Posted on 12/07/2020 4:34:25 AM PST by RoosterRedux
There’s hard core, and then there’s Elon Musk.
Musk called an all-hands meeting at his SpaceX spacecraft factory in Boca Chica Beach, Texas — at 1 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 23, according to a story published Thursday by Ars Technica.
The billionaire SpaceX and Tesla boss is known for setting outlandish goals (and sometimes missing them). And in the wee hours of the Sunday, he wanted to know from his team why his factory wasn’t running 24-7 to build the Starship rocket system (which will eventually take crew and cargo to Mars).
Musk’s engineering team explained they needed more people to take shifts. So over the next 48 hours, SpaceX hired 252 workers, doubling the workforce at that factory, Ars Technica reported.
The vignette is telling about what it is like to work for Musk.
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“Elon has this incredible optimism, where he will pierce through these imagined constraints and show you that really a lot more is possible that you really think is today,” Hodak said in 2019 at the California Academy of Sciences.
In a Tweet recruiting talent to work for his companies, Musk himself acknowledged he can be hard to work for.
“There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week,” Musk tweeted.
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The kid in me, who grew up reading Asimov and Heinlein, is buoyed reading a sentence like that.
Sometimes a little flakiness is needed to shut down the naysayers and dare to achieve something. This is nothing new as history has proven its ability to criticize and mock those who wish to challenge the status quo.
From Edison, to the Wright Brothers; hell even the guy that invented the umbrella was mocked for his idea. Luckily, there are people out there that don't care what others think.
Maybe it was more of a rhetorical question as in, hey, why don’t we just run the plant 24/7?.
God you’re obnoxious, but I guess that’s what you need to be to tell yourself you’re not part of an evil industry.
Love him or hate him, he is brilliant. He definitely looks at things differently and, IMO, he is our modern equivalent to Thomas Edison.
What is the Children’s Health Defense organization?
I quickly looked at their website, The articles they have all look left wing and technology phobic..
Good God what a nutter site. Let me guess... you are a believer in daily colloidal silver. Might as well rub the crystals, steam your hooha, and get your chakras aligned while sunning your perineum and getting a coffee colonic.
5G is not particularly risky since it can not penetrate deeper than a couple of layers of cells (negligible skin cancer risk). Starlink is not even that. Several orders of magnitude lower signal strength exposure and Starlink freq are much less ionizing.
I am not obnoxious but your smooth brain may interpret someone who actually understand and can instantly debunk a nutcase site like the one you linked as such. It is better if you stick to the kids table when it comes to sciency stuff.
I actually DO admire him! What he has done in the past couple years exposed NASA for the overpriced chair-jockeys they have become!
LMAO! TY LTGM!
Yep. I knew that would drive you over the top.
And BS—you industry shill.
Why.....all 5G is not necessarily Chinese? Are his satellites??
Sure, overtly, currently Chinese controlled 5G is even worse, but 5G itself is unsafe and unnecessary—except for in a massive surveillance state. (Yeah, some remote surgery procedures may be tough and therefore impractical until we get a safer version of that level of capability, but so it goes.)
What absolute bullshit!
How you have gotten through life without Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid poisoning given your daily exposure to it?
The highly reactive hydroxyl radical has been shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters.
Poisoning is rapid. It can take just a few minutes to die.
It is ubiquitous. I guarantee you have been exposed to at least 1E+6 PPM and 1E+9 PPB today.
How are you still alive?
Those who see just #10, the end goal.
And all of the rest of us who see #1 through #9 to get to that goal.
Grifter, grand stander, psychopath, OCD, sometimes just greedy, sometimes don’t even care about money but almost always hard working; that is the OCD part. One or more typical of most driven and successful people. Movers and shakers who change the world around them with many degrees of success and scale of course. It takes a lot of energy to get people to go along with your dreams or mania but you can’t do it alone. They push and push and when they are not pushing they are scheming about how and where to push next. Enough is never enough. I don’t know what really motivates them, hope for success or fear of failure. Sometimes happy but never satisfied.
The other mystery is how they manage to continue to attract followers when they can be so easily hated. People don’t like to be pushed and only ride waves of excitement for a short time before tiring or wanting to just be a human again.
Yup, typical dick manager, raise hell and scare someone to fix it.
Carrot or stick, they consider them interchangeable. If one doesn’t work, get the other. I have to say though that carrots have a limited shelf life and sticks are remembered longer.
I suspect his real reason to go to Mars is to go to the Moon and see f there really are more minerals and profit there than can ever be dreamed of. Eventually, Space X will have a tragic accident. The odds are not with them.
To make an omelet you have to break eggs.
Since when does he need a reason to do anything? He's the boss.....
Shades of Jeremy Irons in “Margin Call”.
That is capitalism — the only way to really get into space is to find a commercial interest pushing us that way. Unfortunately, NASA is a has-been government organization now — its early great accomplishments proved it can be done, but they have been tainted by the overall deep state agenda. Now it is time for forward thinking capitalists to push the boundaries.
Stop the insulting crap, you bozo.
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