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| ▲ | londons_explore 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Crew dragon was designed by smart minds. Those smart minds have mostly left spacex now, since musk changed political sides and became much less 'cool' for the brightest to work at. That's why the company is struggling now - few smart minds means little progress. |
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| ▲ | andsoitis 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Those smart minds have mostly left spacex now since musk changed political sides Care to name a few? | | |
| ▲ | londons_explore 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | Tom Mueller, Chris Thompson, Hans Koenigsmann, Tim Buzza etc have all left. Makes sense - they had been there ~20 years and must have a huge pile of stock. But due to musks political aura (mostly right leaning), the smart minds from universities(which are mostly left leaning) are no longer joining spacex en-mass. In turn, that means the companies are merely ticking along, not racing ahead. | | |
| ▲ | andsoitis 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | > the smart minds from universities are no longer joining spacex What data do you have to convince someone who is skeptical and suspicious of your claim? |
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| ▲ | skybrian 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes I know, but how do they plan to get to the moon? |
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| ▲ | MarkusQ 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | On a rocket? They make and launch them. More, in fact than the rest of the world combined. At this point, anyone claiming "SpaceX can't do <generic space related thing>" is either 1) claiming that no one can or 2) blinded by some sort of ideological bias. | |
| ▲ | andsoitis 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > how do they plan to get to the moon? With Starship. Is that a trick question? |
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| ▲ | cwillu 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| SpaceX, not Starship. While I don't agree with the “starship will never orbit” haters, the viewpoint itself is coherent. |
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| ▲ | Zigurd 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I hate the mind-bogglingly incompetent approach to project management Elon takes. It's like a chess player who can't see even two moves ahead. TBF a starship will orbit the planet at least once, just with a fraction of the spec payload and therefore no chance of being refueled to get out of orbit to the Moon. Starship's project dependencies each have a clusterfuck of dependencies, and they each... It all has to go right or it fails. On top of all that his business strategies is brittle in the same way Tesla is crippled by not having a cheaper car instead of fantasy project like humanoid robots and cyber cab. |
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