>>1800653>>1800654>Winning contracts is not the same as a griftI am not purely referring to SpaceX, the man is involved in several projects that most engineers find somewhat laughable as they are over promising and under delivering for government dollar.
Lightning round on the innovations
>X.comWasn't the first, but undoubtedly became the standard, I give him (and the rest of the team) that one every day of the week.
>TeslaIf by revolutionise the industry you mean set a new standard in selling poorly QA'd products for premium money, all while moving people closer to "mobility as a service" then I'd give you that, but I would call it a devolution more than anything else. Highly dependent on a resource that is closer to peak than oil (and I'm not saying that to defend oil as it is right to be moving away by and large, but people do not understand how fucking close we are to peak viable lithium, and the ecological cost of recycling that shit is not pretty).
>SpaceXDefinitely giving this one, it is his biggest mark and the one that all the other engineering grifts justify for many. That being said, ULA especially but also BO deserve more credit than they are generally given by fanboys.
>StarlinkAlmost single handedly causing movement on the space conservation debate, so I'd give them that I guess. Musk is no friend of astronomers and astrophysicists.
>Revolutionised 3 industriesPayment processing arguably
Commercial space travel undoubtedly
That is it really.
>Mars colonyAgain, if we ever see it. Deadline keeps getting pushed back and is starting to feel like NASA's constant "moonbase next decade" line I grew up with.
>twitter stuffNot sure that locking realID into social media is going to help the internet in any functional way, until he is an advocate for full anonymity (and his dealings with US DoD on Starlink make me highly suspicious of that) I consider him to be a glowie.
I'm glad you have a hero, I hope you never have to meet him. Stay optimistic anon.
