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WalterBright ◴[20 Oct 24 03:44 UTC] No.41892704[source]▶

It's too bad that Elon Musk and Kelly Johnson never met. Both are engineers' engineers doing impossible things, and I bet they would have had a blast.

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dmead ◴[20 Oct 24 04:13 UTC] No.41892811[source]▶

>>41892704 #

I'm really surprised people still think he's doing the work and not just a salesman.

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1. WalterBright ◴[20 Oct 24 04:21 UTC] No.41892836[source]▶

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Why was NASA/Boeing/Bezos/Branson/Russia/etc unable to do it?

BTW, Musk took enormous personal risk on these ventures, betting his whole fortune on it.

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