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Re:Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk by umeshunni on Friday July 23, 2021 @05:48PM (#27936007)
Elon Musk - gets a degree in physics and a PhD in materials and builds rockets.

The Author - gets a masters of arts and writes 2000 words hoping to get ad clicks to feed his kids.

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Re:Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk by tablespoon on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:06PM (#27936658)
> Elon Musk - gets a degree in physics and a PhD in materials and builds rockets.

Unless PhDs are awarded to people who dropped out after two days, that didn't happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education

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Re:Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk by echlebek on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:03PM (#27936139)
Elon Musk doesn't have a PhD and he didn't build any rockets.
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Re:Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk by hackeraccount on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:01AM (#27940560)
Of course he doesn't build rockets. Logically no one builds rockets. Yet somehow without him SpaceX rockets wouldn't get built. What are the number of individuals at SpaceX that we can say, "Without that exact person the company would not work?"

I'm not saying it's absolutely the case that he's the only person who answers that question but I would say that the number of people who do is a number somewhere between one and something very small. I'm also saying that he's in that group of people.

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