| It's easy to be a nay-sayer, when the subject of your criticism is taking on long-term difficult problems. I wonder whether, four years ago, you'd have written "SpaceX can't land or reuse rockets - that's a pipe dream"? Or more recently "Tesla is a basket-case that can't return a profit and will go bust"? * SpaceX can't go to Mars... yet; but that's really hard, so they're working on it and are closer to it than anyone else * Teslas don't drive themselves yet; but that's really hard, so they're working on it and are showing constant improvements to their software in pursuit of that end * Solar Roof v3 probably does exist, and might be a viable product - let's see * Starlink has yet to be in a position to be proven viable; but that's a question of time No doubt Musk over-promises and under-delivers (to the extent that it's a meme at this point) but he has already delivered hugely in some areas, and I suspect he'll prove you wrong time and time again over coming years. |