[alex_munroe]

What's with all the cynicism and negativity in this thread?

Jeff Bezos launches a rocket - it's not impressive enough of a technological breakthrough for people who watch and judge from the sidelines. Jeff Bezos isn't using his money right.

Elon Musk spends his money taking moonshots and succeeding a lot of the time, announces that he's working on an extremely exciting science-fiction-level technology - it's not realistic enough, he's sure to fail this time.

It's like there's 1% of people who are trying to take advantage of the amazing time we're living in, working hard, often succeeding, making things and getting things done. And everyone else just watches, judges, complains, and tries to score some points by dismissing the achievements of others. Surely if THEY had the intelligence and discipline to spend decades building businesses and make billions of dollars, THEY would have spent all that hypothetical money better.

What does a person have to do to impress you people? What happened to the culture of respecting and encouraging human achievement in America, to optimism about the future?

[lottin]

Personally, it's the overselling of half-baked ideas what I find annoying. I admire Musk for his entrepreneurship but at the same time I don't appreciate being treated as an idiot.

[nickik]

Because they want to recruit people for a robot they want to build, you feel like you are treated like an idiot?