Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Elon Musk sounds off on President Joe Bidens tweet about American EVs" video.

  1. *EVERYONE ELSE IS GETTING TIRED OF ELON MUSK SUCK-UPS EXCUSING EVERYTHING HE DOES*. Unlike other Musk detractors I will defend the GOOD Things he has done. Right now any and every discussion on Elon Musk is either 100% pro or 100% con and many of these discussions are NOT that simple AND most require some nuance. FOR EXAMPLE: I am an aerospace engineer (by degree) and I hate the Musk haters who do NOT recognise the fact that SpaceX have saved the West's manned space programs from the disaster that the Shuttle became. While on one hand the Space Shuttle was an extraordinary technological achievement in that they made a reusable space plane work, on the other hand it was also a colossal sponge of both financial and human resources. It enabled more people to go to space than any other system but it starved so many other programs of resources it the single biggest reason we haven't gone past LEO for 50+ years. When you compare SpaceX's Falcon system with Crew Dragon to Boeings Starliner the difference could NOT be more obvious as to how well Gwen Shotwell and her team have done with the Falcon series. HOWEVER Elon's Starship is a bigger white elephant than the Space Shuttle and Starliner combined. Go and watch Destin who is also an aerospace engineer (on the channel Smarter EveryDay) pulled apart the mission profile for Artemis using Starship. You can see that in the video titled "I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293" The launch facility of Texas is so incredibly dangerous I think (my opinion) its only a matter of time before they have a major accident. It would NOT PASS a HAZOP study in any other industry. The fuel storage tanks are not only too close to the launch platform they are unprotected as was PROVEN in the first launch when they were struck by debris. They were all incredibly lucky there wasn't a major incident. After that is the actual launch platform itself which does not have diversion trench for the blast. To not follow standard practices that are well tried and proven is ridiculous. His involvement in politics is all over the place. One moment he's a free speech absolutist the next moment he's cutting off all access to various people because of political influence. And these things HIGLIGHT the problem with everything Elon Musk. His fans think he is the techno Messiah who will save the world. His detractors think he's the worst person on the planet. Reality is that its a lot more complex than that.
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