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...
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.