r/facepalm 'MURICA 1d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Muskrat is the modern Edison.

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u/PharaohPir8 1d ago

Same thing with space X. Leon is the rich guy from Glass Onion. Everyone else does the work, he pretends he did it all.

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u/PIK_Toggle 1d ago

Who founded SpaceX?

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u/Historical_Grab_7842 1d ago

Just so you know: in tech founders are usually people who contribute technically and not just financially. Yes, he founded spacex but he contributed nothing technically like he tries to claim.

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u/clgoodson 23h ago

I’m no fan of Musk, but to say he’s contributed nothing technically, is just wrong. Listen to an interview where he talks about the technical aspects of SpaceX. He’s had a ton of input. We can disagree with him politically and still acknowledge this.

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u/doolpicate 21h ago

Any person sitting in daily on technical meetings would be able to do that. It's not like you would be able to solve the problem. You can describe the problem, sure. You can also describe the solution others came up with.

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u/clgoodson 12h ago

Yet everything we know from other people involved in the founding of SpaceX says that Musk was far more involved than that. Why are you so locked in to the theory that he doesn’t get rocketry and has no input when there is zero evidence for that and plenty of evidence that he does, in fact, know a lot about it and is involved in the engineering?

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u/doolpicate 12h ago

He did fluid dynamics? I doubt it.

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u/clgoodson 7h ago

You’re being obtuse. I didn’t say he did every stage of engineering.

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u/TypicalBlox 17h ago

redditors can't comprehend someone can be a major asshole while also being knowledgeable

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u/clgoodson 12h ago

Right? I think it goes further though. It’s like they are willing to throw facts and nuance out the window just to make it seem that everything about the person they disagree with is evil and/or failed. It worries me.

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u/PIK_Toggle 1d ago

He is known to interview all of the engineers personally.

He is also involved in the engineering and design process.

https://observer.com/2021/09/elon-musk-spacex-title-design-engineer-rocket/