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What if - hear me out - all the employees at SpaceX are working together to intentionally drive up costs by using it as a playground for wacky off-the-wall ideas that wouldn't get funding elsewhere, but because they are all in it together, management has no idea because everyone is backing and vetting everyone else? And so people keep pumping money into the company, so the staff just keep on with the status quo. For example, wouldn't you want to see if a spaceship with a rocket attached suspiciously similarly to a foreskin can make it to orbit - and should it retract in stages, or as one swift break-away movement? Need I remind you that this project isn't on your dime? Mmmhm, that's what I thought. Now let's build the cock rocket.
Maybe the smartest people in the room are the ones we least expect.
I mean, they are a bunch of rocket scientists. That's the group everyone has expected to be the smartest people in the room for about a century. ๐
I thought that was AI people.
Turns out ... thats not working out so well.
In everything other than the /lets literally build SkyNet/ department.
But the idiom isn't "it's not AI" it's "it's not rocket science." ๐๐
Well the only relevant idiom I can think of here is:
Elon Musk is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person is.
Or, this isnt really an idiom but maybe uh:
Fascists? In my NASA? I did Nazi that one coming.
Sorry, my joke generating subroutine has not been updated since the time that the rocket scientist idiom you mention was popularized.
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This is not impossible, but the problem is that Blue Origin has already created the most phallic possible rocket that actually works.
So at best SpaceX goes bankrupt in pursuit of sloppy seconds.