• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I still consider Falcon 9 to be a good thing that he made possible by funding its development and manufacturing. It’s given small companies and scientific organizations affordable access to space, and created actual competition in the small satellite launch business. It certainly inspired other companies, like Rocket Lab and Astra, to develop low-cost orbital launch and sounding rockets.

    But then, all of his other anti-society things combined with him having turned into a borderline fascist moron… the scale just doesn’t level out.

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      1 year ago

      But that’s the thing and it’s the reason why the praise for him always went way too far- he funded the Falcon 9. He didn’t help design it. He’s an investor, not an inventor. I wish people understood that even if they admired him.

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      1 year ago

      he bought companies that anyone with a common sense can tell would be the future and have actually smart people work for him.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon called for a meeting every week to introduce some ridiculously stupid ideas and his scientists have to explain to him why it wouldn’t work