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Yes. But NASA money is available to others, too. Elon is not.
by ein0p 3y ago
Yes. But NASA money is available to others, too. Elon is not.
- croes 3y agoElon is busy tweeting cringy memes so it's not him doing the hard work.
- ein0p 3y agoDo tell, who’s doing the hard work, and why do they only succeed at anything “impossible” if Elon is there?
- croes 3y agoThe engineers who build the rockets, and they didn't succeed and anything impossible. Building landing rockets was thought to be too expensive not impossible. Why is Tesla's FSD still not working? Wasn't Musk around? The Spaceship is also nothing impossible, let's wait for his Mars colony.
- ein0p 3y agoIf it’s all so possible, how come SpaceX has no viable competition? I get it, you don’t like Elon, that’s understandable, but let’s please give adequate credit where credit is due. Pulling off just one of the things he did would be a monumental achievement for anyone. He’s done what at this point, 3-4? Does that really mean nothing to you just because you don’t like that he has the gall to use the First Amendment?
- neverrroot 3y agoIt's something that has increasingly bewildered me: why do we as people get so biased when we don't like someone? So biased that we can't see anything good in them anymore, and we can't recognize (sometimes any of) their accomplishments? Biden, Trump, Elon, etc., depending on what side you are, there's always someone to think of as an example.
- croes 3y agoDid Pope Julius II pull of the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel? I get it that Musk was necessary to get the money but money doesn't build rockets otherwise Bezos company would have succeeded too. Seems like the actual engineers are the ones to praise. Musks seems more like the type who has read a sci-fi book or seen a movie and has enough money to pay people to build what he has read or seen. The problem is that he often underestimates the technical challenges. This sometimes works when the problem only needs an evolutionary step, like landing rockets, but fails when it comes to revolutionary discoveries. The whole Twitter thing is only accelerating the destruction of his nimbus. When he makes announcements and promises, I now always hear in my head: "Monorail, monorail"
- croes 3y agoBTW Musk is the guy who thinks that if one man with a plough can't produce enough food in his field, we need more men with more ploughs instead of just one man with a tractor. Or how do you explain his desire for a growing population? The concept of increasing productivity seems to be foreign to him in this context.
- neverrroot 3y agoYes, I suspect you are right, productivity is something foreign to Elon Musk. Definitely.
- refulgentis 3y agoAlso, anything elon does is by definition not antics, because he made SpaceX.
- croes 3y agoHe founded it, that's not the same, that's like saying Sam Altman made ChatGPT.
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- refulgentis 3y agoYes, satire.