Hey, Bbbb? Shut up.
Meanwhile in England…
This is all over Breitbart. The water ran out, and they’re spinning it that somehow it’s the black queer fire captain’s fault.
It never makes sense, but they really do believe it.
Bolding mine. How is it his technology? He helped finance it, sure, but do we know that he was the original proponent of it? I think a better wording would be his company’s technology.
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Musk would like everyone to think he’s inventing all the gadgetry at Tesla, SpaceX, etc. But it is my understanding that he grossly exaggerates his contributions. I’d be interested if anyone can say definitively what (if anything) he really has “invented”
Given that he seems to spend all his time playing videogames and posting asinine Xits, I’m not convinced he does anything at any of his companies other than occasionally make things worse.
In the context of the post, I read it as “the technology he has autocratic control over”. Yes, he takes credit for a lot of things he simply took over, but if (if) he’s offering up Starlink for free - if that’s true, rather than one of his endless false promises - I’m glad.
All that aside, I wish we had our own national satellite networks capable of similar services.
I agree
True…his monopoly is frightening. Sad no one else is able to develop reusable rockets so that launch costs go down by an order of magnitude.
May be not the original proponent. A nephew of mine (us citizen) works for SpaceX…as per him Musk does have indepth knowledge of his rockets even to the minutae on a range of tech areas…propulsion,materials, software, mechanical components etc. My nephew was thrilled that he had a 10 minute face to face conversation with Musk about some valve on a rocket.
Why is it that some people who hate musk can’t accept that he’s ever done any good? Why does it have to be all or nothing?
He can have a role in creating Starlink, Starlink can be overall a good, and he can still be a colossal dickhead whose presence is no longer required in our society. He is a nouveau-riche asshole, not a cartoon villain. It’s okay to give him some credit.
And also to suspect his motives and recall that most of the work was done by other people.
I’m not saying he hasnt done any good. But he better stick to his companies and rockets and AI and starlink where he can do good things. He should not meddle in politics of which he knows nothing is all I’m saying.
I for one don’t mind if he succeeds in his obsession to go to MARS and settles there hahaha.
I mean, we’ve done this already. Ad nauseum
He gets crediting for starting Space X. And the biggest credit he gets is putting smart people (Gwynne Shotwell as the de facto chief executive and Tom Mueller in charge of the rockets) and just taking the credit.
It’s pretty well known they assign ‘handlers’ so that whenever he does show up, he can be distracted away from screwing with the real engineers. Yes, he keeps up with developments. No, he’s not remotely involved in the nitty-gritty and never should be.
Listen, the real genius of Musk is in his ability to attract capital. He’s like a pig in the woods sniffing out truffles, he knows how to find it and dig it up where a lot of people can’t or wouldn’t. Everything else is just happy horseshit.
I’m not a tech person so I have only the things my nephew told me of his firsthand experience working in SpaceX and what Walter Isaacson who practically spent all his waking hours shadowing Musk for over 2 years wrote in his book. Walter below in the biography…
"In late 2020 Musk suggested, then insisted against considerable opposition from his engineers, that Superheavy be caught with chopsticks instead of landing on legs like Falcon 9.
Musk is the person who suggested and, again against considerable opposition from his engineers, insisted on Starship switching to stainless steel instead of carbon fiber".
Both decisions ultimately proved successful…the chopstick catch just once so far but SpaceX is confident they will replicate it like the Falcon 9 landings.
I don’t know why but Walter rates Elon higher wrt innovation and manufacturing than Steve Jobs…he wrote the biographies of both men.
Musk puts out ideas all the time. They are based on “wouldn’t it be cool if,” not on any understanding of the engineering. Some of these ideas pan out, most do not. If all you look at are the ones that work, you will get a very skewed idea of his “genius”.
Not a genius maybe, but as per Walter the greatest visionary of this era when it comes to manufacturing. No one is even close as per him. And this has been echoed very recently by Jensen Huang, the ceo of Nvidia who said building the Memphis supercomputer for AI training and inference compute in 19 days is “superhuman” and the only person who can pull it off is Elon Musk.
Edit : Everyone knows Elon didn’t build it with his own hands…he has teams of engineers and he drives them hard.
The thing is Boeing and Blueorigin too have great engineers(or Boeing once had) but they are,as yet, unable to do what Elon did in his companies. Sad but true that it will be a SpaceX rocket that will bring back Sunita Williams and the other astronaut from the ISS.
I just hope this guy restricts himself to his companies and keeps the hell out of politics.
Oh sweet heavens above, the “he’s rich, he must have some special quality beyond mere mortals to deserve that wealth” is such a tired, ridiculous but ludicrously widespread belief.
“Successful” is a different word from “Preferrable”. I can be successful at diving down from the top of a building into a pool of water 40 inches deep. Circus performers do this sort of trick regularly in Vegas, at O. Those performers will also, likely, end up suffering from brain damage, nerve damage, etc. in later life. They can only succeed in very controlled circumstances. The trick only works in one direction. Ultimately, most people do and should just use an elevator. Diving, as a method of building transit, just isn’t the preferrable method, regardless that one can successfully do it.
This isn’t to say that there might not be some massive advantage of the chopstick maneuver or using steel, that was worth pursuing. I haven’t researched the subject. But you would need to establish what those benefits are, what the benefits are of the alternative, what the negatives are (e.g. success rate), and math that out over time to determine which was the preferred methodology. Being able to accomplish it is not evidence of preferability.