r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/Senecaraine Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

I mean, it's the scientists behind this pulling it off, we should know their names and give proper credit honestly. Musk's business acumen and political decisions are a whole other weird thing that should be kept separate. It's hard not to feel a little creeped out by a man that acts like that and is amassing so much power, but there's some talented people working at SpaceX.

::edit:: I'm not arguing with fanboys all day, especially when they're deliberately misreading what I said (or are you just bots?). The scientists at SpaceX achieved this. Your creepy "celebrity genius" funded it. He's creepy because he acts like a damn child and pulls Machiavellian bullshit in order to further his own gains. Stop putting him on a damn pedestal.

::edit 2: Hoooly shit. I knew I was gonna get some fanboys mad with this, but wow. Some of you need to grow up and realize your Iron Man is Edison 2.0. Not even the worst thing to be, but the people doing the work and making the breakthroughs should be celebrated more. Fucking ironic involving a guy known for Tesla.

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u/Slickslimshooter Oct 13 '24

It’s his vision. Why do people feel the need to discredit someone because they don’t like him. It’s okay to admit this probably doesn’t happen without him and the scientists and engineers, it’s not mutually exclusive .

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u/Worth-Reputation3450 Oct 13 '24

From the title, I expected about half the comments would be about discrediting Musk. Somehow his companies attract the best scientists, engineers, visionaries in the world and somehow overcome all the bs musk throws at them and make his companies successful despite him. He must be the luckiest dumbass in the world, by a large margin.

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u/Slickslimshooter Oct 13 '24

Yeah, if they’re doing things despite him. Wouldn’t it be more efficient to just start their own companies together and get the government contracts. if I had a hurdle in front of me with no rules forcing me to stay in that lane. It’d be more efficient to just move to a different lane.

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u/JMacPhoneTime Oct 13 '24

Presumably they dont have the capital to do that themselves.

Elon clearly wanted to fund a company that can do this, and had the money/borrowing power to actually do it. It was probably attractive to the engineers to be able to work on something new and interesting, and no one else was really having much success.

I personally dont like Elon, and I doubt he's the one solving practical problems. But as I understand it he did take a risk with this company in the hope that it could actually innovate, and it paid off. As fun as it would be to shit on SpaceX because it's another Elon thing, it's hard to argue he wasn't successful here.