Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Myth of Elon Musk: Busted" video.

  1. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: Playing a little bit of devils advocate and NOT defending the BULLSHlIT. Elon has done a couple of very good things BUT THEY DO NOT excuse all this nonsense and garbage that just wastes everyone's time. 1) TESLA has dragged the car industry off its collective butt and made them move on from ICE (Internal Combustion Engines). Having worked in the automotive industry they are an industry that is incredibly slow at innovation. That comes from how much it now costs to develop any new car. A previous client of mine was Hella the head and tail light manufacturer. Just the tooling for things like head lights can run into millions of dollars. Its why they quite often reuse one cars headlights or tail lights on another car. A famous example of that were the Toyota Corolla tail lights on the Lotus Esprit. So for ANYONE to get the main stream auto sector to shift is nothing to be belittled. THAT SAID - Elon has also MONSTROUSLY MISLEAD people over things like self driving cars and whether its even possible to make enough batteries to replace 1.5 Billion ICE cars with hybrid or electric or the 500 million ICE trucks in the world. 2) SPACEX has similarly dragged manned space flight out of the multi-decade failure of the Space Shuttle. YES the Space Shuttle might have been an amazing technical achievement but it was a long term disaster because of how much it sucked up in both in money and manhours. That's why going back to the Moon hasn't happened. The Space Shuttle consumed the money and instead of people doing lunar projects they were working on keeping the Space Shuttle flying. If you want to fairly compare Crew Dragon then compare it to Boeing's Starliner which was funded in parallel to Crew Dragon. DESPITE the same level of funding and development time Starliner is yet to fly a single crewed mission, while Crew Dragon currently has 4 active vehicles C206 Endeavor (4 flights), C207 Resilience (2 flights), C210 Endurance (3 flights) and 212 Freedom (2 flights). Despite the fact that Crew Dragon is not very innovative and can even be considered a technological step backwards from the Space Shuttle it also saved the manned space program from OBLIVION, which is more of an indictment on the entire program than it is a gold star for SpaceX. On the other SpaceX's Starship, that really is the joke that Thunderf00t and others describe. As for Elon's Mars proposals they're so bad they make the worst 1950's sci-fi films look like inspired documentaries. If Thunderf00t did wants to do a video with me on the whole "Can Mars be terraformed?" subject then I'm IN, because despite the fact I will defend a couple of Elon's successes I am farking tired of his nonsense. FYI - back in 1987 a NASA engineer gave me and my fellow classmates a special lecture on the project he'd just finished at NASA on terraforming. YES back in 1987 NASA had worked out how much bunk terraforming Mars was and I'd be happy to explain what he said.
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  2.  @keg3212  I wouldn't say its uninteresting, BUT it is repetitive, BUT then so is Elon Musk.
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