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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by georgeg23 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @01:37AM (#33391430)
He had help from the government, specifically Mike Griffin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career

The rocket landing stuff largely borrow from DC-X and the spinoff work at NASA (+Lars Blackmore), all originally Strategic Defense Initiative development.

He used all that money from Mike as collateral for loans to Tesla

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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by ksidudwbw on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:16AM (#33391686)
Rome wasn't built in a day and were all standing on the shoulders of giants. However you need trailblazers to cut through and push the threshold. Elon is a hacker and disruptor and entrenched interests would like to just keep things they way they were, thereby pumping money into PR firms to talk down disruption and innovation. You're either a paid talk downer or a victim of that.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by underdeserver on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:46AM (#33392494)
All that is true and yet nobody else got EVs on the road and reusable rockets in the sky at scale.
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Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staf... by tomp on Sunday October 30, 2022 @05:34AM (#33392767)
You do realize that everyone had those benefits? In particular dinosaur rocket companies.

Yet Elon's the only person/company who put those privileges to good use

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