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I mean he just caught a giant rocket with chopsticks so let him go all in.
by ninetyninenine 2y ago
I mean he just caught a giant rocket with chopsticks so let him go all in.
- tjpnz 2y agoNot without help. https://i.redd.it/2reoopbklkud1.jpeg https://i.redd.it/2reoopbklkud1.jpeg
- ragebol 2y agoMusk inspired and hired a lot of great engineers that made this all possible. His vision, passion and capital are crucial in this, but he dis not catch these himself, nor did he engineer any of the control systems to the detail needed to make this work, I'm sure.
- TomK32 2y agoI wonder how the mood is at SpaceX. I mean, those engineers see how he unsafe the production workers at Telsa have to work, they see how shit he's treating everyone at Twitter and basically sinking it, how long before someone the mood turns sour and we see an outflow to the competition?
- blueredmodern 2y agoIt's right around the corner. The evidence that Musk is actually really dumb is riiiiight around the corner. And will continue to be, for a very long time.
- rob74 2y agoYeah, he's a very stable genius. Just like his very stable genius buddy...
- oldpersonintx 2y ago[dead]
- shiroiushi 2y agoThe problem I see here is: what competition? There doesn't exactly seem to be any in the rocketry space. There's Boeing, but that place is a disaster right now. I guess ULA is still around, but they're not doing anything groundbreaking at all AFAICT, just using old rocket designs to launch some satellites. Where else can these people go? Twitter people can go lots of places, both competing social networks, and also various other internet-related or software places. Tesla people can go to lots of different competing automakers. But I don't see anyplace nice for SpaceX people to go.
- timschmidt 2y ago> what competition? The list is actually pretty long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_co... And that's not counting nation states.
- ywvcbk 2y agoPencil pushing for pennies at Airbus/ArianeSpace is probably not that appealing. Going to work for the Chinese or Russians? Well.. as long as you’re not planning to ever go back home. There aren’t that many options for people who want to be a part of a team that actually accomplishes something significant.
- timschmidt 2y agoYou say that, but at least half a dozen of these companies in the linked wikipedia list, all western, launched rockets last year. And several more are on track to launch within the next. Rocketlab is a serious competitor with multiple spaceports, a rapid launch cadence, and reusability and next-generation launcher projects in the works. Blue Origin is supplying engines to ULA and seems almost ready to test New Glen. Firefly had a successful launch. Stoke is working on a resuability concept that's even more exciting than starship, and advancing steadily through testing flight capable hardware. The list goes on. Rocketlab and others even have products which standardize the bus part of the sattellite or probe, so you just attach your science experiment or sensor.
- nailer 2y agoPeople at twitter seem to be very happy, major features like community notes are being shipped and having a huge impact on the platform and the company is much healthier after he removed the employees that weren’t doing anything.
- eadler 2y agoCommunity notes was designed and shipped before the takeover. It was called "birdwatch".
- ragebol 2y agoNot to mention his politics. I see space exploration as progress, which doesn't really mesh with conservative, backward politics.
- raincole 2y agoOutflow to where? Boeing? Russia?
- ragebol 2y agoThere's some new competitors, like Stoke, Relativity, Blue Origin, bunch more I'm forgetting. This sort of diaspora of talent with experience is good to have, if there is capital
- ragebol 2y agoLOL, Blue Origin is not new btw. But new to launching orbital rockets
- ninetyninenine 2y agoHe pushed for it and is instrumental in the design. Musk is not just a ceo.
- TulliusCicero 2y agoSpaceX is doing ridiculously well, but that doesn't mean all of Musk's bets are equally smart. So far he seems to be terribly wrong on self-driving.
- zimpenfish 2y ago> So far he seems to be terribly wrong on self-driving. Don't forget the colonisation of Mars. He's even more wrong on that one.
- bigfatkitten 2y agoIf he wants to make his 2026 Mars promise, he needs to be ready to go in the next month or so. I'm a bit sceptical.
- vixen99 2y agoOn the other hand, if we shortly discover an asteroid on course to meet Earth within a concerning time frame or some other predictable disaster coming down the pike, they'll be a mass effort to take giant steps to ensure he and others are not wrong.
- zimpenfish 2y ago> some other predictable disaster coming down the pike I mean, we have one of those right now (that we've known about since at least the 1980s) and ... > they'll be a mass effort to take giant steps That isn't happening. And climate change is an easy thing to deal with compared with the colonisation of Mars.
- chii 2y agomusk's track record of bets is 4 out of 6[0] - a pretty good one. [0]: the successful bets: paypal, tesla, spacex, starlink. Failures: twitter, self-driving. To be determined: ai.
- cmrdporcupine 2y ago
- blueredmodern 2y agoHis track record for being behind all these mindblowing innovations is off the record, but we don't like his face, so he doesn't deserve any credit for it!
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoFor any comment making fun of elon’s face, I’ll find you twenty criticizing more substantive traits.