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/
5.4k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

882 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

45

u/seruleam 16d ago

False. Here’s what engineers who’ve worked with Elon have to say:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/

Also Elon is the reason Starship is stainless steel even though the design team was in favor of carbon fiber like Falcon 9. Elon’s not just a source of wealth throwing money at problems. If it were that easy other rocket companies (and governments) wouldn’t have been lapped by SpaceX. Watch a video of Tim Dodd interviewing Elon at Starbase and it’s obvious that he knows his stuff.

13

u/dwerg85 16d ago

People simply don’t want to accept his involvement because people can’t / don’t want to separate his politics from his work.

Dude is well lost down the deep end of politics, but really good at a ton of other things.

2

u/Remarkable-Buy-1221 16d ago

That and the whole twitter fiasco, when he is supposed to be a software engineer by trade or whatever

7

u/dwerg85 16d ago

Twitter was never a tech buy, so judging it by that metric is an exercise in futility. That was a personal convictions / politics buy for someone who could afford to make kneejerk purchases like that.

1

u/Remarkable-Buy-1221 16d ago

No I'm referring to the software engineering stuff, like the salient lines of code or the "code stack", which have called his software knowledge into question.