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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (1543562)6/19/2025 5:11:01 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1583129
 
Combjelly,
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.
Good point, but that was in the 1960s during the Space Race. Kennedy launched the Space Race after Sputnik, so it was worth the risk to rush things, I would imagine.

And yeah, launching rockets with slide rules (man, I love that scene from the movie Apollo XIII) does lead to a lot of risk.
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.
I don't get this. It sounds like how software development works, not hardware development.

Musk should be a hardware guy, given his track record with Tesla. His foray into software is limited to PayPal and now Twitter.

Tenchusatsu
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