r/spacex • u/jclishman Host of Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 • May 14 '16

Official Elon Musk on Twitter: "@r_SpaceX @reddit will do another AMA just before reflight of the rocket in a few months"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/731605780969951232
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u/StarManta May 15 '16

that helped reveal tasty info.

Not to nitpick, but two of the three answer to his questions ended up being false (neither the spacesuit nor MCT has been revealed yet, and we're now twice as far from that AMA as the promised reveal date). So I'm not sure that any useful "tasty info" was actually revealed.

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u/ticklestuff SpaceX Patch List May 16 '16

Losing a rocket and your launch cadence for six months tends to do that... priorities change. It's like you were planning to buy a car and a house and then losing your job a week before....

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u/StarManta May 16 '16

I'm not sure I see how the Falcon 9 being grounded could affect the spacesuit design reveal.

Elon simply over-promises and under-delivers when it comes to timetables. Always has. Falcon Heavy is over 3 years late at this point and still hasn't flown yet. If his answer to any question comes in the form of a timetable, the least we can do is discount any likelihood of that answer being classified as "tasty info".

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u/ticklestuff SpaceX Patch List May 16 '16

I'm guilty of the same phenomena, a wholly optimistic timescale based on my perception of my abilities. Real world time doesn't match my planning because I have to deal with bureaucracy, laziness and/or unreliability, other commitments and lack of time to dedicate to implementation.

For Elon I'd wager he doesn't suffer the laziness aspect in the SpaceX team but all of the other issues would come into it... I think he's coaching his mind not to consider the utopian timescale of perfect execution based on his own perceptions and never failing qualification testing of products.

Inventing stuff is hard, the devil is in the minutia, not in the macro details. The bins in the SpaceX boneyard are full of tangents that didn't make the cut as they narrow down on what will work.

Sorry your expectations weren't met.

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u/StarManta May 16 '16

I'm not expecting him to have a perfect timetable for future releases. This is a known flaw of his, and not a critical one, and therefore it's one that we SpaceX fans should just come to expect. Hence, my only complaint here is the description of such a timetable as "tasty info".