Tuesday, November 13, 2018
NO. For the millionth time, it's NOT NEW.
A convective GRRRRR.
Listening to more Tesla discussions. Except for Spiegel, who gets it fully right, most of the skeptics are stuck in the belief that Elon is an "innovator". Just now heard one of the skeptics saying that Elon may be an awful manager, but he landed a rocket on a barge. Nobody else ever did that.
NO. THIS IS 1944 TECHNOLOGY.
The Krauts were developing guided missiles with built-in TV cameras and computing capacity in their research facility at Peenemunde. These guided missiles could hit a barge-sized target. Fortunately the Russians defeated the Krauts before this technology could be used for actual bombardment.
Elon's ideas are all old. He tries to rebuild the old ideas WITHOUT the old manufacturing methods that actually WORK. His only innovation is new ways to develop religious zealotry and suck money from the believers.
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