD might be considered a failure, but that's within the larger success of Tesla and it has not yet been fully decided. So far Tesla is likely making more money from self-driving research then anybody else. Boring company isn't a huge success, but calling it a failure is also not accurate. And what 'public meltdowns' are you referring to exactly? Like taking one hit of a joint? Or what?
- PoignardAzur 3y agoThis is probably something that deserves a thorough answer, but to cite a recent one: any event where a billionaire ends ups suing his own attorneys can probably be marked as a "high-profile failure".