• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    he’s not exactly stupid

    That may or may not be true.

    and actually knows quite a bit about both.

    That I doubt. He has no formal training in either field and it’s not something you can just pick up.

    • jramskov@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You can find videos with him discussing rocket engines in details - he’s spent years working together with a lot of brilliant car and rocket engineers. He (again, not alone, of course) somehow managed to build a successful car company and a successful Space company. Both things are by all accounts very difficult. Not likely to be done by a stupid person.

      I fully agree he’s a jerk and I would never want to work for him, but that doesn’t mean he’s stupid or that I can’t be impressed by what SpaceX has achieved.