SpaceX has done amazing work to make space travel truly routine. Say what you want about Musk but this is a historic achievement for humanity.

Correct, I am glad he is taking initiative on these efforts. He has unilateral ability to do literally anything else with that company or his time or his capital and investors capital, and the team of engineers doing the hard problems would not be doing them or have any way to execute.

It's very surprising the talent pool they're pulling from to me as someone that doesn't have training in physical engineering beyond control systems and computer vision. Two of my friends who received Chemical Engineering degrees and were advancing in their careers at Exxon are now working at SpaceX with higher salaries (but no pension) as well as a couple friends from college who were in Systems Engineering. All of these people I'd classify as very good engineers as they have all been very high achieving in their fields in college and professionally. Oddly enough both sets are married. I wonder if that's a hiring strategy.

edit: now that I've thought more about it Chemical makes sense since they have chemical rockets and they both have industrial scale manufacturing experience.

I don’t have anything bad to say about musk except the fact that he has cost me more than $2 million over the last week and a half. Stop texting about crypto dude!

Don't blame Musk for buying a stupid toy.

That stupid toy has made is so I don’t have to work for the rest of my life and I’m 26 so your mileage may vary.

Congrats on winning the Ponzi scheme