4553

All 5 points are really interesting but the Model 3 story is a classic. I loved that whole video.

Also in the second I think he gets into problems with the space shuttle and the main issue was they weren’t allowed to crash it - it always had people on board so you couldn’t actually test any changes.

4554

Completely agree. It definitely sounds like Elon is fully prepared to blow up lot of rockets. He talked about the recovered prototypes as being cool giant lawn ornaments but they will run out of space to store them.

So in their quests for making a rapidly reusable spacecraft, they are going to be pushing the envelope and we can expect many rapid unscheduled disassembly’s. I am sorry but the kid in me thinks rockets blowing up is really cool, as long as nobody is in danger.

One of the Intel values that I most treasured was risk-taking, intelligent failures are to be applauded. SpaceX has taken that philosophy to a new level. The T-shirt Elon is wearing in in the interview is celebrating one of Tesla most spectacular failures

Here is the link to part 2. to the interview a great watch for space geeks.

4555

It’s amazing how bad executive leadership and greed can hurt a company. Boeing can’t get anything right. They won’t be launching to the space station for a long time now,

4556

Normally, I’d give them a bit of a pass since this rocket science. But valves not working, doesn’t strike me as the hard part of rocket science.

4557

4558

A lot of old school Boeing folk around Seattle will tell you how the company has been spiraling for decades. The bean counters and MBAs took over, and engineering took a back seat. (Say hello, 737 Max). They’ve really done a grade-A job screwing over Boeing’s proud heritage, as well as its birthplace. One of the greatest concentrations of aerospace manufacturing talent in the world, and they’ve been gutting it for cheaper, non-union states.

4559

Oh man, level 5 diagnostics take all fucking day. I feel for that crew.

4560

Part 3 of the tour starbase.

Elon is visibly tired in this video, the interview has been going on for at least 12 hours. The enthusiasm of the SpaceX employees is infectious. the construction foreman? who gives Elon a hug, the young women engineer who tells Elon were ready to stack this in 11 hours, and Mr Patel who is starbase manager, who gives a Elon a data dump on everything from welding to personal hiring

This people all get an adrenaline boost being around Elon so they give him an high speed update. How Elon can process all this info, response to the interviews question, and then give the inspirational pitch about making mankind and interplanetary species is extremely impressive. Why he hasn’t total burned out is beyond me.

4561

It’s probably the weed.

4562

he has aspergers and this is his jam?

4563

He doesn’t spend any spare cycles thinking of names for his kids.

4564

Cocaine, more like.

4565

What I truly don’t understand is that he walks around a busy building site without a hardhat. Surely they must have spares on-site?

4566

Stunning might be a bit of an overstatement, but it is pretty cool.

4567

Very cool, indeed.

4568

Reading that article is like reading a sci-fi passage :)

4569

First thing I thought of was Protector by Niven. The Brennan protector used gravitic lensing as a powerful telescope.

4570

Ha! Same here. Improbable as he’d have to contain the effects of the insane amount of gravity needed to get a lens effect to the scope. But at the time, it read as very plausible to me.

4571

In the rocket science is hard, but really funny at times.

Scott’s played lot more kerbal, than I have, but I’ve never had a Kerbal launch that fucked up.

4572

Come on, you mean to tell me you never accidentally didn’t set up your staging sequences right and had. The capsule emergency separation set to the same stage as the main boosters so that as soon as you hit ignition the capsule spiraled off while the rocket underwent unplanned spontaneous disassembly?