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I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD. Elon is showing off he can marshal enough resources a
by butifnot0701 2y ago
I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD.
Elon is showing off he can marshal enough resources and talents to be on par (kinda) with state of the art products in crazy time. That's been most of his superpower so far - not breakthrough tech that didnt exist before. We've had rockets before.
- mjamesaustin 2y agoI don't like Elon either, but not only has SpaceX created breakthrough tech that didn't exist by landing an orbital class rocket, as of today still nobody else has done it. Landing a rocket was considered impossible and unthinkable 10 years ago, and then SpaceX completely changed the game. And they're reinventing rocket tech again with Starship by catching it midair.
- jprd 2y agoWe can all thank Gwynne Shotwell for this though.
- melodyogonna 2y agoGwynee Shotwell works for Elon Musk.
- everfrustrated 2y agoHave you listened to her interviews? You can find some on YouTube. I'm sure she has been very helpful in navigating the US govt/NASA bureaucracy and winning SpaceX deals, but she's clearly not a visionary.
- GoatInGrey 2y agoIt still blows my mind that nobody has meaningfully replicated the Falcon 9 after thirteen years of it flying commercially.
- TFYS 2y agoThe number of people that have the capital and connections required to even attempt such things is very small, so it's not necessarily Musk's abilities that made those things happen, just the combination of having the power to allocate enough resources and an interest in such things.
- somenameforme 2y agoHe started both Tesla and SpaceX when he had "only" a few hundred million to his name and no more connections than would be expected of a Silicon Valley guy making payment software. And lots of brilliant guys, including John Carmack for instance, have tried their hand at aerospace - and failed. Jeff Bezos started Blue Origin before SpaceX was even founded, and it was literally only last month that they finally managed to get a rocket into orbit for the first time. There's a joke in the industry: 'How do you become a millionaire in the aerospace industry? Start out as a billionaire in the aerospace industry!' And we live in a world of millions of millionaires, and thousands of billionaires. For that matter, even China is trying their hardest to replicate SpaceX tech given all the resources of the world's largest economy, and 1.4 billion people (meaning a proportionally larger chunk of intellectual outliers), and defacto authoritarian power to make it all happen. Yet they remain (in terms of rocket technology) behind SpaceX.
- beAbU 2y agoNit: musk is not a tesla founder. He bought his right to be called that for $6M
- everfrustrated 2y agoWhile technically correct, the Tesla that Elon bought has basically nothing in common with current Tesla.
- somenameforme 2y agoWhen Musk 'joined' Tesla it was a name and two other guys. The latter two of whom left the company before a single car had been produced. They then sued for the right to be called founders a couple of years after they left, and once it became clear the company would stand a reasonable chance of success.
- gonzobonzo 2y ago> I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD. When it come to bipedal robots, Tesla is far ahead of Boston Dynamics in terms of actually creating a product.
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- lossolo 2y agoHave you seen Unitree robots? They started mass producing them. It's Chinese company.
- wyclif 2y agoWe've had rockets before Yeah, but we didn't have reusable orbital rockets, and that's a distinction with a big difference.