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Bringing together the money and people to make this stuff happen is the basis. That’s the most impressive part. Debatably the only truly impressive part. There
by junofan 6mo ago
Bringing together the money and people to make this stuff happen is the basis. That’s the most impressive part. Debatably the only truly impressive part.
There’s no ideology. You can watch a really big rocket take off every month or two and watch a smaller rocket take off every couple days. I’m sure there are better designs out there… on drawing boards.
- ActorNightly 6mo agoIts not a video game where you put enough resources into "science" and stuff just works. There are fundamentals at play that Musk certainly doesn't understand, and its ridiculous to think that he would be smart enough to account for them.
- WalterBright 6mo ago> There are fundamentals at play that Musk certainly doesn't understand Examples?
- ActorNightly 6mo agoMusk thinks that if you crash things enough until it works first time, the problem is solved. Which is fine for something like Falcon. As loads get bigger and heavier, and you start running into margins of performance (for example, raptor engines are required to generate the thrust to lift it). And then, just cause it works the first time, that doesn't mean there is enough margin on the system to not fail due to an external unforseen event for which the narrow margins can't account for.
- WalterBright 6mo agoMusk's technology ventures have been incredibly successful. I wouldn't bet against him. In fact, I've bet on him.
- ActorNightly 6mo agoPre 2018 Musk before he destroyed his mind with ketamine, sure. Apart from a few very autistic events, I would have also bet on him. But now, you wanna tell me the person that thought the Cybertruck was a good product is going to solve a very complex problem of reusable heavy launch vehicle? Much less go to Mars? Ok.