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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by fiachamp on Thursday March 20, 2014 @04:56PM (#7438721)
How is Elon Musk comparable to mysticism and parapsychology? A physics-major working on engineering challenges like space travel, electric cars, and renewable energy... Elon Musk's pursuits are at least based in science, its the business viability that is unknown at the beginning
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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by awakeasleep on Thursday March 20, 2014 @09:58PM (#7440209)
Elon Musk's work is based on our best guesses about how the world works. "Crazy" stuff in the past was based on our ancestor's best guesses about how stuff works.

The only difference is hindsight. Bullshit artists distort things as much today as they did in the past.

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Re:Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Tha... by bogs_carut on Friday March 21, 2014 @12:45PM (#7443276)
There's a key difference: Elon Musk is delivering results.

The scientific method enables one to deliver results because its models are predictive, not merely explanatory. The engineering and science we do today is also predictive because it relies on models cultivated within this methodology.

Equating today's "best guesses" with those in medieval or ancient times is absolutely inane.

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