Elon Musk Is Mad His Mini-Submarine Didn't Help in Thai Cave Rescue

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I think the rescue sub idea is worth evaluating by studying the channel it would have to navigate to rescue the boys. It would have to be large enough at all points - larger is better, and it would need paths that this ~~9 foot?? long tube can go all the way through without the walls/floor/ceiling getting in the way. This is a rigid tube!! It is possible the locals knew very well there was no clear path.

I’m not a Musk fan. He’s held up as some sort of modern day Tesla but he’s just an eccentric rich guy who employs a lot of hard working engineers.

Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table

Until there is a better system then capitalism, capitalists are required to fund engineering.

That does not make him an engineering and/or business genius with carte blanche to behave as an entitled thin skinned idiot online. He's reached critical hype mass, there's enough people that think ha can make no mistakes and that everything he says must be true and smart.

> Hard working engineers who wouldn’t have jobs without Musk putting his entire net worth on the table

Pretty sure they could have found jobs elsewhere.

Sure, but not doing work of the same value. At ULA landing and reflying boosters? At VW building electric cars instead of cheating on emissions? No.

Workers are sort of fungible, missions less so.

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