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Musk didn't invent this, did he? This is like Edison getting the credit for everything invented by every employee of his company.
by markdown 3y ago
Musk didn't invent this, did he? This is like Edison getting the credit for everything invented by every employee of his company.
- WalterBright 3y agoNone of SpaceX would have happened without Musk.
- markdown 3y agoAnd? I build a chair and none of it would have happened without me, but I didn't invent this chair.
- WalterBright 3y agoNobody else in the last 100 years managed to build a reusable rocket.
- markdown 3y agoDon't move the goal posts. This is a thread about whether Musk is a rocket inventor. The US President once tasked a group of Engineers to build a rocket. The US President didn't invent the rocket.
- QuadmasterXLII 3y ago"actually inventing a rocket" and "handing billions of dollars to a swarm of engineers and thier managers, and actually getting a rocket back instead of having the shirt scammed off your back" are different skills. The latter is valuable because it's rare: ESA, Jeff Bezos, the US Senate, Richard Branson (oooooh richard branson), ULA, etc all tangibly lack it.
- dotnet00 3y agoPeople seem to forget that the joke at the time was "How do you become a millionaire quickly? Be a billionaire founding an aerospace company". You weren't going to get much investor funding for a space company and there were no processes in place at NASA to fairly handle integrating newcomers into the market. Musk betting his fortune on SpaceX and sticking it through even when they were close to bankruptcy was what ultimately blew the doors open for all the other new space companies and the increasing private investment in space technologies.
- markdown 3y agoI'm sorry but nothing you wrote there addresses the claim that he invented a type of rocket.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoThis is an industry that turns billionaires into millionaires
- markdown 3y agoWhat's that got to do with the claim that he invented something?
- inemesitaffia 3y agoYou could say he invented actual profitability in this market in addition
- markdown 3y agoYou could say the same of Obama who subsidised the operation. Does that make Obama a rocket inventor?
- inemesitaffia 3y agoContracts aren't subsidies