a powerful man with a vision can be a great thing. until it isn’t.
kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s been fun watching Elon go from space Jesus to shorthand for any billionaire vanity project that will amount to nothing.
Fusselwurm@feddit.org 1 day ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anyone who knew much about space knew that was nonsense from the start, as colonizing a subantarctic volcano is literally more practical than colonizing Mars. And that’s assuming paradigm shifts in spaceflight (which, turns out, did not materialize at all).
Don’t get me wrong. SpaceX is great, Starship is cool, research in space is awesome. But ever since I’ve first read Musk’s public thoughts, he struck me as ‘not scientifically grounded,’ and I wondered how that incongruity would shake out.