I know most of y'all have fully abandoned Twitter, but good lord if he actually does this (which is not guaranteed mind you) a LOT of vulnerable people are going to get hurt.
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He's really not clever or competent. From what i understand the only reason tesla and space-x can function is that they've developed proceedures for keeping him distracted and steering him away from things he can break, and even that is a constant challenge. With twitter there was no time to learn how to manage him, he just smashed through the wall, shit on the rug, and set the drapes on fire.
SpaceX has the added constraints of being a NASA contractor. For example, even though Crew Dragon was designed and built by SpaceX, has to strictly follow NASA safety and reliability specifications. NASA has a huge amount of oversight into their operations even though they're technically a private company. Which is as it should be.
But then why involve SpaceX in the first place? Unless the point is to just funnel public money into a private corporation?
Yep
As crazy as it sounds, SpaceX is the best option out of a bad bunch.
Something that a lot of people might not know is that NASA, except for prototyping, does not and never has built rockets, or crew or cargo vehicles. They build the payloads (like space probes) or supply the astronauts that go into or onto those rockets and crew vehicles. The alternative to the fixed-price contracts that SpaceX now gets are the massive-cost-overrun cost-plus contracts that have historically gone to defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell, Northrop Grumman, etc.
NASA has historically provided the designs that those defense contractors have built, and sometimes owns the end products (like the space shuttles). This US government aerospace contracting arrangement goes all the way back to the post-WW2 days when the US Army paid Chrysler (yes, the car company) to reverse-engineer captured V2 rockets.
Don't forget truckloads of state subsidies as well.
That's what I was wondering, because he's obviously not a smart person but things like SpaceX seem to basically function, and if he ran those the same as Twitter it'd literally be headlines like "SpaceX fires all its rockets directly into the ground for no reason" lol
SpaceX did blow up their own launch pad so badly that they're getting sued.
IIRC that was the direct result of Elon demanding that they ignore certain safety procedures or something. Can't remember the details though but I read it somewhere.
They wanted to see if they needed an active water-deluge system for fire/debris control when a Starship booster launches. Turns out they did. They installed one as part of the repairs to their Starship test pad, so that the next prototype Starship launch has a better chance.
Remember when users on this site were theorising his purchase was a conspiracy spurred on by Peter Thiel in order to deliberately destroy twitter because leftists used the site to organize? I think there is an impulse to want our oppressors to be smart, so when they do dumb shit, it can't actually be dumb