Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Smarter Every Day BOOST-ED!" video.

  1. I love this story and I hope it was true. Women being top engineers in the 1960s was a very rare, let alone on something as important as Apollo. Why was the Apollo success different to the Starship failure? Honesty and integrity and endurance through setbacks. The spin didn't come until launch day of Apollo 11, and three astronauts did lose their lives which nearly canned Apollo in the early phase. Thousands of talented people worked hard and honestly on the enormous problem of getting humans to the moon. It was not guarenteed to be a success, even with the best engineers, technicians and astronauts hard at work for over a decade. Musk just spins hope to get money. The experienced NASA engineers are are not even listened to. We live in diminished times.
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  2. I respect the why; scientifically sending humans to the moon (even in terms of discovery) was way less scientifically valuable than the two Voyager missions a decade later (remember 6 Apollo missions to the moon at much greater expense). The other hand argument might be; why go to Antarctica in the early 20th century and why kill yourself there miserably by dragging a sled over a glacier (you could have done that closer in Switzerland or Greenland)? For human endurance and exploration. That's why there are so many frozen cadavers on Mt Everest. However, Musk's Starship project is a failure, an enormous waste of tax payers money, and has set back manned missions to the moon by at least 30 years. No one will want to speak of it again for several decades. Now, because of him, i may never live to see it happen.
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  3. For a similar reason why many corporate CEOs are not. Musk is one.
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