Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Elon Musk: BUSTED!" video.

Yeah it is a bit repetitive, but then the media keep pushing his claims. That TED interview, which was a disgusting pile of PR garbage, was only posted 2 weeks ago and Elon went over ALL his ideas and how great they were and the interviewer NEVER ONCE challenged any of his claims. Then TED gave him another hour at TED2022 to repeat it all again. At one point TED & TEDx were an awesome platform where people could discuss ideas and inform the general public about things they didn't understand. They had great people on doing great things. Now its sadly becoming a PR platform for techno-scammers and their techno-Ponzi schemes. Just to be fair I did aerospace engineering in college and Elon has been totally awesome in breaking Boeing's (along with some others) stranglehold over NASA. For sure Crew Dragon was behind schedule but Boeing's Starliner has not yet had a single successful flight and Boeing had decades of experience behind them. BUT THEN Elon's crapped on all of that with Starship. Its similar to the cars. Elon slapping the crap out of the existing auto industry and getting electric cars into the main stream is extraordinary. BUT THEN he's crapped on that with driverless cars, robo-taxis and trucks. AND THEN crapped on that even further with Hyperloop.
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For anyone who hasn't seen the TED interview its truly disgusting. TED & TEDx was (past tense) great and it allowed many very clever people to explain things to a wider audience, but these days its just a platform for fringe techno-fantasy charlatans and spruikers. The TED Musk interview was simply PR for Elon and for anyone who likes commenting DON'T on that page unless you like kicking nests of hornets.
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As an engineer I do have my doubts over some of what Boston Dynamics promotes. They have solutions for problems that don't really exist, but then they do have fantastic solutions for some problems like investigating high risk environments such as areas planted with landmines. I'm an aerospace engineer and I'd like to see 1 of their dogs on Mars being used to scout areas ahead of the more complex lab rovers. I think that would expand the amount of terrain that the main lab rovers could cover buy plotting better paths and identifying more interesting sites for the rovers to investigate. The real question is getting one to operate in that environment. But in general use I think Boston are overselling it a bit, but nowhere near anything like what Musk does.
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@mrpumperknuckles1631 Yeah but the problem is WHAT HAS HE DELIVERED for what people have paid for? I'm an aerospace engineer have have pointed out often that despite Crew Dragon being late it has done what it was meant to do - get people up to and safely back from space. Boeing's alternative for which billions have been handed over is yet to even do a successful test flight. I actually disagree with Thunderf00t and others about what Gwynne Shotwell and the team behind the Falcon series of rockets have achieved. Other than simply working they have more importantly broken Boeing's and the rest of the establishment's stranglehold on space flight. BUT AND ITS A MONSTER OF A BUT Elon's Starship is a complete utter waste of money time that the Tesla & SpaceX share holders WASTED millions on. The avalanche of criticism thunderf00t and others throw at it IS JUSTIFIED. The same can be said Tesla cars. On one hand Elon slapped the lethargy out of the auto sector with electric cars. BUT on the flip side Elon's garbage with self-driven cars, robo-taxis and trucks is a disgraceful TECHNO-SCAM. His robot claims are even worse. The Mars colony is even worse again. Elon has 2 extraordinary skills: 1) Latching onto and then marketing break-out technologies created by others. 2) Exploiting STEM illiterate people.
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@-danR Not certain where your coming from because I have repeatedly said most of what you've said in that first paragraph. I have repeatedly said Falcon (the whole series) has been a great success. I have pointed out that Thunderf00t has been wrong on that front and his criticism of Glynne Shotwell and the Falcon team has been off the mark and especially when compared to Boeing and their projects like Starliner. On Terraforming Mars I have repeatedly spoken about a guest lecture we had back circa 1986/7 at college from an alum who had just finished a project at NASA on what terraforming Mars might take. The less technical answer is: NO it can't be done. The more technical answer requires a lengthy discussion on complex environmental systems on what people are now calling geoengineering. Before that you need some basic of planetary mechanics. That's just where you consider the amount of air (oxygen, nitrogen, etc.) and what it takes to heat it & cool it. After that you need to get into planetary dynamics which is where all that stuff starts to MOVE and there are some parts heating up as others cool. You know like what happens with the Earth every 24 hours. On nuclear fusion Elon has ZERO foresight as he has with everything else he claims as an original idea. just don't go down that path it only shows your not paying attention. As for nuclear fusion in space you have to get past the fact NOBODY is going to let anyone launch a rocket with that much plutonium onboard. People freak out every time they launch a couple of kilos what do you think they'll say to a few tons??????? Its a very similar discussion about sending all our nuclear waste to the moon or firing it into the sun. It sounds good until you ask about the rocket launch. If the fuel can be found and processed on the moon that's a completely different story. Somebody is going to call out Elon before long and his house of vapourware and when the cheers squad and supporters realise the emperor has no clothes its going to be a stock market shock that world hasn't seen for a while.
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