Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Muskis a South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer and inventor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 June 1971
CityPretoria, South Africa
CountryUnited States of America
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To the best of my knowledge, every booster engine qualification program in history has had numerous failures of the kind that recently occurred with Merlin, so this is not unusual.
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Falcon was executing perfectly on all fronts until fire impaired the first-stage pneumatic system.
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We're developing two engines. These are state-of-the-art, world-class, world-beating engines. These are not just sort of ho-hum engines.
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Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
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We will also do another full review of all the vehicle systems, including propulsion, structures, avionics, software and ground support systems. Therefore, I expect that the earliest that launch would occur is late January. Third time's the charm.
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We have a lot of ways of finding the stage, and we really want to bring it back no matter what shape it's in.
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Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
people
Here in the West, people often don't like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.
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If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare.
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If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
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I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy.
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If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.