Elon Musk is a piece of shit, but the engineers at SpaceX genuinely do good work. The shift to stainless steel seems like a strange idea since we're so used to looking at rockets that are made of composites or completely painted, but it's also not without precedent.
Right, but Elon Musk went around showing everybody bullshit pictures of a spaceship he was never going to build because he wants everyone to think he's based Mars Emperor. Those engineers should be working for the public.
Yeah, Musk and spacex as a company are awful, but don't be surprised when taking a ton of highly skilled and hardworking people and convincing them to run themselves into the ground working as many hours a week as possible turns out to be a good way to extract labor/profit.
This isn't musk designing rockets himself and calling people pedophiles when they don't work, it's a company he's exploiting.
Elon does have control over what the engineers do, though.
He says he wants the Tesla software devs to spend time putting a farting unicorn Easter egg into the software, they do.
He says he doesn't like safety yellow, and wants the gigafactory to be as close to the red gray color scheme as possible, then the walking and forklift paths at the factories get distinguished by two different shades of gray.
I don't know the actual thinking behind it, but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if he told them that he wanted it to be all shiny metal to resemble the rocketships in mid century sci-fi movies and they rolled their eyes and acquiesced, so as to keep their job.
Elon Musk is a piece of shit, but the engineers at SpaceX genuinely do good work. The shift to stainless steel seems like a strange idea since we're so used to looking at rockets that are made of composites or completely painted, but it's also not without precedent.
Right, but Elon Musk went around showing everybody bullshit pictures of a spaceship he was never going to build because he wants everyone to think he's based Mars Emperor. Those engineers should be working for the public.
There’s also an understanding amoungst the engineers that Elon just kinda says shit and does nothing
Source, my uncle who works for Nintendo
I wonder what it's like for someone who's parent really works for nintendo. it's not like they're a small company.
Yeah, Musk and spacex as a company are awful, but don't be surprised when taking a ton of highly skilled and hardworking people and convincing them to run themselves into the ground working as many hours a week as possible turns out to be a good way to extract labor/profit.
This isn't musk designing rockets himself and calling people pedophiles when they don't work, it's a company he's exploiting.
Elon does have control over what the engineers do, though.
He says he wants the Tesla software devs to spend time putting a farting unicorn Easter egg into the software, they do.
He says he doesn't like safety yellow, and wants the gigafactory to be as close to the red gray color scheme as possible, then the walking and forklift paths at the factories get distinguished by two different shades of gray.
I don't know the actual thinking behind it, but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if he told them that he wanted it to be all shiny metal to resemble the rocketships in mid century sci-fi movies and they rolled their eyes and acquiesced, so as to keep their job.