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SpaceX didn’t start from scratch. Their initial designs were based on NASA designs. Stop perpetuating the “genius engineer” myth around Elon Musk.
by TechnicolorByte 2y ago
SpaceX didn’t start from scratch. Their initial designs were based on NASA designs. Stop perpetuating the “genius engineer” myth around Elon Musk.
- hanspeter 2y agoBy that logic nothing has started from scratch.
- SirensOfTitan 2y ago“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch You must first invent the universe” …no one “started from scratch", the sum of all knowledge is built on prior foundations.
- colibri727 2y agoAltman is riding a new tech wave, and his team has a couple of years' head start. Musk's reusable rockets were conceptualized a long time ago (Tintin's Destination Moon dates back to 1953) and could have become a reality several decades ago.
- treme 2y agoYou seriously trying to take his credit away for reusable rocket with "nu uh, it was in scifi first?" Wow. "A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities—all these are marks, not ... of superiority but of weakness.”
- colibri727 2y agoNo, in fact I'm praising Musk for his project management abilities and his ability to take risks. >"nu uh, it was in scifi first?" Wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X >NASA had taken on the project grudgingly after having been "shamed" by its very public success under the direction of the SDIO.[citation needed] Its continued success was cause for considerable political in-fighting within NASA due to it competing with their "home grown" Lockheed Martin X-33/VentureStar project. Pete Conrad priced a new DC-X at $50 million, cheap by NASA standards, but NASA decided not to rebuild the craft in light of budget constraints "Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Oscar Wilde
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- cess11 2y agoWhat's wrong with weakness? Does it make you feel contempt?
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- KyleOneill 2y agoI feel like Steve Jobs also fits this category if we are going to talk about people who aren't really worthy of genius title and used other people's accomplishments to reach their goals. We all know it as the engineers who made iPhone possible.
- KyleOneill 2y agoThe people downvoting have never read the Isaacson book obviously.
- treme 2y agoMore like ppl on this site know and respect Jobs for his talent as a revolutionary product manager-style CEO that brought us IPhone and subsequent mobile Era of computing.
- KyleOneill 2y agoJobs was a bully through and through.
- 8372049 2y agoMobile era of computing would have happened just as much if Jobs had never lived.
- CamperBob2 2y agoTo be fair, who else could have gone toe-to-toe with the telecom incumbents? Jobs almost didn't succeed at that.
- 8372049 2y agoSomeone far more deserving of the title, Dennis Ritchie, died a week after Jobs' stupidity caught up with him. So much attention to Jobs who didn't really deserve it, and so little to Dennis Ritchie who made such a profound impact on the tech world and society in general.
- ekianjo 2y agoSpaceX is still the only company with reusable rockets. NASA only dreams about it and cant even make a regular rocket launch on time