I disagree.
SpaceX and all that has done something wonderful that space agencies haven't been able to accomplish since the 60's. Getting people excited for space exploration.
No one who understands the science actually believes we'll be living in mars in 10 years time. But it sure does wonders to grab the publics attention.
Perhaps this will encourage more kids to study astrophysics and advanced engineering in hopes to one day participate on these projects.
This is some cutting edge stuff that has one hell of a learning curve (It's not like it's rocket science or anything). With all these unknowns and variables, there's bound to be mistakes made. But as long they learn, fix and improve than there's no stopping the progress to the stars.
I disagree.
SpaceX and all that has done something wonderful that space agencies haven't been able to accomplish since the 60's. Getting people excited for space exploration.
No one who understands the science actually believes we'll be living in mars in 10 years time. But it sure does wonders to grab the publics attention.
Perhaps this will encourage more kids to study astrophysics and advanced engineering in hopes to one day participate on these projects.
This is some cutting edge stuff that has one hell of a learning curve (It's not like it's rocket science or anything). With all these unknowns and variables, there's bound to be mistakes made. But as long they learn, fix and improve than there's no stopping the progress to the stars.
A lot more massive failures like this are in their future. Elon is a subsidy whore and paypal scammer, who managed to convince people that humans will be living on Mars in 6 years and that we'll be using they hyperloop for transportation, all because he has neat cars and a few successful rocket launches under his belt.
We need to defund this asshole and all his lunatic schemes.