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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Eric who wrote (1543559)6/19/2025 3:49:04 PM
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The Apollo missions would never have made it with his logic.

Not precisely true. NASA did a lot of "launch and see what happens" leading up to Apollo. It wasn't until after Apollo that they started to obsess over risk mitigation. Even then, the Shuttle flew for the first time manned and with a mission other than "let's see if this blows up or not". It isn't a bad way to develop, and pretty much a necessity when slide rules are all you have. What computers existed then are now overpowered by the typical microwave oven today. So models were crude.

Now the Ketamine Kid seems to be cutting even more corners than usual lately. The last 3 flights have failed with very similar issues, and that reflects a lot of confidence that the FAA won't try to control him. But it is also bad, because it show they aren't bothering to actually figure out what the problems are, just going by guess and hope. Given that this is a very precarious time for his empire, he needs successes but failures only bring disaster even closer.

Even before his bladder problems, Elon never was much for plan B. So he wants to power through any problem. That might not yield good results.

So now what, boss?

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