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hef19898

You never did any real engineering work, did you? Because there is risk taking, or rather risk management with engineering decisison always being trade offs and such, and taking ahort cuts, cutting corners and taking uncalculated risks in hopes of being lucky. Topped by ignoring advice from others.

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I think at the same time there are 100 decisions he made that have paid off. Of course agree this one didn’t and of course hope he learned from it.

falcon and all of spacex is based on ignoring advice from others, especially “industry experts”. It’s called first principles reasoning.

>falcon and all of spacex is based on ignoring advice from others, especially “industry experts”

Not in the least. SpaceX hires a lot of rocket scientists who are industry experts. They're more agile than the entrenched players since Boeing/Lockheed legacy space programs weren't efficient but SpaceX has relied upon expert consultation and expert advice from folks in the industry to build their rockets. I don't see them as building from first principles at all, they're building on what's come before standing on the shoulders of the rocket engineers who've come before.

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