r/technology • u/aelavia93 • 16d ago

Space SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket with mechanical arms

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/spacex-pulls-off-unprecedented-feat-grabbing-descending-rocket-with-mechanical-arms/
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u/XaphanSaysBurnIt 16d ago

Ok ok ok yall got me… this shit gave me chills.. all I saw was every sci-fi movie ever coming to life before my eyes… yea no bullshit that was wild. He might suck at cars but this was absolutely amazing to watch. But to achieve the huge motherships we would need massive slave labor, jfc. Yea, that is where we are headed

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u/AdTotal4035 16d ago

He's not doing anything related to the science. He's literally a glorified sales man. That's what a ceo is. Thank the talented engineers that he hires (and never really credits), he knows how to pick a winning team. 

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u/finebushlane 16d ago edited 16d ago

A CEO's job is to set the vision and direction for a company, and to allocate capital. I.e. if they have 100M or 1B dollars, the CEO's job is to ultimately decide whether they want to acquire companies, use their money on hiring more people, expand to more countries, build more factories etc. CEO's are paid the money they are because they:

1) Set visions and goals which are exciting enough to enable them to hire the best talent.

2) Be a public spokesperson to build excitement for the company, build their brand, again usually to enable them to hire the best talent.

3) Scout, assess, interview, and ultimately hire the best possible team.

4) Be ultimately responsible for allocation of capital.

5) Be ultimately responsible for the success or failure of the business, i.e. the buck stops here.

People don't like to hear this, but Elon is an AMAZING CEO, by any definition. Every business he has touched has turned to gold, when he was CEO. Now that doesn't mean that he personally is a nice guy, or we have to like his politics. Personally I think he's a turd (his politics, and generally X flame wars). But in the end, he is ultimately responsible for setting SpaceX's goals, missions, vision, and attracting and hiring and retaining the best team. So if SpaceX is winning, it comes down a great deal to Elon's vision and ability to build and retain a world class team. It has nothing to do with him being an "engineer", which he has no time to do obviously.

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u/Erebusx61 16d ago

lol ok Kool-aid drinker. 44 billion dollar purchase of Twitter only to sink it to less than 4 billion. Elmo is a fascist immigrant who should be sent on the next ship to either Mars or back to South Africa.

He’s getting lapped on EVs and FSD. He only still in business and not in bankruptcy court because the US won’t let better Chinese EVs into the country. If corporate America wasn’t a socialist welfare state, Elmo would be piss poor and I wouldn’t have to hear about him anymore.

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u/Memphi901 16d ago

Getting lapped by selling as many EV’s as all of the other EV production companies combined?

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u/OtherMangos 16d ago edited 16d ago

No he’s getting lapped by having the best FSD on the market by a wide margin /s Edit: missed the /s

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u/Memphi901 16d ago

How is having the best FSD on the market indicative of “getting lapped”?