Ned YeungAnd what about his suggestion to just give it to "the fastest and cheapest bidder"?! 😮 What a fucking moron.
Urzl@ned Super confident about SpaceX construction in light of this...
Catherine is not complacent
Michael Gemar@michaelgemar @ned For now. No doubt he's on track to duplicate Boeing's trajectory in record time.
Yup, just look at Tesla and their self-driving debacles. Eventually he'll just step in (like with Tesla) and say, "Hey, I'm a smart guy and I don't think we need that many cameras, so get rid of them."
@gooba42 @ned Possibly, but SpaceX has been hugely transformative for the space industry, and currently launches more than half of all mass to orbit. (They’re also the only way to get people into orbit from US soil, precisely because Boeing’s Starliner capsule is delayed due to serious safety problems.)
Musk is a horrible human, but SpaceX really is vastly outpacing its competitors, and doing so safely and reliably.
Karl Stanley@michaelgemar @gooba42 @ned I strongly suspect they achieve this by keeping the CEO the hell away from any engineering decisions.
Yup, because it's harder for him to override them than it is for him to pretend he understands coding and fire all the coders he thinks are writing too much.
Peter Kisner ≈@ned @michaelgemar @gooba42
Based on his success with SpaceX, I can only assume Musk's intention is to build a series of bridges, testing each one to destruction.
Based on his success with SpaceX, I can only assume Musk's intention is to build a series of bridges, testing each one to destruction.
@PTR_K @ned @michaelgemar But we all know the best testing happens on protected wilderness.
You can't trust any technology until it's extincted at least one species.
SilvertipGrizz@browngraham243 @gooba42 @ned The development program for Starship has been rather lax, especially the first launch. Their actual commercial Falcon 9 launches (hundreds at this point) have all gone off without any collateral damage.
kimu@ned I’ve seen a lot of dumb takes on the collapse but wow, his take on this might be a new low. The one thing that’s consistent in his shambolic worldview is devaluing actual expertise.
Baron Vonskinnback@ned that estimate was based on absolutely zero knowledge or understanding, plus wasn't his own cyber truck really delayed & much more expensive than promised that forced him to keep asking people to pay more for it after they agreed the initial price only for it to be released with lots of issues anyway? Seems like he should try to do what people pay him to do properly first before he starts weighing in on other shit that he knows absolutely nothing about...
NancyAnn@ned
Tells you everything you need to know about buying a Tesla, doesn’t it?
Tells you everything you need to know about buying a Tesla, doesn’t it?
GlennMG
Chill Bonobo@ned Wow, that was an incredibly dumb thing to say, even for Elon Musk.
Jason Didner@ned
And he thinks it's the inclusion of minorities in the process that would make us less safe? Right!
And he thinks it's the inclusion of minorities in the process that would make us less safe? Right!
@ned ………. remains of a like minded billionaire now rest peacefully in the sediment adjacent to the Titanic; along with those lacking the wisdom to recognize insanity with whom they deal.
AtheistIntelligence@ned they spelled tool wrong. Musk is a tool.
@AtheistIntelligence Is he not both, a fool and a tool?
@ned yeah, he can be both, but he's a tool foremost.
@AtheistIntelligence How very true. Especially when he wears his ill motives on his sleeves.
Zazzoo 🇨🇦