Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a "super bad feeling" about the economy and needs to cut about 10% of salaried staff at the electric carmaker, he said in emails seen by Reuters.
He just wanted to get rid of people without paying them their contracted severance. Weasel fuck.
The old space-race era NASA engineers are all dead or mostly dead, I’m not going to look it up. But they had a wealth of knowledge that went beyond the things they created.
This is obviously a significant factor, but even if they're all healthy enough to "document" everything they know somehow, only a fraction of that is going to be usefully passed down. There needs to be an institution where all the smart folks get together and work on these complex and difficult problems, and continue to refine their solutions.... something like a well-funded space travel and exploration project....
SpaceX is kinda this, I've heard from an acquaintance that one of the solid things about working there is that it's filled with plenty of sharp minds that want to "do rockets", but like you're saying there's a huge portion of getting back to where we used to be that bogs things down. There needs to be some sort of continuity
How much long-term engineering talent is even in SpaceX? The company's notorious for taking tons of fresh graduates and burning them out completely in a year or two leading to constant turnover.
I can't answer your question, but the retention issue is definitely a significant issue. At the same time, the person I know has been there almost 5 years now, so some people stick with it.
This is obviously a significant factor, but even if they're all healthy enough to "document" everything they know somehow, only a fraction of that is going to be usefully passed down. There needs to be an institution where all the smart folks get together and work on these complex and difficult problems, and continue to refine their solutions.... something like a well-funded space travel and exploration project....
SpaceX is kinda this, I've heard from an acquaintance that one of the solid things about working there is that it's filled with plenty of sharp minds that want to "do rockets", but like you're saying there's a huge portion of getting back to where we used to be that bogs things down. There needs to be some sort of continuity
How much long-term engineering talent is even in SpaceX? The company's notorious for taking tons of fresh graduates and burning them out completely in a year or two leading to constant turnover.
I can't answer your question, but the retention issue is definitely a significant issue. At the same time, the person I know has been there almost 5 years now, so some people stick with it.