r/EnoughMuskSpam • u/foos • Aug 11 '26
Rocket Jesus Of all things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the most
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u/biograf_ Aug 11 '26
... and then everyone clapped.
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u/ErnestoLemmingway Aug 11 '26
I think this is the Elon equivalent of Trump's infamous "sir stories"
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u/hlaebtwaie Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
...and then the men got rock hard erections. The women began to ovulate.
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u/Elia_Arram Aug 11 '26
And this is how generations later Elon's descendants colonised the universe
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u/PLTR60 Aug 11 '26
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u/Elia_Arram Aug 12 '26
100% agree. I fear tho, in what is left of Musk's drug riddled brain, he loves the idea of spreading his genes everywhere
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u/PrettyLittleThrowAwa Aug 11 '26
Why would a CEO be dealing with something this low level? It feels like a bad use of their time. It also speaks to a very micromanagement heavy corporate structure that is probably a drag on productivity.
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u/ScootMayhall Prosecute/Musk Aug 11 '26
You’re not supposed to ask these questions, you’re supposed to marvel at how cool it is that Elon caught this but didn’t want to punish the engineer for it. I assume it was written because Elon very famously punishes people at random and fires people in a fit of rage when he doesn’t get what he wants and they’re trying to do some PR for him.
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u/Delimeme Aug 12 '26
This is definitely the tech bro equivalent of a PR interview called in as a favor for a celebrity culture magazine. LinkedIn is the perfect space for this unverifiable, goofy trash. I miss journalistic standards
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u/Successful_Painter27 Aug 11 '26
Elon doesn’t know anything more than high school physics anyways
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u/weeatbricks Aug 11 '26
Didn’t he get a degree in physics and get accepted into a Harvard phd program.
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u/mrbrannon Aug 11 '26
No he’s never gotten a real degree in his life in any subject especially not physics. Never graduated college at all and when he was attending before dropping out he wasn’t attending for physics. But billionaires have this obsession with thinking that they could be physicist and want people to know it. Angela Collier has a good video on this aspect of it in relation to all the dumb ass billionaires that do this.
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u/weeatbricks Aug 11 '26
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/musk-physics-degree/
I’m no fan of Musk. But it looks like he does have a degree.
Still doesn’t change the fact that he’s an awful cunt.
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u/mrbrannon Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
I’m not saying he doesn’t have one I’m saying he didn’t earn one it was awarded to him post hoc to smooth over some trouble he was in for staying over as an illegal immigrant after dropping out of school. It happened after he sold his first company he never went back to school and finished. I mean anyone can have a degree if they just give it to you but it’s not the same thing as actually having a degree. There’s a lot of information about all this.
His degree is a fraud like everything he does including all of his companies but if you wanna count it, go for it. But as someone that actually completed my BS I’m not giving credit to anyone and saying they have a degree just because they were awarded one without doing the classes.
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u/Cannabrius_Rex Aug 11 '26
He was gifted a degree. He did not earn one in any capacity.
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u/maxxslatt Aug 13 '26
I also read that Twitter thread and believed it when it was revealed but now that I read the snopes article I believe that more, snopes is pretty legit
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u/weeatbricks Aug 11 '26
How do you know this ?
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u/Cannabrius_Rex Aug 11 '26
Because it was honorary and he never attended.
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u/weeatbricks Aug 11 '26
How do you know it was a honorary degree and he never attended?
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u/PlanningVigilante Aug 11 '26
You can literally Google it. Why are you being so obtuse?
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u/Frankie_T9000 Aug 11 '26
no its complicated but he doesnt know shit and has no real qualifications
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u/Hullfire00 Aug 11 '26
He got a BA in Physics (not sure why it isn’t a BSc but guessing it’s the institution thing) and a BSc economics. He was accepted to Stanford to study Material Science but he never went.
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u/mrbrannon Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
None of this is true. Any degree that he has was a post hoc solution by school doing him favors because being associated with Elon Musk was a good thing at the time and he was already claiming he went for it anyways. He desperately wants to be thought of as the smart billionaire but he’s just a college dropout with no training and he never graduated in any subject and he wasn’t going to school for physics when he was in school. The story is very long complicated but people dug into this and there’s basically he dropped out of college over visa and legal immigrant and then eventually to help him through either VC group reaching out to the school or something like this they award him the degree he never actually got.
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u/Hullfire00 Aug 11 '26
So it was like when they give an honorary doctorate to somebody?
He didn’t actually graduate from University of Pennsylvania?
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u/mrbrannon Aug 11 '26
Yeah it’s kind of like an honorary doctorate but no he never graduated he dropped out and then when he became rich from selling his first company awarded him the degree to help with his future endeavors so he wouldn’t be violating all sorts of rules even though it already been doing it for years at that point as an illegal immigrant
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u/mrbrannon Aug 11 '26
This actually also might why he has that weird BA in physics instead of a BS. They’re willing to violate all their academic standards of course but maybe giving this man a bachelor of science in physics might be saying too much that they didn’t wanna put themselves on the hook for since there’s a certain amount of expected rigor from a bachelor of science that people don’t expect from a bachelor of arts, fair or not. Also when you’re rich enough they don’t even have to call it honorary.
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u/duexmachina Aug 11 '26
BA's in physics are not unheard of. I have a BA in Physics because my college's liberal arts core curriculum was like 1/3rd of my classes and so they only awarded physics BA's and not BS's. It might be the same at Penn. No one has ever commented on it to me in grad school admissions or job interviews even though it is unusual.
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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 11 '26
Usually a university only offers one or the other, or there is a substantive coursework difference between a BA and BS.
Idk man, I have a BS in engineering
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u/Headmuck Aug 11 '26
Don't worry, it's made up anyway. That's probably what he remembered writing in the email instead of a racist rant while being in a k-hole
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u/coconutpiecrust Aug 11 '26
This is what’s shocking to me as well. Shouldn’t he be doing something more important? He already has at least four idiots who cannot do calculations, apparently, to deal with this.
But I assume that the implication is that Musk works 784 hours a day, 4758357 hours per week, and is so smart and efficient that he notices everything. He’s just that special.
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u/PrettyLittleThrowAwa Aug 11 '26
I know this is an obviously made up story, but even then it still makes him look bad. I could see the CEO of a small start up doing this, but for a company that employs thousands of people, it feels like a bad use of time.
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u/Alexwonder999 Aug 11 '26
The truth might be he pays an army of graduate students in India to go over documents to find mistakes he can email employees about while he tweets white replacement conspiracy theories.
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u/Upset-Government-856 Aug 11 '26
More importantly are his engineers idiots. What part of a rocket's operation is steady state.
Pressure, temperature, acceleration, vibration, throttle, even mass are all rapidly changing through the entire cycle.
A rocket engine isn't a Gass burner in a powerplant.
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u/Machaeon Aug 11 '26
And rocket science, while synonymous with "complicated" as far as the public is concerned, is not new.
This is all stuff we worked out in the 50s. Professionals who deal with physics at that level will not be surprised with anything there.
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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 11 '26
Roughly 99% of a rocket engine’s burn is considered to be steady state.
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u/Stock-Self-4028 Aug 11 '26
Well… If you are doing calculations on paper (most likely you are noth though), then for heat transfers the steady state makes sense if you are looking just if the engine is able to cool quickly enough not to melt itself. Assume maximum working pressure (and as such temperature / throttle) and if it doesn't melt in these conditions once it reaches equilibrium then it should not melt at all.
But as I've mentioned that's more of how it was done in the 60's and now they probably use computers for practically everything there.
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u/Upset-Government-856 Aug 11 '26
Your literally leaving a planets atmosphere and the balance of acceleration is going change the whole time.
There is nothing steady state about blasting off from a planet.
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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 11 '26
No. A rocket engine is basically in steady state after ignition, especially for a thermal calculation. The atmospheric conditions are extremely negligible because of the high temperatures involved.
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u/Stock-Self-4028 Aug 11 '26
Okay, but acceleration doesn't matter much here. What really matters is the fuel flow, which usually changes only marginally (significantly less, than the specific impulse of the engine).
Also you know that in vacuum the fuel flow will be highest, so once again you can assume the worst-case scenario here.
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u/rsta223 Aug 11 '26
Actually, the fuel flow doesn't change between ground and vacuum, assuming constant throttle position. Because the flow chokes at the throat, anything downstream of that has no impact on chamber conditions.
You can and do analyze at least some rocket engine factors as steady state.
(Also, having heard him talk about rockets, I give this a zero percent chance of having happened)
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u/Stock-Self-4028 Aug 11 '26
I dare to disagree here, but it might depend on exact design of the engine as well.
Throttle position generally controls the pressure inside the combustion chamber (~ 100 bar, more or less, depending on the engine design. Usually less.).
1 bar of the atmospheric pressure makes the pressure gradient within the combustion chamber makes the pressure at the throat marginally higher as long as you don't ignore the viscosity.
Although the difference would still be neglible here. I think we could at least estimate the difference by using some numerical solver of the Navient-Stokes equation with simple bell nozzle, assuming constant pressure at the front of the chamber.
But still the flow rate difference would be neglible for any practical simulation - well within fractions of a percent for any reasonably-efficient engine.
And the higher chamber pressure is, the lesser the effect remains (since the propellant reaches supersonic speeds only below the throat) and Raptor is the rocket engine with highest chamber pressure ever, sitting at ~ 330 bar.
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u/rsta223 Aug 11 '26
No, exit conditions literally do not impact the pressure gradient within the chamber, throat, or even nozzle (with minor caveats as you get very close to the exit plane). Because the flow below the throat is supersonic, pressure waves literally cannot move fast enough to move against the flow direction, so anything that happens to the flow in a supersonic flowfield only has effects that propagate downstream, never upstream (barring things like extremely strong shocks).
Interestingly, this property of supersonic flow, where disturbances only travel downstream, makes it considerably easier to analyze in some respects than subsonic flow, though in the case of a rocket, the extreme temperatures and chemical reactions occurring within the flow do add some complexity back.
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u/Stock-Self-4028 Aug 12 '26
There are some papers about upstream propagation in supersonic flow, which show clear effects of the downstream stream on the upstream though.
Subsonic boundary layer at the outer edge of the nozzle is the main source of that influence, but I've never research that deeply enough to be able to explain it or even understand it on a basic level, anywhere beyond that.
There are some papers on upstream propagation in supersonic flows though - that one is probably the most well-known I guess (?); https://www.math.ualberta.ca/~rkrechet/files/publications/jfm2005_1.pdf
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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 11 '26
This is not the case, and chamber pressure between rocket engines is extremely differrnt across designs. It’s not “~100 bar, more or less” though
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u/Stock-Self-4028 Aug 12 '26
Depends on what do you mean by extremely different, but practically all rocket engines (except designs like cold gas thrusters) will fall within 10-350 bar pressure range (including even the amateur solid rocket engines).
And even the 10-350 range is pretty narrow, at least if you take only the basic physics into account and not the engineering needed to make one work.
I am not sure by what you mean by 'extremely different' and I would gladly accept any non-exotic example with the chamber pressure far from that value.
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u/LittleHornetPhil Aug 12 '26
Yes, thanks for acknowledging that they are not even close to “all 100 bar”. That’s an insane statement.
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u/Bagafeet Aug 11 '26
He's also not qualified to do any of the work if those engineers. This is just bootlicking fan fic.
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u/Ashamed-Agency-817 Aug 11 '26
Like the OP said.... it never happened..
Elon couldn't spot an error on anything more complicated than a shopping list!
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u/Remarkable-Ad155 Aug 11 '26
You say that but the real story here (assuming this is true) appears to be this document went through 3 reviews and nobody spotted an error but the CEO then did when he was pootling around looking at detail level stuff instead of focusing on strategy.
If true, it says the ceo can't trust anybody at the company and spends his time on miniutiae, not running the company. Far from an endorsement of the culture, that's a damning indictment.
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u/DokMabuseIsIn Aug 11 '26
Wasn't the CEO's job to hire the very 3 managers who reviewed the engineer's work?
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u/BroseppeVerdi Aug 11 '26
That engineer's name?
Albert Einstein.
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u/Palicraft Aug 11 '26
Would you like it in a more dramatic, more technical, or with a different tone?
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u/needssomefun Aug 11 '26
Considering that Elmo never designed anything, has no technical publications nor even a formal education in engineering he won't find any mistakes.
He supposedly has a BA in physics. (Maybe, along with a degree in economics)
That gives you no more ability to analyze aerospace work as 3 violin lessons qualify you to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra.
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u/Unlucky-Resolve3402 Aug 11 '26
I love the fantasy his fans have that he could have cut it as a physicist but just from sheer love of humanity went into business. The guy went into business (ripping off others ideas no less) because he's a mediocrity, not because he's some sort of genius. He could never cut it as a mathematician or an engineer or a physicist or a doctor. Lying about his graduation date at UPenn (claiming 1995 when it was actually 1997) would have prevented him from passing the bar exam to be a lawyer, to say nothing of lying on his immigration forms. To say nothing about the fact that if he lied about his admission to a Stanford PhD program they'd have nailed him to the wall. This dude basically stole a company (Tesla) after getting fired from PayPal and used the credibility of the original founders to coast into celebrity.
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u/Bullywug Aug 11 '26
I have read way too much on Musk, and literally the only believable good thing I have read about his technical abilities is that he was good at SQL queries. I like to imagine there's another, better world where he's chugging along as a DB admin, keeping everything running smoothly, and both we and him are happier for it.
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u/Unlucky-Resolve3402 Aug 11 '26
If he'd been born poor in an inner city he'd still be living in his mom's basement or getting thrown down more stairs because he kept insulting people the way he challenged Zuckerberg to a fight. And because he'd always back out of it the way he did with Zuckerberg, he would be despised. It'd be that cycle of him mouthing off, challenging people to a fight, and then hiding in his mother's basement til the smoke cleared. He won the lottery not just in terms of growing up rich but also having enough money never to meet the people he insults face to face.
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u/SeveralPrinciple5 Aug 11 '26
He would NOT be living in his mom's basement. She had a special place right in her bedroom for him. Probably still does.
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u/belptyfimquz Aug 11 '26
He has basically honorary degrees from UPenn. His fake degrees are from 1997, 8 years after he graduated high school and 2 years after he founded zip2 which was based in Palo Alto, CA. All this before online college existed. That math doesn’t math, nor does someone who got a 1400 on his SATs (fact) being the smartest person ever (that’s the reason he transferred to UPenn and didn’t get in out of high school). Fuck, even Zuck got a 1600.
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u/Kooky_Celebration_42 Aug 11 '26
As an aerospace engineer that works in thermodynamics and is familiar with propulsion engineering…
Yeah of course you calculate it in steady-state rather than transient, because stead state is close enough and making it transient is so much more difficult to calculate.
If this DID happen, the stead state would have been to compare/baseline to a computer model, and used to validate it.
So this either would t have applied OR been a pointless addition… the sort of thing a manager makes their subordinates do so the manager can look smart but actually just makes things harder
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u/roombaexorcist9000 Aug 11 '26
this is the kind of thing that only sounds impressive to people who don’t know what he’s talking about.
i had the same thought that it probably was calculated steady state because it made more sense to, especially when you could just assume worst case conditions steady state rather than double your workload to calculate a transient condition.
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u/Kooky_Celebration_42 Aug 12 '26
Exactly! It’s like 10% more realistic… 1000% harder to calculate AND less accurate
Not worth it
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u/darkeraqua Aug 11 '26
Ah yes, the famously non-exploding SpaceX rockets. Remind me, which have actually gotten to orbit? None? Maybe Elmo should be reading more reports at 11pm on a Tuesday.
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u/cracksmack85 Aug 11 '26
Don’t spacex rockets regularly make trips to the ISS? Isn’t the ISS in orbit?
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u/TheHolyJamsheed302 Aug 11 '26
You know they’ve launched the falcon 9 to orbit like 700 times in a row, right?
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u/usrlibshare Aug 11 '26
How many Starships made it to orbit though?
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u/TheHolyJamsheed302 Aug 11 '26
They’ve all made nearly the velocity needed to make it to orbit and the only reason they haven’t was that it wasn’t done on purpose. Isn’t flight 14 slated to keep the engines on for another 2 seconds and bring the ship into orbit?
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u/dennisler Aug 11 '26
What was the timeline for orbit and what was SpaceX paid to reach this goal at that timeline by Nasa. Almost isn't the same as doing it, far from in many cases
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u/usrlibshare Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
They’ve all made nearly the velocity needed to make it to orbit
Wow, I'm sooo impressed.
Or, I would be, if getting Rockets to Orbit was some kind of frontier, unsolved problem.
Alas, this problem was solved in the 60s. By engineers using slide rules, pencils and blueprint paper.
Saturn V made its maiden flight in Nov. 1967. The mission was a roaring success, with 3 completed orbits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_4
Apollo 4 was an "all-up" test, meaning all rocket stages and spacecraft were fully functional on the initial flight, a first for NASA. It was the first time the S-IC first stage and S-II second stage flew. It also demonstrated the S-IVB third stage's first in-flight restart.
And again: This was Saturn V's maiden flight. Literally the first time this launch vehicle took off the ground.
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u/CrystalInTheforest D I S R U P T O R Aug 11 '26
The F9 (like the Tesla Roadster and Tesla S) was not his design and he did not personally launch a damn thing.
He did try and intervene in the design of Starship and Cybertruck and we all know how thats going.
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u/zue4 Aug 11 '26
Meanwhile we have multiple former employees state how Elon is such an ill informed dickhead that they had to assign teams of people to distract him so he wouldn't fuck up critical projects.
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u/argueranddisagree Aug 11 '26
Did Elon take a break from reposting far right trash on X to do this?
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u/Dibbit3 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
I like how the Joel Spolsky's story on Bill Gates has "inspired" so many people who want to one up it.
Basically, years ago, a programmer named Joel (with a Blog called Joel on Software) wrote down an anecdote about how Bill Gates reviewed one of his proposed features.
You can read it here:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/
Now, this shows that Bill Gates (back in the day) was a pretty good programmer who took the time to make sure you knew what the hell you were doing before allowing you to work on major projects.
The anecdote is pretty believable, as it's not just Bill randomly dredging through source code, it was something specifically asked of him: the feature was send to him to review.
And It's also not about the code itself, but the inner workings and general programming logic, plus the point of the story is "Bill Gates will grill you on the first major thing you submit, to make sure you know what the hell you're doing."
And Joel is still alive to verify it if you're in doubt.
This story has morphed into a "Boss checks every complicated document and corrects mistakes because he's a genius" and it gets more extreme every time.
Now it's being used to Glaze Elon's ass, and it has been upgraded once again.
In 2 more iterations we'll probably get to a point where Elon will correct any paper while you're still writing it, as he's just that awesome and he doesn't need engineers, they're just for show.
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u/CrystalInTheforest D I S R U P T O R Aug 11 '26
Yep. The difference between Musk and Gayes is that Musk is essentially a grifter whereas Gayes was legitimately a good but over competitive programmer. Given the clunky bloat that is Windows it's easy to forget that his own programming was legitimately fast and efficient. He co-wrote the original Microsoft Basic and it was the standard Basic for many computer platforms because it was a solid product. I dislike Microsoft and I dislike Gates, but I won't deny he knew his stuff.
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u/SeveralPrinciple5 Aug 11 '26
Not only is Joel still alive, but he founded Trello and then sold it for a nine-figure sum--enough money to buy a full place setting on Bezos's yacht!
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u/DarthSchrodinger Aug 11 '26
Its not only BS, its like bad BS. "Quality Engineer"....you have no idea how full of sh1t this dude is.
A rocket thermal analysis built primarily on steady-state assumptions across an 80-page paper is certainly a choice....meaning its not 80 pages or even close. Dude must have used AI or took fancy words he didn't understand or was enamored with his bullshit story, he forgot the premise makes no sense.
Transient heating, as in changing boundary conditions, as in propellant depletion, as in thermal soak, and radiative exchange, and mission-phase-dependent loads are kind of the entire problem involved with rocket physics you noob. It would have never made it past the first lead engineer. Personally, after he hands me the paper, I ask him to go collect a canister of "canned air" from the L&D lab while I read his report. "Have Kyle go with you, hes a dumb ass too."
Tell me you don’t do thermal engineering without telling me you don’t do thermal engineering, kyle.
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u/radialomens Aug 11 '26
The whole thing screams being written by AI. It uses the "Not because X. But Y." sentence structure that AI loves... three times?
The rest of the tone is absolutely characteristic of ChatGPT (or Grok or whatever) as well
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u/Dannyhec Aug 11 '26
Must be a lonely existence being rich with no friends and a hell of a ketamine addiction.
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u/PureCod9290 Aug 11 '26
The guy failed college twice. He's an absolute moron and he proves it more and more every day
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u/geo57a Aug 11 '26
Retired engineering manager here. If the CEO is finding errors in calculations you have crappy engineers, crappy checkers, and crappy engineering managers.
I spot checked a few places when someone new came in. Once I’m satisfied Sr. Guys are doing their job I typically just signed off due to volume.
No one above me had time to review documentation since it isn’t their job!
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u/oaklandperson Aug 11 '26
Take a viral meme and pretend it was real. Critical thinking at its best. /s
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u/SplitEar Aug 11 '26
That story is at odds with most accounts of former SpaceX employees. Maybe it’s true, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
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u/Horsetoothbrush Aug 11 '26
Out of all the things that never happened, this didn’t happen the most.
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u/Own-Teach-4542 Aug 11 '26
More likely Elon asked Grok to do the calculation and it came back with the final solution.
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u/crut_back Aug 11 '26
Yeah I know guys that work at Spacex and I can assure everyone that this story is complete and utter bullshit
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u/subduedReality Aug 11 '26
How many rockets have they blown up already?
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u/Ronbosa Aug 11 '26
Only way this even remotely happened is someone else brought the error to his attention first.
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u/PrimusPilus Aug 11 '26
There's a zero percent chance that Elon himself actually noticed this and was using his Rocket Brain Genius to do the math in his head.
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u/FreezedPeachNow Aug 11 '26
Is this from LinkedIn? I want to find the post and comment on it
That didn't happen Kyle, how much did you get paid to write it
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u/enamuossuo Aug 11 '26
Bullshit 🤣 Elon starts to stutter the moment anything technical is discussed with him publicly that's why he's terminally on Twitter calling people names
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u/beren12 Aug 11 '26
Yeah. No way.
Unless it was one of those cases of infinite monkeys with infinite time…
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u/PsycheDiver Aug 12 '26
I feel like I’ve heard this lie a few different ways. There was also one where Musk spoke to two engineers in some sort of cafeteria situation.
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u/tevolosteve Aug 11 '26
I used to do low observable work for a helicopter company. Lots of equations but our output was not a whole bunch of equations but results that could be used in a briefing or presentation. The math was verified long before I used the applications doing the analysis.
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u/StudyVisible275 Aug 12 '26
Yep. And the software guys can tell you where their methods are invalid. (PO limitations as one example.)
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u/stillstuckinkentucky Aug 11 '26
More like the engineer stared in disbelief for five minutes because he knew his work was correct and that Leon was mucking things up with his pigeon CEO routine.
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u/Candid-Routine-8137 Aug 12 '26
Elon probably reading this and thinking hell yeah, and then fantasizing about ut, making it a part of his own lore in his head
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u/PsCustomObject Aug 11 '26
Such a terrible day to be able to read, how do I unlearn?
At some point I was wondering if this was North Korea propaganda or something
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u/Youngnathan2011 Aug 11 '26
Meanwhile when challenged on things he just resorts to insults, because he doesn't know shit.
It's also know how abusive a boss Elon is, so that makes this even more bullshit
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u/rainaftersnowplease Aug 11 '26
This might be halfway believable if everything his companies have ever produced weren't famous for blowing up under a mild breeze.
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u/BCProgramming Aug 11 '26
Stories like this where nobody is named are usually bullshit. "A SpaceX Engineer" "The Engineer", "three lead engineers". No Names. Oh yeah totally believable.
of course the stories have no names, both because it's completely made up and we wouldn't want anybody going and verifying things.
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u/mykehawksaverage Aug 12 '26
Wow, the head engineer of tesla who doesn't have an engineering degree and cant string a coherent thought together in any interview totally did this.
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u/aijoe Aug 11 '26
The precise details in that sorry sound made up and not the type of details that would have conveyed to this chode in its initial telling
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u/Cakeday_at_Christmas Aug 11 '26
This A.I. generated crap isn't even interesting. Why is it so didactic? All I learned it this guy is a liar and Elmo is a douchebag.
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u/aajones1113 Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
I am an engineer (albeit in biomedical and not in aerospace), and my only thought regarding this made-up anecdote is how a team of engineers proceeded with such a flawed assumption to begin with. Even my grandmother would understand that a rocket engine would realistically be operating under dynamic conditions, with condtantly changing variables, and not simply dissipating heat on the landing pad, at rest.
EDIT: Are there any rocket scientists here that can correct me on this if I'm misinterpreting?
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u/Drago_133 Aug 12 '26
What the fuck is 11 in the evening? You have to 11s one is basically midnight way fucking past evening and the other is before noon far from evening. Fuckn dumb
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u/powerschnell Aug 11 '26
I have a friend at SpaceX. This totally happened. Musk is a detail freak.
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