Post #1584685

2026-03-09 01:13 UTC

I want to note, too, that all of those claims were known absurdities when he said them. Mars was and, at least as he conceived, is never going to happen. The details he ignores are the whole puzzle. Middle management types love the idea that he's just cut through the faff of the overthinkers to get to brass tacks. No, he's ignoring the core logistic impossibility of all of those proposals. He doesn't understand anything and doesn't think he needs to--his opinions are worthless.

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@AbramKedge@beige.party 2026-03-09 08:02

@rorystarr There's a character in Mike Duncan's The Martian Revolution episodes from his Revolutions podcast who is a glorious parody of Musk - and that's after Mike skewers Musk in the first episode with a few well-chosen sentences.

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@bsmall2@fedibird.com 2026-03-09 23:19

@rorystarr sometimes I wonder if he's part of the Alvin Toffler sort of "futurologist" genre. Business media must have an affinity for all sorts of "brightsided" bullshit.. it might be like heaven, keeps the drone workers focused on the next world and not the bullshit(meanjngless destructive work, long hours, low pay...) they have to put up with now.. I think Neil Postman mentioned how Toffler or somebody like that remained a highly paid speaker and guest in spite of being wrong about everything.

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@dfyx@social.helios42.de 2026-03-09 23:36

@rorystarr Which makes SpaceX‘s other achievements all the more impressive. Despite being led by a the personified midlife crisis, their engineers have created the Falcon 9 which is the first partially reusable rocket ever and one of the most reliable rockets we currently have. I still have hope for Starship (though not as part of a Mars mission) but it could probably get done much more efficiently if Elon just learned that his contribution is money, not engineering.

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